Towards A Virtual Williamsburg!

[taxwonk]

Originally Posted by dtb

I agree with you. I just happened to be responding to someone who wasn't you, so I referred to you then in the third person.

Do you think it is at all narrow minded to pre-judge people on the basis of their economic status?

I think you will find heroes and assholes at all socioeconomic levels. People tend to be that way. I'm fairly certain that truth applies all along the spectrum.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch

Unless it turns out, as some are whispering, that what we're seeing are the supernova remnants of a bad breakup. In which case you'll need a "faggot" or two in there.

Michael Jordan has that covered.

Then there was Jordan and Kwame Brown during a scrimmage in D.C., as it's recounted in Michael Leahy's book about Jordan's comeback in Washington:

Brown became maddeningly frustrated, a kid convinced he was being repeatedly fouled in intrasquad scrimmages by two veterans, Christian Laettner and Jahidi White, who weren't quick enough, Brown believed, to stay with him. He would drive toward the basket and feel himself being bumped by a hard hip, sometimes losing the ball, infuriated that the referees wouldn't blow a whistle. "That was a foul," he finally groaned.


Play stopped. There was an electric silence. A wide-eyed Jordan was walking toward him. "You fucking flaming f----t," Jordan exploded. "You don't get a foul call on a little goddamn touch foul, you fucking f----t. You don't bring that f----ty shit here. Get your goddamn ass back on the floor and play. I don't want to hear that shit out of you again. Get your ass back and play, you f----t."

http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-tr...ver-make-sense

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

I have had worse things Tweeted about me. By my mother.

Really funny asshole.... Flower's mother has no fingers.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by dtb

Sounds like the setup for a Who's on First joke.

I heard that in the Women's room in Pennypacker's common area there are still several graffiti about me, "for a Good time call Hank (leviathan) C."

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

I heard that in the Women's room in Pennypacker's common area there are still several graffiti about me, "for a Good time call Hank (leviathan) C."

Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.

You and I have the same macro for Hank's leviathan posts.

I am also quite sure that every scrawl in a bathroom regarding "for a good time call" is written by an unhappy ex.

[Not Bob]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Sounds like it. Definitely get you past summary judgment.

But consider this hypo... Suppose you're in an office full of Irish people and they bond a lot about some Hibernians Dinner (and other Irish social events). You're from Pakistan. Nobody treats you badly. But you don't attend the same dinners these guys do, and consequently, you don't get as much business and move up the ladder as fast as they do. Are those guys, acting tribally as they are, bigots?

(Please don't go with the low hanging fruit of "Yours is a hypo, mine was real." This hypo is played out in offices all over the country every day. It has been the basis for a huge number of complaints on behalf of women who historically felt excluded when male execs went golfing or to strip clubs.)

I'll play. Are you saying that my Mick brethren are not improperly discriminating against the Pakistani associate in your hypo? Because your hypo sounds like it to me. Women, you surely know, cannot join the Hibernians (the can join the Ladies Auxillary), so even my niece Maureen the Loyola law alum whose face looks like tha map of Ireland (as my mother used to say) would be the victim of illegal discrimination at this hypothetical firm of O'Dwyer & McMahon. Heck, my gay cousin Sean has been trying to join the club for years and they keep him out and won't let he and his friends march in a big parade that the have every year on public streets.

In short, that sort of tribalism is racism when the Not Hibernian has a different skin color, sexism when she's a chick, homophobic when he's gay, etc.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

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[Tyrone Slothrop]

This.

[dtb]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

This.

That's excellent.


How do you find these things?

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally Posted by dtb

That's excellent.


How do you find these things?

Given the URL, I'm guessing Twitter.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Inapt. Everyone likes lesbians. It's the gay men the homophobes don't like.

Tell that to Rosie.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by dtb

That's excellent.


How do you find these things?

Grantland is a (great blog- look for the President Obama interview) thing created by the biggest boston slappy of all time. Grantland is to Red Sox/Celtics as GGG is to Ty on PB.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

This.

Why do they use "bullying" here? Bullying is hazing people, kids picking on each other, etc. It's not a form of abuse like this. This stuff is bigoted harassment, hostile work environment, racist abuse, etc.

Calling this guy a bully is expanding that term way beyond what it is, and letting him off way too easy. The NFL should call him the simple thing he is: Racist. And then fire the asshole as any corporation would.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Why do they use "bullying" here? Bullying is hazing people, kids picking on each other, etc. It's not a form of abuse like this. This stuff is bigoted harassment, hostile work environment, racist abuse, etc.

Calling this guy a bully is expanding that term way beyond what it is, and letting him off way too easy. The NFL should call him the simple thing he is: Racist. And then fire the asshole as any corporation would.

Things like this confirm for me that not giving a shit about American football is a good thing. The defense of the racist asshole by so many really says it all, no? My FB feed, full of commie pinko feminazis but apparently not full enough of them, runs strongly pro-asshole on this one.