A Friendly Correction for those Man-Haters who Delve to be Single

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

The problem is that he's white, isn't it? Why don't you join Sebby in Racistville? You guys can hang out and make fun of Mexicans and Canadians.

It's technically not racist to make fun of the Canadians because, while they are indeed a different race, it is a demonstrably inferior race.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

The problem is that he's white, isn't it? Why don't you join Sebby in Racistville? You guys can hang out and make fun of Mexicans and Canadians.

Although I didn't think of that, it's probably twue. But your racist assumptions about my racist tendencies are racist, man. And that makes you the mayor of Racistville, even though I'm sure you live in the suburbs.

TM

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

So for basketball I'm white but for soccer I'm a flopping swarthy?

Yes. These things are relative.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

So for basketball I'm white but for soccer I'm a flopping swarthy?

Apropos of this, we were recently at a dinner that consisted of roasted chicken, Brussels sprouts and some kind of potato side dish -- I openly referred to it as "Protestant Food". The wife of a good friend, who is American but both of her parents are 100% Sicilian, called it "White People Food" and explained that she doesn't consider Italians, and especially Sicilians, to be white.

So you are white to TM but not-white to Buffy in Palm Beach.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

It's technically not racist to make fun of the Canadians because, while they are indeed a different race, it is a demonstrably inferior race.

I once received unsolicited bagged milk there.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?

Apropos of this, we were recently at a dinner that consisted of roasted chicken, Brussels sprouts and some kind of potato side dish -- I openly referred to it as "Protestant Food". The wife of a good friend, who is American but both of her parents are 100% Sicilian, called it "White People Food" and explained that she doesn't consider Italians, and especially Sicilians, to be white.

So you are white to TM but not-white to Buffy in Palm Beach.

I always associate roasted chicken with France for some reason. Does the addition of herbs move the needle in the direction of Catholicism? What is there is some lemon and olive oil too?

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by bold_n_brazen

In it's place, I frequently use "Period. Paragraph. Moving on."

I admit that I know this is annoying, but that I won't stop doing it.

"Right. Now on another subject..." is fine also.

"Full Stop" is a different creature. It's like "Pwned." The writer needs to be degraded regarding his use of it. (No, not shamed. Degraded.)

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Adder

I always associate roasted chicken with France for some reason. Does the addition of herbs move the needle in the direction of Catholicism? What is there is some lemon and olive oil too?

You're confusing France with Olive Garden again.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

"Right. Now on another subject..." is fine also.

"Full Stop" is a different creature. It's like "Pwned." The writer needs to be degraded regarding his use of it. (No, not shamed. Degraded.)

It's all part of the distressing Upworthification of our discourse. This was an actual ACLU press release title: Pregnant Woman Suffers. You Won't Believe Who's To Blame.

EPIC FAIL

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch

It's all part of the distressing Upworthification of our discourse. This was an actual ACLU press release title: Pregnant Woman Suffers. You Won't Believe Who's To Blame.

EPIC FAIL

My favorite is, "[Insert Event] Happened. What You Need to Know."

Thanks, but I'll be the decider of that. I might read more than your article about the subject, getting more than I need to know, which might tax my brain in ways I don't understand or appreciate (Not having read your other article, "The Limits of Your Grey Matter. What You Need to Know.").

Or I might stop halfway. I might not get all you think I need to know. It's possible I won't find the subject interesting, and so wind up living on the dangerous edge of ignorance - unaware of something I needed to know but don't and probably never will. Someday it might come back to bite me, the proverbial chickens come home to roost, and I'll have no one to blame but myself, as I was once offered all the knowledge on this thing, but foolishly, in supreme hubris, thinking I knew it all or didn't need to know any of it, didn't get all I needed to know.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

My favorite is, "[Insert Event] Happened. What You Need to Know."

Thanks, but I'll be the decider of that. I might read more than your article about the subject, getting more than I need to know, which might tax my brain in ways I don't understand or appreciate (Not having read your other article, "The Limits of Your Grey Matter. What You Need to Know.").

Or I might stop halfway. I might not get all you think I need to know. It's possible I won't find the subject interesting, and so wind up living on the dangerous edge of ignorance - unaware of something I needed to know but don't and probably never will. Someday it might come back to bite me, the proverbial chickens come home to roost, and I'll have no one to blame but myself, as I was once offered all the knowledge on this thing, but foolishly, in supreme hubris, thinking I knew it all or didn't need to know any of it, didn't get all I needed to know.

dr;tl

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

dr;tl

"Come on-- Come on. Give me the executive summary."

"Please lie down."

"What?"

"The executive summary is written in semen, on the recipient's forehead."

(...In a perfect world.)

[Adder]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

You're confusing France with Olive Garden again.

You have a better knowledge of the Olive Garden menu than I, apparently.

Roast chicken makes me think of Jacques Pepin, for some reason.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally Posted by Adder

You have a better knowledge of the Olive Garden menu than I, apparently.

Roast chicken makes me think of Jacques Pepin, for some reason.

Lucky guess. I'm a Chili's man (The talent that shows up for Spicy Shrimp Thursday Happy Hours will make you think you every chick alive is one of the Bangles (the hot ones)).

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

"Come on-- Come on. Give me the executive summary."

"Please lie down."

"What?"

"The executive summary is written in semen, on the recipient's forehead."

(...In a perfect world.)

this really dates you, no offense. today's junior execs are of an age where kids were no longer taught to write in cursive.