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[Choop]

damn. Someone posted a picture of something I have passed 100000 times in St Louis on reddit and got 100000000 imaginary internet points. With a racist caption. I just thought it was kind of funny because is is so bizarre looking.

well- don't- i mean- come on!

you show us the [spoiler]black rugrats graffitti[/spoiler] and then leave us hanging on the caption? dangit man!

[AugustWest]

damn. Someone posted a picture of something I have passed 100000 times in St Louis on reddit and got 100000000 imaginary internet points. With a racist caption. I just thought it was kind of funny because is is so bizarre looking.

Ha!  Where is that?

[theinevitable]

far north on Grand avenue.

The caption I guess wasn't "racist" per se. It was "driving through the 'hood when I see...". I am just really bothered by white people using "the hood" or "the ghetto" to bring up all sorts of unpleasant stereotypes. Also, lots of messed up comments in the thread. When I studied in Paris there was a daycare with poorly drawn Disney characters on the outside, and nobody felt the need to make weird comments about what kind of person drew them.

[Jaded Tersk]

Without meaning to, I returned from work today with 400 counterfeit Regal King Size cigarettes, two cans of Tennents lager, and 10 very large free range eggs.

[jay-ell]

far north on Grand avenue.

The caption I guess wasn't "racist" per se. It was "driving through the 'hood when I see...". I am just really bothered by white people using "the hood" or "the ghetto" to bring up all sorts of unpleasant stereotypes. Also, lots of messed up comments in the thread. When I studied in Paris there was a daycare with poorly drawn Disney characters on the outside, and nobody felt the need to make weird comments about what kind of person drew them.

I use "the 'hood," never to mean a bad part of town. I use it to mean, you know, like, my own neighborhood. As in, "I was out walking in the 'hood and I noticed that house on the corner is for sale." Or, sometimes, to mean someone else's neighborhood. "I was in the 'hood so I thought I'd call and see if you wanted to grab a Starbucks." Is it OK to use it that way? Now I'm worried that I'm being subtly racist.

[Choop]

i call my neighborhood the hood because "my neighborhood" is so many syllables. also i don't live in a very nice part of town.

[theinevitable]

I think it is OK if you are referring to "the neighborhood" and not using it as code for "that area where black people live."

[side_show]

I call my hood my hood because it is a hood.  It is where poor people live. 

[jaydub]

HR training pap [[dap]]

I've got my 4th run through Sexual Harassment on tap.  Fortunately we changed online training providers, so at least I have the hope that it isn't the same dang talking heads and scenarios.

[greenkoolayd]

here in BFE there arent any ghetto's.  i grew up in public housing in the town where i was born, but the houses were pretty decent.

[Choop]

slow on the uptake === late to the bandwagon

i've been watching archer since like episode 4 and it is just a hoot oh and also a holler

[greenkoolayd]

my first reaction to the idea of downton abbey was, "who wants to watch a bunch of rich people be dicks?"  i added it to my netflix qway just to be sure there isnt more to it.

[Nabubrush]

Well, that's been a different couple few weeks. It's kind of fun reading through ten pages of this and thinking "I got something to say about that . . . . oh well, someone else covered it" about everything.

[Nabubrush]

That'll teach you to go home and have fun.

Word.

Did I mention I'll be in Hawaii next time I go home? I guess I did just there.

[CortJstr]

I actually had a hard time getting into Archer because I couldn't hear Jon Benjamin as that kind of character. Now I can't imagine him with any other voice.