August 27, 2013
— Ace
Every time I see @MileyCyrus slap that black woman's butt, I think about the way that enslaved blacks were whipped for white entertainment.
— Aura Bogado (@aurabogado) August 26, 2013
And then there is this bitter racialist.
1) Macklemore won best hip hop music video for his popular single ‘Can’t Hold Us’ over Kendrick Lamar, A$AP Rocky among others. He also won best song with a social message for ‘Same Love’, a ballad in support of same-sex marriage that reflects on the relationship between his queer uncles. And yes, while ‘Same Love’ is beautiful, it has received attention and sold albums mainly because Macklemore is a white dude. Many young, queer women who are artists of color—like Angel Haze and Azealia Banks—have stepped into the spotlight over the past couple years. It’s difficult to shine when you’re in always in the white, heterosexual man’s shadow.2) Miley Cyrus’s minstrel show ‘Can’t Stop’ filled the room with the sounds and sights of the cultural appropriation of working class Black culture. Her music video, which has been criticized for using Black women’s bodies (her backup dancers) as accessories for white profit by major culture blogs on the internet, proves once again that she needs a racial justice consultant. She finished her on-stage performance by triggering me (and from the looks of it, the Smith family) by “dancing” with rape anthemist, Robin Thicke.
3) Justin Timberlake, who has been busy whitewashing R&B for over a decade, walked away from the VMAs with the Michael Jackson Vanguard Video Award as well as the top honor of the evening...
So, it's racist if Black People Don't Win at the VMAs. And also, it appears black people have some degree of ownership over R&B, such that anyone white who works in that medium is "whitewashing" it and stealing from the black man.
People shouldn't think this way, but they do. That's what makes them racist. They have little reason for valuing themselves apart from their race, and therefore they view everything in terms of Stuff My Race Made, rather than Things I Myself Made, which is of course what actually matters.
It is strange and horrifying to see that those who are the most stridently "anti-racist" are in fact those most infected with racism. "This belongs to our tribe. We, The Collective Based Upon Our Slightly-More-Similar DNA, have collective ownership rights to this."
Noah Rothman found another example of this idiocy at Vulture magazine, perpetrated by some no-account named Jody Rosen.
“[T]he shock that Cyrus was peddling wasn’t sex. It was all about race,” Rosen wrote, priming his readers for maximum shock.“Cyrus has spent a lot of time recently toying with racial imagery,” he adds, revealing the disturbing fact that he sees racial imagery everywhere.
“Cyrus twerking her way through the video for her big hit ‘We Can’t Stop,’ professing her love for ‘hood music,’ and claiming spiritual affinity with Lil’ Kim,” Rosen continues. “Last night, as Cyrus stalked the stage, mugging and twerking, and paused to spank and simulate analingus upon the ass of a thickly set African-American backup dancer.”
It's interesting that she (or he, I don't know) is fixated on the racial angle and overlooking the somewhat more present angle of "Lesbian Analingus Pantomime for Tweeners." Oh and by the way, it was performed on a bear.
But of course no judgments on that.
If you’re keeping score, Cyrus is “toying with racial imagery” by virtue of her being a fan of and collaborating with African-American artists and by performing hyper-sexualized dancing with one of her black backup dancers. But this workmanlike presentation of damming evidence continues:“Her act tipped over into what we may as well just call racism: a minstrel show routine whose ghoulishness was heightened by Cyrus’s madcap charisma, and by the dark beauty of “We Can’t Stop” — by a good distance, the most powerful pop hit of 2013,” Rosen adds.
By the way I've never heard that song. I'm just saying this so those of you thinking "I've never heard that song" know that you're not alone.
Rothman analyzes this through a prism similar to one I've suggested, the notion of the tribal shibboleth, the exchange of passwords and countersigns indicating allegiance to a tribe or cult.
And you can read that take at the link. However, it occurs to me that another useful analogy is to the idea of connoisseurship. These three sad mugs are all connoisseurs of Racism You Guys..
What is the point of connoisseurship? Well, as a primary matter, to develop a refined, cultured, and sensitive palate for detecting the most subtle effects of a thing. The wine connoisseur trains himself to pick out "smoky notes" and "hints of blackberry" and wines that profited from "good ash in the soil."
Of course connoisseurship is not restricted to the physical sense of taste; art connoisseurs are fond of saying things like "It's the colors that aren't present that really stand out!"
And connoisseurs of music are given to saying things as "What wonderful silences are in this piece, where you can simply enjoy the room's tone, the vibrations and echoes in the walls themselves."
The connoisseur is trained to sense things that no one else can sense, or, at least, no one but an elite cadre of dedicated Detectors of the Subtle and Sublime.
The secondary value of connoisseurship is, of course, impressing other connoisseurs, intimidating non-connoisseurs, and, by these effects, gaining a Social Advantage which maximizes one's chances for financial and sexual success.
I actually think the secondary value is really the primary one but let's be generous and just say it's a nice unintended consequence.
Now maybe I was goofing on connoisseurship a little bit there, but I have to admit, I'd like to pick up that kind of skill. So long as it does not take a great deal of time and effort, I mean.
But of course it would take that. One can fake these things, as one can fake most things, but there's nothing more embarrassing than a fake connoisseur outed as a poser.
I am suggesting, of course, that people of little talent and little liking of hard work and training have created a new connoisseurship, a connoisseurship rather easily achieved, requiring, as it does, so very little practice and so very little reading; they have created a connoisseurship of Racism, savoring (or so they say) each note so delicate as to be imperceptible to the proletarians whose sense are too unrefined to detect anything but the boldest, most obvious flavors.
And by demonstrating their connoisseurship of racism, they gain a social advantage, that of impressing the other would-be racist connoisseurs, and the various stooges and goons stupid enough to be impressed by this shabby parlor trick.
And, as with any fake connoisseur, as with any bluffer, they gain the most when they make the most ludicrous claims: "I can virtually taste the post-war global depression in this wine; there's a character in the sweat of the grape-stompers that imparts to it a sadness that is almost transcendent."
For connoisseurs, noting that a wine has a chocolate aftertaste is rather elementary and crude. No, to really impress people -- or to really bluff -- you have to really commit to it and claim that your tastes are so refined that they can perceive flavors which exist only on an atomic level:
"Mmm.. those d-orbital electrons are really a kick, aren't they? The complexity of flavors he's managed to achieve while working within the confines of just a few electron states is simply magnificent."
And so it is with the Connoisseurs of Racism.
By Jove I Think He's Got It! @empireofjeff is now expert in the New Connoisseurship:
The peanut was invented by George Washington Carver, a known black man.I go to the store these days, and what do I see? Cans of Planter's peanuts. You know where Planters do their business?
On plantations.When I pop the top on that can of peanuts, that hiss of air sounds to me like the sharp intake of breath made by an enslaved black, as he clings to the whipping post and bears down on the pain the lash inflicts on his tortured flesh; rebelling in the only way he knows how - by denying his cruel overseer the music of his screams.
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Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at August 27, 2013 09:00 AM (/PCJa)
Posted by: shibumi at August 27, 2013 09:00 AM (25HWz)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at August 27, 2013 09:00 AM (XIxXP)
In The Gondoliers, there is a lyric reading, "when everybody's somebody, then nobody's anybody!" Just the same, when everything's "raycisss!", then nothing is racist.
If nothing else, at least the complete devaluation* of the racism card will be a worthwhile legacy of the dog-eating crackhead's term in office
*except among limp-spined GOPers
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 27, 2013 09:00 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: AmishDude at August 27, 2013 12:59 PM (T0NGe)
I was going to say this.
But AmishDude said it better.
So I'll just note that.
Posted by: tsrblke at August 27, 2013 09:01 AM (GaqMa)
Posted by: Chelsea Montana at August 27, 2013 09:02 AM (443dZ)
They are brainwashed from birth with the idea that they are perpetual victims.
Posted by: real joe at August 27, 2013 09:03 AM (XG/4K)
Posted by: DangerGirl, getting angrier by the day at August 27, 2013 09:03 AM (euACX)
Posted by: Countrysquire at August 27, 2013 09:04 AM (LSJmV)
Posted by: The Stupid Hurts at August 27, 2013 09:04 AM (oDCMR)
And sadly.... these idiots don't know their own history...
Take a look at the MOTOWN Band.... and you'll see a couple of white guys...
Why? because it was about the music....
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 27, 2013 09:05 AM (lZBBB)
Posted by: Harry Reid at August 27, 2013 09:05 AM (443dZ)
And also, it appears black people have some degree of ownership over R&B, such that anyone white who works in that medium is "whitewashing" it and stealing from the black man.
This has been one of the things taht has annoyed me for years. Have you ever noticed when a new black music star jumps onto the scene, he or she is always - ALWAYS -- placed in the R&B section? Always. It doesn't matter if their music isn't remotely "rhythm and blues." It's because "black people sing R&B" while "white people sing pop."
PISSES. ME. OFF. Talk about stereotyping!
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at August 27, 2013 09:05 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: runningrn at August 27, 2013 09:05 AM (PLOz8)
The saddest part is that there probably is such a thing and that the consulting consists entirely of apologizing for being white.
Posted by: booger at August 27, 2013 09:05 AM (xRDdL)
For connoisseurs, noting that a wine has a chocolate aftertaste is rather elementary and crude. No, to really impress people -- or to really bluff -- you have to really commit to it and claim that your tastes are so refined that they can perceive flavors which exist only on an atomic level.
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You have to say things like "peppery", "notes of leather" and "cassis" - things which would normally trigger wedgies and purple nurples amongst the incognoscenti.
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 27, 2013 09:05 AM (CJjw5)
Posted by: Fritz at August 27, 2013 09:06 AM (UzPAd)
Posted by: maddogg at August 27, 2013 09:06 AM (xWW96)
Posted by: tasker at August 27, 2013 09:06 AM (r2PLg)
Posted by: BlueStateRebel at August 27, 2013 09:06 AM (7ObY1)
Posted by: brak at August 27, 2013 09:06 AM (M2qTM)
Ha. I thought that was real.
Yeah I know. I've only just been barely paying attention.
Posted by: eleven at August 27, 2013 09:07 AM (KXm42)
Posted by: IreneFingIrene at August 27, 2013 09:07 AM (X7MMs)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at August 27, 2013 09:07 AM (/PCJa)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 27, 2013 09:07 AM (da5Wo)
Posted by: DangerGirl, getting angrier by the day at August 27, 2013 09:07 AM (waJ+2)
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Wait. Miley Cyrus has charisma?
Posted by: WalrusRex at August 27, 2013 09:07 AM (XUKZU)
Posted by: BlueStateRebel at August 27, 2013 09:07 AM (7ObY1)
Posted by: Ol' Whitey Waltrripp at August 27, 2013 09:08 AM (6xhLc)
Posted by: eleven at August 27, 2013 09:08 AM (KXm42)
I'd also note this: Several of the authors seem mad because whites have taken over "traditionally African-American" categories or some such.
That's just math.
Imitation is the greatest form of flattery, and so, if someone does something popular (like R&B or Hip hop) people will start to emulate it, and because there are more white people to emulate it than there are blacks, there's probably a higher chance that one of them will be good.
Kinda like the game Risk, where one side rolls more dice than the other. That person has a better chance of high numbers.
Posted by: tsrblke at August 27, 2013 09:08 AM (GaqMa)
Michael Jackson? "(It don't matter if you're) Black Or White" Michael Jackson?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_or_White
We've fallen a long way since 1991.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at August 27, 2013 09:08 AM (/kI1Q)
Posted by: Pretty, Pretty Princess Lauren at August 27, 2013 09:08 AM (ELdpj)
Posted by: buzzion at August 27, 2013 09:08 AM (LI48c)
i said the second purpose of it was to "intimidate" non-connoisseurs.
Posted by: ace at August 27, 2013 09:08 AM (/IWYB)
Posted by: WalrusRex at August 27, 2013 09:08 AM (XUKZU)
Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at August 27, 2013 09:08 AM (SxI9Z)
She is a no talent walking STD who is boring.
Now guess who's being talked about. Milky Virus, Sandy Fluke, Hillary! or Nasty Pelousy.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 27, 2013 09:08 AM (zF6Iw)
This stuff slays me. White people doing rap and R&B is a compliment to Black culture, not a ripoff! Sheesh. White audiences and black audiences love this music, why the heck should white artists NOT want to do the kinds of music people of all races want to hear and will pay for? (I myself was a serious funk/R&B/disco fan in the 70s, never listened to the Eagles or Cheap Trick or Springsteen or any of those white rock bands. My first concert was The Isley Brothers.) Miley Cyrus is trying to act black because she thinks black people are cool. Why is it always deemed a "minstrel show"? Macklemore has black singers on all of his songs and uses black musicians. His video WAS the best this year, it was very inventive besides being a good song. Black rappers really don't put much effort into their videos, except for Kanye.
Jay-Z has done shows all summer with Timberlake. Does that make Jay-Z a minstrel or a race traitor? Anyone wanna say that to his face??
Good grief.
Posted by: rockmom at August 27, 2013 09:09 AM (Q4elb)
By the way I've never heard that song. I'm just saying this so those of you thinking "I've never heard that song" know that you're not alone.
I have heard it, but didn't know who was to blame for it until last night. It is a fairly unremarkable piece of drivel about how the singer and her friends are gonna party and nobody can tell them not to, like, 'cause it is their body and stuff. It brings back unpleasant memories of living next to a frat house and a few hundred yards away from a Mexican dance-hall (until there was a shooting and it was closed down) back in my grad school days.
Also, Miss Cyrus does have a really raspy, unpleasant voice, like folks were saying.
Posted by: Grey Fox at August 27, 2013 09:09 AM (210xL)
Posted by: AmishDude at August 27, 2013 09:09 AM (T0NGe)
Posted by: ace at August 27, 2013 09:10 AM (/IWYB)
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 27, 2013 01:05 PM (CJjw5)
This wine has a taste of leather, implying the whip used to oppress the grape crushers was dropped into the barrel by accident.
Posted by: tsrblke at August 27, 2013 09:10 AM (GaqMa)
Geez, how do you even respond to inanity such as that? I guess you can't. It wasn't enough for the likes of Aura Bogado that the skank's "performance" was just plain vulgar and stoopid. The race card is just reflexively pulled from the deck and slapped on the table. These folks are being chased by their own shadows.
Posted by: The Third Horseman Of The Apocalypse at August 27, 2013 09:10 AM (Dwehj)
New hawtness: Let's all talk about Miley Cyrus!!
Dear Those-Who-Know-Better,
We got more upset over the Batman thing because we think we have a better chance of influencing Hollywood than our own government.
Posted by: Shoot Me at August 27, 2013 09:10 AM (qiXMt)
Posted by: WalrusRex at August 27, 2013 09:10 AM (XUKZU)
And by demonstrating their connoisseurship of racism, they gain a social advantage, that of impressing the other would-be racist connoisseurs, and the various stooges and goons stupid enough to be impressed by this shabby parlor trick.
Also money, ace. They gain social advantage, but more importantly they gain MONEY. Racism connoisseurs translate their "skills and knowledge" into becoming racism columnists, racism consultants, and racism counselors.
"Call 1-800-Racism-R-Us. We can pinpoint even the most piddling drop of racism in your organization, for pennies on the dollar! It's a small price to pay for being politically correct!"
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at August 27, 2013 09:11 AM (4df7R)
I like that.
It explains the obsession some cable newsies have of constantly beating that drum. And they all seem to be white. or whitish.
Only thing is, wine can be made again and again, art can be created with a new and unique value, but racism loses by repetitive declamation.
If everything is racist, there is no racism.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at August 27, 2013 09:11 AM (28TG+)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at August 27, 2013 01:07 PM (/PCJa)
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That's why I don't even bother, anymore. Fuck it, just concede the point. I'll be damned if I'm going to tippytoe or wring my hands wondering if what I say will be construed as racist. OF COURSE IT WILL BE.
"I am a racist. Now that that's out of the way, what would you like to discuss?"
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 27, 2013 09:11 AM (CJjw5)
Posted by: Countrysquire at August 27, 2013 09:11 AM (LSJmV)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at August 27, 2013 09:11 AM (/PCJa)
Posted by: Brendan at August 27, 2013 09:11 AM (ZeQ8L)
Posted by: Chelsea d'afrique, late to the meme as usual at August 27, 2013 09:11 AM (r+7wo)
did anyone besides me notice that Ace is in another time zone again?
Posted by: mallfly at August 27, 2013 09:11 AM (bJm7W)
Posted by: The Stupid Hurts at August 27, 2013 09:11 AM (oDCMR)
Posted by: gp at August 27, 2013 09:12 AM (+Jpqc)
Posted by: Ed at August 27, 2013 09:12 AM (E8rdu)
I thought the Begado tweet was a joke until I saw she wrote for The Nation. Mystery Solved.
Posted by: AndrewsDad at August 27, 2013 09:12 AM (C2//T)
Posted by: buzz at August 27, 2013 09:12 AM (i27M5)
Posted by: AmishDude at August 27, 2013 09:12 AM (T0NGe)
Posted by: Thurston Howell the Third at August 27, 2013 09:12 AM (443dZ)
I have lived over seas and racism is alive and well in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and parts of Asia. The liberal meme for years is that the US is a racist, mysoginst country - they obviously haven't traveled much as slavery and racism are rampant in many countries.
When I remind libs of this they quickly try and change the subject.
This is a tired old game.
Posted by: Cheri at August 27, 2013 09:12 AM (G+Wff)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 27, 2013 09:13 AM (da5Wo)
"Every time"? Someone who's not at work with Twitter blocked needs to ask her why the fuck she keeps rewinding it to watch it over and over again if it's so horrible.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at August 27, 2013 09:13 AM (/kI1Q)
Posted by: DangerGirl, getting angrier by the day at August 27, 2013 09:13 AM (waJ+2)
Posted by: Brother Cavil misses Crow and Servo at August 27, 2013 09:13 AM (naUcP)
60 I'm perfectly happy to assign twerking, analingus, gangster rap, and Justin Bieber to black culture.
Thanks, I'm still laughing.
Posted by: The Stupid Hurts at August 27, 2013 09:13 AM (oDCMR)
Posted by: AmishDude at August 27, 2013 01:09 PM (T0NGe)
Steve Levitt (of Freakonomics fame) got into some trouble if I recall with some hoity toity group at Harvard for something like this.
He swapped all their wine with 3 buck chuck, and they didn't know so he mocked them relentlessly.
I'd note, that I can tell about 3 things with wine: Sweet, dry, and earthy (I can't really explain the last one.) With "Good" and "bad" axis's on each of those that are more or less relative to my own tastes.
That's all I need to know.
Posted by: tsrblke at August 27, 2013 09:13 AM (GaqMa)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at August 27, 2013 09:13 AM (/PCJa)
Posted by: Muad'dib at August 27, 2013 09:14 AM (KjlbF)
Posted by: tasker at August 27, 2013 09:14 AM (r2PLg)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at August 27, 2013 09:14 AM (0HooB)
Posted by: Victor/Victoria at August 27, 2013 09:14 AM (FnJUz)
Posted by: Jones in CO
Agreed.
I know shit when I see it and that was a big, steaming pile of shit.
Posted by: MrsChelsea'sFishSticks at August 27, 2013 09:14 AM (0KGqp)
Posted by: BlueStateRebel at August 27, 2013 09:14 AM (7ObY1)
Posted by: Jones in CO at August 27, 2013 09:14 AM (8sCoq)
Insert Michael Jackson joke here.
Posted by: Country Singer at August 27, 2013 09:14 AM (L8r/r)
Posted by: Hawk at August 27, 2013 09:14 AM (2dYnc)
Posted by: Clownf*cker at August 27, 2013 09:14 AM (q/kmn)
Posted by: Invictus at August 27, 2013 09:15 AM (OQpzc)
Posted by: WalrusRex at August 27, 2013 09:15 AM (XUKZU)
Posted by: maddogg at August 27, 2013 09:15 AM (xWW96)
Every time I see @MileyCyrus slap that black woman's butt, I think about the way that enslaved blacks were whipped for white entertainment.
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And also, Whitey licked the enslaved blacks' assholes for entertainment?
Does this skirt have some type of undisclosed head trauma?
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 27, 2013 09:15 AM (CJjw5)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 27, 2013 09:15 AM (da5Wo)
Posted by: Victor/Victoria at August 27, 2013 09:15 AM (FnJUz)
Get a life? Hell, this *is* their life!
This is their identity, their meal ticket, and their raison d'etre. They will let it go from their cold, dead hands.
Oh, and BTW, "they" ain't just racialist blacks. They be whitey too. It's the only colorblind thing about the racial grievance industry.
Posted by: Jaws at August 27, 2013 09:15 AM (4I3Uo)
Posted by: Jenny Hates Billy Currington at August 27, 2013 09:16 AM (GmTxn)
Also, Miss Cyrus does have a really raspy, unpleasant voice, like folks were saying
I always said her signing sounds like she's been smoking for 30 years.
Posted by: buzzion at August 27, 2013 09:16 AM (LI48c)
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 27, 2013 01:11 PM (CJjw5)
See I roll with "I'm an economic elitist."
I'll freely cop to that, because I'm fairly certain it's true.
Posted by: tsrblke at August 27, 2013 09:16 AM (GaqMa)
1. This is all because Obama shot his mouth off.
2. No one he knows in the military thinks going into Syria is a good idea.
3. He doesn't think Samantha Powers should be controlling military actions.
Posted by: Miss Marple at August 27, 2013 09:16 AM (GoIUi)
Posted by: RWC at August 27, 2013 09:16 AM (fWAjv)
Posted by: Andy at August 27, 2013 09:16 AM (dqUox)
And here I used to think racial justice and harmony were being advanced by white artists like Timberlake who pay homage to black music, and Daft Punk and Robin Thicke using Pharell Williams in their songs. Hall and Oates did "blue eyed soul" 30 years ago and when I go see them I see plenty of black people in the audience. I saw Stevie Wonder a few years ago and marveled at the integrated audience. Everyone likes R&B music that has a great beat. Doesn't Beyonce have millions of white fans? Millions of young white people like black rap music too. They don't just wait for the next Eminem album.
This is a GOOD thing!
People who argue against this are racial separatists who do not want justice and equality and harmony.
Posted by: rockmom at August 27, 2013 09:16 AM (Q4elb)
Posted by: nip at August 27, 2013 09:16 AM (jI23+)
Posted by: tasker at August 27, 2013 09:16 AM (r2PLg)
Posted by: rickb223 at August 27, 2013 09:16 AM (E7Zh9)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at August 27, 2013 09:16 AM (0HooB)
Posted by: BlueStateRebel at August 27, 2013 09:17 AM (7ObY1)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 27, 2013 09:17 AM (BDU/a)
Posted by: joncelli at August 27, 2013 09:17 AM (RD7QR)
Posted by: alexthechick - Commence drinking now. at August 27, 2013 09:17 AM (VtjlW)
Posted by: BignJames at August 27, 2013 09:17 AM (HtUkt)
Posted by: Cheri at August 27, 2013 09:17 AM (G+Wff)
Posted by: RWC at August 27, 2013 09:18 AM (fWAjv)
The high point was when Cyrus shoved her nose in a black dancer's ass.
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So if they reversed position and the dancers nose was in Miley's ass, i guess that would not be racist...good to know
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at August 27, 2013 09:18 AM (SO2Q8)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Chelsea at August 27, 2013 01:11 PM (4df7R)
FIFY
Posted by: Nighthawk at August 27, 2013 09:18 AM (OtQXp)
Posted by: rickl at August 27, 2013 09:18 AM (zoehZ)
Everything since then is derivative and racist, you wingnuts.
Posted by: Fritz at August 27, 2013 09:18 AM (UzPAd)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at August 27, 2013 09:18 AM (XIxXP)
Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl at August 27, 2013 09:19 AM (8JJ6O)
Posted by: BlueStateRebel at August 27, 2013 09:19 AM (7ObY1)
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When I wuz a drinkin' man, if it didn't have a pop-top or a twist cap, I usually didn't buy it. (One look at the current prices of the brands I used to imbibe back then is usually enough to keep me sober.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 27, 2013 09:19 AM (BDU/a)
Posted by: Chelsea d'afrique, late to the meme as usual at August 27, 2013 09:19 AM (r+7wo)
Generally that requires being a concubine for a pro basketball team.
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ahh, so concubining for the Philadelphia 76ers wouldn't do it.
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at August 27, 2013 09:19 AM (SO2Q8)
Posted by: dananjcon at August 27, 2013 09:19 AM (jvd3N)
Posted by: Cheri at August 27, 2013 09:19 AM (G+Wff)
how do these "experts" of subtle racism miss the racism of Farrakhan, Sharpton, Obama etc
I know, I know
Posted by: thunderb at August 27, 2013 09:19 AM (zOTsN)
Whatever happened to Ke$ha?
Ugh. Just seeing that name makes me feel like I've picked up a dose of the clap.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 27, 2013 09:20 AM (zF6Iw)
With the amount of racism you're seeing everywhere, have you ever considered working for the Southern Poverty Law Center?
Posted by: NR Pax at August 27, 2013 09:20 AM (U+O64)
Posted by: BlueStateRebel at August 27, 2013 09:20 AM (7ObY1)
Posted by: Happy Happy Foot Time at August 27, 2013 09:20 AM (QF8uk)
Posted by: Victor/Victoria at August 27, 2013 09:20 AM (FnJUz)
Posted by: Jenny Hates Stinky Sockpuppets at August 27, 2013 09:20 AM (GmTxn)
Posted by: Captain Hate on an iPhone at August 27, 2013 09:20 AM (SD89Q)
Posted by: rickb223 at August 27, 2013 09:20 AM (E7Zh9)
The "stealing from black artists" complaint/allegation/charge has been leveled for decades. I want to note that the ultra-liberal by-no-means-racist entertainment industry has completely ignored that also.
Why? My guess is that it is too profitable to do otherwise; and in the Entertainment Industry moral posturing and sanctimonius preaching definitely take the back of the bus when it comes to money.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Buy Spleen! Now with Oxidizers! at August 27, 2013 09:20 AM (hLRSq)
Amanda Catherine Hein can face murder charges in Allentown, PA. She was at a sports bar and excused herself after saying she felt back pains. She vanished into the bathroom for 40 minutes. When she rejoined her three male friends she asked them to ignore the blood on her. Ms. Hein had delivered in the bathroom a baby boy and then stuffed the baby into a garbage bag before placing the body in the tank of a toilet. She and her friends stayed another hour in the pub and only later was the dead baby found as the bathroom was cleaned.
http://tinyurl.com/lgd5w7a
Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at August 27, 2013 09:21 AM (SxI9Z)
Posted by: Chelsea d'afrique, late to the meme as usual at August 27, 2013 09:21 AM (r+7wo)
Posted by: baldilocks at August 27, 2013 09:21 AM (Tnlh/)
Posted by: profligatewaste at August 27, 2013 09:21 AM (R3JkO)
Posted by: tasker at August 27, 2013 09:21 AM (r2PLg)
Posted by: RWC at August 27, 2013 01:16 PM (fWAjv)
**points**
I didn't get an "OFFENDED!" from that guy!
Posted by: The Hon. William J. LePetomane at August 27, 2013 09:22 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: eleven at August 27, 2013 09:22 AM (KXm42)
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Mine sang Swedish sea chanteys (are there such things?) and Ruthenian madrigals. So I'm rayciss. So be it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 27, 2013 09:22 AM (BDU/a)
Posted by: rickl at August 27, 2013 01:18 PM (zoehZ)
Mmm... Heavily bitter taste with an undertone of anger.
/chug
Posted by: Pretentious Racism Connoisseur at August 27, 2013 09:22 AM (oY6Yp)
Unpacking a bit here: white actors in black-face dancing and singing in a highly ritualized manner (minstrel show routine) whose morbid fascination with death (ghoulish) was amplified by Cyrus' amusingly eccentric (madcap) natural charm (charisma).
Does that make a single bit of sense? Her eccentric charm amplified the morbid death fascination?
Posted by: bonhomme at August 27, 2013 09:23 AM (2hTlI)
He's been cribbing the hip-hop/ R & B scene for his entire career.
Posted by: Dave C at August 27, 2013 09:23 AM (POpH/)
Posted by: eleven at August 27, 2013 09:23 AM (KXm42)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at August 27, 2013 09:23 AM (XIxXP)
When I wuz a drinkin' man, if it didn't have a pop-top or a twist cap, I usually didn't buy it. (One look at the current prices of the brands I used to imbibe back then is usually enough to keep me sober.)
I was so very fond of Chateau de Boone's Farm, 1973.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at August 27, 2013 09:23 AM (0HooB)
Miley Cyrus’s minstrel show ‘Can’t Stop’ filled the room with the sounds and sights of the cultural appropriation of working class Black culture. Her music video, which has been criticized for using Black women’s bodies (her backup dancers) as accessories for white profit by major culture blogs on the internet, proves once again that she needs a racial justice consultant.
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Now if i were to rewrite this and substitute Tiger Wood and Golf. How would that sound?
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at August 27, 2013 09:23 AM (SO2Q8)
Posted by: AtlasMugged at August 27, 2013 09:23 AM (URn6H)
“For Obama, economics is a safe way to talk about race,” said Taylor Branch, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of a three-volume history of the King era widely regarded as the definitive chronicle of the civil rights movement.
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1> Blame Republicans.
2> Send Hairy Reed out to call Republicans racists.
3> Repeat.
Posted by: Little Red Book of Obama at August 27, 2013 09:24 AM (6xhLc)
Posted by: Twerking and twerping connoisseur at August 27, 2013 09:24 AM (XUKZU)
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Don't know about the voice, but from glimpses I caught on TV, she was certainly cute in her HM incarnations. Screeching and wailing in a "performance," well, nobody looks good doing that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 27, 2013 09:24 AM (BDU/a)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at August 27, 2013 09:24 AM (XIxXP)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 27, 2013 09:24 AM (zF6Iw)
I was like, damn is that what we look like to them?
Posted by: eleven at August 27, 2013 09:24 AM (KXm42)
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 27, 2013 09:24 AM (CJjw5)
Posted by: maddogg at August 27, 2013 09:25 AM (xWW96)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 27, 2013 09:25 AM (UrtRh)
I appreciate art connoisseurs. I had a show a few weeks ago and a very knowledgeable lady examined one of my paintings for a very long time. I approached her, introduced myself, and asked her opinion of the piece (this one: http://tinyurl.com/ljjd5tu ). She proceeded to break down, in detail, everything I was striving for in that particular painting. She was able to pinpoint artistic influences, identify the golden section compositional arrangement, and essentially follow my thinking throughout every stage of the process. She was uncanny. We talked for a long time about art and politics and life in general. I felt at a disadvantage since I was clearly getting more from her than she from me.
So yeah, connoisseurship is sometimes a very good thing. We can learn from such people. Racial connoisseurs? Not so much.
Posted by: Jimmy Carter's Nightmare Killer Rabbit at August 27, 2013 09:25 AM (2jF2B)
Posted by: Bob Filner at August 27, 2013 09:25 AM (5fSr7)
Posted by: BignJames at August 27, 2013 09:25 AM (HtUkt)
Say what? I was never more proud in my entire pathetic life!
Posted by: Miley's Baby Mama at August 27, 2013 09:25 AM (Dwehj)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at August 27, 2013 09:25 AM (4df7R)
Side note folks.
Wired just showed some population by race map of America some Ivy Leaguer is turning in as his thesis statement.
Prepare to be hammered by racism all day long.
Posted by: tsrblke at August 27, 2013 09:25 AM (GaqMa)
Posted by: alexthechick - Commence drinking now. at August 27, 2013 09:25 AM (VtjlW)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton
OSP - you can't go wrong with a Zamfir reference. I actually miss those late night commercials with Zamfir's world class elegance!
Posted by: Cheri at August 27, 2013 09:25 AM (G+Wff)
she needs a racial justice consultant
What the fuck is this???? This can't possibly be a real thing....
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Whites need not apply. Only those who can pass the paper bag test.
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at August 27, 2013 09:25 AM (SO2Q8)
Posted by: Chelsea d'afrique, late to the meme as usual at August 27, 2013 09:26 AM (r+7wo)
Posted by: soothsayer at August 27, 2013 09:26 AM (cfAmX)
Posted by: tasker at August 27, 2013 09:26 AM (r2PLg)
Posted by: DangerGirl, getting angrier by the day at August 27, 2013 09:26 AM (waJ+2)
I have a racist antisemetic kicked out of Nation of Islam now head of Houston New Black Panther Party going to my kids Jewish school to talk about racism and tolerance
help me
Posted by: thunderb at August 27, 2013 09:26 AM (zOTsN)
I'm guessing this makes CAC our biggest racist.
Posted by: garrett at August 27, 2013 09:26 AM (Lu41K)
Posted by: NotCoach at August 27, 2013 09:26 AM (rsudF)
109 I always said her signing sounds like she's been smoking for 30 years.
I always thought her signing sounded kind of like the sound of one hand clapping.
Her singing, now, can't say that I've ever listened to it intentionally.
Posted by: Anachronda at August 27, 2013 09:27 AM (IrbU4)
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Does your "family" put out "contracts" on people who then "sleep with the fishes"?
Posted by: Twerking and twerping connoisseur at August 27, 2013 09:27 AM (XUKZU)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 27, 2013 09:27 AM (UrtRh)
When I wuz a drinkin' man, if it didn't have a pop-top or a twist cap, I usually didn't buy it. (One look at the current prices of the brands I used to imbibe back then is usually enough to keep me sober.)
I was so very fond of Chateau de Boone's Farm, 1973.
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For me, Old Milwaukee beer and Harwood Canadian whiskey. Harwood was cheap, but so bad it gave me a hangover before I went to sleep.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 27, 2013 09:27 AM (BDU/a)
Posted by: chemjeff, electron connoisseur at August 27, 2013 09:27 AM (vEIeT)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 27, 2013 09:28 AM (8ZskC)
Posted by: Navycopjoe at August 27, 2013 09:28 AM (wNsNP)
Posted by: The Stupid Hurts at August 27, 2013 09:28 AM (oDCMR)
Posted by: thunderb at August 27, 2013 09:28 AM (zOTsN)
So by this "logic" Cyrus, Madonna, Timberlake, etc. are enslaving black performers to appear in their shows? They are not paid, they can not eat, they have no free will because these white entertainers are enslaving them?
The infantilizing of blacks never ceases to amaze me by these connoisseurs.
Posted by: Cheri at August 27, 2013 09:28 AM (G+Wff)
Did they do surveys? Focus Groups? Polls?
What genius created this and what level of hell did they originate in?
You can see Medieval Demonic art that doesn't evoke a more terrifying and revolting creature than was shown on the VMA.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at August 27, 2013 09:29 AM (28TG+)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 27, 2013 09:29 AM (da5Wo)
Posted by: baldilocks at August 27, 2013 09:29 AM (Tnlh/)
Posted by: Mary's lesbian lover from Brattelboro, VT at August 27, 2013 09:29 AM (wR+pz)
Posted by: rickb223 at August 27, 2013 09:29 AM (E7Zh9)
'... twerking, and paused to spank and simulate analingus upon the ass of a thickly set African-American backup dancer.”
I don't care who you are, this is worth the price of admission.
Posted by: garrett at August 27, 2013 09:30 AM (Lu41K)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at August 27, 2013 09:30 AM (XIxXP)
Posted by: awkward davies at August 27, 2013 09:30 AM (WK8VM)
Posted by: tsrblke at August 27, 2013 01:25 PM (GaqMa)
That the one with colored dots for each person in America? I thought it was interesting to see how much wilderness there is in the west side of the country in contrast to the east side.
Posted by: ChelseaMonster at August 27, 2013 09:30 AM (sGtp+)
Miley Cyrus's performance made masterful use of the negative space betweenthe asscheeks of a black woman wearing a giant teddy bear head, evoking the imagery of racial reconciliation, where the traditional tribal rhythms of the Dark Continent are passed on, anally, to the white Madonna-figure, ushering in a new dawn of shared musical experience.
*sniff* That was beautiful, man.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at August 27, 2013 09:31 AM (0HooB)
"An immigrant from South America of indigenous (Guarani) decent, she is currently based in New York, and plays son jarocho music in her spare time. "
http://colorlines.com/archives/author/aura-bogado/
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at August 27, 2013 09:31 AM (/kI1Q)
... and paused to spank and simulate analingus upon the ass of a thickly set African-American backup dancer.”
If I were teh backup dancer I'd be complaining, "Who the hell are you calling 'thickly set?'!"
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at August 27, 2013 09:31 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: the Butcher at August 27, 2013 09:31 AM (8g9qq)
Posted by: Jaws at August 27, 2013 09:31 AM (4I3Uo)
Posted by: Jones in CO at August 27, 2013 09:31 AM (8sCoq)
Posted by: Fritz at August 27, 2013 09:31 AM (UzPAd)
Posted by: alexthechick - Commence drinking now. at August 27, 2013 09:31 AM (VtjlW)
***
Are you familiar with The Exorcist?
Posted by: WalrusRex at August 27, 2013 09:31 AM (XUKZU)
Yeah, Jay Z and Beyonce would not be happy!
Posted by: Lizzy at August 27, 2013 09:31 AM (UrtRh)
Posted by: Countrysquire at August 27, 2013 09:31 AM (LSJmV)
Is there any money to be made in coming up with retarded bullshit words to stick into rap songs, like "twerking"?
How about "smorching"? Just as stupid and meaningless. Album dropping Sept. 30, bitches.
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 27, 2013 09:31 AM (CJjw5)
Posted by: Beto at August 27, 2013 09:32 AM (MhA4j)
Who knew that committing analingus on a black chick was racist?
If it involves black people, it is racist. If it doesn't involve black people, it is exclusionary and therefore racist.
Posted by: Grey Fox at August 27, 2013 09:32 AM (210xL)
Awesome.
You can destroy a culture, suppress a culture, mimic a culture, shame a culture, but steal one?
Posted by: bonhomme at August 27, 2013 09:32 AM (IoTdl)
Posted by: Brother Cavil misses Crow and Servo at August 27, 2013 09:32 AM (naUcP)
Freaking noobs. Everyone who's seen an episode of Bones or CSI knows you stuff your dead bodies into the used fry oil recovery bins where they won't be found for months.
Posted by: Chelsea Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at August 27, 2013 09:32 AM (2BHYC)
"......twerking, and paused to spank and simulate analingus upon the ass of a thickly set African-American backup dancer.”
Was that wrong?
Because if anyone had said anything about this when I was hired...
Posted by: George Costanza at August 27, 2013 09:32 AM (Lu41K)
Ke$ha only has one good song. And it is only good when mashed up with video from the original Star Trek.
Posted by: buzzion at August 27, 2013 09:32 AM (LI48c)
Posted by: Beto at August 27, 2013 09:32 AM (MhA4j)
Posted by: The Stupid Hurts at August 27, 2013 09:32 AM (oDCMR)
Posted by: Mary's lesbian lover from Brattelboro, VT at August 27, 2013 09:33 AM (wR+pz)
Posted by: taylork at August 27, 2013 09:33 AM (ppNDn)
Posted by: Jaws at August 27, 2013 01:31 PM (4I3Uo)
I dunno. She thinks it's sexy or something? Like, "Look at my tongue! I can do all kinds of perverted things with it, wanna see?" I find it about as appealing as if she had popped out her eyeball and was swinging it around like a morningstar.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at August 27, 2013 09:33 AM (4df7R)
Yes.
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/332723.php
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at August 27, 2013 09:33 AM (/kI1Q)
Every time I hold a poster of The One one-handed, I think about the way that enslaved blacks were whipped for white entertainment.
Then, I cum. Hard. REAL HARD
Posted by: Chelsea Bogado at August 27, 2013 09:33 AM (bUmSq)
Posted by: rickb223 at August 27, 2013 09:34 AM (E7Zh9)
114 I saw Stevie Wonder a few years ago and marveled at the integrated audience. Doesn't Beyonce have millions of white fans? Millions of young white people like black rap music too.
Maybe, but they don't like-like it. The white fans *pretend* to like black music so that they can hide their racism down deep where no one will see it.
Posted by: Anachronda at August 27, 2013 09:34 AM (IrbU4)
Posted by: Chelsea d'afrique, late to the meme as usual at August 27, 2013 09:34 AM (r+7wo)
Posted by: The Inverted States of America at August 27, 2013 09:34 AM (EZl54)
black guy doing song written by white guy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqz876VkwwY
Posted by: Jones in CO at August 27, 2013 09:34 AM (8sCoq)
Posted by: Rbastid at August 27, 2013 09:34 AM (U9o8f)
Posted by: garrett at August 27, 2013 09:34 AM (Lu41K)
Posted by: ChelseaMonster at August 27, 2013 01:30 PM (sGtp+)
Yep, that one.
Wired cut the map unfairly though.
Take St. Louis, they kept it specifically inside the 170 loop. If you take a shot of my area it's surprisingly more integrated. Not completely, but still.
Posted by: tsrblke at August 27, 2013 09:34 AM (GaqMa)
Posted by: zsasz at August 27, 2013 09:34 AM (MMC8r)
Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl at August 27, 2013 09:34 AM (8JJ6O)
I parodied it some but I mostly intended to parody the bluffers, the duffers, the poseurs and les frimeurs.
I do think that people are too quick to denigrate any learning they themselves don't have. I think that's a natural and understandable ego-driven response, but it's not a GOOD response.
I happen to know a connoisseur. I won't say of what. I will say it's the sort of connoisseurship you guys would respect. And given he's an acknowledged leader in his field of expertise, I could never say, "Oh, he's just FAKING his refinement of taste."
He's not. I could never tell him, "Oh, that's JUST your taste." Well yes it is his taste. But not JUST his taste. There is a great deal of work involved in it.
And not to get credentialist but he's got the credentials, including from (this isn't the case but I'm trying to hide his identity) people who call him up for his opinion to evaluate their wares.
I have to think when different people keep coming to the same conclusion about his taste and ability to craft the thing he crafts, it's a real thing, and not some massive con.
That said, there is a high, high bullshit factor in much of this. And particularly in the case of Fields of Expertise that don't actually exist, like Detectin' Dog Whistles and Minstrel Shows.
Posted by: ace at August 27, 2013 09:35 AM (/IWYB)
Reminds me of that Steely Dan line: ...plays like a Roman with her eyes on fire...
The tongue......she had to be on something to walk around with that latex catastrophe going with her tongue sticking out.
Posted by: eleven at August 27, 2013 09:35 AM (KXm42)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at August 27, 2013 09:35 AM (XIxXP)
Posted by: Anachronda at August 27, 2013 01:34 PM (IrbU4)\
damn you could have a nightly half hour on MSNBC
Posted by: Jones in CO at August 27, 2013 09:35 AM (8sCoq)
What utter nothingness. What must it feel like to live a life composed of nothing but ether, devoid of any true reality or meaning? Where self-awareness is unknown?
Guess what, honey. You're being laughed at. A lot.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 27, 2013 09:35 AM (wtvvX)
Brilliant! Next VMA, here we come.
Posted by: Miley Cyrus' Agent at August 27, 2013 09:35 AM (IoTdl)
Also because "you are made of meat and bears like meat" but yeah.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at August 27, 2013 09:36 AM (/kI1Q)
Posted by: Blacksheep at August 27, 2013 09:36 AM (8/DeP)
My white 'rons and 'ettes, it appears the only way for y'all not to be "racist" if for y'all to just disappear off the face of the earth. Because you are racist just by looking a black person in the face - actually, just by breathing.
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That's what I'm saying! We're racists!
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 27, 2013 09:36 AM (CJjw5)
Posted by: Chelsea d'afrique, late to the meme as usual at August 27, 2013 09:36 AM (r+7wo)
too much money + stupid = miley cyrus
Posted by: Jones in CO at August 27, 2013 09:36 AM (8sCoq)
Posted by: alexthechick - Commence drinking now. at August 27, 2013 09:36 AM (VtjlW)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at August 27, 2013 09:36 AM (XIxXP)
Posted by: Hawk at August 27, 2013 09:37 AM (2dYnc)
Posted by: tasker at August 27, 2013 09:37 AM (r2PLg)
you mean, "I am, therefore I am racist" ?
Posted by: Jones in CO at August 27, 2013 09:37 AM (8sCoq)
Posted by: mallfly at August 27, 2013 09:38 AM (bJm7W)
206Who knew that committing analingus on a black chick was racist?
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Obviously it is only properly done to the Irish...
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at August 27, 2013 09:38 AM (SO2Q8)
I happen to know a connoisseur. I won't say of what. I will say it's the sort of connoisseurship you guys would respect.
______________________
Titties?
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 27, 2013 09:38 AM (CJjw5)
Posted by: Jenny Hates Stinky Sockpuppets at August 27, 2013 09:38 AM (GmTxn)
Posted by: rickb223 at August 27, 2013 09:38 AM (E7Zh9)
Posted by: DangerGirl, getting angrier by the day at August 27, 2013 09:38 AM (waJ+2)
Also, you're racist by not looking a black person in the face exactly the same way as you would a white person in nice clothing. See "micro aggression".
Posted by: Miley Cyrus' Agent at August 27, 2013 09:38 AM (IoTdl)
Posted by: Mary's lesbian lover from Brattelboro, VT at August 27, 2013 09:38 AM (wR+pz)
Posted by: Earl Turner and the Order at August 27, 2013 09:38 AM (UjZK5)
What is old is new again, nothing new under the sun, and so forth . . .
Posted by: Alec Leamas at August 27, 2013 09:39 AM (nnkXw)
Posted by: Blacksheep at August 27, 2013 09:39 AM (8/DeP)
Posted by: The Third Horseman Of The Apocalypse at August 27, 2013 01:10 PM (Dwehj)
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And shadows are totes black.
RACISSSSS!
Posted by: Soona at August 27, 2013 09:39 AM (IFLI+)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 27, 2013 09:39 AM (da5Wo)
Posted by: Sarahw at August 27, 2013 09:39 AM (LYwCh)
Posted by: thunderb at August 27, 2013 09:39 AM (zOTsN)
Posted by: tasker at August 27, 2013 09:40 AM (r2PLg)
Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at August 27, 2013 09:40 AM (SxI9Z)
Prepare to be hammered by racism all day long.
Didn't Hammered By Racism open for Smashmouth in 2010?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 27, 2013 09:40 AM (zF6Iw)
I thought she was imitating stripper culture
am I right?
Posted by: thunderb at August 27, 2013 01:36 PM (zOTsN)
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Strippers don't have culture. They have cocaine.
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 27, 2013 09:40 AM (CJjw5)
I think tweeting is owned by the white culture, so this Bogado lady (again sammich) is raaaaacist.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 27, 2013 09:40 AM (lnFK0)
It was a white woman playing the saxaphone of a blues song that got her assaulted by two black women. Why? They said the song was "black" and shouldn't be played by a white person.
Sharpton & Jackson along with white liberals....you've done one helluva job.
Posted by: Cheri at August 27, 2013 09:40 AM (G+Wff)
Posted by: steevy at August 27, 2013 09:40 AM (9XBK2)
Posted by: Inspector Asshole at August 27, 2013 09:40 AM (TSf9W)
Posted by: ace at August 27, 2013 09:40 AM (/IWYB)
This tribal mentality, perpetrated by a class of lazy, self-important, underachieving, non-contributors is destroying the fabric of our country that was seemingly at the cusp of overcoming such prejudices. It's as if they like the friction, drama and hate that was seemingly on the verge of abolition.
Posted by: Marcus at August 27, 2013 09:41 AM (GGCsk)
Posted by: Darth Randall at August 27, 2013 09:41 AM (Zswg6)
Posted by: AmishDude at August 27, 2013 09:41 AM (T0NGe)
Posted by: BCochran1981 at August 27, 2013 09:41 AM (da5Wo)
Posted by: zsasz at August 27, 2013 09:41 AM (MMC8r)
Haldol, an antipsychotic drug for schizophrenia, can cause weird tongue thrusting
Really? Do you know where I can score some?
Posted by: Hillary Clinton at August 27, 2013 09:41 AM (Lu41K)
white people are just ripping red brown black and yellow people off
Posted by: Jones in CO at August 27, 2013 09:41 AM (8sCoq)
Posted by: AmishDude at August 27, 2013 09:42 AM (T0NGe)
he innovated the Pencil Test.
Posted by: ace at August 27, 2013 01:40 PM (/IWYB)
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Nice! Think you could get him to hook me up with a signed 8x10 glossy?
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 27, 2013 09:42 AM (CJjw5)
Posted by: Victor/Victoria at August 27, 2013 09:42 AM (FnJUz)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at August 27, 2013 09:42 AM (/PCJa)
Posted by: tasker at August 27, 2013 09:42 AM (r2PLg)
that's why I take Dammitol
Posted by: Jones in CO at August 27, 2013 09:42 AM (8sCoq)
Ten bucks says she's "Guarani" like Elizabeth Warren is "Native American".
Posted by: bonhomme at August 27, 2013 09:43 AM (IoTdl)
Posted by: Blacksheep at August 27, 2013 09:43 AM (8/DeP)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at August 27, 2013 09:43 AM (XIxXP)
Posted by: Marcus at August 27, 2013 09:43 AM (GGCsk)
am I right?
Needed a pole.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 27, 2013 01:38 PM (E7Zh9)
She did that a few years earlier.
Posted by: buzzion at August 27, 2013 09:43 AM (LI48c)
I saw Stevie Wonder a few years ago and marveled at the integrated audience.
Shh! Don't tell him! Now you'll spoil it for all of us!
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 27, 2013 09:44 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: RWC at August 27, 2013 09:44 AM (fWAjv)
Dear Sweet Fancy Moses. These people are certifiable.
Posted by: Chelsea d'afrique, late to the meme as usual at August 27, 2013 01:36 PM (r+7wo)
{{{chelsea chique}}}
When the Connoisseurs of Race come knocking down my door to drag me off to prison for the crime of being pale as the pallid bust of Pallas in Poe's "The Raven," I promise I won't mention our twinship. Wouldn't want you getting tarred with the "collaborates with whites" brush!
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at August 27, 2013 09:44 AM (4df7R)
Someone trying to pass themselves off as a chess master who is playing against a chess master. They know they're going to get beaten quickly so they forfeit quickly saying something like,"You would have had checkmated in 4 moves." but they actually have no clue how many moves it would have taken.
There are books on it.
Ace did a post about it a while back.
Posted by: CozMark at August 27, 2013 09:44 AM (gYPAF)
Posted by: zsasz at August 27, 2013 09:44 AM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Jones in CO at August 27, 2013 01:42 PM (8sCoq)
That stuff stopped working. I am now on Fukitol.
Posted by: real joe at August 27, 2013 09:44 AM (XG/4K)
Posted by: baldilocks at August 27, 2013 09:44 AM (Tnlh/)
this is just the bizarre universe "one drop" rule
they are obsessed with race. Its the prism through which they see everything
Posted by: thunderb at August 27, 2013 09:45 AM (zOTsN)
Saxophone was invented by a white man (a Walloon living in Paris).
So no more using it in "black music."
O_O
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at August 27, 2013 09:45 AM (/kI1Q)
Posted by: Sarahw at August 27, 2013 09:45 AM (LYwCh)
She told her homies after she came back, "Oh just ignore the blood on me dudes..." And they did. WTF????
So many people desperate to have a baby to love and this bint just tosses a human baby away like trash so she can still have a good time. It is very evil and wrong of me, but damn wish she had bled to death. Then she would have been at the Pearly Gates facing St. Peter at the same time her baby arrived. The Heavenly PPV of the beat down St. Peter would have been delivered would have been so awesome to see.
Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at August 27, 2013 09:45 AM (SxI9Z)
Poor Prometheus. Hey, it's not like he took it away and the Gods didn't have it anymore. He simply copied it. (Cue digital music can't be stolen rants.)
Posted by: bonhomme at August 27, 2013 09:45 AM (IoTdl)
The next time your choice of things to do today is either write victim industry drivel or masturbate ..
Choose masturbation
Posted by: kbdabear at August 27, 2013 09:45 AM (/9IC1)
Posted by: awkward davies at August 27, 2013 09:45 AM (WK8VM)
Posted by: rickl at August 27, 2013 09:46 AM (zoehZ)
Posted by: rickb223 at August 27, 2013 01:38 PM (E7Zh9)
Pretty sure Robin Thicke was providing that.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at August 27, 2013 09:46 AM (4df7R)
When I first heard Soul Provider by Michael Bolton, I thought he was black.
--
Wait, Michael ISN'T black?
Posted by: Stevie Wonder at August 27, 2013 09:46 AM (SO2Q8)
Posted by: joncelli at August 27, 2013 09:47 AM (RD7QR)
Bitter from cradle to grave is no way to go through life.
Posted by: The Third Horseman Of The Apocalypse at August 27, 2013 09:47 AM (Dwehj)
Posted by: Anna Bogado[/i] at August 27, 2013 09:47 AM (klzyR)
Posted by: Mary's lesbian lover from Brattelboro, VT at August 27, 2013 09:47 AM (wR+pz)
well, look, I have done this an awful lot myself, but I think it's just kind of dumb to DENY that entire sectors of human learning or expertise exist at all. Like:
Psychology? Bullshit.
Art? Bullshit.
Music? Bullshit.
Theater? Bullshit.
Literature? Bullshit.
And so on. I mean it's kind of fun pose, but... eh, I don't think it's a good way to think. I think the lure of Denying Everyone Else's Abilities and Education is too strong, too comforting, too delicious, and should be resisted.
I don't know how serious you are and how much an act you're putting on (as I don't know how serious I was when I used to do this all the time), but I do think this is something that hurts conservatives, because conservatism winds up being sort of pro-philistinism and pro-know-nothingism.
At some point skepticism turns to cynicism and cynicism turns into a wholesale denial of entire swathes of learning and experience.
Anyway I'm not really ragging on you per se. As I keep saying, I've done this a lot. I still do it.
But I do think there's an ego-based temptation to sort of say "Any skill I don't have is a crap skill and maybe not really a skill at all."
Posted by: ace at August 27, 2013 09:47 AM (/IWYB)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULmC8JTTVy0
Posted by: buzzion at August 27, 2013 01:36 PM (LI48c)
I shall top you. Pat Boone covering Ronnie James Dio:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfmcrXNuCwg
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 27, 2013 09:47 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: alexthechick - Commence drinking now. at August 27, 2013 09:48 AM (VtjlW)
The peanut was invented by George Washington Carver, a known black man.
I go to the store these days, and what do I see? Cans of Planter's peanuts. You know where Planters do their business?
On plantations.
When I pop the top on that can of peanuts, that hiss of air sounds to me like the sharp intake of breath made by an enslaved black, as he clings to the whipping post and bears down on the pain the lash inflicts on his tortured flesh; rebelling in the only way he knows how - by denying his cruel overseer the music of his screams.
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 27, 2013 09:48 AM (CJjw5)
Posted by: Billy Bob, Psuedo Intelectual at August 27, 2013 09:48 AM (wR+pz)
I happen to know a connoisseur. I won't say of what. I will say it's the sort of connoisseurship you guys would respect. And given he's an acknowledged leader in his field of expertise, I could never say, "Oh, he's just FAKING his refinement of taste."
-----------------------------------------------
Ah. A fellow titteh connoisseur. Don't worry, Ace. He's among friends here.
Posted by: Soona at August 27, 2013 09:48 AM (IFLI+)
Posted by: Jenny Hates Stinky Sockpuppets at August 27, 2013 09:48 AM (GmTxn)
Posted by: Racial Justice Consultant at August 27, 2013 09:48 AM (/Mla1)
Posted by: Mary's lesbian lover from Brattelboro, VT at August 27, 2013 01:29 PM (wR+pz)
It's all the effing snow. That and no public transportation.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at August 27, 2013 09:48 AM (28TG+)
This all starts in colleges with the black studies and women's studies departments. The people that take this as their major graduate with no job skills. They go into an interview with that on their resume and 99% of employers will laugh at them.
So they need to create an industry to give these degrees some sort of value.
Posted by: i rule u drool at August 27, 2013 09:48 AM (YV/s9)
basically Miley Cyrus is imitating actual musicians in the hope that some of the talent will rub off on her?
Pretty sure that the talent has been rubbing off on her for quite some time.
Posted by: garrett at August 27, 2013 09:48 AM (Lu41K)
Posted by: Cameron at August 27, 2013 09:48 AM (OZa6k)
Posted by: Anna Bogado[/i] at August 27, 2013 09:48 AM (klzyR)
Posted by: Anchovy at August 27, 2013 09:49 AM (7Dbui)
Then they could twerk, jerk and snort until their hearts are content without bothering normal people.
Just a suggestion.
Posted by: Marcus at August 27, 2013 09:49 AM (GGCsk)
Posted by: Countrysquire at August 27, 2013 09:50 AM (LSJmV)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Chelsea at August 27, 2013 01:33 PM (4df7R)
While not appealing, that sounds very hardcore.
Though on further thought, that doesn't sound like a very effective weapon. It is intimidating though.
"Don't get close - she might give you rabies or whatever crazy she's on."
Posted by: ChelseaMonster at August 27, 2013 09:50 AM (v3pYe)
Posted by: Billy Bob, Psuedo Intelectual at August 27, 2013 09:50 AM (wR+pz)
Posted by: Andy Whorewall at August 27, 2013 09:51 AM (HYFht)
But like if you knock art -- if you say that art is just crap and awful -- well, true, but not ALL art. Just the crap that the current crop of leftist assholes are champinoning.
You could read, say, Camille Paglia, to get a more classic take on art that insists that art should exhibit things like "talent" and "craft" and "ambition," and not just be some whimsical throw-together some asshole made out of two trashcans and a piggy bank bust of George Bush.
Posted by: ace at August 27, 2013 09:51 AM (/IWYB)
Posted by: Jenny Hates Stinky Sockpuppets at August 27, 2013 09:51 AM (GmTxn)
Posted by: BlueStateRebel at August 27, 2013 09:51 AM (7ObY1)
Dilbert's Boss: I don't know how to do this so it must be easy.
Posted by: eleven at August 27, 2013 09:51 AM (KXm42)
Posted by: Anchovy at August 27, 2013 01:49 PM (7Dbui)
That would just encourage the tribalism.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at August 27, 2013 09:51 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: Oldsailors Poet Palin/Bolton 2016 at August 27, 2013 09:51 AM (XIxXP)
"I'd also note this: Several of the authors seem mad because whites have taken over 'traditionally African-American' categories or some such."
I'm old enough to remember when some opera fanatics were pissed off that Leontyne Price and Marian Anderson were singing opera and blowing audiences away. The knuckleheads muttered that they should stick with their own "jungle" music. These assholes are cut from exactly the same cloth.
Bigots. Every generation grows a new crop of them.
Posted by: Brown Line at August 27, 2013 09:51 AM (VrNoa)
Posted by: Roy at August 27, 2013 09:51 AM (VndSC)
Posted by: tasker at August 27, 2013 09:51 AM (r2PLg)
Posted by: © Sponge at August 27, 2013 09:52 AM (xmcEQ)
Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at August 27, 2013 09:52 AM (SxI9Z)
Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl at August 27, 2013 01:19 PM (8JJ6O)
EXACTLY. Her mom sat there in the audience applauding, and these people aren't complaining about this and the effect it will have on her young fans. I'm nearing 40 and to this day, if I wore shorts as short as the girls I see walking around, my mom would beat the living daylights out of me. And I would thank her for it.
Posted by: shinypie at August 27, 2013 09:52 AM (Kz85k)
Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 27, 2013 01:48 PM (CJjw5)
Sir, you are a poet.
Posted by: ChelseaMonster at August 27, 2013 09:52 AM (sGtp+)
Posted by: baldilocks at August 27, 2013 09:52 AM (Tnlh/)
Posted by: Chelsea d'afrique, late to the meme as usual at August 27, 2013 09:52 AM (r+7wo)
I can't stop laughing at this
Posted by: Jones in CO at August 27, 2013 09:52 AM (8sCoq)
More Cheesesteak, Less Hate
A Philly cheesesteak at JoeÂ’s comes with a side of justice.
by Aura Bogado - Colorlines.com August 16 2013
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at August 27, 2013 09:53 AM (kdS6q)
Isn't that an old New Yorker trick. ace should know this one. If you're in a situation where you feel threatened, just act balls-out crazy. Even tough guys will back away from crazy.
The problem is that all of New York sucks, and feel threatening all the time. So people can't stop. 99% of the crazies found out they really are crazy.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 27, 2013 09:53 AM (IoTdl)
You joke, but some no-talent "artist" will be doing this on stage at the VMAs by 2016. Hell, maybe a backup dancer will saw off his member and stick it in the socket during the guitar solo.
Shock. It's the new talent.
Posted by: Jaws at August 27, 2013 09:53 AM (4I3Uo)
Posted by: rickb223 at August 27, 2013 09:53 AM (E7Zh9)
Seriously.
A bunch of lily-white folks in turtlenecks and sweaters using these exact phrases in a most concerned tone would be damned funny. Even have them swishing wine in a glass through most of the skit. A fire in the fireplace in the background, reflections of the flames dancing off the deep mahogany paneling. Maybe eating cheese, too.
Then at the end, you could give credit to the actual script-writers.
Posted by: RoyalOil at August 27, 2013 09:54 AM (VjL9S)
Posted by: Chelsea d'afrique, late to the meme as usual at August 27, 2013 01:52 PM (r+7wo)
*fist bump!*
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at August 27, 2013 09:54 AM (4df7R)
Not a lot of space between "I don't understand your painting so it's SHIT!" and "you're only more successful than me because WHITE MALE PRIVILEGE!"
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at August 27, 2013 09:54 AM (/kI1Q)
Posted by: mallfly at August 27, 2013 09:54 AM (bJm7W)
Posted by: Marcus at August 27, 2013 09:54 AM (GGCsk)
He just happened to be black.
Posted by: eleven at August 27, 2013 09:54 AM (KXm42)
Shock. It's the new talent.
Posted by: Jaws at August 27, 2013 01:53 PM (4I3Uo)
Mayonnaise enemas: they're about to go mainstream.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at August 27, 2013 09:55 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: bonhomme at August 27, 2013 01:53 PM (IoTdl)
Perhaps the instinctual aversion has some truth to it. You can get crazy on you, and then you go crazy.
Posted by: ChelseaMonster at August 27, 2013 09:55 AM (v3pYe)
In 2013, we get this from Drake:
I touched down in '86
Knew I was a man by the age of 6
I even fucked the girl that used to babysit
But that was years later on some crazy shit
.....
Ain't no wishing over on this side
Y'all don't fuck with' us and we don't fuck with' y'all, it's no different over on this side
God damn
Should I listen to everybody or myself?
Cause myself just told myself, "You the motherfuckin' man, you don't need no help"
Can't you just smell the R&B?
Posted by: B at August 27, 2013 09:56 AM (XyoGP)
Posted by: Billy Bob, Psuedo Intelectual at August 27, 2013 09:56 AM (wR+pz)
Posted by: Vic at August 27, 2013 09:56 AM (zZbNF)
Posted by: nip at August 27, 2013 09:56 AM (jI23+)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at August 27, 2013 09:56 AM (/PCJa)
Not a lot of space between "I don't understand your painting so it's SHIT!" and "you're only more successful than me because WHITE MALE PRIVILEGE!"
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at August 27, 2013 01:54 PM (/kI1Q)
Maybe it's like those impossible Escher paintings. See? Art!
Posted by: ChelseaMonster at August 27, 2013 09:56 AM (v3pYe)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at August 27, 2013 09:56 AM (/PCJa)
I think it's a double-edged sword. From my observations, the connoisseurs become mocked and discounted when they adopt the attitude that due to their connoissuerism, that deep understanding or knowledge of a single topic, they are thus not only somehow innately better humans than the unwashed ignorants, but that they are also inherently deeply understanding or knowledgeable of all topics.
Posted by: Country Singer at August 27, 2013 09:57 AM (L8r/r)
Posted by: Billy Bob, Psuedo Intelectual at August 27, 2013 09:57 AM (wR+pz)
Its worldwide. Lotta people these days that are just kinda blank. They can be rich, poor, ignorant, or educated, you look into them and there's just nothing there.
Posted by: Chelsea Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at August 27, 2013 09:57 AM (2BHYC)
Posted by: tasker at August 27, 2013 09:58 AM (r2PLg)
an art form.
very true, but then, medicine is an art form.
Not everything can be reduced to hard science. In many fields, there are simply too many unknowns and too many things which cannot be measured.
In such areas, we have two choices:
Do nothing at all, for we will never understand the area with a scientific level of rigor;
or at least construct a system of guesses, observed tendencies, syndromes, etc. A much "fuzzier" form of science (that's why it's soft science), but then, all actual hard science began, long ago, as soft science.
What I'm doing right now -- arguing with you -- is not a hard science but that doesn't mean it's without value.
Posted by: ace at August 27, 2013 09:58 AM (/IWYB)
***
Specially those Greek homos.
Posted by: Reverend Al at August 27, 2013 09:58 AM (XUKZU)
I mean smooth.
My usual taste is more Dave Mustaine.
Posted by: nip at August 27, 2013 01:56 PM (jI23+)
Nat King Cole's voice makes me shiver. He had such a gorgeous voice. "Nature Boy" is a song that I could listen to a hundred times in a row wihtout tiring of it.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at August 27, 2013 09:58 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: Rev Jesse MLK Sharpton Evers at August 27, 2013 09:58 AM (vYB+W)
Nat has been in a LOT of movies. And yes, he was smooth. I have a double album of his with greatest hits and a few singles I downloaded.
Posted by: Vic at August 27, 2013 09:58 AM (zZbNF)
Posted by: Victor/Victoria at August 27, 2013 09:58 AM (FnJUz)
***
Or is it real subtle satire?
Posted by: WalrusRex at August 27, 2013 09:59 AM (XUKZU)
Posted by: buzzion at August 27, 2013 01:36 PM (LI48c)
NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!1111!!!!
Please God Help ME.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at August 27, 2013 09:59 AM (28TG+)
Posted by: TallDave at August 27, 2013 09:59 AM (/s1LA)
Um, really? They really want to claim this embarrassing attention-whoring cesspool spectacle and say it represents a white artist stealing Black culture? That's what they consider "working class Black culture"? Which means that if a black person had performed that horrific little number it would have been okay and somehow not a tasteless mess? That's honestly one of the saddest things I've seen in recent memory.
Posted by: MojoRojo at August 27, 2013 10:00 AM (eDHo4)
Posted by: Joe at August 27, 2013 10:00 AM (7pOq5)
Posted by: baldilocks at August 27, 2013 01:52 PM (Tnlh/)
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The spirit of chaos. I like that. I'm stealing it.
Posted by: Soona at August 27, 2013 10:00 AM (IFLI+)
Speaking of Nat King Cole, I was watching a movie that had him singing in the background. Do not know the song, but it was fucking smooth.
Check out Sam Cooke: ' Live at the Copa'. Great Record.
Posted by: garrett at August 27, 2013 10:00 AM (Lu41K)
Posted by: The Rev Jesse at August 27, 2013 10:00 AM (wR+pz)
Posted by: tasker at August 27, 2013 10:00 AM (r2PLg)
Posted by: Country Singer at August 27, 2013 01:57 PM (L8r/r)
*lightbulb of sudden realization*
By God... THAT'S IT.
JOURNALISTS ARE CONNOISSEURS OF OMNISCIENCE.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at August 27, 2013 10:00 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: Speedy Gonzalez[/i] at August 27, 2013 10:00 AM (klzyR)
I'm pretty sure that's a racist codeword.
Posted by: Marcus at August 27, 2013 10:01 AM (GGCsk)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 27, 2013 10:01 AM (9Xc5j)
Posted by: Vic at August 27, 2013 10:01 AM (zZbNF)
Posted by: alexthechick - Commence drinking now. at August 27, 2013 10:01 AM (VtjlW)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 27, 2013 02:01 PM (9Xc5j)
Playboy is too tame. She has already got a self-made porno out on the internet and it is easy to find.
Posted by: Vic at August 27, 2013 10:02 AM (zZbNF)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 27, 2013 10:02 AM (g1DWB)
Posted by: garrett at August 27, 2013 10:02 AM (Lu41K)
Posted by: Vic at August 27, 2013 01:58 PM (zZbNF)
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Meh. Nat's got nothin' over Lou Rawls.
Posted by: Soona at August 27, 2013 10:02 AM (IFLI+)
The latter is condescending and annoying, and exists to "put you in your place." The former has truly perfected (or as close as can be) his "art." The quick way to tell the difference is that the connoisseur will say things like "it takes a refined palette" where the expert says things like, "here, let me show you..."
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at August 27, 2013 01:56 PM (/PCJa)
I don't think that's it. The expert is able to do; the connoisseur is able to identify the expertise of the expert.
Being a connoisseur is an expertise of its own, but it is different than being an expert in the field of question. That doesn't mean the connoisseur is useless - he's acting as a sort of information broker.
Posted by: ChelseaMonster at August 27, 2013 10:02 AM (oY6Yp)
Because that's not enduring or shocking enough.
Maybe they have a room for her next to Amanda Bynes.
Posted by: Marcus at August 27, 2013 10:02 AM (GGCsk)
Posted by: Billy Bob, Psuedo Intelectual at August 27, 2013 10:02 AM (wR+pz)
Posted by: Chelsea d'afrique, late to the meme as usual at August 27, 2013 10:03 AM (r+7wo)
http://youtu.be/OG3PnQ3tgzY
Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at August 27, 2013 10:03 AM (SxI9Z)
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 27, 2013 10:03 AM (C8mVl)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 27, 2013 10:03 AM (9Xc5j)
Posted by: rickb223 at August 27, 2013 10:03 AM (E7Zh9)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Chelsea at August 27, 2013 01:58 PM (4df7R)
"Unforgettable" was our wedding song. I suppose I should denounce myself now for that racist expropriation of black culture.
Posted by: rockmom at August 27, 2013 10:03 AM (NYnoe)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Chelsea at August 27, 2013 02:00 PM (4df7R)
I was actually thinking "liberals" when I wrote that, so yeah, we're on the same page, lol.
Posted by: Country Singer at August 27, 2013 10:04 AM (L8r/r)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 27, 2013 02:01 PM (9Xc5j)
They won't let her bring the pedo bears along.
Posted by: buzzion at August 27, 2013 10:04 AM (LI48c)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 27, 2013 10:04 AM (zF6Iw)
Posted by: Invictus at August 27, 2013 10:05 AM (OQpzc)
Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at August 27, 2013 10:05 AM (SxI9Z)
Posted by: Marcus at August 27, 2013 10:05 AM (GGCsk)
Posted by: AmishDude at August 27, 2013 10:05 AM (T0NGe)
Posted by: Victor/Victoria at August 27, 2013 10:05 AM (FnJUz)
You could always ask Karl Urban to lift you up there with his well-sculpted arms.
Speaking of Karl, I just realized this not too long ago. I saw an old movie of his, from a little while back called "The Price of Milk". Have you seen it?
Posted by: EC at August 27, 2013 10:06 AM (GQ8sn)
Posted by: Billy Bob, Psuedo Intelectual at August 27, 2013 10:06 AM (wR+pz)
Posted by: alexthechick - Commence drinking now. at August 27, 2013 10:06 AM (VtjlW)
Posted by: AmishDude at August 27, 2013 10:06 AM (T0NGe)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 27, 2013 10:06 AM (9Xc5j)
I'd pay a dollar to see that.
Wait. Can't we see that NOW on TMZ?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (Ecclesiates 9:11) at August 27, 2013 10:07 AM (28TG+)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 27, 2013 02:01 PM (9Xc5j)
Are you kidding? Even Al Goldstein wouldn't touch that diseased skank.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 27, 2013 10:07 AM (zF6Iw)
Playboy? We've blown past Playboy without even tapping the brakes. She's far more likely to end up on the Bang Bus.
Posted by: Jaws at August 27, 2013 10:07 AM (4I3Uo)
Posted by: tasker at August 27, 2013 10:07 AM (r2PLg)
The latter is condescending and annoying, and exists to "put you in your place." The former has truly perfected (or as close as can be) his "art."
I don't think so. I would view an expert as someone who has a great deal of knowledge, whereas a connosseuir is one who has a great deal of insight. The two are not mutually exclusive, of course, but I expect that you would find an expert to tell you about great works of art, whereas it is the connosseuir who finds the NEXT great artist.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at August 27, 2013 10:07 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: NYC Parent at August 27, 2013 10:07 AM (HEo6y)
"the cultural appropriation of working class Black culture."
Um, really? They really want to claim this embarrassing attention-whoring cesspool spectacle and say it represents a white artist stealing Black culture?
The sad truth is that, yes, white Americans have appropriated a lot of "black culture." None of it has improved culture overall. None of it.
Posted by: CJ at August 27, 2013 10:07 AM (9KqcB)
skill I don't have is a crap skill and maybe not really a skill at all."
***
I'm not envious of anybody because, as an attorney, I run the world. Just ask Amishdude.
Posted by: WalrusRex at August 27, 2013 10:08 AM (XUKZU)
Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at August 27, 2013 02:05 PM (SxI9Z)
Those grapes are sour. You can tell by the hue of the grape skin, and their aroma at ground level.
Posted by: Fox at August 27, 2013 10:08 AM (v3pYe)
Posted by: rickb223 at August 27, 2013 10:08 AM (E7Zh9)
Posted by: Shoot Me at August 27, 2013 10:09 AM (qiXMt)
Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at August 27, 2013 10:09 AM (SxI9Z)
Posted by: alexthechick - Commence drinking now. at August 27, 2013 10:09 AM (VtjlW)
It breaks my heart to tell you this, O beloved twin, but this statement makes you racist.
*sobs*
Posted by: Chelsea d'afrique, late to the meme as usual at August 27, 2013 02:03 PM (r+7wo)
*weeps* Why? WHY was I born with such a cold, icy heart? WHY was I steeped in the culture of racism, such that it has stained my very SOUL?
*shaking fists at sky* WHYYYYYYY?
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at August 27, 2013 10:09 AM (4df7R)
>If an ex-child star wants to really go for shock value, they should get an engineering degree.— <
Posted by: Marcus at August 27, 2013 10:10 AM (GGCsk)
True Story.....(well, synopsis there of) of a conversation I recently had a black friend of mine.
Her: I went to an all black college, majored in Black Studies. I watch BET, I like black music, black culture, balck arts... black black black black.
Me: ".... not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
Her: You got that riiiiight!!!!!
Me: How can I do that when you continually set yourself apart as black??
Her: You Raaacist Honky White Privileged Living Redneck Cracker.
Me: ..... nevermind.
Posted by: fixerupper at August 27, 2013 10:10 AM (nELVU)
Before that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coon_song
Posted by: Ava Pagoda at August 27, 2013 10:10 AM (6xhLc)
'FIRST VICTIM' OF STRIKE ON SYRIA
Hum? So obama strikes Syria and then Iran and Hexbellah strike Israel and obama asks Israel to hold back and not to act disproportionally ?
***
Obozo has skillfully strategized himself into a no-win situation. Next, blundering into WWIII.
Posted by: WalrusRex at August 27, 2013 10:10 AM (XUKZU)
Posted by: WalrusRex at August 27, 2013 02:08 PM (XUKZU)
Wait, I thought that was the Illuminati?
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at August 27, 2013 10:10 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: Martha Vineyard Dickheads at August 27, 2013 10:11 AM (wR+pz)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 27, 2013 10:11 AM (gTN+E)
Posted by: CAC at August 27, 2013 10:11 AM (jA+VS)
Posted by: caustic at August 27, 2013 10:11 AM (/b8+5)
Posted by: RWC at August 27, 2013 10:11 AM (fWAjv)
*shaking fists at sky* WHYYYYYYY?
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Chelsea at August 27, 2013 02:09 PM (4df7R)
Now concentrate those feelings into a dark ball of hate.
Good. You have tasted the power of the Dark Side.
Posted by: Sith Lord, Not That One at August 27, 2013 10:12 AM (oY6Yp)
Posted by: Marcus at August 27, 2013 02:10 PM (GGCsk)
Case in point: Danica McKellar.
BTW, I would pay good money for a movie or TV show where Danica McKellar and Summer Glau are sisters. They look eerily similar.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at August 27, 2013 10:12 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: nip at August 27, 2013 10:12 AM (jI23+)
Posted by: Countrysquire at August 27, 2013 10:12 AM (LSJmV)
Posted by: The Biderberg Group at August 27, 2013 10:12 AM (wR+pz)
Posted by: WalrusRex at August 27, 2013 02:10 PM (XUKZU)
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Blundering????
Im convinced we're running at top sprint speed into it..... on fucking purpose.
Posted by: fixerupper at August 27, 2013 10:12 AM (nELVU)
Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl at August 27, 2013 10:12 AM (8JJ6O)
That's because mom and her has-been dad are making a shitload of money off Miley's crack whore act
Posted by: kbdabear at August 27, 2013 10:12 AM (/9IC1)
Posted by: alexthechick - Commence drinking now. at August 27, 2013 10:13 AM (VtjlW)
Posted by: Arbalest at August 27, 2013 10:13 AM (FlRtG)
Fixed.
Oh, and shut up and take my money!!!
Posted by: EC at August 27, 2013 10:13 AM (GQ8sn)
Posted by: WalrusRex at August 27, 2013 02:08 PM (XUKZU)
Wait, I thought that was the Illuminati?
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Chelsea at August 27, 2013 02:10 PM (4df7R)
The Illuminati are lawyers? EGADS.
Posted by: ChelseaMonster at August 27, 2013 10:13 AM (v3pYe)
Posted by: Soona at August 27, 2013 02:02 PM (IFLI+)
Yeah Lou was smooth too, as well as Sam Cook.
Posted by: Vic at August 27, 2013 10:13 AM (zZbNF)
And not "empowering" enough. These kids brand themselves, and by golly, she'll insist on branding her descent into porno - posting pics on twitter, incorporating it into her latest single's music video, tweeting links to her YouTube channel, etc.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 27, 2013 10:13 AM (UrtRh)
Posted by: NYC Parent at August 27, 2013 10:13 AM (HEo6y)
Posted by: rickb223 at August 27, 2013 10:13 AM (E7Zh9)
Posted by: EROWMER at August 27, 2013 10:13 AM (OONaw)
Posted by: nip at August 27, 2013 10:14 AM (jI23+)
Posted by: Victor/Victoria at August 27, 2013 10:14 AM (FnJUz)
Yep, nobody wants to take on crazy. I think the comparison is inapt. It's more like a crypto-fascist Leninist with a football.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 27, 2013 10:14 AM (A0glY)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coon_song
I briefly mention it in my book when Sophie Tucker has a cameo, but when she was a young girl on the Lower East Side, she would black up her face and sing "darkie" songs. Performers like that - especially if they had back-of-the-house leather lungs - were called "coon shouters."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 27, 2013 10:14 AM (zF6Iw)
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That.Is.AWESOME.
Posted by: fixerupper at August 27, 2013 10:14 AM (nELVU)
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at August 27, 2013 10:14 AM (a3/N/)
Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at August 27, 2013 10:14 AM (SxI9Z)
~CJ
Oh, I'm not claiming they haven't. I'm just shocked someone would look at that sleezefest and rush to stake claim to it as a representation of their "culture." But then again I worked hard to come out of a white trash background so perhaps I don't see the appeal in embracing that sort of thing.
Posted by: MojoRojo at August 27, 2013 10:14 AM (eDHo4)
>>Playboy's way too classy for that skank.
Playboy stopped being shocking after Marilyn posed for it. Now it's like some kind of rite of passage for attractive young actresses or models to be in Playboy (though you get more sexualized content from a typical Vogue photospread anymore).
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at August 27, 2013 10:15 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: Marcus at August 27, 2013 02:10 PM (GGCsk)
Case in point: Danica McKellar.
BTW, I would pay good money for a movie or TV show where Danica McKellar and Summer Glau are sisters. They look eerily similar.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Chelsea at August 27, 2013 02:12 PM (4df7R)
Miyam Bialik also has an advanced degree. Its not the same as what her character on Big Bang Theory has but its similar.
Posted by: buzzion at August 27, 2013 10:15 AM (LI48c)
Posted by: Lincolntf at August 27, 2013 10:15 AM (ZshNr)
C'mon, you all know you were thinking it.
Posted by: Fritz at August 27, 2013 10:16 AM (UzPAd)
i think another big driving factor is rejectivism. We are speaking, largely, of industries/areas of learning in which almost all of the workers are actively hostile to us, so it is natural to reject that which gives them power in a blanket way.
But that kind of rejectivism is sort of the reaction of the weak against the strong. I think rejectivism is underclass blacks' response to a dominant white culture they see as hostile to them, or at least unfair, which then leads them to reject half (or more) of the habits that create and sustain the middle class.
I think you see this in the Muslim world. The White Christian West has become good at making things, having a secular government, advancing pluralism, etc. But that's the White Christian West way; we must Reject that, and find Our Own Way.
Blanket rejectivism is often a crude tool where a scalpel is required. Reject the stupid and evil, appropriate the good and smart. But to simply write off entire categories of human learning as wisdom as Something The Other Tribe is Good At almost always results in bad outcomes.
Posted by: ace at August 27, 2013 10:16 AM (/IWYB)
Posted by: alexthechick - Commence drinking now. at August 27, 2013 10:17 AM (VtjlW)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 27, 2013 10:17 AM (gTN+E)
Posted by: phoenixgirl @phxazgrl at August 27, 2013 10:18 AM (8JJ6O)
Posted by: Victor/Victoria at August 27, 2013 02:14 PM (FnJUz)
As I said earlier it's already out there. She has made porn movies with some guy and it is all over the net. I would link to it but ace don't like us linking to porn.
Posted by: Vic at August 27, 2013 10:18 AM (zZbNF)
Posted by: bonhomme at August 27, 2013 02:14 PM (A0glY)
Okay, monkey, let's go over this again. You pull the pin on the hand grenade and throw it at the enemy.
"OOook!"
Stop throwing your poop at me, or you won't get your treats! I told you, the grenade is not edible - Okay, I'm done. Screw this experiment.
"EEEEK!" *Splat*
Posted by: Frustrated Scientist at August 27, 2013 10:18 AM (sGtp+)
Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at August 27, 2013 10:18 AM (SxI9Z)
Posted by: mugiwara at August 27, 2013 10:18 AM (XctgQ)
Posted by: Big Ben at August 27, 2013 10:18 AM (I5Htn)
Posted by: caustic at August 27, 2013 10:18 AM (/b8+5)
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Chelsea at August 27, 2013 02:09 PM"
Soul? I was led to believe you're a ginger...
*ducks*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 27, 2013 10:18 AM (knoK7)
So I take it you are against taking stuff from others? May I quote you on that?
Posted by: dogfish at August 27, 2013 10:19 AM (nsOJa)
Not everything can be reduced to hard science. In many fields, there are simply too many unknowns and too many things which cannot be measured.
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That's why they call any medical professional's career a "practice".
Because that's what it takes to become a good medical professional.
Medicine is not science. There's a strong element of science connected to it, but not the main driver. Medicine is an artform. It's why some universities put their medical schools in the liberal arts departments.
Posted by: Soona at August 27, 2013 10:19 AM (IFLI+)
MOSCOW, August 27 (RIA Novosti) – A firebrand Russian
nationalist-turned-senior official said Tuesday that the West was acting
in the Islamic world like a “monkey with a hand grenade.
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Cue the racist comments from MFM in 3-2-1....
Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at August 27, 2013 10:19 AM (pDRpv)
Posted by: Chelsea Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at August 27, 2013 10:19 AM (2BHYC)
Posted by: CAC at August 27, 2013 10:20 AM (jA+VS)
Posted by: Billy Bob, Psuedo Intelectual at August 27, 2013 10:20 AM (wR+pz)
Posted by: alexthechick - Commence drinking now. at August 27, 2013 10:20 AM (VtjlW)
Posted by: baldilocks at August 27, 2013 10:20 AM (Tnlh/)
Posted by: AmishDude at August 27, 2013 10:20 AM (T0NGe)
Yeah, how long before we get to see Miley's va jay jay close up and personal?
Why should Dad be the only one?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 27, 2013 10:21 AM (zF6Iw)
*lawyerly fist bump*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 27, 2013 10:21 AM (knoK7)
Posted by: © Sponge at August 27, 2013 10:21 AM (xmcEQ)
Posted by: Countrysquire at August 27, 2013 10:21 AM (LSJmV)
Posted by: Billy Bob, Psuedo Intelectual at August 27, 2013 10:21 AM (wR+pz)
Take a look at the MOTOWN Band.... and you'll see a couple of white guys...
Why? because it was about the music....
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 27, 2013 01:05 PM (lZBBB)
I got quite a shock when I looked at my iPod's screen when "You lost that loving feeling" was playing and saw the Righteous Brothers were white. I had no idea.
Posted by: Jollyroger at August 27, 2013 10:22 AM (t06LC)
"It's interesting that she (or he, I don't know) is fixated on the racial angle and overlooking the somewhat more present angle of "Lesbian Analingus Pantomime for Tweeners." Oh and by the way, it was performed on a bear."
That would make it Bestial Lesbian Analingus Pantomime for Tweeners. Better known as BLAPT, which sounds like how Mushmouth on the Fat Albert show would pronounce "black". The racial stereotypes never end.
Posted by: somebody else, not me at August 27, 2013 10:22 AM (29vnO)
Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at August 27, 2013 10:22 AM (pDRpv)
Posted by: alexthechick - Commence drinking now. at August 27, 2013 10:22 AM (VtjlW)
*ducks*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 27, 2013 02:18 PM (knoK7)
*sigh* FINE. I was trying to utilize brevity to make the point more heartfelt, since "stained my SOUL-SHAPED HOLLOW SPACE" doesn't roll off the tongue.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at August 27, 2013 10:22 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 27, 2013 10:22 AM (gTN+E)
Posted by: baldilocks at August 27, 2013 10:23 AM (Tnlh/)
Hahahahaha, after years of the drunken/rug addled Lohan how could Miley be any worse?
Posted by: Vic at August 27, 2013 10:23 AM (zZbNF)
Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at August 27, 2013 10:23 AM (SxI9Z)
Posted by: John Kerry at August 27, 2013 10:24 AM (Lljg2)
Could it be as simple as Angry Rejection vs. Effective Messaging when the message is still essentially the same? Or is that an oversimplification given that those crafting The Narrative own the media megaphones and were going to gain a foothold either way?
Posted by: The Obsidian Owl at August 27, 2013 02:22 PM (tWmgi)
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I, for one, don't know why anyone would play defense on that issue. Just show how the data has been manipulated, and say global warmists are liars, and be done with it.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at August 27, 2013 10:24 AM (a3/N/)
Posted by: AmishDude at August 27, 2013 10:25 AM (T0NGe)
Posted by: Zombie Charlie Pride at August 27, 2013 10:25 AM (wR+pz)
Posted by: RWC at August 27, 2013 10:25 AM (fWAjv)
Posted by: Vic at August 27, 2013 02:18 PM (zZbNF)
There is no sex tape of Cyrus. I should know I'm an expert. I mean my friend told me and he is an expert. There are tapes people have claimed to be Cyrus but they are easily disputed.
Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2013 10:26 AM (m2CN7)
Posted by: Iowa Waitress at August 27, 2013 10:26 AM (wR+pz)
Does that include half-blackness too?
Just... um, curious.
Posted by: Kal Penn at August 27, 2013 10:26 AM (WMsq+)
Posted by: caustic at August 27, 2013 02:18 PM (/b8+5)
To feed the troll a little bit. In the real world, parents have influence (respect/authority) with their children, even adult ones.
If they love their child, they will tell them, "this is a really bad idea" and even do anything within their power to influence the child to do otherwise.
The parents that don't have screwed the pooch already, either through apathy or cowardice.
Posted by: Frustrated Scientist at August 27, 2013 10:26 AM (v3pYe)
Posted by: AmishDude at August 27, 2013 02:20 PM (T0NGe)
You cannot write a proof to explain why the Mona Lisa's smile has fascinated onlookers for centuries. You may be able to break down the mathetmatical angles and geometries of it, but that's not a reason. That's just Leonardo's talent for capturing his subject's features on display.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at August 27, 2013 10:27 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: © Sponge at August 27, 2013 10:27 AM (xmcEQ)
Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2013 02:26 PM (m2CN7)
Yes, she has one out there.
Posted by: Vic at August 27, 2013 10:27 AM (zZbNF)
Posted by: Billy Bob, Psuedo Intelectual at August 27, 2013 10:27 AM (wR+pz)
Yeah, what young girl wouldn't want to be wooed like that? O_O
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at August 27, 2013 10:28 AM (/kI1Q)
You know what I mean. Posted by: baldilocks at August 27, 2013 10:28 AM (Tnlh/)
Posted by: caustic at August 27, 2013 10:28 AM (/b8+5)
Posted by: Charley Pride at August 27, 2013 10:28 AM (WMsq+)
82 Miley Cyrus has a face like a bastard rat and a voice like a trucker. I don't get the appeal.
I think you have her confused with Valerie Jarrett.
Posted by: drill_thrawl at August 27, 2013 10:29 AM (fcNe2)
whatever dude, you constantly campaign for the same proposition: You, and other mathematicians, are the only people who have Real Jobs.
You sound like Sheldon Cooper.
As you will. I don't want to continue to argue this with you, this idea that you and your cadre of mathematicians are the only people in the world engaged in worthy work.
It's a childish solipsicism and I just roll my eyes when you do it, usually, but I have to tell you, the passive-aggressive putting-down of all other people is noted.
I am a writer. Apparently what I do is shit, because Only Math Counts.
Posted by: ace at August 27, 2013 10:30 AM (/IWYB)
Have we done a complete 180 now, where integration is the new racism?
Posted by: Mayday at August 27, 2013 10:30 AM (eHc+1)
Posted by: caustic at August 27, 2013 02:18 PM (/b8+5)
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o_O
Im almost fifty..... and I guran-fricking-tee you if I behaved like that in public..... my mother would most definitely be yanking me off stage.
I can also guran-fricking-tee you if either of my sons did the same..... Mrs Fixer would STILL be kicking their 20-something behinds.
Posted by: fixerupper at August 27, 2013 10:31 AM (nELVU)
Posted by: rickb223 at August 27, 2013 10:31 AM (E7Zh9)
It is kind of like British Public School educated Second Lieutenants reciting Ovid or Juvenal to each other in an underground bunker and wondering how their expensive educations were supposed to prepare them for their current job. Perhaps a better analogy would be Russian intellectuals in the Gulag trading poems by Pushkin or Gorchakov to keep up each others' spirits but realizing that this skill is not going to do much to help them survive in their current circumstance.
Posted by: Obnoxious A-hole at August 27, 2013 10:31 AM (31Nrp)
Posted by: RWC at August 27, 2013 10:31 AM (fWAjv)
Posted by: Billy Bob, Psuedo Intelectual at August 27, 2013 10:31 AM (wR+pz)
I do not understand those words in that order.
Posted by: alexthechick - Commence drinking now. at August 27, 2013 02:22 PM (VtjlW)
I know. It's painful to realize this, but sometimes, people discard books.
*closes AtC's mouth, which hangs agape in disbelief*
Usually they're given away, or sold, or donated, but however it's done, people feel it necessary to clear space on their bookshelves.
Now, the good news is that this is usually done to make space for MORE books, which replace the old ones that have gone on to find new homes.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Chelsea [/i][/s][/u][/b] at August 27, 2013 10:31 AM (4df7R)
Occasionally I cull my shelves of books
I do not understand those words in that order.
Two words: Used Books.
Posted by: Grey Fox at August 27, 2013 10:31 AM (210xL)
Posted by: caustic at August 27, 2013 02:28 PM (/b8+5)
A demonstration of pure idiocy on display.
Posted by: buzzion at August 27, 2013 10:32 AM (LI48c)
Posted by: CAC at August 27, 2013 10:32 AM (jA+VS)
Posted by: baldilocks at August 27, 2013 10:33 AM (Tnlh/)
Posted by: Vic at August 27, 2013 02:27 PM (zZbNF)
Are you the connoisseur Ace spoke of?
Posted by: garrett at August 27, 2013 10:33 AM (kuIpN)
http://youtu.be/WXXPIpwpyNQ
Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at August 27, 2013 10:33 AM (SxI9Z)
Posted by: rickb223 at August 27, 2013 10:34 AM (E7Zh9)
Posted by: Jay in Ames at August 27, 2013 10:34 AM (i2Lsf)
This whole thing has been completely con-fuzed since Teh Won and his Derp of State began calling the Syrian deal "Operation Circle-Twerk."
Posted by: Chuck Haggle at August 27, 2013 10:34 AM (6xhLc)
Posted by: ace at August 27, 2013 10:36 AM (/IWYB)
If they love their child, they will tell them, "this is a really bad idea" and even do anything within their power to influence the child to do otherwise.
The parents that don't have screwed the pooch already, either through apathy or cowardice.
Posted by: Frustrated Scientist at August 27, 2013 02:26 PM (v3pYe)
You are making a lot of assumptions. Quite possibly her parents were as surprised as the audience. The world is telling her this is a bad idea doubt her parents are going to pile on. There are parents, who when you become an adult, do not step in and shield you from the repercussions of your mistakes. Miley will either learn from this or she won't.
This is a lot like the Oprah pe**s dress debacle. You can be so powerful and overwhelming that everyone is afraid to tell you anything, including the fact that the designers sent over a dress that looks like a giant male member and you are about to wear it on the letterman program making a spectacle of yourself and when you are fat, nothing can make you look thin. Even a dress that you thought was color blocking to make you look real thin.
Posted by: caustic at August 27, 2013 10:36 AM (/b8+5)
Posted by: AmishDude at August 27, 2013 10:36 AM (T0NGe)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 27, 2013 10:36 AM (gTN+E)
Posted by: polynikes at August 27, 2013 02:26 PM (m2CN7)
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There is a tape. I know it. I'm a connoisseur. I can smell it.
Posted by: Soona at August 27, 2013 10:36 AM (IFLI+)
Posted by: AmishDude at August 27, 2013 02:36 PM (T0NGe)
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Amen!
Posted by: Soona at August 27, 2013 10:38 AM (IFLI+)
Posted by: AmishDude at August 27, 2013 10:39 AM (T0NGe)
http://annapuna.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-cult-of-climate.html
Posted by: Chelsea Puma (+SmuD) at August 27, 2013 10:40 AM (SxI9Z)
Posted by: Frustrated Scientist at August 27, 2013 02:26 PM (v3pYe)
Or greed.
Posted by: Country Singer at August 27, 2013 10:40 AM (L8r/r)
Posted by: caustic at August 27, 2013 10:40 AM (/b8+5)
***
Who uses Google? You really ought to know better.
Posted by: cool arrow at August 27, 2013 10:42 AM (WMsq+)
Posted by: caustic at August 27, 2013 10:42 AM (/b8+5)
Posted by: alexthechick - Commence drinking now. at August 27, 2013 10:45 AM (VtjlW)
"Quite possibly her parents were as surprised as the audience."
Miley's mom was seen on camera clapping along with the performance and was later quoted as saying how proud she was of her daughter's performance. That kid was screwed from the moment she popped out.
Posted by: shinypie at August 27, 2013 10:46 AM (Kz85k)
Im almost fifty..... and I guran-fricking-tee you if I behaved like that in public..... my mother would most definitely be yanking me off stage.
Did anyone see the Open Letter to my Daughter about Miley Cyrus out there? It's from a mom's blog:
"Yes, this is what happens when you constantly hear everything you do is awesome. This is what happens when people fawn over your every Tweet and Instagram photo. This is what happens when no responsible adult has ever said the word “no,” made you change your clothes before leaving the house, or never spanked your butt for deliberate defiance.
"If you ever even consider doing something like that, I promise you that I will run up and twerk so you will see how ridiculous twerking looks. I will duct tape your mouth shut so your tongue doesn’t hangout like an overheated hound dog. I will smack any male whom you decide to smash against his pelvis – after I first knock you on your butt for forgetting how a lady acts in public.
"Why would I do that? Because I love you and I want you to respect yourself. Miley Cyrus is not edgy or cool or sexy. SheÂ’s a desperate girl screaming for attention: Notice me."
Posted by: CJ at August 27, 2013 10:46 AM (9KqcB)
But did the thrift shop guy win anything?
"by “dancing” with rape anthemist, Robin Thicke."
Is this about blurred lines? This is why we can't have nice things. People like this.
Posted by: Lea at August 27, 2013 10:46 AM (lIU4e)
Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at August 27, 2013 10:48 AM (q2b5x)
Proof or get off the pot.
It's like the old joke where the mathematician only needs pen, paper and a wastebasket and the philosopher only needs pen and paper.
Posted by: AmishDude at August 27, 2013 02:20 PM (T0NGe)"
In the real world, we have to make decisions based on incomplete information all the time. The choice is usually either act in time with the information available or wait until you have all the information and it is too late to act.
It's like the old joke about a convention where an engineer, a physicist and a mathematician stay up late in the hotel bar and then stumble up to their rooms, fall into bed but light a cigarette before falling asleep. The engineer wakes up, smells smoke, realizes what is wrong, fills the wastebasket with water, pours it on the burning bed and puts out the fire. The physicist wakes up, sees the fire, makes some calculations, goes to the sink and fills a cup with 98 ml of water, pours it on the fire and puts it out. The mathematician wakes up and sees the fire, makes some calculations, proves that the fire can be put out, rolls over and goes back to sleep and is burned to death.
Posted by: Obnoxious A-hole at August 27, 2013 10:49 AM (31Nrp)
Posted by: AmishDude at August 27, 2013 10:50 AM (T0NGe)
Posted by: AmishDude at August 27, 2013 10:53 AM (T0NGe)
Posted by: Null at August 27, 2013 10:55 AM (P7hip)
The biggest cognitive dissonance I'm seeing, that has me scratching my head, are those people who are proclaiming that twerking has its roots in African tribal dance, so when blacks are twerking they are tapping into this primal, deep form of artistic expression. BUT, when skinny white popstarlets twerk, it is a crass, trashy display. Um, NO, it was always trashy; you are displaying your shaking hindquarters for men, like an animal in heat. In what way is that deeply artistic?
Obviously teh racism, it runs deep within me. I will run to the barrel now. /sarc
Posted by: LizLem, sadly too young to start telling twentysomething hipsters to get off her lawn at August 27, 2013 11:00 AM (8wqqE)
Well, shit I thought that MFer was dead by now.
Still living in Preston Hollow area of Dallas, iirc. I've run in to him twice over the years. Once at Braums & once at Guitar Center on 635.
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I saw him a few years ago at an El Fenix. Used to be acquainted with his daughter-in-law, but think she and his son may have divorced. I don't think she was crazy about old Charlie.
Posted by: Mayday at August 27, 2013 11:03 AM (eHc+1)
Posted by: red speck at August 27, 2013 11:05 AM (9/Ug/)
Riiiiight.....
And the chicks in the 2 Live Crew videos in 1989 were completely engrossed in authentic African tribal dance history.
Posted by: B at August 27, 2013 11:07 AM (XyoGP)
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Posted by: AmishDude at August 27, 2013 02:50 PM (T0NGe)"
I once knew a woman who put herself through school to get a degree and certificate to council drug addicts. After years of effort and sacrifice she tried to find a job in the field that she had trained for only to discover that one of the requirements for that position is that you have been addicted at some point in your life and have overcome that addiction. During the years that she had worked and studied and denied gratification in order to earn her degree, nobody had ever pointed out this basic fact.
Now I realize that she could certainly be faulted for not having done enough due diligence before the fact, but it does seem like kind of a cruel joke that reflected that the attitude of academics towards their students is not real different than the attitude of workers in a meat packing plant towards the animals that arrive each day.
Posted by: Obnoxious A-hole at August 27, 2013 11:11 AM (31Nrp)
Posted by: ASK21 at August 27, 2013 11:13 AM (8lB0x)
Posted by: Sarahw at August 27, 2013 11:18 AM (LYwCh)
Posted by: VULaw at August 27, 2013 11:23 AM (j6usx)
Posted by: Jay at August 27, 2013 11:26 AM (4x8W0)
***
That's what she'll say when people start mocking her. It's leftist SOP.
Posted by: cool arrow at August 27, 2013 11:41 AM (WMsq+)
Posted by: Analingus Analyst at August 27, 2013 11:52 AM (RZP0w)
Posted by: Mr. Feverhead at August 27, 2013 12:13 PM (SzAZ7)
Posted by: Jon in TX at August 27, 2013 12:21 PM (PYAXX)
Posted by: red speck at August 27, 2013 12:48 PM (9/Ug/)
Posted by: Some feminist blog at August 27, 2013 12:55 PM (UQgtZ)
Posted by: Rob in Katy at August 27, 2013 01:24 PM (gdGJ1)
Posted by: RIK at August 27, 2013 01:44 PM (bA1PK)
Posted by: logprof at August 27, 2013 02:30 PM (bufJH)
PISSES. ME. OFF. Talk about stereotyping!
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Chelsea at August 27, 2013 01:05 PM (4df7R)
Posted by: Bad Brains at August 27, 2013 02:35 PM (bufJH)
Actually dumba$$ the peanut was created by God. GW Carter invented Peanut Butter.
Posted by: Cman at August 27, 2013 04:34 PM (XhmNr)
really?
are you sure? Because I think he actually physically created the peanut.
there were beakers
Posted by: ace at August 27, 2013 04:35 PM (/IWYB)
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That sound you are hearing isn't an airplane flying overhead.
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at August 27, 2013 05:18 PM (HJ0MR)
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Posted by: Empire of Jeff at August 27, 2013 05:41 PM (JDIKC)
Posted by: Stuff George Washington Carver Said Vol III at August 27, 2013 05:43 PM (QupBk)
"Some look at the way the world and ask, Why? I look at the world and say, Let's get some fucking peanuts into the mix. Which, by the way, I invented. You're welcome."
Posted by: ace at August 27, 2013 05:45 PM (/IWYB)
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Posted by: Toure at August 27, 2013 06:22 PM (2yPl+)
Everybody Is Missing Miley Cyrus's Sad And Devastating Messagehttp://tinyurl.com/o4fuuyw
Posted by: caustic at August 27, 2013 07:51 PM (/b8+5)
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