• Chippy Choppy
• FRIDAY, JUN 21, 2013 06:26 PM +0100

NSA? More like N-S-Gay!

FionaGoulding

13 January 2013 8:34 PMLink to this comment

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is djanngo unchained racist? as a woman married to a black guy I think it is racist

FionaGoulding

13 January 2013 9:30 PMLink to this comment

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@royroy - 

I can only imagine you're joking, by playing it up as one of the people who go out of their way to be offended, but just in case you aren't: how is it racist? OK it depicts slavery... is that racist? It shows white slave traders and owners in a poor light... is that racist?

It's a romp very, very much in the same vein as Inglourious Basterds. Was that fascist?

It doesn't really matter if it is 'a romp'. It can still be racist. The fact is that you are a white person living in a white world. You have no idea what it is like to live in a world which was shaped by slavery. I do because my husband is black. I don't think that you really qualify for an opinion as to whether this film is racist or not.

FionaGoulding

13 January 2013 9:37 PMLink to this comment

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@bleeper - 

As someone married to a white woman,I've no idea whether something is racist or not!

The difference is whether you are capable of experiencing racism. Unless you are in a position to do this you will never truly know what it is. Accepting this as fact, how can you as a white person possibly be qualified to say whether something is or is not racist?

FionaGoulding

13 January 2013 10:18 PMLink to this comment

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@bleeper -

Stop talking rubbish. I don't have to experience something to know whether it's good or bad, or spot the signs. Ever been stabbed? No? Well how do you know you wouldn't enjoy it? 

Ignoring you rudeness, I will try to address the issue.

It's clear to me that society still has massive prejudices against black people, and that much of this is a direct legacy of slavery. Make no mistake, the hangover of slavery has left black people (and their wives/husbands) facing an uphill struggle in what is essentially a white world. To recognize this is possible if you are not black, but a white person can never claim to really understand racism.

FionaGoulding

13 January 2013 10:30 PMLink to this comment

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@pollystyrene -

It's obvious from the tone of Royroy's posting that he is white, if he was not surely he would have a duty to make this clear. In which case it is not my fault but his.

PS we all live in the same world which was indeed shaped by slavery, as anyone who bothers to know a teensy bit of history can tell you.

Its very easy for white people like you to be flippant on this issue. But the fact is that it represents an equality which you are the beneficiary of, so to make light of this is in the most awful taste. You are a white woman living in a white world. I know your mindset because it's the mindset I used to have before I challenged social racism in the hardest and bravest way possible, to sleep with and marry a black man. The simple truth is that by extension i am capable of really experiencing the racism which still pervades society against black people. You are not.

FionaGoulding

13 January 2013 10:40 PMLink to this comment

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@Insolito - 

I'm genuinely interested (I'm not married to a black man, neither am I one): in what ways do you feel this film is racist? Have you seen it? Has your husband? What does he think? And why? I really am interested, as I've never really thought Tarantino is racist before and I can accept that I seldom experience racism...

I think the fact of the matter is that racism in entrenched in society. We all need to come to terms with what slavery was, how it affected our culture, and how it continues to affect the lives of black people. Are we all racist? I am not obviously because I sleep with and am married to a black man, however it follows logically that if society is racist then all white people in it are racist. You are racist without knowing it and is it really so wrong for black people and even their husbands/wives to demand atonement?

Phil on March 30, 2010 12:54 PM

I have to confess that before the LHC was built I didn't really know what a Hadron was.
Previously I'd thought it was a typo of the medical term used to describe the effect of Viagra.

Things To Do Before The End Of The World

Sat Mar 20 12:07:33 GMT 2010 by John Crumb

Polemos, have you thought about death? If the world is really about to end, it might be something worth pondering. Like killing yourself or killing a bunch of people. Think about it. Not just for personal kicks, you could actually contribute to science by risking your life in some experiment! Here's an idea: how about playing Shroedinger's cat to proove to yourself the Everett interpretation? Sounds like fun. If I was so sure the world is about to end, I would certainly try it. Also I would try a lot of other things, like running naked on the street, showing up naked in some TV live show and speaking out my mind, riding the metro or the bus naked, and a lot of other things that involve public nudity. Good luck!

10:48 March 12, 2010 by geecee61

If her tits did'nt distract me so much I'd attempt a sensible comment...as such.....got nothing!

PacmansGhost

12 Mar 2010, 10:12AM

@pinkdwin - maybe the immigrants sneak out in the dark of night, and STEAL the asphalt, and take it back to their filthy hovels and eat it, or have sex with it, or worship it in twisted religious practices, and then in the morning a sweetly pretty fair English maiden on her bicycle, with a wicker basket on the front full of kittens and food for old people, falls into the pothole and DIES.

The vicious dirty bastards.

Rajolae03/04/10

I think if the Steam forum people teamed up with 4chan, they'd have the cure for cancer knocked out in a week and solve the Voynich manuscript before dinner. 

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Cruelness

2 Mar 2010, 3:06PM

i eat off my mac book pro while updating twitter and watching the wire in starbucks while being creative! Usually it will be a tofu and passion fruit pie liquidised into a frothy non skinny frapalattechino with a sprinkling of fair trade cocaine on the top!

Phydeaux08/08/09 

I've got some sign language for them if they don't hurry the fuck up with HL2:Ep3 and TF2 360 updates.

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18:00 February 5, 2010 by Freja

Ha ha ha....

Only a Brit could refer to the following as food heaven: "salad cream, custard, proper tea bags, kippers or proper crisps!" Good one Fratton!!

Cogito, you are you based at a homeless shelter? "It's either white fish in white sauce or gray meat in brown sauce. A salad is soggy marinated cabbage."

You need to get out, and spend a little bit more than those crappy 10kr McD meals and korvkiosks things you get sto stuff yourself.

Perhaps you two should stock up on some of those facination ready made meals and invest in a micro. That would probably hit your sweet spots.

Stockholm is a great food city for anyone who is into fresh food, and particulary sea food.

But "fresh" is obviuosly not everyone's cuppatea.

spiderbeak

19 Jan 2010, 1:07PM

if you struggle with the wire watch on DVD with subtitles, you learn great lingo, like mos def, true dat, mope, re up, aaaight . After every 2nd episode look them up on wikipedia to make sure you didnt miss anything and then read the wikipedia biography of every character from the episode. Highly rewarding

i missed the new doctor who on tv so got them on box set but they werent in the same league

nottydave

29 Dec 2009, 4:54PM

My twat of a cat got himself stuck up a tree so I went down to the local fire station, sheepishly, to see what they reckoned. There was no-one there, must have been out on a shout. Went home again and the twat of a cat managed, with a little help, to get out of the tree.

Fmintak

17 Dec 2009, 12:57PM

The BBC appear to have fallen foul of RATM's strict policy of not doing what you tell them. They should have employed cunning reverse psychology and specifically requested they leave the swears in.

Traces

11 Dec 2009, 2:06PM

Would everyone not be better putting all those 79p's together and putting a hit out on Simon Cowell? Could prob get a really decent contract killer for that dough.

sbuck 12/08/2009 13:58 edit

There once was a time when I would’ve gladly given Lilo a high protein facial glaze. After seeing these pics, suddenly I am not interested…

bluedaddy

23 Nov 2009, 12:14PM

"I know lots of people who love music want us to.

The Guardian have misquoted Bono . You missed the fuck off from the end of that sentence.

scaryduck

12 Nov 2009, 8:46AM

I'd pay money not to read Littlejohn. A one-off payment of fifty quid sounds fair, and will go toward paying for a one-way trip in a Soyuz space capsule.

#86. kiraburu - Today 20:54

FUCK MAGNETIC SHIT MAN, i dont see the improvement.-

Mikeydoollee

01 Nov 09, 10:29am (about 7 hours ago)

A couple of years ago, I was standing on my balcony in Dalston having a beer. I overlook alot of the terrible, terrible clubs and bars we have 'round here. You know, a car stalls at the lights and someone with a truckload of no-name french lager pulls up, puts on a compilation album and calls it a bar, probably called "Car Superstore, or some crap." Then a bus of rejected applicants from Central Saint Martins rocks up and barfs on it, while pretending to be gay so they can get in.