Words

[Paelos]

I thought you discarded that whole old testament thing

Nah, very solid book. Good stuff, lots of good lessons. Moses gets hosed, David screws around then writes songs, Job, etc. It's worth reading for the literary value and allusions alone.

[Llava]

D word?  What?  What the F word is the D word?

Me.

That was awesome.

[Yegolev]

See, the real benefit to reading the Bible is that you will suddenly get all the references that people drop.  Not reading it is like being the one guy who has never seen The Simpsons and wondering why "I'm cuckoo for contraband" makes the group laugh.

[Roac]

Have kids. You learn REALLLY fast what your most popular "Oh I should stop saying that" words are when they start to talk.  Damn little mental sponges.

Or they just make it up on their own.  My two year old went on a "easter cunt" last weekend.  At least, so she informed me on the way to an Easter Egg Hunt at church.  Repeatedly.  As in, in the car and on the way to.

[Fabricated]

Warning: MUCH ANGRY



Jesus Christ this circus makes me angry.



You look like you fell face first into a gravel driveway, you cunt. You ARE a nappy headed ho.

It was a fucking old man who thought it'd be funny to call to call the bulldogs that make up the Rutger's team "nappy headed hos" because, HEY, IT'S AN OLD WHITE MAN IN A COWBOY HAT USING OLD SLANG. It WAS funny, he should NOT have apologized, and Al Sharpton needs to be fired out of a cannon into the sun for being a retarded race-baiting piece of shit. How can anyone listen to that asshole after Tawana Brawley I don't know.

Urrgggh. Since yesterday I've made it a point to use the word "ho" every time I get the chance to use it in even a mildly amusing manner. Jesus, let's ruin a multi-decade career for use of a word that ISN'T nigger, nor a racial slur at ALL.

[Trippy]

Her hair doesn't look nappy to me.

[Fabricated]

Did to me in the much higher res version I saw earlier today.

[stray]

My dad is a freak for Imus. He's been pretty pissed.


Can't say I care for Imus' comments though --- But he's hardly racist. He's had a variety of guests on his show that no one could possibly classify as typical "redneck" stuff. The cowboy hat is just his clothing style -- He's more of an old rock disc jockey. Not a hillbilly. Many of his recurring guests are black.  Bill Russell and Suge Knight, for example (well, at least Suge used to be on) -- and those guys are his friends. Not just guests. And politically speaking, he gives a lot of airtime to moderates and liberals, and insults everyone else (he hates the Clintons though).

[schild]

My friends and I at work were looking at this team today on their website. They've got a hot chick - who we knew would be hot when we saw her last name. Zurich.

And they've got this other chick who we made fun of before we even opened her profile. Who isn't gonna make fun of someone named Epiphanny.

Goddamn. It's still funny. Best part is her parents have normal names. They gave Epiphanny a sibling who i think was named Epeen.

And to be honest, he should've replaced "Ho" with something else. The last thing I think of when I think Women's Basketball is Ho. But of course, I'm talking about the accuracy of the insult here.

Racist though? Maybe. Nappy? Definately.

[Ironwood]

I thought it was Ironwood. 

That would probably be a frighteningly witty put down if it wasn't for the fact that I'm not really following Signe at all in this thread and I'm confused what words are what.

Further, I wouldn't be terribly annoyed at someone not knowing Dead-Sea Pedestrian from the Bible, but you should be stoned for not catching the reference from Monty Python.  Even, and I want to make this really clear, they do say Jehovah.

[Murgos]

I thought you discarded that whole old testament thing

Nah, very solid book. Good stuff, lots of good lessons. Moses gets hosed, David screws around then writes songs, Job, etc. It's worth reading for the literary value and allusions alone.

Just out of curiosity, what is the biblical punishment for people in a cube farm that eat with their mouth open and slurp their drinks?

Nothing like a quiet, peaceful work environment with some assholes "crunch, slurp, Mm, slurp, chomp, smack" echoing around.  If I cut out his heart and offer it up to god do you think the big man would step in with the authorities for me?

[HaemishM]

What I don't get is why Imus gets all this heat for saying "nappy-headed ho" and yet the entire brown-hating anti-immigration/national security screeds that O'Reilly and Buchanan have been giving for years gets completely ignored. Is it just because Buchanan is irrelevant and O'Reilly is on the Anti-Brown channel?

[Sky]

This week on the hit show "Who Gives A Fuck?": guest star Don Who?

Seriously, did a helicopter just get shot down or something. Oh wait, never mind.

[Sky]

Argh.

http://osteele.com/words/aargh

[Paelos]

I thought you discarded that whole old testament thing

Nah, very solid book. Good stuff, lots of good lessons. Moses gets hosed, David screws around then writes songs, Job, etc. It's worth reading for the literary value and allusions alone.

Just out of curiosity, what is the biblical punishment for people in a cube farm that eat with their mouth open and slurp their drinks?

Nothing like a quiet, peaceful work environment with some assholes "crunch, slurp, Mm, slurp, chomp, smack" echoing around.  If I cut out his heart and offer it up to god do you think the big man would step in with the authorities for me?

I think they'd probably sew your mouth shut for a week so you could fast for God and think about what you did.

[Murgos]

OIC.  You must be another one of those heathen open mouthed chewers.  No sane, rational god could possibly stand idly by while the instrument of his rightful vengeance was so accosted by secular powers.

[Lantyssa]

After you tear his heart out, make sure you make loud smacking sounds as you eat it and annoying slurping sounds as you lap up the blood.

Then laugh heartily.

[stray]

OK, MSNBC pulled him.

Now I'm kind of pissed. That shit isn't right. People are turning Don Imus into a poster boy for the KKK, and he isn't even close. As I said, he's had plenty of black guests and friends on his show. And the guy is far from being just a general scumbag -- He literally turned his own home into a camp for children with cancer i.e. he spends millions of dollars and hundreds of hours treating sick kids and letting them have fun on his ranch. Most of the time, he just broadcasts from there. Everyone who is calling for blood doesn't know what he's about.

Even with the comment he made, it still isn't racist. It's just cranky grumbling from an old fart, about a fucking SPORTS TEAM of all things. Crude, but not racist.

Worst yet, Snoop Dog of all people is defending his use of the word "Ho" against Imus now -- Because his use of it isn't "racist". WTF?

[Miasma]

[Lantyssa]

Maybe he's not a bad person.  Yes he has some history of off-color remarks that both defines and restricts his act.  I don't know if he deserves a slap on the wrist, to lose his job, or for people to back him up.

I just can't find myself to have a lot of sympathy though.  If you say something moronic or hurtful in a very public forum, you should expect someone at some point to call you on it and for that to have consequences.

It's not like he only made a general remark.  He commented on a team and individual players.  It was stupid for him to go there whether it was heartfelt or for laughs.

[HaemishM]

And I repeat, he said what he said, offensive and well, really stupid as it was. He's called a racist and had his show pulled thanks to advertisers getting scared shitless (and who scared them? The media).

And yet O'Reilly's constant barely-concealed racism is broadcast every night to great ratings. I can only assume his advertisers are complete cracker racist shitbags too. I need to find out who his advertisers are.

[Merusk]

Sol I'm not allowed to use the word "Ho" now, or just not in reference to non-white folks? I'm confused.

And how does this apply to use of the word, "Bitches?"

Yes, it might be the addition of "Nappy-headed" that made it the slur, however everyone seems focused on the word, "Ho," instead.

[Lantyssa]

You're free to use whatever words you want.  Just don't be surprised if someone smacks you for it at some point.

He also did not stop at the "Nappy headed hos" comment.  He went on about the team and individual players at some length.  Had he left it at only that comment this whole thing might have been ignored, or at least not quite as much play as it did.

O'reilly, Michael Savage, there are plenty of people who say things they shouldn't.  Maybe one day it'll come back to bite them, too.  Who knows?  As a friend said though, the people with a problem this time did it the right way.  They got the advertisers to pull funding and that is ultimately what determines his fate.  If others could mount the same kind of campaign against other people's sponsors then more power to them.

[Sky]

Again, who gives a shit? The guy's job is to say spicy things to get listeners to sell advertising. Reminds me of an old Howard Stern commercial. The majority of Stern fans said they listened to "see what he'd say next." The majority of Stern haters said they listened to "see what he'd say next."

Where's the public outrage about the god hates fags guy, or any politician that votes against gay rights? Actions speak louder than words, and stifling someone's opinion, ESPECIALLY if you find it offensive is, well, offensive. This is America. Land of the free, home of the brave.

Somewhere along the way it seems to have morphed into Land of the safe, home of the coddled. Give me liberty or give me death, you nappy headed hoes.

[Ironwood]

Actually, I think the fury over this issue is quite justified.

But I admit to no explanation.

[Signe]

I bet Imus could get a job on satellite radio.  Isn't that where shock jocks go to die?

[Fabricated]

I bet Imus could get a job on satellite radio.  Isn't that where shock jocks go to die?

Opie and Anthony are doing pretty good, but then again, they're being simulcast on FM too. They're killing in some markets and doing shitty in some (Chicago for one. Chicago just doesn't like anything that isn't local).

Stern however, yeah, not so good. Piles of money for no FM simulcast and airtime on the least successful of the 2 satellite services.

[Selby]

Where's the public outrage about the god hates fags guy, or any politician that votes against gay rights?

Because gay is still something that society views as "icky" and "not in my world."  The gay rights activists also don't resort to whining like little bitches everytime someone uses the word fag (most often it would depend on context).  There is no equivalent Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson in the gay political community that I know of (one that cries foul regardless of origin and causes a massive media stir).  If there is, they aren't doing their job ;-)

This is America. Land of the free, home of the brave.

Since when?  Coddled and safe is it.  Can't let someone get offended!  Think of the children!

[SnakeCharmer]

Where's the public outcry against the whore that falsely accused the Duke LaCrosse team of raping her? Those guys lives are ruined.

Oh yeah, that's right.

She's black.  They're white.

Nobody cares.

[Signe]

Geez, first Furiously and now SnakeCharmer!  What's with the baby avatar cutage going on here.  I REFUSE TO ALLOW YOU PEOPLE TO MAKE ME BROODY!

[Der Helm]

I REFUSE TO ALLOW YOU PEOPLE TO MAKE ME BROODY!

[SnakeCharmer]

WTF IS THAT?!?!?!

[Roac]

Chucky's baby. 

[bhodi]

We told you that you drank too much to breed.. you didn't listen, you didn't listen!

[Signe]

So... on his way to the meeting with Imus, the governor of NJ has a car accident and he's in critical but stable condition.  They did mention it in passing on CNN yesterday but mostly brushed it off, not even mentioning he was critical, just that he was in surgery.  Of course, who can blame them?  Nothing is more important than the Imus news.  I like how the cameraman kept zooming in to try and peek in the windows.  I was hoping he'd catch some woman sitting on the crapper or something and get sacked, arrested and put on the sex offender's database.