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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.



"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.

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.


Posted by: Ace of Spades at 07:04 PM




Comments

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1 She has a face only a baseball bat could love

Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at March 08, 2019 07:00 PM (FTPVM)

2 Gingy North could not be reached for comment (yet).

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 08, 2019 07:01 PM (jOEDM)

3 All my ancestors were from India. Or Oklahoma. I forget.

Posted by: Elizabeth "Three Wolf Moon" Warren at March 08, 2019 07:01 PM (4knXT)

4 <clang>

Posted by: Asshole Progressive at Portland State at March 08, 2019 07:01 PM (ZTJjv)

5 I find it problematic that she was appreciating Aryan culture.

Posted by: Wicked, Wicked Eris at March 08, 2019 07:02 PM (kQs4Y)

6 By the look of her face, that little lady has been thinking way too hard, and for little result.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 08, 2019 07:02 PM (4knXT)

7 And of course if you don't want to visit India, you're a racist.

Posted by: josephistan at March 08, 2019 07:03 PM (Izzlo)

8 Sponge

Posted by: FIRST!!!!! at March 08, 2019 07:03 PM (C1NyB)

9 Nowhere near peak stupid.

Nowhere.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 08, 2019 07:03 PM (nDe2U)

10 This 'ox' cat seems to be pretty smart.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 08, 2019 07:04 PM (Hk+Y0)

11 And of course if you don't want to visit India, you're a racist.
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)

12 the biggest sin a normal can do is to take these people seriously.

Posted by: Wizards! At the bottom of it all! at March 08, 2019 07:05 PM (9AcAx)

13 And of course if you don't want to visit India, you're a racist.
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)

14 Also, willowed from the last thread.

@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)

15 In my continuing effort to avoid all hints of the stain of cultural appropriation, I have acted to ensure that cattle do not roam freely and shit all over my property.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 08, 2019 07:06 PM (4knXT)

16 Next racist hate crime:

Keeping your house clean.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 08, 2019 07:06 PM (ptqGC)

17 "..."that's because you're racist, racist."
.......

Of course I am, I'm also a Nazi I hear.

Posted by: wth at March 08, 2019 07:06 PM (v0R5T)

18 remember, America is evil because of its unique racial composition and must adjust its composition to match every other nation on earth, even though every nation also has its own unique composition.

Posted by: Wizards! At the bottom of it all! at March 08, 2019 07:07 PM (9AcAx)

19 Ms. Temper needs to learn the acronym FOAD.

Posted by: tbodie at March 08, 2019 07:07 PM (V+bdf)

20 Cleanliness is next to Racistness

Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at March 08, 2019 07:08 PM (FTPVM)

21 I have absolutely no desire to visit India. My very woke, liberal in-laws were over the moon to go there. Then they arrived, and were intimidated, accosted, and generally preyed upon everywhere they went.

Still woke, though. Except the FiL. He's dead.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 08, 2019 07:08 PM (ptqGC)

22 When did cultural appreciation become appropriation?

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)

23 I kept reading to get to the part where John Entwistle appears.

Posted by: Mark1971 at March 08, 2019 07:08 PM (xPl2J)

24 After a week's worth of these SJW / Commie Demo stories, I am beginning to think a real, all out, CW 2.0 is becoming necessary, like cleaning out a clogged sewer.


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)

25 Ya gotta hand it to Rep. (Mullah) Omar: at least with her, the mask is fully off.

Posted by: logprof at March 08, 2019 07:08 PM (XAYDB)

26 Bombay and Calcutta are my two favorite cities in India.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at March 08, 2019 07:09 PM (2DOZq)

27 Next racist hate crime:

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)

28 what if she only was excited to visit the aryan parts of India? Or the Parsis.

Posted by: Wizards! At the bottom of it all! at March 08, 2019 07:09 PM (9AcAx)

29 Ms. Temper needs to learn the acronym FOAD.
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)

30 Is there any compensation for the fact that, compared to a nation of a billion people, we're the minority...or is this just anti-white bullshit.

Posted by: Wizards! At the bottom of it all! at March 08, 2019 07:09 PM (9AcAx)

31 First!

Posted by: redc1c4 at March 08, 2019 07:10 PM (wlx0a)

32 Rosie Grier knitted, was black and starred in a movie about a 2 headed freak out for blood.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 08, 2019 07:10 PM (2mu9m)

33 Where does Bombay (Mumbai?) Gin fit into all of this?

Posted by: Wicked, Wicked Eris at March 08, 2019 07:10 PM (kQs4Y)

34 I really hate these people and what they did to that knitter.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 08, 2019 07:10 PM (W+vEI)

35 Posted by: Wicked, Wicked Eris at March 08, 2019 07:08 PM (kQs4Y)

Please do keep up!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 08, 2019 07:10 PM (8ruUE)

36 Basically, these SJW nazzzis are anti-white since India is a nation of a billion people and little miss sewing circle will be a minority there. A tiny minority.

Posted by: Wizards! At the bottom of it all! at March 08, 2019 07:11 PM (9AcAx)

37 21 I have absolutely no desire to visit India. My very woke, liberal in-laws were over the moon to go there. Then they arrived, and were intimidated, accosted, and generally preyed upon everywhere they went.

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)

38 Please do keep up!
---
I literally figuratively CAN'T!

Posted by: Wicked, Wicked Eris at March 08, 2019 07:11 PM (kQs4Y)

39 I don't care anymore.
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)

40 So The Beatles were racists?

Posted by: josephistan at March 08, 2019 07:11 PM (Izzlo)

41 32 Rosie Grier knitted, was black and starred in a movie about a 2 headed freak out for blood.

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)

42 I shed no tears. If you put your life on social media and don't have the balls to say fuck off , well so be it.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 08, 2019 07:12 PM (54Szs)

43 Ilhan Omar does have a nice cock mouth, i'll give her that.

Posted by: Donger at March 08, 2019 07:12 PM (FTPVM)

44 "..."that's because you're racist, racist."
.........

Do we get T-shirts?

Posted by: wth at March 08, 2019 07:12 PM (v0R5T)

45 Posted by: Wicked, Wicked Eris at March 08, 2019 07:10 PM (kQs4Y)

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)

46 "felt like they thought..."

Lost me there.

Posted by: golfman at March 08, 2019 07:12 PM (OE84+)

47 Mollie Jong Fast owned again. Second time this week?


https://mobile.twitter.com/ChuckRossDC/status/1104172873231618048

Posted by: Oprah at March 08, 2019 07:12 PM (MAstk)

48 Next racist hate crime:
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)

49 India and Sri Lanka are great places to visit.

Worth it for the food alone.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 08, 2019 07:13 PM (nDe2U)

50 lol

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 08, 2019 07:13 PM (MTjB1)

51 Ilhan Omar does have a nice cock mouth, i'll give her that.
Posted by: Donger at March 08, 2019 07:12 PM (FTPVM)

Rule #1.

Posted by: golfman at March 08, 2019 07:13 PM (OE84+)

52 Beautiful women, they have there.
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)

53 Two things come to mind.

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)

54 Catfight!


I smell Wool Burning.

Posted by: garrett at March 08, 2019 07:13 PM (p6lQy)

55 I remember Robin Quivers talking to Howard Stern about her trip to India. She was there about an hour. She took a cab from the airport and when she saw what it was like on the streets she told the driver to turn around. She got on a plane and left.

Posted by: Mark1971 at March 08, 2019 07:13 PM (xPl2J)

56 But Trump said doodie so we are sticking with the left.
- Goucher College Grad

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 08, 2019 07:14 PM (XvhSL)

57 I have absolutely no desire to visit India. My very woke, liberal in-laws were over the moon to go there. Then they arrived, and were intimidated, accosted, and generally preyed upon everywhere they went.

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)

58 >>> 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."

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)

59 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 at March 08, 2019 07:14 PM (uRy7h)

60 Posted by: Ben Had at March 08, 2019 07:12 PM (54Szs)

Sure sounds triggering and insensitive to me!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 08, 2019 07:15 PM (8ruUE)

61 The closet I'm going to come to India is watching Slumdog Millionare again.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at March 08, 2019 07:15 PM (2DOZq)

62 some of my best friends are Indian, Sikh, raised here by immigrant parents. their advice, after visiting india, don't go there it is filthy and the people suck.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 08, 2019 07:15 PM (MTjB1)

63 And she keeps a cleanup towel handy, like I care.

Posted by: wth at March 08, 2019 07:15 PM (v0R5T)

64 Old and Busted: Tend to your own knitting.Teh New Hotness: I have quite a few knits to pick with you.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 08, 2019 07:15 PM (Z4rgH)

65 Just when you think we've hit Peak Stupid...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 08, 2019 07:15 PM (EurWg)

66

I read that as Mao and his four year olds.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 08, 2019 07:15 PM (aKsyK)

67 India - too many people there already. I don't need to add to the congestion.

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)

68 49 India and Sri Lanka are great places to visit.

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)

69 This post is perfect.

Posted by: Caliban at March 08, 2019 07:16 PM (QE8X6)

70 there is no limit to stupid.

Posted by: yankeefifth at March 08, 2019 07:16 PM (MTjB1)

71 That would be a crazy mouth to put it in indeed

Posted by: Donger at March 08, 2019 07:16 PM (FTPVM)

72
*frantically looks through closet for any madras shirts*

*must be burned, ashes buried*

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 08, 2019 07:16 PM (CDGwz)

73 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


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)

74 Helpful hints:

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)

75 Two things come to mind.



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)

76 Isn't Vieques the island with the huge controversy over the military using it for artillery practice?

Posted by: Mark1971 at March 08, 2019 07:17 PM (xPl2J)

77
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)

78 Is it cultural appropriation when I make a baby with my Mexican wife, then make our son learn English?

Posted by: logprof at March 08, 2019 07:17 PM (XAYDB)

79 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 at March 08, 2019 07:17 PM (XvhSL)

80 **waves to wicked, wicked Eris**

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)

81 And was at RFK's assassination by a Paleostinian.
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)

82 Fuck Peggy Noonan and her Obama loving never trump ass. She would be the first to confess at a struggle session, then gleefully lead the hunt for the next wrongthinker.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 08, 2019 07:18 PM (dNzKv)

83 there is no limit to stupid.
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)

84 No, the best and only response is to lay into them and make sure that they are known as the racist fascists.
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)

85 My boss is Indian and vegetarian. Jainism.
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)

86 Could 4chan possibly be trolling EVERYTHING?

Posted by: blaster, Abolish FBI at March 08, 2019 07:19 PM (ZfRYq)

87
The girl apologized. She has no idea how bad that is.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 08, 2019 07:19 PM (13CQC)

88 Compare the number of Indian immigrants to the US and vice versa. There is a reason for that. Also see Mexico.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 08, 2019 07:19 PM (XvhSL)

89 -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
--------

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)

90 Posted by: Oprah at March 08, 2019 07:12 PM (MAstk)


Are we still banning people for blowing the margins?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 08, 2019 07:19 PM (dNzKv)

91 A long time dream shat upon by a bunch of SJW's , bite me.

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)

92
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)

93 This is a lot like complaining that black folk don't like to go camping. I've seen some blacks at fiber festivals, but most of the women are older women with pastel hair, your classic Lefty cat lady. Most of the apologists do it because they have small businesses that would be killed by a boycott. (Ravelry is like this. They make their money from ads).

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)

94 I remember Robin Quivers talking to Howard Stern about her trip to India. She was there about an hour. She took a cab from the airport and when she saw what it was like on the streets she told the driver to turn around. She got on a plane and left.
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+)

95 Knit-wit one, pearl necklace two.

Posted by: Knitting Pron at March 08, 2019 07:20 PM (ufFY8)

96 Fear and terror were the point"

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)

97 This won't end well.

Posted by: The Guy Who Thinks It Won't End Well at March 08, 2019 07:20 PM (+dsLj)

98 India is one of the most bigoted countries I've ever been to. Overtly so. And mostly a corrupt dump.

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)

99 Beautiful women, they have there.
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)

100 Is exposed ox a euphemism for something?

Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 08, 2019 07:20 PM (DQjsT)

101 If knitting while white is a crime, then lock my ass up, but not without my needles, tiny scissors and about a dozen good pattern books, dammit.

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)

102 Poo in Loo!

Posted by: Dead Horses at March 08, 2019 07:21 PM (iSh8b)

103 Vieques, Kaho'olawe, Enewetak...that would be an interesting travelogue.

Posted by: Wicked, Wicked Eris at March 08, 2019 07:21 PM (kQs4Y)

104 Yeah, he said he found shells all over the place.

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)

105 Hrothgar, I see trigger as a happy word.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 08, 2019 07:22 PM (54Szs)

106 To be honest , there are still at least a hundred 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)

107 Noonan fellated obama.

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)

108 And here's the other stupidity: the women that developed the most amazing stuff did so because they lived in cold climates. What color skin do people from cold climates have? Doesn't it make sense that people from hot climates didn't have a lot of use for knitting?

Posted by: notsothoreau at March 08, 2019 07:22 PM (JKNZq)

109 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
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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)

110 you know, the article did not mention what happened to mao's red guards when the need for sjwish outrage was done.

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)

111 So who answers IT calls in India? Some chap from the Maldives?

Posted by: josephistan at March 08, 2019 07:22 PM (Izzlo)

112 Its all religious. Except this religion refuses to admit that it is one, and has no absolute standard or book to follow, just the latest whims of its most radical, extreme members.

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+)

113 Lots of dots in Seattle. Hi tech related, mostly.


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)

114 Parents of dead West Point cadet retrieve his sperm.

Has anyone made a good Deadwood joke here yet?

Posted by: Downcast at March 08, 2019 07:23 PM (VWE5i)

115 What color skin do people from cold climates have? Doesn't it make sense that people from hot climates didn't have a lot of use for knitting?
Posted by: notsothoreau
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Basket weaving, OTOH...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 08, 2019 07:23 PM (xSo9G)

116 Wait...wut? You've lost us here.

Posted by: The Beatles at March 08, 2019 07:23 PM (WkMnJ)

117 Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 08, 2019 07:16 PM (Hk+Y0)

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)

118
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)

119 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)

That explains that problem with visa overstays.

Posted by: Mark1971 at March 08, 2019 07:23 PM (xPl2J)

120 Buncha knitwits.

Posted by: I'm Brother Cavil, and I ain't recommending shit at the moment at March 08, 2019 07:24 PM (lLeln)

121 103 Vieques, Kaho'olawe, Enewetak...that would be an interesting travelogue.
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)

122
1) As has been said here, repeatedly, NEVER APOLOGIZE.

=====

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)

123 Shouldn't wordpress, pixy, etc. include a FUCKYOUINSTANTBAN button prominently on the blog owners dashboard.

Posted by: DaveA at March 08, 2019 07:24 PM (FhXTo)

124 This post's headline spelling fail just made my day, lol

Posted by: Hands at March 08, 2019 07:24 PM (786Ro)

125 I remember hearing about this when it happened and thinking we may possibly be near the end of civilisation when a knitter expressing joy at visiting a foreign country is taken to task for being racist.

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)

126 Has anyone made a good Deadwood joke here yet?

Posted by: Downcast at March 08, 2019 07:23 PM (VWE5i)
Cocksucker!

Posted by: Mark1971 at March 08, 2019 07:24 PM (xPl2J)

127 "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.




Joey needs his teeth kicked in with respect and integrity

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 08, 2019 07:24 PM (FdGKu)

128 When will someone just them those SJWs to f@ck off?

Posted by: Batterup at March 08, 2019 07:25 PM (U2JQS)

129 I have no desire to go where there are a BILLION people.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 08, 2019 07:25 PM (54Szs)

130 Progressive Secularism as a religion is meant to replace the old religions and create a new society but its so constantly in flux and unpredictable that no one can ultimately build or create around or upon it. It inevitably leads to stagnation, which is where the country was rapidly heading under Obama. What is permissible today is banned tomorrow. What is wrong today is mandatory tomorrow. You never know if you're going to be the next mob target. No amount of good deeds can save you, because what once was considered good may tomorrow be a sin.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 08, 2019 07:25 PM (39g3+)

131 Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at March 08, 2019 07:17 PM (Ki5SV)

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)

132 I have always wanted to visit both China and India, but after watching some videos on people who live there or travel there, NO way. People crapping in the streets, water is undrinkable and maybe dangerous to drink it.

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at March 08, 2019 07:25 PM (dKiJG)

133 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.



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)

134 So who answers IT calls in India? Some chap from the Maldives?
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)

135 Speaking of no apologies:

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)

136 Eat, Pray, WOKE

Posted by: Hands at March 08, 2019 07:26 PM (786Ro)

137 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.




George Orwell: It was a WARNING!!! Not a fucking how to book!!!!

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 08, 2019 07:26 PM (FdGKu)

138 Indians knit? Since when?
For neither dot nor feather have the clackers been a thing

Posted by: VMs phone at March 08, 2019 07:26 PM (JUYen)

139 Why? Cuz being on time is a white thing.

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)

140 114 Parents of dead West Point cadet retrieve his sperm.

Has anyone made a good Deadwood joke here yet?
Posted by: Downcast at March 08, 2019 07:23 PM (VWE5i)
----
Cocksicle!

Posted by: Woo at March 08, 2019 07:26 PM (kQs4Y)

141 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)

--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)

142 Wasn't there a woman artiste who knitted sweaters from pubic hair?

I want a onesie, dammit!

Posted by: Fritz at March 08, 2019 07:27 PM (wxZSX)

143
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)

144 CPT is an actual thing.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at March 08, 2019 07:27 PM (2DOZq)

145 To be honest , there are still at least a hundred
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)

146 The hardest part is that you can be someone who does good and tries to be correct, and then they will turn on you without warning and usually over something inexplicable or insane. like this. And the reaction of any sane person is confusion and bafflement, hurt that people are being so incongruently cruel, and inability to even understand what it was you did wrong. Fighting back isn't even a category because you can't even understand what you're fighting.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 08, 2019 07:27 PM (39g3+)

147 When will someone just them those SJWs to f@ck off?

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)

148 @133
Dang, AOC = pep. Perhaps I have a bit too much self-actualization.

Posted by: pep at March 08, 2019 07:27 PM (T6t7i)

149

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)

150 I'm a racists?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 08, 2019 07:27 PM (7fIh6)

151 Had the knitter said "I don't really have any interest in visiting India" she would have been raked over the coals as a provincial racist American afraid of interacting with non-white culture. That's the thing with this fascist monsters, it doesn't matter what you say, they will accuse you of doublebadthink.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 08, 2019 07:27 PM (1JAxC)

152 Off topic but the Arizona Daily Independent is reporting David Corn's BS about racist grafitti at the Phoenix airport is, well BS.

http://tinyurl.com/y3bmcfrn

Posted by: Anchovy at March 08, 2019 07:27 PM (B3kya)

153 I have always wanted to visit both China and India, but after watching some videos on people who live there or travel there, NO way. People crapping in the streets, water is undrinkable and maybe dangerous to drink it.
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)

154 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 08, 2019 07:25 PM (39g3+)

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)

155 I think the main knit crime is not in the excerpt. The knitter said her trip to India was part of her Year of Color.

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)

156 Alexandria "Donkey Chompers" and other Socialists were chosen by a casting call.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h5iv6sECGU

Posted by: Moondog at March 08, 2019 07:28 PM (3Dsnb)

157 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)

___

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)

158 When your blog goes small

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 08, 2019 07:29 PM (7fIh6)

159 I guess being white is why I detest late people

Posted by: Skip at March 08, 2019 07:29 PM (BbGew)

160 129 I have no desire to go where there are a BILLION people.
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)

161
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)

162 An "Idiot Abroad" had a great episode on India.

Posted by: Some rat in the swamp at March 08, 2019 07:30 PM (LOq4H)

163 "I'm woke."
"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)

164 it is easier to punch Nazis than to punch the Nazi in oneself.

Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at March 08, 2019 07:30 PM (kHHvG)

165 I thought you had given us up for Lent, bluebell. Where have you been hiding?

Posted by: JackStraw at March 08, 2019 07:30 PM (/tuJf)

166 hogmartin , it's to the 100th power.

It's is now the Gunkges.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 08, 2019 07:30 PM (54Szs)

167 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."

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)

168 I wonder which Asian sage I appropriated for that one.

probably Harold from some Harold and Kumar movie

Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at March 08, 2019 07:31 PM (kHHvG)

169 I've never been to India but I've been to several shithole countries. Which is why I have often said there is no such thing as a poor American. A "poor" American is better off than 75% of the world.

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)

170 They're Communist Terrorists.

Posted by: DaveA at March 08, 2019 07:31 PM (FhXTo)

171 Hrothgar, I see trigger as a happy word.
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)

172 just a lot of americans who are poor in spirit

Posted by: Wizards! At the bottom of it all! at March 08, 2019 07:31 PM (9AcAx)

173 I don't like Indian food, or elephants, and I don't like humid heat. So stinky India isn't on my list of laces to visit, history or not. I have no problem with Indian people for the most part (although some are really rude and arrogant) but the location just doesn't sound like somewhere I want to ever go.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 08, 2019 07:32 PM (39g3+)

174 The only proper response to these people is "go fuck yourself."

Posted by: grognard at March 08, 2019 07:32 PM (L3c+B)

175 (...) to punch the Nazi in oneself.
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)

176 Oh shit it's back.

Posted by: Woo at March 08, 2019 07:32 PM (kQs4Y)

177 Is India big for knitting? I did not know that.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at March 08, 2019 07:32 PM (BWejp)

178 Off, celestial sock!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 08, 2019 07:32 PM (kQs4Y)

179 > 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.

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)

180 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."

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)

181 ^^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)

--[Touts home state]

https://youtu.be/IoAY6BlXh4o

Posted by: logprof at March 08, 2019 07:33 PM (XAYDB)

182 175 (...) to punch the Nazi in oneself.
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)

183 no, that would be Spanking The Cortez

Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at March 08, 2019 07:33 PM (kHHvG)

184 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)


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)

185 You know what this thread needs, is a troll telling us Brie Larson beat the conservatives because her movie isn't bombing as badly as feared.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 08, 2019 07:33 PM (39g3+)

186 *applause for TrollHammer5000*

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at March 08, 2019 07:33 PM (kQs4Y)

187 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


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)

188 Dalrymple: "In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control."

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at March 08, 2019 07:34 PM (Ndje9)

189 Posted by: Mark Matis at March 08, 2019 07:31 PM (nZJej)

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Cleanup of this Stormfront prick please.

Posted by: Calm Mentor at March 08, 2019 07:34 PM (ffYR/)

190 "People of color" being defended by "people of stupid," and/or "people of perpetual grievance."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 08, 2019 07:34 PM (YqDXo)

191 And India's biggest attraction is a Muslim shrine. Kind of a negative for me now.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at March 08, 2019 07:34 PM (2DOZq)

192 I watched Gone With The Wind with family and my reaction was

"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+)

193 185 You know what this thread needs, is a troll telling us Brie Larson beat the conservatives because her movie isn't bombing as badly as feared.
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)

194 >>I have always wanted to visit both China and India

China is worth it. China is definitely worth it.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 08, 2019 07:35 PM (/tuJf)

195 138 Indians knit? Since when?
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)

196 174 The only proper response to these people is "go fuck yourself."
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)

197 The content is small,

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 08, 2019 07:35 PM (7fIh6)

198 You know who this benefits?

Posted by: Hugh Hewit at March 08, 2019 07:35 PM (786Ro)

199 What confuses me is the same people who tell us to be color blind and inclusive also tell us that everybody belongs in their own cultural and racial box and we are not to discuss, look at, or acknowledge anything outside of our box.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 08, 2019 07:35 PM (dNzKv)

200 I don't like Indian smells. The spices and everything give me a headache

Also, this Maoist struggle sessions sre basically social stonings

Posted by: VMs phone at March 08, 2019 07:35 PM (JUYen)

201 165 I thought you had given us up for Lent, bluebell. Where have you been hiding?
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)

202 I like to watch The Amazing Race. I think they go to India pretty much every season. I've noticed that whenever the contestants hear they are going to India, they get REALLY excited!

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)

203 192 I watched Gone With The Wind with family and my reaction was

"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)

204 Are they knitwits?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 08, 2019 07:36 PM (dNzKv)

205 too much information

Posted by: torabora at March 08, 2019 07:36 PM (Y274z)

206 > Nah. It's because they are vile excuses for human beings who enjoy inflicting pain on others.

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)

207 How can you tell how well Brie Larson's movie is doing? It's 4:45pm on the west coast. Most people go to the movies 7pm and later. So even on the east coast the movie watching public has barely begun showing up and Central time and further west, people are still getting home from work or at work.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 08, 2019 07:36 PM (1JAxC)

208 Why did she want to go to India in the first place? Does she have family there?

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)

209 173 I don't like Indian food, or elephants, and I don't like humid heat. So stinky India isn't on my list of laces to visit, history or not. I have no problem with Indian people for the most part (although some are really rude and arrogant) but the location just doesn't sound like somewhere I want to ever go.
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)

210 >>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.

Excellent. Have fun!

Posted by: JackStraw at March 08, 2019 07:37 PM (/tuJf)

211 SJW are bitter assholes. Looking for slights. And by slights I mean THE SLIGHTEST THING.

Posted by: Seems Legit at March 08, 2019 07:37 PM (jUVms)

212 India has a pretty baller space program, they deserve credit for that. They put a probe in orbit around Mars on the first try for less than $100 million.

Posted by: hogmartin at March 08, 2019 07:37 PM (t+qrx)

213 I pretty much arranged my life to where I can just tell SJWs to fuck off. Everything I'm involved in pretty much is inhabited by other people that will also just tell SJWs to fuck off. Some would tell them to fuck off, giggle, then fart in their direction, and tell them to fuck off some more.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 08, 2019 07:37 PM (9Om/r)

214 That differently-abled person of youth sure played some mean pinball.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 08, 2019 07:37 PM (hTpgG)

215 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)
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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)

216 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)


I'd pay good money to be at that screening!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 08, 2019 07:38 PM (f6lTY)

217 Maybe off topic a bit, but the SJWs at my church are destroying it. For me, at least.

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)

218 --[Touts home state]



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)

219 There is a knitting community in Lassen County, California. They also do quilts.

She could fly into Reno and drive 80 miles and save thousands.

Posted by: torabora at March 08, 2019 07:39 PM (Y274z)

220 How can you tell how well Brie Larson's movie is doing?

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+)

221 So, the British Raj - too much or not enough? Discuss.

Posted by: Zombie Queen Victoria at March 08, 2019 07:39 PM (786Ro)

222 India and Pakistan need not apply

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 08, 2019 07:39 PM (7fIh6)

223 You really don't know how prevalent this is. For example, Folkwear makes modern patterns for old style clothes. They've decided all their models need to be black. I know Victorian black women wore the same style clothes as other women of the day. But it doesn't work as a marketing tool for me. I like to be able to imagine myself in the clothes. I would imagine black women feel the same way, which is why companies that cater to them use black models. A company should be able to use a mix of models, depending on who they are marketing to. I just don't buy any sort of pattern based on the skin color of the person that designed it or modeled it.

Posted by: notsothoreau at March 08, 2019 07:39 PM (JKNZq)

224 I had an Indian chemistry professor. When he finished his bachelors in India, he went to the American consulate in Mumbai. The marine at the gate handed him a list of phone numbers for American professors. He started calling the list until a professor agreed to sponsor him to come to the US. He arrived at OHare with the clothes on his back and the money in his pocket and never went back.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 08, 2019 07:39 PM (dNzKv)

225 15 In my continuing effort to avoid all hints of the stain of cultural appropriation, I have acted to ensure that cattle do not roam freely and shit all over my property.
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)

226 Point of order - just because both Indian-feather and Inuit are Native Americans does not mean that Inuits are Indians.
Even Columbus could not possibly confuse Alaska with India

Posted by: VMs phone at March 08, 2019 07:40 PM (JUYen)

227 Is all about the crime of whiteness.

"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)

228 My ticket sales are not as flat as my ass

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)

229 Oh please, ace is just showing his racist nature trying to ride in and White Knit for dis bitch.

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)

230 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.


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)

231 The only way I would go to india is in my Death Star.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 08, 2019 07:40 PM (9Om/r)

232 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+)

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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)

233
g'early evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 08, 2019 07:41 PM (KCxzN)

234 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.



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)

235 208 Why did she want to go to India in the first place? Does she have family there?

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)

236 I didn't know there already was a knitting blog. I was going to start working the topic into the gun thread, but now I guess I wont.

Posted by: Weasel at March 08, 2019 07:41 PM (MVjcR)

237 The racist sickness lies deep within these people who see racism behind very bush or madras.

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)

238 Hey, AltonJackson.

Posted by: hogmartin at March 08, 2019 07:41 PM (t+qrx)

239 Go to India, the world's undisputed leader in public defecation.

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+)

240
hey, hogmartin

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 08, 2019 07:42 PM (KCxzN)

241 Even Columbus could not possibly confuse Alaska with India
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)

242 Don't forget about Cowichan sweaters:
https://bit.ly/2J2qMYl

Europeans introduce sheep to the area and knitting!

Posted by: notsothoreau at March 08, 2019 07:42 PM (JKNZq)

243 Its so small I can't read it

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 08, 2019 07:42 PM (7fIh6)

244 so should only Talmudic-ruled Jews get the polio vaccine?

sucks for y'all.

Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at March 08, 2019 07:42 PM (kHHvG)

245 Maybe we need a weekend knitting thread?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 08, 2019 07:42 PM (dNzKv)

246 Hell, I'm not really too excited to visit Indiana.

Posted by: josephistan at March 08, 2019 07:42 PM (Izzlo)

247 I like Indian food, a lot. Hell I like anything that has a good spice kick to it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 08, 2019 07:42 PM (V2Yro)

248 188 Dalrymple: "In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control."
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)

249 Go to India, the world's undisputed leader in public defecation.

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)

250
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)

251
She a member of da Knits Templer

A real saint she be.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 08, 2019 07:43 PM (aKsyK)

252 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)

253 Go to India, the world's undisputed leader in public defecation.

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)

254 Speaking of so-called poor people in the ghetto...

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)

255 I remember back in the 70s when my mom and aunts used to knit they would make those beer can hats. Do people still make those things?

Posted by: Mark1971 at March 08, 2019 07:44 PM (xPl2J)

256 to be fair to India, they really cracked down on public poop this past decade. the terlit hoboes are a lot less lonely

Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at March 08, 2019 07:44 PM (kHHvG)

257 I never thought one way or the other about visiting India until I saw that movie Best Marigold Hotel or something like that. I think it's supposed to make you want to go there but it looked way too crowded and noisy and hot for me. Way.

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)

258 247 I like Indian food, a lot. Hell I like anything that has a good spice kick to it.
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)

259 > Maybe off topic a bit, but the SJWs at my church are destroying it. For me, at least.

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)

260 Pretty good tout.
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)

261 So now there is "Knitting gate."

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)

262 I have about decided if anybody thinks I said something racist, that's their problem. And I won't be apologizing for nothing.

Posted by: Eromero at March 08, 2019 07:45 PM (zLDYs)

263 Why is India so filthy? | The Ugly Indian | TEDxBangalore

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+)

264 Speaking of India, Trump is pretty big in Bollywood there:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dy1C95p00E

Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at March 08, 2019 07:45 PM (+dsLj)

265 Hell, I'm not really too excited to visit Indiana.
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)

266 Maoist struggle sessions make my ass moist.

Posted by: Bill Kristol at March 08, 2019 07:45 PM (FTPVM)

267 I was listening to a knitting podcast called "The Corner of Knit and Tea" (Knitty is an online knitting magazine.)
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)

268
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)

269 I have about decided if anybody thinks I said something racist, that's their problem. And I won't be apologizing for nothing.
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)

270 The big "shut up" is coming.

Posted by: Orson at March 08, 2019 07:46 PM (DmZDZ)

271 Even Columbus could not possibly confuse Alaska with India
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)

272 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)


Knitting ONT.

Posted by: hogmartin at March 08, 2019 07:47 PM (t+qrx)

273 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

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)

274 Experience a colorful new world filled with ancient and exotic cultures, incredible wildlife and entrancing music; visit India.

Posted by: The Indian Board of Tourism at March 08, 2019 07:47 PM (tVQUs)

275 Posted by: josephistan at March 08, 2019 07:43 PM (Izzlo)

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)

276 India is wonderful:

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)

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)

278
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)

279 "...To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control."
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)

280 There is an AOS group on Ravelry, but it tends to be very quiet. This is not as bad as when Obama ran the first time. I do know of one blog (Tech-Knit) where she actually said to stop reading her blog if you voted for Trump. So I did.

Posted by: notsothoreau at March 08, 2019 07:48 PM (JKNZq)

281
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)

282 I watched Gone With The Wind with family and my reaction was

"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)

283 In other news: A man was arrested in down town Hollywood for writing on Brie Larson's ass. He explained himself to police this way; "She was wearing a white mini skirt, and I thought it was a piece of paper that the wind was blowing past me. I started writing down the grocery list my wife was giving to me on my phone."

Posted by: An Observation at March 08, 2019 07:48 PM (IZjKe)

284 >>>270 The big "shut up" is coming.
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)

285 How do I get a paid job like Molly Jong Fast?

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)

286 Why it so small?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at March 08, 2019 07:49 PM (7fIh6)

287 Not far from me there has in last couple years a little India popping up, grocery, restaurants, night clubs, there are a lot of India ex pats here.

Posted by: Skip at March 08, 2019 07:49 PM (BbGew)

288 Maybe we can discuss how to knit one of those 1970s bikinis (and how to get it to stay up. Knitted swinwear has significant problems.)

Posted by: notsothoreau at March 08, 2019 07:49 PM (JKNZq)

289

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)

290 > Maoist struggle sessions make my ass moist.
> Posted by: Bill Kristol

I wish I could say that.

Posted by: Brie Larson at March 08, 2019 07:49 PM (0OWcv)

291 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

You just described my entire peacekeeping in Haiti experience.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 08, 2019 07:49 PM (EurWg)

292 I have about decided if anybody thinks I said something racist, that's their problem. And I won't be apologizing for nothing.
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)

293 221 So, the British Raj - too much or not enough? Discuss.
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)

294 So I just noticed Google's doodle is all inspirational woMyn quotes today. No white women of course.

Posted by: Lurking Lurker at March 08, 2019 07:50 PM (1JAxC)

295 We have struggle sessions too, but they are very polite - the .45 guys and the 9mm types are going to get along.

Posted by: Jean at March 08, 2019 07:50 PM (7ZTkP)

296 The maoist struggle session bullshit is accelerating, but so is the pushback. You learn a lot about people by seeing how they handle the mob coming after them.


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)

297 Errr, Noonan has NEVER been relevant. And she isn't starting now.
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)

298 Once your church confuses loving the sinner (homosexual) with accepting them into the church, even allowing them to be clergy, without repentance, it is lost. Read a thread on FB where the Methodists are trying to claw back from this mindset, and one poster argues that since Jesus associated with thrives, prostitutes and tax collectors, he would have been totes cool with homos. Neglecting repentance and changing the way. Neglecting the fact that Jesus was making a point of associating with these people to show the Jews that nobody was unclean and beyond gods love. But there has to be repentance.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 08, 2019 07:50 PM (dNzKv)

299 > Maybe we can discuss how to knit one of those 1970s bikinis (and how to get it to stay up. Knitted swinwear has significant problems.)

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)

300 I'm really having to restrain myself from using "colored people". I think it's time we go full circle and it sounds better than people of color.

Posted by: notsothoreau at March 08, 2019 07:51 PM (JKNZq)

301 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)

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)

302 I assume someone has already said


Knitter, please!

Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at March 08, 2019 07:51 PM (jp0Bv)

303 Hi Alton!

Posted by: Jewells45 at March 08, 2019 07:51 PM (dUJdY)

304 I confess!!! I can't take any more of this Climate Inquisition by Chiquita Khruschev!!!

Posted by: Gref at March 08, 2019 07:51 PM (AMIL/)

305 She was a nasty, selfish bitch who only became a legend because of the look of Vivien Leigh.

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+)

306 Speaking of India, where's Charles James Napier when you need him?

Posted by: I like cookies at March 08, 2019 07:51 PM (xxAFD)

307 Me feelings tell me knitting is one step away from noose making.

#StopTheHate

Posted by: Dr Spank at March 08, 2019 07:51 PM (ZLlh9)

308 > Errr, Noonan has NEVER been relevant.

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)

309 How do I get a paid job like Molly Jong Fast?

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)

310 277 They gave the Arabs all the vantage points and let them fight it out with the Israelis. Quite the story.

Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at March 08, 2019 07:52 PM (FTPVM)

311 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.

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)

312 Little knitting lady's India dream stompped on by SJW bitches in the knitting club. She never knew.

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)

313 My God.. ya'll are trashing my favorite movie???

Posted by: Jewells45 at March 08, 2019 07:53 PM (dUJdY)

314 The knitting community is full of the SJWs that invented the pussy hat.

Posted by: notsothoreau at March 08, 2019 07:53 PM (JKNZq)

315
hey, jewells

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 08, 2019 07:53 PM (KCxzN)

316 it's all a grift by grifters. get a fucking job hippie. dig into your own wallet cuz I'll cut your hand off.

Posted by: x at March 08, 2019 07:53 PM (nFwvY)

317 Despite the crackpottery, there's a kernel of truth. Bear with me for a moment...

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)

318 > I find that almost everyone like that who responds with an initial apology never manages to get a clue.

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)

319 "Errr, Noonan has NEVER been relevant.
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)

320 So, the British Raj - too much or not enough? Discuss.

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+)

321 "Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at March 08, 2019 07:52 PM (FTPVM)"

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)

322 277 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)


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)

323 Speaking of India, where's Charles James Napier when you need him?
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)

324 >>>In other words, they do see the third world as something for their amusement or their self-fulfillment.

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)

325
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)

326 Pretty good tout.
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)

327 Not giving a shit what the rest of the world thinks solves a lot of problems.

Posted by: Weasel at March 08, 2019 07:56 PM (MVjcR)

328 Errr, Noonan has NEVER been relevant. And she isn't starting now.

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)

329 Give up something for Lent that you enjoy, it is a sacrifice to in some small way emulate Christ's sacrifice.

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+)

330 "but it's as timeless as suggesting that Jews are motivated by dual loyalty and money and the blood of Christian infants".

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)

331 I find that almost everyone like that who responds with an initial apology never manages to get a clue.

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)

332 noone at the bulwark is getting fellated by a female.
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)

333 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)


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)

334 I have absolutely no desire to visit India. My very woke, liberal in-laws were over the moon to go there. Then they arrived, and were intimidated, accosted, and generally preyed upon everywhere they went.

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)

335 She was a nasty, selfish bitch who only became a legend because of the look of Vivien Leigh.


Well, you have to admit, that was a pretty damn fine look.

Posted by: pep at March 08, 2019 07:57 PM (T6t7i)

336 yeah but that's what pleasure-travel IS, man.

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+)

337 So I assume this is now happening everywhere. What about Nascar? Do they want more black drivers? The cooking world, is there a push for more POC chefs? What about chess?

Posted by: Max Power at March 08, 2019 07:59 PM (q177U)

338 Posted by: notsothoreau at March 08, 2019 07:48 PM (JKNZq)

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)

339 Speaking of India, where's Charles James Napier when you need him?

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)

340 Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 08, 2019 07:55 PM (YqDXo)"

"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)

341 I read that the Jews asked the indigenous Arabs to join them in making the new state and the Arab response was "from the river to the sea".

Posted by: Braenyard at March 08, 2019 07:59 PM (ePWRo)

342 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)

343 This fucking laptop!

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)

344 Indeed it does. The older you get the more you really just don't give a shit. At least that's my experience.

**********************

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)

345
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)

346 I cannot fathom that knitter apologizing for what she wrote. Why would you even travel someplace, except to check it out and see what they excel at? I've done that consistently, and it turns out, that, get this, countries known for something are really good at what they're known for.

Posted by: Splunge at March 08, 2019 08:01 PM (ed8K1)

347 STFU Chris Hahn

Posted by: logprof at March 08, 2019 08:01 PM (XAYDB)

348

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)

349 Well, you have to admit, that was a pretty damn fine look.

She invented resting bitch face.

Posted by: Jewells45 at March 08, 2019 08:01 PM (dUJdY)

350 "The Red Violin" has a "denounce yourself" section set in China during the Great Leap Forward. Chilling.

Posted by: Sal at March 08, 2019 08:01 PM (wR64M)

351 331
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)

352 MPPP4. I would make this happen for you.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 08, 2019 08:02 PM (54Szs)

353 300 I'm really having to restrain myself from using "colored people". I think it's time we go full circle and it sounds better than people of color.
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)

354 342; jewells, that happened before i got old. i quit giving a shit what anybody thought. easier.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 08, 2019 08:02 PM (KP5rU)

355 It's just like how Snuffy Smith's wife Evinley used to come home with a black eye from her "quiltin bees".

Posted by: steve at March 08, 2019 08:02 PM (TTy55)

356 Herman Hesse was enchanted of India and thought Hinduism was elegant. He finally made his trip there and left in disgust.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 08, 2019 08:02 PM (ePWRo)

357 Soviet Justice Wanking Red Guards - Munchausen by Vengeance.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 08, 2019 08:02 PM (HTnnL)

358 146 The hardest part is that you can be someone who does good and tries to be correct, and then they will turn on you without warning and usually over something inexplicable or insane. like this. And the reaction of any sane person is confusion and bafflement, hurt that people are being so incongruently cruel, and inability to even understand what it was you did wrong. Fighting back isn't even a category because you can't even understand what you're fighting.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 08, 2019 07:27 PM (39g3+)

---

Pretty much sums up my daughter.

Posted by: SMH at March 08, 2019 08:02 PM (RU4sa)

359 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)


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)

360 Going back to watching "Measure of a Man". This was the point at which Next Gen started finding its way. Great ep.

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)

361 I have to give a shit a bit longer, until I finally retire. Don't want to have them go after my employer.

Posted by: notsothoreau at March 08, 2019 08:02 PM (JKNZq)

362 Hey Weasel! How's life treating you? Hope it's better than my past week.

Posted by: Jewells45 at March 08, 2019 08:03 PM (dUJdY)

363 is there a push for more POC chefs?


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)

364 345
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)

365
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)

366 May all those Woke fools who went after Karen gargle water from the Ganges.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 08, 2019 08:03 PM (HTnnL)

367 >>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.

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)

368 Hey is this thing on? First comment from my new Raspberry Pi 3 B+!

Posted by: Powder, Baking, Cremulated, Anhydrous at March 08, 2019 08:04 PM (mk9aG)

369 362 Hey Weasel! How's life treating you? Hope it's better than my past week.
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)

370 314 The knitting community is full of the SJWs that invented the pussy hat.
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)

371 I think of Noonan as a talented, emotionally sensitive Upper-East-Side chick. Wade through a few weeks or months of hypersensitivity about nothing much, and you'll likely hit a gem, where her intuition just grasps something no one else has quite nailed, and she's charged up enough about it that she'll defend it at her next soiree. When that happens, her columns are unequaled.

Posted by: Splunge at March 08, 2019 08:04 PM (ed8K1)

372 This is my pole name.

Posted by: Jaya Saxena at March 08, 2019 08:04 PM (Tyii7)

373 ...except
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)

374 367 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)


That all sounds reasonable, but what about shitholes?

Posted by: Splunge at March 08, 2019 08:05 PM (ed8K1)

375 354 342; jewells, that happened before i got old. i quit giving a shit what anybody thought. easier.
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)

376 183
no, that would be Spanking The Cortez
Well, Cortez was a Killer.

Posted by: Neil Young at March 08, 2019 08:07 PM (9//Ek)

377
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)

378 21, Jane D'oh - a cousin went to India and while walking on some crowded sidewalk, felt someone put something in his jacket pocket. He reached in to see what it was - and pulled out a human finger. No thanks.

Posted by: Skookumchuk at March 08, 2019 08:07 PM (k3g2v)

379 Thanks to "Oprah"
...

Oprah sock off.

Posted by: HA at March 08, 2019 08:07 PM (MAstk)

380 nobody steps on my lawn anymore either.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 08, 2019 08:07 PM (KP5rU)

381 Thought it was calling itself Brianna Wu now?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 08, 2019 08:08 PM (HTnnL)

382 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)

I go there for the free patterns. That's about it.

Posted by: tcn in AK at March 08, 2019 08:08 PM (Bpud3)

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)

384 Jane D'oh - a cousin went to India and while walking on some crowded sidewalk, felt someone put something in his jacket pocket. He reached in to see what it was - and pulled out a human finger. No thanks.
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)

385 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+)


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)

386 314 The knitting community is full of the SJWs that invented the pussy hat.
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)

387 >>> 331
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)

388 That was the "finger of friendship", you raycisst.

Posted by: Jaya Saxena at March 08, 2019 08:09 PM (Tyii7)

389 >>That all sounds reasonable, but what about shitholes?

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)

390 Go to India, the world's undisputed leader in public defecation.



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)

391 A finger?

At least it was not a rat in the pocket.

Will Thugee get banned from usage?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 08, 2019 08:10 PM (HTnnL)

392
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)

393

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)

394 nood TGE smackdown

Posted by: mikeski at March 08, 2019 08:11 PM (P1f+c)

395 My traditional recommendation to SJW's is that they go fuck themselves with the hooked end of a crowbar. In this case, I think I'll change "crowbar" to "knitting needle". And change "fuck" to "eye fuck".

Posted by: pincorrect at March 08, 2019 08:11 PM (3LmBI)

396

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)

397 MPPP4. I would make this happen for you.
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)

398 378 21, Jane D'oh - a cousin went to India and while walking on some crowded sidewalk, felt someone put something in his jacket pocket. He reached in to see what it was - and pulled out a human finger. No thanks.
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)

399 Anna Puma, 391. Yup. Whenever he mentions it, it's like he's reliving the experience.

Posted by: Skookumchuk at March 08, 2019 08:12 PM (k3g2v)

400 a severed finger is a welcoming gift in india. should have been relieved it wasn't a king cobra. talk about shit.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 08, 2019 08:13 PM (KP5rU)

401 Been up since 0145hrs and no reason to get up at all tomorrow so try and keep down the racket.
Good night all.

Posted by: Skip at March 08, 2019 08:13 PM (BbGew)

402 Don't get me wrong, guys. I will be a friend to all until some dumbass wants me to join them in their lunacy-of-the-day. Ain't happenin'.

Posted by: Eromero at March 08, 2019 08:14 PM (zLDYs)

403 @220 Early showing, Thursday on limited screens, made some money. There are rumors that Disney BOUGHT lots of theaters full of tickets but who knows.

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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)

404 225 Go to India, the world's undisputed leader in public defecation.
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)

405 MPPP4. I would make this happen for you.
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)

406 How abut those trap door diapers Chinese babies wear to shyte on the sidewalk?

Blech.

Posted by: logprof at March 08, 2019 08:19 PM (XAYDB)

407 Alita is a better popcorn flick.
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)

408 is there a push for more POC chefs?

.......

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)

409 345
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)

410 I had read about this a couple of weeks ago. I guess one of the SJW's had said something about a skein of yarn costing upwards of 30 bucks? Are you shitting me? Haven't they ever heard of Walmart? Skeins of yarn are a buck two fifty-eight. Or there's Hobby Lobby or Michaels or other large hobby stores.

Someone got their knit panties in a was over nothing.

Posted by: Travelin' Man&&&& at March 08, 2019 08:21 PM (qoIXN)

411 220 Early showing, Thursday on limited screens, made some money. There are rumors that Disney BOUGHT lots of theaters full of tickets but who knows.

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)

412 I don't live here (spitting bhat on the seats).

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)

413 Got their knit panties in a wad over nothing...damn autocucumber.

Posted by: Travelin' Man&&&& at March 08, 2019 08:23 PM (qoIXN)

414 >>>When that happens, her columns are unequaled.

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)

415 406 How abut those trap door diapers Chinese babies wear to shyte on the sidewalk?

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)

416 Oh please please please let Joe Biden enter the 2020 race.

Posted by: logprof at March 08, 2019 08:24 PM (XAYDB)

417 Mom: I took a dump on a train
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)

418 A bit O/T but I was having a conversation with a guy about high speed trains. And he's all like in Europe there are trains and it's so awesome etc etc. So I said, how long do you think a train ride between Paris and Berlin, which is about the same distance as Portland to San Francisco? And he said oh I duuno maybe 2, 3 hours. To which I replied would you be surprised if it's close to 10 hours? He didn't believe me so off to the interwebs we went. And sure enough, 10 hours.

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)

419 Trains are for peasants and subsidized government workers.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 08, 2019 08:32 PM (ePWRo)

420 This is old news. Keep up with stupidity ona real time basis.

Posted by: ETF3 at March 08, 2019 08:49 PM (bH0fj)

421 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."


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)

422 Those people could fukc up a wet dream.

Posted by: Beverly at March 09, 2019 01:45 AM (XCA5w)

423 Samokritika: Soviet self-criticism.

"Grovel and abase yourself, denounce yourself! and then we will STill send you to the gulag!"

Posted by: Beverly at March 09, 2019 01:46 AM (XCA5w)

424 4/10 but still would bang because she appears to be crazy.

Posted by: TheHoser at March 09, 2019 02:48 PM (IDjUx)

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