I need to vent for a second. I'm reading various articles and posts about the Nashville flooding, and I keep encountering variations on "WE didn't whine about being victims, WE just helped each other." Am I totally addled to read this as a taking a shot at poor black Katrina victims? Because that's how I'm reading it and it is making me angry. (Please note: I do not mean to minimize the damage done or life lost in Tennessee and Kentucky, nor do I mean to imply that all Tenneseans are racist.)
Maybe I've always been here.
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
smonster - May 11, 2010 9:37:37 am PDT #28813 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
beekaytee - May 11, 2010 9:45:01 am PDT #28814 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
I just walked into the men's room on my floor at work. Am mortified. Luckily the only person I saw was a man washing his hands and I was out in like 2 seconds. He's not in my dept thankfully. Horribly embarrassed.
The locker rooms at my gym don't have actual doors. I've walked into the guy's area more than once. Same door, different floors. Ugh.
Thanksfully, never saw any gentlemen parts, or got caught.
beekaytee - May 11, 2010 9:46:11 am PDT #28815 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
And of course, I want to get a Newfoundland. The hairiest, drooliest, biggest dog around.
Do you have experience with the breed, Sue?
Cashmere - May 11, 2010 9:47:54 am PDT #28816 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
A couple of weeks ago, I walked into the mens' locker room at the YMCA with the kids. I didn't realize it until Owen said, "Why are we going into the boys' locker room?"
Ooops.
Kathy A - May 11, 2010 9:48:51 am PDT #28817 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Aww, Newfies! I love big black dogs (Rotties, Newfies, black labs).
Kate P. - May 11, 2010 9:52:08 am PDT #28818 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Am I totally addled to read this as a taking a shot at poor black Katrina victims?
Nope. I'm seeing the same things, and just a disturbing tendency in general to compare the flooding to Katrina, and it's pinging me the same way. I don't always think it's a conscious desire to belittle the victims of Katrina -- and I haven't seen anyone actually asserting that our flooding was anywhere near as bad as Katrina -- but it is, at the very least, really distasteful. There's a natural tendency to play up the drama inherent in one's own situation, but (as one commenter put it so well) "nobody wins in the Disaster Olympics."
Kathy A - May 11, 2010 9:52:21 am PDT #28819 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Oh, no, the Monterey Bay Aquarium has an otter cam!!
tommyrot - May 11, 2010 9:54:13 am PDT #28820 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Cockpit style workstation is way cooler than any cubicle
Is it just me, or does this look like it was designed to fight Daleks?
Dana - May 11, 2010 9:54:13 am PDT #28821 of 30001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Every natural disaster from here on out will be compared to Katrina, and everyone will search for ways to prove that they handled it better than Katrina.
Sue - May 11, 2010 9:54:36 am PDT #28822 of 30001
hip deep in pie
Do you have experience with the breed, Sue?
I've been around them, but never had one. And my friends had a Pyrenees, who share many issues, who had hip and back problems.