i have given so many friends and family members the coldest, most dead-eyed stare i can muster when they tell me that American Dad is great
― some dude, Thursday, 23 February 2012 19:36 (twelve years ago) link
tbh, the only comic strips i regularly read (outside of comics curmudgeon's filter) these days are by old dead guysjosh is a real neat guy btw, i did a web based show with him at one point
― little clouds of citrus spritz as i peel (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 23 February 2012 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
Boondocks (cartoon) had very good character development. The one where Uncle Ruckus met his family was astonishing.
― dream words & nightmare paragraphs from a red factory in a dead town (Abbbottt), Thursday, 23 February 2012 19:38 (twelve years ago) link
"oh, what racist thing happened today? *opens thread*"
I rank them:BoondocksFuturamaVenture BrosMetalocalypseChildren's HospitalNTSF:SD::SUV:::OG Space Ghost/Brak Show/Sealab/Frisky Dingo/Harvey BirdmanATHF/SquidbilliesFamily Guy/American Dadall those random 15 minute shows that aren't around anymoreTim and Eric Stupid Show Fuck Off
BoondocksFuturamaVenture BrosMetalocalypseChildren's HospitalNTSF:SD::SUV:::OG Space Ghost/Brak Show/Sealab/Frisky Dingo/Harvey BirdmanATHF/SquidbilliesFamily Guy/American Dadall those random 15 minute shows that aren't around anymoreTim and Eric Stupid Show Fuck Off
"*closes thread* fucking ILE..."
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Thursday, 23 February 2012 19:38 (twelve years ago) link
Boondocks -- comic strip and tv show -- was brilliant. I think I slightly preferred the comic, partly because I have a soft spot for newspaper comics, and partly because when you read it you knew this was the best thing since Calvin & Hobbes.
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 23 February 2012 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
I did have an actual 'is it racist' question, about this brand of shirts a lot of my students wear that looks like all those stupid MMA brand shirts. The shirts say WHITEBOY on them in big letters. They get them at this store in the mall that sells a bunch of MMA brands that my friend says is run by the KKK (I don't even know how you confirm whether the KKK is running a store). Anyway, I kind of want to know and I kind of don't, because I don't want to see these kids and think 'ugh white supremacists.'
― dream words & nightmare paragraphs from a red factory in a dead town (Abbbottt), Thursday, 23 February 2012 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
Anyway these shirts give me the creeps whether or not they are actually being sold by the KKK.
contenderizer, keep digging
― flagp∞st (dayo), Thursday, February 23, 2012 11:17 AM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Thursday, 23 February 2012 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
I had trouble reading boondocks because every once in a while, he would do a really obvious straight Bloom County or Calvin & Hobbes rip and I internalized those comics when they were fresh. Yeah, I know they were doing the same thing to Pogo and Krazy Kat and whatever, but it was an irksome experience for me.
― beachville, Thursday, 23 February 2012 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
I think if the shirts say WHITEBOY on them, you have as much as you need to know right there. Still, what's the store? I bet ilx could do a little digging.
― beachville, Thursday, 23 February 2012 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
It is a store called Hardc0r3 101 in the p4rk Pl4ce M4ll.
― dream words & nightmare paragraphs from a red factory in a dead town (Abbbottt), Thursday, 23 February 2012 19:47 (twelve years ago) link
maybe someone licensed some ultra-rare Jewel material
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Thursday, 23 February 2012 19:47 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.rockcityrec.com/cwc/Images/CWC_Main.png
― Unleash the Chang (he did what!) (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 23 February 2012 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
the "I'm not a racist but" clothing companyI'm not even sure why I had to ask, sorry everyone.
― dream words & nightmare paragraphs from a red factory in a dead town (Abbbottt), Thursday, 23 February 2012 19:57 (twelve years ago) link
Boondocks the comic strip eventually became just Huey sitting impassively in front of a television that said things for four panels in pretty much every strip, as far as I can recall from my newspaper-comic-reading days. Which were a while ago now.
― Nicholas Pokémon (silby), Thursday, 23 February 2012 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
Abb, did you happen to hear about Floyd Mayweather?
http://www.sportaphile.com/2009/07/21/floyd-mayweather-mma-is-for-white-boys-who-couldnt-cut-it-in-boxing/
― pplains, Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
haha I feel like Floyd could support his own "why did he say that" thread
― (thinks and smiles) (DJP), Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:02 (twelve years ago) link
i always sort of liked or maybe wanted to like boondocks, both as a strip and a cartoon, but never quite managed to close the gap and actually enjoy it. macgruder's sense of humor just never really clicked with me.
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:02 (twelve years ago) link
ikwym i don't really like rap music dunno why
― Nicholas Pokémon (silby), Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:03 (twelve years ago) link
I didin't even know what mma was until I looked it up and Mayweather was the first result.
If the KKK is behind Mixed Martial Arts, than I just don't know what to think.
― pplains, Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
It would make sense but not really.
the KKK are against martial arts-mixing iirc
― Big Mr. Guess U.S.A. Champion (crüt), Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
fun fact boondocks started out in my campus newspaper and macgruder is probably in our top 3 coolest alumni. and i just learned that liberty meadows started there too! that was my favorite comic as a kid.
― if you ever leave me peggy, leave some propane at my door (zachlyon), Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
"Now just hold on, Jeb! You can't start with a wushu stance and move to a tae-kwon-do form in the same round together. Use yer goddam head, boy!"
― pplains, Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
I give MacGruder bonus points because he's one of like 5 famous people from my hometown.
― beachville, Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:14 (twelve years ago) link
It's not even MMA, it's these stupid second-tier brands sold alongside Affliction & Tapout shirts. Is someone who wears a Metal Mulisha shirt a secret white supremacist, or do I just assume anyone who supports even a fake fashion [sic] 'mulisha' is a secret white supremacist because of my associations w/the word "militia" from growing up in Idaho in the '80s and '90s?
― dream words & nightmare paragraphs from a red factory in a dead town (Abbbottt), Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
― Nicholas Pokémon (silby)
???
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
beachville do we have the same hometown and what HS did you go to
― if you ever leave me peggy, leave some propane at my door (zachlyon), Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
Hammond High '96.
― beachville, Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:41 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqWxGMqI_SE&feature=player_embedded
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
o hey i graduated hammond ten years later
― if you ever leave me peggy, leave some propane at my door (zachlyon), Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
I think I beat your school's quiz bowl team a few times in HS.
― Nicholas Pokémon (silby), Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
not surprising!
― if you ever leave me peggy, leave some propane at my door (zachlyon), Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:51 (twelve years ago) link
Huh. so are you from King's Contrivance?
― beachville, Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
yes, and we eat there every mother's day.
― if you ever leave me peggy, leave some propane at my door (zachlyon), Thursday, 23 February 2012 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, my folks still live out there. I take my family to visit them once a month or so.
― beachville, Thursday, 23 February 2012 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
aw, that's so racist
― little clouds of citrus spritz as i peel (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 23 February 2012 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
jeez, not sure it's necessary to personalize this in such aggressive terms (said to both of you). wasn't trying to say that no one has a right to be offended, just that i don't perceive clear evidence of racist intent on the reporter's part. maybe, maybe not, and i'm inclined to presume innocence in such cases. that's just me, though. i fully expect others to read things differently...
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Thursday, February 23, 2012 2:12 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
asian americans have said, loudly and unambiguously, that it was a racist remark. I don't understand where there's room for your interpretation or why you keep on pressing the point?
― flagp∞st (dayo), Thursday, 23 February 2012 21:15 (twelve years ago) link
super late to this but 'what about his eyes": Greg Kelly's employment is almost entirely based on him regularly saying the most wtf/facepalm things...he's clip regular on The Soup, fwiw
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 February 2012 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
def racist
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 23 February 2012 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
File under "yes, this is really fucking racist and sexist":
Dave Mustaine to African women: "Put a plug in it."
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 23 February 2012 21:29 (twelve years ago) link
am i too late to get in on the southern maryland talk w/ zach and beachville?
― some dude, Thursday, 23 February 2012 21:32 (twelve years ago) link
if we limit discussion to american history x we can cover both racism and edward norton
― if you ever leave me peggy, leave some propane at my door (zachlyon), Thursday, 23 February 2012 22:08 (twelve years ago) link
― flagp∞st (dayo), Thursday, February 23, 2012 1:15 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark
people have a right to take offense at whatever they want, and in this case they have every reason to do so. i don't dispute that. all i've been talking about is intent. i don't see any clear evidence of racist intent on the guy's part (as opposed to taco mayor, who clearly intended the slur). that doesn't necessarily excuse the news dork or deny anybody the right to consider his remark racist regardless of intent.
― Little GTFO (contenderizer), Friday, 24 February 2012 03:37 (twelve years ago) link
..............................
― flagp∞st (dayo), Friday, 24 February 2012 03:45 (twelve years ago) link
so everybody's required to be a mindreader now? or people have to hold up giant signs that say "I AM INTENDING TO BE RACIST?" what is this magical 'intent test' that must be satisfied? why the fuck am I even arguing with you on this absurd point?
― flagp∞st (dayo), Friday, 24 February 2012 03:46 (twelve years ago) link
also weird when you're like ISN'T IT MORE RACIST TO THINK THAT THIS RACIST THING IS RACIST
― max, Friday, 24 February 2012 04:04 (twelve years ago) link
well tbf it's equally as racist, just reversed
― ploppawheelie V (k3vin k.), Friday, 24 February 2012 04:06 (twelve years ago) link
racist manslaughter vs racist homicide
― pplains, Friday, 24 February 2012 04:06 (twelve years ago) link
I think we've already established that I'm the racist here, which contenderizer helpfully pointed out
― flagp∞st (dayo), Friday, 24 February 2012 04:10 (twelve years ago) link