The Law Of Unintended Consequences Strikes Again: Racial Profiling Is Encouraged By Government Policy

Ban-The-Box policies are simple; employers cannot ask about criminal records of prospective employees. Ignoring the idiocy of being forced to interview felons, it sounds like a pretty straightforward way of increasing employment among those with criminal records. Except, all it does is guarantee discrimination against segments of society perceived to have a greater likelihood of criminality and incarceration. Ban the Box, Criminal Records, and Racial Discrimination: A Field Experiment is a link to the abstract of a seemingly well-designed study:

To investigate BTB's effects, we sent approximately 15,000 online job applications on behalf of fictitious young male applicants to employers in New Jersey and New York City before and after the adoption of BTB policies. These applications varied whether the applicant had a distinctly black or distinctly white name and the felony conviction status of the applicant.

That's a nicely designed study. Two variables, and they are comparing before and after. You don't need a PhD in Statistics to run multiple regressions on the data. The interpretation is self-evident:

We confirm that criminal records are a major barrier to employment: employers that asked about criminal records were 63% more likely to call applicants with no record. However, our results support the concern that BTB policies encourage racial discrimination: the black-white gap in callbacks grew dramatically at companies that removed the box after the policy went into effect. Before BTB, white applicants to employers with the box received 7% more callbacks than similar black applicants, but BTB increased this gap to 43%.

So let's get this straight; if you as an employer are not allowed to discern the criminality of your applicants with a simple question, and select the non-criminals, you will use other means to protect your business. Like rejecting applicants from empirically criminal segments of society. Wow. Who knew?

Here is another recent study that shows the same thing:

We find that BTB policies decrease the probability of being employed by 3.4 percentage points (5.1%) for young, low-skilled black men, and by 2.3 percentage points (2.9%) for young, low-skilled Hispanic men. These findings support the hypothesis that when an applicant's criminal history is unavailable, employers statistically discriminate against demographic groups that are likely to have a criminal record.

Is this discrimination? Is it now unreasonable to require that one's employees are not criminals? That's rhetorical.

But the best part of this is the typical arrogance of government; that more regulation and more control over economic decisions is in the best interest of society. They are getting exactly the opposite of the intended result, yet I am sure that they simply don't care, or more probably don't even know. Because the real goal, as everyone around here knows, is more control, not more employment.

Imagine the anger and resentment in one of the few lucky kids in some hell hole project in the Bronx or Newark. He has two parents, has stayed out of trouble, and even does reasonably well in school. But his resume gets bounced immediately, even though he might very well be a fine, or at least trouble-free employee.

On second thought, maybe that anger and resentment is exactly the goal!

Posted by: CBD at 05:03 PM

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1 Well, we meant well. ..

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at August 03, 2017 12:08 PM (MINbv)

2 This is just like newspaper articles not reporting the race of criminals ... so everyone assumes that any such criminal of unidentified race is black. Oopsie.

Similar considerations obtain with regard to terrorism. If the media don't say, we all assume the terrorist was Muslim.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 03, 2017 12:10 PM (SRKgf)

3 First?

Posted by: Scuba Dude at August 03, 2017 12:10 PM (WsJuq)

4 First??

Posted by: Scuba Dude at August 03, 2017 12:11 PM (WsJuq)

5 Hmmm, I see no problems with hiring people that do no have a criminal record? If I were running a day care I would like to know if the person applying to work here is a child molestor

Posted by: Scuba Dude at August 03, 2017 12:12 PM (WsJuq)

7 Hi I'm LaShawn.

Posted by: Les Kinetic at August 03, 2017 12:13 PM (0gEiv)

8 First!

Posted by: Scuba Dude at August 03, 2017 12:13 PM (WsJuq)

9 Nth or nth tits

Posted by: Mike G. at August 04, 2017 04:54 PM (R5lpX)

10 Federal Department of Transportation Regulations prohibit the hiring of convicted felons for interstate truck driving jobs.

Unless that has changed.

Posted by: Newall J. Masonry, LLC at August 04, 2017 04:55 PM (m9X4Y)

11 It's almost like no matter how many times they try to outlaw human nature, it just doesn't work.

The take away is obviously to try harder.

Posted by: Mama AJ at August 04, 2017 04:56 PM (wwL6Q)

12 Can I identify as black on my application and say I'm transracial?

Posted by: The Deplorable Mr. Trumpkin at August 04, 2017 04:56 PM (wwd4n)

13 What you mean do I have a criminal record?

Posted by: Breakinta Holmes at August 04, 2017 04:56 PM (qJhUV)

14 >>>>Is this discrimination?
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.Any decision you make as a manger can be made to be discriminatory, trust me on this. Multiple Federal EEO complaints prove me right.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at August 04, 2017 04:56 PM (0pcwX)

15 The answer to all our problems is mandatory pretending.

Posted by: I'm Anonosaurus Wrecks and I approved this message at August 04, 2017 04:56 PM (Nwg0u)

16 It depends on the crime and it depends on the person, but as an employer I should have the absolute right to know who is working in my business or home. PERIOD.

Every hear of Elizabeth Smart?
Well ok her father is fuckin idiot but still the point stands

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 04, 2017 04:57 PM (op9Rd)

17 So they're more concerned about getting minority criminals jobs than minority non-criminals.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 04, 2017 04:57 PM (oVJmc)

18

You know what's really racist?!?!

Dunkin Donuts is gonna, get this, stop selling frikkin donuts!!

No more donuts at Dunkin Donuts.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at August 04, 2017 04:57 PM (jokB+)

19 Pretty easy way to make this a non-issue. Don't become a felon.

Posted by: Weasel at August 04, 2017 04:57 PM (Sfs6o)

20 You know what's really racist?!?!

Dunkin Donuts is gonna, get this, stop selling frikkin donuts!!

No more donuts at Dunkin Donuts.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at August 04, 2017 04:57 PM (jokB+)

That's insane. Their coffee isn't THAT good.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 04, 2017 04:58 PM (3OIiX)

21 On second thought, maybe that anger and resentment is exactly the goal!
Posted by: CBD at 05:03 PM

The little Eichmann-Grubers are clever, aren't they?

/s

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 04, 2017 04:59 PM (mbhDw)

22 Dunkin Tofu?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 04, 2017 04:59 PM (oVJmc)

23 There are certain jobs where they have to ask you about your criminal record because federal law prohibits hiring criminals for that job.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 04, 2017 04:59 PM (mpXpK)

24 19 Pretty easy way to make this a non-issue. Don't become a felon.
Posted by: Weasel at August 04, 2017 04:57 PM (Sfs6o)

You missed the point of the post. Even if you're not a felon, the employer might assume you are one just because you live in/come from an historically crime-ridden area.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 04, 2017 05:00 PM (mbhDw)

25
So these RACISTS decided to, get this, drop the "Donuts" in their name and just call the brand Dunkins.

Why?

Because they say that's what everyone calls 'em anyways. Wrong!

We call 'em Dunks. Nobody calls them just Dunkins.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at August 04, 2017 05:00 PM (jokB+)

26
Dunkin Donuts is gonna, get this, stop selling frikkin donuts!!

You shut your whore mouth. That can't possibly be true.

Can it?

Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 04, 2017 05:00 PM (gIRsn)

27 Unintended consequences will be that black moms will stop giving their babies weird names? No more Jamika's or Jamall's?

Posted by: Strobe at August 04, 2017 05:00 PM (gbWkA)

28 So I can't know if I am hiring a felon, but a bank can know my credit history?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 04, 2017 05:00 PM (op9Rd)

29 My stats are a bit rusty but looks more like a MANOVA analysis than multiple regression thingee.
s/s Smart Ass

Posted by: jay hoenemeyer at August 04, 2017 05:00 PM (YrDFq)

30 I think this might be the thread that gets me banned again.

Posted by: ScoggDog at August 04, 2017 05:00 PM (fiGNd)

31 Zombie thread.

Can we talk about Lee-Nah?z

Posted by: Les Kinetic at August 04, 2017 05:00 PM (V3nHu)

32 23 There are certain jobs where they have to ask you about your criminal record because federal law prohibits hiring criminals for that job.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 04, 2017 04:59 PM (mpXpK)

So many layers of irony there that I can't even begin to unravel them.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 04, 2017 05:00 PM (mbhDw)

33 What you name your kids is very important when they are job hunting. You are more likely to be looked at if your name is normal and pronounceable. Names with apostrophes or dashes are a strike against you kids from birth. Why do you hate kids???

Posted by: lin-duh fell at August 04, 2017 05:00 PM (kufk0)

34
That's insane. Their coffee isn't THAT good.

And what the fark are we gonna "dunkin" if not their donuts??

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at August 04, 2017 05:01 PM (jokB+)

35 27 Unintended consequences will be that black moms will stop giving their babies weird names? No more Jamika's or Jamall's?
Posted by: Strobe at August 04, 2017 05:00 PM (gbWkA)

That's retarded, sir.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 04, 2017 05:01 PM (mbhDw)

36
You shut your whore mouth. That can't possibly be true.

Can it?

Would I lie about something like this?!

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at August 04, 2017 05:01 PM (jokB+)

37 34
That's insane. Their coffee isn't THAT good.

And what the fark are we gonna "dunkin" if not their donuts??
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at August 04, 2017 05:01 PM (jokB+

What goes good with.... pudding? On an election night?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 04, 2017 05:01 PM (mbhDw)

38 So, Mr. Dillinger, you look like just the man we want as a bank teller!

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 04, 2017 05:02 PM (oVJmc)

39 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 04, 2017 05:00 PM (mbhDw)
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if we were allowed to have a box in the first place we wouldn't have to go through these gymnastics

Posted by: Weasel at August 04, 2017 05:02 PM (Sfs6o)

40 These applications varied whether the applicant had a distinctly black or distinctly white name and the felony conviction status of the applicant.
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I wonder what their list of "distinctly white" names was.

Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at August 04, 2017 05:03 PM (10LGw)

41 Ban the application.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 04, 2017 05:03 PM (IqV8l)

42 38 So, Mr. Dillinger, you look like just the man we want as a bank teller!
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 04, 2017 05:02 PM (oVJmc)

If his name was Anfernee or Shakwanda Dillinger?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 04, 2017 05:03 PM (mbhDw)

43 41 Ban the application.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 04, 2017 05:03 PM (IqV8l)

Even better: confiscate the business.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 04, 2017 05:03 PM (mbhDw)

44 Perhaps this is unfair of me, but I suspect Leftists are perfectly fine with a system that makes it harder for minorities to get a job.

Then they can use it as evidence of racism and to maintain the dependent underclass.

Posted by: Emmie at August 04, 2017 05:03 PM (VHnpm)

45 That's insane. Their coffee isn't THAT good.

And what the fark are we gonna "dunkin" if not their donuts??
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at August 04, 2017 05:01 PM (jokB+

What goes good with.... pudding? On an election night?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 04, 2017 05:01 PM (mbhDw)

Brunettes?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 04, 2017 05:04 PM (3OIiX)

46 I wonder what their list of "distinctly white" names was.
Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at August 04, 2017 05:03 PM (10LGw)

Louis Winthorpe III

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 04, 2017 05:04 PM (op9Rd)

47
I wonder what their list of "distinctly white" names was.

T. Coddington Van Voorhees VIII was on the list.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 04, 2017 05:04 PM (IqV8l)

48 I have no problem with hiring felons so long as their lefthanded Jehovah's Witnesses.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at August 04, 2017 05:04 PM (398bZ)

49 Ah, more Obama/Holder era idiocy!

I remember years ago listening to an NPR story, a real tear-jerker, about how hard it was for violent felons to get a job. Never mind that, say, a woman co-worker might not be all that thrilled sharing an office, or a late shift with one - no, it was all about how the 3x rapist's struggles, man!

Posted by: Lizzy at August 04, 2017 05:04 PM (NOIQH)

50 44 Perhaps this is unfair of me, but I suspect Leftists are perfectly fine with a system that makes it harder for minorities to get a job.

Then they can use it as evidence of racism and to maintain the dependent underclass.
Posted by: Emmie at August 04, 2017 05:03 PM (VHnpm)

See: The Great Society/War on Poverty 1965-Present

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 04, 2017 05:05 PM (mbhDw)

51 Bring Back The Box.

Posted by: Weasel at August 04, 2017 05:05 PM (Sfs6o)

52 they're

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at August 04, 2017 05:05 PM (398bZ)

53 Thurston Howell III

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 04, 2017 05:05 PM (IqV8l)

54 The Virtue Signal of Low Expectations.

Look at the job prospects of Evergreen College graduates.

They are stupid as hell, but you won't find a more woke buch of people.

That's what businesses need: people that are WOKE!

Posted by: Minuteman at August 04, 2017 05:05 PM (A3b6q)

55 John Smith is pretty white sounding

Posted by: lin-duh fell at August 04, 2017 05:05 PM (kufk0)

56 @27, no joke, there was a black kid named Shitavious. SHITAVIOUS. Shitavious J. Cook. He was arrested for first degree murder at 15, so there you go.

I am going to go out on a limb and say that a fair number of those black mothers are not thinking of future educational or career advancement when they make up names.

Posted by: sunny-dee at August 04, 2017 05:05 PM (EGPU8)

57 A retired attorney in Virginia Beach is so incensed that Republicans couldnT repeal the Affordable Care Act hes suing to get political donations back, accusing the GOP of fraud and racketeering.

Bob Heghmann, 70, filed a lawsuit Thursday in U.S. District Court saying the national and Virginia Republican parties and some GOP leaders raised millions of dollars in campaign funds while knowing they werent going to be able to overturn the ACA, also known as Obamacare.

LMAO--While I am down here I have to find this guy and shake his hand.

Sorry for the interuption

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 04, 2017 05:06 PM (op9Rd)

58 And what the fark are we gonna "dunkin" if not their donuts??
Posted by: Soothsayer

Maybe they'll start selling the pudding cups.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 04, 2017 05:06 PM (QjxTy)

59 Remember, folks, the people you dropped your kids off with at DayCare haven't had a background check!

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 04, 2017 05:06 PM (oVJmc)

60

I am going to go out on a limb and say that a fair number of those black mothers are not thinking ~~of future educational or career advancement when they make up names.~~

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 04, 2017 05:06 PM (IqV8l)

61 Because the real goal, as everyone around here knows, is more control, not more employment.

More control, yes. More employment, yes. For those in control.

Posted by: Slippery Slope Salesman at August 04, 2017 05:07 PM (EgwCt)

62 Trust me on this guys, once the box has been banned, you will miss the box.

I miss box so much...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 04, 2017 05:07 PM (3OIiX)

63
There there.

The Horde is very tolerant of typos and grammar, aren't we boys?

Posted by: Newall J. Masonry, LLC at August 04, 2017 05:07 PM (m9X4Y)

64
What you name your kids is very important when they are job hunting. You
are more likely to be looked at if your name is normal and
pronounceable. Names with apostrophes or dashes are a strike against you
kids from birth. Why do you hate kids???
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I demand reparations for all who have O' and Mac names. No more discrimination against those nasty Scots-Irish.

Posted by: mustbequantum at August 04, 2017 05:07 PM (MIKMs)

65 57 A retired attorney in Virginia Beach is so incensed that Republicans couldnT repeal the Affordable Care Act hes suing to get political donations back, accusing the GOP of fraud and racketeering.

Bob Heghmann, 70, filed a lawsuit Thursday in U.S. District Court saying the national and Virginia Republican parties and some GOP leaders raised millions of dollars in campaign funds while knowing they werent going to be able to overturn the ACA, also known as Obamacare.

LMAO--While I am down here I have to find this guy and shake his hand.

Sorry for the interuption
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 04, 2017 05:06 PM (op9Rd)

Now THAT is a class action lawsuit if ever I saw one. Can you imagine???

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 04, 2017 05:07 PM (mbhDw)

66 They should offer kick backs to companies that hire felons of color.

Carbon credits.

The companies not in compliance can get investigated by the IRS.

Posted by: Max Power at August 04, 2017 05:07 PM (q177U)

67 Not many whitey's named Freeman.

Posted by: Weasel at August 04, 2017 05:07 PM (Sfs6o)

68 I've always heard that Amish felons make great carpenters.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at August 04, 2017 05:08 PM (398bZ)

69 Unintended consequences will be that black moms will stop giving their babies weird names? No more Jamika's or Jamall's?
====

You'd think! I would have thought the black doctor is going to pick an upper-middle-class-sounding name, for exactly this reason.

Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at August 04, 2017 05:08 PM (10LGw)

70 OT a bit but Americans are overly impressed with the ability of other natural born Americans to speak more than just English.

A non Hispanic being able to put that you speak Spanish on a resume increases the chance of hire tremendously. French or German gives the perception you're smart.

Posted by: Jack Sock at August 04, 2017 05:08 PM (/8r1I)

71 64
I demand reparations for all who have O' and Mac names. No more discrimination against those nasty Scots-Irish.
Posted by: mustbequantum at August 04, 2017 05:07 PM (MIKMs)

"Leesen, Meester!"

- - -berg,-owitz, -stein

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 04, 2017 05:08 PM (mbhDw)

72 I demand reparations for all who have O' and Mac names. No more discrimination against those nasty Scots-Irish.
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To clarify, MOST FIRST names with apostrophes or dashes...

Posted by: lin-duh fell at August 04, 2017 05:08 PM (kufk0)

73 >>Is this discrimination? Is it now unreasonable to require that one's employees are not criminals? That's rhetorical.

They want every possible catch-22 they can inflict on employers: you cannot discriminate against violent felons, but you can be sued up the wazzou for sexual harassment if he then even looks at a female employee funny.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 04, 2017 05:08 PM (NOIQH)

74 57....please make that a class action lawsuit....$$$$$

Posted by: E.T. at August 04, 2017 05:09 PM (P1GJy)

75 So this box, is it anything like "THE BARREL"???

Posted by: Bruce at August 04, 2017 05:09 PM (8ikIW)

76 Dunkin Donuts is gonna, get this, stop selling frikkin donuts!!

No more donuts at Dunkin Donuts.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at August 04, 2017 04:57 PM (jokB+)

That is fake news. They are testing taking Donuts out of the name. But they will still sell Donuts.

Personally I think "Dunkin" as the name of a coffee shop is dumb. But we started calling it "Dunkies" which I think could work.

Posted by: blaster at August 04, 2017 05:09 PM (jHrzU)

77 Bob Heghmann, 70, filed a lawsuit Thursday in U.S. District Court saying the national and Virginia Republican parties and some GOP leaders raised millions of dollars in campaign funds while knowing they werent going to be able to overturn the ACA, also known as Obamacare.

LMAO--While I am down here I have to find this guy and shake his hand.

Sorry for the interuption
Posted by: Nevergiveup

Give that man a Palladium membership with Ampersand Oak Leaf Clusters!

Posted by: rickb223 at August 04, 2017 05:10 PM (QjxTy)

78 OK, OK

Dunkin' doughnuts is just re branding itself to "Dunkin'" (which is literally retarded.

They will still sell donuts.

Posted by: Max Power at August 04, 2017 05:10 PM (q177U)

79
Dunks originated here in MA, for those unaware.

Also started here, and Bander of course will know this, was a small chain called HONEYDEW DONUTS.

My father told me Dunkins and Honeydew were started by brothers, but dad might've pulling my leg.

Honeydew never took off but they did okay. Very few stores left, today. If Honeydew Donuts was smart, they'd advertise they're still around and they still sell donuts.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at August 04, 2017 05:10 PM (jokB+)

80 Long Duck Dong still on unemployment.

Posted by: Strobe at August 04, 2017 05:10 PM (gbWkA)

81 Strobe @27:

"Unintended consequences will be that black moms will stop giving their babies weird names? No more Jamika's or Jamall's?"

Haven't you ever heard of Resume Names?

The black fathers I know best sure have. They're candid and wry, but they're not joking. No name for their kid that at a glance is going to hurt their prospects.

Posted by: JPS at August 04, 2017 05:10 PM (B2Wdt)

82 "They are testing taking Donuts out of the name. But they will still sell Donuts. Personally I think "Dunkin" as the name of a coffee shop is dumb."

It's dumb and expensive.

Posted by: Duncan Yo-yo's at August 04, 2017 05:11 PM (398bZ)

83 Okay I will reveal that my first name is Duane.

I can attest to the fact that many interviewers thought I was going to be black.

Posted by: Jack Sock at August 04, 2017 05:11 PM (/8r1I)

84 Dunkin' doughnuts is just re branding itself to "Dunkin'" (which is literally retarded.

Think of the cost savings on the signs.

Posted by: Bruce at August 04, 2017 05:11 PM (8ikIW)

85
They will still sell donuts.

Not what I heard. They're phasing out donuts and a lot of their crappy airplane food they call sandwiches.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at August 04, 2017 05:11 PM (jokB+)

86 Dunkin' Doughnuts is an odd name anyway.

They should change it to Al-Habib's fine American Pastry Shop. It would make millions.

Posted by: Newall J. Masonry, LLC at August 04, 2017 05:11 PM (m9X4Y)

87 The take away is obviously to try harder.

Posted by: Mama AJ at August 04, 2017 04:56 PM

That doesn't always work. Trust me.

Posted by: Boxer at August 04, 2017 05:11 PM (p+Wdc)

88 86 Dunkin' Doughnuts is an odd name anyway.

They should change it to Al-Habib's fine American Pastry Shop. It would make millions.
Posted by: Newall J. Masonry, LLC at August 04, 2017 05:11 PM (m9X4Y)

But will they bake homo wedding cake?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 04, 2017 05:12 PM (mbhDw)

89 MSN headline right now...

Trump breaks Federal Rule by commenting on Jobs report...

A Rule was written into the Federal register in 1985, that the administration could not comment on Federal stats for the first hour they were out...

Rule is CLEARLY unconstitutional... inhibiting Freedom of Speech... but hell... Trump tweeted about the Jobs report before an hour was up...

I guess we all get Job Cramps now?

/facepalm

Posted by: Don Q. at August 04, 2017 05:12 PM (NgKpN)

90 "Long Duck Dong still on unemployment."

Don't get me started.

Posted by: Phuoc Long Dong at August 04, 2017 05:12 PM (398bZ)

91 We all know what this shit is.

Different laws for different races.

That's all it is. That's all it ever has been.

Posted by: ScoggDog at August 04, 2017 05:12 PM (fiGNd)

92 My first name is Linda, they think I'm white because of the last name that goes with it.

Posted by: lin-duh fell at August 04, 2017 05:12 PM (kufk0)

93 Today it is easy to be a felon and not all are hardcore recidivists. Think about the 19 year old convicted of a drug felony and 15 years later cannot be a room mother despite being upstanding citizen since and fully rehabilitated.

Also, the misguided Brady law prohibits such a person from owning a handgun for protection.

When is society through punishing such people who have paid their debt to society?

Yet hardcore criminals like Bill and Hillary roam the streets with nary a care in the world because no one will prosecute much less convict them.

Posted by: Locke Common at August 04, 2017 05:13 PM (/xo1a)

94 84 Dunkin' doughnuts is just re branding itself to "Dunkin'" (which is literally retarded.

Think of the cost savings on the signs.

Posted by: Bruce at August 04, 2017 05:11 PM (8ikIW

You still have to buy new signs and collateral material (cups, napkins, boxes, etc.). It's a big big expense.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 04, 2017 05:13 PM (mbhDw)

95 84 Dunkin' doughnuts is just re branding itself to "Dunkin'" (which is literally retarded.

Think of the cost savings on the signs.

Posted by: Bruce at August 04, 2017 05:11 PM (8ikIW)

We were retarded too

Posted by: KFC at August 04, 2017 05:14 PM (/8r1I)

96 33 What you name your kids is very important when they are job hunting. You are more likely to be looked at if your name is normal and pronounceable. Names with apostrophes or dashes are a strike against you kids from birth. Why do you hate kids???
Posted by: lin-duh fell at August 04, 2017 05:00 PM (kufk0)

Why do you hate Klingons? Klingophobe!

Posted by: B'eTor* KataH at August 04, 2017 05:14 PM (A3b6q)

97 72 I
To clarify, MOST FIRST names with apostrophes or dashes...
Posted by: lin-duh fell at August 04, 2017 05:08 PM (kufk0)

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Like Lin-duh?

Posted by: Emmie at August 04, 2017 05:14 PM (VHnpm)

98 By the way the Story of the Lawyer suing the Republicans is the lead story on Drudge

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 04, 2017 05:14 PM (op9Rd)

99 77 Bob Heghmann, 70, filed a lawsuit Thursday in U.S. District Court saying the national and Virginia Republican parties and some GOP leaders raised millions of dollars in campaign funds while knowing they werent going to be able to overturn the ACA, also known as Obamacare.

LMAO--While I am down here I have to find this guy and shake his hand.

Sorry for the interuption
Posted by: Nevergiveup

Give that man a Palladium membership with Ampersand Oak Leaf Clusters!
Posted by: rickb223 at August 04, 2017 05:10 PM (QjxTy)

Sued for... False Advertising???

Hmmmm.....

Posted by: Don Q. at August 04, 2017 05:14 PM (NgKpN)

100 On second thought, maybe that anger and resentment is exactly the goal!

CBD, you are far too young to be so cynical.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 04, 2017 05:15 PM (ctuyM)

101 83 Okay I will reveal that my first name is Duane.

I can attest to the fact that many interviewers thought I was going to be black.
Posted by: Jack Sock at August 04, 2017 05:11 PM (/8r1I)

No Jews with that name, for sure.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 04, 2017 05:15 PM (mbhDw)

102 Emmie,
Good catch.

Posted by: lin-duh fell at August 04, 2017 05:15 PM (kufk0)

103

Looks like you guys were right -- Dunkin Donuts will still sell donuts.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at August 04, 2017 05:15 PM (jokB+)

104 You still have to buy new signs and collateral material (cups, napkins, boxes, etc.). It's a big big expense.

The collateral material always needs to be replaced. A design change for a company that size is not a big expense.

Posted by: Bruce at August 04, 2017 05:15 PM (8ikIW)

105 This Dunkins thing will be like when Dominoes Pizza --> Dominoes.

*yawn*

Posted by: Lizzy at August 04, 2017 05:15 PM (NOIQH)

106 89 MSN headline right now...

Trump breaks Federal Rule by commenting on Jobs report...

MSN headline right now

Trump breaks law by breathing

Posted by: It's me donna at August 04, 2017 05:15 PM (O2RFr)

107 Long time ago Interviewed this guy for a job & he was a felon who had been in jail for murder. I was very young & very shocked. He had thrown a guy through a plate glass window at a bar. He looked like the professor from Gilligan's island.

What I remember most is when it came to the good-bye handshake I hesitated. 'Omg...I'm gonna shake the hand of a murderer!" I did, but I know he saw my hesitation. The whole thing makes me chuckle now.

I got outta that career a year later...for different reasons.

Posted by: Mel at August 04, 2017 05:16 PM (KuiAN)

108 You also should name your kids anything containing "brown" or "dildo".... just sayin'.

Posted by: lin-duh fell at August 04, 2017 05:16 PM (kufk0)

109
Okay I will reveal that my first name is Duane.

I can attest to the fact that many interviewers thought I was going to be black.
Posted by: Jack Sock at August 04, 2017 05:11 PM

Is it pronounced Doo-Wonny?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 04, 2017 05:16 PM (IqV8l)

110 CBD, you are far too young to be so cynical.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 04, 2017 05:15 PM (ctuyM)

Damn ... thought you only told me that.

Posted by: ScoggDog at August 04, 2017 05:17 PM (fiGNd)

111 We sell clown shoes and clowning accessories.

Business is good in DC.

Posted by: Dunkin' Balls at August 04, 2017 05:17 PM (a+PJN)

112 Should NOT....sheesh

Posted by: lin-duh fell at August 04, 2017 05:18 PM (kufk0)

113 96 33 What you name your kids is very important when they are job hunting. You are more likely to be looked at if your name is normal and pronounceable. Names with apostrophes or dashes are a strike against you kids from birth. Why do you hate kids???
Posted by: lin-duh fell at August 04, 2017 05:00 PM (kufk0)

The name D'Arcy has an honorable history.

Posted by: Northernlurker, who sometimes skulks. at August 04, 2017 05:18 PM (hJrjt)

114 Daughters married name is Basque thus sounds "hispanic." Couple of years ago they hit a rough patch and applied for food stamps.... Everything went swimmingly till she had her in person meeting.... The interviewer looked right at her and said she didn't qualify... Daughter asked why they let her get so far as to pick up her vouchers and they had no answer.... She's blond...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 04, 2017 05:19 PM (O2RFr)

115 Every job I've had for the last 14 years has required a background check. Does this "Ban the Box" law make that practice illegal? If not, any criminal convictions are showing up in a BGC.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 04, 2017 05:19 PM (jhqr1)

116 Maybe it's time the GOPe felt the full force of their constituents feelings.

Posted by: Max Power at August 04, 2017 05:19 PM (q177U)

117 Is it pronounced Doo-Wonny?

OMG.. I seriously laughed out loud at that.

Posted by: DeplorableJewells45 at August 04, 2017 05:19 PM (CNHr1)

118 qaS yIn tlhIngan!

Posted by: Mons, son of Venus at August 04, 2017 05:20 PM (ctuyM)

119 83 Okay I will reveal that my first name is Duane.

I can attest to the fact that many interviewers thought I was going to be black.
Posted by: Jack Sock at August 04, 2017 05:11 PM (/8r1I)
--------------------------------
Every Duane (Dwane, Dwayne, etc.) I've ever met has been whiter than white. And yeah, I've met more than a few.

But then, I live in SW VA.

Now, if I find out you pronounce it Doo-ah-nay, yeah, ...black.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 04, 2017 05:20 PM (0jtPF)

120 Okay I will reveal that my first name is Duane.

I can attest to the fact that many interviewers thought I was going to be black.
Posted by: Jack Sock

Because you kept calling your friend Rerun?

Posted by: rickb223 at August 04, 2017 05:21 PM (QjxTy)

121 Okay I will reveal that my first name is Duane.

I can attest to the fact that many interviewers thought I was going to be black.

I knew a kid at BYU with a 2.5 high school GPA and a 3/4 ride academic scholarship. He was a white kid from Hawaii with a Hawaiian last name; he chose not to check any of the race boxes. Someone at admissions must have assumed.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 04, 2017 05:22 PM (jhqr1)

122 I wonder what their list of "distinctly white" names was.
Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at August 04, 2017 05:03 PM (10LGw)
----
Baron Irmfried von Fappenburg und Schpritztinkel

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 04, 2017 05:22 PM (QGoUX)

123 We employ some real scumbag felons for unskilled labor positions. They're carefully given jobs that don't jeopardize the operation, and quite frankly, I'm all for giving people who want to work a second chance to contribute to society and to their own well-being rather than having them lay about on the dole. But generally, if they fuck up again, no sympathy, no empathy, hit the fucking road, don't come back, etc., etc.

Posted by: Fritz at August 04, 2017 05:22 PM (eLttb)

124 FedEx used to be Federal Express.

Posted by: Mel at August 04, 2017 05:22 PM (KuiAN)

125 If you stick a Le or La in front of a name it becomes, not french, but black i.e. turning Terry into Laterry.

Posted by: Northernlurker, who sometimes skulks. at August 04, 2017 05:23 PM (hJrjt)

126 Damn ... thought you only told me that.
Posted by: ScoggDog at August 04, 2017 05:17 PM

Y'all ain't the only spring chicken around these parts, you know.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 04, 2017 05:23 PM (ctuyM)

127 "I wonder what their list of "distinctly white" names was. "

Yeah, I was wondering about that too.

Posted by: Billy Bob Smith at August 04, 2017 05:23 PM (398bZ)

128 Okay I will reveal that my first name is Duane.
Posted by: Jack Sock

... which is no Leroy.

Posted by: ScoggDog at August 04, 2017 05:23 PM (fiGNd)

129 109---Is it pronounced Doo-Wonny?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 04, 2017 05:16 PM (IqV8l)
---------------------
GMTA!

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 04, 2017 05:24 PM (0jtPF)

130 The black fathers I know best sure have. They're
candid and wry, but they're not joking. No name for their kid that at a
glance is going to hurt their prospects. Posted by: JPS at August 04, 2017 05:10 PM (B2Wdt)
=====

Any caring parent (and grandparent) is lobbying desperately to avoid the Dylan, Conor and Brittny Olivia silliness. One of my kids was talking about a 'dog's name', i.e. Murphy, Dylan, Sean, Mollie, Megan, etc.

Posted by: mustbequantum at August 04, 2017 05:24 PM (MIKMs)

131 Whitey McCracker

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 04, 2017 05:24 PM (4ErVI)

132 I've prolly interviewed and or hired over 30 people in the last couple of years and every applicant has to go down to the sheriff's office and get a printed copy of their criminal background.

No background check turned in with app- no interview.

And yes, I've hired felons.

Posted by: weirdflunky at August 04, 2017 05:24 PM (htOG/)

133
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 04, 2017 05:25 PM (8O3HH)

134 Unemployable.

1) Pants on the ground.
2) Hair like a Dr. Seuss character.
3) Tats and piercings like a South Sea cannibal.
4) Bad verbal skills.
5) Unpronounceable first names.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 04, 2017 05:25 PM (5VlCp)

135 Okay I will reveal that my first name is Duane.

I can attest to the fact that many interviewers thought I was going to be black.
Posted by: Jack Sock

Funny, I run into exactly the same problem.

Posted by: Heywood Jablome at August 04, 2017 05:25 PM (Mouru)

136 mum had the last name Reid. was in high school in Barbados. applied to Oxford as a Reid from Barbados. somehow forgot to provide a picture

I am sure some admissions officer got fired soon after mum showed up.

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at August 04, 2017 05:25 PM (91T/5)

137 They are getting exactly the opposite of the intended result, yet I am sure that they simply don't care, or more probably don't even know.

Intended? The Democratic Party remains the political wing of the KKK.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 04, 2017 05:25 PM (QQ+il)

138 122 I wonder what their list of "distinctly white" names was.
Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at August 04, 2017 05:03 PM (10LGw)

Fauntleroy, Gerhard, Otto

Posted by: Northernlurker, who sometimes skulks. at August 04, 2017 05:25 PM (hJrjt)

139

hhmmm...most popular baby names 2017

Emma
Liam

Posted by: Newall J. Masonry, LLC at August 04, 2017 05:25 PM (m9X4Y)

140 As a prospective employer, you can still perform a background check, right? I am certain people were lying on the application anyways, therefore removing it is no big loss for employers.

Posted by: GT 5.0 at August 04, 2017 05:26 PM (+4vGE)

141 Y'all ain't the only spring chicken around these parts, you know.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 04, 2017 05:23 PM (ctuyM)

Dude....I can't never get free of this place.

Posted by: The Chicken at August 04, 2017 05:26 PM (Jcg9Q)

142 Tell her hey for me.

Posted by: Just the Punchline at August 04, 2017 05:26 PM (QQ+il)

143 If you stick a Le or La in front of a name it becomes, not french, but black i.e. turning Terry into Laterry.

Poor Trina.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 04, 2017 05:26 PM (Mouru)

144
ah... didn't scroll down the list far enough

Muhammad comes in at number 50

Posted by: Newall J. Masonry, LLC at August 04, 2017 05:26 PM (m9X4Y)

145 And what the fark are we gonna "dunkin" if not their donuts??
Posted by: Soothsayer

Maybe they'll start selling the pudding cups.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 04, 2017 05:06 PM (QjxTy)
..............

Will they have free Ballz Towels?

Posted by: wth at August 04, 2017 05:26 PM (HgMAr)

146 Poor Trina.

I am choking to death.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 04, 2017 05:26 PM (QQ+il)

147 I hate to bust the felonious bubble, but there are some companies that absolutely positively will not hire a convicted felon; my company being one...we do work in pharmacies a lot and felons cannot work in these jobs.

Posted by: Mike G. at August 04, 2017 05:27 PM (R5lpX)

148 Bonhomme,
I am an alumnus of the U of U. You know, this means war.

Posted by: Strobe at August 04, 2017 05:27 PM (gbWkA)

149 I wonder what their list of "distinctly white" names was.
Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at August 04, 2017 05:03 PM (10LGw)

Fauntleroy, Gerhard, Otto

Buffy
Muffy
Chip
Duncan
Biff

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 04, 2017 05:27 PM (Mouru)

150 Why do they have to ask about your record? If I was an applicant in that place the sign off would go as follows: "Mr. Johnson, thanks for the opportunity to interview with you, I would greatly appreciate the chance to work for you and your fine company. This envelope contains an extra copy of my curriculum vitae and copy of my pristine record and certified statement of good conduct signed by the Chief of Police the Governor, and both of my parents. I can start tomorrow or later today if required.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn at August 04, 2017 05:28 PM (0ecq3)

151 They still ask prospective jurors about felonies on their records in my state.

Posted by: Basement Cat at August 04, 2017 05:28 PM (3C9q2)

152 I wonder what their list of "distinctly white" names was.
Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at August 04, 2017 05:03 PM (10LGw)

Fauntleroy, Gerhard, Otto
Posted by: Northernlurker

Adolph.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 04, 2017 05:28 PM (QjxTy)

153 Stupid names suck....

Posted by: Reince at August 04, 2017 05:29 PM (P1GJy)

154 No Jews with that name, for sure.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 04, 2017 05:15 PM

You sure? "Duane Cohen" and "Duane Finklestein" both return hits on teh Goog.

Not that I'm any expert. I was astounded to learn in high school that one of my best friends was Jewish. He was astounded at my astonishment, and said "Are you kidding, with a name like (---)?" That was my introduction that certain names might convey that particular information.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 04, 2017 05:29 PM (ctuyM)

155 Of course the lack of job history for a prison term will also knock out a lot of people.

(Humerously I'm told this will harm me to, since as a stay at home dad so my wife can make the serious money, I may look like a felon on paper.)

Posted by: tsrlbke PhD(c), rogue bioethicist at August 04, 2017 05:29 PM (dzmBR)

156 Okay I will reveal that my first name is Duane.
Posted by: Jack Sock

... which is no Leroy.
Posted by: ScoggDog at August 04, 2017 05:23 PM (fiGNd)

That's my dad's middle name. And he's as Norwegian as you can get without bathing in lutefisk every full moon.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 04, 2017 05:29 PM (3OIiX)

157 149 I wonder what their list of "distinctly white" names was.
Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at August 04, 2017 05:03 PM (10LGw)

Fauntleroy, Gerhard, Otto

Buffy
Muffy
Chip
Duncan
Biff

Angus*
Scottie

*not including Black Angus

Posted by: Northernlurker, who sometimes skulks. at August 04, 2017 05:29 PM (hJrjt)

158 if you put a ta-or ti- in front of something, though, it ends up looking Berber.

tifinagh, tamazight, timbuktu, tingitania, tatouine...

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at August 04, 2017 05:29 PM (91T/5)

159 Laspot

Ladave

Lagreg

Nope, it's not working

Posted by: Max Power at August 04, 2017 05:29 PM (q177U)

160 I am an alumnus of the U of U. You know, this means war.

Congratulations for correctly spelling "alumnus". Did you need help?

; )

Posted by: bonhomme at August 04, 2017 05:29 PM (jhqr1)

161 Biff

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 04, 2017 05:27 PM (Mouru)

Gah.....the nickname I was given when I was a baby, and it stuck 'til I was an adult. Hated it.

Posted by: Country Boy at August 04, 2017 05:29 PM (Jcg9Q)

162 But the best part of this is the typical arrogance of government; that
more regulation and more control over economic decisions is in the best
interest of society. They are getting exactly the opposite of the
intended result, yet I am sure that they simply don't care, or more
probably don't even know. Because the real goal, as everyone around here
knows, is more control, not more employment.

Yes. The more they tighten their grip, the more star systems will slip through their fingers.

Posted by: Princess Leia Organa at August 04, 2017 05:30 PM (JO9+V)

163 Today if you have someone with a Jr. or III, IV ---whatever--- after the name, the chances are the kid is black.
Chances are also high that it's a pretty good kid, one raised with a father in the home.

And chances are that they will insist on using the "Jr" always as if it's an essential part of the surname.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 04, 2017 05:30 PM (0jtPF)

164 Tonto Goldstein

Posted by: Just the Punchline at August 04, 2017 05:30 PM (QQ+il)

165 "Distinctly white names?" No one knows any black guys named Howard Jones?

Posted by: Brewdog at August 04, 2017 05:30 PM (y15tf)

166 I do gotta say, there are a lot of black men named Mark Edwards out there. No idea why or how or whatever. Mine came from my no-last-name immigrant great-grandfather.

His name? Adolf from Revheim.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 04, 2017 05:30 PM (3OIiX)

167 Ranjit

Mandapeer

Posted by: Northernlurker, who sometimes skulks. at August 04, 2017 05:30 PM (hJrjt)

168 Tonto Goldstein
Posted by: Just the Punchline at August 04, 2017 05:30 PM (QQ+il)

She was the one carrying the mattress around Columbia University right?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 04, 2017 05:31 PM (op9Rd)

169 And chances are that they will insist on using the "Jr" always as if it's an essential part of the surname.

But if Junior insists on "The Deuce," beware.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 04, 2017 05:31 PM (Mouru)

170 33 What you name your kids is very important when they are job hunting. You are more likely to be looked at if your name is normal and pronounceable. Names with apostrophes or dashes are a strike against you kids from birth. Why do you hate kids???
Posted by: lin-duh fell at August 04, 2017 05:00 PM (kufk0)

Sometimes a name can be too limiting in getting a job, Scro. It's important to pick one that is kick ass and isn't some fucked up shit.

Posted by: Dr. Lexus at August 04, 2017 05:31 PM (A3b6q)

171 Coming soon, Regulations Affording Non Desireables Opportunities in Markets (RANDOM)

- Employer is not allowed to look at submitted resumes
- Resumes will be submitted via a web portal to random-hire.gov
- A batch of selected resumes will be delivered to the employer
* A voice chat link be available at this time
* The voices will be run through a pitch and time modulator to avoid dectection of any speech patterns or recognizable characteristics
* Any direct contact with the candidate will be forbidden

Posted by: goodluckduck at August 04, 2017 05:31 PM (yqvys)

172 I thought Black Angus was a pimp.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 04, 2017 05:32 PM (Mouru)

173 OK... just out of curiosity? How many generations are they going to discriminate against White People, through affirmative action, before we've paid enough?

Especially for something WE did not do?

Posted by: Don Q. at August 04, 2017 05:32 PM (NgKpN)

174 I worked at a company that hired tens of thousands of people each year. HR was pathetic at screening them, so we started doing it ourselves.

They gave us a long list of questions we couldn't ask, including, "how are you going to get to work!" Apparently that was offensive to auto-deficient employees. Of course we figured out how to get around those restrictions

Anyway, probably the best candidate I ever interviewed was a felon. And she was a cutie. Stupid drug bust, spent nine months in jail.

I couldn't hire her.

That sucked.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 04, 2017 05:32 PM (wYseH)

175 Well, when you have fifty million Toms, Dicks, and Harrys. . .

Posted by: Newall J. Masonry, LLC at August 04, 2017 05:32 PM (m9X4Y)

176 I tried to ask the guy from BYU in the next cube but he was too busy flapping... ;-D

Posted by: Strobe at August 04, 2017 05:33 PM (gbWkA)

177 I thought Black Angus was a pimp.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 04, 2017 05:32 PM (Mouru)

Nah man he's that kickass guitarist in the hip hop group A'C-D'C.

Posted by: Country Boy at August 04, 2017 05:33 PM (Jcg9Q)

178 Nia, Asia, Jada, Jasmin, Imani

Claire, Katie, Emma, Jenna, Heather

Which list is which?

Posted by: bonhomme at August 04, 2017 05:33 PM (jhqr1)

179 I thought Black Angus was a pimp.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 04, 2017 05:32 PM (Mouru)

I thought he was the scourge of the Highlands.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 04, 2017 05:33 PM (3OIiX)

180 Okay I will reveal that my first name is Duane.

I can attest to the fact that many interviewers thought I was going to be black.
----
Duane/Dwayne could go either way, although that's a rather binary scale and I denounce myself.

Now, Deron...we assumed the new guy was gonna be black (DeRon) but he was blindingly white. Phosphorescent, even.

Dmitri -- always black, never Russian. Odd.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 04, 2017 05:33 PM (QGoUX)

181

See? That's how the Fake News creates Low-Info Voters.

All it took was a misleading headline and I was in full panic mode.

"Dunkin Donuts Is Ditching The Donut"

And since I have no interest in reading or hearing any more, I mistook the "news" for Dunkin Donuts to no longer sell donuts.

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at August 04, 2017 05:33 PM (jokB+)

182 My parents wanted me to have an American name so I would have a better chance of getting a good paying job. But after months of searching, I am still unemployed.

Posted by: Jamal Sakamura at August 04, 2017 05:33 PM (lIZQs)

183 "If you stick a Le or La in front of a name it becomes, not french, but black i.e. turning Terry into Laterry."
------------------------
Heh.
Same thing with De or D'.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 04, 2017 05:34 PM (0jtPF)

184 The town I grew up in had dozens, many dozens of unrelated black kids in my age range with the last name Lewis.

Why you might not ask?

Because the only doctor that delivered babies for miles around was wait for it wait for it

Dr. Lewis.

Posted by: weirdflunky at August 04, 2017 05:34 PM (htOG/)

185 If I saw one misdemeanor conviction, and nothing else, I just ignored it. Obviously someone made a mistake and moved on. It's stupid to hold a dui or a minor theft against someone if it was years ago and there's nothing else on the record. A real troublemaker is going to have more than one.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 04, 2017 05:34 PM (4ErVI)

186 Sometimes a name can be too limiting in getting a job, Scro. It's important to pick one that is kick ass and isn't some fucked up shit.

I've heard that "Cedric" and "Cecil" get bad reviews.

Posted by: Basement Cat at August 04, 2017 05:34 PM (3C9q2)

187 Discrimination is what you do...when you know what you are doing.

Posted by: Sidney Allen Johnson at August 04, 2017 05:34 PM (Lrcuy)

188 I thought Black Angus was a pimp.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 04, 2017 05:32 PM (Mouru)

He never could have beaten Santino

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 04, 2017 05:34 PM (op9Rd)

189 lol, bomhomme.

I'd shake your hand, but...

Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at August 04, 2017 05:35 PM (91T/5)

190 33 What you name your kids is very important when they are job hunting. You are more likely to be looked at if your name is normal and pronounceable. Names with apostrophes or dashes are a strike against you kids from birth.
Posted by: lin-duh fell at August 04, 2017 05:00 PM (kufk0)

Are ampersands OK?

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V : The Brewers bats have died at August 04, 2017 05:35 PM (P8951)

191 I hate to bust the felonious bubble, but there are some companies that absolutely positively will not hire a convicted felon; my company being one...we do work in pharmacies a lot and felons cannot work in these jobs.
Posted by: Mike G.

Chemical industry. Company does hair drug tests.
Zero tolerance. Period. Fini.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 04, 2017 05:35 PM (QjxTy)

192 ... as you can get without bathing in lutefisk every full moon.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 04, 2017 05:29 PM

Reputedly the secret behind grammie's nacreous skin tone.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 04, 2017 05:35 PM (ctuyM)

193 Distinct white names: Lee Harvey Oswald

Posted by: Strobe at August 04, 2017 05:35 PM (gbWkA)

194 "173 OK... just out of curiosity? How many generations are they going to discriminate against White People, through affirmative action, before we've paid enough?"

Remember when I said "about 25 years?"

HAHHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAH!!!!

Posted by: Ruth Bader-Meinhof at August 04, 2017 05:35 PM (398bZ)

195 Sometimes a name can be too limiting in getting a job, Scro. It's important to pick one that is kick ass and isn't some fucked up shit.

I've heard that "Cedric" and "Cecil" get bad reviews.
Posted by: Basement Cat

Unless he's an entertainer or puppet.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 04, 2017 05:36 PM (QjxTy)

196 as you can get without bathing in lutefisk every full moon.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 04, 2017 05:29 PM

Reputedly the secret behind grammie's nacreous skin tone.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 04, 2017 05:35 PM (ctuyM)

LOL.

We are a pale folk, though half my family tans well. My sister Kari burns like flash paper in a furnace.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 04, 2017 05:36 PM (3OIiX)

197 Any name with "Colonel" in front of it suggests white.

e.g., Col. Harlan Sanders
Col. Tom Parker

etc.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 04, 2017 05:36 PM (Mouru)

198 Posted by: Just the Punchline at August 04, 2017 05:30 PM (QQ+il)

Any relation to Bucky?

Posted by: Bob in Houston-Vast Right Wing Basket of deplorable! at August 04, 2017 05:36 PM (XRxxn)

199 My husband is a Jr. and not even remotely close to have pigmented skin color.

Posted by: lin-duh fell at August 04, 2017 05:36 PM (kufk0)

200 >>>Coming soon, Regulations Affording Non Desireables Opportunities in Markets (RANDOM)

LMAO, my mind was just starting to wonder down this dark, all too likely, path.

Posted by: Max Power at August 04, 2017 05:36 PM (q177U)

201 Remember when I said "about 25 years?"

We're almost done, folks!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 04, 2017 05:37 PM (Mouru)

202
Any name with "Colonel" in front of it suggests white.

e.g., Col. Harlan Sanders
Col. Tom Parker

etc.

Angus?

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at August 04, 2017 05:37 PM (jokB+)

203 197 Any name with "Colonel" in front of it suggests white.

e.g., Col. Harlan Sanders
Col. Tom Parker

etc.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 04, 2017 05:36 PM (Mouru)

Colonel Alan West?

Posted by: Don Q. at August 04, 2017 05:38 PM (NgKpN)

204 I thought Black Angus was a pimp.

Don't be disrespecting the Colonel.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 04, 2017 05:38 PM (QQ+il)

205 Angus?
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at August 04, 2017 05:37 PM (jokB+)

Col. Black Angus?

Hmm. Well, there's an exception to every rule, I guess.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 04, 2017 05:38 PM (Mouru)

206 Sheron seems like a tell.

Posted by: ScoggDog at August 04, 2017 05:38 PM (fiGNd)

207 151
They still ask prospective jurors about felonies on their records in my state.

Posted by: Basement Cat at August 04, 2017 05:28 PM (3C9q2)

You can not serve on a jury in SC if you have been convicted of a felony.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at August 04, 2017 05:39 PM (mpXpK)

208 he was too busy flapping

Ok, I really don't get the dig.

BYU is for the birds? BYU's so easy a bird could graduate? BYU is attended by bird-men? BYU grads are autistic people who exhibit self-stimulatory behavior?

I guess I have the dumb.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 04, 2017 05:39 PM (jhqr1)

209 Convicted? No, never convicted.

Posted by: John Winger, USA at August 04, 2017 05:39 PM (gbWkA)

210 We are a pale folk, though half my family tans well. My sister Kari burns like flash paper in a furnace.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

With my ancestry, I should too. (Welsh, Irish, Scottish & Polish)
I tan like an Apache. I get dark, then redder & redder.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 04, 2017 05:39 PM (QjxTy)

211 My husband is a Jr. and not even remotely close to have pigmented skin color.

So was my dad. In fact my cousins sometimes called him "Uncle June" because his mother called him "Junior."

Posted by: Basement Cat at August 04, 2017 05:39 PM (3C9q2)

212 when a Black coworker found out my middle name she exclaimed "I KNEW you were one of us!"

Posted by: kallisto at August 04, 2017 05:39 PM (AAbgH)

213 Colonel Alan West?
Posted by: Don Q. at August 04, 2017 05:38 PM (NgKpN)

By all media accounts ... white.

Posted by: ScoggDog at August 04, 2017 05:39 PM (fiGNd)

214 Speaking of white names, the Joe Don Baker movie 'Final Justice' is available on Rifftrax dot com. If you're a MST3K fan you probably know it.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 04, 2017 05:40 PM (3OIiX)

215 It's safe to assume that anybody with the first name Dylan, Madison, Ryan or Zach is white. Unfortunately the probability of that person being a whiny millennial who thinks he is too good for entry level work is high.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V : The Brewers bats have died at August 04, 2017 05:41 PM (P8951)

216 So was my dad. In fact my cousins sometimes called him "Uncle June" because his mother called him "Junior."

Posted by: Basement Cat at August 04, 2017 05:39 PM (3C9q2)

I had an Uncle June. Bastard shot me.

Posted by: Tony Soprano at August 04, 2017 05:41 PM (JO9+V)

217 Tan Like An Apache was the B-side to Walk Like An Egyptian.

Catchy tune.

Posted by: music aficionado at August 04, 2017 05:41 PM (3peC3)

218 Convicted? No, never convicted.

Not under this name anyway.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 04, 2017 05:41 PM (QQ+il)

219 I didn't get a call back either and I'm whiter than a polar bear eating a marshmallow fluff and wonder bread sandwich in a blizzard.

Posted by: Asswipe Johnson at August 04, 2017 05:41 PM (gC2IV)

220 Speaking of white names, the Joe Don Baker movie 'Final Justice' is available on Rifftrax dot com. If you're a MST3K fan you probably know it.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 04, 2017 05:40 PM (3OIiX)

And I read somewhere that the MSM is calling the Bruce Willis "Death Wish" Movie "Alt-Right"?

LOL

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 04, 2017 05:41 PM (op9Rd)

221 We are a pale folk, though half my family tans well. My sister Kari burns like flash paper in a furnace.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

With my ancestry, I should too. (Welsh, Irish, Scottish & Polish)
I tan like an Apache. I get dark, then redder & redder.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 04, 2017 05:39 PM (QjxTy)

Melanin is a hell of a thing. Don't leave home without it. Unless you live in Seattle, I guess.

I burn and then tan. Sokay. I got used to it.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 04, 2017 05:41 PM (3OIiX)

222 Dr. Lewis.
Posted by: weirdflunky at August 04, 2017 05:34 PM (htOG/)
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No. No. No no no no no.

All those women did NOT put down Lewis on the birth certificate because that was the doctor's name. Please tell me you are joking.

Posted by: bluebell at August 04, 2017 05:42 PM (UoSKV)

223 It's safe to assume that anybody with the first name Dylan, Madison, Ryan or Zach is white. Unfortunately the probability of that person being a whiny millennial who thinks he is too good for entry level work is high.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V : The Brewers bats have died at August 04, 2017 05:41 PM (P8951)

Madison will find work. Trust me.

Posted by: ScoggDog at August 04, 2017 05:42 PM (fiGNd)

224 My parents blessed with a good old Irish name, one of my great-grandfathers' name - Terrence. It never seemed ro matter to me, I got some ribbing, but Terry was fine, also. I'm old now, and though I have a distincly European surname, I would not name any of my progeny Terrence, nor would my kids.

Posted by: bergerbilder at August 04, 2017 05:42 PM (lIZQs)

225 "173 OK... just out of curiosity? How many generations are they going to
discriminate against White People, through affirmative action, before
we've paid enough?"

I can't wait until I can blame THE MAN!!! for all my problems.

Posted by: tu3031 at August 04, 2017 05:42 PM (qJhUV)

226 Speaking of white names, the Joe Don Baker movie 'Final Justice' is available on Rifftrax dot com. If you're a MST3K fan you probably know it.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 04, 2017 05:40 PM (3OIiX)

And I read somewhere that the MSM is calling the Bruce Willis "Death Wish" Movie "Alt-Right"?

LOL
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 04, 2017 05:41 PM (op9Rd)

'Alt-right' is the new 'fascist'...they don't know what it means. It's just noise that means 'bad men' to them.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 04, 2017 05:42 PM (3OIiX)

227 Saw McMahon pass for 317 yards. Against WY in '78. Used to spank the "U" too.

Posted by: Strobe at August 04, 2017 05:43 PM (gbWkA)

228 I didn't get a call back either and I'm whiter than a polar bear eating a marshmallow fluff and wonder bread sandwich in a blizzard.

It's pronounced AZ-WEEP-AY.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 04, 2017 05:43 PM (QQ+il)

229 I'd shake your hand, but...

It's the Necrotizing Fasciitis, isn't it?

You can be honest.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 04, 2017 05:43 PM (jhqr1)

230 The answer to all our problems is mandatory pretending.
Posted by: I'm Anonosaurus Wrecks and I approved this message at August 04, 2017 04:56 PM (Nwg0u)

Cargo cult theory says if you treat felons like they don't have a felony conviction, they won't act like someone with a felony conviction.

You're welcome.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 04, 2017 05:43 PM (Mouru)

231 Bob Heghmann, 70, filed a lawsuit Thursday in U.S. District Court saying the national and Virginia Republican parties and some GOP leaders raised millions of dollars in campaign funds while knowing they werent going to be able to overturn the ACA, also known as Obamacare.

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I want in on this action! All we have to do is go to the library judges.

Posted by: MAGA at August 04, 2017 05:43 PM (Tyk2V)

232 that anger and resentment is exactly the goal

It's the high octane that keeps the progressive bus from doing a complete Toonces.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 04, 2017 05:43 PM (Tyii7)

233 'Alt-right' is the new 'fascist'...they don't know what it means. It's just noise that means 'bad men' to them.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 04, 2017 05:42 PM (3OIiX)

Yup...first pushed here by chemist

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 04, 2017 05:43 PM (op9Rd)

234
I wonder what their list of "distinctly white" names was.

Hello there!

Posted by: Frosty the Snowman at August 04, 2017 05:44 PM (IqV8l)

235 It's pronounced AZ-WEEP-AY.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 04, 2017 05:43 PM (QQ+il)
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Oh my gosh. That Key and Peele sketch.

Posted by: bluebell at August 04, 2017 05:44 PM (UoSKV)

236 I could dunk it wit my nose.

I'm bad as King Kong.

Posted by: Basketball Jones at August 04, 2017 05:44 PM (35b++)

237 I wonder what their list of "distinctly white" names was.

Hello there!
Posted by: Frosty the Snowman at August 04, 2017 05:44 PM (IqV8l)

Go tan, ice cube.

Posted by: Johnny Winter at August 04, 2017 05:45 PM (Mouru)

238 Well, as bad as the names are, having a black university or college on your resume is as bad. you would not believe how poorly qualified the candidates are.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 04, 2017 05:45 PM (0wem/)

239 Khalil Greene.
Now that one was a shocker when I first saw him.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 04, 2017 05:45 PM (0jtPF)

240 'Alt-right' is the new 'fascist'...they don't know what it means. It's just noise that means 'bad men' to them.

I don't hear neo-con much these days.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 04, 2017 05:45 PM (jhqr1)

241 Weather Channel website has a picture of a poor polar bear calling Al Gore to come and save him/her from the rising and melting ice, oh the humanity of it all.

Posted by: Colin at August 04, 2017 05:46 PM (tu0Wd)

242 I wonder what their list of "distinctly white" names was.

Hello there!
Posted by: Frosty the Snowman at August

Master

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 04, 2017 05:46 PM (0wem/)

243 Well, as bad as the names are, having a black university or college on your resume is as bad. you would not believe how poorly qualified the candidates are.
Posted by: yankeefifth at August 04, 2017 05:45 PM (0wem/)

You mean George Washington Carver runs a shoddy institution?

Posted by: Johnny Winter at August 04, 2017 05:46 PM (Mouru)

244 "You mean I'm going to stay this color?!?" Navin Johnson

Posted by: Taqyia2Me @ Intersectionality of Deplorable and Irredeemable at August 04, 2017 05:46 PM (KQuMS)

245 Nia, Asia, Jada, Jasmin, Imani
Claire, Katie, Emma, Jenna, Heather
Which list is which?
Posted by: bonhomme at August 04, 2017 05:33 PM (jhqr1)

Ummmmm..top are stage names. Bottom are their real names.

For strippers.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 04, 2017 05:47 PM (5VlCp)

246 I wonder what their list of "distinctly white" names was.

Hello there!
Posted by: Frosty the Snowman at August

Master

Bawanna

Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 04, 2017 05:47 PM (QQ+il)

247 My favorite name is still Jahwarrior (SuperWhiteSurname).

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 04, 2017 05:47 PM (QGoUX)

248 Everyone is a criminal. Some just haven't been caught at anything yet.

Posted by: freaked at August 04, 2017 05:48 PM (BO/km)

249 222 Dr. Lewis.
Posted by: weirdflunky at August 04, 2017 05:34 PM (htOG/)
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No. No. No no no no no.

All those women did NOT put down Lewis on the birth certificate because that was the doctor's name. Please tell me you are joking.
Posted by: bluebell at August 04, 2017 05:42 PM (UoSKV)

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I would like to know too. It seems like a joke...but in some areas of the country...if they were all single and they'd been seeing the doc for 9 months, it is plausible. They say every woman falls a little bit in love with their OB while pregnant.
But like u I'm hoping it is dry humor.

Posted by: Mel at August 04, 2017 05:48 PM (KuiAN)

250 Master

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 04, 2017 05:46 PM (0wem/)

Hmmm....a combination thread-winner and ban-worthy.

Nice!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 04, 2017 05:48 PM (wYseH)

251 Somebody will have to make a law that prohibits this type of destructive study.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 04, 2017 05:48 PM (Mouru)

252 You mean George Washington Carver runs a shoddy institution?

Besides inventing the peanut and the P51 Mustang, what has he done?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 04, 2017 05:48 PM (QQ+il)

253 Posted by: bluebell at August 04, 2017 05:42 PM (UoSKV)

Nope. I even played on a little league baseball team with one of the Lewis clan. Err Lewis boys. Err Lewis fellows.

Posted by: weirdflunky at August 04, 2017 05:48 PM (htOG/)

254 I wonder what their list of "distinctly white" names was.

Josef.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 04, 2017 05:48 PM (QjxTy)

255 you would not believe how poorly qualified the candidates are

I'm guessing that they can't be much worse than the social justice gender studies basket weavers at almost any other institution of "higher learning".

Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 04, 2017 05:49 PM (Tyii7)

256 I don't hear neo-con much these days.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 04, 2017 05:45 PM (jhqr1)

Been busy.

Posted by: Karl Rove at August 04, 2017 05:49 PM (fiGNd)

257 I want in on this action! All we have to do is go to the library judges.

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LIBTARD judges

Posted by: MAGA at August 04, 2017 05:49 PM (Tyk2V)

258 a poor polar bear calling Al Gore to come and save him/her

Still stuck with the gender binary, are we? Here's a challenge for the Horde: are there any typical transgender names?

Posted by: Basement Cat at August 04, 2017 05:49 PM (3C9q2)

259 4 of 8 candidates for mayor of Detroit are convicted felons. Let that sink.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at August 04, 2017 05:49 PM (fftjU)

260 having a black university or college on your resume is as bad. you would not believe how poorly qualified the candidates are.

What do you mean?

Posted by: Morehouse College with its 76% acceptance rate at August 04, 2017 05:50 PM (jhqr1)

261 'Alt-right' is the new 'fascist'...they don't know what it means. It's just noise that means 'bad men' to them.

I don't hear neo-con much these days.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 04, 2017 05:45 PM (jhqr1)

Just say 'We were right to go into Iraq' and you'll hear it, all right.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 04, 2017 05:50 PM (3OIiX)

262 242 I wonder what their list of "distinctly white" names was.

Hello there!
Posted by: Frosty the Snowman at August

Master
Posted by: yankeefifth at August 04, 2017 05:46 PM (0wem/)

Well... seeing as how the first Legal Slave owner in America was... BLACK?

Uh.... no...

Posted by: Don Q. at August 04, 2017 05:50 PM (NgKpN)

263 Nope. I even played on a little league baseball team with one of the Lewis clan. Err Lewis boys. Err Lewis fellows.
Posted by: weirdflunky at August 04, 2017 05:48 PM (htOG/)
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Oh dear lord. I wonder what Mrs. Lewis thought of that.

Posted by: bluebell at August 04, 2017 05:51 PM (UoSKV)

264 In dealing with medical students and residents over the years, I've noticed the Asian students are not "Lavonte" or " Tashawana" - "Sienna" or "Dylan" for that matter.

They are Bill and Mary and Tom and Susan. Which is one reason there are a shit ton of them in medical school.

Even the white students/residents tend to have less fanciful or fashionable names. Four I know are named Bobby, Josephine, Bill, and Mary. How many millennials in the general population have names like that.

Want your kid to be successful? Forget "Kai" and "Saydee" and "Messiah" (which is actually a top 100 name in the US right now.) Call the kid Tom or Kate.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V : The Brewers bats have died at August 04, 2017 05:51 PM (P8951)

265 Leftists 101 thinking

Posted by: Skip at August 04, 2017 05:51 PM (pPKG5)

266 Speaking of names:

Southern California parents Priya Shah and Jaspret Brar are suing a private school for allegedly discriminating against their seven-year-old transgender child, Nicole (Nikki), who is biologically male but identifies as female.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 04, 2017 05:51 PM (op9Rd)

267 My favorite name is still Jahwarrior

We considered taking that name for our band.

Posted by: Jamiroquai at August 04, 2017 05:52 PM (jhqr1)

268 Did I ever tell you that Mrs. McCave had twenty-six sons and named them all Dave?

Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 04, 2017 05:52 PM (gIRsn)

269 I tan like an Apache. I get dark, then redder & redder.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 04, 2017 05:39 PM (QjxTy)

Melanin is a hell of a thing. Don't leave home without it. Unless you live in Seattle, I guess.

I burn and then tan. Sokay. I got used to it.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 04, 2017 05:41 PM

On my decent into Mexico City one summer, the attendants were handing out the customs forms, asking whether you wanted English, or Spanish. I wasn't evan asked; I was handed a Spanish form.

Posted by: bergerbilder at August 04, 2017 05:52 PM (lIZQs)

270 In like Flynn!

Posted by: Whitey Cracker at August 04, 2017 05:52 PM (BO/km)

271 Ah, Bander. You're always good for a meaningful literary reference.

Posted by: bluebell at August 04, 2017 05:53 PM (UoSKV)

272 Still stuck with the gender binary, are we? Here's a challenge for the Horde: are there any typical transgender names?

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What are you implying?

Posted by: Lindsay Graham at August 04, 2017 05:53 PM (gC2IV)

273
Oh dear lord. I wonder what Mrs. Lewis thought of that.

Posted by: bluebell at August 04, 2017 05:51 PM (UoSKV)

I don't think she minded at all to be honest. They were extremely decent people and besides the Medicaid check never bounced.

I denounce myself.

Posted by: weirdflunky at August 04, 2017 05:53 PM (htOG/)

274 They're never guess my ethnicity in a million years.

Posted by: Zombie Thurston Howell III at August 04, 2017 05:54 PM (Tyii7)

275 are there any typical transgender names?

Nope.

Posted by: Jazz at August 04, 2017 05:54 PM (jhqr1)

276 Well... seeing as how the first Legal Slave owner in America was... BLACK?

Uh.... no...
Posted by: Don Q. at August

1. Well, that is possibly true but not proven.

2. If you have a problem with me and want to go out of your way to challenge everything I say, just let me know.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 04, 2017 05:55 PM (0wem/)

277 I tan like an Apache. I get dark, then redder & redder.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 04, 2017 05:39 PM (QjxTy)

Melanin is a hell of a thing. Don't leave home without it. Unless you live in Seattle, I guess.

I burn and then tan. Sokay. I got used to it.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 04, 2017 05:41 PM

On my decent into Mexico City one summer, the attendants were handing out the customs forms, asking whether you wanted English, or Spanish. I wasn't evan asked; I was handed a Spanish form.
Posted by: bergerbilder at August 04, 2017 05:52 PM (lIZQs)

I get called 'multi-racial' during Summer all the time. One girl refused to believe I was just...what I am.

I think it's the bald + goatee thing.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 04, 2017 05:55 PM (3OIiX)

278 gonna...sheesh

Posted by: Zombie Thurston Howell III at August 04, 2017 05:55 PM (Tyii7)

279 g'early evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 04, 2017 05:57 PM (KCxzN)

280 Well, as bad as the names are, having a black university or college on your resume is as bad. you would not believe how poorly qualified the candidates are.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 04, 2017 05:45 PM (0wem/)

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I wouldn't have believed how bad HBCUs were if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes. A friend at work was taking online courses (engineering) at what is probably one of the top ten black colleges and showed me some of his fellow students writing. Juniors and seniors, and barely readable. Not poorly written. Worse. And these kids were being passed and promoted to the next grades, and eventually graduated.

Go look at the academic entry requirements of the $20k+ HBCUs. They're worse than the requirements of $5k state schools.

More telling? The college ranking folks won't generally compare them to non-HBCU schools.

Posted by: Moron Robbie, Not Quite as Low-IQ as Michael Obama, But Not as Smart as Some Birds at August 04, 2017 05:57 PM (psH+N)

281 Still stuck with the gender binary, are we? Here's a challenge for the Horde: are there any typical transgender names?

Newlie Dickless?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 04, 2017 05:57 PM (Mouru)

282 are there any typical transgender names?

I can't think of any.

Posted by: Storm at August 04, 2017 05:57 PM (jhqr1)

283 Last name looks Dutch...mispronouced, and not hearing correctly can make it sound like Ramirez...much head scratching when a blue eyed, blonde shows up

Posted by: A dude in MI at August 04, 2017 05:57 PM (CDETr)

284 I don't think I'd like it much if there were a lot of bluebells unrelated to me running around town because my husband delivered them.

On the other hand, I would like it very much if CBD were an ob/gyn and his patients honored him thusly.

Posted by: bluebell at August 04, 2017 05:57 PM (UoSKV)

285 Ran into a kid named Courvossier

Another name of Donkish

Posted by: Bigby's Typing Hands at August 04, 2017 05:58 PM (A6uIZ)

286 Still stuck with the gender binary, are we? Here's a challenge for the Horde: are there any typical transgender names?

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What are you implying?
Posted by: Lindsay Graham at August 04, 2017 05:53 PM (gC2IV)

The usual giveaway is letter substitution, I think.

It's never just 'Carol' or 'Denise' or 'April', they always got to tweak to spelling to make themselves even more special.

Mental illness isn't pretty and neither are 95% of all trannies.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 04, 2017 05:58 PM (3OIiX)

287 wouldn't have believed how bad HBCUs were if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes. A friend at work was taking online courses (engineering) at what is probably one of the top ten black colleges and showed me some of his fellow students writing. Juniors and seniors, and barely readable. Not poorly written. Worse. And these kids were being passed and promoted to the next grades, and eventually graduated.

Go look at the academic entry requirements of the $20k+ HBCUs. They're worse than the requirements of $5k state schools.

More telling? The college ranking folks won't generally compare them to non-HBCU schools.
Posted by: Moron Robbie, Not Quite as Low-IQ as Michael Obama, But Not as Smart as Some Birds at August

Seems they have set up institutions to screw their own.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 04, 2017 05:58 PM (0wem/)

288 Would Placenta be considered a black or white name?

Posted by: bergerbilder at August 04, 2017 05:58 PM (lIZQs)

289
Posted by: Lindsay Graham

Now there's a cracker name if I ever heard one!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 04, 2017 05:58 PM (IqV8l)

290 Transgender names - legit transgender, or the transtrenders?

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at August 04, 2017 05:58 PM (fftjU)

291 Still stuck with the gender binary, are we? Here's a challenge for the Horde: are there any typical transgender names?

Jim Acosta

Posted by: weirdflunky at August 04, 2017 05:59 PM (htOG/)

292 Posted by: Lindsay Graham

Now there's a cracker name if I ever heard one!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 04, 2017 05:58 PM (IqV8l)

I see what you did there....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 04, 2017 05:59 PM (3OIiX)

293 There are felons and then there are felons.
I know of a guy who got in to an argument with his mom.
She called 911.
He knocked the phone out of her hand.
Felony, in CA.

Posted by: navybrat at August 04, 2017 05:59 PM (w7KSn)

294 >>Still stuck with the gender binary, are we? Here's a challenge for the Horde: are there any typical transgender names?

Seems to be a strong overlap with stripper names.
Candy, Caitlyn, Chelsea....

Posted by: Lizzy at August 04, 2017 06:00 PM (NOIQH)

295 are there any typical transgender names?

Bruce?

Posted by: wth at August 04, 2017 06:01 PM (HgMAr)

296 Now there's a cracker name if I ever heard one!

The Lord bless you real good, son!

Posted by: Billy Graham at August 04, 2017 06:01 PM (3C9q2)

297 Don't cross dressers just add a vowel or some variation to their regular man's name?

Posted by: Moron Robbie, With an IQ Higher Than Michael Obama but Lower Than Most Birds at August 04, 2017 06:01 PM (psH+N)

298 The libs pushed affirmative action because it's too difficult to do the tough work of improving public schools and besides they don't want to piss their teachers union buddies. Much easier to just lower the standards for blacks.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V : The Brewers bats have died at August 04, 2017 06:01 PM (P8951)

299 Well, anything french would seem to qualify as transgender.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 04, 2017 06:02 PM (0wem/)

300 Would Placenta be considered a black or white name?

Steak red.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 04, 2017 06:02 PM (jhqr1)

301 50 years ago my father worked with a man we used to hear about all the time - Leroy Robinson. We heard about Leroy at least once a week for years. Imagine my surprise when Leroy finally was in the neighborhood and stopped by to see Dad.

Leroy was a big, Irish looking guy.

On a similar note my mom was surprised the first time she saw a picture of football player Franco Harris. She thought he was 'Frank O'Harris".

Books, covers....

Posted by: cfo mom at August 04, 2017 06:02 PM (RfzVr)

302 "wouldn't have believed how bad HBCUs were if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes. A friend at work was taking online courses (engineering) at what is probably one of the top ten black colleges and showed me some of his fellow students writing. Juniors and seniors, and barely readable. Not poorly written. Worse. And these kids were being passed and promoted to the next grades, and eventually graduated."

One chem e. job interview required me to hand-write an essay. I was offerred the job, so I guess I did OK.

Posted by: bergerbilder at August 04, 2017 06:03 PM (lIZQs)

303 Don't cross dressers just add a vowel or some variation to their regular man's name?

You're thinking of Italian names.

Marco
Luca
Roberto
Anna

Posted by: bonhomme at August 04, 2017 06:04 PM (jhqr1)

304 Transgender names - legit transgender, or the transtrenders?

I'm gonna' get myself a doc
That'll cut off my man thang
Gonna' don my dress in the morn
And act like a chic each day

And when the evening rolls around
I'm gonna' lay my tranny body down
And when the morning light comes streaming in
I'll get up and pretend ... I'm a woman
Say it again ... woman

Posted by: Jackson Browne Eye at August 04, 2017 06:05 PM (fiGNd)

305 One chem e. job interview required me to hand-write an essay. I was offerred the job, so I guess I did OK.

Posted by: bergerbilder at August 04, 2017 06:03 PM (lIZQs)

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My friend was capable, too,but 50-70% of his classmates had no business being in college, much less seniors ready to graduate.

Posted by: Moron Robbie, Not Quite as Low-IQ as Michael Obama, But Not as Smart as Some Birds at August 04, 2017 06:06 PM (psH+N)

306 >>> are there any typical transgender names?

Tucker?

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at August 04, 2017 06:06 PM (RrhD2)

307 It's Party time...LOL

My XO just called...he is stuck in transit and the CO is taking a courses so I am in charge !

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 04, 2017 06:07 PM (op9Rd)

308 44
Perhaps this is unfair of me, but I suspect Leftists are perfectly fine
with a system that makes it harder for minorities to get a job.

Then they can use it as evidence of racism and to maintain the dependent underclass.

Posted by: Emmie at August 04, 2017 05:03 PM (VHnpm)

The next step is a regulation that you have to interview and hire proportionate amounts of all the races.* See, problem solved.

* New York Times, The New Republic, Washington Post, etc. excepted. And at NBC you have to be hot.

Posted by: Typical Leftist at August 04, 2017 06:07 PM (jK8Z7)

309 IF you're a felon and can't find a job, run for mayor in any blue urban center and you have a good chance of winning. Bonus: You get to boss the cops around.

Posted by: Under Fire at August 04, 2017 06:07 PM (mcI77)

310 Fun fact: Thailand is the world leader in sex-reassignment surgeries per capita. Iran is second place.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! at August 04, 2017 06:08 PM (fftjU)

311 So ... three old black women are sitting on the back porch discussing their husbands, who were all named Leroy. So, they each gave their husbands nicknames ...

Woman 1 - I call my Leroy Mountain Dew. Because he's built like a mountain, and always ready to do.

Woman 2 - I call my Leroy Seven Up. Because he's got seven inches that are always up.

Woman 3 - I call my Leroy Jack Daniels.

Woman 1 and 2 - You can't call your Leroy Jack Daniels. That's a hard liquor.

Woman 3 - Oh yeah. That's my Leroy.

Posted by: ScoggDog at August 04, 2017 06:11 PM (fiGNd)

312 >>>Here's a challenge for the Horde: are there any typical transgender names?<<<

Depends. Last company I worked for, we contracted two trannies; Michael beget Michelle, and Richard beget Rachel. A lovely pair of coo coo bananas.

Posted by: Fritz at August 04, 2017 06:11 PM (eLttb)

313 Ban-The-Box policies are simple; employers cannot ask about criminal records of prospective employees.

I can't see how that is even remotely Constitutional. Maybe if they call Ban-The-Box a tax on questionnaire boxes ... then, sure. But other than that there is no way anyone could argue the Constitutionality of this. Shit, even disallowing IQ tests was clearly un-Constitutional (as anyone who isn't retarded knows) but this is so far beyond that; it boggles the mind.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 04, 2017 06:11 PM (rZ+mb)

314 My wife used to be a nurse in a maternity ward at our local hospital. She told me about a single mom who had a female baby and on the ID card of the (cart?) that they put the baby in the name was "female" for the first name and the last name of the mom because the mom hadn't named the baby yet. Well the mom saw the word "female" and decided that was a great name for her daughter. It was to be pronounced "Fee Mailie"

Posted by: Strobe at August 04, 2017 06:12 PM (gbWkA)

315 270 In like Flynn!
Posted by: Whitey Cracker at August 04, 2017 05:52 PM (BO/km)

+++

Dying here.

Posted by: washrivergal at August 04, 2017 06:13 PM (2+gSO)

316 Well the mom saw the word "female" and decided that was a great name for her daughter. It was to be pronounced "Fee Mailie"

Posted by: Strobe at August 04, 2017 06:12 PM (gbWkA)

So the kid was destined to be a postal worker ... Probably a pretty good guess, anyway.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 04, 2017 06:14 PM (rZ+mb)

317 Storms coming on here in the northern Adirondacks. Things are gonna get boomy.

Been listening to Robert Pattinson's cover of Van Morrison's "I'll Be Your Lover Too," Robert making this three-chord thing sound like a blues rant from 1936 Mississippi.

Posted by: Les Kinetic at August 04, 2017 06:14 PM (V3nHu)

318 It was to be pronounced "Fee Mailie"

I don't get it.

Posted by: Fee Waybill at August 04, 2017 06:14 PM (BO/km)

319 It was to be pronounced "Fee Mailie"

Reminds me of a joke with the punchline of "Ah FeFe"

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 04, 2017 06:15 PM (op9Rd)

320 285 Ran into a kid named Courvossier

Another name of Donkish
Posted by: Bigby's Typing Hands at August 04, 2017 05:58 PM (A6uIZ

Ive heard of someone naming their kid chlamydia.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 04, 2017 06:15 PM (Ri/rl)

321 298 The libs pushed affirmative action because it's too difficult to do the tough work of improving public schools and besides they don't want to piss their teachers union buddies. Much easier to just lower the standards for blacks.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V : The Brewers bats have died at August 04, 2017 06:01 PM (P8951)
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Yep.
This also applies to handing out all of those work visas to foreigners.
High minority unemployment ---but you can't find enough people to fill the jobs because of incompetence, bad work habits, illiteracy, failing drug tests, etc., etc.
So instead of addressing the problems of the natives, you import foreigners.

I can't blame the employers, to be honest. But that's a callous, short-term solution.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 04, 2017 06:15 PM (0jtPF)

322 Reminds me of a joke with the punchline of "Ah FeFe"

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 04, 2017 06:15 PM (op9Rd)

The one with the guy sniffing his whole arm?

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 04, 2017 06:15 PM (rZ+mb)

323 It was to be pronounced "Fee Mailie"

I don't get it.

Posted by: Fee Waybill at August 04, 2017 06:14 PM (BO/km)

Me either.

Posted by: Twoten Nethirty at August 04, 2017 06:15 PM (JO9+V)

324 Spelman College, #1 ranked HBCU:

" Prospective students submitting an ACT composite of 22 or higher should be in the upper half of applicants - and students with a 23 and above have very competitive chances"

http://www.collegesimply.com/colleges/georgia/
spelman-college/admission/

Georgia State:

"ACT composite of 22 or higher should be in the upper half of applicants - and students with a 25 and above have very competitive chances

Posted by: Moron Robbie, Not Quite as Low-IQ as Michael Obama, But Not as Smart as Some Birds at August 04, 2017 06:15 PM (psH+N)

325 287
wouldn't have believed how bad HBCUs were if I hadn't seen it with my
own eyes. A friend at work was taking online courses (engineering) at
what is probably one of the top ten black colleges and showed me some of
his fellow students writing. Juniors and seniors, and barely readable.
Not poorly written. Worse. And these kids were being passed and promoted
to the next grades, and eventually graduated.

Go look at the academic entry requirements of the $20k+ HBCUs. They're worse than the requirements of $5k state schools.

More telling? The college ranking folks won't generally compare them to non-HBCU schools.

Posted by: Moron Robbie, Not Quite as Low-IQ as Michael Obama, But Not as Smart as Some Birds at August

Seems they have set up institutions to screw their own.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 04, 2017 05:58 PM (0wem/)

I served many years ago with a 2LT who was an ROTC grad of an HBCU. He had to recycle the Infantry Officer Basic Course - I remember because he was on OC duty the day I reported in to mine. The battalion commander and XO we both served under, when we went to our units, actually built a case that he was too stupid to be promoted to 1LT and should be kicked out of the Army, and Division staff sent him down the street to another battalion as a rehab transfer, which promoted him to 1LT and he was around for another 2 years until he didn't get promoted to CPT and had to ETS. The thing is, he was not a bad guy, he was just too dumb to perform the minimal skills required of a 2LT. They stacked his platoon with the best NCOs so the troops didn't have to suffer too much, but it was comical. How ROTC commissioned him is beyond me.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 04, 2017 06:16 PM (jK8Z7)

326 It looks like Spelman is $27k to Georgia State's $4800.

Posted by: Moron Robbie, Not Quite as Low-IQ as Michael Obama, But Not as Smart as Some Birds at August 04, 2017 06:18 PM (psH+N)

327 323
It was to be pronounced "Fee Mailie"

I don't get it.

Posted by: Fee Waybill at August 04, 2017 06:14 PM (BO/km)

Me either.

Posted by: Twoten Nethirty at August 04, 2017 06:15 PM (JO9+V)

That's an old story. Female Brown was on her birth certificate and she pronounced it Fe mal ee because her mother thought the hospital gave you your name.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 04, 2017 06:18 PM (jK8Z7)

328 > 307

Time to nuke it from orbit! We got your back.

Posted by: Deplorable Redneck Bitter Clinger at August 04, 2017 06:18 PM (MCEs2)

329 Nude False Hope Thread.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at August 04, 2017 06:19 PM (QlJD9)

330 My personal favorite of the many silly student names I have encountered: LaZanya.
And yes, it was pronounced like "lasagna."

Dear Lord, it was hard not to crack up.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 04, 2017 06:19 PM (0jtPF)

331 @Caesar North
Was he a good runner? Good at customs and courtesies? We had some ROTC types, not a lot, but a few who weren't super sharp at anything but PT and saluting.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at August 04, 2017 06:19 PM (3OIiX)

332 Reminds me of a joke with the punchline of "Ah FeFe"

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 04, 2017 06:15 PM (op9Rd)

The one with the guy sniffing his whole arm?
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at August 04, 2017 06:15 PM (rZ+mb)

That's the one LOL...I don't remember the joke, but the punch line is great!

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 04, 2017 06:19 PM (op9Rd)

333 Guilty as charged, it was a very old joke. ;-)

Posted by: Strobe at August 04, 2017 06:19 PM (gbWkA)

334 The cute pharmacist talked me into getting a flu shot yesterday and now my arm is sore as shit.

Posted by: Weasel at August 04, 2017 06:20 PM (Sfs6o)

335 130 The black fathers I know best sure have. They're
candid and wry, but they're not joking. No name for their kid that at a
glance is going to hurt their prospects. Posted by: JPS at August 04, 2017 05:10 PM (B2Wdt)
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Any caring parent (and grandparent) is lobbying desperately to avoid the Dylan, Conor and Brittny Olivia silliness. One of my kids was talking about a 'dog's name', i.e. Murphy, Dylan, Sean, Mollie, Megan, etc.
Posted by: mustbequantum at August 04, 2017 05:24 PM (MIKMs)

I am loathe to admit I have a toddler relative named 'Roxy'. Not 'Roxanne', just Roxy. You know, like a stripper.

Posted by: the Butcher at August 04, 2017 06:20 PM (KtAmr)

336
56 @27, no joke, there was a black kid named Shitavious. SHITAVIOUS. Shitavious J. Cook. He was arrested for first degree murder at 15, so there you go.

I am going to go out on a limb and say that a fair number of those black mothers are not thinking of future educational or career advancement when they make up names.
Posted by: sunny-dee at August 04, 2017 05:05 PM (EGPU

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Kid should have changed his name to........Fuckinavius.

Posted by: Soona at August 04, 2017 06:21 PM (Fmupd)

337 330 My personal favorite of the many silly student names I have encountered: LaZanya.
And yes, it was pronounced like "lasagna."

Dear Lord, it was hard not to crack up.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 04, 2017 06:19 PM (0jtPF)

I knew a guy was named rusty nail. His parents must've hated him. He was a ginger too.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 04, 2017 06:21 PM (Ri/rl)

338 I always like the name Tetanus because it sounds like a Roman emporor's name.

Posted by: bergerbilder at August 04, 2017 06:21 PM (lIZQs)

339 Michele easy right?
Pronounced "Me-shay-lay"

Posted by: lin-duh meh at August 04, 2017 06:24 PM (4ihv2)

340 J-Quellin! Where J-Quellin at? J-Quellin!

Posted by: Mr. Garvey, substitute teacher at August 04, 2017 06:26 PM (0mRoj)

341 Roman sounding names?

Testicles.

Posted by: Weasel at August 04, 2017 06:27 PM (Sfs6o)

342 Lived in Nigeria for several years. The help called us "Master". Wasn't a racial, but a status thing. I had them (we were required by the govt. to have a steward, gardener and a nite-watch) call me "Boss".

Posted by: Javems at August 04, 2017 06:35 PM (yOqwj)

343 My daughter has a traditional Irish name with traditional Irish spelling. Other than a fellow Irishwoman my wife met, no one has pronounced it correctly right off the bat. I never really thought what it would do for her future employment prospects, but I'm not worried.

If anyone is curious what the name is, it's the Irish word for "freedom" or "liberty".

Posted by: CPT11A at August 04, 2017 06:36 PM (cCSNC)

344
285 Ran into a kid named Courvossier

Another name of Donkish

Posted by: Bigby's Typing Hands at August 04, 2017 05:58 PM (A6uIZ

Ive heard of someone naming their kid chlamydia.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 04, 2017 06:15 PM (Ri/rl)

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I'm sure you have heard of La-a.

Posted by: Javems at August 04, 2017 06:36 PM (yOqwj)

345 164 Tonto Goldstein
Posted by: Just the Punchline at August 04, 2017 05:30 PM (QQ+il)

Texas had a Carlos Goldstein on a state commission. Also Beto O'Rourke is a congressman from El Paso.

Posted by: stace at August 04, 2017 07:47 PM (7RvOV)

346 I am loathe to admit I have a toddler relative named 'Roxy'. Not 'Roxanne', just Roxy. You know, like a stripper.
Posted by: the Butcher at August 04, 2017 06:20 PM (KtAmr)

My granny's name was Roxana. She was so well loved there are several Roxanas running around in my family and others. My aunt goes by Roxie, and she's as classy a woman as you'd ever want to meet. Since she's now the oldest Roxana, she goes by Big Rox on her email.

Posted by: stace at August 04, 2017 07:56 PM (7RvOV)

347 Dr. Lewis.
Posted by: weirdflunky at August 04, 2017 05:34 PM

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Delivered. In more ways than one, I gather?

Posted by: EyeTest at August 04, 2017 08:02 PM (5x9My)

348 I should sure as Hell be able to ask someone if they are a felon. Tons of jobs should not be open to people who broke the law, purely for practical reasons.

What really irks me though is the racist question from the government that does not needed to be asked, namely what is your race on the firearms purchasing form 4473? Why do they need to know your race for the exercise of a fundamental human right and Constitutionally enumerated and protected right?

Posted by: Braden Lynch at August 05, 2017 12:57 PM (pRnlX)

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