Re: a comment on Steak and Satin by Dovina	3-Nov-05/3:55 AM
re: "Your pattern is predictable". The original subject is resolved; our conclusion is you have no leg to stand on. Except in the course of resolving that, you've made like 10 other egregious social and grammatical blunders. Which are as follows: 1) People who are Republican are less likely than non-Republicans to own passports. Do you agree with that? Passport ownership isn't a definition of Republicanism, but it is related. Don't think I'm changing the subject. This is called an analogy. 2) No, you wouldn't. 3) To that I'd add, what is any discussion of race good for? 4) You didn't say the black race and white race are widely different. You said "the most different race from his [-=Dark_Angel=-'s]" and "about as different as it gets". Surely even you can make that distinction.
Re: ~PROM MEANS 2 ME~ by T. Jonathron Remp	3-Nov-05/3:33 AM
In all seriousness, what do you do to get slapped for asking a girl to a dance? My theory: Pull out your wang and just say, 'Huh? Huuhhh?'
Re: fumes by FreeFormFixation	3-Nov-05/3:29 AM
A cross between Nirvana's 'Polly' and Beck's 'Fumes'. Not as good as either.
Re: solving the world's problems through poetry by skaskowski	3-Nov-05/3:27 AM
The first two lines are good. The last three too.
Re: miss drunk muffet by calliope	3-Nov-05/3:27 AM
Great. I have no idea what you're talking about.
Re: a comment on I don't rhyme enough, eh? by Niphredil	2-Nov-05/2:13 AM
When black people try to imitate white Americans, they become transvestites. I do find that insulting.
Re: a comment on Racism by Dovina	2-Nov-05/2:09 AM
Hey, ace accusation. No, wait - that's exactly what I've been saying since the beginning. What I've also been saying: 1) People who worry about defining race or whether definitions of race are "any good" are racist; 2) Even you can agree a perfectly good definition of race is "something racists are racist against". -=Dark_Angel=-,P.I.: "I'm racist against Cockneys". Do the math. 3) What the fuck is ANY definition of race "good" for? YOU: to make it easier for people to categorize things. ZODIAC: Any arbitrary category (ie, Things That Hurt When You Bite Them; Things That Rhyme With Poo) makes it easier for people to categorize things. The real question is, So the fuck what? 4) All of this is moot because you haven't retracted 'the black race is the most different from the white race.'
Re: a comment on Racism by Dovina	1-Nov-05/12:53 PM
Who are you to say a "modern, contorted" definition isn't as good as a traditional one? (Suggestion: Mrs Dictionary!!!) My point (and -=Dark_Angel=-'s) from the beginning has been that defining races is useless. You're the only one caught with your pants down now.
Re: a comment on Racism by Dovina	1-Nov-05/12:46 PM
"Modern man" is an arbitrary distinction. So is "mutt". I agree with the rest. I just don't agree with making things easier.
Re: a comment on Racism by Dovina	1-Nov-05/12:45 PM
You're right. For all your insistence of dictionaries, you haven't actually defined race, dictionary definition or not. So let's get on the same page. This one: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=race Some highlights: "2. A group of people united or classified together on the basis of common history, nationality, or geographic distribution: the German race." "The biological aspect of race is described today not in observable physical features but rather in such genetic characteristics as blood groups and metabolic processes, and the groupings indicated by these factors seldom coincide very neatly with those put forward by earlier physical anthropologists." CONCLUSIONS: You basically have no leg to stand on saying Cockney, Muslim, and Jew aren't races except a traditional definition long ago superseded. Other mainstream thinking until radical politics got mixed in it includes (1) the white race is superior other races, (2) other races are subhuman animals, especially Jews (cf. the Aryan movement). I suppose you'll want to defend those traditional definitions now, too?
Re: a comment on Racism by Dovina	1-Nov-05/12:32 PM
What, in your opinion, is the wide difference between white and black races? (Hint: Black is the opposite of white!!!) Besides, by your definition, there are only three races. Are you really only saying 'the difference between the white and black races is wider than between the black and asian races or the white and asian races'? Or have you already forgotten your own defintion? Your traditional definition goes on to say that the traditional definition is completely flawed and widely disregarded by most people. Ace!!!
Re: a comment on The Gospel According to Zodiac by Dovina	1-Nov-05/12:28 PM
Granted. I guess we ran that conversation out. Record time, too.
Re: a comment on The Gospel According to Zodiac by Dovina	1-Nov-05/12:24 PM
"I thought of Square Pantsed Bobbers as TNT-clothed Muslims."
Re: a comment on Racism by Dovina	1-Nov-05/12:22 PM
You moron. Do you really believe the black race is the "most different" from the white race? On what basis? Skin color alone? That's the most preposterous of all the preposterous things you've said on this site. If you don't get it, I'm fucking pissed. PS-Do your fucking research. The genetic differences between, say, Pacific Islanders and whites are far greater than the genetic differences between blacks and whites. Dectuple that if you're talking about African- or Anglo-Americans, or any blacks in a former white colony. Dim, dim, dim, dim, dim, dim. PPS-The definitions I've posted are from the EXACT SAME DEFINTION you used above. Learn to fucking scroll down, honey. The definition of racism is from dictionary.com too.
Re: a comment on The Gospel According to Zodiac by Dovina	1-Nov-05/12:17 PM
Another bum metaphor. Muslims don't wear dynamite pants.
Re: a comment on The Gospel According to Zodiac by Dovina	1-Nov-05/12:16 PM
I'll readily concede that. And concede that people who feel (or whatever) the presence of something spiritual in the world have something I don't. Now if they'll just admit that I have something they don't...
Re: a comment on I don't rhyme enough, eh? by Niphredil	1-Nov-05/12:14 PM
Most people studying the matter (there are such people - I'm one of them) note that transvestites imitate a warped or ideal version of womanhood not actually found in most women. There has been a lot of discussion of the fact that transvestites reinforce gender stereotypes rather than subverting them by presenting themselves as 'ultrafeminine', with all that word's accompanying subtexts.
Re: a comment on Racism by Dovina	1-Nov-05/12:08 PM
PPPS- "race n. Citing this and other points - such as the fact that a person who is considered black in one society might be nonblack in another - many cultural anthropologists now consider race to be more a social or mental construct than an objective biological fact."
Re: a comment on Racism by Dovina	1-Nov-05/12:05 PM
What the hell do you mean by "the most different race from his"? This discussion cannot continue until you retract that. PS-Ian F. Haney Lopez, The Social Construction of Race: Some Observations on Illusion, Fabrication, and Choice, 29 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 1-62, 6-7, 11-17 (Winter, 1994) It is clear that even though race does not have a biological meaning, it does have a social meaning which has been legally constructed. PPS-Why don't you use a dictionary? racist adj 1: based on racial intolerance; "racist remarks" 2: discriminatory especially on the basis of race or religion [syn: antiblack, anti-Semitic, anti-Semite(a)] n : a person with a prejudiced belief that one race is superior to others [syn: racialist]
Re: The Gospel According to Zodiac by Dovina	1-Nov-05/11:38 AM
PS-The metaphor breaks down where you have God wearing pants. PPS-Also where you have Sponge Bob Square Pants' followers be "Square Pants Bobbers". That would make the followers of Jesus Christ King of Kings "King Kinged Christers".