(anybody remember Brer Rabbit & the Tar Baby?)
No, and neither do you.
Remembering those characters, let alone talking about them, is enough to get a visit from the Politically Correct Police.
So I don't remember Brer Rabbit and his whacky adventures born and bred in the briarpatch, and neither do you...! :p
B'rer Rabbit and friends probably derived from Cherokee mythology. When the stories came into contact with American slaves, the similarities between B'rer Rabbit and African trickster spirits was obvious, and the stories got amalagamated into Afro-American folklore.
Joel Chandler Harris was a Reconstruction-era journalist who was a proponent of racial reconciliation and his family were later active in the fight against the Ku Klux Klan. While his Uncle Remus books can be criticized as just simply passing along folktales under his own name, that was quite a common phenom back in those days.
As for the Tar Baby, the term, of course, has gone down as a racist slur, and that's unfortunate, because, of course, B'rer Rabbit is the stand-in for black folk in those stories.
It's been years since I've seen Songs from the South, so I will leave considerations of that film out of this post.
As for the Middle East, yeah, US troops out now!
As for the Tar Baby, the term, of course, has gone down as a racist slur, and that's unfortunate, because, of course, B'rer Rabbit is the stand-in for black folk in those stories.
Sure, but things like truth, common sense, and comprehension are the first casualties of a humourless society that lloks to find slight an insult in everything.
Baa baa rainbow sheep indeed.
Sure, but things like truth, common sense, and comprehension are the first casualties of a humourless society that lloks to find slight an insult in everything.Baa baa rainbow sheep indeed.
I wasn't intending to disagree with you; I just get upset when people ignorantly lump in the B'rer Rabbit stories with all of the other racist trash (not saying you were, just saying).
The phrase "Uncle Tom", too, is a slight to Harriet Beecher Stowe and her characters. Allegedly, somewhere in Germany (Berlin?) there's a railstation named "Uncle Tom's Cabin" or something like that.
Who you calling gay?!
Pffft it was clearly a racial slur against the Norse, making fun of their culture customs and traditional folk tales of Bifrost the rainbow bridge.
I expect swift censure and sternly worded requests some time soon, admonishing me for my insensitivity.
I wasn't intending to disagree with you;
Oh no its ok, I was just pre-empting the poorly informed and often quite ignorant thought-Police to crash the scene pushing their own agenda and implying we are all haters :p
The reference to having a Bluebird on your shoulder is an obvious slur on the Varisian people and our habit of tattooing our bodies.This feeble attempt to link us with tricksters such as Brer Rabbit is obviously part of the continuing anti Varisian agenda on these boards
Needs more senile
This feeble attempt to link us with tricksters such as Brer Rabbit is obviously part of the continuing anti Varisian agenda on these boards
I'd be happy to support the brother from Varisia in his struggle against Chelish imperialist encroachment, but I have to ask: when is the VADL going to take a stand for goblin rights?
Human, goblin, black, white,
Same struggle, same fight!
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I vote A
As for the Tar Baby, the term, of course, has gone down as a racist slur, and that's unfortunate, because, of course, B'rer Rabbit is the stand-in for black folk in those stories.Sure, but things like truth, common sense, and comprehension are the first casualties of a humourless society that lloks to find slight an insult in everything.
Baa baa rainbow sheep indeed.
common sense is more than a bit of a fallacy, as we all have different experiences and points of view on things. Your thoughts on those who would use the term for more bigoted reasons?
common sense is more than a bit of a fallacy
Common sense denier!
This feeble attempt to link us with tricksters such as Brer Rabbit is obviously part of the continuing anti Varisian agenda on these boardsI'd be happy to support the brother from Varisia in his struggle against Chelish imperialist encroachment, but I have to ask: when is the VADL going to take a stand for goblin rights?
Human, goblin, black, white,
Same struggle, same fight!
Bah!
I have met my share of Goblins, and I know how to treat them!
Bah!
I have met my share of Goblins, and I know how to treat them!
You see?
Instead of picking on JCH, why doesn't anyone go after this sort of racist trash?
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Bah!
I have met my share of Goblins, and I know how to treat them!You see?
Instead of picking on JCH, why doesn't anyone go after this sort of racist trash?
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay
My, oh my what a wonderful day!Plenty of sunshine heading my way
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay
Mister Bluebird on my shoulder
It's the truth, it's actch'll
Ev'rything is satisfactch'll
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay
Wonderful feeling, wonderful day!
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The reference to having a Bluebird on your shoulder is an obvious slur on the Varisian people and our habit of tattooing our bodies.This feeble attempt to link us with tricksters such as Brer Rabbit is obviously part of the continuing anti Varisian agenda on these boards
You, sir, are quite wrong, and show your obvious lack of intelligence and literacy.
The bluebird on the shoulder is obviously a reference to the Glorious People's Republic of Andora, the 'zip' the sound made by tearing free of the decadent and obsolete Chelaxian Empire, and/or in some variants of the rhyme, the sound of a blade across the neck of our deluded, so-called former 'masters'. The 'sunshine' being the waves of enlightenment, swelling the breast of all noble and right-thinking people, still temporarily living under tyranny and despotism.
I vote B.
The 'sunshine' being the waves of enlightenment, swelling the breast of all noble and right-thinking people, still temporarily living under tyranny and despotism.
Vive la Galt!
Also:
Free Leonard Peltier!
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A!
A as well
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Uhh...B?
This is the new best thread EVER.
and I second B
The reference to having a Bluebird on your shoulder is an obvious slur on the Varisian people and our habit of tattooing our bodies.This feeble attempt to link us with tricksters such as Brer Rabbit is obviously part of the continuing anti Varisian agenda on these boardsYou, sir, are quite wrong, and show your obvious lack of intelligence and literacy.
The bluebird on the shoulder is obviously a reference to the Glorious People's Republic of Andora, the 'zip' the sound made by tearing free of the decadent and obsolete Chelaxian Empire, and/or in some variants of the rhyme, the sound of a blade across the neck of our deluded, so-called former 'masters'. The 'sunshine' being the waves of enlightenment, swelling the breast of all noble and right-thinking people, still temporarily living under tyranny and despotism.
And referring to Varisians as lacking in education and being illiterate is not defamatory? We don't need another bunch of southerners coming up here telling us how things would be much better under their 'enlightened rule' in the end your just another bunch of proto- imperialists looking for somewhere to colonise..just ask the Arcadian natives if you doubt my words
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Sometimes, something is so evil that you just have to applaud. Let's say you run a large corporate chain store that we'll call Nameless-Mart. You build a few stores in a given geographic area, and then raise your prices outside that area to cover the cost of dropping them like a rock within your target zone. In a year or two, all your competitors (and definitely all the small businesses!) in the target area will relocate or drop out. Now your chain store A) has no competition and B) is the primary employer in all the land! And now your prices can go as high as you like - who's to stop you?
Ruthless, but not technically "theft"... so far. Here's where the theft comes in. Your Nameless-Mart doesn't believe in full-time employees with all their "rights" and "insurance": 99% of its employees are temporary and part-time. This forces the employees to apply for government assistance or starve - and remember, your employees have to shop at your store now because all your competitors ran away, so you're getting a lot of that money back immediately! Then you can fire them - remember, they're disposable - compelling them to also tap the government for unemployment money, which they still spend at your store! You string them along til their unemployment's almost up, then allow them back into your Big Happy Family so they can go back to a crappy wage supplemented by welfare. You can repeat the cycle forever!
The kicker is, all that welfare and unemployment money is coming from the government, which gets most of its funds by taxing YOU the reader. I told you it was evilgasmic. Maybe I should've used the name 'Vampire-Mart' for our example instead, eh?
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Oh I am torn between A and C ... I choose ... A&C!!!!
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You have selected B: How Kansas' Biggest Employer Is Stealing From YOU.
Sometimes, something is so evil that you just have to applaud. Let's say you run a large corporate chain store that we'll call Nameless-Mart. You build a few stores in a given geographic area, and then raise your prices outside that area to cover the cost of dropping them like a rock within your target zone. In a year or two, all your competitors (and definitely all the small businesses!) in the target area will relocate or drop out. Now your chain store A) has no competition and B) is the primary employer in all the land! And now your prices can go as high as you like - who's to stop you?
Ruthless, but not technically "theft"... so far. Here's where the theft comes in. Your Nameless-Mart doesn't believe in full-time employees with all their "rights" and "insurance": 99% of its employees are temporary and part-time. This forces the employees to apply for government assistance or starve - and remember, your employees have to shop at your store now because all your competitors ran away, so you're getting a lot of that money back immediately! Then you can fire them - remember, they're disposable - compelling them to also tap the government for unemployment money, which they still spend at your store! You string them along til their unemployment's almost up, then allow them back into your Big Happy Family so they can go back to a crappy wage supplemented by welfare. You can repeat the cycle forever!
The kicker is, all that welfare and unemployment money is coming from the government, which gets most of its funds by taxing YOU the reader. I told you it was evilgasmic. Maybe I should've used the name 'Vampire-Mart' for our example instead, eh?
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Let's try this again ... A ... no, C ... no, A ... no, A&C!!!
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Sometimes, something is so evil that you just have to applaud. Let's say you run a large corporate chain store that we'll call Nameless-Mart. You build a few stores in a given geographic area, and then raise your prices outside that area to cover the cost of dropping them like a rock within your target zone. In a year or two, all your competitors (and definitely all the small businesses!) in the target area will relocate or drop out. Now your chain store A) has no competition and B) is the primary employer in all the land! And now your prices can go as high as you like - who's to stop you?
Ruthless, but not technically "theft"... so far. Here's where the theft comes in. Your Nameless-Mart doesn't believe in full-time employees with all their "rights" and "insurance": 99% of its employees are temporary and part-time. This forces the employees to apply for government assistance or starve - and remember, your employees have to shop at your store now because all your competitors ran away, so you're getting a lot of that money back immediately! Then you can fire them - remember, they're disposable - compelling them to also tap the government for unemployment money, which they still spend at your store! You string them along til their unemployment's almost up, then allow them back into your Big Happy Family so they can go back to a crappy wage supplemented by welfare. You can repeat the cycle forever!
The kicker is, all that welfare and unemployment money is coming from the government, which gets most of its funds by taxing YOU the reader. I told you it was evilgasmic. Maybe I should've used the name 'Vampire-Mart' for our example instead, eh?
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And you have the wrong state. Nameless-Mart is based in Arkansas not Kansas.
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...You have selected B: How Kansas' Biggest Employer Is Stealing From YOU.
Sometimes, something is so evil that you just have to applaud. Let's say you run a large corporate chain store that we'll call Nameless-Mart. You build a few stores in a given geographic area, and then raise your prices outside that area to cover the cost of dropping them like a rock within your target zone. In a year or two, all your competitors (and definitely all the small businesses!) in the target area will relocate or drop out. Now your chain store A) has no competition and B) is the primary employer in all the land! And now your prices can go as high as you like - who's to stop you?
Ruthless, but not technically "theft"... so far. Here's where the theft comes in. Your Nameless-Mart doesn't believe in full-time employees with all their "rights" and "insurance": 99% of its employees are temporary and part-time. This forces the employees to apply for government assistance or starve - and remember, your employees have to shop at your store now because all your competitors ran away, so you're getting a lot of that money back immediately! Then you can fire them - remember, they're disposable - compelling them to also tap the government for unemployment money, which they still spend at your store! You string them along til their unemployment's almost up, then allow them back into your Big Happy Family so they can go back to a crappy wage supplemented by welfare. You can repeat the cycle forever!
The kicker is, all that welfare and unemployment money is coming from the government, which gets most of its funds by taxing YOU the reader. I told you it was evilgasmic. Maybe I should've used the name 'Vampire-Mart' for our example instead, eh?
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I second this A&C!!
Do you know what the greatest and worst invention that humans ever made was? Television. Television controls people using information and steals their sense of reality. Yes. Now television itself is a religion.
but back off topic B!
A: Getting Mighty Tired of Explosions & Nudity Replacing Plot At The Movies
A: Getting Mighty Tired of Explosions & Nudity Replacing Plot At The Movies
If you are getting tired of this than you are getting tired of life!
I vote for c.
A: Getting Mighty Tired of Explosions & Nudity Replacing Plot At The MoviesIf you are getting tired of this than you are getting tired of life!
I agree. How could anyone have a problem with nudity in film? I love it!
I vote for the 200 new spells. My players are slowly starting to read Ultimate Magic and all those Faiths books and it's pissing me off!
I'm not getting tired of it, but I want to hear that rant.
Nobody else has, so I'm going for D.