rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

holy shit

genuinely thought labour had incinerated the last of those

they were emancipated by act of parliament last year, and now are free to settle in seaside giftshops throughout england

There's still a hardcore of golly-fanciers out there. Not sure there's a a middle ground between owning none and owning fifty. They generally seem to be confused, but not particularly vindictive, people of pensionable age who can't see what all the fuss is about.

lol tories

that was an xpost but i mean

They were on jam jars less than ten years ago, iirc. I've no idea how that went on for so long.

There's still a hardcore of golly-fanciers out there. Not sure there's a a middle ground between owning none and owning fifty. They generally seem to be confused, but not particularly vindictive, people of pensionable age who can't see what all the fuss is about.

― Mohombi Khush Hua (ShariVari), Saturday, January 7, 2012 7:48 PM (48 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

My parents used to be friends with a couple like this. Several rooms in their house were entirely decked out in golly art - painting, statues, dolls etc. They obv were the type of people you're describing but the one time I was in their house it really freaked me out. My mom warned me beforehand but it was still pretty jarring and very O_O to me.

lyons tea still had animated minstrel tv ads until maybe mid 2000's

hoooooly fuck i just remembered that my friend that i do not like got me one of those for christmas a few years ago because he was insistent that they aren't offensive in england (he took a semester abroad) and they were relevant in some comic book or something. this is the same friend who did blackface for halloween. fuck.

they were relevant in some comic book or something

That would be League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier.

also available in braille

xp yeah that was it

your friend sounds like a horrible, horrible person. who comes to this country and what they get out of it when they go back to the states is 'golliwogs aren't offensive there'

ugh

tbf ur country is, by that token, a horrible horrible country

I don't rly believe that tbf

lol no wait misread you nm

tbf england is a horrible, horrible country

ya but i didn't want to have to be the one to say it

They generally seem to be confused, but not particularly vindictive, people of pensionable age who can't see what all the fuss is about.

Yeah that basically describes my grandma who used to collect golly pins from Robinsons jam, she's got loads of them.

kirsty should have made up a golliwog as one of her WI craft fair entries imo

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/papa-john-customer-pizza-joint-called-a-chink-article-1.1002304

I thought I remembered a similar story but couldn't quite recall, so googled "racist receipt" and hey! It looks like this is a charming common practice among cashiers!

he was insistent that they aren't offensive in england

No, they are.

this is the same friend who did blackface for halloween

Why the fuck is this person your friend? I mean, even in a 'friend I don't like' capacity?

Cracking up so hard at "my friend I do not like"

He added that the employee responsible for the receipt was a teen — who he believed was misguided by “hip hop culture.”

...and possibly violent video games.

and Rob Schneider movies

Oh my god that receipt story

I am horrified and cracking up at the same time

PP, what video game uses that kind of language?

I dunno. I just thought it was funny dude was blaming hip-hop.

I mean, to be fair, I've heard the phrase "chinky eyes" dozens upon dozens of times in my life and approximately 100% of these occurrances were rap songs

well everything's okay then

PP, what video game uses that kind of language?

http://gta.wikia.com/Chink

Why the fuck is this person your friend? I mean, even in a 'friend I don't like' capacity?

it's complicated because he's a part of our group of six high school friends who still hang out and consider ourselves a "group" and everyone else in the group is at least annoyed with him but still consider him a part of the group, etc. and he emphasizes the racist stuff around me because he knows it gets to me. he's just one of those typical nerds who will not hear ANYTHING about how their actions are wrong. i don't really see him anymore and decided to ditch him completely after the blackface thing, but it's proven v difficult when my four other friends just go "eh what can you do, that's just how max is"

actually al shipley you might know him irl, he writes for the citypaper

I think a lot of groups of friends have the one asshole who keeps being included for some unknown reason. Wild card? Reminds me of the Trainspotting thing where they describe what a sociopath Begbie was, and then they're all like, "What are you going to do? He's a mate.."

my high school group had that, but then I moved to MA for college

And then he found you on ilx?

lol

i don't really see him anymore and decided to ditch him completely after the blackface thing, but it's proven v difficult when my four other friends just go "eh what can you do, that's just how max is"

new board description

actually al shipley you might know him irl, he writes for the citypaper

― Bruce K. Tedesco (zachlyon), Sunday, January 8, 2012 4:09 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

wait waht i need some hints or a code or something

zachlyon

his name is max, he started as an intern maybe two years ago and occasionally reviews movies

I thought I remembered a similar story but couldn't quite recall, so googled "racist receipt" and hey! It looks like this is a charming common practice among cashiers!

One of the minor quirks of the original customersucks board (about 10 years ago) was the periodic complaints about, er, 'purple people'.

Dr. Sheb Wooley's been dilligently working on a cure for that for 53 years.

the thing that always bugged me is that the song clearly implied that the flying creature that ate people was itself the color purple.

yet Sheb throws a curveball when he mentions "eatin purple people and it sure is fine". so the people he eats are purple? dude musta been hella thin considering Prince and his minions were still decades away

so the punchline of the song bothers you?

what can you do

Important detail in the racist receipt story: “Some of the tweets I’ve gotten back are, ‘Why are you going to Papa John’s when you live in New York City?’” she said.

Also: he was insistent that they aren't offensive in england Even if this were true, how the hell would that make it OK to give one to you in the USA, where, by inference from his own statement, they are unquestionably offensive?

lol don't people realize that it's much less work to apologize than bend over backwards to weakly indicate you didn't do anything wrong...not to mention it's like, the RIGHT thing to do.

honest question:

Has anyone ever made a real apology that actually mattered in the TMZ age? I mean, I though KKKramer sincerely apologized and that dude aint getting any work any time soon.