rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

i kind of shudder to think how much money and time i put into bryant lake bowl alone

big fan of red stag

still never been to red stag, BLB is an occasional thing for me

barbette...look, it's irresponsible as a grad student, but let's just say that the waitstaff knows my name there

there's this guy who is a complete douche business owner in Des Moines and his MO appears to be that he finds a business that is doing OK, buys it, and then just uses the exact same concept to open more of them elsewhere. He bought what was a neighborhood bar w/food probably five years ago, then opened a bar in a suburb with the exact same name

so as I walked through mpls a couple months ago, I could only laugh: enjoy the Wellmans Pub, guys! (formerly Drink: The Original Party Bar)

i forgot that place is still open, is it still busy?

during happy hour on a saturday night (the first time i've been in years) the place was packed to the fucking gills.

oh god Drink. went there once with ex-gf (we had just had, and vaguely reconciled, an argument, it was the most ready to hand), i hated it.

i basically hate every bar in uptown proper, rip uptown

oh shit I forgot there was/is one in uptown

the one that's going to be Authentic Neighborhood Bar is downtown

what's that seafoood place that's multi-story in uptown? I saw a fistfight break out in the middle of a weekend afternoon on the rooftop bar there. yeeeah.

Does Barbette still have those lamb sliders? Those are really tasty. Love the fries and the house wine at happy hour.

stella's. the seafood is...not good

dunno about lamb sliders, i usually just get brunch (it's hella close to my house)

ILX, where eventually every thread turns into a thread about eating out in NYC...

um

clearly all restaurants everywhere are actually in N?YC.

Especially bad midwestern ones.

the entire midwestern restaurant-industrial complex is just a wing on the third floor of Guy's American Kitchen & Bar.

regionalist

applebees "oriental" chicken salad begs to differ

From Boing Boing http://boingboing.net/2012/12/06/stupid-sorority-insults-mexica.html

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go Penn State!

maybe if this keeps happening we'll finally make fake moustaches illegal

wau

A: yes

yeah another one for the "this is racist" thread

Look forward to our US friends reaching the same state of post-racial utopia as our own students have apparently achieved.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jackrivlin/100193225/tribal-theme-for-exeters-safer-sex-ball-is-racist-scream-right-on-killjoys-but-racism-awareness-has-run-out-of-steam-at-universities/

Ugh, fuck off Torygraph.

to paraphrase Nigel Tufnel "what's wrong with being racy?"

note pervy picture of posh totty.

oh my god

sensible, well-reasoned argument:

"They have nothing in common with monkey chanters at football matches, and it's cheap of the sensitivity posse to make them feel guilty for being white and middle-class."

Depressingly, it's written by an actual student journalist from a multi-university website, not just one of the Telegraph's own aging trolls.

we can't be racist, we're young, middle class and white!

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/files/2012/12/headshot.png

If this guy is at university it must only be as some kind of Doogie Howser deal, right?

When people get mad at me for being an asshole, I'm just going to tell them to stop being so pc

do i even want to know what "monkey chanters" are?

somewhere along the line these jerks forgot that "politically correct" is a nonsense phrase created by conservative voices to belittle those who campaigned for social justice or against discrimination and it's not some checkbox.

then again, maybe they do remember and they're using it the same old way

http://newsone.com/2017946/natchez-mall-racist-sign/

do i even want to know what "monkey chanters" are?

― the oral history of (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, December 7, 2012 5:23 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

People shouting "monkey" or hurling bananas at black football (soccer) players. It happens quite frequently. But of course the students aren't like that, because they're middle-class.

It happens quite frequently

what the fucking fuck

lol emily i know what football means here

as usual though every other aspect of u.k. culture is confusing and repellant to me

It is relatively rare in the UK now.

what a horribly formed "columnist"

That's just my latent racism against Americans coming out, there. Poor slow Americans.

It happens quite frequently

what the fucking fuck

― mh, Friday, December 7, 2012 5:35 PM (50 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, I know. I loathe football, but I have the feeling it's even worse in mainland Europe than it is here. I may be wrong, though.

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Deliciously meta. ugh.

i am trying to imagine this happening at american football games and all i can see are a bunch of dead white people

It is an instant lifetime ban at most clubs, iirc. Clubs have been fairly successful at clamping down on it.

Anti-semitism is arguably a bigger issue.

i lived in a Chi Omega house for three weeks while I was between apartments once.

Not at Penn State though.

also mandatory privilege-awareness training sounds like a p good idea

I've been to plenty of football matches in England, and I've never seen any racism. I'm sure it does go on, and may be worse at some clubs than others, but the vast majority of fans would have a problem with it if it happened.

It was a big problem in the 80s though.

yeah gone from the UK by and large now, thankfully.