Aw, thanks Al. I miss those kids. One of them msg'd me on FB the other day, I need to write him back. You know, I could start a whole thread just based on their facebook posts because they're hysterical, heartbreaking and fascinating all at once but I could/would never actually do that. Not even on 77.
― ☆★☆彡彡 (ENBB), Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:14 (twelve years ago) link
kind of reminds me of that old "Movie Comics" comic strip that constantly used the word "ghey" and defended it saying "it doesn't have a meaning! it's a made up word!" which is the only way to make it more offensive and less funny
― frogbs, Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:14 (twelve years ago) link
here we go
― pplains, Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
y'know, that "Tard" blog wd be one level of disgusting, but the sanctimonious "don't call me out on my shit" in the FAQ and elsewhere actually ratchets it up 3 or 4 extra levels of fucking disgusting
― Poppy Newgod and the Phantom Banned (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
otm
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
yeah it sounds like it was written by a publicist. are there really two people behind that blog?
hate to admit I chuckled at this:
We are assigning the word "tard" to all of them as a way of classifying all of them together. For instance, when Riti says something about "her tards," she is referring to everyone in her class.
― frogbs, Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
urgh, that is like this younger woman who a friend has been hanging with who keeps saying things are "gay"
My first thought is: People still do that? I thought, even outside of believing it's offense and worth stopping, that it stopped being a thing people said because it was in the popular lexicon foreeeeeever. I guess she's originally from a small town?
Then he said that he had mentioned it to her, and he thinks she keeps doing it to "mess with him." I think I find that even more offensive?
― mh, Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
I thought "tard blog" was a Tucker Max thing that supposedly was written by a nonexistent teacher friend of his? Not even going to click that link to see if it's a mirror of the same thing
For instance, when Riti says something about "her tards," she is referring to everyone in her class.
when "children" or "students" or "young people" just won't do
― Poppy Newgod and the Phantom Banned (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
that blog's been around a long time iirc, or at least a blog with that title.
― Poppy Newgod and the Phantom Banned (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
it's like they're reclaiming the word for ignorant shitfuckers or something
tard: n., A student in a class that is set aside for children with some sort of special need, e.g. metal retardation
very unique new definition of the meaningless word "tard"
― tyga mother (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
"that's so ghetto" vs "that's so gay"
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
vs "that's so retarded"
vs "That's So Raven!"
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
Considering one of the posts on the first page talks about using an Apple IIe with the students, I'm guessing this may be pretty old.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
At least with ghetto, there's at least an implication of it being lower class or cheap or ostentatious or something that lives up to one of a half dozen stereotypes
As opposed to "This restaurant closes at 10PM? That's so gay!"
― mh, Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, January 12, 2012 3:33 PM (17 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
haha maybe they INVENTED 'tard' ::chinstroke::
― some dude, Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:34 (twelve years ago) link
idk if this is US/UK thing part 100000000 but afaict calling things gay is as popular as ever and in no way determined by the population of where you live
― tumblr white's secret kool-aid drinker (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
Has there ever been a thread on "conversations that happen at least every two months" on ILX?
― ☆★☆彡彡 (ENBB), Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
Considering one of the posts on the first page talks about using an Apple IIe with the students, I'm guessing this may be pretty old.― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, January 12, 2012 3:33 PM (50 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, January 12, 2012 3:33 PM (50 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
not sure jon realizes how underfunded american schools are
― pug waffle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
lol
I mean, I know school districts are all about keeping old machines around forever, but I can't imagine even the most ass-backwards district still using CD-ROM games.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
Again, I must be spoiled by my group of friends and immediate family
― mh, Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
nb I don't know what the thing you're referring to is re the "younger woman" xp to self/mh
― tumblr white's secret kool-aid drinker (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
www.geocities.com/RodeoDrive/TardBlog
― am0n, Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
― ☆★☆彡彡 (ENBB), Thursday, January 12, 2012 3:35 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i don't think so but there really should be
― some dude, Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
that thread idea is soooo gay
― mh, Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
The troubling thing for me about how the ghettohikes is less how it's presented than how it will probably be taken by a lot of its audience. Yes, the name is kind of offputting, and yes, the transcriptions are kinda blackface or something, but most of what the kids say is very funny, and I think the whole thing would be kind of innocuous if it wasn't for the fact that there was a whole built in audience of people who are reading this as "LOL BLACKS R DUM"
― extremely lewd and incredibly crass (Hurting 2), Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
http://twitter.com/#!/GhettoBusDriver
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
now find one more and write a gawker article about it
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
http://twitter.com/#!/GhettoSommelier
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
I'm 28. I have a full time job bringing urban students new computers.
― buzza, Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
oh lol its a real twitter
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, January 12, 2012 3:46 PM
^ nick denton
― am0n, Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
― extremely lewd and incredibly crass (Hurting 2), Thursday, January 12, 2012 3:44 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
yeah but i mean...kids saying funny or odd things is one of the most renewable resources on earth, if a particular batch gets 'tainted' i don't think it's some tragic waste of lols to not look at that one stupid twitter or write the whole thing off as unsavory
― some dude, Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
i mean sure if you wanted to create a filter that allowed you to read it as "kidhikes" and found-and-replaced every "dis" or "dat" as "this" or "that" sure you'd have some decent guilt-free entertainment but is it really worth it?
― some dude, Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
http://twitter.com/#!/TweetsLMAO/status/157549013317586944
― am0n, Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
the ghettobusdriver one is obviously fake. the wildlife trip one, idk for sure, but it has the ring of truth.
― extremely lewd and incredibly crass (Hurting 2), Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
"I drive a bus of troubled urban children (of all races) to school every day. I write the best stuff down and post it here."
maybe too pedantic but doesn't 'of all races' defy the proper definition of 'ghetto'? ok well fair enough, you're not a racist bus driver and most likely not a bus driver at all, just some guy with a funny twitter account who likes laughing at america's underclasses, good job
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:54 (twelve years ago) link
maybe too pedantic but doesn't 'of all races' defy the proper definition of 'ghetto'?
yes, actually they should be jewish
― mh, Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
holy shit, the youtube wine reviews posted on ghettosommeleir's blogspot (titled 'hood wine')
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
xpost yeah but I mean tbh what's funny about it does have something to do with it being kids from the ghetto who have very little experience with wilderness, and my point isn't really that it should be scrubbed of any racial identifiers and made into generic "lol kids" so much as the fact that it sucks that a lot of people won't just read something like that with affection and appreciation as opposed to, well, racism.
― extremely lewd and incredibly crass (Hurting 2), Thursday, 12 January 2012 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
@GhettoHikes seems a more plausible scenario than texts from Bennett but if they're based on real things the kids say they have to have been paraphrased into abstraction - it reads to me like a total BBC3 comedy scriptwriter's idea of what 'street yoof' say
like I didn't find texts from Bennett that funny (altho when someone - forks? - said something about it reading like a ventriloquist/dummy act it became instantly more endearing to read for me) but you at least got the impression that Mac Lethal actually took time to think about the character and get into the part y'know
― tumblr white's secret kool-aid drinker (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 12 January 2012 21:03 (twelve years ago) link
it reads to me like a total BBC3 comedy scriptwriter's idea of what 'street yoof' say
IDK, it reads pretty real to me, whereas the bus one comes off totally canned
― extremely lewd and incredibly crass (Hurting 2), Thursday, 12 January 2012 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
yeah ghetto hikes seems pretty plausible imo
― lame adele rey (some dude), Thursday, 12 January 2012 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
although i bet the guy hears/types "dat" even when they say "that" sometimes, like that one young jeezy review on pitchfork
― lame adele rey (some dude), Thursday, 12 January 2012 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
the reason it sounds real is because the kids actually say sharp, witty, irreverent things and not just dumb patsy lines
― extremely lewd and incredibly crass (Hurting 2), Thursday, 12 January 2012 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
haha ok I didn't even look at the bus one until now
if anything that just seems like someone writing jokes on his own (eg the "start her car" one) then throwing them up on twitter
― tumblr white's secret kool-aid drinker (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 12 January 2012 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
as the number of racist quotable twitters increases, the chance of a racially sensitive one appearing approaches 1
― Mordy, Thursday, 12 January 2012 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
well 'not being racist' isn't really a thing you can (or should have to) applaud people for doing, not-racism is everywhere if you think about it
― lame adele rey (some dude), Thursday, 12 January 2012 21:17 (twelve years ago) link