(IOW, it's not just you)
― GDPR vs GAPDY (DJP), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 17:43 (five years ago) link
Having never heard the joke in spoken form, it took me a while to figure it out. But I did. It's racist.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 17:52 (five years ago) link
I saw an ad for Subway yesterday where the slogan was iirc "NACHO AVERAGE SANDWICH" and am kind of amazed that a whole marketing team and whoever else thought that works as a collection of words you see for a few seconds at a time in the street
― Terry Major-Ball Will Tell You (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 17:53 (five years ago) link
puns don't really work that way
― frogbs, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 17:58 (five years ago) link
I don't get the 'speed zone' thing
― kinder, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 17:58 (five years ago) link
A pun on Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson
― ebro the letter (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 18:00 (five years ago) link
especially since a 'speed zone' invariably denotes a lower speed limit and that is exactly what the ad is supposed to be promoting.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 18:00 (five years ago) link
I'm hungry for a big plate of notyo's
― frogbs, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 18:02 (five years ago) link
hmm... this one's iffy.
― Nhex, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 18:53 (five years ago) link
When I was a child, everyone who told me this joke used a Mexican boy as the character who dropped the cheese. 🤔
See the irony here for me is that the joke's never been about Hispanics.
― pplains, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 21:35 (five years ago) link
Machismo = excessive manliness
Machismo = excessive cheesiness
― Gunther Gleiben (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 13:06 (five years ago) link
Nachismo, gah
― Gunther Gleiben (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 13:07 (five years ago) link
Nachismo = excessive racialness
― ☮ (peace, man), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 13:22 (five years ago) link
btw, don't do this to nachos you guys.
― ☮ (peace, man), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 13:23 (five years ago) link
personally i wouldna chose to
― he once took my hand and poked Neil Armstrong in the butt (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 13:26 (five years ago) link
You know what I'm taco about.
― pplains, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 13:28 (five years ago) link
i guess the question here is can a bad pun overcome its historically racialized context once that context becomes, uh, highly attenuated
― Jaki Liebowitz (rushomancy), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 13:41 (five years ago) link
Somebody's response to an advert for an upcoming Africa day being 'when is Ireland Day' & not liking being told March 17th.Going on to say it's a religious day when I thought it was a widespread commercial event across most of the globe.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 13:55 (five years ago) link
ireland is my favorite continent
― Jaki Liebowitz (rushomancy), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 14:05 (five years ago) link
(xp) Celebrating a Welshman, of course.
― Do you like 70s hard rock with a guitar hero? (Tom D.), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 14:08 (five years ago) link
I think I first heard the nacho/not-your thing on Seinfeld when Elaine said it. I didn't think of it as a dialect joke.
― adam the (abanana), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 20:48 (five years ago) link
yeah I’ve never heard it framed as a dialect thing. it was always just a regular old pun.
― buttigieg play the blues (crüt), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 22:01 (five years ago) link
There is a restaurant in Baltimore called Nacho Mamas. I had never heard the joke.
― ☮ (peace, man), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 23:22 (five years ago) link
is the idiom (?) of ‘not wanting to be thrown in the briar patch’ racist?
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 12 April 2019 19:07 (five years ago) link
how long has the circle/OK hand gesture been a white power thing? i had not heard of it before the kavanaugh hearings
― mookieproof, Friday, 10 May 2019 14:29 (five years ago) link
It’s stupid as hell. I use that emoji when I wanna use it bc they don’t own it.
― :∵·∴·∵: (crüt), Friday, 10 May 2019 14:35 (five years ago) link
https://medium.com/s/story/does-the-ok-sign-actually-signify-white-power-or-what-6cf3309df985
― pomenitul, Friday, 10 May 2019 14:37 (five years ago) link
the reason they do it is to make libs look like morons
― Mordy, Friday, 10 May 2019 14:43 (five years ago) link
I seem to recall an article months back arguing that point
― call me cismale (Noodle Vague), Friday, 10 May 2019 14:44 (five years ago) link
To quote that article I linked to, re: Zina Bash:
Instead of acknowledging her *actual* politics—working for possibly the most overtly racist administration since Americans literally owned other Americans—leftists, liberals, and centrists got caught up in a circle jerk about whether a hand sign that members of the far right have been using to troll us since at least 2015 has any significance.
― pomenitul, Friday, 10 May 2019 14:45 (five years ago) link
libs are perfectly capable of making themselves look like morons, stfu white power dipshits
― michael keaton IS jim thirlwell IN ‘foetaljuice’ (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 10 May 2019 14:45 (five years ago) link
Pareene had a great piece the other day about how the youths immediately recognize this shit for what it is because unlike respectable adult media they're not busy dousing everything in gallons of smarm. it's almost always very clear when people are doing shit like this to demonstrate solidarity with racists.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Friday, 10 May 2019 14:51 (five years ago) link
it sucks because there's also the age-old "circle game" which we did when we were kids and now you got conservative media screaming "oh now the circle game is RACIST?? I told you they were nuts!!"
― frogbs, Friday, 10 May 2019 14:52 (five years ago) link
^yeah
― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Friday, 10 May 2019 14:52 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/af7LWpb.jpg
― pplains, Tuesday, 22 October 2019 13:41 (four years ago) link
I mean, it's a pacifier.
https://i.imgur.com/3FB3fA4.jpg
But...
http://www.startribune.com/iowa-home-with-confederate-nazi-displays-gets-vandalized/566243672/
Only person that's supposed to judge me is the Lord." Yeah, no, I can judge you too, and I judge you to be a racist moron.
― A breezy pop-rock feel fairly typical of the mid-'80s (Dan Peterson), Monday, 16 December 2019 19:50 (four years ago) link
Stark said he had already sold the painting of a flag with a swastika. He said he displayed it in his front yard because the buyer dared him to do it.
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 16 December 2019 20:01 (four years ago) link
Art can be powerful, but we strongly disagree with the use of monkeys as images in the fight against racism and were surprised by the total lack of consultation. @SerieA_EN pic.twitter.com/M7wFjhsfj2— AC Milan (@acmilan) December 17, 2019
Yet another facepalm moment of fighting racism in Italy.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 18:56 (four years ago) link
I do not understand what is happening there as my first reaction to the picture was "is this a Planet of the Apes throwback" and not anything to do with fighting racism
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 22:03 (four years ago) link
The Italian football association thought it wise to use a monkey image in different kit colors to send out the message that they are against racism aimed at black players (which is rife in Italian football and way, way out of control recently, w/ bananas thrown on the pitch, monkey sounds chanted at players etc).
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 22:09 (four years ago) link
At my most lenient I understand it as an odd twist on the "doesn't matter if you're black or white or purple etc" argument. But using monkeys to send out the message you don't want black players to be compared to monkeys? Because monkeys can, apparently, be all colours? Idk man...
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 17 December 2019 22:13 (four years ago) link
Okay, omglolwtfsob
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Tuesday, 17 December 2019 22:18 (four years ago) link
every part of this story is upsetting
A Black Man Had The Cops Called On Him At A Bank While Trying To Deposit A Racial Discrimination Settlement Check https://t.co/E2hJ5erDMk via @juliareinstein— julia reinstein 🚡 (@juliareinstein) January 23, 2020
― chapoquidditch (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 24 January 2020 11:32 (four years ago) link
I think we can safely say "yes, that is racist" here.
― Okay, you're an ambulance (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 24 January 2020 14:40 (four years ago) link
yeah i think i'm okay with that tbh
― chapoquidditch (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 24 January 2020 14:45 (four years ago) link
TCF sucks.
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Friday, 24 January 2020 14:49 (four years ago) link
jesus fucking christ
"we could not verify that these checks were valid""o rly, then how come Chase was able to deposit them with no issues""... the employee working with him is black, that counts in our favor right"
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Friday, 24 January 2020 15:54 (four years ago) link
I am over here literally affronted over the deployment of the "we have black employees" defense
I want to flood their email with pictures of Candace Owens
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Friday, 24 January 2020 15:56 (four years ago) link
he literally got them on the phone with his attorney, with the police present, and the bank is like "Maybe that's not really your lawyer."
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 24 January 2020 15:57 (four years ago) link