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[Lottel]

The other night in a facebook group I made a joke and from that, created a few words.
Then some guy started saying it was his joke and started plastering it everywhere and changed his Facebook "middle name" to one of the made-up words.
It's a petty thing to be upset about I know, but jesus.

[Classic]

No no man. You've gotta protect that shit with everything you've got.
It's not like you've got any other traits that make you an interesting harem manga protagonist.

Yes. Yes I am making fun of you for being miserly with awesome things. Can you deal with that?

[Lottel]

The other night in a facebook group I made a joke and from that, created a few words.
Then some guy started saying it was his joke and started plastering it everywhere and changed his Facebook "middle name" to one of the made-up words.
It's a petty thing to be upset about I know, but jesus.

Similar thing. Buddy of mine got a girlfriend thanks to her love of puns. Of course, he's miserable at them. The only way he could get her is by pilfering my puns. I'm happy for the dude. And I'm hope they're happy.
But dannnnnng.

Daaaaaangggggg.

[Büge]

Did you hide in the bushes and feed him lines?

[Lottel]

He checks my twitter and then tumblrs them to her.
I DID however sit next to him and tell him exactly what to say when asking her out. But I was unaware at that time how much I had already helped him out.

[Mothra]

Say something succinct to the effect of "You're killing me with this pun-stealing biz" and then see if he keeps doing it.

[Ted Belmont]

Oh good, it's "Why isn't there a White History Month?" Month on Twitter.

[Büge]

[Classic]

I do have a small problem with "RACE-HISTORY" months (excepting the above example), in that it continues the outdated concept of race and the fucking racist categorization of people into races.

Both are nothings relative to the bigger problem of institutionalized racism, but every discussion of race and the applicability thereof reminds me that we had some stupid privileged crackers trying to claim that President Obama was somehow "not really black" four years ago.

Maybe one of these days, I'll not really be a spic, or I'll not really be a stupid privileged cracker.

[Thad]

Race still has a big part to play in your culture and experience.  I've got no problem with encouraging people to celebrate their own culture's history or learn about other cultures' history.

And EVERY fucking month is White History Month.

[Classic]

Mostly I'm pissed at the exploitation of race inclusion or exclusion as a talking point. Like, still pissed over the bullshit from the last presidential election.

That last line was not a hopeful, "maybe someday we'll move past race" closer.

[Thad]

I don't think that stuff happens because we have Black History Month, though.  Granted, Obama's not descended from American slaves, but I really think people claiming he's "not black enough" are an overblown minority.

All that aside, we could do with more education on EVERYBODY'S history.  I know quite a bit about Anglo-American and African-American history, a moderate amount about Jewish-American history, and a little about Irish-American, Chinese-American, Mexican-American, woman-American, and so on.  I could always stand to learn more, and so could a lot of people.

[Classic]

Those are some definite facts up there, but...
Honestly, it just reminded me of something else that pissed me off (albeit something that pissed me off less). A segue pet peeve, if you will.

That said, there's no Chinese-American history month, but there is... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_Pacific_American_Heritage_Month

I couldn't find a Mexican-American or Latino history month in wiki, though I didn't search very hard.
Dunno what that means exactly.

[Lottel]

Anybody vaguely Latin only gets Cinco de Mayo as a holiday.

[Thad]

What day is that again?



(One of my high school classmates actually DID ask when Cinco de Mayo was.  In Spanish class.)

[Classic]

Maybe they thought it was one of those holidays that got shoved to a neighboring weekend?

Or maybe they thought it would be hilarious.

[François]

Heard some idiot on talk radio the other night whining about whoever decided to put Christmas on a sunday in 2011. As an atheist he can deal with sundays, and he can deal with Christmas, but he can't deal with Christmas on a sunday.

In retrospect he was probably a fundie plant.

[Lottel]

Merry Christmas

[Thad]

Preeeeeetty sure Asians still have us beat.

[Brentai]

Look.  Caucasian people.

"White" is not a culture.

And "Black" is just a clumsy shortening for "African-American" which I have no problem using because "African-American" is a mouthful and sounds too much like "Special-Learning" or some other shitty euphemism.

Once you get used to that idea, you'll find, much to your surprise and delight, that it's pretty goddam not-racist and actually a really great idea to ask for a British History month, German History month, Italian History month, Swedish History month, etc. etc. etc.

I mean, unless you think all those people look the same to you.  Racist.