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garyganu: Blacks Are the Most Dangerous Cultural Group in America. Why is This Obvious Truth Ignored, Justified or Excused?

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:00:41 -0800

an 'insight' on why blacks* are "the most dangerous cultural group in America".
i'm confused as to why there's a comment on the su page can say 'how true, i never thought of it that way' - for two reasons. firstly, the dude who wrote the comment wrote the article (must have some kind of schizoid related issues, to write something and then realise he agrees with himself?) and secondly, probably most importantly, how can some-one be so openly racist?
i know there are some huge differences between the folks US of A and us over here in little old Blighty, but one thing i like about being British is that racism is frowned on by the masses, not celebrated. most decent Americans would probably be horrified to be pigeon-holed as racists, hell, most decent people from anywhere would, but i don't think the author of this article will mind too much as gross generalisations and sweeping statements seem to be his thing

Anyway, back to the article. we're told how *fact* black people commit more crime than 'whites' (does that mean white Europeans, white Americans, white...??) and given some other pretty lame examples of why the black man is Bad (hell, even prostitutes, those morally upstanding folks, wouldn't date a black guy...though how the author knows this, i'm not quite sure!)
One point made does need to be answered though: "Why are these truths being suppressed? Why are they not taught in our schools as part of African American studies? Why is the danger of the American Black man rarely a topic of news and commentary in the media?"
i'll tell you why - cos if schools taught that kind of negativity, we'd all be brainwashed from birth and the great White Man would still think he was superior to others, just cos of the colour of his skin. now, that'd be backwards, wouldn't it!? i imagine that kind of thing would result in some white Americans thinking they were better than their black, brown, pink or purple piers and maybe even in one of them growing up to write an article based on their own opinion and hatred, rather than fact or fairness. hell, that would be not be right.

i could've written something much more flowery, with far more vitoral, but, tbh, i cba cos you're never going to get through to people with closed minds anyway, so i just thought i'd write this saying 'dude, you're NOT ON!'

cheers n b'bye

Christopher Walken recites the lyrics from Lady Gagas "Poker Face" |Redux

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:35:51 -0700

not a fan of the 'Lady' with a man bulge that they call 'Gaga', am a fan of the man they call Christopher 'grammar rebel' Walken.
after watching CW recite 'Poker Face' on Jonathan Ross's Friday night show last night, i knew that it'd only be a matter of seconds before some-one put it on youtube and then literally a matter of a few more seconds before somebody stumbled it.
i praise that inciteful soul, but must say, with certainty, that i had the thought first, just i'm far too lazy. especially on a Friday night. honest

Christopher Walken : the unconventional thinking woman's crumpet. possibly

BBC NEWS | UK | England | Suffolk | Concern over moving 70 stone man

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:05:31 -0700

when i was at primary school, many moons ago, i remember an ambulance arriving at one of the cottages opposite the playground. we all watched to see what the commotion was about and were a bit confused as to why the firebrigade also turned up, but there were no signs of a fire. later, we found out that the guy inside the house had suffered a heart attack, but was too large for the ambulance crew to carry down the stairs, so they had to get him out via an upstairs window.
for obvious reasons, this story, of a 70stone dude, reminded me of that. it also made me wonder how, illness aside, somebody could allow themself to get that huge in the first place. and i don't buy that 'i'm big boned' sh!t either, before you start :)

http://www.juxtapoz.com/images/stories/2009/JX0909SEPT/Takato%20Yamamoto/1.jpg

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:46:40 -0700

art by Takato Yamamoto from juxtapoz magazine

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Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:08:06 -0700

ooh - i've just signed in on somebody else's comp and realised my page looks insanely uncentered. not in a spiritually uncentred way, just in a skew-wif way.
this lack of stumbling is causing damage to my brain - i've actually forgotton how to spell centre/center. i think i've got that disease where one thinks in French and adopts a crazy accent, you know, thingy disease (told you my mind'd been damaged)

anyway, here's a very thirsty kitten.

BBC NEWS | Special Reports | The Big Picture: Leaves

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:26:53 -0700

"Children wait for leaf-shaped paper decorations to fall at a public art installation entitled Blinking Leaves, on the concourse of Tokyo's Haneda Airport, 15 October 2009"

the su page says this article was discovered "Dec 31st, 1969" how very forward thinking of stumble to predict such an ocassion, eh?!

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/46509000/jpg/_46509374_486724-1.jpg

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:09:36 -0700

nice pink pic from the 'your pictures' section of the bbc's in pictures.

laptop's still playing up, so can still only visit su via the bf's comp...and stumbling with no stumble toolbar thingimajig is quite difficult! :s
ah well, better than no internet access at all, i suppose
anyway, yeh, brief hello. ta ta for now :)

Schoolgirl lost fingers in plaster of Paris - Education News, Education - The Independent

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:57:50 -0700

i read about this yesterday and think it's an absolute disgrace.
a school girl has been paid £19,000 in compensastion, by her school, for losing nearly all her fingers in a tragic art class accident (involving boiling hot plaster of paris and two buckets...i'll say no more, it's fairly gory)
only £19,000?! i think that's bloody awful - she was only 16 when it happened, imagine how it's changed her life and what she's had to cope with.
i wonder if the teacher in charge of the class got charged with neglect/not looking after the pupils or somet such? probably should've been. tssk. pfft

Oregon Business News & Washington Courts: Medical Marijuana Workplace Rights

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 11:52:52 -0700

i used to be lucky enough to be able to have a toke or two at one of the places i used to work. of course it wasn't legal, but i was second in command (yeh, me in charge of people, funny, eh) the boss was a close friend and most of the staff were hippy-types, so nobody complained when i reeked of skunk. that wasn't for medical reasons, just sam reasons (i once stated i needed to smoke at work cos it inspired me...kind of like that dillusional towel in South Park)

if you like to constantly smoke weed or feel you need medical mj to get you through the day, move to America and you'll probably be allowed to toke as you type

i'm considering moving there anyway - in some states you get medical mj for the slightest little cramp or insomnia; the weather's warmer; the possibilities are endless; there's the whole American dream thing AND you can buy hot dogs in the McD's over there. damn, they don't get up-to-date Peep Show though, do they. ah well, that's my moving plans on hold then, i'll just have to stay here and pay for my weed (oh, wait, Americans have to pay for their healthcare, don't they...right, i'm defo not moving over!)

EU may ban iPhone | Mobile Phones

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 11:26:50 -0700

i don't care that the European Union plan on banning the i-phone because a few of the little blighters have been exploding, i just care that the i-phone may get banned.

i don't know if any of you know people with i-phones, but 'just a sec, i'll look it up' can be quite useful after the first few ocassions, but pretty soon becomes beyond irritable.
there's constant adverts on UK tv which inform of us all the new i-phone applications available - very soon i'm expecting one of them will be a 'get a life' app cos most of the folks i know with them seem to be suddenly lacking in social skills and have to check on something-or-other every few minutes.

no doubt a lot of people'll disagree, but if i want to take a photo, i use my camera, not my phone. if i want to go on the 'net, i use my laptop or the computer, not my phone. if i want to play guitar, i play an actual guitar, i don't download an app for 75p that allows me to play a sh!ttyfake guitar.
i'm not against new technology, far from it, plus i am quite a geek (in the old fashioned sense, not in the geek-chich trend way) but i really do see the i-phone as an inferior computer-camera substitute and not much more.

one more thing, in the words of Columbo, does the i-phone not even have a function to shut the keys up cos the few i know who have 'em seem to have them on full volume, so not only do you have the annoyance of some-one saying 'i've got an app for that!', you also have to listen to the funkin annoying keys bleepity-bleep-bleeping

yeh, so not much on the actual article, just a rant to say 'i-phone users, use your i-phones, by all means, just not as a personality substitute, eh?' i think that's cos i like people to be knowledgable from life and their own experiences, not dumbed down 'i'll check the web' versions of themselves