# Beyonce **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 4, 2013, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce/649298 "2013-02-04T12:59:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce/649298/81 "2013-02-07T18:49:57Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Reported for racist slur… Oh snap. Thanks once again, SDMB, for increasing my vocabulary! I suppose I’d never seen that one before because I don’t e-mail or text with anyone who would say such a thing, and message-board-wise, I don’t visit Stormfront. ---
**Author:** ![planetcory](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/planetcory/32/1032_2.png) [@planetcory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/planetcory)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce/649298/82 "2013-02-07T19:06:58Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > Damn, I don’t know how folks stay up on the cutting edge of racial slurs. I knew it couldn’t be anything good once I’d gotten past ‘ooks and eeks’. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce/649298/83 "2013-02-07T19:14:02Z")
> [@planetcory](#): > > I knew it couldn’t be anything good once I’d gotten past ‘ooks and eeks’. Oh shit, is that a thing too? _scurries off to Google_ Egad, it is! Hey, um, can y’all send me a copy of the Secret White Racist Code Handbook? I know it’s against the rules, but I’ll give you the Jive Handbook if you promise to keep it a secret. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce/649298/84 "2013-02-07T19:18:24Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > Oh shit, is that a thing too? _scurries off to Google_ Egad, it is! Holy cow, and it is revealed right in the repulsive domain names. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce/649298/85 "2013-02-07T19:28:56Z")
HAHAAAA!!! Why did I look it up??? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce/649298/86 "2013-02-07T19:34:28Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > Damn, I don’t know how folks stay up on the cutting edge of racial slurs. Neither do I. The hell of it is that the stupid and nasty people are just as creative as the intelligent ones, so there are always new slurs. ---
**Author:** ![planetcory](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/planetcory/32/1032_2.png) [@planetcory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/planetcory)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce/649298/87 "2013-02-07T20:00:03Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > Oh shit, is that a thing too? _scurries off to Google_ Egad, it is! Hey, um, can y’all send me a copy of the Secret White Racist Code Handbook? I know it’s against the rules, but I’ll give you the Jive Handbook if you promise to keep it a secret. Oh, I totally didn’t know it was a thing across the internet. I just interpreted the ‘monkey noises’ thing from the tenor of the post. By the end, I was only wondering what the T and B stood for. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce/649298/88 "2013-02-07T20:19:43Z")
I had no idea what TNB was until I looked it up to figure out what the hell he was talking about. I admit the ooks and eeks went right by me - too much Pratchett, no doubt. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce/649298/89 "2013-02-07T20:26:54Z")
Our friend cory is far more perceptive than I, as it went by me too. I just thought he was being a hater. Typical old guy yelling at cloud about how the kids’ music ain’t no good anymore, and it’s all made of plastic, and how back in his day, all the incoherent rambling was done by Bob Dylan, and so forth. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce/649298/90 "2013-02-07T20:47:28Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Urban Dictionary, perhaps (I had to look it up) 🙂 Me too. Posters who’ve churned out (electronic) sheaves of intensely racist bullshit for months or even years are still members in good standing, and all it took was three letters for this guy to get the catapult. ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce/649298/91 "2013-02-07T20:57:41Z")
Beyonce’s publicist doesn’t want people to see these pictures, so you should look at them and send them to everybody you know with instructions that they do the same. > **[Beyoncé's Publicist Wants to Erase These Seven Unflattering Photos from the...](https://www.gawker.com/5981957/beyonces-publicist-wants-to-erase-these-six-unflattering-photos-from-the-internet)** > > Yesterday, we discovered that Kanye West had apparently forced the photo wire service Getty to remove a series of photos of himself in a skirt. Today, Beyoncé's publicist is going around trying to get these unflattering photos of her famous client... ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce/649298/92 "2013-02-07T20:59:23Z")
The whole controversy over those pictures kills me. Sure, she looks goofy, but it also shows how incredibly goddamned into her performance she was. Girl wasn’t afraid of looking “ugly” to really tear up the stage. How many pop stars just prance and pose so there won’t be a single unflattering photo? Get it, Bey. Work it! Oh god, the bottom of the article has me dying: > [@](#): > > Hilarious Michelle .gifs be warned. You are next. > > (J/K, Michelle probably doesn’t have a publicist.) ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce/649298/93 "2013-02-07T21:32:37Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > The whole controversy over those pictures kills me. Sure, she looks goofy, but it also shows how incredibly goddamned into her performance she was. Seriously, though. Does it really take a dancer to know that there will be times on stage where your face isn’t going to look like a cosmetics ad? Sometimes your face gets scrunched up, and while the performance overall looks good, if someone captured stills of every moment, there are going to be a lot of them where you’re not looking your best. Silly stuff. > [@](#): > > Oh god, the bottom of the article has me dying: Oh snap! ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce/649298/94 "2013-02-07T21:54:44Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Posters who’ve churned out (electronic) sheaves of intensely racist bullshit for months or even years are still members in good standing, and all it took was three letters for this guy to get the catapult. No, it wasn’t three letters. He’d made a bunch of other racist comments. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2013, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce/649298/95 "2013-02-07T22:43:05Z")
_slinks away slowly from the “Why do Moderators Allow Some Racist Horse Shit but Not Others?” discussion_ So how about that Beyonce, huh? I wasn’t impressed by her performance. 4/10. ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2013, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce/649298/96 "2013-02-11T11:47:11Z")
I thought\* she\* did fine. Sounded like crap though. One would think that by now someone would have figured out how to properly mic someone outdoors. Is it really that hard? Seems like they have this problem every year. Or do stadium concerts always sound like garbage? ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2013, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce/649298/97 "2013-02-11T13:47:02Z")
Can I just say I think the Grammys red carpet proves my point re: Kelly’s hawtness over Bey. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce/649298/98 "2013-02-13T07:35:12Z")
Stadium concerts are sort of like banquet food–if it’s a great performance, it’s a plus, but really it’s all about the spectacle. I think this is particularly true for the Super Bowl, but for some performers it’s true of every performance (Madonna). I have always thought Beyonce was talented, gorgeous, and very hardworking. I’m not that familiar with her work except in the movies, but she obviously works very hard and is as much of a control freak about her performances as Madonna, apparently. And I think she probably started out with more inherent talent than Madonna. All I’ve heard, I think she qualifies as a Diva. PS not everybody gets stretch marks. I’ll bet Beyonce had one (at least!) personal trainer that guided her through pregnancy. She probably has a staff of personal trainers. ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce/649298/99 "2013-02-13T07:57:30Z")
You knew this was coming. [The Internet is Doing a Bang Up Job on Beyonce Photoshops](http://www.lobshots.com/2013/02/08/the-internet-is-doing-a-bang-up-job-on-beyonce-photoshops/) Love the Ursula one 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beyonce/649298.md?page=4)