This is clearly not my cat. If this was my cat he's have one arm shoved down into the printer trying to tear up all the internal whirling bits with his bare claws.
- Soup
Too Funny! Reminds me of the San Mateo Cat Shelter where one of the cats loves to sleep on top of the laster printer where the paper comes out...
- Greg Lato
1600+ to beat the FFundercats live chat thread. I think with this real time now on all threads we're going to see some truly epic comment numbers.
- Simon Wicks
Ivan, no the picture speaks for itself. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Petr, I have no idea what you mean, but thank you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
@Kol .. :] that, partially, might have been the purpose.... I don't know it exactly either. :] .. was I reflecting on a cat under the fax, and that it is hard to fax that way ... /?:] ... "underfaxing at its worst" ..
- Petr Buben
there ya have me ! :] .... see, to be honest with you, i saw this pic couple days ago, but i let it go, without posting it ..... what does that make me? :]
- Petr Buben
even a flat cat... faxes just can't handle the hair. You'd have to shave the cat first, else the hair will burn and stick to the drum... a mess! (I am extrapolating from transparencies, mind, i don't have access to a cat to test)
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Hehe, Joelle. This is now tied for the 'likes' top stop. One more then, hehe. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Hehe, Greg. Blimey! Erm, is that not far from 500 likes now? ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Bloody marvelous, Kol. Wish I could like it again... too cute (and help u to 500 likes).
- Roberto Bonini
I couldn't believe it when I logged on from the morning over posting it and saw it was at something 200 likes! You all have a strange fetish with cats and fax machines, hehe. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Am I the only one who saw this and their first thought was - My goodness did someone break that cats neck? It still freaks me out a little
- Steve C
Steve, it does look a little out of place, but cats are pretty bendy. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
They fax much better if you flatten them first. What?
- Kevin Pedraja
So we can put this post to rest now. :-) 505 likes final count, wow! :-D Good night all!
- Kol Tregaskes
My like is the last one so far :) - 509 afaik
- getalifejerk
did 3 people really un-like this? now at 506. wtf (edit: uh, oh, yeah, me and 2 + 506 others makes 509. dammit, jim, i'm an artist, not a mathematician)
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
One of the best funny cat pictures I've seen! :-)
- John Collis
Kristian, it appears to be. Hehe, John.
- Kol Tregaskes
ای بابا این پیشول بی خیال نمی شود، بابا پاشو برو دنبال یه بازی دیگه ، از هفته پیش تا حالا تو فکس ولو شدی حوصله ات سر نرفته، پاشو اقلا بپر رو کیبوردی چیزی
- Maryaminaa
It's really only social convention which regards it as inappropriate, same with Xeroxing it, like one does with their b__tocks. Wait are we still talking about cats cats here or...
- sofarsoShawn
OMGosh 700+ likes now!! LOL. Thank you all 702 of you. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
What in the rational world would cause someone to think that this should be a good picture to take and post online? Does the NRA have a clothing-optional branch?
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Actually, on second thought, I'll wait till you have the kinks ironed out.
- ♥patricia♥
This thing gender-constrained, or could the process be extended to tiny buxom women as well? [I have a name, but first let my lawyers talk to your lawyers].
- ianf ⌘
Single-sex unions are unconstitutional, unless you manage to suppress breeding of these Tiny Buxom Ones™ as well. But then you're in for all kinds of other trouble, just so you know it!
- ianf ⌘
Ok, I'm scared. Lickr.com is showing me my own site.
- Jimminy
You wouldn't bite my lawyer-assisted name/merger offer, so here goes: June 1st we're going online with a competitive service: DeLICKRous™ - like Kosmo's except for urgent on-site booty calls (volunteers of both sexes apply within).
- ianf ⌘
Can you work on the prototype that also does housework and cooking while I am recovering?
- Janet
I wouldn't want to bump my head on the bottom of a desk..
- David Gross
from email
Because I spend most of my days sitting at a desk. *YOU* don't have to worry about anything since this is a future biological endeavor.
- Admiral Anika
How far into the future we talking about? Cuz I need to make plans.
- pea
Andy I was searching for something completely unrelated and this was one of 3 returns. I giggled. Pea, I have no idea. I need funding. =)
- Admiral Anika
I too should withdraw from the discussion because I'm actually starting to wonder what processes would be involved in making mutant bonsai clone people for the purposes of destressing deskbound ladyfolk.
- Slappy Line
Just had this picture of a tiny person under desk stabbing at hungry snarling cat with no2 pencil
- WarLord
FriendFeed is now available in Persian! Thanks again to all of our Persian users — it has been extremely exciting for us to see FriendFeed so widely used around the world. You can set your language preference here: http://friendfeed.com/...
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
Any way we could auto-translate (or even have a link with the option to?)? It'd be great to really be able to collaborate with the non-English speaking world...
- Chris Reichow
wow, another language... I can't read it, but that is cool! :)
- Susan Beebe
Now if we could only filter out languages other then our own and have the lang:en search filter.
- DarknessFalls
You're welcome! We are excited to better support our Persian users.
- Bret Taylor
Thank you Bret, we love FriendFeed and happy for add Persian language to FF :)
- Nimaa
This feels so good to be able to view the pages in a way are eyes used to see Persian writings. Thank you so much! We really appreciate your effort! Thanks again ! :)
- تنهاترین انجل
Great Bret! I remember that in the past some persian people wrote here that whould be nice to have FF interface also in persian, probabilly because their language is very different and english isn't so diffused such in Europe. A welcome to persian friends! :)
- Roberto
from fftogo
Since so many of you had taken it upon yourselves to share those really tough matchups, we created a way for you to share them directly to FriendFeed from within Flickchart! Thanks to all of you for inspiring this new feature!
If you can add in the ability to include initial comment, like the bookmark does, that would rock. But I love the choice to share, and it looks great in the feed :)
- Michael W. May
@Michael - good idea - we'll see about working that into a future build. Thanks!
- Nathan Chase
Great feature and I'll second MWM's comment.
- Parth Awasthi
*Lindsay comes out of nowhere.* *Johnny is suddenly disarmed and smashed into the floor.* *Tad gets up, brushes off and grabs shotgun again.*
- Internet's Tad
Since you wanna play that game :P ... *Haley comes busting through the window, SWAT style*... *Throws ninja stars to disarm Tad and Lindsay, pinning them against the wall*... *get to my feet, Josh throws me a pool cue*... *points at each other, all cool like*... Let's do this thing... *cues theme from Kill Bill*... Yaaaaaarrrrrghhhhhhh
- Johnny Worthington
*Josh goes to his corner to edit the podcast*
- Josh Haley
*Johnny feels now strangely outnumbered thanks to Josh*
- Johnny Worthington
*Tilde, the golden retriever, comes to the rescue and licks the two intruders to death*
- Internet's Tad
You gettin' this, camera guy? We can't do this all day!
- Akiva Moskovitz
*Josh musters up the will to crawl across the bloodied floor where his iPhone was strewn.*
- Josh Haley
*runs for the door before Josh detonates... finds it hard with his pants around his ankles*
- Johnny Worthington
*everyone stops to laugh at how Johnny looks like a Japanese lady in a tight kimono trying to run out of a house on fire*
- Josh Haley
*activates Remote Unactivator* on his iPod Touch
- Internet's Tad
*MacGruber motions to Josh to throw him some bubble gum and duct tape*
- Josh Haley
*Has made it halfway to the door... also is now skilled at performing the Tea Ceremony Sadō, apparently*
- Johnny Worthington
*MacGruber grabs a flaming LOLcat, douses it, then duct tapes the iPhone to its back. Presently he lobs the cat directly at Kaelin while chewing his newly aquired bubble gum.*
- Josh Haley
*Johnny and Josh jump dramtically out the door, somehow in slow motion*
- Josh Haley
*Kaelin shrugs off exploding LOCat and emits a mind-shattering scream, reducing Worthington's pants to ash*
- Internet's Tad
*After giggling at the thought of Tad removing his pants, Johnny jumps Totally Rad Show style out with Josh*......... So that's 8 shamwows for 19.95. it comes with a ten year warrenty, here's how to ordeeeeeeeeeer...
- Johnny Worthington
*Josh and John land in the booby-trapped prickly pear cactus. Move back 3 spaces*
- Internet's Tad
*A huge plastic cage falls on our doomed heroes. A voice booms from the sky: "MOUSE TRAP!"*
- Josh Haley
*A quick Wikipedia search reveals that the cage often got stuck on the barbed pole partway down, and by chance, it does so*... *Johnny and Josh run across the street, car jack the car from Monopoly and drive that bitch to Mexico*..... call 18009517100 thats 18009517100 call now!!!
- Johnny Worthington
These are the pops that we bought today at Locally Grown Gardens market. Moxie is a really old brand (since 1884) and the flavor is hard to describe... you'll have to try it.
- Kamilah Gill
They had the cool stuff in this market. So small and unassuming alongside the Monon. The internet helped me realize I was missing out on something. They play reggae in there. Such a nice little corner. I felt the same way when I found out about it, Dave. I was like, so *that's* what that little place is?
- Kamilah Gill
Sue, I think they may have imported the Moxie to Indiana from Michigan. We get Vernor's ginger soda here, too, and I've heard that that one is also from Michigan. Though the Moxie bottle says it was bottled in Atlanta by Monarch.
- Kamilah Gill
Moxie is very popular in New England. I used to have a friend that would bring it back from trips to New Hampshire.
- Michael McKean
I take that back, then. Maybe it's not from Michigan.
- Kamilah Gill
sometimes my own sudden reactions to certain people and situations i encounter give me a really nasty wake-up. "WTF? why did that make me feel this way? at my core, do i not actually believe what i tell myself i believe? what the Hell is wrong with me?!" very disorienting and disconcerting.
Puppy on my lap? Check. Ice cream in a bowl served by my wife? Check. Good movie on TV? Check. Friendfeed loaded on my laptop? Check. I'm living the dream, folks. Living. the. dream. ;-)
Larry the Cable Guy > Cool explosives at the lake? That's a bunch of crap! I'll be selling my car at some point probably in the next year if that helps. :-)
- Jordan Hofker
This car would not be that one I was trying to sell before. :-) I drive an '87 Buick. I'll let you know when I'm selling it I guess?
- Jordan Hofker
Hi, I was getting drunk with two other married couples instead of commenting. Sorry.
- Stolee
Yeah, that doesn't sound half bad. Did you play with explosives, too?
- Jordan Hofker
*bakes some cookies to go with Jordan's ice cream*
- Sparky
No explosives, but lots of beer and wine. And catch-phrase.
- Stolee
Digital and keeps score. A very useful feature when alcohol is involved.
- Stolee
I was trying to be nice by asking people what beverages they'd like to have at the July 4th event. I have no problem picking up different varieties of soda or beer. However, dear little brother, asking me to squeeze lemons so that you can have homemade lemonade is pushing it.
That reminds me, I need to call my sister . . . . .
- Chris Rogers
I'm already in charge of this much food prep - http://harmoniasnecklace.blogspot.com/2009... - so you can imagine how I feel about this additional request. His contribution - nada. I should probably note that my sister is also in charge of NOTHING for this little event, so it isn't necessarily a gendered thing. I'm good with food so I end up taking care of most of it. On the plus side, this means I have significant control over the menu.
- Katy S
I like to say he has YCOM Syndrome - Youngest Child Only Male. He's normally ok, but when it comes to things like this he doesn't help out much. He is good about helping with things that require muscle, though.
- Katy S
I bought the lemons. I will be squeezing two cups of juice out of them for 1 gallon of lemonade. I will then offer the lemonade to the niece and nephews who will be arriving several hours before my dear little brother. I hope they drink it all.
- Katy S
Pick up some more lemons and then tell Little Bro he can go squeeze 'em himself. *g*
- D0r0th34
Time to start squeezing the lemons of the damned.
- Katy S
@Katy: in my wife's family they call this Little Emperor Syndrome. my brother-in-law hates this. :)
- Joe Silence is not dead
It's more like I end up screaming. I just finished (10 lemons). I was thinking that he is the damned and that they are his lemons. Oh well, now comes the easy part - mixing it all up.
- Katy S
I like things which are dishonorable, but in a reserved fashion. I'll bid $2.
- Sparky
I got "TRY AND BECOME MACHO" from bearzonline@. I know it's spam because all the bears I know use proper grammar.
- Sue Radd
I think i should lower the guard on my Spam Filter so i too can experience the wonderful world of penis enlargement and hot stock tips! :-)
- Live4Emma (L4S)
I go digging in Gmails spam filter for these gems.
- Sparky
from iPhone
Random fact: my Sports Basement visit on Sunday resulted in no standing tire pump. Why? They sold 30 of them in 1 day. I attribute this to record heat in SF and a warning that the next week would be "safe the air" days, meaning, everyone bikes to work. Still, seems odd.
Announcing that you're leaving a social network is essentially like telling the staff at Pizza Hut that you're not coming back and instead are going to Papa John's.
"Your pepperoni here sucks and makes me burp, so I'm not coming back. Don't try to stop me! Really! This is your last chance! I'll be across the street at the Papa John's. *closes door and re-opens* This is for good you know. I'm not coming back because this place sucks! Okay? Got that. Nothing you can say will stop me! *walks out and taps on glass window - faintly you can hear* I'm getting in my car now - really, this is it. Even if you run out now I'm not coming back."
- AJ Kohn
This strongly reminds me of Winer crying the last few years now off and on and off and on again re: Twitter. "Acknowledge me or I'm leaving... Really, I'll do it! I swear! OK, one more chance! Don't make me do this! You'll regret losing me! I've done so much for you even though you never asked! You'll regret this! I'm going! Soon! Here I go! Eventually!"... I don't think any (typical) social network exists for fellating its users or otherwise stroking their massive(ly distorted) egos. As stated, Just. Go.
- abacab
you obviously haven't been party to a message board where this person was a mod or admin. :P
- Joe Silence is not dead
Right on AJ. Or kind of like telling that Pizza Hut store owner that you're going to the Pizza Hut 3 miles away.
- Mike Reynolds
Oh god, the message board I admin for has like five of these people. And it's like they take turns during the year being the Drama Queen of the Week, posting threads threatening to leave and telling us how much the board sucks and how we all suck. BUT THEY'RE STILL THERE. *headdesk*
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
Amanda - your solution is only a banhammer away.
- Sparky
I think it's more like announcing it to the patrons of the Pizza Hut.
- ·[▪_▪]·
@Sparky, yeah, but banning people like that is just way too excessive an action. We reserve banning for really awful offenses. Banning for being a whiny brat just makes us look petty, not them. Besides, they're pretty damn entertaining, if I do say so myself. :D (we've gotten to a point where we just mock the shit out of them anytime one of those "Goodbye!" threads appear)
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
I don't like either Pizza Hut or Papa Johns.
- Ian May
I went to a local Pizziera last evening, which makes home-made pizza from local produce. It's really good, and makes me like the greasy gunk chain pizza joints even less
- Ian May
Ian - I do the same thing. That is, I go to the local restaurant with good pizza. I don't know if they're using local produce, meats, etc., but their pizza is much better than the chain stores.
- Katy S
The secret to being smarter than you are, or at least appearing smarter than you are is surrounding yourself with people smarter than you estimate yourself to be. This is why I love FF. It lets me do that!
It'll be the movie that revives both Emma Watson and Zac Efron's careers. Just you wait until you see Zac trippin' on the herion, and Emma overdosing. Boreanaz may take on Butch.
- Joe Pierce
Silly James. Your sum IS greater than your parts, even the brain part. :)
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
MiniMage: The saddest part of that is that my brain came up with it and my body wrote it down.
- Jimminy
Joe, are you suggesting that the male lead of "High School Musical" take that the same role in the film, that the male lead of "Grease" took. That would be to obvious and, thus, would never work.
- Jimminy
except for the part where Grease is watchable.
- Joe Pierce
But ok fine, we'll replace Zac Effron with the devil himself Shia LaBeouf
- Joe Pierce
James, it seems like an exemplary display of teamwork to me! I think I'm drunk on ice cream.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
How about Terrence Howard as Jules? I'm trying to think of someone with a lot of acting talent and is a relatively decently known name.
- Joe Pierce
I'll agree with you on Terrence Howard, be great to fill the role.
- Jimminy
I'm not so sure I really do like David Boreanaz as Butch, any suggestions?
- Joe Pierce
Shia LaBeouf as recommended by Sean for the role of Butch.
- Jimminy
The only way to be smarter than you are is not be yourself. In a past life, as I recall, mushrooms helped. :)
- jcunwired
JC, I dont' think I was on anything at the time I was 8.
- Jimminy
If I'm involved int he movie, and Shia is involved in the movie Shia has to be someone who is going to get killed dead. Shia could be Zed maybe.
- Joe Pierce
Or we could just have a Geriatric Pulp and use the same cast.
- Jimminy
o.O Our catch will be we reunite the "surviving" members to sit around an tell the stories to each other! I totally didn't misspell "surviving" the firs time.
- Joe Pierce
LOL that would be great. Oh I just realized 2014 will be the 20th Anniversary
- Jimminy
Maybe it will just have a re-release to Theaters, which would be awesome.
- Jimminy
That will be the lead in for our new uber awesome nothing could go wrong version.
- Joe Pierce
Joe, the movie would be horrible if nothing went wrong, you lose every plot from the movie if something doesn't get effed along the way. It would be pretty interesting Pulp Fact, nothing actually goes wrong.
- Jimminy
And somewhere along the lines between me and yourself, we managed to derail this topic.
- Jimminy
We are in charge of this thing, if we don't call it awesome no one will go see it. Uwe Boll sells tickets because he lies to the audience about his greatness.
- Joe Pierce
Here is what I have so far. Justin Long as Vincent Vega, Terrence Howard as Jules Winnfield, Alan Tudyk as Ringo, Eliza Dushku as Yolanda, James Kyson Lee as Lance, Rober Downy Jr. as Butch, Samuel L Jackson as Marsellus Wallace, Wyatt Cenac as Marvin, Maribel Verdú as Fabienne, Maggie Gyllenhaal as Jody, Emma Watson as Mia Wallace
- Joe Pierce
Ooh, I'll see any movie with Alan Tudyk, Eliza Dushku, Robert Downey Jr., OR Maggie Gyllenhaal. All of them together? Instant classic.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
We need to get Tarantino's ass on the phone stat! Also I didn't mention it before but the moment you said Samuel L. Jackson as Marsellus Wallace I could think of no one else. It just makes perfect sense.
- Joe Pierce
Jandy, my next step is to develop a spinoff/prequel of Ringo (Tudyk) and Yolanda (Dushku)'s exploits pre-Jules incident? You in?
- Joe Pierce
Indeed, he'd probably get pissed, because he's all about classics. We need to write a similar script and use this cast.
- Jimminy
I guess our main option is to call Tarantino and wait for him to say, "What?"
- Jimminy
Its all how we spin it. We won't call it a remake, or a re imagining. We'll call it an old school, grindhouse style movie ripoff. He'll go for that.
- Joe Pierce
He may be all about classics, but he's also all about homaging/referencing/pastiching/ripping off the classics. So all you need to do is...damn it, what Joe just said. He types more faster.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Classic as in memorable? I hope not typical... or I have been shielded from this typicality my whole life.
- Louis Gray
I thought classic as in typical or common. If I'm not mistaken, the "lock the car door's kids" was such a common refrain at one point that it was a joke in National Lampoon's Vacation.
- Jason Toney
Ah. And I've been a witness to that typicality almost my whole life. Interesting that we have two such completely different experiences.
- cecily
Cecily, don't want to suggest I'm 100% naive. I just try to limit my exposure to people who would act this way.
- Louis Gray
I hate the jews, just the other day I was asking why Jeff Goldblum was a trending topic.
- Andrizzle Gizzle
I didn't take it that way, Louis. We're cool. :)
- cecily
I thought "classic" was more like so prevalent as to be forever known. I don't recall Lampoon's, but I fairly howled when I saw the frantic door-locking in Weird Al's "White and Nerdy."
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
This is sad, depressing and entertaining all at the same time. Do people really lead such sheltered lives?
- Tsega Dinka
Sorry, I honestly don't get it. Why are you sure all those comments are racist? Like the tweet by miamismartgirl above -- maybe she honestly didn't know there is BET award going on. And looking at _some_ of the tweets at the Tumblr site, maybe those people really don't care about R&B and rap, not that they hate black people.
- Andre P. Siregar
Andre, has someone said the comments were racist (although there are several that clearly show some extreme prejudice)? The point of the site, I believe, is to showcase that there are lots of folks who believe there's a certain kind of way Twitter (and extrapolate that out to the internet, their neighborhood, or as several suggest by their own tweets, the world) should be and that does...
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- Jason Toney
Some of those tweets are racist and wrong yes, but others like the one in the picture might as well just be someone interested in Jamie Foxx and not knowing why hes trending. Stop looking for people who might hurt you, wait until they actually do and you will have a much happier life.
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Jamie Foxx tweet is not dangerous, but most of the others are.
- Burcu Dogan
I wouldn't call any of the tweets dangerous... silly, misguided, ignorant, whatever... honestly, not worth giving a tweet about. IMO... :D
- Bette Cooper
For many, this is what I call latent racism born from ignorance. They don't consider the statements derogatory or demeaning, because they haven't been outside their bubble to know any better. The television and films I grew up, and people still grow up with for the most part, reinforce that. It's ignorance but it is not an excuse once you are forced to acknowledge it by being able to...
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- Michael W. May
Rasmus, yes that's what I'm saying. Jason, to me it seems like the site is too quick to label people. The site displays real twitter IDs, and it could possibly be that some of those people are not prejudice at all.
- Andre P. Siregar
Did someone comment and say that they hated jews? I will clean out my ears as I think they must be defective.
- Kevin J Hatton
............or at least get an appointment with an optician!
- Kevin J Hatton
In a few decades more, perhaps, Mark. Only a few decades ago we were still hosing people down in the street. I'd love to magically make everyone understand each other, but it is a slow process.
- Michael W. May
Are you sure there's a connection between the two tweets? Or else the whole thing falls apart IMO. I'd also like to offer the suggestion that the second tweet was a joke much like in National Lampoon which was mentioned earlier here too. I'm the first to call someone out on racism, but I live in a socialdemocratic Scandinavian country where the political correctness has been on insane...
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- Thomas Bøhm
from BuddyFeed
haha. my reaction the awards was disinterest. Trending topics on twitter has been dominated by entertainment lately, and twitter has become a far less interesting service to me as a result. But I'm just one user. There's more than racial sensitivity going on with "highlighting the reaction to the BET awards" with the site, in my opinion. Most of the comments are not about "omg black...
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- motownmutt
Jason, yes, the whole site was created to call out people and imply their racism. Some of the tweets were horrible, but some of them, like the one above, just weren't. Someone who hadn't seen or read about the BET drama with Foxx might have thought about the other very recent celebrity trending topics, and their first conclusion may have been that he died. And my post about Goldblum was...
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- Andrizzle Gizzle
I think there's a lot of assumption in presuming that all the tweets that were collected on the site were meant to "imply racism". Several, like the Jamie Foxx one above, showcased cultural difference and I don't think there was any other implication intended. Although, I must say, I don't want to get into defending a site I have no ownership/allegiance to and that currently is down. I'm more curious about the why of the more egregious reactions which MwM talked to eloquently.
- Jason Toney
omgblackpeople.tumblr.com was removed by Tumblr because Tumblr doesn't allow "hate speech"
- tiffany
So what's hateful? The tweets, or the posting of the tweets? My head hurts.
- cecily
@Cecily - I think we're not supposed to notice when people are being unintentionally racist (or intentionally). They think it's like reverse discrimination or something. Given all of the ignorant rolling around, I'm sure that's some of the logic there.
- Jennifer Dittrich
I'm going to start using reverse reverse discrimination. That'll teach 'em.
- cecily
i'm with you C. i guess the posting of the tweets wasn't seen as racist rather than calling folks out for their bullshit.
- tiffany
I figure it falls into "turnabout is fair play" when discriminating against racists.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Pointing out people sounding racist is ok. But reading into peoples intentions especially online where all you have to go by is a little 140 char text is not the best of ideas. Yes some of them directly sound racist, so go tell the person that they sounded racist. But on your way there you might want to check out this video ( http://www.youtube.com/watch... ) But the one you see up top on this list, can be read in a multitude of ways and none of them racist in my opinion. (The Foxx one)
- Rasmus Lauridsen
This is one reason I stopped using Tumblr after a pretty short time. IIRC, there was no easy way to export content, so if they make an odd decision like this and nuke your account, you got nuthin.
- s t e v e
I love it when people try to teach me about racism. Seriously - there is just so much I didn't know.
- cecily
And FWIW, when I saw the site and made this post last night, I didn't see any explicitly racist tweets posted there. What I saw in abundance was ignorance, and people's inability to understand that the online experience is very rarely as "universal" as they'd like to believe.
- cecily
I'd also like to point out that the word "racist" wasn't kicked out in this thread by someone of African American descent. Until that point there was a pretty nuanced conversation happening about prejudice and privilege. The site itself didn't even use the word "racist".
- Jason Toney
What Jason said. But you know, in a way this thread is as pure a representative of the OMGBLACKPEOPLE phenomenon as anything posted on that site.
- cecily
Actually, FWIW, I believe we all have plenty to learn about racism, no matter our color, sex, or creed. So being open when someone offers another take on what you know is, actually, a good thing. After all, isn't one of the methods of fighting ignorance and racism teaching, and learning from that teaching? Exposure to new ideas, ways of thinking? Or maybe I have that backwards...
- Bette Cooper
Suffice it to say, a lot of those tweets are racist according to certain academic definitions of racism, which may or may not coincide with your own personal definition. A link I found helpful to deal with things when your definition does not match other people's definitions: http://www.amptoons.com/blog... "How not to be insane when accused of racism"
- Victor Ganata
It does not matter how you dress it up, it is racists.
- Kevin J Hatton
it's a little late for most of the artists you listed, D. but yeah, I've had this discussion for over a decade.
- jbrotherlove
j, I know. There's a bunch of music out there floating out in the ether that I'm not even privy to because I don't even know how to find them.
- Derrick