why do i hate that artist thing that people keep posting on my facebook so much? why am i such a jerk?

Once in the middle of a conversation among a few people, this one kid I knew said "If this conversation were in a movie, would you want to be watching it?"

He later became a very, very minor local media personality.

On the basis of saying that?

how did the conversation go after he said that? did everyone step up their game?

Probably didn't have a chance once the media circus arrived after he unleashed that amazing quote.

I think I just said something along the lines of "most of life is not something I'd want to watch in a movie"

he has shown up in magazine fob sections once or twice commenting on syle and I think he hosts shit at hipster clubs.

i suppose you could have just stared back blankly for the next several minutes and told him the next day that you're a big fan of warhol's screen tests.

Buncha Gene Siskel-come-latelies. (His famous benchmark was, "Is this movie more interesting than a film of the cast having lunch together would be?")

http://i.imgur.com/jx5bbwk.jpg

MILLIONAIRE KING OF RAPPERS!

that meme got shouty and couldn't control itself when talking about kanye

Just wait until Jay Z hears this king of rappers thing

do you support Paul Deen?

I think Jay Z is BILLIONAIRE King of Rappers.

There are tiers. You didn't know?

"Says n***** every other word on a daily basis"

Damn, his conversations must be confusing as hell

Well ...

lol point taken

I could sympathise with an out of touch, confused person who didn't quite understand the difference between directly calling someone a n***** (when you're white) and general use of the word (e.g. in rap).

The reason I would sympathise would be that the message given out to kids and general public still seems to be 'using that word is wrong!' when in fact that's not what the issue is at all. It's that using any loaded word as a weapon against someone is wrong, and some words can be very loaded indeed.

Actually it's even more complicated than that.

But if I hadn't been taught about it in those terms, and simply told that saying n***** was wrong, I might feel hard done by at the sight of paula deen's downfall and rappers 'getting away with it'.

But they are both successful media people with a lot of money and wtf is that meme coming from with 'the liberal media' making him king of rappers, etc, etc. It's a deeply stupid artifact.

But it's also easy - if you've, for example, studied linguistics and semiology - to understand that there can be radically different ways of 'saying a word'; and easy to forget that this is a pretty difficult concept to grasp and our default state is probably to think that 'saying a word' to someone's face = 'saying a word' in a song = 'saying a word' on a tv show and thus, if there's a stigma attached to 'saying a word' it should apply everywhere.

These Deenfenders... She said she would like to have servants for a party dressed as slaves. Even KKK assholes have to be, "That shit is weird."

"politically" Correct

why do idiots always capitalize so crazy

I aint sayin she a gold digger/ But she want some blacks dressed up as slaves to serve at her wedding dinner

I mean, I'm sure Kanye's done some other songs where that might even scan, but fuck it.

thats gotta be a troll

Paula Deen "The N word" but Kanye says "nigger"

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BNwd70MCQAAD3Nw.jpg

pauline hanson, media soundbite expert

you know, if Paula Deen had asked for some "african american youths" to be dressed up as slaves at her wedding dinner, somehow I don't think that would be ok eithr

Still loving "Paul Deen."

Remember that weird GOP dinner in one of the Carolinas where they had African Americans in costume portraying slaves? AT LEAST THEY WEREN'T POURING SWEET TEA OUT FOR THE DINERS.

"We don't have much of a budget for the dinner? Well, what if we dressed the wait staff up like Holocaust victims. That way, folks wouldn't feel so bad about not having much on their plate!"

Man, I don't know if I'm making this up or if I read it somewhere or if it really happened but I went to Model UN when I was in high school and there was a group dinner event and I swear students were encouraged to skip dinner as some kind of Holocaust remembrance thing? Or maybe it was a famine awareness gesture? It was tacky as hell, whatever it was.

"I'm just going to skip dinner and go stand next to the kitchen ovens for awhile."

fb friend posted this

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/7TEFQF/www.sooofun.com/wtf-is-wrong-with-americans

just a regular silhouette dropping some Nordic wisdom

My internal reading voice went straight for "Ole and Lena Joke".

Silhouette man unmasked:

http://mytornadoalley.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/swedish-chef.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/1014310_582998541722602_1946393000_n.jpg

Roog! Roog!

The pic is nice. The text is just a slight variation on a very old joke.

I just...can't....Oh...my....

http://i.somethingawful.com/u/elpintogrande/june13/cracker2.jpg

aaaaaahahaha

Since when was cracker derogatory for Amish

thought that was the lead in Pippin

tbh, I wouldn't hesitate to call that guy a cracker. Maybe we all have a lot of growing up to do....

I thought that was the lead actor in a Oberlin College production of The Hobbit.

there and crackergain

we can never grow as a people until we treat the least of our tumbler wites white folk with decency and respect.

I've never heard the word cracker used except in the context of white ppl saying its unfair that they aren't allowed to use racial epithets without censure whereas anyone is free to use the word cracker against them

wait that is supposed to be funny right?

apparently it's becoming an issue bc of the trayvon trial

xpost being that it came from SomethingAwful, yeah. humorously, not everybody sharing it is in on the joke.