blanking on her name at the moment.
― Dr. Lol Evans (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 20 September 2010 19:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Not racist. Someone else could make the argument for exploitative, but it's a stretch to say that the Kings of Leon have any hatred or intolerance toward black people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aENX1Sf3fgQ
Now apologize for making me watch a Kings of Leon video for two minutes.
― http://tinyurl.com/vrrr0000m (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 20 September 2010 19:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, I guess exploitative and colonialist (is that the right word?) more than captial-R RACIST, but still like; who does a video treatment that;'s like "OK, you're hugging black kids for four minutes"
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 20 September 2010 19:22 (thirteen years ago) link
i think it's hard to call a music video 'exploitative' -- what are they exploiting these kids for? no one watches music videos. they have no impact, unless you're lady gaga
colonialist maybe, but remember that KOL are the most popular band in europe
― J0rdan S., Monday, 20 September 2010 19:24 (thirteen years ago) link
racist, clearly not
would've preferred video featuring band being murdered by black kids
― Dr. Lol Evans (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 20 September 2010 19:24 (thirteen years ago) link
http://altreport.hipsterrunoff.com/2010/09/kings-of-leon-hires-choir-of-black-children-to-make-their-new-mp3-sound-more-soulful.html
― Chinedu "Edu" Obasi Ogbuke (nakhchivan), Monday, 20 September 2010 19:26 (thirteen years ago) link
It reminded me of a generic John Cougar Mellencamp video. Had they been white kids, it would've looked like 70% of the videos on CMT.
― http://tinyurl.com/vrrr0000m (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 20 September 2010 19:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Still waiting for an apology.
― http://tinyurl.com/vrrr0000m (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 20 September 2010 19:27 (thirteen years ago) link
obv the answer is "the dude who directed the new Kings of Leon video, whose name somehow has not yet made it to the bits of the Internet you can hit within 5 minutes of using Google"
(that more than anything else is making me lol, like whoever this was basically went "I'll do this for you and it will be awesome! I don't want any credit tho" *waits for shitstorm*)
― juggalo iglesias (HI DERE), Monday, 20 September 2010 19:27 (thirteen years ago) link
carles is slippin -- passion pit already did the "hire a choir of underprivileged minority youths" thing
― J0rdan S., Monday, 20 September 2010 19:28 (thirteen years ago) link
he's not even listed on the mtv site, which is usually v good about putting directors up in there
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 20 September 2010 19:33 (thirteen years ago) link
gonna lol if it was Hype Williams
― juggalo iglesias (HI DERE), Monday, 20 September 2010 19:41 (thirteen years ago) link
the video and song are both unmentionably terrible w/ stupid and retrograde notions about race but i don't think they are simply ~racist~
― Chinedu "Edu" Obasi Ogbuke (nakhchivan), Monday, 20 September 2010 19:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Sophie Muller directed it.
― Kerm, Monday, 20 September 2010 19:56 (thirteen years ago) link
OK, how about this?
http://gawker.com/5643372/this-weeks-new-yorker-cartoon-caption-contest-winner-pretty-racist
― my friend flocka (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 01:41 (thirteen years ago) link
more offensive for not being funny
― bnw, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 01:54 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.bitterwallet.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/zBOSA-500x375.jpg
― http://tinyurl.com/vrrr0000m (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 03:49 (thirteen years ago) link
that was a fake
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 21 September 2010 03:51 (thirteen years ago) link
but it was racist because someone realized that they could spell "nigger" by a video game and they set up a soccer video game and took a photo of it and sent it all over the internet
so yes, racist
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 21 September 2010 03:52 (thirteen years ago) link
this isn't a thread for lol racism, fyi. keep that shit to "encyclopedia of racist products" or, like, 4chan
― my friend flocka (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 03:55 (thirteen years ago) link
strictly concern trolling in here.
― Kerm, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 03:57 (thirteen years ago) link
I figured it was some soccer thing. Wouldn't have been surprised if it had been real.
― http://tinyurl.com/vrrr0000m (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 03:58 (thirteen years ago) link
take it to i love footy
― p.m.s.b. (pre-mall smoke bomb) (zorn_bond.mp3), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 04:50 (thirteen years ago) link
love the gawker update where they act like they understood the joke from the beginning
― jeff, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 05:30 (thirteen years ago) link
barf
http://i55.tinypic.com/25oxf7k.png
maybe LJ is right about ilx being the smartest message board
― my friend flocka (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 05:35 (thirteen years ago) link
http://hipsterhitler.com/
― p.m.s.b. (pre-mall smoke bomb) (zorn_bond.mp3), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 05:40 (thirteen years ago) link
gawker isnt a message board
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 21 September 2010 05:42 (thirteen years ago) link
ilx is my favorite blog
― markers, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 05:44 (thirteen years ago) link
MIXMASTERRACE
EASTSIDEWESTSIDEGENOCIDE
― p.m.s.b. (pre-mall smoke bomb) (zorn_bond.mp3), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 05:45 (thirteen years ago) link
is anti-semitism racist or not, because this guy at the bar I frequent is convinced that Birth Of A Nation was produced by Jews & that the Jews control the media etc etc
I know it sucks either way just wanted 2 know ur opinions
― 4 my muthafuckin mods (crüt), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 06:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Of course anti-semitism is racism. It's just that racism against Jews has acquired a term of its own, probably because discriminating them has been so prominent historically.
Where it gets tricky is when anti-Israel or anti-Zionist statements are equated with anti-semitism; of course some anti-Israel/anti-Zionist people are also anti-semitists/racists, but many of them aren't. But your case is pretty obviously racist because the target is Jews as a whole, not Israeli politics or anything.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 06:56 (thirteen years ago) link
are the finns a race?
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 06:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Ca. 300 Finnish Jews fought in the War alongside the German Army[3][4]. The field synagogue operated by the Finnish army was probably a unique phenomenon in Europe.
Guess they didn't have Google then either.
― http://tinyurl.com/vrrr0000m (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 14:00 (thirteen years ago) link
― p.m.s.b. (pre-mall smoke bomb) (zorn_bond.mp3),
jesus way to zing an entire bord of innocents wtf
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 14:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Subtle "Americans don't like soocer and aren't racist" undertones there
― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 14:04 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah really i'm getting some prety bad vibes offa this zorn character. bet he's norwegian/icelandic thor worshipper
― i dont love everything, i love football (darraghmac), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 14:05 (thirteen years ago) link
zorn smash
― p.m.s.b. (pre-mall smoke bomb) (zorn_bond.mp3), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 15:55 (thirteen years ago) link
is this chorus racist?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4s6H4ku6ZY&ob=av3n
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 21 September 2010 18:57 (thirteen years ago) link
?
― my friend flocka (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 19:01 (thirteen years ago) link
http://dasracist.net/
― am0n, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 19:02 (thirteen years ago) link
idk singing about sippin syrup like three 6 and getting "slizzered"
it's a bit 3oh3 minstrel
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 21 September 2010 19:02 (thirteen years ago) link
i can def see that
― my friend flocka (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 19:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Man, if it's wrong to make fun of people who drink cough syrup to get high, I don't wanna get high.
― doobieborther, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 19:07 (thirteen years ago) link
How does all the lol ghetto retard stuff on lamebook.com fit into this thread? Not sure if I'd rather it be real or fake.
― zomg_bong.mp3 (Kerm), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 19:09 (thirteen years ago) link
i think a bunch of well-off white people looking at it on their MacBook Pros and laughing at it through a mouthful of Whole Foods salad bar is pretty racist
― my friend flocka (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 19:14 (thirteen years ago) link
glad I'm broke, on a dell, and had chili for lunch then.
― zomg_bong.mp3 (Kerm), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 19:18 (thirteen years ago) link
black people eat Whole Foods salad bar, too
― sarahel, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 19:19 (thirteen years ago) link
so like, on a pitchfork scale of 0.0 to 10.0, where 10.0 is a lynching, and 0.0 is Martin Luther King Jr. enjoying a cup of coffee while making breakfast, in his pajamas, humming a soft song to himself, where would the MacBook Pro thing fall? where does this comment fall?
I think this thread, while started with the noblest of intentions, has been a failure. And the reason I believe it has failed is that we (as a society) are so resigned to simply declaring something racist or not, as if it's binary, instead of attempting to quantify exactly how racist something really is, using numerical scales.
― del griffith, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 19:23 (thirteen years ago) link
that scene from Louie where the school bus breaks down in Harlem and he reassigns the black kids the window seats: greater than 1.2?
*folds hands, rests elbows on desk, places chin on fingertips, looks up and slightly to the left, thinks*
― del griffith, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 19:27 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't think "street tacos" is a racist term but i do think it's intended for an audience who is not taco-literate
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 22 February 2024 15:04 (two months ago) link
they're not realllllly 'standard' here but they are pretty common (and delicious!)
― gbx, Thursday, 22 February 2024 15:37 (two months ago) link
no hard tacos anywhere in Oregon that I have seen
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Thursday, 22 February 2024 15:39 (two months ago) link
probably bc oregon isn't in the southwest? gbx is more informed than i am; i only know that i ordered tacos two times in rural New Mexico and was served delicious crunchy hard shell tacos.
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 22 February 2024 15:49 (two months ago) link
makes sense!
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Thursday, 22 February 2024 15:50 (two months ago) link
We make hard tacos at home but order soft tacos from outside.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Thursday, 22 February 2024 15:54 (two months ago) link
New Mexico is sort of known for its own distinctive fusion take on Mexican, right? Just like Texas. Checking out wiki adds this little tidbit of data:
"Taco – a corn tortilla fried into a trough shape, it is filled with meats or beans, and fresh chopped lettuce, onions, tomatoes, and cheese.
The term can also refer to the soft, rolled flour-tortilla variety popularized by fast-food chains (a soft taco), and the flat, unfried corn style favored in Mexico (a "street taco"), but most corn tortillas for tacos are fried in New Mexican cuisine."
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 February 2024 15:55 (two months ago) link
At least around here (so I presume in Mexico as well) you would never put lettuce or tomatoes on a taco.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 February 2024 15:57 (two months ago) link
the tacos at el parasol (small local chain) are fried hardshell and i love them
also i think hardshells are not uncommon in parts of mexico, tacos dorados
― gbx, Thursday, 22 February 2024 16:00 (two months ago) link
exactly the opposite in my kitchen -- i make tacos at least 3x/week but they are always corn tortilla with whatever available filling i happen to have. the only real taco tragedy here are tortillas that haven't been toasted and are functionally raw. no thx.
either way it seems to me that 'street tacos' are a term to help the taco-illiterate distinguish between types of tortilla before ordering them at a restaurant
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 22 February 2024 16:01 (two months ago) link
xpost Aka as flautas.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 February 2024 16:01 (two months ago) link
Meanwhile, deviating from Thursday taco talk:
Joe Biden's America... pic.twitter.com/7CLTCafNwM— House Republicans (@HouseGOP) February 22, 2024
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 February 2024 16:22 (two months ago) link
First reply rules:
And yet y’all made Jesus white so what’s your point— D2 - Duan Dempsey (@duandempsey) February 22, 2024
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 February 2024 16:23 (two months ago) link
New man on the Woke A.I. Vikings
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 22 February 2024 16:26 (two months ago) link
I wonder if there's any huge pop culture phenomenon that could have caused an A.I. image scraper to link dark skin and the phrase "founding fathers"...? nahhhh
― The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Thursday, 22 February 2024 16:47 (two months ago) link
Oh no, don't ask it for a picture of a mermaid
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 22 February 2024 16:51 (two months ago) link
history messin'
― gbx, Thursday, 22 February 2024 16:52 (two months ago) link
History messin' is the best part of this. It sounds exactly like a stinger that Kelly would be say at the bottom of one of those Onion cartoons.
― The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Thursday, 22 February 2024 16:55 (two months ago) link
HISTORYMESSIN’
― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 22 February 2024 17:15 (two months ago) link
Josh: at my nearest taqueria, "Mexican style" is their shorthand for saying that you only want onion, cilantro, and lime juice.
Their approach is generally Yucatecan, I think, but they'll make you an "American style" with lettuce and tomato.
I don't think I have had a hard-shell taco since maybe 1985 (Old El Paso, from the grocery store). So I guess for me, all tacos are soft tacos. As a result, I stopped saying "soft tacos." I just call them tacos. "Street tacos" is nonsense because I will happily eat a taco in any location.
"Street corn" is another matter. One can just say esquites if that's what you mean.
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 22 February 2024 17:15 (two months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhNGr_D2J9k
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 22 February 2024 17:17 (two months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYpBHc8px_U
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 February 2024 17:18 (two months ago) link
whew, order restored
https://i.imgur.com/eGiLH59.png
― omar little, Thursday, 22 February 2024 17:24 (two months ago) link
Lionel Messin'
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 22 February 2024 17:25 (two months ago) link
sleep that's where I'm a woke AI Viking
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 22 February 2024 17:26 (two months ago) link
Sheer brilliance.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Thursday, 22 February 2024 18:07 (two months ago) link
at my nearest taqueria, "Mexican style" is their shorthand for saying that you only want onion, cilantro, and lime juice.
see what's funny is that in my experience, this is what you should get when you order a street taco, and what the taco trucks near me in Oakland used to sell as "tacos." Usually would come with a nice little bag of escabeche, too.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 22 February 2024 18:21 (two months ago) link
my god an image of a "founding father" that isn't congruent with the historical fact that america was foundationally a white supremacist ethnostate centered around on race-based chattel slavery
also wtf is with those fingers lol
re: woman pope - did anyone else grow up hearing the anti-catholic "pope joan" myth? it's so fucking grand guignol. if i didn't know any better i would've thought antonin artaud came up with it.
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 22 February 2024 18:33 (two months ago) link
Some versions of the legend suggest that subsequent popes were subjected to an examination whereby, having sat on a so-called sedia stercoraria or 'dung chair' containing a hole, a cardinal had to reach up and establish that the new pope had testicles before announcing "Duos habet et bene pendentes" ("He has two and they dangle nicely"),[17] or "habet" ("he has them") for short.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 22 February 2024 18:50 (two months ago) link
Black Vikings sounds like a terrible British current wave of post-punk band name
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 22 February 2024 18:53 (two months ago) link
AI should stick to its intended purpose: Making ahegao hentai of the Wild Thornberries
― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 22 February 2024 19:00 (two months ago) link
Okay but are they fucking the animals or each other
― The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Friday, 23 February 2024 12:39 (two months ago) link
the AIristocrats!
― memphis milano: the new trend of the 80s (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 23 February 2024 12:57 (two months ago) link
What would be in a cocktail called the Black Viking?
2oz blackstrap rum (black)1/2 oz lime (for scurvy)1/2 oz Cherry Heering float (blood)rub rim with honey (Mead)
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 February 2024 13:27 (two months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMA2Kc7TiO0
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Thursday, 28 March 2024 19:51 (one month ago) link
Seth MacFarlane is producing this I'm sure he'll keep everything above board
― frogbs, Thursday, 28 March 2024 19:59 (one month ago) link
They roped Steph Curry into slapping his name on this? It also says Norman Lear is producing and he even got higher billing than McFarlane, in spite of the fact he's dead.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 28 March 2024 21:44 (one month ago) link
Ouija-ing it in
― President Keyes, Thursday, 28 March 2024 22:14 (one month ago) link
Animation famously takes three months total from pitch to screen.
― bae (sic), Thursday, 28 March 2024 22:16 (one month ago) link
Lear because he produced the original Good Times, I presume.
― nickn, Thursday, 28 March 2024 22:31 (one month ago) link
Yeah, it's like how anytime anyone makes a Halloween thing they have to cut John Carpenter a check, or how anytime anyone makes an Alien thing they have to cut Walter Hill a check.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Thursday, 28 March 2024 22:43 (one month ago) link