the world has officially gone to hell

[Alpo]

I was on another site. I was talking about my grandparent's avocado farm.

 

Rancho El Gato Negro.

 

The software on the site changed negro to *****.

 

Apparently it is now a negative ethnic term that is considered offensive.

[PaleWolf Brunelle, #2495L]

Sounds like someone's software doesn't recognize Español. 

(the context should have been obvious following "Rancho El Gato")

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

Back in the day when computing was young….  Universities were creating accounts for students and faculty, Dr Fuch was denied an account in his own name.

[Rye Miles #13621]

18 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

Back in the day when computing was young….  Universities were creating accounts for students and faculty, Dr Fuch was denied an account in his own name.

My dad worked with a guy named Fuch, he said that poor guy went through hell!

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

Back in 1999 a Washington D.C. Mayor's Aide got absolutely destroyed for using the term "niggardly" when referring to the city budget. I shudder to think what would happen these days is someone used the term.

[Charlie Harley, #14153]

At a post-meeting drinking session a few weeks ago a colleague couldn’t apologize enough for his response when an African-American in the group asked what he was drinking.  It was a “Negroni”.  https://www.liquor.com/recipes/negroni/
 

Even the Black person thought he was being stupid and embarrassing himself, then she ordered one of the drinks.

[Pat Riot]

This world is full of blathering morons with too thin skin and not enough intelligence to focus on anything but minutiae. 

[Father Kit Cool Gun Garth]

From an earlier post I made.

[Pat Riot]

36 minutes ago, Father Kit Cool Gun Garth said:

From an earlier post I made.

Ditch 3 in the 8th circle of hell. 

[Eyesa Horg]

Tell em what they can do to themself.

[Pat Riot]

19 minutes ago, Eyesa Horg said:

Tell em what they can do to themself.

Perhaps that is how they ended up in hell in the first place. 

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

As a Young Marine, I knew a black kid who's last name was Negron. A white guy he knew called to him in the Chow Hall, "Hey Negron", only came out it sounding like "Niggron". A table of some other black Marines who didn't know him heard it and jumped up  yelling , "WHAT DID YOU CALL HIM?!?!" As I happened to be right there, I was able to explain it to them, but it could have gotten bad.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

Tiny uneducated minds attempting to make their mark on the world by screwing people better than themselves into changing to fit their twisted values and denigrating (OOOOPSY!!!) them while doing it.

[PaleWolf Brunelle, #2495L]

Did y'all know that using WHITE canvas on covered wagons in a parade celebrating the Oregon Trail migration is RASIZT!! 

 

 

The organizer of the event has ordered that the covers be "colored" (i.e. anything other than WHITE). 

[Finagler 6853 Life]

So if I order a White Russian I'm now a racist?

[Subdeacon Joe]

Some bakeries, usually associated with chain supermarkets, will censor, "Congratulations (name)  Summa Cum Laude!"  Or will just refuse the order.

 

Just as, in the Instagram thread where I found

someone asked "What does do. mean?"

Another, for an orange pudding receipt from the 1600s, the author made the comment that oranges were pretty much unknown in Europe until the Moors brought them to Spain.  In the comments someone asked "What are moors?"  I posted that they should look up the Umayyad Caliphate.  I did manage to refrain from mentioning the heraldic "moor" or "blackamoor," but OH! it was SO tempting!

 

 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

2 hours ago, PaleWolf Brunelle, #2495L said:

Did y'all know that using WHITE canvas on covered wagons in a parade celebrating the Oregon Trail migration is RASIZT!! 

 

 

The organizer of the event has ordered that the covers be "colored" (i.e. anything other than WHITE). 

BULLPUCKY! 

I'd boycott the whole shi--eree and tell everyone why1

[PaleWolf Brunelle, #2495L]

I passed on a suggestion to simply leave the canvas off (bare bows) rather than comply with such a ridiculous demonstration of idiocy.

[Alpo]

If you go to McDonald's and get some napkins, they're brown. Is this because McDonald's is gone woke and white is bad? No. It's because to make the napkins white they have to bleach them, and therefore they cost more.

 

Logic says to make the canvas white they have to bleach it. So if I was buying canvas to cover my wagon and I had a choice between light brown at 50 cents a yard and bright white at 62 cents a yard, I'd buy the brown stuff. Plus, if I put nice bright white covers on my wagon, the Indians can see me a couple of miles away.

 

I wasn't around when they did wagon trains, but I bet you they did not have white canvas covers.

[Blackwater 53393]

Most canvas is cotton duck and starts out kind of an “off white” in color.  
 

If I were one of those wagon owners, I’d refuse to participate and then park my wagon, white canvas and all, where everyone would have to pass by it and hang a sign on it explaining why!!  If I had time, I’d have some flyers printed and hand them out during the exhibition, accusing the organizers of racism!!

[PaleWolf Brunelle, #2495L]

1 hour ago, Alpo said:

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Logic says to make the canvas white they have to bleach it. So if I was buying canvas to cover my wagon and I had a choice between light brown at 50 cents a yard and bright white at 62 cents a yard, I'd buy the brown stuff. Plus, if I put nice bright white covers on my wagon, the Indians can see me a couple of miles away.

 

I wasn't around when they did wagon trains, but I bet you they did not have white canvas covers.

 

We're talking about the 1840's here.

Try an internet image search for "covered wagons", "covered wagon covers", and...while yer at it..."ship sails".

also...
Fur Trade tents
Canvas teepees
 

The majority of examples I found have been some shade of WHITE/off-white/light tan.

 

BTW...are you aware that, when left outside, fabric will fade/bleach out from exposure to the SUN??

 

[Subdeacon Joe]

1 hour ago, Alpo said:

I wasn't around when they did wagon trains, but I bet you they did not have white canvas covers.

 

 

OK, it wasn't a dazzling white like freshly bleached sheets but, in general, people looking at unbleached cotton canvas and asked the color will say "White."  Yeah, it's maybe an off-white, "Barely, almost-tan White" or something.

 

(Pointing at bolt of fabric) What color is that?  Uh...it's white.

The organizers of that event should be subjected to a bit of Socratic thinking"

"Of what were the covers of  wagons made?"

 

"Um....canvas, I guess."

"Of what is canvas made?"

"Um.....I think it's usually cotton."

 

"And, in general, what color is cotton grown in the United States?"

 

"White.  Isn't all cotton white?"
 

"Actually, no.  Some types, usually not for large commercial production, are light green, or a brownish red. But the huge bulk of it is, indeed, white.  So maybe you should drop your racism and allow these wagons to be shown as the ones that made the trek really were, rather than your revisionist pipe dream."

[PaleWolf Brunelle, #2495L]

OH NO!! 
I don't dare mention COTTON to that event organizer...it will probably trigger ancestral flashbacks!! 

[Blackwater 53393]

4 minutes ago, PaleWolf Brunelle, #2495L said:

OH NO!! 
I don't dare mention COTTON to that event organizer...it will probably trigger ancestral flashbacks!! 

 

GOTCHA’!!!  

[Black Angus McPherson]

6 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

Some bakeries, usually associated with chain supermarkets, will censor, "Congratulations (name)  Summa Cum Laude!"  Or will just refuse the order.

 

Just as, in the Instagram thread where I found

someone asked "What does do. mean?"

 

 

So, what DOES "do." mean?

 

 

 

[Abilene Slim SASS 81783]

4 minutes ago, Black Angus McPherson said:

 

So, what DOES "do." mean?

 

 

 

Do be do be do?

[Cypress Sun]

26 minutes ago, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said:

Do be do be do?

 

Not to be confused with Scooby Dooby Doo.

[PaleWolf Brunelle, #2495L]

37 minutes ago, Black Angus McPherson said:

 

So, what DOES "do." mean?

 

ditto

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

51 minutes ago, Abilene Slim SASS 81783 said:

Do be do be do?

 

22 minutes ago, Cypress Sun said:

 

Not to be confused with Scooby Dooby Doo.

Or Yabba Dabba Do.

[Subdeacon Joe]

1 hour ago, Black Angus McPherson said:

 

So, what DOES "do." mean?

 

 

 

 

In the context given did you really not know?  Ir are you just jerking my chain?

[Yul Lose]

Having spent quite a bit of time around cotton fields, growing it and dealing with growers and gins and related businesses and then working at a knitting mill that made un bleached cotton fabric up in New York years ago and then managing one of their sewing plants down in Arizona I can attest to the fact that cotton fabric is indeed white until it’s dyed. It’s not bleached white, it’s white through every step in the process until it’s dyed. I knew quite a few black people that worked growing it, cultivating it, irrigating it, harvesting it, ginning it etc.. and none of them were offended by its whiteness. I doubt that in the 1840’s they worried about what color their wagon covers were, they just wanted to get out to the west. Thinking that dying your wagon cover so the Indians wouldn’t see it is comical. The Oregon Trail was actually miles wide because there was so much livestock to feed, mules, horses, oxen, etc.. that the wagon trains widened the trail substantially just to keep their stock fed and I’m pretty sure the Indians knew all about it, after all they lived there.

[Alpo]

41 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

 

In the context given did you really not know?  Ir are you just jerking my chain?

I don't know about Angus, but I have never seen "do" used as an abbreviation for anything. So I didn't know.

 

People frequently guess at WHAT something means. And just as frequently they are wrong.

[Subdeacon Joe]

14 minutes ago, Alpo said:

I don't know about Angus, but I have never seen "do" used as an abbreviation for anything. So I didn't know.

 

People frequently guess at WHAT something means. And just as frequently they are wrong.

 

 

It was frequently used, as you see, in older documents. 

 

 

 

Sometimes, if there were many entries, there would be the original word, then two or three entries of "do." and then after that the ditto marks we are more familiar with today. 

Or, a mix of the word "ditto" and "do."



I think I first encountered it in 4th grade and just assumed that it was something everyone over the age of about 40 knows.

[Dusty Devil Dale]

10 hours ago, PaleWolf Brunelle, #2495L said:

Did y'all know that using WHITE canvas on covered wagons in a parade celebrating the Oregon Trail migration is RASIZT!! 

 

 

The organizer of the event has ordered that the covers be "colored" (i.e. anything other than WHITE). 

Folks could use more important things to worry about-and looking at the world today, those things might be coming sooner than we would like.  

[watab kid]

yup - first steps to communism is to ban words , rewrite history , turn folks against one another internally and then take control , impression those they think not in agreement or unfit , guess who goes to the gullags first ............................