Brad Pitt Just Got More Awesome - Page 2

Put two and two together, my friend...

Nah. I can't imagine Devin ever getting that bored. I mean, I suppose it's possible and Occam's Razor and all that...but I just don't see it.

Awesome.

Princess Kate, I think I'm starting to like you. You remind me of the students moving into the dorms this week. Keep on with that low profile, girl. You're doing great.

Even if you believe Obama is "faking it", this would mean he's ok with being represented as a religious person in public life - he's standing up for and endorsing religion either way.

And racism is not a contest. The point is that the North has decried the Southern states as racist forever while refusing to acknowledge its own history of racism and discrimination - you'll find many have made this same point, from Malcom X on down.

Likewise, the reasons for the Civil War happening are infinitley more complex than just the slavery issue - which I'm sure you're aware of, since you number history as one of your favourite topics. It's a rather large jump to believe every last poor kid fighting for the confederate army was serving willingly to help maintain slavery.

Thing is, when you rally against the South, you are NOT rallying against bigots - you're insulting a giant section of your country, most of whom are not bigoted, and most of whom are likely to take offense at your insulting them and the people they know. Also, I feel sorta weird even having to point this out, but: not all people who are proud of being southerners are white. There is, for instance, a subtle, underground tendency within Hip-Hop during the last few decades for artists to mention that they're southern. Just saying.

Finally, you might wanna consider that "ignorance" does not come from a vacuum. It comes, often enough, from not having gotten the means and education that should be available to everyone. And that there is more than a little classism associated with making fun of entire regions for this.

I was in Worcester, Mass in Spring of 08 and I heard the words "nigger" and "fag" quite a bit, and they weren't coming from any niggers or fags either. They were popping out of the mouths of quite a few of the white-bread, straight-as-a-fucking-board citizens of the city I was in for business.

And yeah, KING Obama is a religious man WHO has taken a chicken-shit stance on gay marriage and has been associated with quite a few fanatics in his time, ahem, Rev Wright and the Trinity United Church of Christ. And by associated I mean was heavily involved with for two decades.

Deleted for my own personal idiocy! Got the name I was thinking of very, very wrong.

You ignorant motherfucker.

Kate, I scored an eleventyjillion on my "Locate Asshats on the Internet Test.". According to vague statistics that I won't bother to source, I am the Prime Asshat Finder for my region.

You are an asshat.

For the past three weeks you have negatively affected most of the threads that you have been a part of. You make statements that are blatantly inflammatory, have no logical reasoning behind them, and appear to be delusions of an Aspergers-suffering, bored as Hell Internet dillweed. I have been quiet up til now, because unlike you, I know how to keep a low profile and I tend to post only in threads that I feel I can intelligently contribute to. I'm not going to sit by quietly while you try to ruin everything that makes this board one of the best on the internet.

Go away.

You've had you fun, you've irritated the piss out of everyone, great. Just go. You blieve fat people should be ridiculed because of their weight, yet you see the south as a hotbed for intolerance. Well, as fat Southerner I say you should seriously pull your lip over your head and swallow.

Also, on topic: Brad Pitt is a great actor and I could give three craps about his beliefs on God, Satan or The Flying Spaghetti Monster. I just wanna see him kill "natzees".

You'll note that he's been supposedly staying away from the boards more often lately... wonder what he does with that copious free time... *snicker*

yahtzee.

I haven't seen this but I WANT to. Brad Pitt really has gotten more awesome for me after reading this.

Jesus, the first and only time in 6 years I use the ignore function and I still find myself reading 8 stridently idiotic posts every time I visit. Nice low profile you got going there.

You guys are giving Devin far to much credit. It's obviously Fleed pretending to be a girl under the mistaken impression that you'll treat him more kindly.

I'd post the picard face palm....but the black hole of stupid has sucked me iiiiiiiiiiiinn.....

Why the hell is the word "asshat" still amusing people on my internet ?

EDIT: I'm no advocate of organized religion, but wouldn't any "Atheist choir" technically find Maher's film somewhat...embarrassing ?

You are correct, and I wish he would take a stand and say "I do not believe there was a guy named jesus that was the son of god".... but sadly in this country people already think he is hitler for wanting to care for the sick. not believing in god might be too much. i'll have to settle for brad pitt saying it outloud instead. i do wish he could come out and say it though, youre right

Racism is a contest where the grand prize is the most shame. The state of massachusetts has less to be ashamed about than states where, again, people were strung up by mobs, burned alive and mutilated. the mobs then photographed it, turned it into post cards, and sent the postcards out with 'funny' captions. as a matter of fact, that NEVER happened in massachusetts. it happened thousands of times over in the south. so if racism were a contest, the south would win, sorry.

Yes, you are absolutely right that not every soldier of teh confederate army was fighting for slavery, just as every nazi was not fighting to put people in camps. some people were just fighting because their homeland was at war. what i CAN fault the south for is letting is apointing and listening to leaders who WERE fighting a war for slavery (and "states rights"... the right to keep black people down). you will hear almost no modern day germans though saying their ancestors were blameless for putting up with the nazi stuff adn putting hitler in power. however, you'll hear plenty of southerners seemingly pretend that not standing up to evil is not a moral failing.



Ok, yes, not everyone in the south is a racist. However...... 3/4ths of republicans in North Carolina think obama is not american or are unsure about that question. That stats go on and on, and when was the last tiem you saw someone shouting the n word in public in this country? thats right, the south. so yes, up to 20 percent of white folks in some southern states voted for obama. good for them. i would hope, since they are clearly thoughtful when it comes to race (or more thoughtful than those around them), that when i talk down about the south, they realize its because their neighbors are backwards theocratic thugs. i would like to think they are mad at the neighbors who enable me to be right when i say the south is and has been historically a hot bed for racism. i am not a jerk for saying it, and if they are smart enough for being racist, i'd hope they'd understand me getting angry that a certain part of our country always seems to be behind the times. you're right though, i did not necessarly mention good southern people when i began my rhetoric about the south, so i hope by saying that 'yes i know they exist' now, that will help to bring people together. i guess my message to normal southern people is "get your house in order, knock some sense into your neighbors head, before you get mad at me for talking about the problems with your region". just like how if "taxachusetts" made any sense (there are 35 states with higher taxs than massachusetts) i'd want to work on fixing the tax problem before i got mad at people for calling my state names (and also, that is if i had a problem with high taxs ).

Classism? I was a socialist for a number of years and wore a hammer and syth pin till the chinese annoyed me enough to make me stop. so, pleaaaase. its not clasism. i grew up poor but did not turn out a neanderthal.

and... yes, ignorance often comes from poor schooling. now, please be kind enough to tell me: in what party are people who most often want to abolish public education found? whats that? it's the republicans? and you say republicans have been waging a war on education (evolution, real american history-- ie, genocide of american indians etc) , and on funding for education?


And where are most of the only remaining majority republican states? THE SOUTH. They have only themselves to blame if they are ignorant (or mostly themselves, there is some national education reform that is needed, but lets not pretend the south and republicans are pro public education)


I rest my case.

it was hella cool! you owe it to yourself to check it out

At first I didn't understand why people dislike you...but now it's all so clear.

Also, are you seriously citing your SAT scores? I hope that's tongue in cheek and I'm just not getting the tone.

Wait a minute....you aren't a fan of Peter Karrie are you?

Because "pretentious, misinformed, ignorant, hateful shithead" was too long to type on my iphone's tiny keyboard. I have fatfingers.

Why does it need to be on "regular display" to matter? Besides, even a cursory glance of, say, Massachusetts' recent history torpedoes the notion that this state is a cradle of racial harmony and a bastion of tolerance. (Saying nothing, of course, of western MA or parts of Vermont and New Hampshire.)

This is a pretty hilarious mental image.

Actually, being born in Germany (I live in Portugal now), I can assure you that a whole range of justifications about Nazi Germany and WWII are very much popular with certain age segments of the population. They don't get aired much in public, partly because there are still laws against that. Of course the great majority of the country's population finds these viewpoints appaling and insane - and would probably get a bit angry with you if you were to say "fuck Germany" citing the fact that there's people with those views as justification.

The reason I said racism is not a contest is because framing it in those terms is trivializing the horror and pain of racism. By decrying the South as racist, the North can forget about its own contribuition to the problem for a while and pat itself on its back, while changing absolutley NOTHING. To go back to our fascist analogy, how useful do you think it would be for Italy to start attacking Germany because of the legacy of fascism?

But mostly, what matters here is:

Not all southeners are republicans
Not all republicans are racists
Not all whiet Obama voters aren't racists (remember "I'm voting for the nigger"?)

And as always, correlation does not imply causation. Making sweeping generalizations and then going with a dubious "well, MOST are" really helps no one. Being a liberal, I would naturally wish that less republicans were racists, and that less southeners were republican (without equating those two things, of course - one is hateful, the other merely a political position I disagree with.) I believe that the best way to have this come about is by never taking these three characteristics as interchangeable - that's what the racists want!

I get why people like Maher are appealing - full disclosure, I was a socialist for most of my early teens, too, and I get that there's a certain rush from getting to feel all righteous and just. It's fun to see politics as Lord Of The Rings. But it's not constructive to expect the majority of the population to adopt your entire ideological compass overnight - it's a lot moreso to attempt to consolidate consensus in the areas where it can be more easily attained and work diplomatically in the areas where it's hardest. Which, y'know, has been pretty much the Obama administration's entire mo (sometimes to a fault.)

if you are refering to officer crowley, who shamed our state.... that is not racism (and i am someone who at first assumed the incident was entirely about race), its about abusive out of control police, which yes, are a huge problem in massachusetts and indeed all over this nation. in many ways the police are like the mafia, we pay them protection money and hope they will A) actually protect us B) not mess around with us too much. its like the wild west never went away.

"Not all whiet Obama voters aren't racists (remember "I'm voting for the nigger"?)"

I'll address the rest of your post later, as i am busy.

I just wanted to say... do you happen to remember where the couple who said that lived?

florida.

thats right, the south...

If you put your ear up to Princess Kate's ear you can hear the ocean.

Arrrgh Kate, I'm trying to be nice here but can you not see how this answer is completley missing the point? You were classifying white southern Obama voters as the racially sensitive "good guys" that the remaining southeners can be discarded against; my point is things don't work out that simple.

well, to be truthful, i felt i was being generous to say anyone in the south was a good guy. i was trying to be conciliatory in hopes i'd sell my point better. use the n word, regardless of who you vote for, and i dislike you.

I got an 820. How'd you do on the math?

Edit: Oops! It's been 12 years since I took the Sat. I meant 800 verbal. Guess those test scores really don't mean as much after I while. But. My total is correct.

You are the most persistent troll in ages. Congratulations. You're reaching Pizza Kid levels at this point.

well i am not a troll... you guys may disagree with my opinions or whatever, but they are opinions i really hold. fair enough?

youre confusing your total sat score with the score awarded for only the verbal section. the sat has two parts, math and verbalness, and i got a 780 verbal.

I think that last bit is fair, but you're still assuming that everyone in the South is all about the lynchings and the racial slurs. Which isn't the case.

No I'm not. 1350 total. How'd you do in math?

What's the difference between choosing to generalize one group of people over another?

You're talking about racism and prejudice while making sweeping judgments about the character of everyone who lives in the south, even though clearly there are intelligent and tolerant people who live there as well. Seems a little contradictory to me.

Oh man, Pizza Kid! I remember those days...

wearwolf girl,

i think if you reread what i'd written above, you'd see that i made mention of the fact some people in the south, demographically, must not be racists. so yes, everyone in the south is not all about lynching. however..... everyone who is all about lynching? they're probably from the south. fair enough?

Input clever troll picture here.

You should read up on the draft riots in New York.

I celebrate Princess Kate (or whoever she really is) for this quote.

Yeah, "verbalness." Truth will out indeed.

I'd agree that you can find more examples of racism in the history of the South, things just aren't so black and white. (terrible pun intended)

new york is not new england. I have read up on them, but again, new york is not new england. new york was pro britain during the revolution too.

Is New York the South? Oh, and love the signature. No harm in poking fun at Asian huh? And yeah, I know it's a quote from ABT2.

things are not black and white, but they are not equally gray scaled either.. it was illegal to advocate for the abolition of slavery in alabama. in massachusetts, everyone and their aunt was an abolitionist. i mean, facts are facts. i am not saying everyone in the south today is a racist.. but if you were around in 1850 though and lived in the south, it was a moral failure not to stand up to that system. just like it was for the germans and the nazis. since we in massachusetts fought a war to stop slavery, had the first black troops in the nation, and , you know, didnt have slaves, we do not share the same guilt the south has to shoulder.

so yes, things are not black and white... but lets not kid ourselves about what went down either.

Now about those Math scores....

This must be why you did so well on the SATs.

But no one arguing with you about this is actually kidding themselves about anything.

That scene is AWESOME. i would never poke fun at chow yun fat. that is his dialog, and its awesome dialog. "rice just like my father and mother.... dont f with my family!"

and no new york is not the south, and the draft riots sucked.... but that was a one time thing that went on for 3 days and was never repeated. over 15 thousand blacks may have been lynched over the years....... (once again... the YEARS in which lynching was a popular pastime people would send post cards to celebrate, not "over the three days people got angry over a specfic issue and went nuts")

Alright, that's all the attention you get from me today Princess. I find it amazing that I have been on these boards almost a year longer than you and yet have only 1/4 of your posts. Yeesh!

best not to mention those...

Certainly this would never happen in the great state of Massachusetts, right? I really hesitate to even engage in this ignorant bout of verbal diarrhea, but I couldn't resist...

no place is perfect. massachusetts is the best state, in my opinion, but no place is perfect. i went to highschool with some fairly ignorant people, its just they were an ostracised minority and not the dominant clique as it would be in an alabama school