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Acoustics. Nothing else. Imagine 60 thousand people screaming at an egg.
I mean, you have to be an athlete bicyclist to do it, and I imagine flying around being a human engine is not super fun, but it still strikes me as really cool.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossamer_Albatross
Not quite the sort of machines I envisioned as a child, but still, pretty neat.
I'll admit, I LOLed at this since I live in Northern Cali and my first thought was 60K Raiders fans yelling at an egg
"COOOOOK DAMN YOU COOOOK!"
theres also this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_Prize for helicopters, but the best one has only hovered a few inches off the ground for only a few seconds
Ah, gotcha
I suspect those PC lawsuits in the 90s are nonexistent.
"The word octoroon means one eighth black."
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Apologies, that wasn't my intention. You just came across as presenting and example, and the rest of your post seemed more like "What's up with that" than "This is what I thought, silly me". Probably a reading comprehension failure on my part in that case, and my response was more in the vein of bewilderment than condescension.
But I always 'just' assume that everyone on a message board is white.
I'm bad, and I am so sorry for being like that. But my sweeping assumptions are so wrong, so so wrong.
Now my Sister in law is married to a Ghanain and he is like the 'only' black person we know. Is this like super weird?
So I'm guessing no, at least for us southern pansies.
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This is actually pretty normal from what I recall. At least I feel the same way, and I grew up around plenty of diversity. Don't feel bad. It's not like you're assuming a black/chinese/etc forum poster is a bad person, just that we all happen to fall into your comfort zone which happens to be white. It's psychology, not racism.
Edit: not that a persons psychology can't be racist, just don't think it is in this case.
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Misjudged the country, big time. Also cities that aren't Sydney or Melbourne, pretty much.
I guess its not that hilarious.
I still keep on having trouble remembering that southern can refer to things other than the southern USA.
It's the same when I read books; in my mind all characters look like me or my close friends and family, and sound like me doing impressions.
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Excluding London, which is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_London
SUPER DIVERSEEEEEEEEEE
There were also quadroons, quintroons and hexadecaroons, meaning 1/4, 1/5 and 1/16 black, in 19th Century America. Yes, people were actually that goosy about this. I don't really understand the math behind the 1/5, but it seems that these were more measures of appearance than they were measures of blood. You know, like is she Beyonce black, or, like, BLACK black.
There were octoroon balls where young octoroon women were paraded around white men to determine if they were "white" enough to join polite society, get married to the white men, and presumably start having hexadecaroon babies.
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I tend to assume most other males on message boards are heterosexual or gay; never consider bi. Had that pointed out to me the other day. I also don't believe most females on forums are actually female.
Also I'm black and not entirely not bi.
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South Asians (Pakistan and Indian) are by far our largest minority group.
Maybe it's coming from the fact I grew up in London, but yeah that seems really wierd. Though I suppose it's the norm in most places in the world. It's certainly something I'll notice if I'm in another big city, I'll just be walking along and then bam, it'll click 'wait!'.
Black geeks are very rare on TV. The only example I can think of is the guy from Community whose name I can't remember. Abed's friend.
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What about Urcle? Also the kid from "malcolm in the middle".
Do me, do me.
"Hello, I'm bowen."
How was that?
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I recall the 30 rock joke: "Are there any other black nerds, or is it just you and Urkel?"
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And totally a geek. A fun Friday night for me is staying in, playing Fable 3 or watching Superman 2 (either cut, though Donner's was just dark). Also, in most of my classes I'm the girl who is known to reference comics, movies or television shows in order to make a point. "It's like that one time in Final Fantasy where..."
Also, didn't know Richard Ayoade was president of Footlights.
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My word you hit every one of my none stereotypes
Your are a Geeky, Coloured, Woman
Wow
....you dont exist in my sicofantic world
Well, I wouldn't use "colored" (nor do I say "People of Color"). Just seems weird to me.
But I guess I'm a unicorn! You'd think a Battlestar Galactica or Firefly t-shirt would make me friends, but alas...damn this university.
See thats another thing. I would not have put someone who is Puerto Rican in the Black category. To me you are coloured, but thats just me.
What? I think I'm confused with the "Puerto Rican in the Black category" bit.