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You, sir, are a master of changing the subject. I wish Rob was here to deal with this. He's usually so much better at this than I am...
In fact, I don't think I'm even going to bother. That question is so loaded, it's not worthy of an answer beyond "no". You can figure out the rest.
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I am asking you to state where you stand on what we've been talking about. You accused me of not knowing what you were talking about, and I'm offering you a chance to very clearly, state what you're talking about.
And you accuse me of changing the subject.
I'll spell it out for you: WHAT - ARE - YOUR - POSITIONS - ON - WHAT - WE'VE - BEEN - TALKING - ABOUT ?
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I'm actually yellow, but that's because, on weekends, I am drawn by Matt Groening.
Chris Howell was black. Tora's (I think), got some Asian blood in her (how's that for specific?), DT was a big hairy Italian-type, and Charles has a ginger beard.
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Jew by heritage, 1/97th Japanese, part Cherokee, Mainly Sicilian & German & Qu�becois.
And I think "cracker" is just plain stupid. I much prefer term "honky."
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I like Himbo. Of course, it's non-race specific, but degrading nonetheless...
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And 1/97th Japanese? Jeez, are we desperate to be cool or what?
"I know, rather than coming up with a personality, I'll pretend that my great x10 grandfather might have once seen a Japanese woman's breats. That way I can get really upset whenever the H-bomb is mentioned, and make girls think I'm sensitive and stuff. This will surely lead to lots of naked, sweaty sexual sessions."
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The ideas of cultural history and social memory are uncharted territories to Omega.
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I'm 1/64 Cherokee, or something like that. Mainly German, Italian, and Scandanavian on my dad's side, and a general Brittish/Irish conglomerate on my mom's.
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You ever watch a period movie set in New York about 150 years ago? All the stores have signs in them saying "Irish need not apply?"
WAAAAY back then, in the States (possibly Europe too, but I'm not 100% sure), the Irish were considered a "sub" race, much as Africans and Orientals were.
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Another one over in England was to have signs in bars saying "No dogs or Irish". Speaking as someone 100%(as far as I know) Irish, I don't feel offended by this, just vaguely amused.
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1/4th Russian. I only know that because my great-great-great grandfather is some guy named Alexander Puskin (which I'm told is some famous Russian guy).
It is interesting how a thread about gas turns into family heritgage.
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"Some famous guy"...heh...
Aleksandr Pushkin was only one of Russia's most beloved & wonderful poets of the 19th century.
While we're on famous folks in the family...I'm related to Einstein (like a 4- or 5-branch distant relation)& to Arthur Fleigenheimer, AKA Dutch Schultz.
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There, I think I've succeeded in bringing the two topics closer together.
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