I’m sure this will stir some debate but like ever have a time where someone trying to be politically correct just ends up being wrong????
We were reading “Heart of Darkness” in my senior year AP English class, and someone referred to a group of people in the book as “African-Americans”. My (old, eccentric white guy) English teacher basically lost his mind and started screaming, “THEY’RE SOUTH AFRICANS WHO ARE BLACK, URCHIN WEED!”
my (English) ex would refer to black people as African-Americans bcs she did American Studies at uni. hilarious confusion ensued.
This is pretty ridiculous. But I’m pretty sure that The Heart of Darkness is set in the Congo.
You are correct - it’s been the better part of a decade since I read it. D:
#olds
Someone once referred to my best friend’s mum as African American.
This occurred in New Zealand.
The guy was not an American immigrant or tourist.
My best friend’s mum is Jamaican and was raised in England with an accent that very, very clearly comes from somewhere in England.
He had the best of intentions, really.
But come on.
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amazing news! i was wondering if we’d be seeing this soon. looks like a yes :)
“Cain said to the Lord, ‘My punishment is too great to bear! Behold, You have driven me this day from the face of the ground; and from Your face I will be hidden, and I will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.’But the Lord said to him, ‘Not so; anyone who kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over.’ Then the Lord put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him.” [Genesis 4:13-15]
GODDAMNIT CHI
joss
i love the fuck out of you, joss
i love you so much okay
but
joss
joss it’s time for you to have two boys kiss
joss
joss seriously
joss you have had lesbians before
joss you support the gay community and spike and angel had sex once it’s canon
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THE BEST TRAIN CONVERSATION I HAVE EVER OVERHEARD
Man 1: But I'm not Gay!
Man 2: Yeah, but if you WERE. Thor or Loki?
Man 1: but I'm not!
Man 2: IRRELEVANT! THOR OR LOKI!
Man 1: honestly?
Man 2: THOR OR LOKI!
Man 1: probably Iron Man.
Man 2: SERIOUSLY? TONY STARK?
Man 1: yeah. I'd love to be Robet Downey Jr's bitch. God, that man....
Man 2: ooh I know what you mean. how would he proceed?
Man 1: well we'd be having dinner and he'd have his hand on my leg and he'd whisper in my ear and tell me exactly what he was going to do to me.
Man 2: oh yeah..
Man 1: and then his hand'd go further to the top of my leg and start grasping my-
Random Woman: EXCUSE ME THERE ARE CHILDREN ON THIS TRAIN.
*awkward silence*
Man 2: ...and you said you werent gay!
