scoobdog

Seriously, why are you so tedious?

Another one of these thread, eh? Guess its about time for you to move on to the next shitty entry level job.

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Hey now. It's set in San Franfreako, so I just assumed its all true. Lol.

If you're going to bogart a joke, at least know what you're bogarting. Dumbass.

Please tell me he doesn't believe in a time travelling microwave....

No, you weren't.

Yeah, everyone thinks they're decently popular in high school,

Awesome!

Soul crushingly sad.

She was screaming "Not my asshole!"?. But you didn't listen, did you?.

I'll bet your mom doesn't sleep because of you.

A lobster tank would be kind of cool in the basement, but I could never eat any of them.

....lobsters?

I love it when cowfucker takes shots at people who graduate from real universities.

I was being a smart ass, but the larger point is if you're having a good time, the theme is secondary to being with people you enjoy, and if the theme interferes with you having a good time, you probably don't want to be at that party. There really isn't anything wrong with party themes, especially if the party host is the one that has a great time planning the party. I've always disliked the idea of having party guests show in costume because it requires work and, even though the host doesn't intend for it, it opens up those who can't find/afford a suitable costume or don't have the time to prepare one. I know it's being stickler (and it's unrealistic for a well meaning host to account for his or her party guests' individual neurosis) , but that's the kind of added complication that costume parties tend to have.

Seeing as theme birthday parties are bougie as fuck anyway, I don't really see the problem. It's kind of a bad sign that you have to escape reality to that degree just to celebrate someone's birthday.

That's not even counting another related but not directly applicable issue to caffeine. If you need 400mg of caffeine a day, particularly in the morning, then there is significant chance that you're not getting sufficient sleep and incurring health issues as a result.

I don't think there are hard rules for when it can or can't be used, but it's worth noting that bans are almost universally applicable when it comes to applying broad regional descriptors to specific ethnic applications. So, calling a Persian rug "oriental" would also be problematic, particularly if one were to ask such a thing of a dealer who sells antique rugs. Furthermore, applying any kind of regional marker, even one that is specific, can either be offensive or not depending on the individual. Because the term "oriental" is not derived from an specifically racist origin, it's hard to say that the use of the word is racist outside of a specific context that entails its own racism (such as say, the use of "oriental" in a WWII era depiction of Japanese in comics).

Don't do it, Rogue. She's going to accidentally shame him.

Lol. You know, I was probing a book fair this past weekend and I ended up buying a book about orientalism in the west. I plan on giving a full report once I've had a chance to read it. Since the word "orient" is specifically a cardinal direction in Latin, it's a little hard to suggest that the term is offensive without it being used as an adjunct modification to cultural or ethnic entities. The eastern trade route (the silk road as it were) is heavily romanticized, and that romantic ideal can be offensive in the sense that it the process of idealizing the passage to the east often came at the expense of occlusion outside of the very limited Eurocentric perspective. However, with the advent of globalism, this romantic ideal is one that's often adopted by the same people it formerly romanticized, as evident by the strong push by Chinese collectors paying premiums for Imerperial relics that were originally intended for export to the West. Really, since the opening of China to the West in the '70s, the concept of orientalism has changed to include the repatriation of this image.

I know that. He's pretending to talk intelligently and failing at it.

I thought your white boy tinderonis bored you to sleep each night.

Shut up, Scoob.

But, that isn't Kenny's point. He's saying that the lack of cardinal markers in the name is indication of the Kim Dynasty seeing the South as part of their domain or as them being the "one true" Korea, which is patently false. His own link even pointed out that Kim Il-Sung had an entirely different name for the eventual unified state. The difference of words for "Korea" might have a regional relevance, but it's not an indication that the use of one refutes the use of the other, especially in the absence of any explicit ethnic disparitiy.