Sunday Open Thread | 46 comments (46 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Yea, coconut or choc ice do the same.

But racism, like other prejudices, is a power relationship where these two guys are more or less at peer level. Which kinda reduces the impact to schoolyard maturity

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sun Jul 15th, 2012 at 12:59:58 PM EST
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Re: Sunday Open Thread (4.00 / 2)

Reading through the article for some context, I think the term Ferdinand was looking for was "Uncle Tom," not choc ice.

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.

by Drew J Jones (pedobear@pennstatefootball.com) on Sun Jul 15th, 2012 at 04:15:33 PM EST
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Re: Sunday Open Thread (none / 0)

Good grief, you read that stuff ? jeez, you have a high tolerance for idiocy

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Sun Jul 15th, 2012 at 04:39:00 PM EST
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Re: Sunday Open Thread (none / 1)

Well, if he's going to be a racist asshole, he could at least do it right.

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.

by Drew J Jones (pedobear@pennstatefootball.com) on Sun Jul 15th, 2012 at 05:03:56 PM EST
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Re: Sunday Open Thread (none / 0)

...adding: Christ, you people spawned the damned language and can't even speak it right. ;)

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.

by Drew J Jones (pedobear@pennstatefootball.com) on Sun Jul 15th, 2012 at 05:05:11 PM EST
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Re: Sunday Open Thread (none / 1)

We have to be tolerant. Not only do they have to remember if there is a U following an O, if it's "RE" or "ER" at the end of words, and whether an "L" is doubled, or not.

Takes 'em a while to spit the words out.

Ever since I learnt about confirmation bias I've started seeing it everywhere

by ATinNM on Sun Jul 15th, 2012 at 05:24:51 PM EST
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Re: Sunday Open Thread (none / 1)

That's true. It'd take me a while too if I was supposed to pronounced words like "Leicester" as "Lester".

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.

by Drew J Jones (pedobear@pennstatefootball.com) on Sun Jul 15th, 2012 at 06:41:54 PM EST
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Re: Sunday Open Thread (none / 1)

and to think I turned down the open goal that certain people appeared to be 200 years behind on being able to spell properly

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sun Jul 15th, 2012 at 10:57:36 PM EST
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Re: Sunday Open Thread (none / 0)

As in "woolen" and "willful"?

LOLL.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Mon Jul 16th, 2012 at 01:44:11 AM EST
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Re: Sunday Open Thread (4.00 / 3)

In Welsh, LLOL.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Mon Jul 16th, 2012 at 02:19:50 AM EST
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