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), Sunday, 8 January 2012 00:48 (twelve years ago) link
lol tories
― carpy deems (darraghmac), Sunday, 8 January 2012 00:48 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Mohombi Khush Hua (ShariVari), Sunday, 8 January 2012 00:51 (twelve years ago) link
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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.
― ☆★☆彡彡 (ENBB), Sunday, 8 January 2012 00:51 (twelve years ago) link
lyons tea still had animated minstrel tv ads until maybe mid 2000's
― carpy deems (darraghmac), Sunday, 8 January 2012 00:53 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Bruce K. Tedesco (zachlyon), Sunday, 8 January 2012 01:18 (twelve years ago) link
they were relevant in some comic book or something
That would be League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier.
― lEEE (Leee), Sunday, 8 January 2012 01:30 (twelve years ago) link
also available in braille
― carpy deems (darraghmac), Sunday, 8 January 2012 01:33 (twelve years ago) link
xp yeah that was it
― Bruce K. Tedesco (zachlyon), Sunday, 8 January 2012 01:35 (twelve years ago) link
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'
― thomp, Sunday, 8 January 2012 14:17 (twelve years ago) link
ugh
tbf ur country is, by that token, a horrible horrible country
I don't rly believe that tbf
― carpy deems (darraghmac), Sunday, 8 January 2012 14:20 (twelve years ago) link
lol no wait misread you nm
― carpy deems (darraghmac), Sunday, 8 January 2012 14:21 (twelve years ago) link
tbf england is a horrible, horrible country
― thomp, Sunday, 8 January 2012 14:24 (twelve years ago) link
ya but i didn't want to have to be the one to say it
― carpy deems (darraghmac), Sunday, 8 January 2012 14:27 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― The Eyeball Of Hull (Colonel Poo), Sunday, 8 January 2012 14:35 (twelve years ago) link
kirsty should have made up a golliwog as one of her WI craft fair entries imo
― carpy deems (darraghmac), Sunday, 8 January 2012 15:03 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/papa-john-customer-pizza-joint-called-a-chink-article-1.1002304
― cozen, Sunday, 8 January 2012 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
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!
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Sunday, 8 January 2012 15:52 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― emil.y, Sunday, 8 January 2012 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
Cracking up so hard at "my friend I do not like"
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Sunday, 8 January 2012 15:59 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― pplains, Sunday, 8 January 2012 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
and Rob Schneider movies
― unattractive on the inside (Neanderthal), Sunday, 8 January 2012 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
Oh my god that receipt story
I am horrified and cracking up at the same time
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Sunday, 8 January 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
PP, what video game uses that kind of language?
― beachville, Sunday, 8 January 2012 17:41 (twelve years ago) link
I dunno. I just thought it was funny dude was blaming hip-hop.
― pplains, Sunday, 8 January 2012 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
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
― pug waffle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 8 January 2012 18:33 (twelve years ago) link
well everything's okay then
― bob loblaw people (dayo), Sunday, 8 January 2012 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
http://gta.wikia.com/Chink
― I was otherwise very normal before I became (onimo), Sunday, 8 January 2012 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Bruce K. Tedesco (zachlyon), Sunday, 8 January 2012 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
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.."
― mh, Monday, 9 January 2012 01:46 (twelve years ago) link
my high school group had that, but then I moved to MA for college
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Monday, 9 January 2012 01:55 (twelve years ago) link
And then he found you on ilx?
― mh, Monday, 9 January 2012 01:57 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Monday, 9 January 2012 01:59 (twelve years ago) link
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
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Monday, 9 January 2012 01:59 (twelve years ago) link
― 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
― seasonal thug (some dude), Monday, 9 January 2012 02:13 (twelve years ago) link
zachlyon
― buzza, Monday, 9 January 2012 02:35 (twelve years ago) link
his name is max, he started as an intern maybe two years ago and occasionally reviews movies
― Bruce K. Tedesco (zachlyon), Monday, 9 January 2012 04:18 (twelve years ago) link
One of the minor quirks of the original customersucks board (about 10 years ago) was the periodic complaints about, er, 'purple people'.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Monday, 9 January 2012 04:31 (twelve years ago) link
Dr. Sheb Wooley's been dilligently working on a cure for that for 53 years.
― pug waffle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 9 January 2012 04:55 (twelve years ago) link
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
― unattractive on the inside (Neanderthal), Monday, 9 January 2012 04:59 (twelve years ago) link
so the punchline of the song bothers you?
― pug waffle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 9 January 2012 05:04 (twelve years ago) link
what can you do
― max, Monday, 9 January 2012 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― the Smurf who'll snatch your money (Je55e), Monday, 9 January 2012 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― unattractive on the inside (Neanderthal), Monday, 9 January 2012 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― pug waffle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 9 January 2012 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
that dude wasn't getting work before his outburst either. whereas mel gibson is doin alright.
― iatee, Monday, 9 January 2012 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
mel gibsons apology was shit tho
― pug waffle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 9 January 2012 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
there was one, but i forgot who
no one with powerful friends (lolroman polanski) ever has to sincerely apologize, they just have to wait
― Bruce K. Tedesco (zachlyon), Monday, 9 January 2012 19:31 (twelve years ago) link