What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[kidfresh]

Because you've been asking for it;

"The black dude left his credit card behind." That was the context.

Yeah, that's no good. If I went into a store primarily staffed by people of a different racial flavor than me and left something behind, I'd totally expect them to say "The white guy in the green shirt left his keys behind if he comes back" or whatever. It is more descriptive than just "The guy in the green shirt" and as long as it was used as a clarifying descriptor, not in a disparaging tone I don't care.

And yet, here's where we are. Sigh.

I work at a 911 center. When asking people for descriptions of suspects (be they in robberies, assaults, or even missing person cases), you'd be amazed at how many people flat out refuse to answer when we ask "Is he black, white, or hispanic?"... like, I'm not asking you to tell me his heritage, I'm just asking, if a cop drives by the dude on the street, what would he look like at a glance?

But no, people outright refuse to answer. Sometimes about their kids who are missing! Isn't that special.

Exactly. It's not like she was trying to be racist. If I note that someone is "black," it certainly doesn't mean I hate the race. I'm just identifying who the person was.

I read a while ago that some guy who worked at a Papa Johns called an asian woman "Lady Chinky Eyes" on her receipt. I get that. That's very obviously racist. "The black guy" isn't.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/0 ... 91434.html

[BoneSnapDeez]

My wife wants pillows for her birthday. When the hell did pillows get so expensive?!

[puke_face]

Frown - This week is draaaaaaaaaagin'.

Smile - Getting a new toy this weekend if all goes as planned.

[Hobie-wan]

You guys wouldn't believe what I saw in my backyard today:



I have some lady fingers, so I may add pyrotechnics.

[TSTR]

A weird habit I picked up from elementary school is putting a mixture of mayonnaise and ketchup on just about any sandwich I eat. It just tastes so dang good especially on bologna or chicken.

This triggered an odd and slightly disturbing memory for me:

Back in high school, a friend of mine used to do the ketchup/mayo mix thing and use it for fries. Another semi-friend of ours, real quiet but nice kid, used to sit with us at lunch, and Friend A always would try to make him eat the sauce mixture too, saying: "come on dude, eat it, it's anti-faggot sauce." Childish ignorance, right?

Semi-friend a couple years later killed his dad with a shotgun and then rolled to the high school Columbine style and tried to shoot it up, but luckily only managed to shoot out a few windows and throw a smoke bomb before being tackled by a sheriff's deputy resource officer and an off-duty state trooper who worked as a driver's ed teacher.

To this day, I wonder if "anti-faggot sauce" had anything to do with it.

Also, habanero ketchup rules.

On an unrelated note, idk if Mike is trolling REPO or not (and really don't care), but I enjoy the diary entries and wish to see more. It's like our own version of reality television.

[prfsnl_gmr]

On an unrelated note, idk if Mike is trolling REPO or not (and really don't care), but I enjoy the diary entries and wish to see more. It's like our own version of reality television.

Although I stopped offering advice long ago, I also find the posts fascinating. Taken togehter, they read like a modern-day, first-person Grapes of Wrath. REPO should seriously consider collecting them into a book.

[TSTR]

On an unrelated note, idk if Mike is trolling REPO or not (and really don't care), but I enjoy the diary entries and wish to see more. It's like our own version of reality television.

Although I stopped offering advice long ago, I also find the posts fascinating. Taken togehter, they read like a modern-day, first-person Grapes of Wrath. REPO should seriously consider collecting them into a book.

If he doesn't want to, I would be more than happy to collect them all on a quick WordPress blog for easy perusal.

These are the things you think about spending time on when you have no job.

[mjmjr25]

My initial response when he started actively posting in this thread was that we were being trolled - and I responded as such. A couple guys pm'd me that he has always posted this way, since he joined up, and if it is a troll, it's going on 6 years...

After that, like prfl gamer and others, I started to ask serious questions about the decisions he was making, which were never followed up on by him - very similar to the Forlorn Identity Ultimatum: a repeated process of: I made a poor decision, odd decision, not sure what to do? Members offer advice. Advice ignored or poo-pooed. Repeat cycle, repeat cycle, repeat cycle...after that, i've given up responding rationally...i'm now mostly just amazed and sincerely think a blog would be an interesting read. I don't think it needs to be a blog-blog, it can just be a running thread on this site, dedicated to him.

[TSTR]

Mike, you're a mod—can't you make that REPO-centric thread happen?

[Hobie-wan]

Mike, you're a mod—can't you make that REPO-centric thread happen?

Nobody is going to want to move things all the time if he won't post it in directly himself. Thus the appeal for that to happen. It's like when I ask someone to reformat their trade feedback so it matches the existing style for ease or tabulating. If I just edited it myself, that person probably wouldn't notice and do the same thing next time. If I nicely ask them to edit it, they will probably remember and do it the proscribed way next time.