At some point in the not-so-distant past, Trent Reznor and his Nine Inch Nails compadres, just for the hellof it, dressed themselves up as Mexicans.http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k300/agentbedhead/Seven/nineinchmexicans1sm.jpg
― LaMonte, Friday, 26 August 2011 03:01 (twelve years ago) link
first thought washttp://www.e4.com/media/EB207239-F40B-49F6-9F8C-C0A7C4209AAF_extra.jpg
― Do not go gentle into that good frogbs (silby), Friday, 26 August 2011 03:04 (twelve years ago) link
jesus christ
― fruogbas (some dude), Friday, 26 August 2011 03:05 (twelve years ago) link
should have went wirh mariachi costumes u_u
― (gr8080), Friday, 26 August 2011 03:24 (twelve years ago) link
trent la raza amirite
― zvookster, Friday, 26 August 2011 03:32 (twelve years ago) link
those guys look like guys in sunglasses
― mr peabody (moonship journey to baja), Friday, 26 August 2011 05:17 (twelve years ago) link
silby's photo is Joey Barton at a fancy dress party, right?
― 50,000 raspberries with the face of Peter Ndlovu (aldo), Friday, 26 August 2011 06:40 (twelve years ago) link
"I, I am not"
such a perfect and beautiful little NIN phrase
― frogbs, Friday, 26 August 2011 06:49 (twelve years ago) link
okay I finally read the segment of this argument I missed
thank you, all of you, for the painful belly lols
the "uppity" bomb was particularly amazing
― now I have to imagine your penis (DJP), Friday, 26 August 2011 13:26 (twelve years ago) link
of all the writers, rappers and assorted others i follow on twitter, Touré was one of only two i had to drop, iirc due to simply being too annoying over time
― zvookster, Friday, 26 August 2011 13:33 (twelve years ago) link
i bet he's real cut up abt it
― zvookster, Friday, 26 August 2011 13:34 (twelve years ago) link
http://twitter.com/#!/GroverNorquist
― satisfying punishment for that thing he said about lesbians (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 26 August 2011 22:16 (twelve years ago) link
uh i'm confused, is 'uppity' really racist? /tuomasI'm British btw so please excuse me. We're all uppity here, this guy is our national hero: http://mrmen.wikia.com/wiki/Mr._UppityI mean, he is kind of brown but... ??
― kinder, Friday, 26 August 2011 22:18 (twelve years ago) link
"uppity" isn't a racial slur, it's just used as a prefix to racial slurs often enough to carry some pretty unpleasant connotations
― some dude, Friday, 26 August 2011 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
it was used to describe african americans who dared to stand up to degradation
― funky house septics (D-40), Friday, 26 August 2011 22:21 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=uppity%20nigger
― (gr8080), Friday, 26 August 2011 22:24 (twelve years ago) link
OK. Genuinely surprised I've never heard of that until now.
― kinder, Friday, 26 August 2011 22:24 (twelve years ago) link
http://twitter.com/#!/GroverNorquist― satisfying punishment for that thing he said about lesbians (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, August 26, 2011 12:16 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark
― satisfying punishment for that thing he said about lesbians (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, August 26, 2011 12:16 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark
"3nd Grade"
― (gr8080), Friday, 26 August 2011 22:28 (twelve years ago) link
grammar is for losers.
― satisfying punishment for that thing he said about lesbians (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 26 August 2011 22:28 (twelve years ago) link
buy uppity n***** mugs & shirts
y'know urban dictionary definitely isn't one of the very worst places on the internet but i really think it deserves to be in the conversation more than it is
― some dude, Friday, 26 August 2011 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
In American parlance, uppity is always problematic because it implies that ppl have and should know how to keep 'their place' socially, whether that's due to race or class or sex or any combo thereof.
― giraffes have been heard making strange flutelike sounds! (Michael White), Friday, 26 August 2011 22:37 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i was just posting that but m white beat me to it
― mr peabody (moonship journey to baja), Friday, 26 August 2011 22:59 (twelve years ago) link
uppity means you're acting above yr station in life
Qantas Airlines gives free Bledisoe Cup tickets to a fan who promised to "dress as Radike Samo, complete with Afro Wig, Aus rugby kit and facepaint."
― FLIP FLOPPING HILL BILLY! (reddening), Monday, 29 August 2011 09:16 (twelve years ago) link
I was thinking of posting this one yeah. Whats interesting about it, is in this case it was done with no malicious intent at all and, importantly, the guy in question said he thought it was awesome and didnt understand what the fuss was all about. They were just dressing up as this specific guy.
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Monday, 29 August 2011 09:18 (twelve years ago) link
can we unban frogbs, i need his take on this
― (gr8080), Monday, 29 August 2011 09:20 (twelve years ago) link
australia what minstrel shows we didn't have 'em here we go again
― he's the deej, i'm the hipster (kkvgz), Monday, 29 August 2011 09:23 (twelve years ago) link
Look I cant and wont defend the fact blackface is clearly offensive, but I have to stress it isnt a cultural thing/known about down here. It just isnt. People do not get it. You should see the comments on this issue on newspaper sites here. its like 80% "this wasnt offensive I dont understand why people are upset" comments, even in the left wing papers.
Beyond that I'm not eqipped to argue this issue, tbh (and again, I'm also not defending it either as I fully understand why it is regarded as wrong - but only because of americans telling people tbh!)
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Monday, 29 August 2011 09:29 (twelve years ago) link
Trayce, I don't believe that washes anymore. Since the Jackson Jive incident, it's been overwhelmingly clear to the whole of Australia (a) that blackface is not acceptable and (b) why blackface is not acceptable. These guys weren't even doing a vaguely accurate impression of the bloke, they're in shoe polish and fright wigs ffs.
I'm not attacking you at all Trayce, but these guys and Qantas should have known better, and "oh I'm sorry I didn't realise" is not good enough an excuse.
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 29 August 2011 09:41 (twelve years ago) link
bntw lack of malicious intent is also off the point because blackface is inherently racist by dint of what it is. It's like, you wouldn't dress up as a paralympian by sitting behind bars in a monkey suit with a "SEE THE ONE-LEGGED FREAK" sign over your head.
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 29 August 2011 09:43 (twelve years ago) link
Oh dont get me wrong - Qantas should DEFINITELY have known better. The minute anyone picked that guy's proposal as the winner, PR should have said "oh my god no, this is such a bad idea".
I think australians are very resistant to being told how to think/to PC, and I'm not sure what to think about that really.
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Monday, 29 August 2011 09:44 (twelve years ago) link
(apart from "this is so embarrasing", obv)
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Monday, 29 August 2011 09:46 (twelve years ago) link
so even aussies don't cogh? ;_; The Australian Zeitgeist Tracking Thread
― zvookster, Monday, 29 August 2011 09:47 (twelve years ago) link
FWIW also: "you wouldn't dress up as a paralympian by sitting behind bars in a monkey suit with a "SEE THE ONE-LEGGED FREAK" sign over your head."
I suspect some people here really would, and would vehemently defend their right to sick humour, as well.
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Monday, 29 August 2011 09:49 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah you're right, they would (and they'd be slammed).
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 29 August 2011 09:54 (twelve years ago) link
but I have to stress it isnt a cultural thing/known about down here. It just isnt.
I've grown up knowing that blackface is weird and gross and retrograde
― rude ragga beats from the F. U. Schnickens (sic), Monday, 29 August 2011 10:06 (twelve years ago) link
SHOE POLISH
― (gr8080), Monday, 29 August 2011 10:11 (twelve years ago) link
I havent, I'm ok with being honest about that. Its something I have only learned later in life. And I do remember the B&W Minstrel show and those terrible Goodies skits and etc.
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Monday, 29 August 2011 10:22 (twelve years ago) link
But, now having read back over the frogbs shitstorm upthread I hadnt seen before this got revived I feel icky.
― Silent Hedgehogs (Trayce), Monday, 29 August 2011 10:23 (twelve years ago) link
I don't want to sow more ill will between America and Australia. I mean, it's like when Tiger Woods called himself a spaz and Britain got all upset about it because over there spasticism is a physical disability or something and then we were all like "what? fuck you. we're not gonna stop saying spaz."
― he's the deej, i'm the hipster (kkvgz), Monday, 29 August 2011 12:48 (twelve years ago) link
we just all have to learn to live together in this increasingly smaller world.
now I am intensely curious about what Canada's sensitivity blind spot is
― now I have to imagine your penis (DJP), Monday, 29 August 2011 13:14 (twelve years ago) link
Probably something to do with the Queen
― Do not go gentle into that good frogbs (silby), Monday, 29 August 2011 14:17 (twelve years ago) link
iirc its the montreal wanting to become its own country thing
― D-40, Monday, 29 August 2011 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
I just got an email from an all white band called BLACK PUSSY
― step your 'îron game up, jamie xx (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 29 August 2011 19:54 (twelve years ago) link
they are not sweet
I feel like the acronym "smdh" was invented specifically for ppl like that
― now I have to imagine your penis (DJP), Monday, 29 August 2011 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
― step your 'îron game up, jamie xx (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, August 29, 2011 7:54 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark
lol
― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Monday, 29 August 2011 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
whoa when did the eagles sign brian austin green
― max, Monday, 29 August 2011 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
is it inherently racist to call your white band 'black pussy' though?
Is it?
― Juata Man (darraghmac), Monday, 29 August 2011 20:39 (twelve years ago) link