Re: Funeral Planning
 

Are you kidding? That fuckinig thing's been dead for 10 years already. I wouldn't feed that shit to the Chimp Boys in Silicon Valley.

Re: Point of light?
 

Why didn't someone tell his kids that sunglasses were obligatory?

Re: Funeral Planning
 

You've gathered a rather disturbing amount of facts about this. But have you accounted for the different buoyancy of salt and fresh water? And what the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow is?

Re: Funeral Planning
 

Fergus Henderson's a fucking loon. He's actually been known to cook (and serve) pig assholes.

Re: Funeral Planning
 

Mmmmmmm, pig assholes.

Re: Funeral Planning
 

No matter. He's convinced me. Atticus is now my go-to guy for disposing of bodies in water.

Re: Funeral Planning
 

Do you think this grew out of his fascination with his excretory functions?

Re: Funeral Planning
 

Isn't this where Hank should tell us that technically an asshole is a void and you can't eat a void?

Re: Funeral Planning
 

I try to avoid the noid.

Re: Funeral Planning
 

I hope you were bored and reading Page 2 today.

Otherwise you have a disturbing memory for bad '80s marketing.

Re: Funeral Planning
 

This purported "fascination" is one of several great hoaxes you have pulled against these Boards. An obsession does not imply admiration or enjoyment. We might say that Salk was "fascinated" with polio or Patton, Nazi armored cavalry, but would we conclude that they would like to be around these things and see their effects on people? I say, "no."

Re: Funeral Planning
 

I didn't say yours.

All I really wanted was for someone to get, at least mock, offended, so that I could ask if they thought the post was in bad taste. <rim shot>

Re: Funeral Planning
 

I'm offended that I got lumped into some category with a johnny-come-lately-carpetbagging monkey. There can only be one.

Re: Funeral Planning
 

The latter.

Re: Funeral Planning
 

You have given way too much thought to this. Obsessed much?

Re: Funeral Planning
 

No.

I suspect that there's a long explanation that ties his knowledge of this matter to some profoundly disturbing representation of a government agency, or to obscure religious trivia. One of the two.

I await his elaboration.

Re: Funeral Planning
 

wow. if I were a freudian I could really make some assumptions from the choices you made here. Patton is most famous because he moved his forces unheard of distances in very short times just to engage that armor: but you knew that, didn't you?

Talk about your pig assholes
 

So he should instead have asked if this related to your obsession with your excretory functions? :confused:

Re: Talk about your pig assholes
 

I have four kids, including twins under the age of 1. Eskimos have 40 words for "snow"; is that proof they are obsessed with it?

I'm so terribly misunderstood. :(

Wtf?
 

Seriously, wtf?

Best Movie Review Ever
 

http://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/06/...rs_2_faqs.php#

(Sfw)

TM

Re: Best Movie Review Ever
 

It is inspired writing like this that makes me *heart* the absurd Transformers movie even more.

Re: Wtf?
 

Translation?: Take your nigglets back to the fire hydrant, they're fucking up our kids' whiteness.

TM

Any Real Housewives here?
 

Bravo is looking for another castmate for the NYC franchise: http://cityfile.com/dailyfile/6267

C'mon TCOTU folks, you must know some "housewives" (need be neither stay-at-home nor married) who fit the bill!

Re: Talk about your pig assholes
 

How often do you fantasize about burying your kids at sea?

Re: This is the thread where the fringster comes back with teeth
 

I still lack a tooth and someone has expressed regret that can't tell I have brain damage.

Re: This is the thread where the fringster comes back with teeth
 

If they knew you before, it might be hard to tell ;)

(Hopefully not too soon)

Re: Wtf?
 

Another reason to hate Philly.

Re: Wtf?
 

Are they in a time warp where it is the 1950s or 60s? Their lawyers have to be struggling to find a way to make this sound other than what it is. Otherwise those little black kids are gonna end up owning that club after their discrimination suit.

Re: Wtf?
 

Which, frrankly, sounds like a good result to me.

Re: Wtf?
 

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local...imination.html

different take today, maybe just spin control

Re: Wtf?
 

I guess it is possible that "There was concern that a lot of kids would change the complexion . . . and the atmosphere of the club." was just extraordinarily poor word choice to say, "there were too many of them and it was too crowded" but I am skeptical.

Re: Wtf?
 

well, if by "complexion" he meant "we don't want black kids in our pool" I wonder why they agreed to the contract in the first place. I mean they must have known where the day camp was from. it could have been a very bad word choice, and just that.

we have a rec center in my tiny suburb. there is a bigger suburb next door that has no rec center. the basketball court in the rec center is largely empty 9 months of the year. during the few months of the year when there is rec ball all the part-time players from my suburb flood the courts.

at first kids (outside the 3 months) from the bigger suburb came to our rec center, and there were games. my kid benefitted because he had opponents.

then, when the b-ball season started and the non-all-year-playing kids came out, the courts were too packed. the rec center's solution was to ban kids from the other suburb. the other suburb is largely black.

i fought the decision since it effectively made the rec center useless for basketball 9 months of the year. i lost.

I had to drive my kid a half hour to a place where he could find games all through middle school because of the decision.

I think the decision was dumb, but I never thought it had anything to do with keeping black kids out- it was about not flooding a facility such that the "owners" were crowded out. if the director of the rec center had said something about complexion I would have thought it was a very dumb thing to say, but it still wouldn't have made me think race was behind the decision.

i don't know why the swim club kicked kids out, it might well have been race, but it is possible it was something else.

Re: Wtf?
 

That "complexion" line is like a bad joke -- it's playing out like a Very Special Episode of "Diff'rent Strokes." The club's management signed a contract with a day camp from Funky North Philly, and then acts all butt-hurt that either (a.) the kids are all black and Hispanic OR (b.) there are a lot of kids?

My guess is that club management didn't care whether the kids were black or not, but that they got complaints from members, and lacked the moral courage to tell the complainers they are racist shitstain Neanderthals.

Re: Wtf?
 

Atticus has already said it, but yeah, when they signed the contract the club must have known something about both the ethnic makeup of the group and the number of kids involved.

Of course. But I think the "complexion" word choice is potentially telling. Hence the skepticism. It would have been really easy to say, "we really didn't understand our capacity to take on that many kids at once, and were concerned about overwhelming the rest of our membership."

Re: Wtf?
 

Good point. We don't know what was meant. In fact, I think it is possible that "complexion" was a reference to skin color, but that the club actually kicked those kids out because they were not black enough. Which makes us the racists for judging the club owners and members. We need to stop being so quick to judge clubs that kick out black kids after the club's members make racist comments, and then the club mistakenly says it kicked them out because letting them stay would have changed the skin color of the club.

Re: Wtf?
 

I don't think this needed a translation. Their point was fairly obvious.

Example:

Initial Statement: "You're a fucking cocksucking prick."

Translation: "Fuck you you fucking dickbag."

See. Unnecessary.

Re: Wtf?
 

I like the explanation that they didn't want all those kids around, so people started taking their kids out of the pool as soon as the kids showed up.

Yes, indeed.

Re: Wtf?
 

Yeah, that struck me too. Motherfuckers.

This kind of incident makes me wish that every American could visit my gym. In the four years I've been going there I've never seen anything racist (or sexist). People just don't seem to give a shit. Makes me feel a little better when I see shit like this.

I read an article on what RT posted yesterday, and the comments were absolutely appalling. I'm not going back there to link to it, but it made me feel sick.

Re: Wtf?
 

I'll admit that, at first glance, Thurgreed's post appeared to be as superfluous as your "cocksucking prick" to "fucking dickbag" translation. But go back and read Hank's post carefully and you may begin to question whether you, in fact, are the racist here. Or at least whether you are someone who inappropriately rushes to judgment against white clubs that kick black kids out after racists comments by their members, and mistakenly explain their actions in racially suspect terms.