Did you people ever consider that maybe, just maybe, this woman was the best neurosurgeon in the whole wide world and that was some emergency call?
Do you people really want some little child to die because they couldn’t reach the best neurosurgeon in the whole wide world to do the brain surgery on time?
Well, do you??
Heh. Any neurosurgeon with THAT ringtone ain’t gonna be allowed into my brain with a scalpel.
The big fat old white trash had reason
To keep her phone ringing all season
She had just one hope left
Liver transplant or death
Surely you’ll forgive her this treason
Nothing against you specifically Martin Hyde, but…
For fuck’s sake people, vibrate is not silent. Sometimes in a purse or bookbag it is louder than a regular ring if is lying against something hard. Silence your fucking phone. And, yes, if your phone makes some noise as you turn it off, it is still making noise, and that is still your fault and I will still smash your phone between a door and its frame!
(I know it is probably some neurological disorder or something, but electronic noises seem to make my adrenaline run, because after I’m finished fantasizing about throwing the cell phone/IPod against a wall, I find I really have to calm myself down.)
(Oh and I can almost always hear your fucking IPod, every other person on the trains. And it is like fingernails on a chalkboard. Next time I bring scissors.)
(Oh, and I know this is not mini-rants, and this has been a bit of a hijack, but I really needed to express this anger. Thank you. This will delay the time I will be put in jail for murdering someone with a walkie-talkie cell phone. I want to take these people’s wallets and max out their credit cards on charity websites.)
Am I the only one who thinks “white trash” is racist…against black people?
Yes.
Here, anyway. Outside of here, in places not devoted to spreading ignorance, there are people who grasp that it’s “white” trash because of the mentality that all blacks are trash and most whites are not.
Are they loud?
Stirring words, EE. Like you, I also have a dream that one day we will find an Internet message board where people are not judged by the color of their skin, but by the trashiness of their character. And God almighty, one that’s free at last (and not a subscription site). Best of luck in your search, my brother. You’ll be missed.
Uh yeaaaah. White trash is racist against blacks, not whites, people.
So if someone refers to a “lazy American” the Mexicans should be offended because everyone know that there is a mentality that all Mexicans are lazy?
It’s more like the way “male nurse” does *not * imply that most males are nurses or that most nurses are male. Sort of the opposite.
I know that the term has become more widespread and nowdays the really racist connotation is lost on a lot of people. But once upon a time it was quite the *redneck * thing to say. 
-sigh- My Hero. 
The checklist?
By gum, you’ve scored a hat trick in the game of inarticulate bigotry. Now, I point out the female item because it was joined to the other two items. If I had to write this OP, clearly ( or maybe not so clearly ) I wouldn’t have gone through the politically correct gyrations of saying, " I was standing near a gender non-specific human creature the other day". Please.
But, you decided to be awfully narrow about this. So, fuck ya.
Cartooniverse
No, you’re not. The white is used because of the convention that it is so unremarkable that a black person be trash that the skin color is not required when the impugned person is black.
Like when I was young, you had to specify “female doctor” or “male nurse”, because simply saying doctor meant a man, and saying nurse meant a woman.
I would like to apologize to Uncommon Sense,Contrapuntal, et al, for some insensitive comments I may have once made
Back in the day, I once described Wayne Williams as “that fat, black, uneducated serial killer guy who lived with his mama”. I realize now the error of my ways. Neither his weight, his ethnicity, his lack of access to higher education, his gender, nor his perfectly valid attachment to his biological mother have any bearing on the person himself. If I were to start a thread about him, I would rightly be chastised in including these descriptors. But I plead with you for forgiveness. I have tried to correct my bigotry.
I still may have a long way to go, however. It occurs to me that by using the term “biological mother”, I may have insulted adoptive mothers everywhere. I do not wish to do that, please forgive me, again. Adoption is a great institution that holds my upmost respect. As are step parents and non traditional type families. I also realize that I may have been rushing to judgement regarding Mr. Williams himself, for he may have been suffering from an undisclosed medical ailment.
Really, find yourself a hobby. It’s pitiful (and hypocritical) to criticize me for doing what half the thread is doing. All it means is you’ve got nothing better to do with your time.
You might as well program
as a hotkey, because apparently you plan to respond with it to me every time I post. :rolleyes:
I do not think that word means what you think it does.
" My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die. "
Oh piffle. 
If I wanna stretch it to mean what I want it to, I’m allowed 
'Twould be a bit much to accuse someone who pretends to be all outraged at one person over that person’s opinion about something but gives everybody else with the same opinion a pass of harassment. Yet, anyway.
The outrage described in the OP would never have happened at the tomb of the unknown sailor, if there were such a thing, because the Navy, with its years of expertise in ELF, would have installed an on-site device that makes rigning cell phones emit a low-resonant frequency, causing the maelfactor to shit his or her pants.
Of course, a sign on public property “Warning - cell phone use may cause spontaneous defecation and abortion.” would attract Operation Rescue to enforce the cellphone ban, which, along with the general public’s policing their own behavior, would leave the Tomb guards free to do what they’re there for.