Get rid of old technologies!!!!!!!!!! Blakeyrat is an idiot for even attempting to use this forum
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Shit, my credit union has had free online bill-pay for years. For no extra charge (USA anyway), they'll mail a check or send an EFT to companies or people.
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Yes, indeed, but this time the Whoosh-er is you, not the guy who answered Lorne. Hint: the answer is in a book written by Eric Blair.
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Yes, indeed, but this time the Whoosh-er is you, not the guy who answered Lorne.
By the standards that the community has employed in the past, you would be wrong. Building on the joke is typically seen as worthy of a whoosh. I would tell you to ask the Fox and Hedgehog, but they are on hiatus.
the answer is in a book written by Eric Blair.
Are you saying that I'm not in Oceania? IIRC correctly, we have always been allied with Eastasia against Eurasia … Wait, I just got a message from the Ministry of Truth informing me that I have that backwards. I should know better than to trust the newspaper from yesterday.
Eric Blair.
Did he ever actually use that name when publishing? I thought he only ever published under his nom de plume.
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By the standards that the community has employed in the past, you would be wrong. Building on the joke is typically seen as worthy of a whoosh. I would tell you to ask the Fox and Hedgehog, but they are on hiatus.
Often if I build on a joke, I leave something in the
sourceraw to indicate that. Some people just can't believe how good I am at telling a joke with a straight face.
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Maybe you should try your gay face.
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Maybe you should try your gay face.
I don't want to be the voice of political correctness but I think that "gay face" like "blackface" should be consigned to the dustbin of history.
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I don't want to be the voice of political correctness but I think that "gay face" like "blackface" should be consigned to the dustbin of history.
Some of our most important cultural artifacts and traditions come from Gay Face. It's a gesture of respect for an alien culture, not hate! Only liberal nazis would insist on erasing history to appease activists!! KEEP THE CONFEDERATE FLAG!!!!!
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Can you agree on binning the Gay Black Face, at least?
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No?
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Can you agree on binning the Gay Black Face, at least?
Skin color doesn't matter, given enough bukkake.
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"blackface" should be consigned to the dustbin of history.
What? And turn ☻ into ☹‽
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@RTapeLoadingError said:
"blackface" should be consigned to the dustbin of history.
What? And turn ☻ into ☹‽No, he's saying that people who do blackface should use the dustbin. That is, use makeup made from 100% recycled materials, instead of environmentally-unfriendly coal powder.
Filed under: When you blackface, do it green!
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@Lorne_Kates said:
No, he's saying that people who do blackface should use the dustbin.
There's a joke about someone making a painting of 3 English coal miners sitting naked on a bench. They're all black, but the one in the middle's dick is white. Someone viewing it at a gallery made a comment to the artist about how it symbolizes the oppression of the working man or something, and the artist replied, "no, the guy in the middle got a blowjob during his lunch break."
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And the painting of the coal miner with the white mouth is.....
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“Why would I have to read the laws? The important question is and was, ‘was money exchanged for favors?’ And the answer was NO, I never took money for sex. My clients were simply very generous about things like covering my rent, letting me use credit cards, making gifts, and other things along those lines. It’s an old dodge, but it still works. And, let’s face it, the loopholes are so old and well–worn that they’re practically traditions; nobody’s really interested in closing them.”
from ["Vamp"](http://www.crystalhall.org/Vamp.html) in the *Whateley Academy* web serialOTOH, in the same story:
“Vamp, what are you doing, using my laptop?” Goodthing demanded as she walked into our room.
“I’m using it to write a FAQ,” I responded, not looking up from my work. “At the rate that I’m running into people who demand to know what I’m doing here, I figure that this should save me at least a full day of explaining, in two weeks’ time.”
“Well, use your own laptop!”
“I don’t have one. I’m supposed to be issued one tomorrow.”
“Then use the one down in the library!”
“It’s busy. I asked Mrs. Horton if there was one available, and she told me to use yours.” I gave the sheet a critical look. “Do you think that I should list the part where I never actually had SEX with my clients, or is that TMI?”
“Oh yeah, put in that part about your not putting out for your clients, just using mutant powers to deceive them, in direct opposition to a host of state and federal laws. That will put you squarely in ‘Cruella v Pennsylvania’ territory. A signed confession to mutant grand larceny is absolutely the way to go on these things.”
“You keep trying to make it sound like I did something wrong.” I did not pout. Ladies do not pout. I merely posed my position artfully.
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What the fuck did I just read? Also, I hope for the sake of society that you are posting from a mental institution.
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Hey, I didn't write it, and besides, It Makes Sense In Context™. The Whateley Academy series is basically a web serial about super-powered teens who are at a special private school meant to teach them to control their powers, sort of like the Xavier School for Gifted Students (which it was originally based on) but much, much larger (about 600 students, versus the two dozen or so in the X-Men stories).
The two characters speaking here are Phase, one of the main characters, and Vamp, a mutant prostitute (she used illusions to make the johns think she'd had sex with them) who had turned state's evidence against a supervillain who had blackmailed her into joining his EEEEVIIIIL super-villain gang. She was sent to Whateley as witness protection, and ended up as Phase's new roommate, a situation that was rather... awkward, given that Phase was on a team who had been attacked by said supervillain on three separate occasions (OK, so the first time was sort of their fault, and each time they got into trouble for breaking the 'no superheroics by minors' rule, but he did keep going after them).
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Thanks to @Polygeekery for asking what this had to do with my last comment here, else I would have had to.
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I think I just turned over 2 pages at once.
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@ScholRLEA said:
It Makes Sense In Context™
No. No it doesn't.
Meh, in this case, 'context' would probably require reading most of the series, which I doubt would be interesting enough for you to bother with, and it still might not make sense to you even then, I suppose. My tastes are rather odd.
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A toxic hellstew feature from the 1990s that no-one should ever want or need.
