The Pitters' Place

And yet when Gap did this ad the year before which has an older black kid "leaning" on a smaller white kid in a very similar pose there was no fuss whatsoever: http://media.glamour.com/photos/5695959a93ef4b09520d38a8/master/w_743,c_limit/fashion-2015-07-ellen-degeneres-ed-gapkids-collectio...

I get logged out about once a week or so too and only when I first arrive. (Same sort of thing as you describe Gendo)

In Bru is better than either but forced to choose it's got to be Pepsi.

Didn't I read somewhere that Coke and Pepsi unofficially agreed to split the market on racial grounds back in the 1930s when Coke was dominant? Or is that an urban myth?

I can empathise with that. It's like when you're in the lap dancing bar getting your perve on and you've got a thing for the oriental girls (oh yeah, do you!), but the black girls just don't do it for you and it kinda kills the mood a little when then come up and ask you if you wanna a dance when al...

Yeah. They are the worst. We should care what colour people are. And then judge them on it.

(I know that if I met someone who was naturally green I'd judge them)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-35685169

I think he should be named and shamed (or at the very least given a chance to try to defend himself).

Deadpool: Humor is good but feels a little forced at times. A lot of what's in the trailers is at the beginning of the movie. Not as much violence as I expected for a hard R Deadpool movie. Still enjoyable, Ryan Reynolds is perfect as the character. 7.75/10. I went and saw that today with the missu...

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That seems a little harsh...

At a very simplistic level, yes. The reality is more complicated (and more dishonest/evil). In layman's terms security bonds were set up, misrepresented, sold and then short sold against (bet against) all by the same organisations. i.e. they set up them up deliberately knowing they would fail with t...

The Big Short A lot of technical jargon about banks and real estate that I didn't understand adding up to explaining the housing crisis and global economic collapse in the mid-to-late-2000s. Entertaining performances from Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt, Steve Carrell and others. Ultimately...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-35519757

You couldn't make this shit up.

Dark Chocolate is the way chocolate should be eaten. If you don't like the taste of chocolate then don't eat it. There's plenty of other candy available. Coffee should be drunk strong and black. Like Turkish coffee or Espresso. When you start putting frothy milk and flavoured syrups in it to hide th...

I agree. I've come across these sorts of people too and I always think they probably don't know what they're talking about/don't have enough to do/just want to show that they have some authority over people for the sake of showing they have some authority/only have a really tenuous understanding of ...

But the thing is, Anakin, we need to be mistrustful of these immigrants because a lot of Middle Eastern and South Asian cultures have an ingrained misogyny that means they disrespect women whereas in the West, everyone is basically equAHAHAHAHAHA sorry I couldn't finish typing that. Hush now. The m...

Yeah - we're going to watch that too.

'Er indoors has a thing for period dramas and zombie films, so it seems like a no-brainer really.

Hey - I've always been more into classical music. I don't like that Ghetto music.

(see what I did there?

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Makes sense.

I don't know it, but then I was never an Elvis fan.

CashRules wrote:This thread is the reason I now have the worst song Elvis ever sang in my head. Thanks Opiate.

Sorry.

I have no idea what song you're talking about though...

I wasn't trying to belittle the issues in America - I was more making an observation on the changing use of the word and the associations people make.

As I said in the OP, in a contemporary setting I associate no racial characteristics with it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-35326090

Some of them just aren't getting the hint that they've got to treat women with a bit more respect or the local population will really start to turn against them...

I suppose if I think about it for a minute Ghetto makes me think of the Jews throughout European history - most notably in Nazi occupied Europe and in places like Poland where they were be forced into areas that became Ghettos before they were rounded up and taken away to the concentration camps. Bu...

It must be an American thing because race had never even occurred to me.

I wouldn't use it for a Trailer Park cos in my mind it implies more permanent /older structures but that's the only reason.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35296993

Is this a real thing? The word "Ghetto" to me means slum/low-income/poverty all of that - but it doesn't relate to any specific race, colour or creed.

Leaving aside the ramifications for the police in the aftermath of how they dealt with this, whilst it's not as bad as has been reported in some places it is bad. And this certainly provides the right wing/anti-immigration groups with plenty of ammunition - for once real ammunition. Even my wife - ...

Leaving aside the ramifications for the police in the aftermath of how they dealt with this, whilst it's not as bad as has been reported in some places it is bad. And this certainly provides the right wing/anti-immigration groups with plenty of ammunition - for once real ammunition. Even my wife - w...

Reading between the lines on all the various bits of coverage and articles on it I've seen it's likely a group of a few hundred north african/Arabic men - probably immigrants/refugees - used the chaos of night to attack/harass women. There are reports in some places saying they attacked young girls,...

Pope Bucky wrote:Math: it's not for everyone.

I want my $4.33, please.

Well if they get board doing "political humour", they can always go back to their job on Wall Street.

Many Bothans died to get that URL. Are you a Dara O'Briain fan by any chance? [wink] Not familiar with that name. He's an Irish stand up comedian who performs mainly in the UK. He did a piece that talks about this in his last tour which I saw (I've found a clip - I don't know why it has Russian sub...

Pope Bucky wrote:Many Bothans died to get that URL.

Are you a Dara O'Briain fan by any chance?

...and because the water wasn't safe they quite often drank wine during the day. So she'd almost certainly had a drink when he asked her. So even if she said "yes" it still counts as rape.

It's a holiday you get gits you eat you drink you have fun with friends and family what's not to celebrate? Also it's tradition as if most families are not totally atheist so probably most people did celebrate as kids and as adults keep doing it especially if they have kids, cause it's hard telling...

'cos television tells us to.

That did make me laugh out loud. And kinda think that Brendan also has an imdb account...

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Is that you or the car?

You end up paying for it one way or another. Whether it's dinner/soft furnishings/trips to gardens centres or cold, hard cash - you end up paying for it. At least with the "escorts" you don't have to pretend to be interested in what she's saying or to like (tolerate?) her friends. Allegedly.

I'd been dithering over whether or not to give Jessica Jones a try, but I think you may just have tipped the balance! Obviously if I think it's shit I'll blame you, okay? I expect nothing less - I really liked it, it's kinda got a Hancock vibe going on with more adult content and better writing - a...

I'd been dithering over whether or not to give Jessica Jones a try, but I think you may just have tipped the balance!

Obviously if I think it's shit I'll blame you, okay?

My two cents... I really don't give a shit what people look like. And if someone's overweight that's (99.9% of the time) their concern. It can cause them health issues so generally I would never advocate anyone chooses to become overweight but I certainly wouldn't go out of my way to give them a har...

It reminds me of the California politician who just a few years ago held a press conference where he showed how well a gun buyback program worked by showing several used tubes from various types of missile launchers and bragged about getting those dangerous weapons off the street. I wanted to ask h...

Fair enough - I've only read the front page on ael's link - and I don't think it's too much of a surprise that trolls exhibit those traits... however, it doesn't discuss the underlying motivation/reason. Are they that way because of insecurities/bullying themselves or are they just plain "bad&q...

You've been raptured. Those of that are here are the ones that made it.

I thought this would perhaps make more of the news than it did... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-34969424 It's a bit of a weird story. I'm thinking that's it got to just be one or two sick bastards that basically just have an issue with women, as they only seem to have given them to wom...

I really hope that's auto correct and not deliberate...

While I don't think the situation this article depicts is false, i'm sure there are several similar stories around, but there are a few things in this one I find weird. The passport thing, in one paragraph they say his fake passport was taken away when he left the force, then that she found said fa...

France is a country very similar to our own so it's much easier to empathise and relate to it and the people there. I grow very tired of all this bullshit about people claiming that they care about everyone on the planet equally. Yes - maybe in an absent, theoretical manner they do. But there are 7 ...

I'm at work, so I can't listen to it. But I recognise the name and the song title. They are a British group. This song isn't that new either - it must be a good 5 or 10 years old now I'd have thought... It's also one of those songs that if you hear it on the radio on the way into work its rattles ar...

Also pretty disingenuous to attribute the deaths of the Vietnam War only to the US. Last time I checked, there were at least two parties involved. And the thousands of boat people who left Vietnam AFTER the USA backed out also seem to indicate that between the USA and Pol Pot, the USA might have be...

At the further risk of being accused of... well any number of things... in places like South America where the choice was generally a hard line, brutal, right -wing dictator (who was likely to be sympathetic to the US but very unpleasant to the population of their own country) or a hard line, bruta...

That is such crap because we were one of the NATO allies that had people going out. The problem lies that propaganda white washed what happened in the U.S while demonized what happened in the USSR. Do you really think that the segregation marches and black panther movements would have gotten the sa...

The teacher did seem like a bit of a doormat. But not everyone is assertive or has the confidence to "lay down the law". Or maybe she tried before and the kids escalated things much further so the video we're seeing is after she's been "broken". We just don't know. It's difficult...

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