So I saw a customer wearing a shirt that put me in a foul mood for pretty much the entire day.
It had a picture of the white Old Spice guy (the older dude with the beard who usually sits in his fancy salon); and above and below the image, meme-style, were the words: "I don't always talk to Obama voters. But when I do, I ask for large fries."
Yessir, that seems like the best possible shirt to wear when ordering burgers from a fast-food joint.
Ash Bruce Campbell?
EDIT: Wait, you mean Dos Equis guy, "The most Interesting Man In The World", right?
Oh, yeah, the Dos Equis guy is who I mean.
Somehow got those wires crossed in my head.
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If I bake a pie, isn't it mine to enjoy? "No," says Peter the Parasite. "We all deserve a piece."
If I earn a nickel, isn't it my right to buy candy if I see fit? "No," says Peter the Parasite. "You must only buy fruits and vegetables."
If I can afford to see the doctor, is it my concern that others cannot? "No," says the damnable Parasite. "We must all crowd our way into the physician's office."
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Did you find out Pooro what ratio of tribal heritage is required for that plan?
When I was in university, one of my classmates I talked to would say how she was first nations, and would go to campus FN meetings, complaining about things like the government not recognizing her as FN. First she'd get sympathy, then when they found out her heritage was I think one grandmother who was 1/4 inuit, there were a few things said with regards to her character, and she was banned from the meetings.
I assume that most tribes (even most people within tribes) have their own cutoff for when you're FN "enough"?
well I am going to talk about history anyway because I love history
I think the trick to historical education is to pick subjects which succinctly explain certain historical concepts and ideas
Like, for example. Most people reading this forum will have an idea that there is the natural world, and then there is a supernatural world which may or may not exist depending on their personal philosophy. There are the laws of physics, the process and method of scientific study, and then there are questions of the soul and the afterlife and so on.
In the modern world we compartmentalise these concepts as different discussions a lot of the time, with some notable exceptions like creationism and so on. But in past times, this was not the case. The distinction between the natural and the supernatural is relatively recent. To people in the late medieval and early modern period, the natural world was a place where divine, infernal and spiritual influences were everyday parts of life. This is why studying witchcraft trials is useful, it teaches the student very effectively that you must always take care not to allow even your most simple, assumed ideas of how to rationally think colour your perception of history. Some people in the past, in key areas, just thought differently to us in a way which is hard to understand.
So when it comes to historical subjects, I always think that the history of your own nation is actually not a good way to teach the subject. Some of it, sure, but not all of it by any stretch. You pick subjects that teach you about anachronism and historiography and so on. That way, you teach the skills that allow someone to look at any period of history and know how to try and interpret and understand it.
This is where our current education system as imposed by the Tories falls down in a rather total fashion
Did you find out Pooro what ratio of tribal heritage is required for that plan?
When I was in university, one of my classmates I talked to would say how she was first nations, and would go to campus FN meetings, complaining about things like the government not recognizing her as FN. First she'd get sympathy, then when they found out her heritage was I think one grandmother who was 1/4 inuit, there were a few things said with regards to her character, and she was banned from the meetings.
I assume that most tribes (even most people within tribes) have their own cutoff for when you're FN "enough"?
Blood Quantum is problematic as fuck.
See, if her Grandmother is 1/4 native American, wouldn't that mean she's 1/16th? Why is that so terrible? Especially if she is comitted to the culture and working for recognition and rights for native Americans? If she's just trying to game the system somehow for financial benefit, then I could understand people getting peeved.
I can remember years ago some idiot PMing me to say "Hey what do you guys learn about the War Of Independence in England?" and when I said "not much really" replying "oh, I guess you guys are still sore about that huh?". He was unable to comprehend that, while that was was a huge fucking deal for the history of the United States in terms of the multiple millennia of history that we have to get through in Britain; it was Tuesday.
Did you find out Pooro what ratio of tribal heritage is required for that plan?
When I was in university, one of my classmates I talked to would say how she was first nations, and would go to campus FN meetings, complaining about things like the government not recognizing her as FN. First she'd get sympathy, then when they found out her heritage was I think one grandmother who was 1/4 inuit, there were a few things said with regards to her character, and she was banned from the meetings.
I assume that most tribes (even most people within tribes) have their own cutoff for when you're FN "enough"?
The cutoff was just, "Are you a member?" So if you meet your tribe's membership requirements, you're in.
The question of "How Indian is Indian enough?" is, like, one of the biggest questions in modern Indian affairs. Is it purely cultural, purely biological? Is the full-blooded guy who left the rez and tells everyone he's hispanic still more Indian than the quarter-blooded guy who stays on the rez and works the community outreach program? Why? What is Indian? It's a deep, intense debate, where nobody's really wrong
It's a centuries-long identity crisis with no real answer
Did you find out Pooro what ratio of tribal heritage is required for that plan?
When I was in university, one of my classmates I talked to would say how she was first nations, and would go to campus FN meetings, complaining about things like the government not recognizing her as FN. First she'd get sympathy, then when they found out her heritage was I think one grandmother who was 1/4 inuit, there were a few things said with regards to her character, and she was banned from the meetings.
I assume that most tribes (even most people within tribes) have their own cutoff for when you're FN "enough"?
The cutoff was just, "Are you a member?" So if you meet your tribe's membership requirements, you're in.
The question of "How Indian is Indian enough?" is, like, one of the biggest questions in modern Indian affairs. Is it purely cultural, purely biological? Is the full-blooded guy who left the rez and tells everyone he's hispanic still more Indian than the quarter-blooded guy who stays on the rez and works the community outreach program? Why? What is Indian? It's a deep, intense debate, where nobody's really wrong
It's a centuries-long identity crisis with no real answer
Did you find out Pooro what ratio of tribal heritage is required for that plan?
When I was in university, one of my classmates I talked to would say how she was first nations, and would go to campus FN meetings, complaining about things like the government not recognizing her as FN. First she'd get sympathy, then when they found out her heritage was I think one grandmother who was 1/4 inuit, there were a few things said with regards to her character, and she was banned from the meetings.
I assume that most tribes (even most people within tribes) have their own cutoff for when you're FN "enough"?
The cutoff was just, "Are you a member?" So if you meet your tribe's membership requirements, you're in.
The question of "How Indian is Indian enough?" is, like, one of the biggest questions in modern Indian affairs. Is it purely cultural, purely biological? Is the full-blooded guy who left the rez and tells everyone he's hispanic still more Indian than the quarter-blooded guy who stays on the rez and works the community outreach program? Why? What is Indian? It's a deep, intense debate, where nobody's really wrong
It's a centuries-long identity crisis with no real answer
yyyup.
Add in stuff like interracial marriage and the right to live on the reserve and the social stigma that comes with some of that you've got yourself a right clusterfuck.
Oh, and that's without even going into the recent boom in gaming on tribal lands, where now there's millions of dollars being funneled to tribes in good locations near major highways, so in an effort to ascend out of abject poverty, they want to keep their tribe membership pretty small, versus tribes & reservations located just a few miles further off who don't get monster casino deals, and you get people just losing their shit.
Oh, and that's without even going into the recent boom in gaming on tribal lands, where now there's millions of dollars being funneled to tribes in good locations near major highways, so in an effort to ascend out of abject poverty, they want to keep their tribe membership pretty small, versus tribes & reservations located just a few miles further off who don't get monster casino deals, and you get people just losing their shit.
Oh, no, that's just one round. The other rounds are letter/word based, they draw 9 letters (choosing either consonant or vowel) and try to make the longest valid word possible out of those letters within a time limit.
If someone held a gun to my head and forced me to watch an entire episode of countdown I'm not saying I wouldn't do it, but around the twenty minute mark I'd definitely start wondering if running in a zig zag pattern really works.
Oh, no, that's just one round. The other rounds are letter/word based, they draw 9 letters (choosing either consonant or vowel) and try to make the longest valid word possible out of those letters within a time limit.
Oh, no, that's just one round. The other rounds are letter/word based, they draw 9 letters (choosing either consonant or vowel) and try to make the longest valid word possible out of those letters within a time limit.
Why haven't we stolen this yet?
A startling display of sanity on behalf of the TV networks?
Oh, no, that's just one round. The other rounds are letter/word based, they draw 9 letters (choosing either consonant or vowel) and try to make the longest valid word possible out of those letters within a time limit.
Why haven't we stolen this yet?
A startling display of sanity on behalf of the TV networks?
It's been proven time and time again that Americans are vehemently anti-education and open displays of intelligence are met with retaliation.
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Oh, no, that's just one round. The other rounds are letter/word based, they draw 9 letters (choosing either consonant or vowel) and try to make the longest valid word possible out of those letters within a time limit.
Why haven't we stolen this yet?
A startling display of sanity on behalf of the TV networks?
It's been proven time and time again that Americans are vehemently anti-education and open displays of intelligence are met with retaliation.
Also, following a dysfunctional family around with a camera is both cheaper and will get higher ratings.
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HeadCreepsNOW IS THE TIME FOR DRINKING!Registered Userregular
Oh, no, that's just one round. The other rounds are letter/word based, they draw 9 letters (choosing either consonant or vowel) and try to make the longest valid word possible out of those letters within a time limit.
Why haven't we stolen this yet?
Not enough hillbillies/truck drivers/people living in trailer parks
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MachwingIt looks like a harmless old computer, doesn't it?Left in this cave to rot ... or to flower!Registered Userregular
The real question is, how Indian is too Indian
Or how Indian is two Indians
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Oh, no, that's just one round. The other rounds are letter/word based, they draw 9 letters (choosing either consonant or vowel) and try to make the longest valid word possible out of those letters within a time limit.
Why haven't we stolen this yet?
A startling display of sanity on behalf of the TV networks?
Letters and Numbers is pretty popular on SBS. It's fun to watch if there's nothing else on.
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Oh, yeah, the Dos Equis guy is who I mean.
Somehow got those wires crossed in my head.
No, some sort of big atheist flag or something. Is there an atheist flag?
Giving money to a poor, all while their functioning refrigerator is in the background
no don't you get it their trying to steal america away from us
Hows that joke go?
There was but it gave them something to believe in so they got rid of it.
My brand of atheism is like Terry Pratchett once wrote, "oh, yeah, they exist all right. But don't go believing in them! That'll only encourage them!"
Close, but those are idiot flags, not atheist flags.
Blood Quantum is problematic as fuck.
well I am going to talk about history anyway because I love history
I think the trick to historical education is to pick subjects which succinctly explain certain historical concepts and ideas
Like, for example. Most people reading this forum will have an idea that there is the natural world, and then there is a supernatural world which may or may not exist depending on their personal philosophy. There are the laws of physics, the process and method of scientific study, and then there are questions of the soul and the afterlife and so on.
In the modern world we compartmentalise these concepts as different discussions a lot of the time, with some notable exceptions like creationism and so on. But in past times, this was not the case. The distinction between the natural and the supernatural is relatively recent. To people in the late medieval and early modern period, the natural world was a place where divine, infernal and spiritual influences were everyday parts of life. This is why studying witchcraft trials is useful, it teaches the student very effectively that you must always take care not to allow even your most simple, assumed ideas of how to rationally think colour your perception of history. Some people in the past, in key areas, just thought differently to us in a way which is hard to understand.
So when it comes to historical subjects, I always think that the history of your own nation is actually not a good way to teach the subject. Some of it, sure, but not all of it by any stretch. You pick subjects that teach you about anachronism and historiography and so on. That way, you teach the skills that allow someone to look at any period of history and know how to try and interpret and understand it.
This is where our current education system as imposed by the Tories falls down in a rather total fashion
See, if her Grandmother is 1/4 native American, wouldn't that mean she's 1/16th? Why is that so terrible? Especially if she is comitted to the culture and working for recognition and rights for native Americans? If she's just trying to game the system somehow for financial benefit, then I could understand people getting peeved.
You should make a Countdown robot, one that's able to draw the cards and announce what they are.
The cutoff was just, "Are you a member?" So if you meet your tribe's membership requirements, you're in.
The question of "How Indian is Indian enough?" is, like, one of the biggest questions in modern Indian affairs. Is it purely cultural, purely biological? Is the full-blooded guy who left the rez and tells everyone he's hispanic still more Indian than the quarter-blooded guy who stays on the rez and works the community outreach program? Why? What is Indian? It's a deep, intense debate, where nobody's really wrong
It's a centuries-long identity crisis with no real answer
you think Rachel Riley is human?
edit: that joke is funnier with Carol Vorderman. Fun fact, one of our robots opened an exhibition with Carol Vorderman.
hi yes hello
I have never heard of this Countdown thing before!
It's a very, very UK-specific thing. Making that post up there actually got me 100 points towards permanent residency status.
if you have african blood, you can be considered completely white after 3 generations
but you can never get mestizo blood out
When I found out it was a real show I lost my shit.
yyyup.
Add in stuff like interracial marriage and the right to live on the reserve and the social stigma that comes with some of that you've got yourself a right clusterfuck.
Yeah, disenrollment is legit tragic.
Crazy, a math-based game show?
Oh, no, that's just one round. The other rounds are letter/word based, they draw 9 letters (choosing either consonant or vowel) and try to make the longest valid word possible out of those letters within a time limit.
something you quietly watch while having a cup of tea
Why haven't we stolen this yet?
A startling display of sanity on behalf of the TV networks?
It's been proven time and time again that Americans are vehemently anti-education and open displays of intelligence are met with retaliation.
Also, following a dysfunctional family around with a camera is both cheaper and will get higher ratings.
Not enough hillbillies/truck drivers/people living in trailer parks
Or how Indian is two Indians
Letters and Numbers is pretty popular on SBS. It's fun to watch if there's nothing else on.