The periodic table is just a theory (satire)
Mal: Gotta say, doctor, your talent for alienatin' folk is near miraculous. Simon: Yes, I'm very proud.
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Natter 57 Varieties
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
tommyrot - Apr 03, 2008 8:50:07 am PDT #9239 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Dana - Apr 03, 2008 8:50:36 am PDT #9240 of 10001
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
You are all making me paranoid that the next time I go anywhere with anyone of you, someone will shove me out of the way because I'm not moving fast enough.
Here in the South, it's generally too hot to get worked up about these things.
lisah - Apr 03, 2008 8:52:23 am PDT #9241 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate
airport escalators are almost never wide enough to pass someone with luggage, IME.
Oh I mean on moving sidewalks. Those are wide enough generally. (unless you've got the little kids and everybody's luggage!)
Allyson - Apr 03, 2008 8:52:30 am PDT #9242 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I've been told "Oh, I don't even notice people's race."
I have a weird paranoia about appearing to be racist, but dude, that takes the cake.
msbelle - Apr 03, 2008 8:53:24 am PDT #9243 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I tend to also yell at people who try to get in front of me in line, or ask loudly if they have a reason for stepping in front of people, OR tell the serving/counter people the situation.
Steph L. - Apr 03, 2008 8:53:45 am PDT #9244 of 10001
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
I've been told "Oh, I don't even notice people's race."
White people do that, in an attempt to make extra-paranoid-sure that we* don't get labelled racist for noticing a visual descriptor such as dark or light skin. Like, we're so NOT racist that we don't even notice skin color! On anyone! Am *I* white?!? Why, so I am!!!
*(And by "we," I don't mean "all white people;" I just mean "some white people, in a general sense.")
Jesse - Apr 03, 2008 8:54:29 am PDT #9245 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I've been told "Oh, I don't even notice people's race."
By people other than Stephen Colbert??
Oh I mean on moving sidewalks. Those are wide enough generally. (unless you've got the little kids and everybody's luggage!)
Oh yeah, those are. Even with the kids, etc., you can spread out the other way....
Miracleman - Apr 03, 2008 8:55:19 am PDT #9246 of 10001
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
I've been told "Oh, I don't even notice people's race."
Oh, I do, but I've been thoroughly brainwashed by my White Liberal Guilt upbringing to dismiss it as a descriptor and relegate its importance to minimal.
Which is just as asinine in its way as being prejudicial (not necessarily racist, but making assumptions) based on race, but it's something I'm working on.
tommyrot - Apr 03, 2008 8:56:14 am PDT #9247 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Years ago I read an account by a black woman, describing how she and friends of hers would often cut in line to see movies, because most of the time white people in line would be too intimidated or something to say anything. She then described her surprise at being unable to get away with this with white people in London.
Frankenbuddha - Apr 03, 2008 8:56:29 am PDT #9248 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Even on escalators not in airports, people with small children get exemptions.
But please, dear doG! Do not try to beat people to the escalator if you're just going to take up the whole thing.