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Victor Ganata
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This three hour tape delay sure does make it easy to totally not give a shit, though.
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right? LOL
- tiffany
I don't get how the Grammy's are in L.A. but they're not broadcast live here. Lame.
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"I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadows. If I fail, if I succeed at least I live as I believe. No matter what they take from me, they can't take away my dignity."
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Wow, I can't believe how sad her death makes me.
- Victor Ganata
I guess Whitney didn't just inspire girls growing up in the '80s.
- Victor Ganata
I remember the exact moment when I became distinctly aware that race and culture is a very fluid concept. My oldest friend whom I've known since third grade was always over for family parties. He was totally chowing down on dinuguan (which is basically offal cooked in pig's blood) and kambing kilawin (raw goat denatured by vinegar)….
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…and my godmother asked him if it was his mom or his dad who was Filipino. Now, my friend has Irish and Italian ancestry from his dad's side and Jewish ancestry on his mom's side. Pale white skin, freckles, grows back facial hair in about an hour. He's a white guy. The only possible phenotypical feature (aside from totally loving hard core Filipino food that even I won't eat) that might have suggested to my godmother that he could have had Filipino ancestry was maybe the fact that he's on the shorter side.
- Victor Ganata
But Filipinos are not a homogenous-looking people, that's for sure. You can't tell who is and who isn't just by their skin color or their eye shape or their hair texture. We used to joke around that basically anyone could say they had Filipino ancestry and most Filipinos would believe them.
- Victor Ganata
This is also why I've been mistaken for Japanese, Samoan, Guatemalan, half-Saudi Arabian, half-Egyptian. Mostly other Filipinos think I'm mestizo (which they specifically mean as half-Filipino, half-white American.) Because of my curly hair (which often puffed out when I was a little kid and other kids would tease me about having an afro) some people have pegged me for half-black. So I suppose I'm kind of inclined to believe the whole concept of race as a biological construct is total and utter bullshit.
- Victor Ganata
I've always found the fact that another Filipino guy totally thought I was specifically Guatemalan (as opposed to belonging to some other Latin American cultural division) extremely amusing. I wonder if he perceived Mayan features or something? Are there even Mayan physical stereotypes?
- Victor Ganata
If we're talking about a cultural construct [EDIT: based on superficial phenotypic markers], then, yes, race exists. If we're talking about a pure molecular biological construct, then, no, it doesn't.
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Imagine me punching you in the face.
- Akiva
How the hell is that constructive, Akiva? I'm on your side (not in this thread), but what the hell, man?
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Akiva is just so respectful.
- Heather
I AM A HORRIBLE PERON. HOW I THIS NEWS.
- Akiva
Heather, you need to either grow up or get with the program. It's COMEDY. I adore Victor and he knows it. I'm starting to really lose interest in you. I've been practically begging your friendship and you've been nothing but an asshole toward me. I understand that because I've been asshole toward you. But for fuck's sake. You need to figure your shit out. I'm waiting and willing but I'm running out to patience. Either let's be friends or block me.
- Akiva
You've been nothing but an asshole to me. I have blocked you at least three times, but other people's responses to you are intriguing, so I unblock you to get context. You can block me if you want.
- Heather
I'd never block you. But we need to get even, don't you think?
- Akiva
GROUP HUG
- I like big Botts
from iPhone
You don't own me, asshole. I really don't appreciate that.
Yeah, I'm sorry. I really respect you.
- Akiva
I can never tell when you're being serious. But, yeah, that really pissed me off.
- Victor Ganata
from iPhone
I'm being very serious. I really value your opinion. I desperately wanted it because I knew in my heart that it'd be true. You're well smarter than I am. I rely on you more than you realize. But I apologize. I treated you badly.
- Akiva
OK, that's fair. And I'm sorry for losing my temper and doubting your sincerity.
- Victor Ganata
No need for an apology. We good, yo!
- Akiva
The strict binary of choice versus not-a-choice doesn't really describe reality well. On one hand, can one simply choose not to be poor or fat, and magically, they're not? On the other hand, you can't change the fact that you're a person-of-color, or that you're attracted to members of the same gender but some people are able to "pass".
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So it's a continuum. Everyone has different thresholds about who they blame for what.
- Victor Ganata
from iPhone
That might be true but it's a bit of a different situation when people want to kill you for who you are.
- Akiva
I know what that's like.
- Heather
Do you really? What's it like for you? I'm not snarking you. I'm likely to be killed for being Jewish. I'm earnestly curious how you deal with it.
- Akiva
The Lakers are struggling against the Raptors. I think this season is officially a bust for the purple and gold.
Can skipping breakfast lead to murder? http://www.bakadesuyo.com/can-ski...
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Not getting enough carbohydrates to your brain can make you homicidal?
- Victor Ganata
from iPhone
Ever dieted? ;-)
- Spidra Webster
YES.
- Steven Perez
Do we have a cognitive bias about how susceptible we are to cognitive bias? http://www.bakadesuyo.com/do-we-h...
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In that part of the country, nobody hated anybody, because everyone was freezing. - http://x0.tumblr.com/post...
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Never dignify ignorance - http://x0.tumblr.com/post...
I'm hanging out with my parents. If there was any doubt, it should be obvious where I get my complete irreverence from. My mom is blaming Bobby. My dad is asking if anyone has seen Conrad Murray.
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That's even too soon for me!
- Victor Ganata
"One Moment in Time" was a song written for the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, but what I most associate it with is with the Space Shuttle Discovery flying the first mission after the Challenger disaster in September of 1988, because one of the networks played it for the closing credits of their broadcast of the launch.
Whitney Houston is dead?!?
Again?
- Akiva
Huh, it looks like she's really dead. Wow. http://www.reuters.com/article...
- Victor Ganata
Dang. I was never a fan but dang.
- Akiva
:((
- Greg Guitarbuster
sad but true. :|
- Joe The Sausage
I think this may be seven or eight loads of laundry #procrastination #screwingyourself
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I have a small mountain of laundry in my hallway that I keep giving the sideeye. :-/
- Kelli H.
I have a pile in my den someone's been needing to fold for a week.
- Anika
Now that you're a homeowner you don't have to go to the laundromat, I hope.
- Spidra Webster
Between the Clippers, the Bulls, and the Knicks, maybe it is the season of the point guard once again.
And Nash is still at least semi-elite, it's just harder to notice because he's trapped on a terrible team.
- Andrew C (✓)
It's like the whole Chinese food syndrome thing. MSG is not inherently toxic. Japanese scientists even found a taste receptor specific for glutamate which they call umami. Glutamate participates in multiple metabolic pathways. Could some people be sensitive to high concentrations? Sure. But it's not something that should be banned.
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Someone wants to ban MSG?
- ronin
I just like it when it is used in high concentration for it to be noted (it is one of the triggers for my mom's chrohns), much like a lot of other additives or foods that people might be sensitive to.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Do food labels/restaurants over there not have to state that?
- Melly Botts
The labels do, but as far as I know, restaurants don't have to (though many voluntarily do). There's small amounts that naturally occur in some foods (soy sauce), but it is an additive in many others (dried bouillon, seasoned salts) that many people don't think about.
- Jennifer Dittrich
It needs to be clearly labeled, regardless of the amount. My body can't handle the stuff. I'll spare the details.
- Kevin Johnson
I side with Penn & Teller who did a blind experiment that demonstrated that the majority of people can't determine whether food has MSG in it or not and that a lot of people who think that MSG makes them ill are full of shit.
- Akiva
Yes, but maybe they don't *want* to be full of shit and that's why they're avoiding the MSG. ;-P
- Spidra Webster
Hush, you.
- Akiva
I mean, people can be truly allergic to things like Benadryl and albumin and insulin so there are probably people who really do have terrible reactions, but it's most likely nowhere as prevalent as it's reported.
- Victor Ganata
from iPhone
I agree. I don't doubt that some people might have reactions to it but the level at which it's report is kind of preposterous.
- Akiva
And now I'm craving Chinese food. THANKS.
- Spidra Webster
Think it also gets confused with the bad reactions people can have to lots of fried food, and many American Chinese Food recipes have been pretty high in that.
- Jennifer Dittrich
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Chinese food syndrome is a very real thing. My first experience with it was as a child. My mother would take my brother and I to the same local Chinese restaurant about once a month, and each and every time I would get sick. I was light-headed, like the worst case of flu ever, nauseous, the inside of my stomach felt like I had swallowed a whole tray of ice cubes, and I'd break out in a...
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- April
Well, my only real point is that people can have idiosyncratic (but totally reproducible) reactions, just like with any other food allergies or drug sensitivities but MSG is not toxic to humans in the same way, say, arsenic or plutonium is poisonous to everyone. But probably most people can tolerate it without effects. And if we're talking superhigh concentrations, I actually suspect people are reacting to the sodium rather than to the glutamate.
- Victor Ganata
I don't think it's the sodium in my case, since a daily staple of my diet used to be over-salted fried potatoes, and I never had that reaction to large amounts of sodium chloride. Maybe some swelling of my feet and hands after prolonged use, but never any of the symptoms I got from MSG.
- April
I think I'm done with the Catholic Church. My mom was originally Aglipayan anyway.
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You can't excommunicate me! I quit!
- Victor Ganata
from iPhone
Don't you have to write some kind of formal letter to be taken off the roll call?
- Heather
I have no idea, to be honest. I hope the Vatican doesn't have some kind of draft
- Victor Ganata
from iPhone
Take a birth control pill and you are OUT.
- Your Neighbor Steve
I went to confession and confessed I didn't believe in it anymore. To be honest, it was my mom who forced that way of doing it...
- Spidra Webster
I must have been raised in liberal Catholic lala land. EDIT: I guess I was since we spent several years in the Anglican Church. ;)
- joey
Yeah, Anglican is the very liberal kind of Catholic LOL!
- Spidra Webster
Anglicanism ~ Episcopalianism ~ Aglipayanism. Sounds like a plan.
- Victor Ganata
from iPhone
Victor, can I interest you in Mormonism? We also have a special today on Zoroastrianism.
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
To be honest, I am kind of intrigued by the teachings of Zarathustra and the Avesta... :D
- Victor Ganata
This autocorrect made me LOL: douche bag --> juice bag
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Just for variety, some jerknobs come in tetra paks.
- Micah
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J Lin just burned Pau Gasol
3rd degree burns! *badum tss!*
- AJ Batac :)
38 is not bad.
- Oğuz Demirkapı ☮
J Lin kicked Kobe's ass. I'm a believer. #linsanity
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