Oberlin College...What Parents Would Send Their Children There? [CBD]

The Onion should probably just close its doors, because it simply can't compete with the reality of today's stunningly stupid, vile, self-absorbed, pompous asses who inhabit colleges across the country.

Oh, yeah, they have a political agenda that seems to be a combination of a puppy's desire for instant gratification with a hard-core Marxist's desire to burn down the West.
"One Man -- One Vote -- One Time"

If the president of Oberlin college had any balls, he would stand on a table in its biggest dining hall during its most crowded time, and tell everyone there to go f@*k themselves.

He won't. He will undoubtedly change the menu to more accurately reflect his cowardice and lack of any sense that perhaps children should hear the word "no" occasionally.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 12:20 PM

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1 First!?!

Posted by: scrood H2B at December 19, 2015 01:42 PM (3b9U4)

2 College is ruining a lot of kids. For a lot of money.

Posted by: HH at December 19, 2015 01:42 PM (DrCtv)

3 Oberlin College looks like a fine school. Do they have any job openings at their Carnival?

Posted by: scrood H2B at December 19, 2015 01:43 PM (3b9U4)

4 I would not send any of my kids to a 4 year college of today.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 19, 2015 01:44 PM (t2KH5)

5 Those ungrateful wretches deserve famine and pestilence.

Along with a diet of grubs and roots.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 19, 2015 01:44 PM (EV7bS)

6 I was raped there.

Posted by: Lena Dunham at December 19, 2015 01:45 PM (msPO3)

7 Well, in the defense of the students, the food described does sound pretty lousy. Its childish and idiotic to cry "cultural insensitivity" when the real culprit is a cheap, lazy, and incompetent cooking staff.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 19, 2015 01:47 PM (39g3+)

8 Parents of today would be better off sending their child to a two-year tech school to learn a trade such as A/C repair.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 19, 2015 01:48 PM (t2KH5)

9 I like Vienna sausages and I don't even speak Austrian.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at December 19, 2015 01:50 PM (u5gzz)

10 Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 19, 2015 01:48 PM (t2KH5)

My plumber has got to be pulling in $250k and he cannot find an apprentice to work with him.

It's not web design or making cool pictures on cappuccino foam.....

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...Anti-Semite at December 19, 2015 01:50 PM (Zu3d9)

11 Now that I'm close to the head of the thread... I shoulda done this earlier when I was Furst...

Anyway, I just wanted to repeat, as someone who's in the oil bidness when he is gainfully employed.. or at least when last gainfully employed...

I've checked, we're still importing somewhere between 30 and 40% of the oil used in this country... given that, I'm not sure I see the whole point of the deal Where We Get To Export Crude, since it's not going to be done to a very great extent, we still import oil and domestic production is still collapsing due to the whole crash going on.

I just wanted to say, for the record, I DON'T GET THIS.

Posted by: Thing (Displaced) From Snowy Mountain at December 19, 2015 01:50 PM (kCfMX)

12 The old fashioned way is to put something in the suggestion box to get fried chicken on the menu.

Posted by: fluffy at December 19, 2015 01:50 PM (AfsKp)

13 Love that cat eating the box on the NYP linked above. Two of my cats do that as well.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 19, 2015 01:51 PM (t2KH5)

14 In one of those marvels of synchronicity, the glossy Oberlin university magazine ran a fawning cover feature on a particular high profile alumna, that being Stephanie Prognathous-Jaw, the mayor of Baltimore, in the very same month that she declared "space to destroy" for rioters in her city and then was chagrined when they took her at her word.

Posted by: torquewrench at December 19, 2015 01:51 PM (noWW6)

15 "black American food doesn't have that much cream in it".

Everybody please remain calm. Reggie and I will provide all the cream.

Posted by: Barack Hussein ObamaB at December 19, 2015 01:52 PM (9vLZK)

16 I've checked, we're still importing somewhere between 30 and 40% of the oil used in this country... given that, I'm not sure I see the whole point of the deal Where We Get To Export Crude, since it's not going to be done to a very great extent, we still import oil and domestic production is still collapsing due to the whole crash going on.

Failure Theater at its finest.

Posted by: tbodie at December 19, 2015 01:52 PM (wmrFg)

17 When I was going to college, if we got cube steak it was like a delicacy.
Spoiled little bitches...

Posted by: tu3031 at December 19, 2015 01:53 PM (EDYaR)

18 I keep flashing back to the opening minutes in Full Metal Jacket where Gunny Hartmann is telling Pvt. Snowball how disappointed he'll be with the chow hall's lack of fried chicken and watermelon.

Sorry, no linky...

Posted by: PabloD at December 19, 2015 01:53 PM (w1Wl2)

19 Having sampled local interpretations of hamburgers and pizza in Asia, I wouldn't squawk too much if I were they.

What's that, you say? Who the hell orders home-style eats in a foreign land, instead of indulging in the local cuisine?

Exactly.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at December 19, 2015 01:53 PM (jR7Wy)

20 Is no fried chicken offensive because they have black students, or because they don't have black students?

I can't even keep up anymore.

Posted by: Blano at December 19, 2015 01:53 PM (C3E0x)

21 Worse, the sushi rice was undercooked in a way that was, according to one student, "disrespectful" of her culture. Tomoyo Joshi, a junior from Japan, was highly offended by this flagrant violation of her rice. "If people not from that heritage take food, modify it and serve it as 'authentic,' it is appropriative," she said.

Ricists!

Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 19, 2015 01:54 PM (oKE6c)

22 All education must cease because it assumes students are ignorant.

Posted by: Feh at December 19, 2015 01:54 PM (Uk9e2)

23 I suggest the menu be replaced by the offerings from the old chain 'Sambo's'.

Posted by: Cracker Graham Kerr at December 19, 2015 01:55 PM (msPO3)

24 Still a few good colleges in the country. A useful discussion would be to for us to identify them so parents could support them.

The majority seem to be wealth transfer schemes for the left, though.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at December 19, 2015 01:55 PM (l3vZN)

25 Yay! Once fried chicken is provided, the black students can then protest at how racist it is for the cafeteria to push stereotypes.

"Why don't you also offer watermellon and chitlins while you at It, foo!"

Posted by: Barack Hussein ObamaB at December 19, 2015 01:56 PM (9vLZK)

26
What's that, you say? Who the hell orders home-style eats in a foreign land, instead of indulging in the local cuisine?

Pretty much everybody, apparently. Even the most awful knockoff versions of ethnic food get a lot of attention from that ethnicity. I see Mexicans line up for Taco Bell around here and you know it pains them to eat that slop. But its familiar slop.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 19, 2015 01:56 PM (39g3+)

27 Ricists!

Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 19, 2015 01:54 PM (oKE6c)

Okay....we are done here.

Thread winner.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 19, 2015 01:57 PM (Zu3d9)

28 Tomoyo Joshi is attending Oberlin because she could not pass the exams, after three attempts, to gain admittance to Tokyo University.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 19, 2015 01:57 PM (EV7bS)

29 We should identify parents of Oberlin students and laugh at them.

Posted by: Feh at December 19, 2015 01:57 PM (Uk9e2)

30 OT: Kasich campaign launches "Trump/Putin 2016" website

https://tinyurl.com/pknk6cr

Bless his heart.

Posted by: rickl at December 19, 2015 01:58 PM (sdi6R)

31 The problem is, Oberlin food services are probably trying to make their food healthier because of pressure from the "eat better or die" Michelle Obama wing of leftists, so they are steaming the chicken instead of frying it for the General Tso. Plus, its faster and cheaper to produce.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 19, 2015 01:58 PM (39g3+)

32
Spoiled little bitches...
Posted by: tu3031 at December 19, 2015 01:53 PM (EDYaR)

I was thinking the same thing. The food at the chow hall when I was in school was not particularly good, except for the banana bread on Sundays. And that was spectacular-we begged and begged for the recipe, but it was apparently a state secret for the food services at Baylor.

Also, if these kids have this much time to be whining about offerings at the cafeterias, they have too little work to be doing. The professors are dropping the ball on their sorry asses and not requiring enough work for the credit.

Posted by: Moki at December 19, 2015 01:58 PM (7q2ch)

33 8 But then they'd actually have to work. And get their hands dirty. Disgusting.

Posted by: antisocialist at December 19, 2015 01:58 PM (gVcKc)

34 >>> I just wanted to say, for the record, I DON'T GET THIS.

Is it possible that there are by products we could easily sell?

Another possibility is natural gas. IIRC, the Marcellus basin is mostly gas.

Posted by: fluffy at December 19, 2015 01:59 PM (AfsKp)

35 The SJWs just keep on fryin' that chicken.

Posted by: Ernie Anastos at December 19, 2015 01:59 PM (9vLZK)

36 I'll wait for Scandi students to riot over a lack of herring options.

Posted by: Feh at December 19, 2015 01:59 PM (Uk9e2)

37 Anyone that goes to a cafeteria then complains the food is not that great is just an idiot. Of course the food is not that great. They have to make 900 of everything as fast and cheaply as possible.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 19, 2015 02:00 PM (39g3+)

38 Tomoyo Joshi, a junior from Japan, was highly offended by this flagrant violation of her rice.

Then go back to your own fucking country where you won't be troubled, dumbass.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at December 19, 2015 02:00 PM (oVJmc)

39 OT: Kasich campaign launches "Trump/Putin 2016" website

https://tinyurl.com/pknk6cr

The real problem with Kasich doing this: he doesn't know that Putin rates higher than Kasich.

Posted by: tbodie at December 19, 2015 02:00 PM (wmrFg)

40 21 Worse, the sushi rice was undercooked in a way that was, according to one student, "disrespectful" of her culture. Tomoyo Joshi, a junior from Japan, was highly offended by this flagrant violation of her rice. "If people not from that heritage take food, modify it and serve it as 'authentic,' it is appropriative," she said.

Instead of bitching, why don't you take a job in the kitchen and cook it the right way, you insolent little twit?

Posted by: Moki at December 19, 2015 02:00 PM (7q2ch)

41 On the removal of the crude oil export ban, I have seen it suggested that this is a long term accommodative measure by industry executives to the deliberate deindustrialization of the United States, and I tend to agree with that analysis.

Certainly no one is lining up to make billion-plus dollar capex outlays for new refineries in the USA. Not in a legal and regulatory environment where it's clear some unelected bureaucrat inside the D.C. Beltway can with "the stroke of a pen" ruin the return on investment permanently, as has happened with coal facilities in the last few years.

So the idea would be to export crude abroad, refine it at newly built refineries located in more accommodative domiciles outside the scope of Stateside regulators, and then re-import the high margin finished products like gasoline and jet fuel to the USA.

This will of course further shitcan already paltry job growth in the States, but neither wing of the Permanent Bipartisan Fusion Party have shown any real interest in preserving heavy-industry jobs.

Posted by: torquewrench at December 19, 2015 02:01 PM (noWW6)

42 torque

we need a bigger blowtorch

Posted by: Feh at December 19, 2015 02:02 PM (Uk9e2)

43 Instead of bitching, why don't you take a job in the kitchen and cook it the right way, you insolent little twit?

Posted by: Moki at December 19, 2015 02:00 PM (7q2ch)

'Cause then she'd have nothing to bitch about.

Can't have that.

Posted by: Blano at December 19, 2015 02:03 PM (C3E0x)

44 My concern is that the dog isn't authentically prepared.

Posted by: Barry Soetoro at December 19, 2015 02:03 PM (msPO3)

45 I am sorry we have let you down. We will shut down the cafeteria and give you vouchers to buy food in town.

Posted by: Oberlin president at December 19, 2015 02:03 PM (9vLZK)

46 I don't get the complaints about selling surplus US oil overseas. People here were complaining that companies could not, not that long ago. Just because the rest of the Omnibus spending bill is a clusterfark of epic proportions that gave up everything good for a lame "win" and gave the Dems everything they wanted doesn't mean all of it is awful.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 19, 2015 02:03 PM (39g3+)

47 Sounds like an opportunity for someone to open a Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise nearby.

Posted by: Yannic Perig at December 19, 2015 02:03 PM (Xh7kU)

48 Another possibility is natural gas. IIRC, the Marcellus basin is mostly gas.
Posted by: fluffy at December 19, 2015 01:59 PM (AfsKp)

LNG exports are set to begin next year. The charade just passed has no affect on this. And. Exporting LNG will be helpful just not goung to happen at any significant level.

Posted by: tbodie at December 19, 2015 02:04 PM (wmrFg)

49 Our culture is dying a death by a thousand julienne cuts.

Posted by: zombie at December 19, 2015 02:04 PM (jBuUi)

50 The college should put out a statement saying "if you dislike the food options at the cafeteria, it is a short walk to many small cafes and restaurants that cluster around our campus where you can choose the food that you prefer. Of course, its going to cost more and require you to get off your lazy ass to get the food, but that's the price you pay for being a finicky, spoiled twit."

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 19, 2015 02:05 PM (39g3+)

51 So the girl from Japan whines about it being "appropriative" to serve rice?

Is it "appropriative" for her to be speaking English rather than Japanese?

Posted by: torquewrench at December 19, 2015 02:05 PM (noWW6)

52 Channeling your inner Ace. Yeah, this is ridiculous. You don't want to eat it, don't buy it. Cook for yourselves, bitches*.

* This is a gender-neutral term for anyone who elects not to exercise authority over any significant aspect of their own future well-being, particularly bodily holes, whether it's the hole you eat through or the hole you defecate through or any other hole your body might have (any considerations of transgenderism aside, if you had a hole and don't now then you've capitulated to the Patriarchy because you've replaced it with something to avoid its use by something else, and in either case you've replaced what was there with Something, and a penis is Something, regardless which direction it's pointed**)

** if you pour a shot of whiskey and leave it next to your bed in the morning you need to think twice before you down it before brushing your teeth, because then you'll think it was a good idea and go pour another one, and write a comment like this.

Posted by: JEM at December 19, 2015 02:06 PM (o+SC1)

53 we're being ruled by a mandoline class of officials

Posted by: Feh at December 19, 2015 02:06 PM (Uk9e2)

54 Tomoyo Joshi, do you feel guilt for how your race stole those islands from the Ainu?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 19, 2015 02:06 PM (EV7bS)

55 43-precisely.

I'm old enough to have noticed that trend-people whinge, you fix it, and then they find something else to whinge about. They don't want to be satisfied, because they find it enjoyable to complain about something-I guess it provides them with some sort of self-righteousness or justification.

Heck, I have done my share of complaining. But I certainly want to try to live a more positive life, because it's nicer to be around those kind of people. A constant complainer is boring after two to three minutes.

Posted by: Moki at December 19, 2015 02:07 PM (7q2ch)

56 Michelle Obama gave the commencement address in May, advised graduates to "shape the revolutions of their times".

So, fried chicken in the African Heritage house, well-cooked rice for sushi. There is a real possibility for successful revolutionary action there.

Dennis Prager pointed out that people, especially on the left, often focus on causes in which they can "make a difference" and ignore serious problems that make them feel inadequate or even helpless.

Posted by: KT at December 19, 2015 02:08 PM (qahv/)

57 23 I suggest the menu be replaced by the offerings from the old chain 'Sambo's'.
Posted by: Cracker Graham Kerr at December 19, 2015 01:55 PM (msPO3)

Side note: the original Sambos is still in operation in Leningrad on the Pacific. (Santa Barbara)

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 19, 2015 02:08 PM (/DNWp)

58 Oh, this is where the Gun Thread went.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 19, 2015 02:08 PM (OkAU/)

59 The fried chicken complaint is about General Tso's chicken, not crispy fried chicken like the colonel never made.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 19, 2015 02:08 PM (39g3+)

60 I'm sure Joshi complains equally about the lack of American beefsteak in Japanese hamburgers

Posted by: Feh at December 19, 2015 02:09 PM (Uk9e2)

61 That effete snob Birddog over at maggies farm sends his kids there

Posted by: dr kill at December 19, 2015 02:09 PM (msVAP)

62 Tomoyo Joshi, a junior from Japan, was highly offended by this
flagrant violation of her rice. "If people not from that heritage take
food, modify it and serve it as 'authentic,' it is appropriative," she
said.

I hear they really understand how to do rice in Korea and the Philippines. I bet she could find all sorts of staff and officials there to listen to her if she went those places to go to university.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 19, 2015 02:09 PM (q2o38)

63 49, 50, 51

Golf claps. Those were all brilliant posts.

Posted by: Moki at December 19, 2015 02:09 PM (7q2ch)

64 what a bunch of fuckwits. when my kids were in college they never ate in the cafeteria. always got their own food. course, they also worked, so they could afford to do that. if you don't like the food on campus, don't fucking eat there. simple.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 19, 2015 02:09 PM (ucDmr)

65 I hate it when these white Western racist pigs offer you food. You think they're being nice, but then it just turns out it was a racist attack on your culture!

*belch*
*fart*

Posted by: Syrian refugee at December 19, 2015 02:09 PM (9vLZK)

66 A quotation seems appropriate. Rorschach from Watchmen:

"The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout 'Save us!'... and I'll look down and whisper 'No.' They had a choice, all of them. They could have followed in the footsteps of good men like my father or President Truman. Decent men who believed in a day's work for a day's pay. Instead they followed the droppings of lechers and communists and didn't realize that the trail led over a precipice until it was too late. Don't tell me they didn't have a choice. Now the whole world stands on the brink, staring down into bloody Hell, all those liberals and intellectuals and smooth-talkers... and all of a sudden nobody can think of anything to say."

Posted by: Naes at December 19, 2015 02:10 PM (Ypc8j)

67 I don't know anything about them, blano. Do you have a range you can go to?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 19, 2015 02:02 PM (OkAU/)

Not at the moment. Been trying and trying to get someone to take me shooting with them to show me how, but no dice. Very frustrating.

So been meaning to go to a range up the road in Burleson, maybe Monday and just ask somebody for some advice. Feel kinda stupid walking in there knowing nothing, but whatever.

Posted by: Blano at December 19, 2015 02:10 PM (C3E0x)

68 There's a Sambo's on the Oregon Coast, in Lincoln City. I don't think the 3 blacks living there care much. They did change the sign in the 90s though, so it just has a tiger now, not a little caricature black kid.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 19, 2015 02:10 PM (39g3+)

69 Oberlin preezy should say: 'We serve brats'.

Posted by: Oberlin 50k Per Annum at December 19, 2015 02:10 PM (msPO3)

70 I heard that the baloney sandwiches are made with mayo instead of Miracle Whip. Time to burn that mother fucker down.

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at December 19, 2015 02:11 PM (1RNgT)

71 The menu should be changed to the following, for each of the next 90 days:

Breakfast: Scrambled eggs, toast, yoghurt and orange juice.

Lunch: Chicken noodle soup, roll with butter, milk.

Dinner: Corndogs, broccoli, pudding, coca cola.

Midrats: Coffee, peanut butter sandwich.

No variation allowed. Eat it, or starve.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 19, 2015 02:11 PM (WsqCN)

72 Now to be fair, the first time in my life that I ever had 'spanish rice' was at university cafeteria. I didn't know what it was and 'sent it back' to the kitchen.

Posted by: Yannic Perig at December 19, 2015 02:11 PM (Xh7kU)

73 Best food day in college as a Freshman was mlk day, when they served ribs, fried chicken, greens, cornbread and probably watermelon too. Best cafeteria food we had!

Posted by: Lea at December 19, 2015 02:11 PM (2+eEe)

74 Prager gets it

this is all progressivechange at low personal cost

it's why gay marriage is popular w young affluent heteros

costs them nothing, gets them a big egoistic return

Posted by: Feh at December 19, 2015 02:12 PM (Uk9e2)

75 What's really funny is the black students insisting on more traditionally "Afrikan" food such as... fried chicken.

Ummmmmmmmmmmmmm no.

It would be instructive to have the black students spend an entire academic term being fed *genuinely* traditional and representative African food, and nothing but.

No sneaking out for cheeseburgers or pizza! Culturally appropriative!

Posted by: torquewrench at December 19, 2015 02:12 PM (noWW6)

76 How Oberlin College isn't bankrupt? Why would any sane family send their children there so they can become useless?

Posted by: Norhternlurker at December 19, 2015 02:12 PM (hJrjt)

77 Side note: the original Sambos is still in operation in Leningrad on the Pacific. (Santa Barbara)

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 19, 2015 02:08 PM (/DNWp)
There is one in Lincoln City, Oregon, too.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 19, 2015 02:12 PM (q2o38)

78 Oh, the only reason we have. LNG export facilities coming on line is that they were permitted as import facilities. Then shale & fracking gave US excess inventory. Our government in all it's wisdom failed to restrict permits to import only use.

- Small redesign,

-Turn the pumps around so the stuff flows out rather than in,

- Profit!

Posted by: tbodie at December 19, 2015 02:12 PM (wmrFg)

79 Emails and Data Breeches: Hillary's data breech by Bernie; Hasn't this happened to her before?

Posted by: Ralph at December 19, 2015 02:13 PM (ZLAox)

80 If we are importing 30_40% of our oil consumption , there would not be any surplus oil to export.

Posted by: Velvet Ambition at December 19, 2015 02:13 PM (QPdNE)

81 A quotation seems appropriate. Rorschach from Watchmen:

Allan Moore thought Rorschach was a horrible lunatic, and hated him. Moore wrote him as a Randian nutjob who ruined everything. I think he probably was baffled at how popular and iconic the character became.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 19, 2015 02:13 PM (39g3+)

82 In fairness, Oberlin is a good music school.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! with purchase of equal or greater value commenter at December 19, 2015 02:14 PM (rwI+c)

83 Would German students have the right to be offended by bad beer?

Posted by: Norhternlurker at December 19, 2015 02:14 PM (hJrjt)

84 Christopher Taylor. In Poland they have found five graves of possible vampires. Four had sickles against their throats and one had a sickle across her pelvis.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/oelktaf

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 19, 2015 02:14 PM (EV7bS)

85 It would be instructive to have the black students spend an entire academic term being fed *genuinely* traditional and representative African food, and nothing but.

What is this crap? Blood? Grubs? I don't even know what this is!!! Where's my real food???

Posted by: Average student at December 19, 2015 02:15 PM (39g3+)

86 I love my students at the local private university where I teach business. No bitching about the food, but they did do a real good presentation on how to automate the payment procedures and cross balance purchase cards, and then threw it all together into a great business plan!

Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2015 02:15 PM (r65B3)

87 General Tso's chicken isn't Chinese. It developed in Chinese restaurants in America in the 1970s.

So kiss my culture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Tso's_chicken#Name_and_origins

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at December 19, 2015 02:15 PM (oVJmc)

88 British students would be offended by good teeth and bad bangers and mash.

Posted by: Norhternlurker at December 19, 2015 02:16 PM (hJrjt)

89 "Not at the moment. Been trying and trying to get someone to take me shooting with them to show me how, but no dice. Very frustrating. "

Blano, you sitll here?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 19, 2015 02:16 PM (OkAU/)

90 Hey Oberlin, eat me!

Posted by: Colonel Sanders at December 19, 2015 02:16 PM (msPO3)

91 >> The menu should be changed to the following, for each of
>> the next 90 days:

Breakfast: toast.

Lunch: chicken noodle soup with leftover breakfast toast.

Dinner: macaroni and cheddar cheese with leftover breakfast toast.

FOREVER.

Meal plan $20/day billed to the parents.

Posted by: JEM at December 19, 2015 02:16 PM (o+SC1)

92 In Poland they have found five graves of possible vampires.

The vampire myths across the world are fascinating. My favorite is the one from New England where they believed vampires were buried and lay in their graves, but stole blood mystically from victims, feeding their still-beating dead heart in their corpse.

Posted by: Average student at December 19, 2015 02:16 PM (39g3+)

93 torque there was an etiopian food cart in the quad where i went, very popular w white kids but very few black kids ate there, they were like "potato stew on a pancake -- da fuq?"

Posted by: Feh at December 19, 2015 02:16 PM (Uk9e2)

94 You're a blood thirsty devil, General Tso, but your chicken is so good.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! with purchase of equal or greater value commenter at December 19, 2015 02:17 PM (rwI+c)

95 Posted by: Blano at December 19, 2015 02:10 PM

Blano, I'm over in Waxahachie. I'd be happy to help you out when I get back in town in Jan. email me with my handle at yahoo dot com

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 19, 2015 02:17 PM (/DNWp)

96 Have an French Canadian students been seen rioting because of poutine?

Posted by: Norhternlurker at December 19, 2015 02:17 PM (hJrjt)

97 There is something about Ohio it must be number 3 on the crazy state list.

Posted by: Cottonwood Kulak at December 19, 2015 02:18 PM (ZLAox)

98 These special snowflakes should try the canned peas at Crozet Hall, VMI.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at December 19, 2015 02:18 PM (l3vZN)

99 So has any of these students weighed in on the heavy matter of fortune cookies?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 19, 2015 02:18 PM (EV7bS)

100 Blano, you sitll here?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 19, 2015 02:16 PM (OkAU/)

Yep.

Posted by: Blano at December 19, 2015 02:18 PM (C3E0x)

101 "The menu should be changed to the following, for each of the next 90 days:
Breakfast: Scrambled eggs, toast, yoghurt and orange juice."

That's pretty much how I recall breakfast in the dorm cafeteria.

Watery scrambled eggs full of shell fragments. White toast with margarine. Reconstituted vaguely "orange" juice with so much sugar you could stand a spoon in it. And of course percolator coffee that looked and tasted like it had just been drained out of the oil passages of a Peterbilt truck engine.

It is funny to have the special-snowflake student generation simultaneously insisting on haute cuisine meals, dorms that look like luxury spa reports, and Olympic caliber gyms, while bemoaning the high cost of college.

Fuckin' logic. How does it work?

Posted by: torquewrench at December 19, 2015 02:18 PM (noWW6)

102 Shit on a Shingle.

Three times daily.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at December 19, 2015 02:18 PM (oVJmc)

103 These corndogs are fake. That don't taste like no dog!

Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama at December 19, 2015 02:19 PM (9vLZK)

104 Blano, I'm over in Waxahachie. I'd be happy to help you out when I get back in town in Jan. email me with my handle at yahoo dot com

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 19, 2015 02:17 PM (/DNWp)

Will do, thank you!!

Posted by: Blano at December 19, 2015 02:19 PM (C3E0x)

105 i never understood the vampire myth

then i got older

: )

Posted by: Feh at December 19, 2015 02:19 PM (Uk9e2)

106 Chitlins at Afrikan House must be hand-slung to avoid cultural appropriation.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at December 19, 2015 02:19 PM (u5gzz)

107 hate couture

hate cuisine

Posted by: Feh at December 19, 2015 02:20 PM (Uk9e2)

108 >>General Tso's chicken isn't Chinese. It developed in Chinese
>>restaurants in America in the 1970s.

That, and pizza, and just about every fucking other 'ethnic' food.

Average college kid would gag on what the typical real Chinese eats.

CONGRATULATIONS OBERLIN STUDENTS! THIS IS GERMAN ETHNIC SOLIDARITY WEEK! YOU'RE GETTING WEISWURST AND EISBEIN LUNCH AND DINNER!

In celebration of multiculturalism on Friday you get Doner Kebab for lunch.

Posted by: JEM at December 19, 2015 02:20 PM (o+SC1)

109 92 The vampire myths across the world are fascinating.

There's one especially prevalent (and disturbing) myth about vampires who sparkle fighting shirtless werewolves twinks for the affections bland girl for six books.

Posted by: Naes at December 19, 2015 02:20 PM (Ypc8j)

110 General Tso's chicken isn't Chinese. It developed in Chinese restaurants in America in the 1970s.

Yeah, its like Chow Mein, about as authentic as Cher's face. Chinese students complaining about fake General Tso is like Mexicans complaining that Fiery Doritos Locos Tacos Supreme aren't authentic if you use the wrong kind of cheese.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 19, 2015 02:21 PM (39g3+)

111 Blano, what type of rifle you shooting? I know you asked that the other night and I missed it?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 19, 2015 02:21 PM (OkAU/)

112 the oberlin pres should issue every student a spatula for christmas

Posted by: Feh at December 19, 2015 02:21 PM (Uk9e2)

113 >> Watery scrambled eggs full of shell fragments. White toast
>> with margarine. Reconstituted vaguely "orange" juice with
>> so much sugar you could stand a spoon in it. And of course
>>percolator coffee that looked and tasted like it had just been
>>drained out of the oil passages of a Peterbilt truck engine.

Basic training, eh?

Posted by: JEM at December 19, 2015 02:21 PM (o+SC1)

114 Oberlin could just add a tag like "Oberlin Style" to each food item on the menu, giving a nod to the local culinary setting and acknowledging their complete inability to make, say, Korean food in authentic Korean style: so, Oberlin Style kimchi could be mayonnaise-laden coleslaw or whatever they want it to be.

Posted by: m at December 19, 2015 02:21 PM (d4uu4)

115 The New England vampire myth probably was a Greek import. The Greeks have a legend of such a creature being able to siphon the blood of the living. The term starts with an 'l' but isn't lycanthrope. The Bela Lugosi movie Isle of the Dead is built around that myth during the 1912 Greek civil war.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 19, 2015 02:22 PM (EV7bS)

116 Have an French Canadian students been seen rioting because of poutine?

This poutine has gravy from a can, eh? Don't make me use stern language, you hoser!

Posted by: Canadian Student at December 19, 2015 02:22 PM (39g3+)

117 These kids need a little Bull Conner in the dining hall with a fire hose.

Posted by: Aviator at December 19, 2015 02:23 PM (c7vUv)

118 muslim vampires would be apt

Posted by: Feh at December 19, 2015 02:23 PM (Uk9e2)

119 >> Korean food in authentic Korean style: so, Oberlin Style
>> kimchi could be mayonnaise-laden coleslaw or whatever
>> they want it to be.

Yeah, but then they'd make a rap video about it.

Posted by: JEM at December 19, 2015 02:24 PM (o+SC1)

120 The New England vampire myth probably was a Greek import. The Greeks have a legend of such a creature being able to siphon the blood of the living. The term starts with an 'l' but isn't lycanthrope. The Bela Lugosi movie Isle of the Dead is built around that myth during the 1912 Greek civil war.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 19, 2015 02:22 PM (EV7bS)

Lampire?

Posted by: naturalfake, All Holiday Season-like at December 19, 2015 02:24 PM (KUa85)

121 Sobbing terrified villager, "I couldn't see the vampire's face. 'twas wrapped in muslin!!!"

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 19, 2015 02:24 PM (EV7bS)

122 The term starts with an 'l' but isn't lycanthrope.

Lamia, probably

Vampire-style myths are worldwide. There is a Malaysian one that features a woman that lifts out of her body, the head attached to all the guts and it either flies or crawls around on its intestines to choke and kill victims, then goes back to its body and looks normal.

AD&D actually had them in one of their monster manuals, the Penanggalan

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 19, 2015 02:24 PM (39g3+)

123 My mom always made lasagna with cottage cheese. I now realize what a monster she is.

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at December 19, 2015 02:25 PM (1RNgT)

124 would these same students petition for kosher fridays at al-azhar?

Posted by: Feh at December 19, 2015 02:25 PM (Uk9e2)

125 In celebration of multiculturalism on Friday you get Doner Kebab for lunch.
Posted by: JEM at December 19, 2015 02:20 PM (o+SC1)

This isn't Doner Kebab, THIS IS CARNE AL PASTOR

HATER!! You went and stole this from the Mexicans!!!

Posted by: Kindltot at December 19, 2015 02:25 PM (q2o38)

126 "This poutine has gravy from a can, eh? Don't make me use stern language, you hoser!"

The pea soup came from a can too.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 19, 2015 02:25 PM (OkAU/)

127 Blano, what type of rifle you shooting? I know you asked that the other night and I missed it?

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 19, 2015 02:21 PM (OkAU/)

Right now I only have a SCCY 9mm pistol. Would like to get a rifle and/or another pistol, but that's all I have at the moment.

Posted by: Blano at December 19, 2015 02:25 PM (C3E0x)

128 This taco is inauthentic. I know what real Mexican tacos taste like.

Posted by: Yeb Bush at December 19, 2015 02:26 PM (9vLZK)

129 "...He won't. He will undoubtedly change the menu..."

Probably not change the menu much. That is real money.

Also I'm sure he is using preferred providers (run by Democrat contributors who give money to Hilary).

They make money from the difference between what they charge for meals and what it cost. eg they serve slop that a pig might not eat and they force students to buy meal tickets.

Posted by: score card at December 19, 2015 02:26 PM (PGh+Q)

130 28 Tomoyo Joshi is attending Oberlin because she could not pass the exams, after three attempts, to gain admittance to Tokyo University.

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The how does that imperialist little bitch come over here and appropriate American educational culture.
SheHeIt probably wears jeans.
#CultureThief

Posted by: Vlad the Impaler, whittling away like mad at December 19, 2015 02:26 PM (3Mimg)

131 Just had General Tso's at P.F. Chang's. Good stuff, so was the Ginger Chicken and Broccoli. Netflix has a documentary "Searching for General Tso" that goes into it's origins, the historical General Tso, etc. I watched it a while ago, pretty much as you'd imagine.

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 19, 2015 02:26 PM (2cS/G)

132 etymology of poutine

whore's breakfast?

Posted by: Feh at December 19, 2015 02:26 PM (Uk9e2)

133 118 muslim vampires would be apt

We needed a vampire to fight the Muslims back in the 15th century-- Vlad Dracul of Wallachia.

Posted by: Naes at December 19, 2015 02:26 PM (Ypc8j)

134 93 torque there was an etiopian food cart in the quad where i went, very popular w white kids but very few black kids ate there, they were like "potato stew on a pancake -- da fuq?"
Posted by: Feh at December 19, 2015 02:16 PM (Uk9e2)
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Then they're fools. Ethiopian ("Afrikan") food is fantastic.

And now I have a hankerin'. Does Adams Morgan still have lots of Ethiop eateries?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at December 19, 2015 02:27 PM (jR7Wy)

135 Tacos with stiff shells are American, real Mex ones are soft with several tortillas. They aren't as good, I don't think.

My mom always made lasagna with cottage cheese. I now realize what a monster she is.

The funny thing is... its really good that way. Ricotta has a smoother texture but cottage cheese actually works fine.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 19, 2015 02:27 PM (39g3+)

136 Ah here is the Greek vampires

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vrykolakas

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 19, 2015 02:27 PM (EV7bS)

137 >> This isn't Doner Kebab, THIS IS CARNE AL PASTOR

Doner lamb, pastor pork, right?

Didn't see many Turkish Muslims slicing pork for kebab in Frankfurt last time I was there.

Posted by: JEM at December 19, 2015 02:27 PM (o+SC1)

138 Oberlin Style kimchi could be mayonnaise-laden coleslaw or whatever they want it to be.
Posted by: m at December 19, 2015 02:21 PM (d4uu4)

Sauerkraut and sirocha.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 19, 2015 02:28 PM (q2o38)

139 Netflix has a documentary "Searching for General Tso"

I watched that too, but it was disappointing. Way too much whining about Chinese mistreatment in America and political crap and not nearly enough about the actual topic: the recipe and its origins.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 19, 2015 02:28 PM (39g3+)

140 "Right now I only have a SCCY 9mm pistol. Would like to get a rifle and/or another pistol, but that's all I have at the moment."

Okay. Wanna shoot, buy, learn?

I know I sound dumb after taking with you all this time.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 19, 2015 02:29 PM (OkAU/)

141 I remember the Penanggalan from the Monster Manual. That was a pretty off the wall horrible monster.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 19, 2015 02:29 PM (EV7bS)

142 Prager gets it

this is all progressivechange at low personal cost

it's why gay marriage is popular w young affluent heteros

costs them nothing, gets them a big egoistic return
Posted by: Feh at December 19, 2015 02:12 PM (Uk9e2)
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Even with no return at all, the result would ultimately be the same - just following the ruling class, their courts, and their clear indication that it was to be. Why fight it? Might as well just lie back and enjoy it./

Posted by: RioBravo at December 19, 2015 02:29 PM (NUqwG)

143 >> Tacos with stiff shells are American, real Mex ones are soft
>> with several tortillas. They aren't as good, I don't think.

Uh, what?

Lunch time, maybe I'll see if I can get daughter to bike over to the taco truck where they serve REAL tacos in TWO SOFT tortillas.

The hard tortilla is just Taco Bell crap.

Posted by: JEM at December 19, 2015 02:29 PM (o+SC1)

144 This taco is inauthentic. I know what real Mexican tacos taste like.

Posted by: Yeb Bush

Ay yi yi!

Posted by: Mrs. Jeb! at December 19, 2015 02:29 PM (kHgvV)

145 i imagine the margin is better on ethiopian food too if you can get people to eat it -- inexpensive ingredients

Posted by: Feh at December 19, 2015 02:30 PM (Uk9e2)

146 119 >> Korean food in authentic Korean style: so, Oberlin Style
>> kimchi could be mayonnaise-laden coleslaw or whatever
>> they want it to be.

Yeah, but then they'd make a rap video about it.
Posted by: JEM at December 19, 2015 02:24 PM (o+SC1)
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When I was TAD to Korean back in the day, mayonnaise was big on the black market. Used to see it sold on the street with the AAFES sticker still on it.

Why mayo? That's so goy.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at December 19, 2015 02:30 PM (jR7Wy)

147 You not fuck my chicken.

My chicken fuck you!

He toughest chicken in all China!

HAHAHAHAHA!

You bow General Tso's Chicken, White Devil!

Posted by: General Tso at December 19, 2015 02:30 PM (KUa85)

148 Al Pastor is basically the same as doner. And I don't know what the meat used is, but I always hope it isn't cat.

I like tongue burritos because I can ID the meat by the taste-buds and characteristic texture.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 19, 2015 02:30 PM (q2o38)

149 Here's where I saw the wierd New England vampire story, from a really hypey but interesting show called Monumental Mysteries on Netflix:

http://tinyurl.com/h97afwb

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 19, 2015 02:31 PM (39g3+)

150 And now I have a hankerin'. Does Adams Morgan still have lots of Ethiop eateries?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at December 19, 2015 02:27 PM (jR7Wy)

Did you ever eat at the Red Sea in Adams Morgan? I loved that place-best zilzil tibs ever!

Posted by: Moki at December 19, 2015 02:31 PM (7q2ch)

151 Okay. Wanna shoot, buy, learn?

I know I sound dumb after taking with you all this time.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 19, 2015 02:29 PM (OkAU/)

Lol, no you don't. No problemo. All of the above.

Posted by: Blano at December 19, 2015 02:31 PM (C3E0x)

152 Progressiveness is modern Vampirism. Both suck their hosts to death.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 19, 2015 02:32 PM (EV7bS)

153 You will be dis-assimilated.

Posted by: SJW Borg at December 19, 2015 02:32 PM (9vLZK)

154 You not fuck my chicken.

My chicken fuck you!

*tips cap*

Posted by: In Soviet Russia at December 19, 2015 02:32 PM (kHgvV)

155 This taco is inauthentic. I know what real Mexican tacos taste like.

Posted by: Yeb Bush at December 19, 2015 02:26 PM (9vLZK)

Does she have a sister? Aunt? Cousin?

Posted by: Blano at December 19, 2015 02:32 PM (C3E0x)

156 The hard tortilla is just Taco Bell crap.

Yeah, that's what I was saying. Tasty crap, but fake.

I love those taco trucks but you gotta be careful; some of them are... less than careful with cleanliness, let's say. Its really hit or miss.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 19, 2015 02:33 PM (39g3+)

157 Any video of Choom talking cable TV and how he ought to watch more of it? What a passive-aggressive prick he is. Looks you straight, you should excuse the expression, in the eyes and gives that trivial excuse for ignoring the real suffering of us all. Special place in hell and all that...

Posted by: william at December 19, 2015 02:33 PM (cwAFZ)

158 And thus Christopher Taylor answers the question why food trucks are usually called 'roach coaches.'

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 19, 2015 02:34 PM (EV7bS)

159 I did laugh at the auto industry analyst who pointed out that General Motors, rescued at enormous expense to the American public, has rewarded that public by shifting as much component production as possible out of the USA to China.

To wit: the firm has remade itself as General T'so's Motors.

Posted by: torquewrench at December 19, 2015 02:34 PM (noWW6)

160 >> Al Pastor is basically the same as doner. And I don't know
>> what the meat used is, but I always hope it isn't cat.

Your Muslim overlords will be by shortly to reeducate you.

>> I like tongue burritos because I can ID the meat by the
>> taste-buds and characteristic texture.

Lengua and the other tongues ain't my thing.

If I'm tasting tongue it better be moving and attached to a cute female human.

Posted by: JEM at December 19, 2015 02:35 PM (o+SC1)

161 At least with General Tso's Motors we would get hot performance and a fortune cookie.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 19, 2015 02:35 PM (EV7bS)

162 I saw Tongue Burrito open for Meat Beat Manifesto at Chimichanga.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at December 19, 2015 02:35 PM (jR7Wy)

163 @134 And now I have a hankerin'. Does Adams Morgan still have lots of Ethiop eateries?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at December 19, 2015 02:27 PM
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Used to be a good one near the corner of Calvert and Biltmore.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 19, 2015 02:36 PM (r65B3)

164 >> At least with General Tso's Motors we would get hot
>> performance and a fortune cookie.

Me smog you long time.

Posted by: JEM at December 19, 2015 02:36 PM (o+SC1)

165 The hard tortilla is just Taco Bell crap.
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Only taco" shells"! Tostadas are authentically Mexican.

Posted by: Jebby at December 19, 2015 02:37 PM (NUqwG)

166 It's Christmas, everyone is on edge.

First you will blow me

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 19, 2015 02:37 PM (jJRIy)

167 Fortune Cookies are another US invention. I never quite understood the concept myself.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 19, 2015 02:37 PM (39g3+)

168 Blano!

special reply to you in the gum thread ;-)

Posted by: Steck at December 19, 2015 02:37 PM (ibSYs)

169 Ain't nothin like the real thing, baby!

Posted by: Caitlyn Jenner at December 19, 2015 02:38 PM (9vLZK)

170 lykanthropos = werewolf

Posted by: m at December 19, 2015 02:38 PM (d4uu4)

171 *tosses a Wolf Apple to m*

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 19, 2015 02:38 PM (EV7bS)

172 Tostadas are authentically Mexican.

True, and they're just as hard to eat in Mexico as here.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 19, 2015 02:39 PM (39g3+)

173 I see that an onion article was mistakenly published in the NY Post.

Posted by: chique testing testing at December 19, 2015 02:39 PM (Mt8T4)

174 If we're talking long-arm, .22. Everyone needs to learn with a .22.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 19, 2015 02:40 PM (OkAU/)

175 Hah! My niece started at Oberlin this year, came home for Thanksgiving, she hates it. Said it's teeming with pampered, self-indulgent, debauched and incredibly stupid people. And those are just the regular students - not the social justice peeps.

One guy in her dorm started a fire by putting a plastic jug of water directly on a stove burner because he needed hot water for tea. I guess the little darling had always had his tea made for him so he wasn't quite clear on the whole process.

Remember that scene from Constantine where Keanu Reeves' character went to hell? Yeah, it's like that.

Posted by: Joanne at December 19, 2015 02:40 PM (hgBpU)

176 College students are just playing at fascism to see what they can get.
Keep track at College Insurrection

Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2015 02:41 PM (k0xxN)

177 I see that an onion article was mistakenly published in the NY Post.

Its practically a joke paper to begin with anyway.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 19, 2015 02:41 PM (39g3+)

178 I can see the future Oberlin cafeteria

Line 1: Native American
Line 2: Mexican.
Line 3: Italian.
Line 4: German.
Line 5: Philippine.
Line 6: Chinese.
Line 7: French.
...
Line 222: English.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 19, 2015 02:42 PM (EV7bS)

179 >>>Doner Kebab, THIS IS CARNE AL PASTOR<<<

The Donner Party ate the Reverend.

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living... at December 19, 2015 02:42 PM (tEDMc)

180 "I love those taco trucks but you gotta be careful; some of them are...
less than careful with cleanliness, let's say. Its really hit or miss."

In Commiefornia, the public health authorities are constantly squeaking and beeping about hepatitis, which honestly is a thing: it's nasty, it's a major driver of health care cost inflation, and it's everywhere here now.

Except the two biggest single vectors for it are promiscuous gay sex hookups, and unlicensed+uninspected Mexican food trucks. So nothing actually ever gets done by the authorities, because those are politically untouchable constituencies in Commiefornia.

Posted by: torquewrench at December 19, 2015 02:42 PM (noWW6)

181 The 12 Bans of Christmas
CampusReform

https://youtu.be/TYE4QNOsCl4

The singing is ... not that great.

The song is ... kinda lame.

But the "bans" are all real, and they note on which campuses.

If you want to go to just the last verse instead of going through the repetitions, use this link:

https://youtu.be/TYE4QNOsCl4?t=2m57s

Posted by: mindful webworker - no merry allowed! at December 19, 2015 02:43 PM (h6BP/)

182 Its like a greasy spoon, some hole in the wall place off the side of the road or at a truck stop. In my experience, they are either great or horrible, there's no in between.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 19, 2015 02:43 PM (39g3+)

183 True, and they're just as hard to eat in Mexico as here.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 19, 2015 02:39 PM (39g3+)
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Mexicans have a tendency to make difficult-to-eat food. Their soups tend to be made with one or more of such things as bones, shrimp legs and shells, corn cobs, and tough leaves.

Chinese food is usually easy to eat unless using chopsticks.

Foreigners!

Posted by: RioBravo at December 19, 2015 02:43 PM (NUqwG)

184 Heh, Ted Cruz goofing with Christmas Stories

https://youtu.be/e3hB3iOQKjY

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 19, 2015 02:44 PM (39g3+)

185 Why are these students the way they are? Awful parents who didn't raise their kids right and never told them no.

Why do these college officials always give in? They are just continuing their awful parenting techniques. The thought of not letting a dumb kid have his way is... unthinkable.

Posted by: chique testing testing at December 19, 2015 02:45 PM (Mt8T4)

186 Okay. Wanna shoot, buy, learn?
I know I sound dumb after taking with you all this time.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at December 19, 2015 02:29 PM (OkAU/)

Lol, no you don't. No problemo. All of the above.

Posted by: Blano at December 19, 2015 02:31 PM (C3E0x)

Ditto. All of the above!

Me

Posted by: Pee Wee Herman at December 19, 2015 02:45 PM (9vLZK)

187 Except the two biggest single vectors for it are promiscuous gay sex hookups, and unlicensed+uninspected Mexican food trucks.

Posted by: torquewrench at December 19, 2015 02:42 PM (noWW6)
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There's gotta be a way to combine these two with a mobile medical unit. Feels on Wheels? GropeMobile?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at December 19, 2015 02:45 PM (jR7Wy)

188 Blano!

special reply to you in the gum thread ;-)

Posted by: Steck at December 19, 2015 02:37 PM (ibSYs)

Absolutely!! That sounds great. Nice to hear today about more 'rons nearby. I'd even be happy to help drag those toys out of the lake.

I have to go to work now, but you, Ricardo, ITC or anybody else is welcome to give me an email shout anytime. blano8102 at that crappy yahoo site.

Back later!!

Posted by: Blano at December 19, 2015 02:45 PM (C3E0x)

189 "One guy in her dorm started a fire by putting a plastic jug of water
directly on a stove burner because he needed hot water for tea. I guess
the little darling had always had his tea made for him so he wasn't
quite clear on the whole process."

A while back, a widebody jet airliner operated by Saudia caught fire and all three-hundred-odd people aboard died horribly, because some Saudi nationals had lit up a charcoal burner right there on the carpeted floor of an aisle of the passenger cabin.

Posted by: torquewrench at December 19, 2015 02:47 PM (noWW6)

190 All Hail Eris, a GropeMobile?

The House GOPe would show up.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 19, 2015 02:48 PM (EV7bS)

191 Are the tostadas made with real toes.

Posted by: Quentin Tarantino at December 19, 2015 02:48 PM (9vLZK)

192 I just saw that Cruz ad on Drudge... in the library.

There needs to be a trigger warning on that shit. I nearly got thrown out of here laughing so hard

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 19, 2015 02:49 PM (q7gmI)

193 All Hail Eris, a GropeMobile?

*raises hand*

I came in too late for context, but I volunteer as tribute.

Posted by: Bandersnatch, Opus/Bill the Cat 2016 at December 19, 2015 02:49 PM (1xUj/)

194 "TWO SOFT tortillas"

They are too soft!

GM is doing us a favor. When the new means of transportation breaks out all the production facilities will be in the US.

Companies who moved to China found out the Chinese have a different take on Intellectual Property. At least one German moved production back to Germany. They automated the heck out of it to get around the Unions.

Posted by: score card at December 19, 2015 02:49 PM (PGh+Q)

195 "African American" food isn't remotely African.
It's not even black.
It's just Southern.

The original association of blacks with watermelon, fried chicken, greens, etc., was made by Yankees who marveled at the eating choices of Southern blacks settling in Yankee cities.

Until it became a national meme, no Southerner would ever have associated such foods with blacks. Even now it's a stereotype that doesn't resonate below the Mason-Dixon line.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at December 19, 2015 02:50 PM (T/5A0)

196 Cruz just won me over, I guess I am that easy....

https://youtu.be/e3hB3iOQKjY

Posted by: Garbone at December 19, 2015 02:51 PM (9dH/8)

197 The original association of blacks with watermelon, fried chicken, greens, etc., was made by Yankees who marveled at the eating choices of Southern blacks settling in Yankee cities.

Then they tried the food and said "hot damn this is amazing!"

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 19, 2015 02:51 PM (39g3+)

198 I came in too late for context, but I volunteer as tribute.
Posted by: Bandersnatch, Opus/Bill the Cat 2016 at December 19, 2015 02:49 PM (1xUj/)
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Context is all.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at December 19, 2015 02:52 PM (jR7Wy)

199 My dearly departed mother graduated from Oberlin in 1949. She was old school liberal, and even so would have been appalled and disgusted with these pretend citizens. They are attention-grabbing children who wouldn't know a real social cause from their own pudgy butts.

Posted by: goatexchange at December 19, 2015 02:52 PM (JGAJj)

200 Well Star Wars is doing to movies what the Death Star did to Alderaan.

One day gross of $120.5 million.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 19, 2015 02:53 PM (EV7bS)

201 Then they tried the food and said "hot damn this is amazing!"
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 19, 2015 02:51 PM (39g3+)
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Well, with the exception of the collard greens.

Posted by: RioBravo at December 19, 2015 02:54 PM (NUqwG)

202 Just watched that New England Vampire story, Christopher Taylor. Pretty good. It's eerie in real life.
(It's the first segment of the first show, about 10 minutes long, worth a viewing)

Posted by: Lincolntf at December 19, 2015 02:54 PM (2cS/G)

203
A while back, a widebody jet airliner operated by Saudia caught fire and all three-hundred-odd people aboard died horribly, because some Saudi nationals had lit up a charcoal burner right there on the carpeted floor of an aisle of the passenger cabin.

Posted by: torquewrench at December 19, 2015 02:47 PM (noWW6)

I was on a diverted flight from Muscat to Athens during the first Gulf War-Ethiopian Air. There were lived goats and chickens on the flight, and sure enough, a old woman brought out a bunsen burner type thing to heat water for tea. I prayed like I never prayed before, that we wouldn't blow up. We didn't, but I won't fly any African based airlines ever again. I'm surprised at Saudia- they are actually a really good airline, and don't usually put up with that kind of stuff.

Posted by: Moki at December 19, 2015 02:55 PM (7q2ch)

204 Well, with the exception of the collard greens.
Posted by: RioBravo

Is that why they called them collard people?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at December 19, 2015 02:56 PM (FkBIv)

205 Well Star Wars is doing to movies what the Death Star did to Alderaan.

I wonder how re-watchable it is, though? The original Star Wars, people stood in line 4, 5 times to see it. Might be a huge peak over the weekend then tail off. Just how the studios love it, but theaters don't.

Each week a movie stays at a theater, they get a larger percentage of the box office. The first week, they're pretty much living on concessions. Films that stay forever in the theater eventually become worthless to studios, so they prefer big time opening weekends then dropping out of the theater in a couple of weeks to make room for the next film.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 19, 2015 02:56 PM (39g3+)

206 Well, with the exception of the collard greens

You just haven't had good greens

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 19, 2015 02:57 PM (39g3+)

207 No, the Onion just needs to start mocking situations that are fraught with logic and commonsense because that's the new stupid/rarity.

College tells whiny brat kids to eff off over stupid demands, that's rare and the new stupid so it's good parody.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at December 19, 2015 02:58 PM (Xo1Rt)

208 "If the president of Oberlin college had any balls"
Except I would bet the house that person is a lefty just like the students they are indoctrinating

Posted by: Skip at December 19, 2015 02:58 PM (k0xxN)

209 >>>206 Well, with the exception of the collard greens

You just haven't had good greens
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 19, 2015 02:57 PM (39g3+)

Needs lotsa bacon fat.

Posted by: m at December 19, 2015 02:58 PM (d4uu4)

210 You just haven't had good greens
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 19, 2015 02:57 PM (39g3+)
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Perhaps. I love spinach, mustard greens. kale, and turnip greens. Can't stand collard greens though. I have only had collard greens in "soul food" restaurants (have never prepared at home since the experience has always been so unsatisfying), so it could be the prep.

Posted by: RioBravo at December 19, 2015 03:01 PM (NUqwG)

211 You just haven't had good greens
Posted by: Christopher Taylor

That's what my mother kept telling me about liver.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at December 19, 2015 03:02 PM (FkBIv)

212 What a bunch of pampered, spoiled crybabies.

Posted by: Insomniac - Pale Horse/Death 2016 at December 19, 2015 03:03 PM (kpqmD)

213 That's what my mother kept telling me about liver.

The difference is that there is no good liver. Its still godawful no matter how you prepare it.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 19, 2015 03:03 PM (39g3+)

214 From the other night, Is Putin a Vampire?

http://bit.ly/1PdiWo1

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! with purchase of equal or greater value commenter at December 19, 2015 03:03 PM (rwI+c)

215 You just haven't had good greens
Posted by: Christopher Taylor
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That's what my mother kept telling me about liver.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at December 19, 2015 03:02 PM (FkBIv)
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Don't want to eat the green liver.

Posted by: RioBravo at December 19, 2015 03:03 PM (NUqwG)

216 Don't want to eat the green liver.
Posted by: RioBravo

Creedence Clearwater Revival

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at December 19, 2015 03:04 PM (FkBIv)

217 I love spinach, mustard greens. kale, and turnip greens.

Could just be the flavor then. I love mustard greens the best, but they're all tasty.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 19, 2015 03:04 PM (39g3+)

218 Who attends Oberlin? Well, it does have one of the finest schools of music in the country; my nephew went there and received a superb education. (Whether that translates into a career, time will tell.) As for the shrieks of infignation over the "cultural appropriation" of various foods, yes, the dean should tell the kids to grow the f*** up; but won't, more's the pity.

Posted by: Brown Line at December 19, 2015 03:05 PM (a5bF3)

219 What ever happened to the concept of the 'Melting Pot' of America? That was always the left's excuse for bringing people here.

Recently, though, it seems as if that unique aspect of America is now deemed racist.

The very act of stirring the cultural pot is viewed as minimizing the very cultures that are being integrated into America.

If their cultures can't be assimilated (merge the good parts, cut out the bad) we will just turn into...Europe.

Posted by: MrR3411T1 at December 19, 2015 03:05 PM (xZGuK)

220 The difference is that there is no good liver. Its still godawful no matter how you prepare it.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 19, 2015 03:03 PM (39g3+)
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See above. Lots o' bacon.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at December 19, 2015 03:07 PM (jR7Wy)

221 Recently, though, it seems as if that unique aspect of America is now deemed racist.

There's no seems about it. Several colleges have added "melting pot" to the banned phrases because it has been deemed culturally insensitive, triggering, and racist.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 19, 2015 03:07 PM (39g3+)

222 I love those taco trucks but you gotta be careful; some of them are... less than careful with cleanliness, let's say. Its really hit or miss.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 19, 2015 02:33 PM (39g3+)

There IS such a thing as too authentic.

Same thing with curry: heavily spiced dishes invented to cover the smell and taste of meat that had gone off, which in the climate of India, is probably about ten minutes after the animal was killed.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 19, 2015 03:08 PM (oKE6c)

223 Torquewrench, you mean Middle East Airline 17 April 1964. Just left Dhahran. Cause - in flight fire of unknown origin. Killed 49?

Or Pakistan International Airlines. 26 Nov 1979. Near Jeddah. Cause - in flight fire of unknown origin. 156 dead.

Saudi Arabian Airlines. 19 August 1980. Near Riyadh. Cause in flight fire in cargo hold and pilot error. 301 killed.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 19, 2015 03:08 PM (EV7bS)

224 Did everyone but me know ( at the time) that was Stephen Bishop who had his guitar smashed by Blutarski?

Posted by: Max Rockastansky at December 19, 2015 03:09 PM (+hd5N)

225 There IS such a thing as too authentic.

Definitely. Most really, really authentic ethnic food is... awful. The show "Fresh Off The Boat" makes fun of that with mom cooking authentic Chinese lunches for the kid that smell so awful they repel everyone nearby. I remember reading several Vietnam war bios where they talk about the real stuff from the country. Just horrific. Peanuts boiled in blood, bugs, etc.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 19, 2015 03:11 PM (39g3+)

226 "One guy in her dorm started a fire by putting a plastic jug of water

directly on a stove burner because he needed hot water for tea. I guess

the little darling had always had his tea made for him so he wasn't

quite clear on the whole process."

Actually, you can perfectly well do this, assuming 1) the plastic is such that it doesn't get too soft at the boiling point of water, and 2) you don't let all the water evaporate.

As long as there's water in the jug, the temperature will remain at 100 C. It's possible to boil water in a paper container over a Bunsen burner; I've done it as a lecture demonstration.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 19, 2015 03:12 PM (oKE6c)

227 Some semi-good news. Most college students don't buy this extreme crap.

http://tinyurl.com/nh7p5qu

62% think a professor should not be able to grade you down for not using gender inclusive language. Slightly less than half agree with using xe, xir, and xyr. 70% had a negative view of #BLM. Free market trumps socialism by 35% to 15% (with 50% not having an opinion.

Yeah, these rests would be disgraceful if not for the fact we thought it was worse.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at December 19, 2015 03:12 PM (VGmV9)

228 Did everyone but me know ( at the time) that was Stephen Bishop who had his guitar smashed by Blutarski?

I only found that out very recently.

Like how I just found out that the scary evil woman with the poisoned boot knife in From Russia With Love was played by Lotta Lenya - the same woman Louis Armstrong sung about in his version of "Mack the Knife."

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 19, 2015 03:13 PM (39g3+)

229 Who cares if a food is "authentic?"
Okay, as a point of cultural and historical interest, authenticity matters. But when it comes to eating, what matters is tastiness.

I have a Taiwanese SIL who is a pro chef, trained in Taipei. There are a lot of Chinese-American dishes she loves, if they're well cooked. And there are plenty of authentic Chinese dishes she wouldn't serve to a dog.

BTW, when she caters a spread for any group other than all Chinese nationals, she ALWAYS includes a bowl of her homemade fortune cookies. She finds that Chinese-AMERICAN custom absolutely delightful.

Needless to say, she did not go to Oberlin.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at December 19, 2015 03:13 PM (T/5A0)

230 As long as there's water in the jug, the temperature will remain at 100 C. It's possible to boil water in a paper container over a Bunsen burner; I've done it as a lecture demonstration.

Yeah, L'Amour mentions boiling water in a bark container (which I used in Snowberry's Veil) on the same principle. However, I think plastic probably will melt too easily against a heat source even with the water to keep the internal temperature down.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 19, 2015 03:14 PM (39g3+)

231 There's no seems about it. Several colleges have added "melting pot" to the banned phrases because it has been deemed culturally insensitive, triggering, and racist.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor

I was in a mandatory race relations indoctrination class in the Navy in which they preached the abolition of the "melting pot" theory. That was in 1974.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at December 19, 2015 03:14 PM (FkBIv)

232 I think that since they are in the Midwest, they should hunt and fish and gather, just like the indigenous population did, in order to eat anything.

Just being culturally appropriate!

Posted by: PJ at December 19, 2015 03:15 PM (cHuNI)

233 The thing is, even if the college was great about the food, then the college students would complain about cultural appropriation for them to serve authentic stuff.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 19, 2015 03:15 PM (39g3+)

234 The new Scripture of Liberal Dogma is to replace 'Melting Pot' with 'Cultural Salad'

With a melting pot you get a delightful intermix. But a salad, well you can pick the croutons out or the onion or even the Roma tomato. So they love the salad word play because it allows them to be racist.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 19, 2015 03:16 PM (EV7bS)

235 The academy is eating itself!

*pops popcorn and settles in for the show*

O/T: Obama said this about meeting with SB attack victims' families:

"It was so moving for Michelle and myself in part because it was so representative of the country," Obama said after the meeting. "You had people from every background, every faith. Some described their loved ones who had come to this country as immigrants; others who had lived in the area all their lives -- all of them extraordinarily proud of the work they were doing to keep people healthy and safe here in this community."

Uh, WTF does diversity have to do with any of this? This is like a backhanded compliment to the shooters for selecting such a diverse group of targets.

I find this deeply disturbing.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 19, 2015 03:17 PM (NOIQH)

236 Speaking of stale croutons with stale dogma - Gaylord and Michelle.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 19, 2015 03:17 PM (EV7bS)

237 Yeah, L'Amour mentions boiling water in a bark container (which I used in Snowberry's Veil) on the same principle. However, I think plastic probably will melt too easily against a heat source even with the water to keep the internal temperature down.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 19, 2015 03:14 PM (39g3+)

Depends on the plastic. Plastics are of two broad types: thermosetting and thermoplastic. The latter soften with temperature; how much they soften at 100 C depends on the specific plastic, and how much it is cross-linked.

Thermosetting plastics don't soften with temperature. They burn first. Think, e.g., car bumpers, batting helmets, jet skis bodies.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 19, 2015 03:18 PM (oKE6c)

238 The new Scripture of Liberal Dogma is to replace 'Melting Pot' with 'Cultural Salad'

They don't even like salad any more. Because it mingles the bits, and everyone should be segregated into different identity groups like a Swanson TV Dinner.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 19, 2015 03:18 PM (39g3+)

239 Putin is consolidating his power in the middle east while the smartest man in the world is playing with his balls in Hawaii.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at December 19, 2015 03:19 PM (VGmV9)

240 239 Putin is consolidating his power in the middle east while the smartest man in the world is playing with his balls in Hawaii.
Posted by: The Great White Snark at December 19, 2015 03:19 PM (VGmV9)

That's totally unfair and inaccurate.

He's playing with Reggie's balls, not his own.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 19, 2015 03:20 PM (oKE6c)

241 What the hell happened to tennis shoes? They look like something from Fisher Price these days.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 19, 2015 03:20 PM (39g3+)

242 Yes, Islam *is* very inclusive of the people its adherents kill. Hindus, pagans, atheists, and Sikhs are all equal with Jews and Christians who don't live under the dhimma. Thanks, Obama, for pointing that out. (By accident.)

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 19, 2015 03:21 PM (q7gmI)

243 It's just so sad and funny that they are so hard-up for things to protest that they're whining about how the rice is prepared. First world problems, dearies. They are a movement in search of outrage. And payment for their outrage, apparently.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 19, 2015 03:23 PM (NOIQH)

244 134 93 torque there was an etiopian food cart in the quad where i went, very popular w white kids but very few black kids ate there, they were like "potato stew on a pancake -- da fuq?"
Posted by: Feh at December 19, 2015 02:16 PM (Uk9e2)

I've noticed though the years that very, very few blacks seem to be adventurous when it comes to trying food from any culture deemed "exotic." When I was working in Phlly on a document discovery team many years ago, the blacks on the team never went with the whites if we decided to go out to an Indian or Thai restaurant. Or hell, even a French bistro, because they thought French food was just snails and frogs legs. They ate at pizza and fast food places, mainly. And these were college-educated blacks.

After that, I started noticing the absence of American blacks in non-American ethnic restaurants. Every one I've known has been very leery of "weird" cuisines.

Posted by: Donna&&&&V (a white) (whitely brandishing ampersand privilege ) at December 19, 2015 03:23 PM (P8951)

245 I can see the future Oberlin cafeteria

Line 1: Native American
Line 2: Mexican.
Line 3: Italian.
Line 4: German.
Line 5: Philippine.
Line 6: Chinese.
Line 7: French.
...
Line 222: English.

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Where's the line for authentic transgender food?

Posted by: The Great White Snark at December 19, 2015 03:23 PM (VGmV9)

246 Line 222: English.

After class in Room 222.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063948/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at December 19, 2015 03:26 PM (FkBIv)

247 When I first saw an Ethiopian it was during an unfortunate time in their history and I thought it was a joke. Now I love Ethiopian food.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at December 19, 2015 03:26 PM (VGmV9)

248 *cough* elbows *cough*

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 19, 2015 03:29 PM (LUgeY)

249 Yes, Islam *is* very inclusive of the people its adherents kill.

-
I should start referring to Islam as Zardoz, the false god the exalts killing and death and despises life.

Posted by: The Great White Snark at December 19, 2015 03:29 PM (VGmV9)

250 What the hell happened to tennis shoes? They look like something from Fisher Price these days.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 19, 2015 03:20 PM (39g3+)

*****

I just bought a new pair and had to search hard to find some that were only gray, black and red. Most of them looked like the entire secondary color chart barfed on them.

Posted by: ManWithNoParty at December 19, 2015 03:30 PM (zrfJj)

251 >>Yes, Islam *is* very inclusive of the people its adherents kill.

Heh. Perfect.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 19, 2015 03:31 PM (NOIQH)

252 >>>lasagne with cottage cheese. I now realize what a monster she is.
Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at December 19, 2015 02:25 PM (1RNgT)

I got sick off this version of lasagne as a kid and didn't eat it again until my Italian American friend made it for me from scratch. Still not my favorite food.

Posted by: Lea at December 19, 2015 03:31 PM (2+eEe)

253 Ethnic cuisine is often poor people food.

Seriously, when you can't afford meat and eggs and stuff that we take for granted nowadays, you start getting creative.

And of course, the poor from some other country immigrate here and start restaurants, and all they know how to cook was that same crap.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at December 19, 2015 03:32 PM (fC9RO)

254
Uh, WTF does diversity have to do with any of this? This is like a backhanded compliment to the shooters for selecting such a diverse group of targets.

I find this deeply disturbing.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 19, 2015 03:17 PM (NOIQH)

Yes, it is. He is utterly incapable of seeing people as just people, as fellow Americans and grieving human beings. Everybody and every reaction he has is filtered through the lens of race.

It's like he looks at people, processes their race (and gender and political leanings, if he knows what they are) and calculates just how much sympathy and compassion they are entitled to.

Posted by: Donna&&&&V (a white) (whitely brandishing ampersand privilege ) at December 19, 2015 03:33 PM (P8951)

255 Does the Jew line have authentic Christian baby blood Matzo balls and, if so, do they get the blood from Planned Parenthood?

Posted by: The Great White Snark at December 19, 2015 03:34 PM (VGmV9)

256 My mom once served us hot dogs with mac&cheese and SHE DIDNT CUT UP THE HOT DOGS! Honestly, I'm lucky to be alive.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 19, 2015 03:35 PM (kTF2Z)

257 *cough* bowl games *cough*

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 19, 2015 03:37 PM (LUgeY)

258 If I'm tasting tongue it better be moving and attached to a cute female human.

Speciest!

Posted by: T'Pol at December 19, 2015 03:38 PM (brIR5)

259 >>It's like he looks at people, processes their race (and gender and political leanings, if he knows what they are) and calculates just how much sympathy and compassion they are entitled to.

Exactly. If your loved one was just gunned down by some terrorist the last thing you're expecting is a compliment on your ethnicity/religion/immigration status.

Maybe this is why Obama hasn't met w/the TN shooting victims' families - the victims were all white males. How very boring of them.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 19, 2015 03:39 PM (NOIQH)

260 *cough* bowl games *cough*

Already?

Posted by: fluffy at December 19, 2015 03:39 PM (AfsKp)

261 muslim vampires would be apt

*****

You mean like the Ottoman vampire?

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at December 19, 2015 03:42 PM (NeFrd)

262 I teach at a college, the food in the cafeteria is really good, better than most, as good as restaurants.
The education there may be lacking, but the food is great.

Posted by: navybrat at December 19, 2015 03:44 PM (Xodlv)

263 >>> You mean like the Ottoman vampire?

Puns that bad are a micro aggression.

Posted by: fluffy at December 19, 2015 03:46 PM (AfsKp)

264 You mean like the Ottoman vampire?

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at December 19, 2015 03:42 PM (NeFrd)

Never should have bit that ONE Turk...

Posted by: Vlad Dracul at December 19, 2015 03:48 PM (f7rv6)

265 Bowl games already? Sheesh.

>>>That's what my mother kept telling me about liver.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at December 19, 2015 03:02 PM (

My dad fed me chicken liver as a small child expecting me to make a funny face and say ew gross or something, and I liked it instead.

Posted by: Lea at December 19, 2015 03:50 PM (2+eEe)

266 Let them eat [gluten-free, no sucrose added, free-range chicken eggs, California virgin olive oil and fair-trade whole wheat flour] cake!

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 19, 2015 03:52 PM (u82oZ)

267
234 The new Scripture of Liberal Dogma is to replace 'Melting Pot' with 'Cultural Salad'

With a melting pot you get a delightful intermix. But a salad, well you can pick the croutons out or the onion or even the Roma tomato. So they love the salad word play because it allows them to be racist.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 19, 2015 03:16 PM (EV7bS)

And don't forget the Fruits! and Nuts!

Posted by: Calif Coalition of Gays and Insane.. at December 19, 2015 03:53 PM (f7rv6)

268 >> The education there may be lacking, but the food is great.

I really want to make a remark about female students and lengua, but perhaps it'd be inappropriate.

Posted by: JEM at December 19, 2015 03:53 PM (o+SC1)

269 Yeah, mostly minor bowls. Four today, IIRC. There's even one down here at 7:00 tonight.

Hey, football is football. And it seems that recently there have been some real barn-burners.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at December 19, 2015 03:53 PM (LUgeY)

270 My daughter loves dance, and has been told she should apply to Oberlin (it's less than an hour away.) But no. Just no.

Posted by: Barb the Evil Genius at December 19, 2015 03:56 PM (Q3DZc)

271 >>>270 My daughter loves dance, and has been told she should apply to Oberlin (it's less than an hour away.) But no. Just no.
Posted by: Barb the Evil Genius at December 19, 2015 03:56 PM (Q3DZc)

She'd have nothing to eat, there.

Posted by: m at December 19, 2015 03:58 PM (d4uu4)

272 How can they serve any dish without first measuring its carbon footprint. Fried Chicken? Well cooked rice? I don't think so.

Posted by: USA at December 19, 2015 04:00 PM (tfM+W)

273 And boy, does my daughter love to eat, m. Especially after three dance classes in a row.

Posted by: Barb the Evil Genius at December 19, 2015 04:03 PM (Q3DZc)

274 Wait, this article is not a parody?

Posted by: chemjeff at December 19, 2015 04:10 PM (uZNvH)

275 16
I've checked, we're still importing somewhere between 30 and 40% of the
oil used in this country... given that, I'm not sure I see the whole
point of the deal Where We Get To Export Crude, since it's not going to
be done to a very great extent, we still import oil and domestic
production is still collapsing due to the whole crash going on.

Failure Theater at its finest.

Posted by: tbodie at December 19, 2015 01:52 PM (wmrFg)

and torque:

I'm in the business. You guys don't know what you're talking about. All crude oil is not the same. We are awash in light oil, due to fracking, and need to import heavier oil to physically balance our refinery capacity. Most of those imports come from Canada and Mexico, not the Middle East. You are correct, torque, in that it is just about impossible to build a new refinery in the US. However, the industry has been increasing capacity every year by expansion of the existing refineries, which is much easier from a permitting standpoint. We have about 18 million barrels per day of refining capacity, and demand for petroleum products is about 18-20 million barrels per day. However, we both export and import gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, heating oil, etc., because in some cases the refineries are concentrated on the US Gulf Coast and the demand isn't located where the refineries are (see also the note above about having too much light feedstock and not enough heavy feedstock, so the product slate we actually can make isn't exactly what we need). Exporting light crude and importing heavy will help balance the feedstock slate. It has been economically inefficient to have to run feedstocks that the refineries aren't configured for and make products that don't match what the market needs.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at December 19, 2015 04:12 PM (5f5bM)

276 Cream is now teh rayciss?

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at December 19, 2015 04:13 PM (HMt16)

277 "It was so moving for Michelle and myself in part because it was so representative of the country," Obama said after the meeting. "You had people from every background, every faith. Some described their loved ones who had come to this country as immigrants; others who had lived in the area all their lives

Srlsy? What in the actual fuck. TFG has gone completely insane.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at December 19, 2015 04:17 PM (HMt16)

278 I would say that it's a food fight, but that's too violent for the delicate snowflakes.

Posted by: RGallegos at December 19, 2015 04:18 PM (49Jfq)

279 I missed it. Where did Obama say that Islam was very inclusive?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2015 04:19 PM (qES5k)

280 Srlsy? What in the actual fuck. TFG has gone completely insane.

No. It was just...total bullshit.

Posted by: tu3031 at December 19, 2015 04:23 PM (EDYaR)

281 Is anyone else seeing ads for the New York Times on this site lately?

I make sure to click the ad every time I visit, just to make sure that the subscription offer hasn't changed. So far, the Times is still not offering to pay me enough money.

But I'll still keep clicking.

Posted by: Furious George at December 19, 2015 04:24 PM (3GAnN)

282 Cream is now teh rayciss?

It's too white.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! with purchase of equal or greater value commenter at December 19, 2015 04:24 PM (rwI+c)

283 @269 BackwardsBoy

Rather watch a minor bowl game tonight than the socialist picnic Kumbya sing a long tonite

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian, he's just a crazy Italian who drove a red sports car at December 19, 2015 04:25 PM (voOPb)

284 This is good practice to teach students not to put up with racist oppression, but to protest it from the outset. It is a virtue that must be nurtured and encouraged, not stifled, even if it means sacrificing ourselves. We probably deserve it anyhow.

Posted by: Oberlin administration at December 19, 2015 04:26 PM (9vLZK)

285 nood cars

Posted by: m at December 19, 2015 04:26 PM (d4uu4)

286 Well, in the defense of the students, the food
described does sound pretty lousy. Its childish and idiotic to cry
"cultural insensitivity" when the real culprit is a cheap, lazy, and
incompetent cooking staff.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 19, 2015 01:47 PM (39g3+)

Sounds like a combination of shitty food, and a "fusion restaurant" mindset. Like the Vietnames sammich on ciabatta bread. That sounds "fusion-y" to me, and could be yummy. Or it could be shitty if badly done.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2015 04:29 PM (7MWCL)

287 Nothing wrong with these special little snowflakes that a little hunger won't fix tight up. You want to be selective, you little shits? Consider this, women butchering up a dead horse during WWII:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/p49gmyo

And, one of my perennial favorites from 'Dr. Zhivago':

Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago: You're an impatient generation.

Engineer: Weren't you?

Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago: Yes, we were, very. Oh, don't be so impatient, Comrade Engineer. We've come very far, very fast.

Engineer: Yes, I know that, Comrade General.

Gen. Yevgraf Zhivago: Yes, but do you know what it cost? There were children in those days who lived off human flesh. Did you know that?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 19, 2015 04:30 PM (9mTYi)

288 Parents of today would be better off sending their child to a two-year tech school to learn a trade such as A/C repair.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 19, 2015 01:48 PM (t2KH5)

Except in that case, they have to retrain every few years to learn how to use the new magic unicorn farts that replace the old magic unicorn farts that replaced the still older magic unicorn farts that replaced the eeeevil!!! ozone-destroying Freon that actually worked.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2015 04:31 PM (7MWCL)

289 Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at December 19, 2015 04:17 PM (HMt16)

O.K. So he's used a meeting with people slaughtered in a terrorist attack as an excuse to tout diversity?. The man is utterly narcisscisstic.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2015 04:31 PM (qES5k)

290 General Tso's chicken was made with steamed chicken instead of fried - which is not authentically Chinese, and simply "weird," one student bellyached in the Oberlin Review.

Oh, cry me a river. You wouldn't believe the absolute *swill* we were served back when I was in college. We would have considered General Tso's chicken with steamed rice a luxury.

Posted by: OregonMuse at December 19, 2015 04:31 PM (3TXtY)

291 I find this deeply disturbing.
Posted by: Lizzy at December 19, 2015 03:17 PM (NOIQH)

It is deeply disturbing.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2015 04:33 PM (qES5k)

292 The food that I had in college was for the most part-great; It was served by on tables with tablecloths and on china that had the college seal. There was a wait staff made up of students on financial aidThat was in the dark ages of culture. Now it's served cafeteria style-people come and go.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 19, 2015 04:36 PM (qES5k)

293 There's a Sambo's on the Oregon Coast, in Lincoln
City. I don't think the 3 blacks living there care much. They did
change the sign in the 90s though, so it just has a tiger now, not a
little caricature black kid.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 19, 2015 02:10 PM (39g3+)

It's my recollection that the original kid's story of Little Black Sambo depicted Sambo as clever and resourceful, and was in no way demeaning.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2015 04:41 PM (7MWCL)

294 Sambo defeats some tigers that want to eat him. Definitely a clever kid.

Posted by: Barb the Evil Genius at December 19, 2015 04:46 PM (Q3DZc)

295 Christopher Taylor. In Poland they have found five
graves of possible vampires. Four had sickles against their throats and
one had a sickle across her pelvis.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/oelktaf

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 19, 2015 02:14 PM (EV7bS)

From your link: "Five bodies with sickles were found among
250 burial sites in the cemetery showed no differences from the ordinary
ones, and they were all of good health."

No, they weren't in good health. They were effin' dead! That's why they buried 'em.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2015 04:49 PM (7MWCL)

296 It's my recollection that the original kid's story of Little Black Sambo depicted Sambo as clever and resourceful, and was in no way demeaning.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2015 04:41 PM (7MWCL)

Also, the original story takes place in India, not Africa.

Posted by: OregonMuse at December 19, 2015 04:52 PM (3TXtY)

297 I remember the Penanggalan from the Monster Manual. That was a pretty off the wall horrible monster.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 19, 2015 02:29 PM (EV7bS)

If it was crawling around on its intestines, seems to me a weed-whacker would ruin its whole day.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 19, 2015 04:56 PM (7MWCL)

298 It's my recollection that the original kid's story of Little Black Sambo depicted Sambo as clever and resourceful, and was in no way demeaning.

I always thought so, too. Clever kid that outwitted his foes. Plus: pancakes!

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 19, 2015 05:09 PM (39g3+)

299 Ricists!

Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 19, 2015 01:54 PM (oKE6c)

Strines sure talk funny.

Posted by: jwpaine, otherized for your protection at December 19, 2015 05:15 PM (wKcQA)

300 Peaches come from a can.
They were put there by a man
In a factory

Down
Town

Posted by: Bob (Codename: Sayuri) at December 19, 2015 05:51 PM (NVHvP)

301 Burma Shave!

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! with purchase of equal or greater value commenter at December 19, 2015 06:06 PM (rwI+c)

302
213 That's what my mother kept telling me about liver.

The difference is that there is no good liver. Its still godawful no matter how you prepare it.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 19, 2015 03:03 PM (39g3+)

Oh it could be worse. On a second date, she orders liver and onions. Except that she was an honest-to-God Playboy model from the late 80s

Talk about being conflicted

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 19, 2015 07:30 PM (sz0dQ)

303 Of course the dean will give the obligatory, We at Oberlin are committed to diversity and the multicultural fiber of our students or some such bs.

Posted by: ray rieber at December 21, 2015 11:44 AM (xiAuU)

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