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[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by Edward64

I'm picturing present day David Letterman.

Not entirely off the mark.

[claphamsa]

Originally Posted by Ben E Lou

Dear Sweet Newborn Baby Jesus,


Please let this be true.

This is a better military story than Saving Private Ryan.

Spielberg, get on this. pic.twitter.com/6CRsE1sJkx

— Jay Kirell (@JasonKirell) August 15, 2018

this is copypasta that goes around the internet every couple years.

[stevew]

When an SNL cast member gets fired and you aren't even sure who he was

[albionmoonlight]

This is some locked-in opening night shit for me:

http://www.vulture.com/2018/08/liam-...n-revenge.html

[stevew]

Bank of America should probably stop usting BofA as it's abbreviation

[Edward64]

I was having a discussion with my 14 year old daughter about something and mentioned "African American". She said its okay nowadays to just say "Black".

This got me wondering if I had it wrong so googled on it. Reddit boards seem to lean towards Black but many bring their global perspective.

Question - is there a strong preference by American Blacks/African Americans on which term to use?

[ISiddiqui]

I want to say that black is more accepted because of globalization - there are a lot more African immigrants these days and it seems that African-American is a different cultural group (black folk who were born and raised in the US).

[SackAttack]

Originally Posted by Edward64

I was having a discussion with my 14 year old daughter about something and mentioned "African American". She said its okay nowadays to just say "Black".

This got me wondering if I had it wrong so googled on it. Reddit boards seem to lean towards Black but many bring their global perspective.

Question - is there a strong preference by American Blacks/African Americans on which term to use?

I suspect it's a case of "read the room." The terms will be interchangeable for some groups; for others, using "African-American" as a blanket term for all black people within the U.S. amounts to 'erasure,' as they consider that term to refer specifically to the descendants of the American slave population.

And not every black person in this country is American, or even wants to be. So there may be times when neither term would be appropriate.

[digamma]

I think Esther "Mama" Lewis definitively answered this question almost 15 years ago. Search for yourself.

[BYU 14]

Originally Posted by Edward64

I was having a discussion with my 14 year old daughter about something and mentioned "African American". She said its okay nowadays to just say "Black".

This got me wondering if I had it wrong so googled on it. Reddit boards seem to lean towards Black but many bring their global perspective.

Question - is there a strong preference by American Blacks/African Americans on which term to use?

My wife prefers Black as it is a more generic term that she thinks is more inclusive (Her ethnic lineage is from the Caribbean.)

[Ksyrup]

So has this really come full circle? I can remember a time when African-American became the go-to PC term and calling someone black was equated to negro or worse.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by SackAttack

And not every black person in this country is American, or even wants to be.

This is the angle that has led to unintentional hilarity on more than one occasion, via bizarrely inaccurate phrases from news organizations & such.

[Ben E Lou]

Originally Posted by digamma

I think Esther "Mama" Lewis definitively answered this question almost 15 years ago. Search for yourself.

[Ben E Lou]

This has been an interesting evolution in the church I attend. For the most part, the under-50 educated white crowd has come to accept/believe that African-American is the safest term to use, and my church is heavily under-50 educated white, so that has been the norm there.

However, through some unexpected circumstances (i.e. there was no "church growth" or "outreach" strategy that made this happen..it just happened,) our church has pretty much become the go-to church in Greensboro for Christian refugees and immigrants from East Africa, a significant percentage of whom have now been here long enough to become American citizens. (It's not like there are a TON of those in GSO, but enough that we have a service in an East African language that meets on Sunday afternoons that is typically attended by 30-40 adults.) Of course, these true "African-Americans" are culturally vastly different from us regular ol' American black folks, so it has been (at least to me) fairly humorous to watch white people twist themselves into a pretzel to try to avoid saying "black" when talking about strategies for better outreach to black folks vs. Africans. I think "ex-Africans" (speaking of the refugees/immigrant population) has been my favorite one so far.


I've always preferred "black," partly because it's easier, and partly because I've known several white "African American" South Africans. Talk about confusing...

[Ben E Lou]

Originally Posted by digamma

I think Esther "Mama" Lewis definitively answered this question almost 15 years ago. Search for yourself.

Oh, and for the newbies 'round here...


Quote Of The Holidays... - Front Office Football Central

[Edward64]

Originally Posted by Ben E Lou

Oh, and for the newbies 'round here...


Quote Of The Holidays... - Front Office Football Central

I googled and didn't find anything after a couple pages so thanks for the link!

So is the consensus that most blacks won't mind being referred to as black?

[stevew]

Uber just spent like a fuckload of money to upgrade their app. Except every single interface change makes it exactly like lyft which is a terrible driver app. I don't think I'm some crazy oldster either but it's terrible. Why fix some thing not broken and emulate a vastly inferior competitor. It's like if the Yankees suddenly embraced the Padres way.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Goodgodamighty, just bought two Braves tickets for a promotional game this week & I think I've probably exceeded my tech limits for a while.

What a clusterfuck that process has become.
Bought from the team website / ticket account, delivered through a separate app (fuck that MLB Ballpark shit) that had to be "connected" to that ticket account, and my parking is on my separate & distinct Ticketmaster app.

When your process requires human intervention (cause password weirdness) it's time to rethink the process.

I'm exhausted with this crap & haven't even fought the fucking traffic yet.

And all I wanted were the damned promotional caps, I give less than one shit about Braves vs Rays on a 90 degree Wednesday night in August.

[Lathum]

I like going the speed limit on a one lane road just to annoy people

[NobodyHere]

I'm eating pretzels and they're making me thirsty.

[albionmoonlight]

I'm more amused than I should be by those viral pictures of someone doing something kind of weirdly awesome with the caption "LOL! Only in [State]!" And the state totally changes based on who is passing on the picture.

There's a nice kind of connection in that we all think that our state is the strangest one of all.

[Warhammer]

Originally Posted by NobodyHere

I'm eating pretzels and they're making me thirsty.

You’re not doing it right, these pretzels are making ME THIRSTY!

[bob]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

Goodgodamighty, just bought two Braves tickets for a promotional game this week & I think I've probably exceeded my tech limits for a while.

What a clusterfuck that process has become.
Bought from the team website / ticket account, delivered through a separate app (fuck that MLB Ballpark shit) that had to be "connected" to that ticket account, and my parking is on my separate & distinct Ticketmaster app.

When your process requires human intervention (cause password weirdness) it's time to rethink the process.

I'm exhausted with this crap & haven't even fought the fucking traffic yet.

And all I wanted were the damned promotional caps, I give less than one shit about Braves vs Rays on a 90 degree Wednesday night in August.

That is a pretty cool hat - did they do a GT night?

[ISiddiqui]

Tickets are basically going all digital at this point. Atlanta United matches don't issue paper. Season Ticket holders get a card you tap to the terminals and if you buy a ticket, you can only have it through ticketmaster, which you use to pull up the QR code that you scan.

Don't have any idea how parking works, so I don't drive to games.

[PilotMan]

The story behind the girl who was ringing doorbells in Texas has a very disturbing story now that they have identified her. ugh.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by bob

That is a pretty cool hat - did they do a GT night?

If they did I didn't see it. All SEC schools that I saw (while figuring out how to get in on this deal). UGA, UT, SC, Ole Miss, State, Bama (I think) and Auburn.

The hats are solid, all cloth, no snapback shit, embroidered logos, they're legit.

Worth ... lemme see, $80ish in tickets, another $23 to park, I guess $30ish in food ... worth $133 for two hats? Ehhhhhh probably not but, screw it, there sure won't be too many of those in Oxford so good for the kid.

[Coffee Warlord]

I just ordered Red Lobster delivery through GrubHub. This could be interesting.

edit: Shockingly, it was warm and not horribly overcooked. I'm impressed.

[stevew]

Yeah. I deliver Chipotle and B-Dubs and Applebees(among others) all day long for DoorDash. Food generally pays way better than people in your car. I basically only do surge trips on UberX/Lyft now.

[stevew]

GribHub signups are full in my market so I haven't bothered to pick another area. Uber Eats pays the worst out of the delivery services, I only do that if I'm chasing a bonus or it's extremely convenient.

[ColtCrazy]

We did Grubhub while on our trip in Philadelphia, and it worked great. On a side note, we used OpenTable while in Chicago. Every place we were hitting had an hour wait. Used OpenTable and walked right in with one waiting for us...maybe 15 minutes ahead of time.

[Logan]

Newspapers and websites that show MLB/NFL standings side by side...every single one will display the East on the left, Central in the middle, and West on the right. If we're including the South for the NFL, it will be in that second or third spot but the East/West display will be the same. TV broadcasts show the same alignment when displaying the playoff picture...division leaders, wildcards, contenders...

Why the hell would they not show West on the left and East on the right?

[SackAttack]

Originally Posted by Logan

Newspapers and websites that show MLB/NFL standings side by side...every single one will display the East on the left, Central in the middle, and West on the right. If we're including the South for the NFL, it will be in that second or third spot but the East/West display will be the same. TV broadcasts show the same alignment when displaying the playoff picture...division leaders, wildcards, contenders...

Why the hell would they not show West on the left and East on the right?

Demographics, at least for websites.

From a population standpoint, most of the country lives East of the Mississippi, so when they're looking up their FOOBAW standings, the teams they're interested in are likely to be in the Eastern or Central divisions.

Quicker you can hook 'em with what they're looking for, the quicker you can try to entice them to stay to look at other things.

[BishopMVP]

Is there a large segment of people who really care how their meat is sliced? I feel like if you need it particularly thinly or thickly sliced it should be on you to tell the person, instead of having the deli person slice one off, hold it out to me and ask if that's ok.

Originally Posted by albionmoonlight

I'm more amused than I should be by those viral pictures of someone doing something kind of weirdly awesome with the caption "LOL! Only in [State]!" And the state totally changes based on who is passing on the picture.

There's a nice kind of connection in that we all think that our state is the strangest one of all.

I thought we all agreed Florida was the weirdest?

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

When your process requires human intervention (cause password weirdness) it's time to rethink the process.

Just the passwords they require get me these days. I have separate and tough passwords for my bank & my main Google account... anything else I want to use the same basic password, and asking me to use 10+ characters with an uppercase letter, a lowercase letter, a number, and a special character for something I don't use daily is basically just saying you want me to go through the hassle of a password reset every time I want to log in.

Originally Posted by Logan

Newspapers and websites that show MLB/NFL standings side by side...every single one will display the East on the left, Central in the middle, and West on the right. If we're including the South for the NFL, it will be in that second or third spot but the East/West display will be the same. TV broadcasts show the same alignment when displaying the playoff picture...division leaders, wildcards, contenders...

Why the hell would they not show West on the left and East on the right?

Because Rupert Murdoch and the rest of the secret cabal of newspapermen and TV owners are from Australia and have the South Pole at the top of their maps. Your Northern Hemisphere bias is showing.

[Coffee Warlord]

Airline prices are so bizarre. We were looking at a long delayed trip to Rome for my 40th birthday next year.

We could fly...
Business Class from Denver to Rome ~ $4,800.

Or...
Business Class from Denver to London - $2,300. Spend a couple nights in London. Spend another $300 or less for a round trip flight from London to Rome. Spend the bulk of the trip there. Fly back to London, spend one or two more nights there, fly home.

It's literally over a thousand dollars cheaper, closer to two grand, in airfare to visit both Britain and Italy in one trip than it is to visit one.

edit: And yes. If we're going to EU for the big 40, we're going big and flying business.

[henry296]

We drove to Canada to save over 500 a ticket to fly to Hawaii and both flights connected through Chicago. Also was cheaper to book a separate inner island flight than have one itinerary.

[molson]

I was playing around with flights last week, found I could fly almost anywhere in the world (economy), THAT DAY from Boise for under $900 (The Middle East, Africa, Eastern Europe), but it would take $1,500 to get to London.

[PilotMan]

I am seriously thankful for electricity and a working sump pump today. We have been getting hammered with rain for 2 days now. Our basement flooded last year and I can't get a good night's sleep when it's storming anymore.

As I sit here, I'm listening to the sump pump empty the pit at least twice a minute.

[Lathum]

Trying to learn Fortnite is about as humbling an experience you can have as a 43 year old man.

And how is there not a Fortnite thread?

[Ksyrup]

As a business, if you're going to join the modern world and offer services you can sign up for online (in this case, appointments), you should damn well make sure you implement the process right.

So, when I make an appointment for new tires, the appointment is received and accepted via email confirmation, and I show up at your store only to be told that the person who does appointments never actually opened the appointment to see that I wanted new tires (at a tire store - who knew?!) so they never ordered them, you can kindly F the F off.

[Lathum]

If my kids have 15 minutes to eat and get ready for school they will take 14, if they have 45 they will take 44. It is maddening.

[stevew]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

As a business, if you're going to join the modern world and offer services you can sign up for online (in this case, appointments), you should damn well make sure you implement the process right.

So, when I make an appointment for new tires, the appointment is received and accepted via email confirmation, and I show up at your store only to be told that the person who does appointments never actually opened the appointment to see that I wanted new tires (at a tire store - who knew?!) so they never ordered them, you can kindly F the F off.

I'm assuming you are spending $1000 or more on tires too, or in that ballpark. Crazy.

[Ksyrup]

$1250, yes.

[miami_fan]

The phenomenon of putting a picture/video of a person on Twitter and have the people on Twitter be able to identify not only who that person is AND where they work is both amazing and terrifying to me.

[molson]

Is there any scientific validity to my theory that 4-5 light beers with friends will knock out a cold you've been fighting?

[NobodyHere]

I don't think even a cold can stand light beers

[molson]

Originally Posted by NobodyHere

I don't think even a cold can stand light beers

In my head, good beer would be bad for my cold, and light beer would help it.....This may have just been internal justification to drink at the random Cheap Trick concert at a golf course in my neighborhood tonight, but I think I knocked out the cold.

[stevew]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

$1250, yes.

So they ate something like 300-600$+ in profit cause someone couldn't be fucked to check an email. Nice.

[NobodyHere]

I'm already sick of political ads on TV. I already get the impression that the two candidates for Ohio governor are probably the two worst people to ever walk the Earth.

[Ksyrup]

We've been subjected to Andy Barr/Amy McGrath commercials around Lexington for months. Whether it's the scumbag, rip your opponent apart crap or the sickeningly sweet self-portrayal crap, I can't stomach any of it. I don't know how anyone can get into politics.

[Shkspr]

Note to my dentist: if my thoughts during sedation turn to the dental scene from Marathon Man, you may have underestimated the amount of novocaine necessary for the procedure.