This reminds me so much of the one Gen-You-Ine Ku Kluxer I have the pleasure (?) of knowing. He is, at best, semi-literate, a drunk, and has very questionable personal hygene habits.
The reason he can’t get a good job? Them damned African-Americans. (Again, not exactly the term used)
If he did have a race card, he probably couldn’t read it…
Hey, I want in on this too! “It’s because I’m Canadian, isn’t it? All you Americans think you can just blame Canada…”
Give him a break.
Perhaps hereally wants to be a Lion Tamer.
…or maybe even he really etc.
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And exactly what is wrong with that?
In a nutshell, calling a “split infinitive” a grammar error is an example of fake erudition.
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The referee calls “misplay of race card. 10-yard penalty, still first down.”
P.S. Sorry for the hijack. The whole “split infinitive” business is a pet peeve of mine.
I swear I just laughed so hard that I snorted.
Brilliant. Maybe it would drain 1 life each time you use it, to discourage overuse. And of course, it would only be used to block attacks from white creatures/spells.
This story reminds me of a not at all similar situation at a birthday party/family reunion I attended. Dad, an engineer, and his Brother, an accountant, were giving each other grief as brothers due. Dad made a nasty comment about accountants, and Brother responds in kind with a nasty comment about engineers being worthless. Anne, a strong-minded woman of 80ish, overheard the last comment, and jumed in to defend engineers. (She used to be a civil engineer and geologist, and I’m not sure she’s entirely retired.) This amused us because the discussion was between Dad, his Brother, me and my brother and his wife. That makes 3 engineers, 1 accountant, and 5 people who understood that the bond of brotherhood was more important than minor differences between engineers and accountants.
:eek: The chicken breasts at Subway are made out of pork?
Nuts to the OP! He halfway eavesdrops in on a conflict, gets the “full story” presumably from one of the biased staff (there were only two sides, the guy and the staff), magnifies one would-be insignificant part of the guy’s rant and shares just that with the world helping to embiggen the already too-big-fucking deal of race. People say all kinds of things when angry, why is “this is because I’m black” so gasp-inducing? I heard this one girl call this guy a “fucking retard” yesterday, even though he clearly wasn’t retarded. Do I need to write ten God-damned paragraphs about it? And what the hell does he know? Maybe it was because the guy was black; it’s not impossible. Like he said, despite his self-assigned “witness” status, he hardly witnessed anything.
Firstly, I’m female.
Two, I wasn’t really eavesdropping, I was five feet away from it all and could qutie clearly hear what was going on without trying. The fact that I even noticed something was wrong is testament to that, I’m fairly oblivious to anything not directly involving me. I didn’t get the rest of the story from the staff, my friend also overheard the conversation (more than I did) and filled me in on what I missed.
Third, ok, you’re right, that was the most insignificant part. It’s gasp inducing simply because I have never heard anyone say anything like that before, and after he had already shown himself to be an asshole, he cemented that fact. I know that for a lot of you probably, this isn’t a big thing, but for me it was.
Dude.
Who put the bacon in your pickles?
Okay, you’re either the guy in the OP, or regularly use the race card yourself. Those are the only explanations I can think of for your insanely random attack on the OP.
Overreact much?
Nuts to you. You WEREN’T EVEN THERE but you’re absolutely sure the OP got it all wrong. You’re a racist asshole.
So what kind of gum did lambchops buy?
Sorry, had to do it.
You could have. We have rants about such things all the time in the Pit. Why was this one so gasp-inducing?
You see what I did there? I turned it around. It’s a switcheroo!!!
[hijack]Okay, even though we’re on the same side here, I’ve got to address this. How in heavens name did you get “racist asshole” out of someone who’s pissed that the OP pitted someone for using a race card.
Not everyone is always going to agree with you. That’s what makes these boards so damn interesting. But calling anyone who doesn’t agree with you a racist asshole is over the top, and takes all meaning away from the word.
I’ve seen you do it before, hell, you’ve done it to me and had me convinced you had mistaken me for someone else, the comment came from so far left field. And when I called you on it, requesting what specifically I had said that made me a racist, you wouldn’t answer. Hint: if you can’t tell someone what specifically makes them a racist, maybe you shouldn’t be calling them one. It’s not an all around insult. If you want to call someone an asshole, call them an asshole. Throwing “racist” in there for no apparent reason just makes you look like a overreactive jerk. [/hijack]
At least pizzabrat had the sense not to split that infinitive.
How very cromulent of him/her.
No, they’re the same brand name as the pork, doofus. 
You’d be surprised by how much of our stuff is available at your local grocery store. We use Kraft dressings, Black Diamond cheese, Quaker muffins, Pillsbury cookie dough (just like Tim Horton’s!)…
Ooh what about the soup? Is the soup Campbell’s? The chicken noodle is, to my untrained eye, identical to the “good” Campbell’s soup. That stuff that comes in a jar… You know. That stuff. Argh. Anyway. Is it Campbell’s? 
Here’s another. It hit close to home because I’ve been in a few situations where I’ve been politely taken advantage of by some authority figure. I allowed myself to be walked over each time, but if I’d have rightfully taken a stand, some arrogant know-nothing bystander would have easily deemed me in the wrong. If somebody sees a ballistic black person in a conflict with somebody behind a desk or a badge, the OP proves who’s going to be the “bad guy” in everybody’s mind. And I never used the “race card” either, even though both situations it would have fit; but that has nothing to do with my anti-rant anyway. What stuck out in my mind was that the OP made it a point to point out how “polite” the person behind the counter was being.