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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:No really don't do "oh lawd" memes because they are genuinely racist. e: just read up and yeah i get it now. please forgive me, i'm not american and assumed it was just a takeoff of deep south dialect, not specifically black fauna fucked around with this message at 03:35 on Aug 24, 2020 |
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There's this idea that black people are essentially funny. They're funny because they're uneducated or have a different take. The idea is that blacks live a different life from us "normal"' people. It's been a part of American humor for the whole time the USA has been a country. It's also racist as gently caress. The "oh lawd" meme is just 21st century minstrelsy.
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Aug 24, 2020 03:58
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:There's this idea that black people are essentially funny. They're funny because they're uneducated or have a different take. The idea is that blacks live a different life from us "normal"' people. It's been a part of American humor for the whole time the USA has been a country. It's also racist as gently caress. The "oh lawd" meme is just 21st century minstrelsy. I wish we could live in a world where our cute chonky cat memes weren't also racist. that is probably the most facile way to say "our society is racist is gently caress" but I'm sticking to it.
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Aug 24, 2020 07:03
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:There's this idea that black people are essentially funny. They're funny because they're uneducated or have a different take. The idea is that blacks live a different life from us "normal"' people. It's been a part of American humor for the whole time the USA has been a country. It's also racist as gently caress. The "oh lawd" meme is just 21st century minstrelsy. 
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Aug 24, 2020 09:28
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Oh that part, I only knew it from the cat. But I've never heard the audio since I don't unusually play audio. Vaguely relieved I still don't know what boldly dippin means.
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Aug 24, 2020 21:37
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Do we have a thread about the Ringworld books or Niven's work in general?
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Aug 25, 2020 03:27
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hooah posted:Do we have a thread about the Ringworld books or Niven's work in general? Puppeteers are my favorite alien species
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Aug 25, 2020 04:17
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I started reading Watership Down by Whatshisname - IDK why, it was there and it was green I guess? - and I'm really glad I never tried reading it as a kid because it would've bored me. It still does but I'm much more tolerant of being bored now. As a kid I saw it in the bookcase in the living room thousands of times but never thought it was a children's book so never picked it up. The Finnish title People of the grass forest made me think it was some sort of anthropological study, and I never pulled it out to see there was a rabbit on the cover.  e: The dude who wrote is pretty racist.
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Aug 31, 2020 07:49
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I started reading Watership Down by Whatshisname - IDK why, it was there and it was green I guess? - and I'm really glad I never tried reading it as a kid because it would've bored me. It still does but I'm much more tolerant of being bored now. Watership Down is really good and really problematic.
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Sep 1, 2020 01:02
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cda posted:Watership Down is really good and really problematic. It's paced like a day-time soap opera.
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Sep 1, 2020 04:10
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Our heroes noticed there was something not quite right about the denizens of Shitpost Warren and prudently moved on.
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Sep 1, 2020 06:33
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Our heroes noticed there was something not quite right about the denizens of Shitpost Warren and prudently moved on. Like the Irishman can never not pick a fight*, I can never not shitpost. *) According to Whatshisname Adams. (I know the first name is on the pic I posted myself but I can't make it out and can't be arsed to enlarge so  )e: I did and still can't make it out lol.
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Sep 1, 2020 07:02
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Our heroes noticed there was something not quite right about the denizens of Shitpost Warren and prudently moved on. Lol The warren where all the bunnies are just patiently waiting for their deaths in conditions of comfort is BYOB and I always thought it was the best one
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Sep 1, 2020 14:03
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Oh all of the rabbits I thought were females are males.
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Sep 2, 2020 06:27
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cda posted:Lol I'm a member of the Owsla, where's the period at the end of that sentence??
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Sep 3, 2020 04:21
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I'm a member of the Owsla, where's the period at the end of that sentence?? At the bottom of your second question mark.
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Sep 3, 2020 04:41
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Bilirubin posted:At the bottom of your second question mark. Feed me to the snares
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Sep 3, 2020 04:46
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Feed me to the snares Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I'm a member of the Owsla, where's the period at the end of that sentence?? Now listen up, goon, we don't take too kindly to grammatical hypocrisy round these here forums.
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Sep 3, 2020 12:16
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Safety Biscuits posted:Now listen up, goon, we don't take too kindly to grammatical hypocrisy round these here forums. My hind feet are thumping, warning others of danger
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Sep 4, 2020 07:19
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I think I'll read a Harry Potter next, so you guys can really shine with your quotes.
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Sep 4, 2020 07:27
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I think I'll read a Harry Potter next, so you guys can really shine with your quotes. I mostly remember Ron ejaculating loudly a lot
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Sep 4, 2020 17:34
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I'm sorry for loving Watership Down so much, it definitely has its flaws.
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Sep 4, 2020 18:03
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I'm sorry for loving Watership Down so much, it definitely has its flaws. Watership Down is excellent, and I don't understand the impulse to insist on ideological purity in fiction. None of us would want to live in Mishima's idea of heaven on earth but that doesn't mean we can't enjoy his writing. I don't want to live in Regency England either, but that doesn't make Austen any less good (no matter how limited she is on class). I don't think I can name a book that aligns with my politics completely. We don't have to agree with characters or even the author to enjoy a book.
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Sep 4, 2020 18:50
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Famethrowa posted:I mostly remember Ron ejaculating loudly a lot It was a ruse: I don't have a Harry Potter so I can't read one. 
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Sep 4, 2020 19:11
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Sarern posted:Watership Down is excellent, and I don't understand the impulse to insist on ideological purity in fiction.
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Sep 4, 2020 23:26
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cda posted:Watership Down is really good and really problematic. *raises hand* I must be missing something, what's problematic about Watership Down?
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Sep 4, 2020 23:49
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:*raises hand*
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Sep 5, 2020 02:09
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Bilirubin posted:Fiverr should have been eaten by a coyote or like a feral cat or whatever they have in England long before the story unfolded. If the problem is insufficient realism, rabbits also cannot actually talk Edit : wait am I realposting in response to.a shitpost again, as I get older that happens to me more
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Sep 5, 2020 02:17
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Nature red in tooth and claw ~General Woundswort probably
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Sep 5, 2020 02:40
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Bigwig just wouldn't shut up about the Hrair Words slogan.
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Sep 5, 2020 03:07
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The Plague Dogs is a better book and is ideologically perfect but it's so loving hard to read.
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Sep 5, 2020 06:49
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:*raises hand* Male Chauvinist Rabbits https://nyti.ms/1LO8aEv That article appears to have been OCR-ed so there are a couple of weird typos.
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Sep 5, 2020 11:36
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:*raises hand* The writer thinks Irishmen and "primitive people" are animals and clearly expresses this in the book.
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Sep 5, 2020 11:43
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cda posted:Male Chauvinist Rabbits https://nyti.ms/1LO8aEv Oh ok that was kinda my guess, I'll print that article out and fold it away in the inside front cover of my copy, like a grandma clipping articles
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Sep 5, 2020 14:42
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I think I'll read a Harry Potter next, so you guys can really shine with your quotes. Take a drink every time Dumbledore's eyes are twinkling. If the book's main conflict could be solved with the Time Turner they had no problem using in book 3, finish the bottle. I'm revisiting the series myself right now and while it's still fun and there's a lot to like, the warts and general clunkiness are much more apparent. I mean, it's a kid's series so I'm not going to be too hard on it. But (why am I spoiler tagging Harry loving Potter) Why didn't fake Moody just ask Harry to hand him a book or something that was actually a port key instead of hoping he made it through all the challenges and was the one to touch the trophy? And the whole portrayal of house elves is hugely problematic, particularly if you read it as an analogue to African slavery. Could a 20-something man really pull off a portrayal of a late-50s auror well enough to fool people for an entire year who actually knew Moody, like Dumbledore and Snape? Book 4 used to be my favorite but it has a ton of problems.
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Sep 5, 2020 14:47
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regulargonzalez posted:Take a drink every time Dumbledore's eyes are twinkling. If the book's main conflict could be solved with the Time Turner they had no problem using in book 3, finish the bottle. All the time turners were destroyed though  I didn't read any HP until I was in college and they're okay but if you're an adult and have never read them I wouldn't bother. I know a lot of people my age (early thirties) that absolutely love Harry Potter...because they started it in elementary school and grew up with it. Once nostalgia is taken away they're just mediocre middle grade/YA books.
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Sep 5, 2020 16:01
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I mean in the series's defense, Rowling does do a pretty great job in making each book a little older and a little darker than the one before. Book 6 iirc opens with a pretty harrowing scene, all the Umbridge stuff in book 5 (especially her implied fate), lots of deaths in book 7, it's all a long way from the fairy tale atmosphere in books 1 and 2. They're fun yarns and I think are at their best at recreating the feeling of being a middle school / high school student and the joys and struggles of being an 11 / 12 / 13 / 14 / 15 / 16 year old. I'd say they're about as important and worthwhile as, say, The Count of Monte Cristo.
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Sep 5, 2020 17:05
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I have recommended the His Dark Materials series to adults who want something better than Harry Potter but there’s probably something terrible about them that I’m overlooking  I loved them, might be time for a re-read except realistically, I never do that.
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Sep 5, 2020 18:32
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Only the first one is any fun. And Pullman makes Lewis look subtle.
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Sep 5, 2020 22:57
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He's 2/3rds of the way thru a new trilogy; first is how Lyra ended up in Oxford and was quite fun, the second is her all grown up and that's literally all I can remember about it.
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