"Get a Brain! Morans": Word is out

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It's the use of lower-case for the "et" in "Get" which confounds me most.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:24 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.melroseiowa.com/july4/July42001/morans.jpg

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:29 (eighteen years ago) link

http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/5/g/bush_note_morans.jpg

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:29 (eighteen years ago) link

It's the use of lower-case for the "et" in "Get" which confounds me most.

It's in caps - he's shouting:

"Get A BRAIN! MORANS"

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:30 (eighteen years ago) link

I love how the photo is EVERYTHING bad about America all in one place: icky summer clothes, fat ankles, mirrored pseudo-Vuarnet shades, people wearing flag shit, spelling errors and misplaced patriotism. All worn by what appears to be an off-duty Embers management trainee.

-- suzy (theartskooldisko@hotmail.com

― +++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 14:30 (eighteen years ago) link

here is your handy guide to a non-classist version of that post-

I love how the photo is EVERYTHING bad about America all in one place: icky summer clothes, fat ankles, mirrored pseudo-Vuarnet shades, people wearing flag shit, spelling errors and misplaced patriotism. All worn by what appears to be an off-duty Embers management trainee.

-- suzy (theartskooldisko@hotmail.com

― ++++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 14:31 (eighteen years ago) link

haha oops strikethrough didnt work - basically,

I love how the photo is EVERYTHING bad about America all in one place: misplaced patriotism.

-- suzy (theartskooldisko@hotmail.com

― ++++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 14:32 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.clifdenchamber.com/thumbs2/morans.jpg

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:34 (eighteen years ago) link

I can't back you up on the fat ankles love, dude.

― Dan (Cankles = NO) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Ethan, you TRY SO HARD yet you remain POOR MISUNDERSTOOD WIGGA. *Cries*

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:36 (eighteen years ago) link

We're not allowed to have preferences for modes of dress?

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:37 (eighteen years ago) link

embers is a fast food restaurant. she mocked him for looking like a fast food trainee in unfashionable clothes.

― +++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 14:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Also Vuarnet shades are some bullshit, surely we can all agree on that?

(xpost: Dude, once you go out of the house with a tragically-misspelled sign that's utterly pig-stupid, everything about you is fair game for ridicule.)

― Dan (Faux-Bans = Key) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:42 (eighteen years ago) link

On other cardboard signs in the world...
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41544000/jpg/_41544030_rights_afp_203i.jpg

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:42 (eighteen years ago) link

"Sauvons Nos DROITS, MORAN!"

― Dan (Hahaha) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Of course, it should say:
"obtenez les morans d'un cerveau" xpost.

But it loses something in trans, as it's spelled that way in fr.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:45 (eighteen years ago) link

(xpost: Dude, once you go out of the house with a tragically-misspelled sign that's utterly pig-stupid, everything about you is fair game for ridicule.)

I love how Americans hate pigs.

― martin m. (mushrush), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Aww yeah!! I think we have a CLASSIC thread in the making

― Le Baaderonixx de Benedict Canyon (baaderonixx), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:47 (eighteen years ago) link

Dan, you clearly didn't get the memo Ethan sent from Wigga World where it says I'm not allowed to pick on anyone.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:53 (eighteen years ago) link

(Also why is it okay to make fun of rich people but not poor people? cf the Katrina trailer home thread; repellent people should get called out regardless of their income.)

― Dan (True Equality Means It Sucks For Everyone) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Also why is it okay to make fun of rich people but not poor people

Thank you very much Kate St.Perry.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:56 (eighteen years ago) link

suzy would you care to etymologize your term 'wigga' for me

― ++++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 14:56 (eighteen years ago) link

hey how come chris rock can joke about black people liking fried chicken but when i do it i get my ass kicked? how come my mailman can kiss his wife on the neck but when i cant?? whats the DEAL!

― ++++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 14:57 (eighteen years ago) link

(minus 'when')(yall get the idea)

― ++++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 14:59 (eighteen years ago) link

(Um, I know this is superhypocritical coming from me but can we back off on the "HAHA ETHAN IS A WIGGA" stuff, especially when he's not talking about black issues?)

(xpost: Try harder, Dom)

(xxpost: Are you SERIOUSLY comparing this to kissing someone else's wife or are you just typing too quickly to think about what you're writing?)

― Dan (Eek) Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Ethan: no, I think I've patronised you enough as it is, and I might have so much fun in persisting that I might explode or something. And ETYMOLOGISE! Such a big, big word! Diddums!

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Also why is it okay to make fun of rich people but not poor people? cf the Katrina trailer home thread; repellent people should get called out regardless of their income.)

It's different to make fun of rich people because of the way they act than to ridicule (suppossedly poor) people for their appearance (which isn't exactly the case here, but still).

Also, it's always different to ridicule those in power than those that have little power.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:03 (eighteen years ago) link

(many xposts)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:04 (eighteen years ago) link

dan considering i am at work (gasp - poverty wage!) i am definitely NOT thinking about what im writing but my point is the same as always is when ppl trot out the 'how come you can joke about rich/white/male/christian/etc ppl but not poor/black/female/muslim/etc ppl' (last seen on the cynthia mckinney thread - 'would you still be calling racism if she was white and the cop was black?'!!??!) omg difft circumstances for difft sitations!!! especially when its those in a position of elite moneyed status mocking those who arent!!

― +++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 15:06 (eighteen years ago) link

and yeah blind patriotism is ALWAYS worth mocking, my problem is that only represented about 1/16ths of suzy's post the rest was her usual class snobbery and contempt for fast food employees and people who dont have iD magazine choosing their wardrobe

― +++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 15:08 (eighteen years ago) link

basically 'how come theres no united CAUCASIAN college fund?? thats REVERSE RACISM!!'

― +++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 15:09 (eighteen years ago) link

btw suzy maybe chill w/ the condescension towards somebody who's seen your baggy-ass acid wash jeans & tacky frieda kahlo prints

― ++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 15:12 (eighteen years ago) link

wow, this gets better and better. ethan remember you're arguing about how respectful it's appropriate to be towards "The Moran Guy"

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:17 (eighteen years ago) link

im arguing about how respectful its appropriate to be towards large groups of disenfranchaised people in attacking and using elitist stereotypes in attacking someone who may be from that group - if he was jewish would it be ok for suzy to say that hook-nosed kikes are whats wrong with america?? dont use or invent poverty to demean someone

― ++++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link

*gasp*

― Le Baaderonixx de Benedict Canyon (baaderonixx), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, military industrial complex, gutting of social programs, unchecked corporate rapacity, crisis in health care, lack of environmental protection--don't worry about any of those because:

"EVERYTHING bad about America" = fast-food workers' t-shirts don't fit 'em right

― Martin Van Buren (Martin Van Buren), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link

"if the situation was totally different and suzy said something totally different i bet you'd be shocked!"

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:20 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm with Ethan here, if only because Suzy wasn't ridiculing the dude, but making Wal-Mart fashion sense & food-service employment the exemplar of EVERYTHING BAD WITH AMERICA.

So yeah, fuck that, fight the real enemy etc.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:20 (eighteen years ago) link

remember youre arguing about in defense of sneering at fast food employees for their unattractive clothes

― +++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 15:20 (eighteen years ago) link

actually, dehumanizing factory workers by comparing them to fast food employees

― +++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 15:21 (eighteen years ago) link

poor people wearing clothes they can afford are whats wrong with america!!

― +++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 15:22 (eighteen years ago) link

wow, that is so condescending i have no idea what to say.

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:23 (eighteen years ago) link

uh let me clarify its suzy who was seeking to dehumanize - ive been a fast food employee, it was the best job i ever had

― +++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 15:25 (eighteen years ago) link

While I basically agree with you, Trife, I think we all got the message.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:25 (eighteen years ago) link

poor people wearing clothes they can afford are whats wrong with america!!

didn't you get the memo ethan, they're the ones who start the wars!

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Being a fast food employee isn't so bad, but living in your mom's basement means you can post on ILX all day. Keep saving for that caps lock key, Ethan!

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:27 (eighteen years ago) link

he's not the one with his own board on ilx dude

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:28 (eighteen years ago) link

jw, you of all ppl posting in defense of fashion sense?

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:28 (eighteen years ago) link

this thread is rich indeed.

― Miss Misery xox (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 10 April 2006 15:29 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah i got kicked out the house at 18 & have not taken a single dime since but keep trying you yankee yuppie fuck

― +++++, Monday, 10 April 2006 15:29 (eighteen years ago) link

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Get Dylan, Moran!

― Fiendish Doctor Wu (kingfish), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 06:28 (eleven years ago) link

Get a disambiguation, Patrick Moran

― Mark G, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 06:43 (eleven years ago) link

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pargon/sets/72157623594187379/

― barthes simpson, Thursday, 27 September 2012 17:25 (eleven years ago) link

Get a Mraz, Jasan!

― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Thursday, 27 September 2012 19:08 (eleven years ago) link

What did the tea partier say to the aquatic superhero who was running around with livestock?

Get a Barn, Merman!

― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Thursday, 27 September 2012 19:13 (eleven years ago) link

^ zings so deep bcz there's no superhero called Merman

― ┐(´ー｀)┌ (sic), Thursday, 27 September 2012 23:42 (eleven years ago) link

pwn pwn pwn

― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Thursday, 27 September 2012 23:45 (eleven years ago) link

Get a brain, Erin Moran.

― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Italo Night at Some Gay Club (Mount Cleaners), Friday, 28 September 2012 00:31 (eleven years ago) link

one year passes...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BeyMXQ7CUAAmw6A.jpg

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 26 January 2014 01:23 (ten years ago) link

two months pass...

Lost on the road to Seville, I took a picture of my husband beside the road sign when we came to Moron for the second time.
Mary Milne-Day, London

http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2014/apr/18/moron-near-seville

Guardian endorsing sexism shocker.

― mohel hell (Bob Six), Saturday, 19 April 2014 12:15 (ten years ago) link

two months pass...

From Weird Al's "Word Crimes" video:

http://oi57.tinypic.com/nqy7ls.jpg

― jaymc, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 16:28 (nine years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/kGXEluc.jpg

― 龜, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 11:14 (nine years ago) link

RIP Christopher Hitchens

― Barry Gordy (Neil S), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 11:41 (nine years ago) link

one month passes...

http://i.imgur.com/Fj8bAFP.jpg

Phone numbers in the United States, even 1-800 numbers, only have 11 numbers total, idoit

― 龜, Monday, 25 August 2014 21:17 (nine years ago) link

does it offend you, yeah?

― clouds, Monday, 25 August 2014 21:24 (nine years ago) link

hmph, the number doesn't work when i call it - probably because of obama's phone care cuts

― Karl Malone, Monday, 25 August 2014 21:25 (nine years ago) link

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