Hey! I’m Cablanasian, and I’m highly offended by that mixed race comment.
I need a lemonade and iced tea to cool off.
Waiter, what’s that called again?
Nancarrow, thanks… I said “mild and harmless phishing” when I meant to say “mild and harmless trolling”. I need to work on my web lingo – sorry.
Funnily enough, I enjoy much of the banter in this thread, because pointing out the silliness (in general) of labels, whether “Carolinian” or “Libertarian” or whatever, is spot on.
Tell us, gringo wiseass, how many actual Mexicans bastards have posted on this thread?
Orale, guey, yo soy bastardo.
You’ll appreciate this.
And God knows how many Mexicans.
For that matter, are we absolutely sure that there is no salsa in the Palmer woodpile?
KJellyMap and Liberal: The OP meant no offense to Mexicans or Bastards. That you have chosen to take offense for them is of no interest to anyone besides yourselves. It just makes the rest of us glad that we aren’t you.
Perfect!
Psst… I think you need to reread Liberal’s posts. Try squinting a little and see if they make a different impression.
Crap! You’re right. I missed the sarcasm. Mea Culpa.
As an Atlantan, I hope you realize that you cannot marry a woman without gills.
I’m a Mexican! Living in Mexico, even!
(but I’m not offended… still, one out of two ain’t bad)
Damn, do you ever jump to conclusions? Let me set the record straight.
My girlfriend is not the owner. She is the chief horticulturist. I’m sorry if “my girlfriends company” was misleading, but she has worked there for years. My sister works for an airline, and I sometimes will say something along the lines of “I got the ticket’s from my sister’s airline.” I don’t mean to imply that my sister owns the shitty Airline coughcoughbasedinAtlantathat will remain nameless. Secondly, my girlfriend speaks perfect Spanish (well,… Catalan), but doesn’t ever work with the crew so she’s doubly (triply?) irrelevant to the situation.
The owner, however, does not speak Spanish. But since I’m the part-time fix-it guy, sometimes I’ll be at the shop working on the forklift or something and she’ll ask me to drive to such and such and tell Avi that the client just called and wants such and such done. Sure, I tell him to do stuff. But I’m just the damn messenger! Avi was probably lying to me 'cause he doesn’t want it to get back to the owner that he speaks English. But damnit, Avi, I’m smarter than the owner! That’s why I don’t work here! ::chuckle::. Hell, I probably would cover for you if you just asked.
Yeah, but really, would you have posted the same type of thing you did here regarding CNN’s use of the sentence fragment "The nation’s first Hispanic attorney general is being pressured to resign…"After all, you’ve tried to point out that “Mexican” was irrelevant in my OP, and therefore unwise. Is the “Hispanic” label relevant here? Is CNN implying that all Hispanics are Attorney Generals? Are you worried that people will stop reading after the first couple of sentences and think to themselves “there goes the neighborhood, a family of damn Attorney Generals just moved in next door. I bet all those pricks are being pressured to resign. Go Back to Washington!”?
So, “trolling” is another word you don’t actually know the definition to, I see.
Lo siento, senor, no hablo ingles.*
*If I’m gonna bite the style, I’d better give credit to BayleDomon. Never as funny the second time, but I still chuckle whenever I think of that crack.
Hijack of a pitting of Mexican bastards.
So, the owner of a landscape company, which underpays people so that only illegal Mexicans will work there, can figure out the part about making money but can’t be bothered learning how to talk to the people she exploits.
Pay people real money and get real work from them.
Oh, how much does this bastard make? Does the president pay benefits? Are they covered by insurance?
Wow. What kind of self-righteous hectoring can’t be wrung out of the OP’s little rant?
It looks like an ordinary fist, but the rope of handkerchiefs just keeps coming and coming…
Well, several posters to this thread have agreed with me that the title was intentionally provocative, probably meant to attract a particular reaction from particular people that has nothing to do with the content of the OP. That is a perfectly good definition of a mild, essentially harmless version of what many call “trolling”, as at least one other poster to this thread has observed. If you choose to place the threshold between “trolling” and “not trolling” at a higher level of viciousness or ill intention than I do, fair enough. I implied all along that this would be a marginal case, not worth the attention of the Mods (especially here in the Pit).
You don’t write headlines, do you?
Now we’re making some progress.
You know, your initial observation in your first post wasn’t that bad. But then you started to accuse the OP of racism, and that’s when you slipped into offenderati territory. (And that’s when I chose to comment on it.) Also, accusing me of “caring about birds more than people” because I disagreed with you about the offensiveness of the OP was downright silly.
Hey, I haven’t been out to BCI in ages. Most of my recent field work has been in Africa and Central America. If I spent any more time “checking out the wider world” I’d never get anything written up.