Stuff White People Like

[roo_ster]

That will change if you ever get hit with the Milwaukee Two-Step during a cryptosporidium outbreak.

Is that what you get when you drink too much of that "beer" that Milwaukee is notorious famous for?

Beer?  Milwaukee produces beer? 

And all this time, I thought it was alcoholic club soda.

[MechAg94]

somewhere i should find richard pryors observations on white folks.or maybe chris rocks

Thier "oberservations" are raciist tripe.

Yea but it's ok because it's HILARIOUS racist tripe.

But that only seems to work in one direction. 

[K Frame]

The building I went to first grade in was build in 1919. That was 1972-73.

2 through 6 was in the newly opened consolidated elementary. Nice, but it was one of the first schools in the nation built with "pod" classrooms.

You didn't like the class you were in? You had three others to listen to. DISMAL failure, and the classrooms have been separated.

My high school was build in 1952. I got there in 1979.

[Jamisjockey]

somewhere i should find richard pryors observations on white folks.or maybe chris rocks

Thier "oberservations" are raciist tripe.

Yea but it's ok because it's HILARIOUS racist tripe.

But that only seems to work in one direction. 

Zactly.  I point out whats funny about black African American culture...and I'm a raciist.  They point it out about us and its funny.

Wasn't it Alan Keys who said he isnt' African American because he wasn't born in Africa:  He's an American.

The first step to stemming racisim is to stop thinking its funny.

[MechAg94]

Well, I wouldn't say that.  Laughter can be good, but it isn't always used that way.

[Manedwolf]

The building I went to first grade in was build in 1919. That was 1972-73.

2 through 6 was in the newly opened consolidated elementary. Nice, but it was one of the first schools in the nation built with "pod" classrooms.

You didn't like the class you were in? You had three others to listen to. DISMAL failure, and the classrooms have been separated.

My high school was build in 1952. I got there in 1979.

Yeah, the private elementary school I went to in the 80's was like that. New concept crap. "open" classrooms, and it wasn't a library, it was a media center. 

Since then, the classrooms have been walled off, soundproofed, and the library is a library.

[Marvin Dao]

I think lots of you are missing the point. The "Stuff White People Like" blog is some white guy skewering himself and his fellow "enlightened whites". It's not about making fun of white people in general.

Still, Lander is less concerned with cross-ethnic and racial relations than he is with how whites treat each other. As a onetime graduate student in the Midwest, he got tired of coastal condescension of the fly-over states and the glib assumption that "red staters are evil and stupid."

"Too many white people don't like to be reminded that they're white. They like to think that white people are those evil corporate right-wingers or the uneducated masses who vote the wrong way. But 'enlightened whites' are white people too and have just as much of a group mentality as they think the red staters have."

[Perd Hapley]

Thanks, Marv, that answers my question.   

[SteveS]

That will change if you ever get hit with the Milwaukee Two-Step during a cryptosporidium outbreak.

Is that what you get when you drink too much of that "beer" that Milwaukee is notorious famous for?

Beer?  Milwaukee produces beer? 

And all this time, I thought it was alcoholic club soda.

Ever been there? 

Water Street Brewery makes a fantastic dopplebock and a great pale ale.

http://www.waterstreetbrewery.com/home.htm

[Paddy]

Currently, white people on the cutting edge are really into metal bottles of water with a twist cap.

I actually have one of those, it called a "Kleen Kanteen" made of stainless steel.  It holds 18oz and cost $20.  I fill it from the RO (reverse osmosis for those of you in flyover country) tap.  Next purchase will be the 27ouncer.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

and theres your proof

[keeleon]

Zactly.  I point out whats funny about black African American culture...and I'm a raciist.  They point it out about us and its funny.

Wasn't it Alan Keys who said he isnt' African American because he wasn't born in Africa:  He's an American.

The first step to stemming racisim is to stop thinking its funny.

That's great, I have been saying that for years.  What's even funny is that most immigrants to the US from Africa are WHITE.  so the only "real" african-americans are mostly white.  It's not to stop thinking it's funny, in fact the first step is the opposite.  We need to realize that we are in fact different, and we do have different cultures and backgrounds, but that there isn't anything wrong with that.  I have to say even though they are usually very funny and even correct, I can't stand most "black" comedians, simply because it is such an unfair hypocrisy, that EVERY one of their acts is about how dumb white people are, and white people WILL get stabbed for talking about other races.  Carlos Mencia has it right, either everyone is fair game, or no one is.  I certainly wouldn't feel comfortable talking about humorous observations about "black" culture, and that just isn't fair, because my observations can be just as funny as theirs.

[LadySmith]

So...is there anything funny about the "gun culture"?

[Uncle Bubba]

Best water I ever drank came from the head od a natural spring. Boy that was good. And It was colddddd!!!

Ditto. I went to Andersonville, Georgia with a friend a few years ago to visit the site of the infamous Civil War prison camp and the National POW museum. If you don't know much about it, read up a little about the beyond-appalling conditions that Union soldiers were held in there. The camp was built with a creek running through it, but the Confederate encampment was upstream and both Union and Confederate soldiers used the stream as drinking water source, washroom, and toilet. A filthier setup probably couldn't have been designed. Thousands died because of it. You'll read of a thunderstorm in early 1865 (IIRC) and a lightning strike during it that opened a freshwater spring just inside the prison walls, uphill from the creek. The prisoners named it Providence Spring, and it saved many lives in the last days of the camp's existence. The spring still flows, and a stone house was built over it about a hundred years ago. The water flows into a basin, out the side and down to join that nearby creek.

The day we visited, a blistering hot Dog-Days-of-August-in-South-Georgia Tuesday, and after walking all over the prison site for a couple of hours, we found that the US Park Service has posted signs in front of and inside the stone house that read, "WARNING! This Water Is Not Fit For Human Consumption!" After due consideration of just why it isn't (because the government hasn't added anything to it, of course) we drank long and deep of the cold, clear water.

Bar none, it was the best water I've ever tasted.

[roo_ster]

So...is there anything funny about the "gun culture"?

Oh, yeah.

Such deserves a thread of its own.

[keeleon]

So...is there anything funny about the "gun culture"?

No.  Gun people are always serious.  They are not fanatical.  They do not complain about unrealistic ballistics in movies.  They are always right.  Every shoot is a good shoot, unless it was a bad person that did it.  Some people need killing.  From my cold dead hands.  Get off my lawn.

[280plus]

Mike went to first grade in 1919? 

 

[gunsmith]

 keeleon, thats not funny!