Social War Room Lounge v.229: You’re Somewhat Black. Have You Ever Felt the Urge to Snowboard?

[Falsedawn]

Turn your faucet on to a trickle so your pipes don't freeze.

Oh that was like 3 days ago. Already lost the toilet. Flushing a toilet with a bowl of water is high speed

 

[Falsedawn]

@Trotsky

https://oaklandside.org/2021/02/12/oakland-chinatown-policing-hate-crimes-community/

 

[Trotsky]

Hour 22 sans power. It's 16 right now, probably 28 in my house. Can't feel my toes. Got 18" of snow last night. My pool is frozen solid.

Phone's about to die soon and that's my last lifeline to the world. Fuck snow

Damn man, that's awful. How you managing?

We've gotten like 40 inches of snow the past two weeks but no power outages that I'm aware of. And thank God since the highest temperature this past week has been 10 degrees.

 

[tonni]

His probation officer probably says the same

That's pure speculation.

The laziness of you all forced my hand. I did this on my phone and I hated it

On your phone, holy shit you're braver than all of us.

 

[Falsedawn]

Damn man, that's awful. How you managing?

We've gotten like 40 inches of snow the past two weeks but no power outages that I'm aware of. And thank God since the highest temperature this past week has been 10 degrees.

Drinking

 

[Sketch]

That's pure speculation.

The fuck you talking to like that

 

[Sketch]

His probation officer probably says the same

His PO wants to wipe his ass. Fuck I already said too much

 

[Trotsky]

@Trotsky

https://oaklandside.org/2021/02/12/oakland-chinatown-policing-hate-crimes-community/

Thanks for sharing. The cynical right wing appropriation of Asian victimhood is so pathetic and despicable. And it's self-perpetuating because the more that Asian American interests are covered in the media, the more right wingers will insist the media is refusing to cover it. The other blatant contradiction, of course, is that those same right wing hacks that claim hate crimes are recklessly and politically designated will clamor that literally any crime committed by a black or brown person be summarily labeled a hate crime...and any hesitancy to do so is evidence of an insidious Democratic conspiracy (see Gunny's post in this morning's thread).

I do get the reflexive impulse to want to find a way to escalate the condemnation and punishment, though. The same thing happened to an elderly Asian man in STL several years ago, and it made my blood boil. People who prey on the vulnerable need to be ripped from society.

 

[Sketch]

Edit

 

[Gutter Chris]

Pretty sure that's a young @Gutter Chris.

I had to check to make sure it wasn't.

 

[Deleted member 405583]

This how I picture @HockeyBjj

 

[JDragon]

Let it be said at the outset I'm not judging, just saying the truth.

Now to me, that's the weirdest fucking thing. I have never once, honest to fuck not even for a moment, ever given any thought to your ethnicity nor of most other users here. I give zero fucks. If someone happens to identify themselves I will take note of the information as I do of anything that helps me get to know someone around here, of course, but otherwise it really is irrelevant to me in general.

Here's a story. I was in training to work as a dispatcher for a security guard company back in my 20's. Aside from me in the office, there was the daytime dispatcher and the overall supervisor, both women. On my first day, they got into a debate about who was better looking, Cheryl Ladd or Cheryl Tiegs. At lunch time, they disappeared to the kitchen but after a bit they called for me to join them--I was manning the phones--and they asked, "Did you know we're lesbians?" My answer without hesitation: "I don't care if you're purple," and I went back to the other room. They followed after and prodded me about their earlier talk and asked if I didn't take that as a clue. I told them that it didn't occur to me to try to figure it out--they were just co-workers to me for the first day, at the very least.

Ha. Unawareness of your surroundings, it's a great thing. We were a group of 8 or 10, men and women, on a trip to Amsterdam, when we got into a really bad downpour. We did the smart thing and hopped into the next bar.

We got a table, ordered a drink (and received it), but something was off. I could sense an air of hostility. Suddenly it occurred to me. It was all dudes in there. Called De II Prinsen. And two guys going into the toilet stands to have overly loud interactions.

We did not order a second drink

 

[Deleted member 405583]

Hour 22 sans power. It's 16 right now, probably 28 in my house. Can't feel my toes. Got 18" of snow last night. My pool is frozen solid.

Phone's about to die soon and that's my last lifeline to the world. Fuck snow

Start a fire comrade

 

[Deleted member 405583]

I had to check to make sure it wasn't.

Me too. But I don't wear orange unless its for illini wrestling

 

[Amerikuracana]

@Amerikuracana is a better writer than Ben Shapiro. Confirmed and basically obvious on its face tbh.

It was the breast of times; it was the breast of times.

 

[LazaRRus]

Drinking

Join the club. It's brutal here

 

[Falsedawn]

Join the club. It's brutal here

Times when it would pay to have a sturdy broad to generate heat. I understand why Alaskans drink so damn much.

 

[Deleted member 405583]

 

[JDragon]

Hour 22 sans power. It's 16 right now, probably 28 in my house. Can't feel my toes. Got 18" of snow last night. My pool is frozen solid.

Phone's about to die soon and that's my last lifeline to the world. Fuck snow

I hope things look up for you soon.

If not,

 

[JDragon]

Thread title is bothering me as someone who likes to snowboard