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Vox Exposes Racism in the Knitting Community, Revealing a Caucasian Woman Who Was Too Excited to Visit India
If you don't understand how that's racist, well, that's because you're racist, Racist.
The reason why you can't be too excited to visit a country largely populated by people of a slightly different genetic make-up than you is that you might "exoticize" them and you might expect them to deliver you some kind of spiritual uplift, which forces them to do unpaid labor as your Brown Gurus. And also appropriates their culture for your personal White Journey. My culture isn't your Prom Dress, Hater. (This a reference to Social Justice Warriors attacking high school girls who like Asian and Indian fabrics. Apparently Round-Eye isn't allowed to wear anything but linen and sheephide.) This story is from a couple of weeks ago but it's as timeless as suggesting that Jews are motivated by dual loyalty and money and the blood of Christian infants.In January, Karen Templer, a popular knitting blogger, told her followers about an upcoming trip to India, kicking off the whole debate. The post, which discussed Templer's excitement about her childhood dream finally being fulfilled, praised India's culture and food and also noted Templer's "lifelong obsession with the literature and history of the continent." Her innocuous comments about India were immediately attacked. One commenter, Alex, noted her "words feed into a colonial/imperialist mindset toward India and other non-Western countries." Vox author Jaya Saxena also jumped on board, saying the tone Templer used, as a white person, "felt like they thought India only existed to be all those things for them." After several days of this and other ridiculous abuse, Templer apologized for the post, writing that her earlier post was "insensitive" and that "words matter."A Quillette article had previously examined the Social Justice Warrior invasion of another formerly-pleasant hobby enjoyed by Normies (who must be either reeducated or destroyed.)
On and on it went. Templer patiently fielded these criticisms as best she could, but her inquisitors were not satisfied. "It is really disappointing," announced Joey, "to see your defensive and dismissive responses to the two thoughtful posts that point out some of the problematic aspects of your writing. As white person to another white person, we NEED to take feedback with respect and integrity. … Instead of your 'year of color' being about wearing brighter clothing, why don't you make 2019 investing in contributing to people of color, buying their art, listening to their podcasts, following them, contributing money to them, buying literature written by POC." Comments like these set off a wave of critical voices across knitting communities on sites like Ravelry.com, the biggest source of online knitting patterns by independent designers from around the world and the home of many knitting chat forums. Most of the criticism amounted to sharing words written by knitting activists @su.krita and @thecolormustard, who posted "educational" content on their profiles for others to circulate. Instagram notes scorned Templer's "peak whiteness," and reminded her that “the world doesn’t owe you a patient explanation and education” and that as a "coloniser" she ought to "stay in [her] lane." Su.krita also warned her white knitter friends that if they stayed silent and didn't speak up against racism then they would be considered "part of the problem."Well there's nothing racist or supremacist in any of those orders being given to someone of another race precisely because they are of a lesser race designed by God to be ordered around by superior races. All of this proves the point of Peggy Noonan's column from yesterday, that America is entering a period of Maoist "struggle sessions," in which people are battered until they confess their toughtcrimes or even knitcrimes. I'm omitting her digest of the history of the struggle sessions, but definitely read the whole thing.
Mao unleashed university and high school students to weed out enemies and hold them to account. The students became the paramilitary Red Guards. They were instructed by the party to "clear away the evil habits of the old society" and extinguish what came to be known as "the four olds" --old ideas and customs, old habits and culture. "Sweep Away All Monsters and Demons," the state newspaper instructed them. With a vengeance they did. In the struggle sessions the accused, often teachers suspected of lacking proletarian feeling, were paraded through streets and campuses, sometimes stadiums. It was important always to have a jeering crowd; it was important that the electric feeling that comes with the possibility of murder be present. Dunce caps, sometimes wastebaskets, were placed on the victims’ heads, and placards stipulating their crimes hung from their necks. The victims were accused, berated, assaulted. Many falsely confessed in the vain hope of mercy. Were any "guilty"? It hardly mattered. Fear and terror were the point. A destroyed society is more easily dominated. ... So I ask you to entertain an idea that has been on my mind. I don't want to be overdramatic, but the spirit of the struggle session has returned and is here, in part because of the internet, in part because of the extremity of our politics, in part because more people are lonely.... The air is full of accusation and humiliation. We have seen this spirit most famously on the campuses, where students protest harshly, sometimes violently, views they wish to suppress. Social media is full of swarming political and ideological mobs. In an interesting departure from democratic tradition, they don’t try to win the other side over. They only condemn and attempt to silence. The spirit of the struggle session is all over Twitter . On literary Twitter social-justice warriors get advance copies of new books and denounce them for deviationism--as insensitive, racist, appropriative, anti-LGBTQ. Books on the eve of publication have been pulled, sometimes withdrawn by authors who apologize profusely. Everyone’s scared. And the tormentors are not satisfied by an apology. They're excited by it and prowl for more prey. ... I don't know if we’re a crueler, more aggressive country than in the past. We're certainly a louder one, and more anonymous in our cruelties. And none of it portends good. Am I wrong? If so, comment below. We can have a struggle session.This article is also on the general subject: moral outrage, especially of the look-at-me-and-my-massive-virtue public performance variety, is self-serving, and usually used to deflect feelings of inadequacy, assuage guilt about one's own sins, or to shore up one's sense of place in the social hierarchy. A study was conducted where subjects read fabricated articles about climate change. Some of the subjects read articles that blamed Americans for "climate change." Some of the subjects read articles that blamed mostly the Chinese for "climate change." When the subjects -- Americans themselves -- read that Americans were at fault, they felt personally implicated and began devising ways to lash out at other actors in society -- corporations, for example -- in order to wash away their own feelings of collective guilt. When they read articles about the Chinese being mainly responsible -- in other words, "Not You" -- they didn't experience this deep need to smear some blame around and start attacking people. The less shame they were made to feel -- the less of a "shame-load" they were carrying -- the less shame they had to redistribute to others. This is an interesting insight into how Democrat/Social Justice Warrior/NeverTrump shame-attacks work. Pour endless streams of Sex and Race Shame on to people and they'll become your willing Zombies, attacking other people with race and sex shame attacks in order to dissipate their own shame. Other findings:
The more guilt over one's own potential complicity, the more desire "to punish a third-party through increased moral outrage at that target." For instance, participants in study one read about sweatshop labor exploitation, rated their own identification with common consumer practices that allegedly contribute, then rated their level of anger at "international corporations" who perpetuate the exploitative system and desire to punish these entities. The results showed that increased guilt "predicted increased punitiveness toward a third-party harm-doer due to increased moral outrage at the target." Having the opportunity to express outrage at a third-party decreased guilt in people threatened through "ingroup immorality." Study participants who read that Americans were the biggest drivers of man-made climate change showed significantly higher guilt scores than those who read the blame-China article when they weren't given an opportunity to express anger at or assign blame to a third-party. However, having this opportunity to rage against hypothetical corporations led respondents who read the blame-America story to express significantly lower levels of guilt than the China group. Respondents who read that Chinese consumers were to blame had similar guilt levels regardless of whether they had the opportunity to express moral outrage.Maybe kind of obvious, but it's Science. Sometimes Science is about proving your intuitions are right. One more finding: When people were permitted to talk about what Moral People they were before being exposed to the shame-America or shame-China articles, they experienced a reduced need to lash out at others. It seems that if people are given the chance to validate themselves morally, then they feel less need to prove it through attacking third parties. Below, a short video about the the new Knitcrime outbreak.
"The opportunity to express moral outrage at corporate harm-doers" inflated participants perception of personal morality. Asked to rate their own moral character after reading the article blaming Americans for climate change, respondents saw themselves as having "significantly lower personal moral character" than those who read the blame-China article--that is, when they weren't given an out in the form of third-party blame. Respondents in the America-shaming group wound up with similar levels of moral pride as the China control group when they were first asked to rate the level of blame deserved by various corporate actors and their personal level of anger at these groups. In both this and a similar study using the labor-exploitation article, "the opportunity to express moral outrage at corporate harm-doing (vs. not) led to significantly higher personal moral character ratings," the authors found.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at March 08, 2019 07:00 PM (FTPVM)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 08, 2019 07:01 PM (jOEDM)
Posted by: Elizabeth "Three Wolf Moon" Warren at March 08, 2019 07:01 PM (4knXT)
Posted by: Asshole Progressive at Portland State at March 08, 2019 07:01 PM (ZTJjv)
Posted by: Wicked, Wicked Eris at March 08, 2019 07:02 PM (kQs4Y)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 08, 2019 07:02 PM (4knXT)
Posted by: josephistan at March 08, 2019 07:03 PM (Izzlo)
Posted by: FIRST!!!!! at March 08, 2019 07:03 PM (C1NyB)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 08, 2019 07:03 PM (nDe2U)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 08, 2019 07:04 PM (Hk+Y0)
Posted by: josephistan at March 08, 2019 07:03 PM (Izzlo)
Yep. One's personal India-Visit policy is a PC minefield.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 08, 2019 07:04 PM (4knXT)
Posted by: Wizards! At the bottom of it all! at March 08, 2019 07:05 PM (9AcAx)
Posted by: josephistan at March 08, 2019 07:03 PM (Izzlo)
Yep. One's personal India-Visit policy is a PC minefield.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 08, 2019 07:04 PM (4knXT)
Rule one: you can't win if you're white!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 08, 2019 07:05 PM (8ruUE)
@TheBrandonMorse 32s
"Captain Marvel" Brings In Lowest Audience Scores In MCU History
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 08, 2019 07:05 PM (Hk+Y0)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 08, 2019 07:06 PM (4knXT)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 08, 2019 07:06 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: wth at March 08, 2019 07:06 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Wizards! At the bottom of it all! at March 08, 2019 07:07 PM (9AcAx)
Posted by: tbodie at March 08, 2019 07:07 PM (V+bdf)
Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at March 08, 2019 07:08 PM (FTPVM)
Still woke, though. Except the FiL. He's dead.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 08, 2019 07:08 PM (ptqGC)
Why was it okay for her parents to comingle cultures? Wasn't that mutual appropriation?
Posted by: Wicked, Wicked Eris at March 08, 2019 07:08 PM (kQs4Y)
Posted by: Mark1971 at March 08, 2019 07:08 PM (xPl2J)
Otherwise, we all die of shit poisoning, or whatever happens when your bowels quit.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 08, 2019 07:08 PM (sy5kK)
Posted by: logprof at March 08, 2019 07:08 PM (XAYDB)
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at March 08, 2019 07:09 PM (2DOZq)
Keeping your house clean.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 08, 2019 07:06 PM (ptqGC)
.........
Well, Manuel is busy in the yard so I thought his wife might like something to do.
Posted by: wth at March 08, 2019 07:09 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Wizards! At the bottom of it all! at March 08, 2019 07:09 PM (9AcAx)
Posted by: tbodie at March 08, 2019 07:07 PM (V+bdf)
Is that Ms. "Dis" Temper
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 08, 2019 07:09 PM (8ruUE)
Posted by: Wizards! At the bottom of it all! at March 08, 2019 07:09 PM (9AcAx)
Posted by: redc1c4 at March 08, 2019 07:10 PM (wlx0a)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 08, 2019 07:10 PM (2mu9m)
Posted by: Wicked, Wicked Eris at March 08, 2019 07:10 PM (kQs4Y)
Posted by: Lizzy at March 08, 2019 07:10 PM (W+vEI)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 08, 2019 07:10 PM (8ruUE)
Posted by: Wizards! At the bottom of it all! at March 08, 2019 07:11 PM (9AcAx)
Still woke, though. Except the FiL. He's dead.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 08, 2019 07:08 PM (ptqGC)
--Been to India.
Beautiful women, they have there.
Posted by: logprof at March 08, 2019 07:11 PM (XAYDB)
Posted by: Wicked, Wicked Eris at March 08, 2019 07:11 PM (kQs4Y)
And, I had French Toast for breakfast. No salt. Just loads of butter, real maple syrup and confectioners sugar.
So, World, bite me.
Posted by: RI Red at March 08, 2019 07:11 PM (i5YbF)
Posted by: josephistan at March 08, 2019 07:11 PM (Izzlo)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 08, 2019 07:10 PM (2mu9m)
--And was at RFK's assassination by a Paleostinian.
Posted by: logprof at March 08, 2019 07:12 PM (XAYDB)
Posted by: Ben Had at March 08, 2019 07:12 PM (54Szs)
Posted by: Donger at March 08, 2019 07:12 PM (FTPVM)
Posted by: wth at March 08, 2019 07:12 PM (v0R5T)
The Indian neighbor I had who was from there called it Bombay, which I thought was interesting. I think I read fairly recently that SJWs are having a hard time getting Indians to use the "real" non-Anglicized names and are both frustrated and confused.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 08, 2019 07:12 PM (uquGJ)
Posted by: golfman at March 08, 2019 07:12 PM (OE84+)
https://mobile.twitter.com/ChuckRossDC/status/1104172873231618048
Posted by: Oprah at March 08, 2019 07:12 PM (MAstk)
Keeping your house clean.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 08, 2019 07:06 PM (ptqGC)
I don't doubt it. It's getting that twisted that fast.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at March 08, 2019 07:13 PM (H8QX8)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 08, 2019 07:13 PM (nDe2U)
Posted by: yankeefifth at March 08, 2019 07:13 PM (MTjB1)
Posted by: Donger at March 08, 2019 07:12 PM (FTPVM)
Rule #1.
Posted by: golfman at March 08, 2019 07:13 PM (OE84+)
Posted by: logprof at March 08, 2019 07:11 PM (XAYDB)
I once had a brilliant, and drop-dead gorgeous, Indian female student in a class I taught. Yowza!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 08, 2019 07:13 PM (8ruUE)
1) As has been said here, repeatedly, NEVER APOLOGIZE. It will not be enough for the shrieking scolds. And it admits guilt, which, especially in the case of this poor blogger, was absent.
B) The best response to these assholes, is, "Fuck off. Who are you to me? Nobody. Go find a soft target, I have shit to do." Then block them, as they have nothing to contribute to your life. They are not in your circle of influence, and they should never be.
Posted by: Eustace Haverkamp at March 08, 2019 07:13 PM (C1NyB)
Posted by: garrett at March 08, 2019 07:13 PM (p6lQy)
Posted by: Mark1971 at March 08, 2019 07:13 PM (xPl2J)
- Goucher College Grad
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 08, 2019 07:14 PM (XvhSL)
India is a third world garbage country. They lost any chance of being a worthwhile nation when they allowed the pedophile Gandhi to junk the Brits.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 08, 2019 07:14 PM (Ki5SV)
These smug virtue scolds are probably also the people that helped "Eat Pray Love" become a runaway bestseller. Clueless they are.
Posted by: LizLem at March 08, 2019 07:14 PM (hvf9s)
Posted by: Vox writer Slash from Guns N' Roses at March 08, 2019 07:14 PM (uRy7h)
Sure sounds triggering and insensitive to me!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 08, 2019 07:15 PM (8ruUE)
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at March 08, 2019 07:15 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: yankeefifth at March 08, 2019 07:15 PM (MTjB1)
Posted by: wth at March 08, 2019 07:15 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 08, 2019 07:15 PM (Z4rgH)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 08, 2019 07:15 PM (EurWg)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 08, 2019 07:15 PM (aKsyK)
One of my favorite places I've visited was the island of Vieques, off the coast of Puerto Rico. One morning I got up a little early and drove to this huge half-moon shaped beach on the south side of the island, about a mile across I think. Shells all over the sand - I looked up and down and finally about 3/4 of a mile away, I saw one other person beachcombing. Was there for a couple hours, nobody else showed up.
Those are the kinds of places I like to visit.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 08, 2019 07:15 PM (V2Yro)
Worth it for the food alone.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 08, 2019 07:13 PM (nDe2U)
--I had a bowl of chicken and rice, and a bottle of Pepsi on the side, for barely a dollar in Calcutta. Best bargain ever.
Posted by: logprof at March 08, 2019 07:16 PM (XAYDB)
Posted by: Caliban at March 08, 2019 07:16 PM (QE8X6)
Posted by: yankeefifth at March 08, 2019 07:16 PM (MTjB1)
Posted by: Donger at March 08, 2019 07:16 PM (FTPVM)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 08, 2019 07:16 PM (CDGwz)
Posted by: Eustace Haverkamp
No, the best and only response is to lay into them and make sure that they are known as the racist fascists. Repeat it ad infinitum. You have to short-circuit their tactics and jump to the end, making sure they are the things that get hit with the labels.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 08, 2019 07:16 PM (Hk+Y0)
Colorful brown person using Computerized Axial Tomography to diagnose disease caused by exposure to shithole living conditions: OK
Oppressive white person eating taco: BAD
Colorful brown person using Boeing 737 to travel from quaint village to big Western hospital for free treatment of illness caused by exposure to shithole living conditions: OK
Oppressive white person blowing vuvuzela at football game: BAD
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 08, 2019 07:17 PM (4knXT)
1) As has been said here, repeatedly, NEVER APOLOGIZE. ...
Posted by: Eustace Haverkamp at March 08, 2019 07:13 PM (C1NyB)
But if you're a democrat then you kind of have to apologize or be expelled to the wilderness of icky Republicans.
Posted by: I like cookies at March 08, 2019 07:17 PM (xxAFD)
Posted by: Mark1971 at March 08, 2019 07:17 PM (xPl2J)
Obviously the Crusades were the inspiration for Ms. Knights Templer's holy Christian rampage through India.
Posted by: Vox writer Slash from Guns N' Roses
The stuff dreams are made of.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 08, 2019 07:17 PM (aKsyK)
Posted by: logprof at March 08, 2019 07:17 PM (XAYDB)
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 08, 2019 07:17 PM (XvhSL)
I miss you. BTW, are you planning to see Gone With The Wind?
http://tinyurl.com/yxhdcash
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 08, 2019 07:17 PM (Ki5SV)
Posted by: logprof at March 08, 2019 07:12 PM (XAYDB)
Yup......He was a great man, a man of vision and guts. And there isn't even a plaque, or a signpost or a statue of him in the knitting community.
Bunch of raycisses.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 08, 2019 07:18 PM (2mu9m)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 08, 2019 07:18 PM (dNzKv)
Posted by: yankeefifth at March 08, 2019 07:16 PM (MTjB1)
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
~Albert Einstein
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 08, 2019 07:18 PM (dzJ3R)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 08, 2019 07:16 PM (Hk+Y0)
Yes, this is true. I'm afraid blowing them off isn't going to cut it anymore. This is a war and you're in it. Can't just go about your life anymore.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at March 08, 2019 07:19 PM (H8QX8)
Really fun to go to lunch with, I'm like: "Hamburger" and he's still asking questions.
Posted by: wth at March 08, 2019 07:19 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: blaster, Abolish FBI at March 08, 2019 07:19 PM (ZfRYq)
The girl apologized. She has no idea how bad that is.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 08, 2019 07:19 PM (13CQC)
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 08, 2019 07:19 PM (XvhSL)
Posted by: logprof
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Conversely, my recent phone conversation with a Bank of America representative, ("My name is Feelip") in Delhi (I'm guessing) was less than satisfying.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 08, 2019 07:19 PM (xSo9G)
Are we still banning people for blowing the margins?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 08, 2019 07:19 PM (dNzKv)
There are some days I really think about setting up some bogus sites and then I know I really don't care.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 08, 2019 07:20 PM (54Szs)
Isn't Vieques the island with the huge controversy over the military using it for artillery practice?
Posted by: Mark1971
Yeah, he said he found shells all over the place.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 08, 2019 07:20 PM (aKsyK)
The truth is that there haven't been any boycotts of POC designers or knitters. As always, the SJWs just start ranting without any facts to back them up.
Posted by: notsothoreau at March 08, 2019 07:20 PM (JKNZq)
Posted by: Mark1971 at March 08, 2019 07:13 PM (xPl2J)
Much like golf boy's trip to post-Maria Puerto Rico.
There's a reason they're using here.
Posted by: golfman at March 08, 2019 07:20 PM (OE84+)
Posted by: Knitting Pron at March 08, 2019 07:20 PM (ufFY8)
Fear and terror are much easier to spread among an unarmed populace.
Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 08, 2019 07:20 PM (6qErC)
Posted by: The Guy Who Thinks It Won't End Well at March 08, 2019 07:20 PM (+dsLj)
Food is good. Elephants are cool. I have no need to go back.
And never apologize to a SJW.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 08, 2019 07:20 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: logprof at March 08, 2019 07:11 PM (XAYDB)
I once had a brilliant, and drop-dead gorgeous, Indian female student in a class I taught. Yowza!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 08, 2019 07:13 PM (8ruUE)
They may look lovely, but they're always going to have a thick pad of brillo above their mango chutney.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 08, 2019 07:20 PM (Ki5SV)
Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 08, 2019 07:20 PM (DQjsT)
I knit baby clothes for the Women's Care Center. So, racist and sexist, for forcing those women to carry babies to term and then **gasp** supporting their efforts to raise said babies.
And I'm sure that knitting sweaters and hats and mittens and sox for the homeless at Bean's and Br. Francis Shelter is probably classist, too.
So, I guess I will be in the camps sooner rather than later, which is great, because then I don't have to interrupt my knitting to do crap like go to work.
Posted by: tcn in AK at March 08, 2019 07:21 PM (Bpud3)
Posted by: Dead Horses at March 08, 2019 07:21 PM (iSh8b)
Posted by: Wicked, Wicked Eris at March 08, 2019 07:21 PM (kQs4Y)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 08, 2019 07:20 PM (aKsyK)
LOL. Yeah, that is what caught my attention. Didn't know what kind of shells he meant.
Posted by: Mark1971 at March 08, 2019 07:21 PM (xPl2J)
Posted by: Ben Had at March 08, 2019 07:22 PM (54Szs)
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at March 08, 2019 07:22 PM (2DOZq)
And she's shocked at what happened during his 8 year rein? What a stupid cunt.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 08, 2019 07:22 PM (XvhSL)
Posted by: notsothoreau at March 08, 2019 07:22 PM (JKNZq)
Posted by: Lurking Lurker
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Seemingly true. Friends who have spent time in western Africa have told me that schedules and timeliness are not concepts there.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 08, 2019 07:22 PM (xSo9G)
brown shirts, red guards, heck red shirts on st, being part of some socialist or communist mob is never wise.
Posted by: yankeefifth at March 08, 2019 07:22 PM (MTjB1)
Posted by: josephistan at March 08, 2019 07:22 PM (Izzlo)
Progressive Secularism has created its own list of sins, but they're always changing as things "progress" and nobody can keep track or follow them. You can try for atonement through demonstrations of guilt and acts like buying carbon credits, or donations to the high priests, but even that doesn't necessarily work.
The idea of this religion is that humanity is not just perfectable but would be perfect save for some bad influences and peoples. Remove those and everything gets better and we all are wonderful people with all things going right. If anything doesn't go right, its the fault of the deplorables, who are irredeemable -- that is, no act of contrition or guilt can remove their sin. They cannot be saved. They can only be useful in some manner of labor for the good of others.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 08, 2019 07:22 PM (39g3+)
I have never seen or talked with one that wants to go back.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 08, 2019 07:22 PM (sy5kK)
Has anyone made a good Deadwood joke here yet?
Posted by: Downcast at March 08, 2019 07:23 PM (VWE5i)
Posted by: notsothoreau
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Basket weaving, OTOH...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 08, 2019 07:23 PM (xSo9G)
Posted by: The Beatles at March 08, 2019 07:23 PM (WkMnJ)
I disagree. You won't possibly change their minds, or even get them to admit the possibility of the existence of opposing, yet completely valid, opinions or positions.
You will only succeed in upsetting yourself, and there's no point in doing that.
Posted by: Eustace Haverkamp at March 08, 2019 07:23 PM (C1NyB)
In January, Karen Templer, a popular knitting blogger
She should have had her brother Simon take care of the asshats
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 08, 2019 07:23 PM (FdGKu)
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 08, 2019 07:22 PM (sy5kK)
That explains that problem with visa overstays.
Posted by: Mark1971 at March 08, 2019 07:23 PM (xPl2J)
Posted by: I'm Brother Cavil, and I ain't recommending shit at the moment at March 08, 2019 07:24 PM (lLeln)
Posted by: Wicked, Wicked Eris at March 08, 2019 07:21 PM (kQs4Y)
--Don't forget Bikini. . . .
I would not forget it atoll.
Posted by: logprof at March 08, 2019 07:24 PM (XAYDB)
1) As has been said here, repeatedly, NEVER APOLOGIZE.
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I'm pretty sure this was the KKKnitter's first encounter with rampant SJWs. I bet she still doesn't know what's happened.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 08, 2019 07:24 PM (13CQC)
Posted by: DaveA at March 08, 2019 07:24 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: Hands at March 08, 2019 07:24 PM (786Ro)
In other news, I'm sorry I missed the art thread today because that painting is really pretty. I imagine that's JackStraw taking a couple of beauties for a sail on his boat.
Posted by: bluebell at March 08, 2019 07:24 PM (4yVoV)
Posted by: Downcast at March 08, 2019 07:23 PM (VWE5i)
Cocksucker!
Posted by: Mark1971 at March 08, 2019 07:24 PM (xPl2J)
Joey needs his teeth kicked in with respect and integrity
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 08, 2019 07:24 PM (FdGKu)
Posted by: Batterup at March 08, 2019 07:25 PM (U2JQS)
Posted by: Ben Had at March 08, 2019 07:25 PM (54Szs)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 08, 2019 07:25 PM (39g3+)
Hey sweetie!
I'm undecided. I did see it on the big screen years ago and loved it. So did the black couple behind me! They liked that sassy white grrl.
Posted by: Wicked, Wicked Eris at March 08, 2019 07:25 PM (kQs4Y)
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at March 08, 2019 07:25 PM (dKiJG)
outrage, especially of the look-at-me-and-my-massive-virtue public
performance variety, is self-serving, and usually used to deflect
feelings of inadequacy, assuage guilt about one's own sins, or to shore
up one's sense of place in the social hierarchy.
Cripes, I'm so glad I've got a modicum of self-actualization. I'm quite content with who I am. Don't like it? Piss up a rope.
Posted by: AOC at March 08, 2019 07:25 PM (T6t7i)
Posted by: josephistan
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Opinion Editors from BuzzFeed.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 08, 2019 07:25 PM (xSo9G)
I have a left leaning friend who was objecting to me using #metoo in just about every innocuous conversation, because I was co-opting a term that survivors of sexual abuse were using for solidarity, plus orange man bad.
She's going through a rough breakup now due to some idiot boyfriend who finally seemed to have the good sense to move out and get the fuck away from her. She was all sobby sobby cry cry and me making light of #metoo jokes just added to her pain.
It almost made me want to say sorry. Almost. Instead I merely refrained from telling her to go fuck herself with a pinata filled with metal spikes.
She wound up apologizing to me instead for being rude, lol.
Never apologize to the left, ever.
Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at March 08, 2019 07:25 PM (+dsLj)
Posted by: Hands at March 08, 2019 07:26 PM (786Ro)
George Orwell: It was a WARNING!!! Not a fucking how to book!!!!
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 08, 2019 07:26 PM (FdGKu)
For neither dot nor feather have the clackers been a thing
Posted by: VMs phone at March 08, 2019 07:26 PM (JUYen)
Posted by: Lurking Lurker
Actually, yes, except for women who date.
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at March 08, 2019 07:26 PM (LOq4H)
Has anyone made a good Deadwood joke here yet?
Posted by: Downcast at March 08, 2019 07:23 PM (VWE5i)
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Cocksicle!
Posted by: Woo at March 08, 2019 07:26 PM (kQs4Y)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 08, 2019 07:22 PM (xSo9G)
--My friend from Hyderabad refers to IST (Indian Standard Time --India has but one time zone) as "Indian Stretchable Time"
Posted by: logprof at March 08, 2019 07:26 PM (XAYDB)
Posted by: Fritz at March 08, 2019 07:27 PM (wxZSX)
Some colleges have implemented a "no such thing as being on time" policy. Why? Cuz being on time is a white thing.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker
Does each teacher get an entire classroom for the entire day to teach whoever shows up whenever they show up?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 08, 2019 07:27 PM (aKsyK)
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at March 08, 2019 07:27 PM (2DOZq)
places I want to visit in the United States before considering going
overseas. I would though like to visit Israel and Greece/Greek
Islands.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at March 08, 2019 07:22 PM (2DOZq)
^^This. I would like to see some places in Europe before it's absorbed into the caliphate. But still a lifetime of places here worth seeing.
Posted by: I like cookies at March 08, 2019 07:27 PM (xxAFD)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 08, 2019 07:27 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Batterup at March 08, 2019 07:25 PM (U2JQS)
Trump did. That's why he won. He never kowtowed
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 08, 2019 07:27 PM (FdGKu)
Posted by: pep at March 08, 2019 07:27 PM (T6t7i)
Wow. I almost don't know what to say.
Some Socialist Justice Wanker imbeciles can actually find something wrong with knitting.
KNITTING? You have to fucking be crazy to think like that. If I'da been that lady that got excoriated for wanting to visit another country, I would've told those assholes to fuck off and banned every one of them. You don't have to take that stupid shit from anybody.
Wow...SMFH. What is wrong with those people?
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at March 08, 2019 07:27 PM (HaL55)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 08, 2019 07:27 PM (7fIh6)
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 08, 2019 07:27 PM (1JAxC)
http://tinyurl.com/y3bmcfrn
Posted by: Anchovy at March 08, 2019 07:27 PM (B3kya)
Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at March 08, 2019 07:25 PM (dKiJG)
When did this become about San Francisco?
Posted by: hogmartin at March 08, 2019 07:28 PM (t+qrx)
Chaos is a great way to control people - raise their cortisol so they can't think and keep up the chaos so their serotonin is suppressed & they will submit to anything.
Posted by: Batterup at March 08, 2019 07:28 PM (U2JQS)
I think she meant like colorful fabrics and such but doesn't matter.
Posted by: blaster, Abolish FBI at March 08, 2019 07:28 PM (ZfRYq)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h5iv6sECGU
Posted by: Moondog at March 08, 2019 07:28 PM (3Dsnb)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 08, 2019 07:27 PM (aKsyK)
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More like a teacher can't penalize a student for being late or handing in an assignment late, etc.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 08, 2019 07:28 PM (1JAxC)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 08, 2019 07:29 PM (7fIh6)
Posted by: Skip at March 08, 2019 07:29 PM (BbGew)
Posted by: Ben Had at March 08, 2019 07:25 PM (54Szs)
--In India, when you're one in a million, that means there's a thousand just like you.
Posted by: logprof at March 08, 2019 07:29 PM (XAYDB)
I have no desire to go where there are a BILLION people.
Posted by: Ben Had
I don't even like American cities.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 08, 2019 07:29 PM (aKsyK)
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at March 08, 2019 07:30 PM (LOq4H)
"Yeah? Well I'm woker."
"Well, I'm woker than you."
"No way. I posted first."
"Yeah, but my post was wokier than yours."
"Well, my post now contains 50% more wokiness than yours!"
"But my post has New and Improved Wokiness!"
"Does not!"
"Does too!
"Dibs!"
"Shotgun!"
"Mom! Make him stop!"
"She started it!"
"Now kids, let's stop all this and go see a movie together."
"What should we go see?"
"Well, we could go see 'Captain Marvel'. According to this milk carton, all proceeds will go to finding Brie Larson's missing ass."
Posted by: The Gipper Lives at March 08, 2019 07:30 PM (Ndje9)
Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at March 08, 2019 07:30 PM (kHHvG)
Posted by: JackStraw at March 08, 2019 07:30 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Ben Had at March 08, 2019 07:30 PM (54Szs)
OK, so suppose she'd said: India sucks donkey balls, is hopelessly corrupt, is a reservoir of every crappy disease known to man, and full of idiots who worship cattle and who throw corpses into the Ganges.
Happy now?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 08, 2019 07:30 PM (YqDXo)
probably Harold from some Harold and Kumar movie
Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at March 08, 2019 07:31 PM (kHHvG)
You want to see poor? Go to Brazil. Or China. Or India. Or pretty much anywhere in Africa. That shit is poor. Someone living in a crappy apartment in urban America....that's upper middle class for most of the fucking world.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 08, 2019 07:31 PM (1JAxC)
Posted by: DaveA at March 08, 2019 07:31 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: Ben Had at March 08, 2019 07:22 PM (54Szs)
Let me guess, you live in Texas?
;-)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 08, 2019 07:31 PM (mhs6e)
Posted by: Wizards! At the bottom of it all! at March 08, 2019 07:31 PM (9AcAx)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 08, 2019 07:32 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: grognard at March 08, 2019 07:32 PM (L3c+B)
Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at March 08, 2019 07:30 PM (kHHvG)
*squints*
This is one of those euphemisms, isn't it.
Posted by: hogmartin at March 08, 2019 07:32 PM (t+qrx)
Posted by: Woo at March 08, 2019 07:32 PM (kQs4Y)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 08, 2019 07:32 PM (BWejp)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 08, 2019 07:32 PM (kQs4Y)
Nah. It's because they are vile excuses for human beings who enjoy inflicting pain on others.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 08, 2019 07:32 PM (0OWcv)
Would this be a bad time to point out that Indians are classified as Caucasians?
So feather (?) the "white person" crap, Bucky. Indians may be darker-skinned, but I'm pretty sure when you referred to her as a "white person" you meant "Caucasian."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 08, 2019 07:32 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: I like cookies at March 08, 2019 07:27 PM (xxAFD)
--[Touts home state]
https://youtu.be/IoAY6BlXh4o
Posted by: logprof at March 08, 2019 07:33 PM (XAYDB)
Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at March 08, 2019 07:30 PM (kHHvG)
I punch my inner Nazi while looking at Busty Lesbians.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 08, 2019 07:33 PM (BWejp)
Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at March 08, 2019 07:33 PM (kHHvG)
I'm undecided. I did see it on the big screen years ago and loved it. So did the black couple behind me! They liked that sassy white grrl.
Posted by: Wicked, Wicked Eris at March 08, 2019 07:25 PM (kQs4Y)
I joke that you should see it before the SJW brigade gets it removed, but considering the hoops one has to go through before watching Birth of a Nation I would encourage anyone who loves classic movies to see it now on the big screen before you're not allowed to.
Tonight I am watching Man With a Movie Camera
http://tinyurl.com/q5yrk9h
I wish I could watch it with you, Bander and Her Imperial Malevolence.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 08, 2019 07:33 PM (Ki5SV)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 08, 2019 07:33 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 08, 2019 07:33 PM (kQs4Y)
You will only succeed in upsetting yourself, and there's no point in doing that.
Posted by: Eustace Haverkamp
Under no formulation of what I wrote does it suggest I'm interested in changing their minds. I intend to embarrass them before they get a change to deplatform me and other conservatives. I intend to make their wild, and baseless slander their own nightmare.
This is cultural warfare. If they don't feel the white hot heat of having their own weaponized idiocy shoved down their throat, this cold civil war will turn hot.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 08, 2019 07:33 PM (Hk+Y0)
Posted by: The Gipper Lives at March 08, 2019 07:34 PM (Ndje9)
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Cleanup of this Stormfront prick please.
Posted by: Calm Mentor at March 08, 2019 07:34 PM (ffYR/)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 08, 2019 07:34 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at March 08, 2019 07:34 PM (2DOZq)
"holy crap this is long"
and
"this isn't nearly as good as I was led to believe"
Rhett Butler should have kicked that brat to he curb way earlier.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 08, 2019 07:34 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 08, 2019 07:33 PM (39g3+)
My ticket sales are not as flat as my ass
Posted by: Brie Larson at March 08, 2019 07:34 PM (U2JQS)
China is worth it. China is definitely worth it.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 08, 2019 07:35 PM (/tuJf)
For neither dot nor feather have the clackers been a thing
Posted by: VMs phone at March 08, 2019 07:26 PM (JUYen)
http://www.qiviut.com/
Not "Indians" per se, more like Eskimo, but yes, they knit, and it's wonderful.
Posted by: tcn in AK at March 08, 2019 07:35 PM (Bpud3)
Posted by: grognard at March 08, 2019 07:32 PM (L3c+B)
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I think this is 100% true.
Posted by: Seems Legit at March 08, 2019 07:35 PM (jUVms)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 08, 2019 07:35 PM (7fIh6)
Posted by: Hugh Hewit at March 08, 2019 07:35 PM (786Ro)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 08, 2019 07:35 PM (dNzKv)
Also, this Maoist struggle sessions sre basically social stonings
Posted by: VMs phone at March 08, 2019 07:35 PM (JUYen)
Posted by: JackStraw at March 08, 2019 07:30 PM (/tuJf)
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I was one of the chicks in your sailboat in the picture this morning. You didn't recognize me?
My kids both have the same spring break so we took the opportunity to go in a family vacation. I'll pop in occasionally so you all won't forget me.
Posted by: bluebell at March 08, 2019 07:35 PM (4yVoV)
Oooooh, exotic! Elephants, Taj Mahal, lovely food, tea, etc.
Without fail, once they've been in country for a few days, they are DONE. Most Americans haven't experienced true poverty, and it's truly ugly; the stink, the trash, the inhuman lack of care for others, etc is all shocking.
Posted by: bonhomme at March 08, 2019 07:36 PM (9t0Zz)
"holy crap this is long"
and
"this isn't nearly as good as I was led to believe"
Rhett Butler should have kicked that brat to he curb way earlier.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 08, 2019 07:34 PM (39g3+)
Every 20 years or so I read the book and every damned time, I yell at her so hard, and yet she keeps doing stupid things.
Posted by: tcn in AK at March 08, 2019 07:36 PM (Bpud3)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 08, 2019 07:36 PM (dNzKv)
Posted by: torabora at March 08, 2019 07:36 PM (Y274z)
I'm totally serious here. The material linked at Reason reminds me of the "studies" that "prove" that's not the fault of inner-city "youth" if they rape and murder, rather than the environment being one in which they believe they can get away with raping and murdering... this is a subtle, but critical difference.
Starving can motivate you to steal food. It can't motivate you to rape the neighbor, who is likely in the same circumstances as yourself.
Some people are just evil. They are.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 08, 2019 07:36 PM (0OWcv)
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 08, 2019 07:36 PM (1JAxC)
I can't understand why anyone who is not Indian would want to go there.
Posted by: IrishEi at March 08, 2019 07:36 PM (NtglE)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 08, 2019 07:32 PM (39g3+)
I turned down invitations to speak there because I'd just heard way too many stories of people getting their GI tracts turned inside out after visiting there.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 08, 2019 07:37 PM (YqDXo)
Excellent. Have fun!
Posted by: JackStraw at March 08, 2019 07:37 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Seems Legit at March 08, 2019 07:37 PM (jUVms)
Posted by: hogmartin at March 08, 2019 07:37 PM (t+qrx)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 08, 2019 07:37 PM (9Om/r)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 08, 2019 07:37 PM (hTpgG)
http://tinyurl.com/q5yrk9h
I wish I could watch it with you, Bander and Her Imperial Malevolence.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 08, 2019 07:33 PM (Ki5SV)
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Oh I've seen clips of this. I'm going to YouToobz it right now! 20's Russia did have some groundbreaking art for a time.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 08, 2019 07:38 PM (kQs4Y)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 08, 2019 07:33 PM (Ki5SV)
I'd pay good money to be at that screening!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 08, 2019 07:38 PM (f6lTY)
I got the email today of goings-on at the church and the second bullet point right after Lenten services schedule says: "The Best Thing to Give UP for Lent is PLASTIC." It then goes on to virtual shout at me about how forward thinking and altruistic the Green Team is and what a disappointment I am.
Now, I've put up with a lot, but to allow the very personal and significant Christian pilgrimage (maybe not pilgrimage, but you get the idea) of Lenten vows to be politicized for these SJW watermelons is just too much.
Mrs Blutarski suggest I speak with the pastor...but maybe tomorrow.
Posted by: Blutarski at March 08, 2019 07:38 PM (+Tibp)
https://youtu.be/IoAY6BlXh4o
Posted by: logprof at March 08, 2019 07:33 PM (XAYDB)
Pretty good tout.
Posted by: I like cookies at March 08, 2019 07:39 PM (xxAFD)
She could fly into Reno and drive 80 miles and save thousands.
Posted by: torabora at March 08, 2019 07:39 PM (Y274z)
Early showing, Thursday on limited screens, made some money. There are rumors that Disney BOUGHT lots of theaters full of tickets but who knows.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 08, 2019 07:39 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Zombie Queen Victoria at March 08, 2019 07:39 PM (786Ro)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 08, 2019 07:39 PM (7fIh6)
Posted by: notsothoreau at March 08, 2019 07:39 PM (JKNZq)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 08, 2019 07:39 PM (dNzKv)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero)
Go to India, the world's undisputed leader in public defecation.
"Designated shitting streets" is a meme for a reason.
Posted by: wooga at March 08, 2019 07:40 PM (WSrvw)
Even Columbus could not possibly confuse Alaska with India
Posted by: VMs phone at March 08, 2019 07:40 PM (JUYen)
"The more guilt over one's own potential complicity, the more desire "to punish a third-party through increased moral outrage at that target."
Hence the perfect storm of our educational system, indoctrinating all of the children, especially the white ones, that white people have colonized the world in a terror campaign of slavery, pestilence and pollution and this has unleashed an unstoppable climate doomsday upon the world.
Posted by: Max Power at March 08, 2019 07:40 PM (q177U)
Posted by: Brie Larson
Girl, your ass can only be adequately represented in flatland.
Posted by: pep at March 08, 2019 07:40 PM (T6t7i)
Her name Templer. Knits Templer? You tryna tell me dat ain't code for somethin'?
She a member of da Knits Templer, dats a dog whistle for da KKK yo.
Posted by: Dats Rayciss at March 08, 2019 07:40 PM (uOW9b)
Starving can motivate you to steal food. It can't motivate you to rape the neighbor, who is likely in the same circumstances as yourself.
I've made exactly that point to leftists who defend ghetto criminality using the "Les Miserables" defense. Sure, still a loaf of bread when you're starving (btw, where are the starving people in the ghetto? If anything, there's an obesity problem there.) But poverty doesn't lead to rape.
Related point: people who talk about the mean streets in the ghetto. Why is that? It's because of the people who live there preying on each other. But we don't talk about that.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 08, 2019 07:40 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 08, 2019 07:40 PM (9Om/r)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 08, 2019 07:39 PM (39g3+)
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Disney can only buy so many theaters. Even $100M gross is yawn territory these days for a comic book movie.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 08, 2019 07:41 PM (1JAxC)
g'early evenin', 'rons
Posted by: AltonJackson at March 08, 2019 07:41 PM (KCxzN)
There is nothing wrong with this country that helicopter rides wouldn't cure
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 08, 2019 07:41 PM (9a/ad)
I can't understand why anyone who is not Indian would want to go there.
Posted by: IrishEi at March 08, 2019 07:36 PM (NtglE)
--Mother Teresa.
Plus, I had a friend from there when I went so I had an "in." Much easier that way in those types of lands.
Posted by: logprof at March 08, 2019 07:41 PM (XAYDB)
Posted by: Weasel at March 08, 2019 07:41 PM (MVjcR)
I have to wonder why so many of them have ugly mouths.
Sucking the Soros dick much?
Posted by: Your Friendly Neighborhood Witch at March 08, 2019 07:41 PM (xZjSg)
Posted by: hogmartin at March 08, 2019 07:41 PM (t+qrx)
I saw a video on that and it was interesting, because Indian homes are usually very clean and neat. The Indian people take very good care of their own property. But outside of that they culturally seem to have zero concept of caring for anything else. It's not mine (whizzing on the front door). I don't live here (spitting bhat on the seats).
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 08, 2019 07:41 PM (39g3+)
hey, hogmartin
Posted by: AltonJackson at March 08, 2019 07:42 PM (KCxzN)
Posted by: VMs phone at March 08, 2019 07:40 PM (JUYen)
There was no country called "India" in Columbus's time. It was called "Hindustan."
Another leftist meme shot down.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 08, 2019 07:42 PM (YqDXo)
https://bit.ly/2J2qMYl
Europeans introduce sheep to the area and knitting!
Posted by: notsothoreau at March 08, 2019 07:42 PM (JKNZq)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 08, 2019 07:42 PM (7fIh6)
Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at March 08, 2019 07:42 PM (kHHvG)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 08, 2019 07:42 PM (dNzKv)
Posted by: josephistan at March 08, 2019 07:42 PM (Izzlo)
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 08, 2019 07:42 PM (V2Yro)
Posted by: The Gipper Lives at March 08, 2019 07:34 PM (Ndje9)
Exhibit A: the transgender movement
Posted by: josephistan at March 08, 2019 07:43 PM (Izzlo)
Why is India so filthy? | The Ugly Indian | TEDxBangalore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf1VA5jqmRo
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 08, 2019 07:43 PM (YqDXo)
So basically these pasty white SJWers are screaming that Indian culture is strong and that knitting blog lady is an existential threat to Indian culture because it's so weak.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 08, 2019 07:43 PM (so3dR)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 08, 2019 07:43 PM (aKsyK)
Posted by: Braenyard at March 08, 2019 07:43 PM (ePWRo)
I saw a video on that and it was interesting, because Indian homes are usually very clean and neat. The Indian people take very good care of their own property. But outside of that they culturally seem to have zero concept of caring for anything else. It's not mine (whizzing on the front door). I don't live here (spitting bhat on the seats).
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
A 1.3 billion have to shit somewhere and the country isn't set up for it.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 08, 2019 07:43 PM (IxRYM)
I was at a grocery store. In front of me black woman using EBT card. Her total was $48.20 but only had $47 left on the card. So the cashier says she owes $1.20. The fucking woman couldn't come up with $1.20 to cover the rest. So she had to go fish out something to make up for it, the cashier got all confused about how to process it. Finally a manager came over and said, it's fine just give her the $1.20 and off she went.
Barack's America lives on....
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 08, 2019 07:44 PM (1JAxC)
Posted by: Mark1971 at March 08, 2019 07:44 PM (xPl2J)
Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at March 08, 2019 07:44 PM (kHHvG)
The other movie that made me not want to go there was Million Dollar Arm.
Posted by: bluebell at March 08, 2019 07:44 PM (4yVoV)
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 08, 2019 07:42 PM (V2Yro)
I like it, too, but you don't want it TOO authentic. The spiciness originated from attempts to conceal the smell/taste of meat that had gone bad.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 08, 2019 07:44 PM (YqDXo)
Time to find a new church, my friend.
And get yourself on the committee that approves hiring new ministers at your new church. Nip that crap in the bud if it rears its head again.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 08, 2019 07:44 PM (0OWcv)
Posted by: I like cookies at March 08, 2019 07:39 PM (xxAFD)
--Indeed.
And I am homesick.
Posted by: logprof at March 08, 2019 07:44 PM (XAYDB)
Read the whole article, it's much, much, much worse than you think.
Posted by: Max Power at March 08, 2019 07:44 PM (q177U)
Posted by: Eromero at March 08, 2019 07:45 PM (zLDYs)
I think that's the video I watched about Indian culture and psychology.
The problem is that I bet within six weeks those places cleaned up... were just as filthy again. Because volunteering to go help out an area doesn't help that area stay clean. They have no skin in the game its just not as filthy one day. Great! But why change? Someone else can come by and clean it again.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 08, 2019 07:45 PM (39g3+)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dy1C95p00E
Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at March 08, 2019 07:45 PM (+dsLj)
Posted by: josephistan at March 08, 2019 07:42 PM (Izzlo)
There's a Fry's north of Indy.
Posted by: hogmartin at March 08, 2019 07:45 PM (t+qrx)
Posted by: Bill Kristol at March 08, 2019 07:45 PM (FTPVM)
The woman that does the podcasts has a small yarn business and lives in Kansas. After the third podcast where she talks about this stuff, I had to stop listening. SJWs jumped her for recommending a mohair yarn! Angora goats (which mohair comes from) are not raised under the right conditions to make SJWs happy. I had no idea and I don't care.
Posted by: notsothoreau at March 08, 2019 07:45 PM (JKNZq)
Maybe we need a weekend knitting thread?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 08, 2019 07:42 PM
mayhaps weirddave can loan the cob keys to gingy & we can have a knit-a-thon
Posted by: AltonJackson at March 08, 2019 07:45 PM (KCxzN)
Posted by: Eromero at March 08, 2019 07:45 PM (zLDYs)
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Really? That doesn't sound like you at all.
Posted by: bluebell at March 08, 2019 07:46 PM (4yVoV)
Posted by: Orson at March 08, 2019 07:46 PM (DmZDZ)
Posted by: VMs phone at March 08, 2019 07:40 PM
I could see Russia from the stern of the Santa Maria!
Posted by: Zombie Christopher Columbus at March 08, 2019 07:46 PM (786Ro)
Posted by: AltonJackson at March 08, 2019 07:45 PM (KCxzN)
Knitting ONT.
Posted by: hogmartin at March 08, 2019 07:47 PM (t+qrx)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
Way ahead of you, Rodrigo, but the pastor is not the problem. It's the inmates. I'll probably find out he had no idea it happened. Maybe I say this because I was on the committee that called this guy.
Posted by: Blutarski at March 08, 2019 07:47 PM (+Tibp)
Posted by: The Indian Board of Tourism at March 08, 2019 07:47 PM (tVQUs)
Just wait until we get the mandatory self-denunciation sessions going in the camps! You'll be singing a different tune then, my prettys!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 08, 2019 07:47 PM (n6bs1)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poo2Loo
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/
designated-shitting-streets-poo-in-the-loo
Posted by: wooga at March 08, 2019 07:48 PM (WSrvw)
Thanks.
Posted by: Marcus T at March 08, 2019 07:48 PM (VkWRL)
I got the email today of goings-on at the church and the second bullet point right after Lenten services schedule says: "The Best Thing to Give UP for Lent is PLASTIC."
Reply that you were going to give an offering via your debit card but decided to cut it up instead.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 08, 2019 07:48 PM (aKsyK)
Posted by: The Gipper Lives at March 08, 2019 07:34 PM (Ndje9)
This.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 08, 2019 07:48 PM (BWejp)
Posted by: notsothoreau at March 08, 2019 07:48 PM (JKNZq)
You know we're in a shitshow when Peggy Noonan has become relevant. .. ...Again.
Posted by: Braenyard at March 08, 2019 07:43 PM (ePWRo)
Errr, Noonan has NEVER been relevant. And she isn't starting now.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 08, 2019 07:48 PM (so3dR)
"holy crap this is long"
and
"this isn't nearly as good as I was led to believe"
Rhett Butler should have kicked that brat to he curb way earlier.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 08, 2019 07:34 PM (39g3+)
It is a very long movie, but one has to remember that part of the reason for its length was that David Selznick needed a yuge success for his fledgling studio and GWTW was the closest thing to a sure bet as there was in 1939.
And I've always hated Scarlett O'Hara (whose original name was "Pansy" in Margaret Mitchell's manuscript). She was a nasty, selfish bitch who only became a legend because of the look of Vivien Leigh.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 08, 2019 07:48 PM (Ki5SV)
Posted by: An Observation at March 08, 2019 07:48 PM (IZjKe)
Posted by: Orson
IF ONLY!!!
I keep praying this will happen but so far it keeps on not happening.
I'm with you with my heart but not with my head. There is no amount of humiliation and denigration a broken and demoralized people will not accept.
Posted by: ace at March 08, 2019 07:48 PM (PbpT7)
Sit and write a dozen lame-assed vapid snarky one-liners per day ---> get paycheck.
That Bulwark hired a commie is one insult, but hiring a no-visible-talent nobody is the most galling of all! Did she fellate somebody over there?
Posted by: Pre-Baked Baking Powder Saves You Time! at March 08, 2019 07:49 PM (mk9aG)
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 08, 2019 07:49 PM (7fIh6)
Posted by: Skip at March 08, 2019 07:49 PM (BbGew)
Posted by: notsothoreau at March 08, 2019 07:49 PM (JKNZq)
Oh, and the Vox Hate-knitter? I have a Tubman that says she's on a minimum of three mental drugs and two of them are for manic depression. I've seen that look before.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at March 08, 2019 07:49 PM (HaL55)
> Posted by: Bill Kristol
I wish I could say that.
Posted by: Brie Larson at March 08, 2019 07:49 PM (0OWcv)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 08, 2019 07:45 PM
You just described my entire peacekeeping in Haiti experience.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 08, 2019 07:49 PM (EurWg)
Posted by: Eromero at March 08, 2019 07:45 PM (zLDYs)
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Really? That doesn't sound like you at all.
Posted by: bluebell at March 08, 2019 07:46 PM (4yVoV)
Yes! Totes NOT Eromero!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 08, 2019 07:50 PM (n/eZB)
Posted by: Zombie Queen Victoria at March 08, 2019 07:39 PM (786Ro)
Overall, India benefited enormously from the British Raj, whatever it's other failings. Just teaching English has proven to be a huge boon to India. If they were still only speaking Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Urdu, etc. there'd be no phone centers, and minimal interaction with the rest of the world.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 08, 2019 07:50 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 08, 2019 07:50 PM (1JAxC)
Posted by: Jean at March 08, 2019 07:50 PM (7ZTkP)
You have a bunch of normal people that aren't fully engaged with the nonsense - but young enough to take it for granted, especially the under-30's - who finally understand what is going on.
You have lots in GenX and older who don't understand why appeasement attempts and apologies aren't working; I find that almost everyone like that who responds with an initial apology never manages to get a clue.
I've been quietly explaining to a number of people why we've passed the point of "enough is enough".
Posted by: lurker (the other one. buy radios too) at March 08, 2019 07:50 PM (eAshZ)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 08, 2019 07:48 PM
Agreed. Many of us saw the Struggle Session similarity years ago.
Posted by: Hands at March 08, 2019 07:50 PM (786Ro)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 08, 2019 07:50 PM (dNzKv)
Falling down was considered a feature in the 1970s, I'm pretty sure.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 08, 2019 07:50 PM (0OWcv)
Posted by: notsothoreau at March 08, 2019 07:51 PM (JKNZq)
Posted by: Pre-Baked Baking Powder Saves You Time! at March 08, 2019 07:49 PM (mk9aG)
I don't think any of the Bulwark's writers have anything to fellate.
Posted by: Surfperch at March 08, 2019 07:51 PM (tVQUs)
Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at March 08, 2019 07:51 PM (jp0Bv)
Posted by: Jewells45 at March 08, 2019 07:51 PM (dUJdY)
Posted by: Gref at March 08, 2019 07:51 PM (AMIL/)
Yeah that first scene where she's all dolled up and being courted by like five guys, she's very memorable. But what a horrible person. In fact really nobody is ultimately likable in the whole movie. Ashley is weak and pathetic, Melanie is boring, Rhett is a treacherous jackwagon rogue, its just not a very likable cast.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 08, 2019 07:51 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: I like cookies at March 08, 2019 07:51 PM (xxAFD)
Posted by: Dr Spank at March 08, 2019 07:51 PM (ZLlh9)
She wrote some great speeches for Reagan.
But that's.... been a while.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 08, 2019 07:51 PM (0OWcv)
Sit and write a dozen lame-assed vapid snarky one-liners per day ---> get paycheck.
...
Posted by: Pre-Baked Baking Powder Saves You Time! at March 08, 2019 07:49 PM (mk9aG)
We could all be rich!
Posted by: DR.WTF at March 08, 2019 07:52 PM (aS1PU)
Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at March 08, 2019 07:52 PM (FTPVM)
Posted by: Blutarski at March 08, 2019 07:38 PM (+Tibp)
Interesting. I remember someone explaining it to me like this:
1) Give up something for Lent that you enjoy, it is a sacrifice to in some small way emulate Christ's sacrifice.
2) It should NOT be something you should probably give up anyway (like cigarettes or going on a diet.) That is something you should do anyway, and makes a mockery of what Lenten Observance is supposed to be about.
3) Do NOT tell everyone you meet what you are giving up for Lent, because you are then making a show of your observance.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 08, 2019 07:52 PM (BWejp)
She should have redirected their log on to that actress with the golden dildo.
Posted by: Braenyard at March 08, 2019 07:52 PM (ePWRo)
Posted by: Jewells45 at March 08, 2019 07:53 PM (dUJdY)
Posted by: notsothoreau at March 08, 2019 07:53 PM (JKNZq)
hey, jewells
Posted by: AltonJackson at March 08, 2019 07:53 PM (KCxzN)
Posted by: x at March 08, 2019 07:53 PM (nFwvY)
We've all noticed that "feminist" men tend to be predator scum, and left-wing businesses are the first to try and screw over workers and customers. The left simply assumes that's how the whole world works: all men are predators and all businesses are evil. Well, I'd argue that there are rich white westerners who view the third world not as a real place but as a cross between a whorehouse, an ashram, and Disney's Epcot Center. I know guys here and elsewhere have talked about the whole "Eat, Pray, Love" crap that some women eat up about how you should upend your life and travel the world looking for self-fulfillment. The reality is that there is some of that on the left, generally wealthy upper-middle-class white women. I'm talking about the type who put "traveling" as their hobby and put fucking pictures of Machu Pichu, the Taj Mahal, and the Louvre as the three photos in their profile. They're also the idiots who decide it sounds like fun to backpack through Morocco, go party in Thailand for six months while "teaching English", or go to South America to save the fucking rainforest from people trying to develop their country into something resembling civilization. In other words, they do see the third world as something for their amusement or their self-fulfillment. Before they move back to the U.S., marry Trey now that he got a promotion at that hedge fund, and drink too much with all the other soccer moms on weekdays.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at March 08, 2019 07:53 PM (SgjGX)
When you inadvertently offend another person of good will, you apologize, the other person accepts it, and all is good.
The problem is that SJWs aren't people of good will. They're evil.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 08, 2019 07:53 PM (0OWcv)
She wrote some great speeches for Reagan.
But that's.... been a while."
She had a $50K gig writing copy for ... wait for it ... Enron!
Posted by: Baking Powder, Filling Not Fattening at March 08, 2019 07:54 PM (mk9aG)
Overall, British colonization and occupation was very beneficial to every nation they were in. Yes, they were racist arrogant jerks who treated the locals as slighty amusing children or retards, yes, they abused and exploited people mercilessly for riches. But they were less so, remarkably so, than any other colonizers and in the process taught the locals how to be civilized, how to do business, how to organize their nation, how to run things with education, finance, medicine, government etc.
If you run down the world's former colonies, the ones that used to be British are by far in the best shape. Others like French? Hellish.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 08, 2019 07:54 PM (39g3+)
Thanks. To clarify, the British did indeed when in charge of the Palestinian Mandate, verifiably promise land to both the Jews and Arabs but did nothing.
Posted by: Marcus T at March 08, 2019 07:55 PM (VkWRL)
Thanks.
Posted by: Marcus T at March 08, 2019 07:48 PM (VkWRL)
Yes, they did. I don't have a reference for the promise to the Arabs, but the Balfour Declaration during WWI promised the Jews a homeland in present-day Israel.
It was a major factor in the present-day strife. Both the Arabs and the Jews thought that they had a deal - which they did - but it was for the same land.
Perfidious Albion, and all that. The Brits were desperate to get all and sundry to fight on their side, and weren't too circumspect about what they would do to achieve that.
See also the Sykes-Picot Treaty, which carved up the Ottoman Empire into the Palestine Mandate (Britain) and Syria (France), despite contrary promises to the Arabs.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 08, 2019 07:55 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: I like cookies at March 08, 2019 07:51 PM (xxAFD)
I not sure if it would have been better if the Empire never touched India, or the Empire had never left India after WW II.
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 08, 2019 07:55 PM (mhs6e)
yeah but that's what pleasure-travel IS, man.
Missionary travel and business travel have other goals and expectations but the whole point of unnecessary travel is for "experience." Adding to yourself. Filling out your experiential CV.
Posted by: ace at March 08, 2019 07:55 PM (PbpT7)
277 OT On Israel, but I know some of you will have the answer. After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, when the British had control of the Palestinian Mandate, did they promise the land to both the Jews and the Arabs? I'm doing historical research and can't find a source for that.
Thanks.
Posted by: Marcus T at March 08, 2019 07:48 PM (VkWRL)
The Balfour Declaration, which predates the Ottoman collapse.
And later, the UN partition plan in '47 specified both Jewish and Arab independent states. The Arabs lost their state when they stupidly attacked Israel before they even bothered to consolidate their own independent state in the former Mandate. Sucks to be them.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 08, 2019 07:55 PM (so3dR)
Posted by: I like cookies at March 08, 2019 07:39 PM (xxAFD)
--My Indian friends say that for all their faults, the British gave India cricket and the Indian National Railways.
Posted by: logprof at March 08, 2019 07:56 PM (XAYDB)
Posted by: Weasel at March 08, 2019 07:56 PM (MVjcR)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 08, 2019 07:48 PM (so3dR)
She was Reagan's head speechwriter. That's pretty relevant. Admittedly she went down squish hill pretty quickly afterward.
Posted by: I like cookies at March 08, 2019 07:56 PM (xxAFD)
Yeah if you're going to keep lent, its not about saving the world, its about doing without something you dearly love, to remind you of Christ's sacrifice. It has to be painful, not virtuous, something that makes you feel that loss and wish you had it, so you can focus on Jesus and His great sacrifice.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 08, 2019 07:56 PM (39g3+)
Preach it, brother! You're my brother so we can get married now.--Ilhan "I've been circumcised" Omar.
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at March 08, 2019 07:56 PM (3sjI6)
An apology just spurs them on to further attacks.
The proper response is to tell them to pound sand because they're mentally ill losers who need to get a life.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 08, 2019 07:57 PM (YqDXo)
i'm a racist, a nazi, and a knuckle dragging deplorable.
at least i know you don't yell "wolf" in a fiery theater.
happy thanksgiving, morons.
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 08, 2019 07:57 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 08, 2019 07:38 PM (kQs4Y)
It's a long series, but Miss Mend from 1926 is interesting in watching "the adventures of three reporters who try to stop a biological attack on the USSR by powerful Western businessmen."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 08, 2019 07:57 PM (Ki5SV)
Still woke, though. Except the FiL. He's dead.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 08, 2019 07:08 PM (ptqGC)
My older daughter got married in New Delhi and then subsequently in Brooklyn. I was a big baby about going to a third world shithole where I had to get a fucking visa. Once I got there it was outstanding. First of all, being the father of a bride is a very socially advantageous position to be in. They provided us with a driver who took us wherever we wanted to go and he kept the lowlifes from fucking around with us (the poverty there is just fucking brutal) and I was treated like King Hate. They crammed six months worth of parties into a week so it was nonstop. Indians are incredibly friendly and hate the rock worshipping vermin even more than I do. Plus we went in early January when the temperature isn't hellishly hot but the air pollution was the worst I experienced.
It was an outstanding vacation but if I hadn't been in the position I'd been in or somehow had a solid connection there, NFW would I have gone
Posted by: Captain Hate at March 08, 2019 07:57 PM (y7DUB)
Well, you have to admit, that was a pretty damn fine look.
Posted by: pep at March 08, 2019 07:57 PM (T6t7i)
Sure, I mean I traveled to California to have fun, not to enrich myself by learning at the feet of Californians. We went to Hearst Mansion, the San Diego Zoo, Disneyland, etc. That's the entire purpose of vacationing for fun, to go for entertainment.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 08, 2019 07:59 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Max Power at March 08, 2019 07:59 PM (q177U)
I remember the Ravelry nightmare that was O's first run. I was part of a couple of conservative groups there and it was my first real experience with trolls of all varieties. It was shocking that people had nothing better to do with their lives. The way TPTB at Rav decided to deal with the issue by banning conservatives and shutting down the groups (with *zero* warning), instead of telling the trolls to knock it off, really took the shiny off the site and I've never trusted it for purchases since. I guess it was a good prep for being on Twitter though.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 08, 2019 07:59 PM (uquGJ)
Posted by: I like cookies at March 08, 2019 07:51 PM (xxAFD)
I not sure if it would have been better if the Empire never touched India, or the Empire had never left India after WW II.
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 08, 2019 07:55 PM (mhs6e)
Nobody can predict the future or alternate history. But what you can do is hang terrorists and terrorist supporters, rather than importing more of them.
Posted by: I like cookies at March 08, 2019 07:59 PM (xxAFD)
"Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 08, 2019 07:55 PM (so3dR)"
Thank you gentlemen. I was stuck and you are a wealth of knowledge.
Posted by: Marcus T at March 08, 2019 07:59 PM (VkWRL)
Posted by: Braenyard at March 08, 2019 07:59 PM (ePWRo)
Indeed it does. The older you get the more you really just don't give a shit. At least that's my experience.
Posted by: Jewells45 at March 08, 2019 07:59 PM (dUJdY)
If I can ever get to another MoMe, not hide in a corner and have a room that we can relax in, I will have some lovely silents to show.
And as we're speaking of India, I am at the moment listening to some Ravi Shankar from the late '50s. I like Indian music.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 08, 2019 08:00 PM (Ki5SV)
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I find I already don't give a shit even though I'm only 29.
Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at March 08, 2019 08:01 PM (+dsLj)
Indeed it does. The older you get the more you really just don't give a shit. At least that's my experience.
Posted by: Jewells45 at March 08, 2019 07:59 PM (dUJdY)
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*fistbump*
Hi Jewells!
Posted by: Weasel at March 08, 2019 08:01 PM (MVjcR)
Posted by: Splunge at March 08, 2019 08:01 PM (ed8K1)
Posted by: logprof at March 08, 2019 08:01 PM (XAYDB)
All this shit (as I see it) presupposes that I'm going to feel an amorphous sense of guilt for being white.
Not happening. Go find somebody gullible.
In the meanwhile, stay away from me.
Posted by: irongrampa at March 08, 2019 08:01 PM (S/hVx)
Posted by: Jewells45 at March 08, 2019 08:01 PM (dUJdY)
Posted by: Sal at March 08, 2019 08:01 PM (wR64M)
The proper response is to tell them to pound sand because they're mentally ill losers who need to get a life.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 08, 2019 07:57 PM (YqDXo)
Oh look at Mr. Manners here.
Posted by: rickl at March 08, 2019 08:01 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Ben Had at March 08, 2019 08:02 PM (54Szs)
Posted by: notsothoreau at March 08, 2019 07:51 PM (JKNZq)
I don't see anything wrong with "colored people." Functionally, how does that differ from saying "people of color," except for lacking the precious and tortured pretension of the latter?
When liberals say, e.g., someone is tall, I love to sanctimoniously correct them: "That's offensive. The preferred term is 'people of tall.'"
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 08, 2019 08:02 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 08, 2019 08:02 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: steve at March 08, 2019 08:02 PM (TTy55)
Posted by: Braenyard at March 08, 2019 08:02 PM (ePWRo)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 08, 2019 08:02 PM (HTnnL)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 08, 2019 07:27 PM (39g3+)
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Pretty much sums up my daughter.
Posted by: SMH at March 08, 2019 08:02 PM (RU4sa)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 08, 2019 07:57 PM (YqDXo)
Oh look at Mr. Manners here.
Posted by: rickl at March 08, 2019 08:01 PM (sdi6R)
It's amazing that the State Department hasn't recruited me for the Diplomatic Corps, isn't it?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 08, 2019 08:02 PM (YqDXo)
Next Gen's look does seem to have aged faster than the candy-colored grooviness of the old series, which at least has a certain retro cool.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 08, 2019 08:02 PM (kQs4Y)
Posted by: notsothoreau at March 08, 2019 08:02 PM (JKNZq)
Posted by: Jewells45 at March 08, 2019 08:03 PM (dUJdY)
Yes, but whitey is forbidden to watch the show or go to their restaurant. That would be appropriation.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 08, 2019 08:03 PM (dNzKv)
Indeed it does. The older you get the more you really just don't give a shit. At least that's my experience.
Posted by: Jewells45 at March 08, 2019 07:59 PM (dUJdY)
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*fistbump*
Hi Jewells!
Posted by: Weasel at March 08, 2019 08:01 PM (MVjcR)
--I can't wait to be an old coot.
Posted by: logprof at March 08, 2019 08:03 PM (XAYDB)
Not giving a shit what the rest of the world thinks solves a lot of problems.
Indeed it does. The older you get the more you really just don't give a shit. At least that's my experience.
Posted by: Jewells45 at March 08, 2019 07:59 PM (dUJdY)
It's amazing how the two words "Fuck You, asshole" solve everything.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 08, 2019 08:03 PM (so3dR)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 08, 2019 08:03 PM (HTnnL)
I gotta go with ace on this one. I've been fortunate enough to do a lot of travel around the world on someone else's dime. Some places I always wanted to see which was great but also some places I had zero desire to see which was .. also great.
Just living in another culture, even for a brief period, can be very cool and a much better learning experience than any book.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 08, 2019 08:03 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Powder, Baking, Cremulated, Anhydrous at March 08, 2019 08:04 PM (mk9aG)
Posted by: Jewells45 at March 08, 2019 08:03 PM (dUJdY)
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So far so good! Thanks. Did you fix the earrings for craft store lady yet?
Posted by: Weasel at March 08, 2019 08:04 PM (MVjcR)
Posted by: notsothoreau at March 08, 2019 07:53 PM (JKNZq)
It is also full of those of us who knit for the homeless and the babies who escape abortion, and our husbands and sons and everyone else.
Most of the SJWs can't knit to save their pathetic lives.
Knitting takes perseverance and creativity, not something those snowflakes have in abundance.
Posted by: tcn in AK at March 08, 2019 08:04 PM (Bpud3)
Posted by: Splunge at March 08, 2019 08:04 PM (ed8K1)
Posted by: Jaya Saxena at March 08, 2019 08:04 PM (Tyii7)
for lacking the precious and tortured pretension of the latter?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 08, 2019 08:02 PM (YqDXo)
That's reason number 500 of why they hate Trump. He states the obvious and they rely on pretension to embarrass people from asking real questions.
Posted by: I like cookies at March 08, 2019 08:05 PM (xxAFD)
Just living in another culture, even for a brief period, can be very cool and a much better learning experience than any book.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 08, 2019 08:03 PM (/tuJf)
That all sounds reasonable, but what about shitholes?
Posted by: Splunge at March 08, 2019 08:05 PM (ed8K1)
Posted by: chavez the hugo
Getting old does bring with it a certain amount of internal armor. Or amour, ether way, it's good.
Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at March 08, 2019 08:06 PM (LOq4H)
Posted by: Neil Young at March 08, 2019 08:07 PM (9//Ek)
Remember that freak "feminist" in gaming who isn't even a woman?
Brian Wu?
Yeah, he's calling for "govt intervention" on negative movie reviews. Really. Bloomberg Fake News entertained this freak's wacky totalitarian fascist idea today.
Posted by: Soothsayer, A Journailst and a Climate Expert at March 08, 2019 08:07 PM (7+Mqs)
Posted by: Skookumchuk at March 08, 2019 08:07 PM (k3g2v)
Posted by: HA at March 08, 2019 08:07 PM (MAstk)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 08, 2019 08:07 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 08, 2019 08:08 PM (HTnnL)
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 08, 2019 07:59 PM (uquGJ)
I go there for the free patterns. That's about it.
Posted by: tcn in AK at March 08, 2019 08:08 PM (Bpud3)
Posted by: Jewells45 at March 08, 2019 08:08 PM (dUJdY)
Posted by: Skookumchuk at March 08, 2019 08:07 PM (k3g2v)
This is without question the best comment of the thread so far.
Posted by: hogmartin at March 08, 2019 08:09 PM (t+qrx)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 08, 2019 07:51 PM (39g3+)
Neither Gable nor Howard wanted to be in the movie. Howard felt he was too old to play Ashley Wilkes and Gable - after the disaster of 1937s Parnell - did not want to play any "period" character.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 08, 2019 08:09 PM (Ki5SV)
Posted by: notsothoreau at March 08, 2019 07:53 PM (JKNZq)
It is also full of those of us who knit for the homeless and the babies who escape abortion, and our husbands and sons and everyone else.
Most of the SJWs can't knit to save their pathetic lives.
Knitting takes perseverance and creativity, not something those snowflakes have in abundance.
This x 1000.
Posted by: Sal at March 08, 2019 08:09 PM (wR64M)
The proper response is to tell them to pound sand because they're mentally ill losers who need to get a life.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 08, 2019 07:57 PM (YqDXo)
Oh look at Mr. Manners here.
..
lol
Posted by: ace at March 08, 2019 08:09 PM (PbpT7)
Posted by: Jaya Saxena at March 08, 2019 08:09 PM (Tyii7)
I actually enjoy seeing them as long as I still get to go back to my hotel and indoor plumbing. It's interesting to me but I know it isn't for everyone.
Posted by: JackStraw at March 08, 2019 08:09 PM (/tuJf)
I saw a video on that and it was interesting, because Indian homes
are usually very clean and neat. The Indian people take very good care
of their own property. But outside of that they culturally seem to have
zero concept of caring for anything else. It's not mine (whizzing on the
front door). I don't live here (spitting bhat on the seats).
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
A 1.3 billion have to shit somewhere and the country isn't set up for it.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 08, 2019 07:43 PM (IxRYM)
1.3 billion potential turds a day. Thats fucking scary.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 08, 2019 08:10 PM (9Om/r)
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 08, 2019 08:10 PM (HTnnL)
383 I did Weasel and mailed them to her last night. I hope she likes them. What a sweet blessing she was!!
Posted by: Jewells45 at March 08, 2019 08:08 PM (dUJdY)
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Nice!
Posted by: Weasel at March 08, 2019 08:10 PM (MVjcR)
Not giving a shit what the rest of the world thinks solves a lot of problems.
I have a list of things I care about: it's a lot shorter now than it was when I was, say, 26 or so. AFAIAC, the rest of the world can kiss my ass.
And that goes double for Socialist Justice Wankers. I can't understand why their default position is to think the worst about other people they don't even know. Then they also think they're so good and virtuous because they "care" about others, especially those in third-world shitholes. What a gaggle of pompous assholes. Their egos are out of control and they don't even realize it.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy at March 08, 2019 08:11 PM (HaL55)
Posted by: mikeski at March 08, 2019 08:11 PM (P1f+c)
Posted by: pincorrect at March 08, 2019 08:11 PM (3LmBI)
20% of India's pop. is muslim.
So it's probably the muslim barbarians doing it.
Indian hindus hate the muslims in India.
Posted by: Soothsayer, A Journailst and a Climate Expert at March 08, 2019 08:11 PM (7+Mqs)
Posted by: Ben Had at March 08, 2019 08:02 PM (54Szs)
Keep stoking those fires BH, this will be one for the ages if it all comes together!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 08, 2019 08:12 PM (n/eZB)
Posted by: Skookumchuk at March 08, 2019 08:07 PM (k3g2v)
I had a colleague who was also invited to speak in India, but, unlike me, he accepted. Before he went, I used to rib him about shitty diseases, etc. He didn't really laugh much.
My wife had a friend who went there, caught amoebic dysentery, had to be med-evac'ed back to Europe, where she spent the next six months in hospital trying to regain the strength and the 40 lbs. she'd lost.
Miss me with that.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 08, 2019 08:12 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Skookumchuk at March 08, 2019 08:12 PM (k3g2v)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 08, 2019 08:13 PM (KP5rU)
Good night all.
Posted by: Skip at March 08, 2019 08:13 PM (BbGew)
Posted by: Eromero at March 08, 2019 08:14 PM (zLDYs)
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Color me skeptical about Disney buying theaters full of tickets. If there's a problem, I suspect that it'll be like The Last Jedi. i.e. the movie itself will do reasonably well, but there will be a backlash against a subsequent movie (in this case, two movies later, because people are NOT going to skip out on Endgame just because they thought that Capt. Marvel sucked).
In my own circle, I haven't seen that Larson's obnoxiousness has had any effect on people planning to attend. My usual friend was getting a bunch of people together for tonight's showing (I can't go due to a class I have Friday nights). So I've personally seen no indication that the usual early viewers are shying away. That doesn't mean that we won't see a drop in numbers by the Sunday as word of mouth starts to spread. But I don't expect the Thursday and Friday sales numbers to be affected.
For what it's worth, one blogger I read - who is aware of Larson's obnoxiousness, and not SJW friendly - has already seen the movie. He said he went in with lowered expectations, and was able to enjoy it as a popcorn flick. But he also said that Alita is a better popcorn flick.
Posted by: junior at March 08, 2019 08:15 PM (Fp6vo)
Posted by: wooga at March 08, 2019 07:40 PM (WSrvw)
I have to admit that this, plus beggars, is why I have never traveled to India. I'd go check it out if those two things stopped.
Posted by: Splunge at March 08, 2019 08:15 PM (ed8K1)
Posted by: Ben Had at March 08, 2019 08:02 PM (54Szs)
I have to laugh. When I went to the one NoVa MoMe, I met Bandersnatch, Alex the Chick and Eris.
Bander looks like Cary Grant.
AtC is utterly delightful, and worthy of being worshipped as the Imperial One.
Eris is a delicious cross between Bettie Page and Louise Brooks.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 08, 2019 08:18 PM (Ki5SV)
Posted by: logprof at March 08, 2019 08:19 PM (XAYDB)
Posted by: junior at March 08, 2019 08:15 PM (Fp6vo)
Alita actually sounds like an interesting flick!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 08, 2019 08:19 PM (CMq2e)
.......
Food Network has tried.
There is only so many shows you watch about BBQ ribs though and it seems like every tv personality they find is a BBQ specialist.
The Indian girl didn't draw much by way of ratings and the Hispanic cooks don't do very well with ratings either.
Posted by: Dats Rayciss at March 08, 2019 08:20 PM (uOW9b)
Indeed it does. The older you get the more you really just don't give a shit. At least that's my experience.
Posted by: Jewells45 at March 08, 2019 07:59 PM (dUJdY)
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*fistbump*
Hi Jewells!
Posted by: Weasel at March 08, 2019 08:01 PM (MVjcR)
--Bhat is Thai currency.
You're thinking betel nuts.
Posted by: logprof at March 08, 2019 08:20 PM (XAYDB)
Someone got their knit panties in a was over nothing.
Posted by: Travelin' Man&&&& at March 08, 2019 08:21 PM (qoIXN)
Now THAT'S how to build a successful company. Buy your own products. Woot!
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 08, 2019 08:22 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
[pounds 'c' key repeatedly]
--Bhat is Thai currency.
You're thinking betel nuts.
Posted by: logprof at March 08, 2019 08:20 PM (XAYDB)
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Posted by: logprof at March 08, 2019 08:22 PM (XAYDB)
Posted by: Travelin' Man&&&& at March 08, 2019 08:23 PM (qoIXN)
Posted by: Splunge at March 08, 2019 08:04 PM (ed8K1)
After 9/11 I looked forward to her every column.
Then when the war started she took a left turn.
Posted by: Braenyard at March 08, 2019 08:23 PM (ePWRo)
Blech.
Posted by: logprof at March 08, 2019 08:19 PM (XAYDB)
Traveling in the Third World I once saw a mother hang her child out the window of a moving train to take a dump, after which she retrieved the baby.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 08, 2019 08:23 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: logprof at March 08, 2019 08:24 PM (XAYDB)
and I thought about you
I pissed in a shadowy lane
And I thought about you
Posted by: Braenyard at March 08, 2019 08:29 PM (ePWRo)
And this is the problem with lefties and trains. They have this idea that you can hop on a train anywhere in Europe and a couple of hours later be in any other city in Europe. Cuz HIGH SPEED!!!!
In reality trains in Europe kinda suck. There are few high speed lines short distances like Paris-London or Berlin-Frankfurt. But for longer distances, Europeans fly, they don't fuck around with 10 hour trips that could be flow in 90 minutes.
Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 08, 2019 08:30 PM (1JAxC)
Posted by: Braenyard at March 08, 2019 08:32 PM (ePWRo)
Posted by: ETF3 at March 08, 2019 08:49 PM (bH0fj)
There's her mistake. The correct and only response to these kind of comments are either 'Are you, in fact, brain damaged?' and 'You are fucking insane.'.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at March 08, 2019 09:48 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Beverly at March 09, 2019 01:45 AM (XCA5w)
"Grovel and abase yourself, denounce yourself! and then we will STill send you to the gulag!"
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