PhillyB

punky boy

dumb thread

it's short for midget you lame ass olds

i mean yeah sure in a vacuum. but in the context of our culture there's no powerful, structural prejudice against redheads such that saying the G Word would be an obvious reflective slur. whereas the N word (or making fun of black folks hair, which is DEEPLY rooted to black culture) absolutely could be. so even if it's intended innocently why bother? why take the chance of making some look at you sideways and half to decide if you're being funny or racist? seems a lot easier just not to go there

you're right, telling black people to talk right is totally above board and only a snowflake would object

wrong. no language or dialect that has an internally consistent registry is "wrong" because the only way one is "right" is if someone with power says it is (historically white ppl obviously.) some language or dialect can be inappropriate for a particular situation. my teacher correcting me from saying "ain't" in school ain't wrong, because in school and in formal settings we say isn't because that's more appropriate. with my friends i say ain't and that's fine. robbie is talking in AAE as a football player in a locker room where you're paid millions of dollars to sell an entertaining product to consumers. robbie speaking AAE as an entertainer isn't inappropriate. when robbie goes to the bank he probably code switches to something a little more "standard" or "appropriate" for the context as many people with nonstandard english dialects do. language use is governed by history and power and we should remember which of its social advantages we carry with us without having earned it by wielding it like a sword to cut down those who use it differently.

saying AAE speakers should learn basic english is racist, full stop. you just negated everything you said prior to this.

it's just a little suspect they're going after (1) his hair, which is locks and extremely black, and (2) his register of speech, which is unapologetically AAE and extremely black. it feels like they're using robbie sucking and being a jerk as a vehicle to bag on black culture

i'm pretty drunk but that's the worse offense i've ever watched, hands down, and i watched ever clausen game in 2010

this might be the worst game i've ever watched

4th string qb starting, i'm not judging him off this

it has emotional resonance and is tied to team history, which is cool, but objectively i see why someone without prior attachment to it would want it gone. "keep pounding" sounds anthemic of always losing but trying really hard not to. it implies failure as the starting point and winning as the variable. it really just is not that great.

i smoked a cigar with steve wilks a few years back. extremely straight-forward, no nonsense, no bullshit guy. no car salesman act, no tv preacher schmooze. and he doesn't strike me as the type to try to install a goofy college brand with a bunch of thirty year old millionaires. i am very optimistic

ok i solved it. this is the guy that posted a picture of the turd in his toilet

i got a party of four and it's gonna be all or nothing we'll see what happens

i might be actually

i'm flying into SNA for the first time, so this is a nice impression

we'll just golf clap when the panthers score

if you wanna swing up to newport beach next wednesday my film is having its world premiere at the film festival there, arnold volsoo (the mummy) and james urbaniak (venture bros, rolf from the office) will be in attendance. also @Chaos and @OneBadCat https://nbff2022.eventive.org/films/630fc4c92d23670086b9d780

i'm getting in to LA Saturday night but couldn't fit in attending the game logistically, so i'll be finding a bar in san bernadino and watching. thank god there's actually something to watch.

he's a man among boys out there

fantastic article

lol

i'm kinda surprised a guy coming from the corporate world didn't have a more polished act there. i actually expected him to be frustratingly stone-faced and inscrutable