but i'm old.
― scott seward, Monday, 24 September 2012 17:03 (eleven years ago) link
but for real people have been calling each other douchebag forever. howard stern kept it alive for future generations almost singlehandedly.
― scott seward, Monday, 24 September 2012 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
i mean i can only go by personal experience. i've NEVER heard anyone call someone ginger in real life. i've been hearing douchbag since grade school. or just plain douche.
― scott seward, Monday, 24 September 2012 17:05 (eleven years ago) link
I only learned about "ginger" with the Spice Girls invasion
― cake-like Lady Gaga (DJP), Monday, 24 September 2012 17:06 (eleven years ago) link
douche had a huge recent resurgence in popularity, it ime became more popular than it had ever been, it was also more douche focused rather than the previously dominant douchebag
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 September 2012 17:07 (eleven years ago) link
i remember being 13 when "pwn" started and thinking that the final fantasy message board i posted on started it
― zachylon (zachlyon), Monday, 24 September 2012 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
but ginger still predates south park, you can't convince me otherwise
― zachylon (zachlyon), Monday, 24 September 2012 17:09 (eleven years ago) link
you cant seem to use the usual search modifiers on google trends so obvs it hard to tease out stuff thats abt ginger the food or the name or w/e but heres a search for ginger hair in the usa
http://i.imgur.com/YzxFw.png
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 September 2012 17:15 (eleven years ago) link
that episode aired in 05 tho?
― zachylon (zachlyon), Monday, 24 September 2012 17:30 (eleven years ago) link
It originally aired on November 9, 2005. The episode caused controversy after its ironic premise was misunderstood by people who acted violently against redheads. [2]
― zachylon (zachlyon), Monday, 24 September 2012 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
...and that's that little blip in the third quarter.
― how's life, Monday, 24 September 2012 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
its a long path to mainstream acceptance, and like i said thats a search for 'ginger hair' which is obvs a different formulation than just calling someone a ginger
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 September 2012 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
future linguists will no doubt call the period between 05-10 the a ginger/red hair era
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 September 2012 17:33 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWCi7Xg7UeQ
― kinder, Monday, 24 September 2012 17:35 (eleven years ago) link
blah blah blah GINGER blah blah blah blah GINGER blah
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 24 September 2012 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
goddam gingers causing these semantic arguments
― barthes simpson, Monday, 24 September 2012 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/s8kkq.jpg
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Monday, 24 September 2012 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
Charisma is cosplaying as Rasputin in an airport
― the physical impossibility of sb in the mind of someone fping (silby), Monday, 24 September 2012 19:39 (eleven years ago) link
Intelligence is knowing that it's possible to grow certain configurations of facial hair...
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 24 September 2012 19:40 (eleven years ago) link
Knowing that knowing that a tomato is a fruit does not make you intelligent or not-intelligent is wisdom.
― Aimless, Monday, 24 September 2012 19:42 (eleven years ago) link
as a factoid connoisseur i consider did you know a tomato is actually fruit not a vegetable to be strictly bottom shelf, i mean did you know youre conflating two different systems and that maybe a tomato is a fruit and a vegetable
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 September 2012 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
lag∞n I want to enroll in your masters in factoids
― the physical impossibility of sb in the mind of someone fping (silby), Monday, 24 September 2012 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/s480x480/561886_370349093042105_1716355745_n.jpg
― how's life, Monday, 24 September 2012 19:50 (eleven years ago) link
who puts tomato in a salad?
even stupid people don't do that
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 24 September 2012 19:55 (eleven years ago) link
fruit salad I mean
I was like
― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Monday, 24 September 2012 19:56 (eleven years ago) link
I'm sorry VG, what thread have you spent most of your time on today and you're still asking a "who does that with food" question?
― cake-like Lady Gaga (DJP), Monday, 24 September 2012 19:57 (eleven years ago) link
But maybe GENIUS is PUTTING THE TOMATO IN THE FRUIT SALAD! HAHA! I do the most totally random things all the time once you get to know me.
― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Monday, 24 September 2012 19:57 (eleven years ago) link
is that wm. gibson with mohawk behind stephenson???
― Philip Nunez, Monday, 24 September 2012 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
― the physical impossibility of sb in the mind of someone fping (silby), Monday, September 24, 2012 3:46 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
http://i.imgur.com/cI4Aw.jpg
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 September 2012 20:01 (eleven years ago) link
i'll def fuck w/ a tomato/pineapple/strawberry combo
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Monday, 24 September 2012 20:06 (eleven years ago) link
my british friend in hs would laugh at people with red hair and call them "ginge," like "haha! can you believe that? he's a fuckin ginge!"
― flying scrotus (flopson), Monday, 24 September 2012 20:12 (eleven years ago) link
there are a lot of regional variations on the insult form of it, usually to do with suppressing a consonant or switching to a hard g
― human centipede hz (thomp), Monday, 24 September 2012 20:23 (eleven years ago) link
a rilly rilly sweet cherry tomato wouldn't be that out of place in a fruit salad.
― scott seward, Monday, 24 September 2012 20:24 (eleven years ago) link
p sure ive made salsa that had tomato and mango in it
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 September 2012 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
...thus ends the first session of the Ginger Exploratory Committee ie ENOUGH WITH THE THE GINGER TALK MAYBE?
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 24 September 2012 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
making fun of gingers, making fun of people who make fun of gingers, talking about gingers at all, the word "ginger" = all things I find very boring
― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Monday, 24 September 2012 21:17 (eleven years ago) link
ginger humor is about on the level of "lol canada!" in my book
― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Monday, 24 September 2012 21:18 (eleven years ago) link
need more fun things from FB
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 24 September 2012 21:19 (eleven years ago) link
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/303764_10151081549201312_278874997_n.jpg
― Hamster of Legend (J3ff T.), Monday, 24 September 2012 21:36 (eleven years ago) link
I don't remember if I had already posted that one, didn't want to load the 2300 messages to find out.
― Hamster of Legend (J3ff T.), Monday, 24 September 2012 21:37 (eleven years ago) link
Gotta buy the gas to get there first. And breakfast. Don't forget breakfast.
― Aimless, Monday, 24 September 2012 21:39 (eleven years ago) link
ARTIST THING:
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/539301_10151141983403972_60700728_n.jpg
― Hamster of Legend (J3ff T.), Monday, 24 September 2012 21:40 (eleven years ago) link
sorry all I read was BLAH BLAH BLAH PERVERSE FANTASY BLAH BLAH
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 24 September 2012 21:41 (eleven years ago) link
― Aimless, Monday, September 24, 2012 5:39 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yeah, it took me until I was about 24 to realize that the whole Thoreauvian "just walk there instead of working to get the money to take the train" thing doesn't work out all that well
― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Monday, 24 September 2012 21:49 (eleven years ago) link
I'm wondering is "Tattva" the song that sounds like he's singing "Ginger Baker Trout Farm"?― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, September 27, 2005 6:15 AM Bookmark
^^^ my kind of ginger humor
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 24 September 2012 21:56 (eleven years ago) link
mmmm, perverse fantasy
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 24 September 2012 21:58 (eleven years ago) link
thank you for understanding
― gesange der yuengling (crüt), Monday, 24 September 2012 22:01 (eleven years ago) link
― look at this quarterstaff (Hurting 2), Monday, September 24, 2012 5:17 PM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
not boring enough apparently
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 September 2012 22:01 (eleven years ago) link
irl lol
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 24 September 2012 22:01 (eleven years ago) link