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Badly Jester posted:That kind of discrimination may be much less common today, but we only have to go a few decades back to see Italians and even the fookin' Irish in America to be considered "off-white" at best. Here's a hosed Fact!(TM) one of America's largest mass lynchings took place in New Orleans and killed (drumroll) 11 Italians! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_14,_1891_New_Orleans_lynchings Basically, "white people" don't exist, the folks considered white are immigrants who traded their heritage for access to White Supremacy. We're now living in an era where WS is stretching to include nonwhite members of the 1%. People laughed about that academic essay which explained that the Japanese are "white" now without realizing that WS has always been a scheme to pit the working class against each other, and now that the rich are collaborating across national boundaries, the definition is changing again. That's why it's assinine to pretend that racism/WS plays by internally consistent logic. The hypocrisy is the point.
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:Get a disposable pillow and an extra pillowcase which looks similar enough that you can terrify him while it happens, then he realizes he's been had when you send him to his room. loving genius. I'm an only child so suddenly having teenage/close to teenage brothers is so goddamn weird. I have no idea how to interact with kids at all. I work with the elderly and that is no help at all.
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Badly Jester posted:That kind of discrimination may be much less common today, but we only have to go a few decades back to see Italians and even the fookin' Irish in America to be considered "off-white" at best. That’s true, but the original debate was wether or not Americans today debated about Southern Europeans being white, which they don’t. Americans don’t spend much time thinking about Europe in general, outside of where to take the next vacation and pretending like it’s healthcare is horrible to justify not changing ours.
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Apr 4, 2019 17:57
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Power Khan posted:Gummy bears claim another victim Haha, grandma was looking for a good time and found it. She was probably hoping for a vibrator or something because why else would you go rooting around someone's nightstand?
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Apr 4, 2019 17:58
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Dazerbeams posted:Haha, grandma was looking for a good time and found it. She was probably hoping for a vibrator or something because why else would you go rooting around someone's nightstand? Looking for the perfect murder suicide implement?
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Apr 4, 2019 18:00
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Scathach posted:loving genius. It's a loving excruciating balancing act between giving them the freedom to gently caress up while also limiting the severity of fuckups. This is a delicate transition because suddenly the scale of fuckery they can get upto vaaaaaaaastly outpaces what they can handle. If the pillow thing gets kiboshed by the domestic partner, consider instituting a "cleanup fee" where you deduct a small portion of allowance for messes the kiddo doesn't take responsibility for. Also, be sure you've clearly communicated expectations regarding bathroom sanitation, "cleanup messes within 10 minutes" or something similar. "Clean the bathrooms after school Thursday, before videogames." IDK if you're in the child rearing thread or not but there's a lot of folks with good heads on their shoulders in there.
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Apr 4, 2019 18:01
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Barudak posted:Looking for the perfect murder suicide implement? The bathroom/under the kitchen sink would be better places to look if that was your intent. Grandma's been around long enough to know that.
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Apr 4, 2019 18:01
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Dazerbeams posted:Haha, grandma was looking for a good time and found it. She was probably hoping for a vibrator or something because why else would you go rooting around someone's nightstand? You never know where the young ladies hide the African soap these days
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Apr 4, 2019 18:04
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I wanna party with party grandma.
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Apr 4, 2019 18:12
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:It's a loving excruciating balancing act between giving them the freedom to gently caress up while also limiting the severity of fuckups. This is a delicate transition because suddenly the scale of fuckery they can get upto vaaaaaaaastly outpaces what they can handle. They still have both parents, but they both work a lot and one has had a serious scary-rear end illness lately so they'll probably be alright with whatever punishment I can dish out. We moved in to help while we look for a house and will probably be here for a while. I'm definitely going to go check out the parenting thread because I am so lost. Thank you!
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Biohazard posted:That’s true, but the original debate was wether or not Americans today debated about Southern Europeans being white, which they don’t. Americans don’t spend much time thinking about Europe in general, outside of where to take the next vacation and pretending like it’s healthcare is horrible to justify not changing ours. I took a spanish course taught by a guy from Spain a few years back. I live in America and I totally asked him what he considers himself because of the whole thing where “latinx/hispanic” (or whatever) is somehow different than “caucasian” on forms here. He was all like “I’m white, wtf.” I explained myself and he seemed to get it. But he also seemed like he was dancing around this idea that spanish-speakers on this side of the atlantic aren’t white like he is. For some reason. I dropped it, but I was legitimately curious or it wouldn’t have come up in the first place.
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burial posted:I took a spanish course taught by a guy from Spain a few years back. I live in America and I totally asked him what he considers himself because of the whole thing where “latinx/hispanic” (or whatever) is somehow different than “caucasian” on forms here. People in Spain aspire to be light skinned. It's the same as Central and south America and is pushed by the media they consume
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It is well-known that the populations of the precolombian Americas were white until all these Spaniards showed up. Hence the name "Hispanics".
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YaketySass posted:It is well-known that the populations of the precolombian Americas were white until all these Spaniards showed up. Hence the name "Hispanics". 
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Apr 4, 2019 18:23
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:Here's a hosed Fact!(TM) one of America's largest mass lynchings took place in New Orleans and killed (drumroll) 11 Italians! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_14,_1891_New_Orleans_lynchings Basically, "white people" don't exist, the folks considered white are immigrants who traded their heritage for access to White Supremacy. Pretty crazy when you also consider that Italians were the largest immigrant group to settle in & around New Orleans.
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Apr 4, 2019 18:26
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Another Bill posted:I wanna party with party grandma. That old girl has some pills in her cabinet that will make funny gummibears look like a fart in a plastic bag.
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Apr 4, 2019 18:27
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Captain Yossarian posted:People in Spain aspire to be light skinned. It's the same as Central and south America and is pushed by the media they consume That’s more or less the impression I came away with. I felt a little awkward about having asked, but jeez! How else would I have ever known? And it was in response to like “what questions do you have about spanish culture?” so.
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burial posted:I took a spanish course taught by a guy from Spain a few years back. I live in America and I totally asked him what he considers himself because of the whole thing where “latinx/hispanic” (or whatever) is somehow different than “caucasian” on forms here. Not that I'm an expert or anything, but I thought a lot of the latinx/hispanic people in the Americas have a lot of indigenous roots from the people who were already living there before Europeans arrived. It makes sense to me why someone with that background wouldn't consider themselves white but a Spaniard would.
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Captain Yossarian posted:People in Spain aspire to be light skinned. It's the same as Central and south America and is pushed by the media they consume i mean, most of them are light skinned andres iniesta looks like an it technician from dublin
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Apr 4, 2019 18:38
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Whorelord posted:i mean, most of them are light skinned I think I worded it weird? I mean that the stars of Univision etc are generally lighter skinned so that's their artifical standard of beauty like how in the US are "famous" people are all thin etc. I'm not sure if I'm wording it correctly. This is a huge problem in Asia as well
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Captain Yossarian posted:I think I worded it weird? I mean that the stars of Univision etc are generally lighter skinned so that's their artifical standard of beauty like how in the US are "famous" people are all thin etc. I'm not sure if I'm wording it correctly. This is a huge problem in Asia as well having lighter skin isn't an artificial standard of beauty for many Spaniards though
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r/sex Our 12 year old son found my hidden usb drive full of pics and videos of me and his mom (and others as we are swingers) having sex. I have no idea what to do. Help. u/throwaway_wtf_doido quote:I explained sex is natural, and although I wish he wouldn’t have snooped and found this as it’s private adult stuff... that he was not in trouble. He has mentioned it was hard to get some of the images out of his head. What do I do?
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Whorelord posted:having lighter skin isn't an artificial standard of beauty for many Spaniards though I'm not sure what exactly you're trying to say? No poo poo it isn't artifical for those that are already light skinned
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CheesyDog posted:r/sex lol. Yeah nothing you can do here, short of what you've already done. It probably won't gently caress him up too much though, any moreso than kids walking in on their parents having sex. Or least you hope so.
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CheesyDog posted:r/sex Lol this is the good stuff. Welcome to being an adult kid I hope you enjoy your stay.
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Apr 4, 2019 19:13
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Love the part where the kid apparently kept looking at images after seeing what was in there
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tater_salad posted:Check sent mail and previous versions in Windows (not sure if that's a thing on an normal PC or not.... It actually hurts me that he took it to geek squad. However, when I worked there and you came in with a sob story like "my ex deleted my thesis": If I liked you, I'd stick my neck out to you and go to our secret software stash and grab the data recovery software that we were not allowed to use by corporate decree. If I didn't like you but didn't hate you, I'd be frank and say, we don't do data recovery in store and while the "official" turnaround time is 2 weeks, we ship it out to a 3rd party and sometimes it can take up to 3 months depending on their backlog. Then I'd recommend you do some research into some local places that might offer that service. If I hated you, I'd do what Geek Squad did to the OP. I'm not saying the OP is an rear end in a top hat, but either the people he spoke to were dead, mindless robots focused on sales (a real possibility) or OP was a pretty uninteresting person who didn't really inspire other people to help him.
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Captain Yossarian posted:People in Spain aspire to be light skinned. It's the same as Central and south America and is pushed by the media they consume Asia and mainland Africa too! In Korea it took a week to find ONE spa/salon that wouldn't try pushing skin bleaching on all of my African-American colleagues, and that was in a fairly large city! Granted, the position tends to reverse once you start dealing with diaspora populations, a lot of the "black is beautiful" mantra is pushed by people of African descent living outside Africa. Same with the pushback against the eye-fold surgery in Asian populations, it's huge in Korea, China, and Japan, but Japanese-Americans, Chinese-Americans, and Korean-Americans (or whichever outside country) may have more nuanced opinions on it. You see that with a lot of cultural issues, where folks from the mainland will talk over generations raised outside the mainland. "Cultural appropriation" is the one I see most common, people from the home culture want to see it spread and succeed while diaspora populations see it as another loss of unique cultural identity. In other words, white capitalism BAD.
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Renegret posted:It actually hurts me that he took it to geek squad. However, when I worked there and you came in with a sob story like "my ex deleted my thesis": Out of curiosity, why didn't they want you using the software in store? Did they just get more money by shipping it off?
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"I put all the guns, drugs, and cash in my nightstand! I can't figure out how the intruders saw through my foolproof scheme??!?!" Also, gummy-thieving Grandma was disappointingly way less chill than gummy niece. Greatest generation my rear end.
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My (27m) wife (25f, together 8 years, married 6) refuses to leave our kids (6f and 3m) anywhere with an unrelated man, and it is starting to cause problems with my sister and her husband (30s, together 7 years, married 3)quote:I posted this on relationship advice last night, but I didn't really get a lot of replies, so I'm cross-posting here to see if there is anything else I am missing. I did get some good advice there, but I am posting it here too just because I would like to hear more viewpoints.
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Biohazard posted:Out of curiosity, why didn't they want you using the software in store? Did they just get more money by shipping it off? Licensing. Just because you bought software doesn't mean you can use it to make money off of. A coworker brought in a copy of the data recovery software that he purchased for personal use but that didn't give us the freedom to use it commercially. That meant if we were caught using it, we opened the company up to a very, very expensive lawsuit and we'd instantly lose our jobs so the company could cover their own asses. We did it anyway, because nobody really values their best buy jobs very much. But that risk is why we only really went above and beyond for people who really deserved it. That's why we couldn't use something like malware bytes even though it's technically "free". The company provided a list of approved software and we were only allowed to use only that software and nothing more.
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Barudak posted:If those gummies were in the nightstand grandma is a real nosy rear end guest. Just like the tendies back home 
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DragQueenofAngmar posted:My (27m) wife (25f, together 8 years, married 6) refuses to leave our kids (6f and 3m) anywhere with an unrelated man, and it is starting to cause problems with my sister and her husband (30s, together 7 years, married 3) Looking forward to this follow up in a few years when the wife decides the younger brother is part of the blanket 'NO MEN' policy. 
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Agent Burt Macklin posted:Looking forward to this follow up in a few years when the wife decides the younger brother is part of the blanket 'NO MEN' policy. also, she's homeschooling them, apparently partially because male teachers exist, so they're never gonna see any other humans
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DragQueenofAngmar posted:My (27m) wife (25f, together 8 years, married 6) refuses to leave our kids (6f and 3m) anywhere with an unrelated man, and it is starting to cause problems with my sister and her husband (30s, together 7 years, married 3) Poor kids. I’d suggest therapy but of course she’s against that. This combined with the homeschooling and the fact that they’re apparently very religious is going to lead to a lot of trouble down the road. Also lol at the dad being like “I want my kids to be able to go to their friends houses, but they’re homeschooled so this isn’t actually an issue.”
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