wiki posted:

Cultural impact
In 2010, Westside Middle School in Memphis, Tennessee, outlined its dress code policy on sagging pants, asking students to pull them up or get "Urkeled". Teachers would forcibly pull students' pants up and attach them to their waist using zip ties. Students would also have their photo taken and posted on a board in the hallway so that it would be visible to all their classmates. In an interview with NBC affiliate WMC-TV, Principal Bobby White stated that the general idea is to fight pop culture with pop culture. One teacher at the school claimed to have "Urkeled" up to 80 students per week, although after five weeks, the number dropped to 18.

DR FRASIER KRANG posted:

there was a time when they were trying to push "got any cheese?" as Urkel's choice bon mot but once "did I do that?" hit the scene, there was no going back.

josh04 posted:

rebecca ferguson. she's a space version of martin freeman's cia agent in black panther.

Okuteru posted:

My international relations professor used to show us Friday by Rebecca Black and weird poo poo he saw from World Star.

He also used to be an advisor to the Reagan administration. Total rear end in a top hat.

DR FRASIER KRANG posted:

Buck Wildman posted:

there maybe 1% if the zoomer population who knows who urkel is also I'd beat the crap out of you for trying to urkel me

indigi posted:

yeah except the system she serves is explicitly lovely, colonialist, and murderous instead of being portrayed as the good guys

indigi posted:

my IR professor worked for the cia as analyst under Nixon and quit to go into teaching because he realized he was working for the CIA as an analyst during Nixon

aw frig aw dang it posted:

thank you. tired of people excusing those working for Big Urkel

i say swears online posted:

they also tried to make "shhh, not while I'm pouring" a thing near the end of the run too

josh04 posted:

rebecca ferguson. she's a space version of martin freeman's cia agent in black panther.

indigi posted:

yeah except the system she serves is explicitly lovely, colonialist, and murderous instead of being portrayed as the good guys

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

Urkel puts himself into the transformation chamber and emerges as Muad'dib

MLKQUOTEMACHINE posted:

Did I dune that?

Livo posted:

I have a small paperbook copy of the 1997 book The Corner by David Simon & Ed Burns, which talks about the effects of the War on Drugs & Baltimore drug trade. Of note is a section of how specific law enforcement policies have ruined a generation of policing skills and the community. I took photos of the relevant pages with my crappy phone & hands, as I couldn't find the relevant book excerpt, so apologies for the quality. Click on the linked image to view a larger copy.The last three links are on the exact topic below, the other ones are about the dehumanising of drug addiction, hard line sentencing for all drug crimes & police brutality at a certain district.

Anyway, thanks to the War on Drugs, police now get extra court pay for any arrests, no matter how minor: this includes arresting local drug addicts for "Loitering In A Drug Free Zone" (marked with helpful signs covering a very large radius). Not only does finding one vial of heroin on the local with a drug addiction give you extra court pay as you have to then just hang around until a judge processes their case, it officially counts as a "Drug Arrest" and towards your anti-drug stats. Simon & Burns note that not only is this pointless, but it has ruined a generation of police officers, who legitimately don't know how to write a search warrant or check it's actually the right address, or learn how to fill out a proper investigation form so it's not thrown out in court, or know how to do covert surveillance, because why bother? You make less money actually serving your community & get yelled at for not achieving your "drug arrests" doing those things, so why not make a local addict turn out his pockets & arrest him for being within 50ft of a sign? This was in 1997, so imagine how much worse things have gotten since then.

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MLKQUOTEMACHINE posted:

Did I dune that?

MLKQUOTEMACHINE posted:

Did I dune that?

MLKQUOTEMACHINE posted:

Did I dune that?

A Buttery Pastry posted:

she's gone fully rogue by the time of part two, and arguably she hasn't been loyal to the space cia for at least like two decades, since paul was supposed to be a girl. By the time of part two she is 100% only serving her own selfish pursuits, even if she is using her training to activate a sleeper cell.

MLKQUOTEMACHINE posted:

Did I dune that?

indigi posted:

yes but the mere fact that she's able to take control was still presented as an awful side effect of her boss' meddling. her son straight up tells her that

DR FRASIER KRANG posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DnLxtE8w4g

i say swears online posted:

they also tried to make "shhh, not while I'm pouring" a thing near the end of the run too

Livo posted:

I have a small paperbook copy of the 1997 book The Corner by David Simon & Ed Burns, which talks about the effects of the War on Drugs & Baltimore drug trade. Of note is a section of how specific law enforcement policies have ruined a generation of policing skills and the community. I took photos of the relevant pages with my crappy phone & hands, as I couldn't find the relevant book excerpt, so apologies for the quality. Click on the linked image to view a larger copy.The last three links are on the exact topic below, the other ones are about the dehumanising of drug addiction, hard line sentencing for all drug crimes & police brutality at a certain district.

Anyway, thanks to the War on Drugs, police now get extra court pay for any arrests, no matter how minor: this includes arresting local drug addicts for "Loitering In A Drug Free Zone" (marked with helpful signs covering a very large radius). Not only does finding one vial of heroin on the local with a drug addiction give you extra court pay as you have to then just hang around until a judge processes their case, it officially counts as a "Drug Arrest" and towards your anti-drug stats. Simon & Burns note that not only is this pointless, but it has ruined a generation of police officers, who legitimately don't know how to write a search warrant or check it's actually the right address, or learn how to fill out a proper investigation form so it's not thrown out in court, or know how to do covert surveillance, because why bother? You make less money actually serving your community & get yelled at for not achieving your "drug arrests" doing those things, so why not make a local addict turn out his pockets & arrest him for being within 50ft of a sign? This was in 1997, so imagine how much worse things have gotten since then.

Uncle Wemus posted:

"You would think that after rightly clamoring for real Asian representation after the Shyamalan disaster, seeing actresses of Chinese, Vietnamese, and Japanese descent playing the iconic Fire Nation roles would be celebrated, let alone welcomed," writes Amanda Yen.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/avatar-the-last-airbender-live-action-cast-backlash-reeks-of-racism

MLKQUOTEMACHINE posted:

Did I dune that?

ArmedZombie posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8Pr66hh8oo

KirbyKhan posted:

https://twitter.com/owainanderson/status/1764712144342294561?t=HeMiw42sQeqU4ATYrWQWcg&s=19

Buck Wildman posted:

there maybe 1% if the zoomer population who knows who urkel is also I'd beat the crap out of you for trying to urkel me