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Wednesday, 8 August 2012

quote [ Google portrays black athlete walking along a strip of watermelon ]

And if you beat the previous high score, there is a chitlins level.

Paleo-libertarian: a special kind of stupid.

Google Doodle archive:
https://www.google.com/doodles/finder

An article on rhythm gymnastics, my new favorite sport ever. If someone not posting via phone could put up the YouTube vid in comments, I will dance at your wedding.
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8201837/brian-phillips-olympic-rhythmic-gymnastics

Bonus: anti-Zionist rant taken from a comment on the main article. Spoiler: the London 2012 logo spells out ZION, Rothschilds, reptilian Mossad agents, etc.
http://rehmat1.com/2012/08/08/2012-olympics-iran-8-vs-israel-0-mossad-watching/

[politics] [by GordonGuano@5:12pmGMT] [+8 Funny]

Comments

gsamsa said @ 5:16pm GMT on 8th Aug
I totally noticed this too. Thanks for making me feel like I'm not the only cynical secretly racist asshole out there.

Cakkafracle said @ 6:10pm GMT on 8th Aug [Score:2]
thousands of retards agreeing with you makes you king of the special olympics.

zenviper said @ 5:17pm GMT on 8th Aug [Score:2 Informative]

GordonGuano said @ 5:22pm GMT on 8th Aug
FYI, I only know the Electric Slide.

rangerx said @ 5:26pm GMT on 8th Aug
I have the weirdest boner right now.

Oh wait, not weird at all......

landsky said @ 2:06am GMT on 9th Aug

rangerx said @ 2:20am GMT on 9th Aug
Heh, heh. That top one has four teats.

ckfahrenheit said @ 5:18am GMT on 9th Aug
They could provide some interesting new variations over at kink.com

DarkShadowRavenDragonGrrl69 said @ 6:50pm GMT on 8th Aug
Did anyone ever think Rhythmic Gymnastics were easy?

Excited Corpse said @ 12:34am GMT on 9th Aug
they say that rhythmic gymnastics is easy on the boner

eIfish said @ 8:11am GMT on 9th Aug
Easy, no.

Unjustifiably privileged over other circus skills, yes.

lilmookieesquire said @ 5:18pm GMT on 8th Aug [Score:2 Underrated]
I'd just like to take the time to say that I absolutely hate the google art for the Olympics.

structured_spirits said @ 11:52pm GMT on 8th Aug [Score:1 Hot Pr0n]
While we're discussion stupid Olympics art, they paid over 500,000 for this logo:

Baron said @ 3:18am GMT on 9th Aug [Score:1 WTF]
Wow Lisa Simpson is really giving it to Bart!!!

Ebichuman said @ 10:32am GMT on 10th Aug
Number three thing heard at the Olympic games: "Mommy, why is Lisa fellating that headless torso?"

arrowhen said @ 1:50am GMT on 10th Aug
Why do those 'mechs keep chest-bumping?

5thEarth said @ 5:23pm GMT on 8th Aug [Score:2 Underrated]
Or, it's a cartoony rendition of the traditionally red-colored track and field track surrounded by traditionally green-colored grass.

granitewitch said @ 5:28pm GMT on 8th Aug
...which is how I viewed it.

Of course there are always those people who are so eager to be offended that they look for racism everywhere. These are the same people who claim Communism in the potato chip industry because a Pringles purchased in New York looks identical to one purchased in Los Angeles...

cb361 said @ 11:01am GMT on 9th Aug
Hmmm... Guy Pringle was a communist. And they sell their product in red tubes. And you can make vodka from potatoes, which is popular in Russia. I think you might be on to something here...

arrowhen said @ 11:03am GMT on 9th Aug
Dude on the can has a mustache. Stalin had a mustache.

cache22 said @ 4:27pm GMT on 9th Aug
Stalin couldn't stop either.

Captain Obvious said @ 6:00pm GMT on 8th Aug
Hey! Give me back my job!

sanepride said @ 6:02pm GMT on 8th Aug
And judging from his hairstyle, I'd say the runner is meant to be a South Asian.

EPT said @ 1:22am GMT on 9th Aug
It's almost like the author has never seen the sport.

landsky said @ 5:37pm GMT on 8th Aug

Cakkafracle said @ 6:14pm GMT on 8th Aug
"oddly white-gloved hand"

WTF, you can see fingernails! and I love how they describe what happens if you don't actually touch the keyboard and watch the dude fail the race... Inferring of course that ni**ers are lazy, I'm sure.

This reminds me of the Dolphin/Lovers picture corruption test. You see what your mind is steeped in.

I didn't even notice the dude was black, I just wanted to win!

spazm said @ 6:17pm GMT on 8th Aug [Score:1 Underrated]
I just wanted to find something on the web ffs!

Roulette1337 said @ 7:11pm GMT on 8th Aug [Score:5 WTF]

Breenius said @ 10:11pm GMT on 8th Aug
First, I love MEMRI TV. I used to watch their stuff on a daily basis, but have fallen out of the habit.

Second, these Egyptians have gotta learn how to run a candid camera show! The first guy is clearly pissed very early on.
*Spoiler Alert*
They had the perfect opportunity to come out and say at about 4:20: "Hahahaaa totally a joke bro, you got punk'ddddddd" but instead the dumb ass says "This is my channel. I am never afraid. You're the one who's afraid because you're carrying a gun." then they wait unit he hits a woman to tell him it was a joke? WTF

Also, apparently Dark Knight music seemed appropriate at 8:30 :\

chold_numa said @ 3:45am GMT on 9th Aug [Score:1 Informative]
MEMRI is an organization designed to make non-Jewish people in the Middle East look bad. Much like if someone were to dedicate a channel towards showing Jerry Springer clips (and similar material) and implying that it was representative of the US in general.

Plenty of idiots everywhere.

Breenius said @ 4:21am GMT on 9th Aug
Wow, I literally never looked them up before. Thankfully I don't think it's really affected my opinion.

For those interested: A discussion of MEMRI's bias

Although I could have stopped at the second line of the article: MEMRI was co-founded in 1998 by Yigal Carmon, a former colonel in the Israeli military intelligence and Meyrav Wurmser, an Israeli-born, American political scientist.

chold_numa said @ 10:13am GMT on 9th Aug
MEMRI does a lot more than that. They also send journalists reports and translations of Middle Eastern media, often slanted to portray them in a poor light, or to drive the narrative that countries other than Israel are barbaric, uneducated, or otherwise backwards.

Some statements are twisted or taken out of context to appear to be incendiary, presumably to advance Israel's cause in the region, or to garner Western support. An example of this would be Ahmadinejad's alleged statement to "wipe Israel from the map", where he in fact said no such thing. He was in fact quoting something said by Khomeini, where it was said that the government in Israel should disappear from history. It wasn't a statement of foreign policy, but more condemning Israel for it's treatment of the Palestinians.

Ankylosaur said @ 3:17am GMT on 10th Aug
So they do everything they can to help make Muslims suspicious of and angry at Israeli TV stations, biding their time until some Egyptian candid camera show does a segment based on that suspicion and anger, then they show that segment? Seems a little trollish.

chold_numa said @ 12:35pm GMT on 10th Aug
They take advantage of the fact that some television stations in the middle East are run by amateurs or that people in these countries have different cultural associations which would be viewed differently to their core audience.

I'm sure that if someone were to look at Israeli, US, or pretty much any other country's programming, you'd find similar examples. At face value, it's just mean - like picking on the slowest kid in class. Coupled with MEMRI's fairly obvious state sponsorship (and likely funding), it is more insidious. Especially as the target audience is in the US.

backSLIDER said @ 8:43pm GMT on 8th Aug
Same people would have been up in arms if it had only had white runners.

arrowhen said @ 9:15pm GMT on 8th Aug [Score:2 Funny]
Google is racist because it has a double O in the name, just like in "coon".

EPT said @ 1:23am GMT on 9th Aug
And two G's, like in Gollywog.

graham said @ 10:15pm GMT on 8th Aug [Score:1 Insightful]
looks more Indian, if anything.

cb said @ 10:38pm GMT on 8th Aug
I don't get it. What is significant about this specific doodle/game?

structured_spirits said @ 11:43pm GMT on 8th Aug [Score:1 Informative]
In the US saying that black people love watermelons is considered a racial slur. Why? I really don't know. I'm kind of curious as to the origin as well.

RuneLancer said @ 12:26am GMT on 9th Aug [Score:1 Insightful]
I believe this may shed some light on the situation. Either that or the author is talking out of his ass. One way or another, it's "an" explanation. :)

landsky said @ 2:13am GMT on 9th Aug

EPT said @ 2:27am GMT on 9th Aug
Sweet, sweet melons.

landsky said @ 4:20am GMT on 11th Aug

sua_sponte said @ 2:00am GMT on 10th Aug
Who the hell is that guy calling?

landsky said @ 2:39am GMT on 10th Aug

happiest_sadist said @ 9:09pm GMT on 11th Aug
Ghostbusters.

arrowhen said @ 11:40pm GMT on 8th Aug
I've never understood why mentioning watermelons in conjunction with black people is considered offensive. I mean, yeah, it's a stereotype, but is it a negative one? Is it somehow BAD to eat watermelon?

sanepride said @ 11:55pm GMT on 8th Aug [Score:1 Underrated]
The association comes from the ready availability of watermelons as a food source of poor and enslaved people in the south.
Some explanation and lots of fun pictures here.

But truth be told- who doesn't like watermelon?

chold_numa said @ 10:18am GMT on 9th Aug
People with no tastebuds.

CapnSilver said @ 12:14pm GMT on 9th Aug
No, see, watermelon is basically tasteless.

5thEarth said @ 6:59pm GMT on 9th Aug
Not good ones.

Granted, it's basically impossible to find good ones.

chold_numa said @ 12:13am GMT on 10th Aug
You can grow your own if you have lots of space and water.

I think to select a good watermelon, you need to go with a seeded variety. I've never had a really good seedless watermelon. Also, select one that is heavy for its size. It generally means the flesh is more dense (and not powdery, which is awful). No way of selecting for sweetness (as far as I'm aware) sadly.

GordonGuano said @ 12:02am GMT on 9th Aug
According to my girlfriend, who is black*, it comes from a time when watermelon was about the only sweet thing in black folks' diet. They'll pass it up now to show that they can afford sugar. So I wound up ordering the melon margarita at Ruby Tuesday while she got some ridiculous red white and blue concoction. Turns out a melon 'rita is just a fru-fru girl drink.

*and a Jehovah's Witness. But obviously not a very good one.

arrowhen said @ 1:31am GMT on 9th Aug
I work at a grocery store in Baton Rouge and I see plenty of black people (our customer makeup is pretty much 50/50 black and white, very little of anything else) buying watermelons, plenty of white people, too. And we definitely sell a lot more of them here than we did at the grocery store I worked at in Oregon. So despite all the racist jokes I heard growing up, in my experience, watermelon is more of a Southern thing than a black thing.

And yes, a Margarita containing anything other than tequila, Triple Sec, and lime is a fru-fru girl drink.

bruceski said @ 8:50am GMT on 9th Aug
Same with fried chicken. Who DOESN'T love fried chicken?

GordonGuano said @ 4:09pm GMT on 9th Aug
ComposerNate. But we love him regardless.

rangerx said @ 2:26am GMT on 9th Aug
Should have gone with the Apple-tini.

Much more butch.

GordonGuano said @ 3:27am GMT on 9th Aug
I'm more of a Chocolate Choo-Choo Train man, actually.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_H_sVNgvf4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

structured_spirits said @ 11:59pm GMT on 8th Aug
Not post-worthy, but interesting, if in extremely poor taste. Brought to you by the GNAA. I haven't tried downloading the distro. I'm curious for a review. Anyway, Linux isn't just for Whitey anymore.

clicky

Kasamir said @ 12:18am GMT on 9th Aug [Score:3 WTF]
I showed this to a coworker expecting a 'wow that's crazy'. Instead he told me it was done to make people think of racism in preparation of a race war the CIA is going to start in the future. He went on to explain that the CIA gave Google their seed money so Google has to do what the CIA wants. I guess this post isn't as crazy as it could be.

Naruki said @ 2:41am GMT on 9th Aug
Is he a Libertarian?

cb361 said @ 9:27am GMT on 9th Aug
That's just what the lizards want you to think.

graham said @ 12:37am GMT on 9th Aug [Score:5 Funny]

Supreme_Coconut said @ 1:23am GMT on 9th Aug
This author should try removing their head from their ass and try looking at a track some time. The green is grass and tracks are generally a splotchy red-orange.

EPT said @ 1:32am GMT on 9th Aug
Yes, 'marijuana plants'. Totally not just making it up as you go along...

landsky said @ 2:03am GMT on 9th Aug

cb361 said @ 9:29am GMT on 9th Aug
I'm not keen on watermelon. All those seeds in body of the flesh. Whichever design team put them together won't be winning any industry awards.

eIfish said @ 10:35am GMT on 9th Aug [Score:1 Insightful]
As a foodstuff, sure, bad design.

As a clever way of getting your seeds eaten, great design.

mechanical contrivance said @ 11:32pm GMT on 9th Aug
Watermelons weren't designed.

Illumifruiti said @ 11:50pm GMT on 9th Aug
No, of course not. Continue about your normal non-engineered-fruit eating lives...

aciel2 said @ 6:32am GMT on 10th Aug
Uh... I just eat the seeds. You don't?

Kat said @ 2:39pm GMT on 9th Aug

swiggy said @ 2:31am GMT on 10th Aug [Score:1 WTF]

mechanical contrivance said @ 4:15am GMT on 10th Aug
Now do a pumpkin.

KingPellinore said @ 12:42pm GMT on 10th Aug
It's a SCHOONER!

landsky said @ 1:26pm GMT on 10th Aug