its not even march and my lilies and tulips are already trying to come up. too early, man! too early!

weird winter, this year.

This one is as stupid as the "chink in the armor" brouhaha over there on ESPN.

Locals in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, reacted with amger

It made me pretty amgry.

Omahawg: weird winter, this year.

Yeah, in DFW, pecan trees dropped nuts in January.

Now I know that Weston-super-Nightmare is twinned with Hildesheim in Germany

I know some of that is in English, but I'll be damned if I can make any sense out of it.

it only takes one ball to be a gardner.

Huck And Molly Ziegler: This one is as stupid as the "chink in the armor" brouhaha over there on ESPN.

As stupid as the brouhaha over that is, even stupider is people calling for the 'retirement' of the phrase (new window).

Given that, I suggest we start making every-day terms into horribly offensive slang, see if we can't obliterate the language entirely.

Jeremy Lin?

Omahawg: its not even march and my lilies and tulips are already trying to come up. too early, man! too early!

weird winter, this year.

This. The soil temperature is nice and not as frozen as usual.

/Iris!!! Buddleja!!!

Wait, so now all something has to do is sort of RESEMBLE a symbol of a long defeated regime, and everyone goes all Chinese fire drill to spend money and rip up flower beds? Im thinking if you are living in fear of flower beds, perhaps you should get a grip.

sheesh.

/ Mallard Fillmore?

//obscure

Flour Beds?

ArcadianRefugee: Huck And Molly Ziegler: This one is as stupid as the "chink in the armor" brouhaha over there on ESPN.

As stupid as the brouhaha over that is, even stupider is people calling for the 'retirement' of the phrase (new window).

Given that, I suggest we start making every-day terms into horribly offensive slang, see if we can't obliterate the language entirely.

We could start out by using the word "slur." It already sounds vulgar, as in, "You stupid slur," or "I bet your daddy was a real slur-picker" or "Who raised you? A buncha slurs?"

Then we could move onto more sophisticated phrases, like "You're a real cashier's scanner, you know that?"

boobsrgood: Hipsters? Is this thread about hipsters yet? God, I hate hipsters. Don't you?

What about pants? Don't you hate pants?

miss diminutive: boobsrgood: Hipsters? Is this thread about hipsters yet? God, I hate hipsters. Don't you?

What about pants? Don't you hate pants?

Stupid Hitlers and their skinny plants. I hate those.

miss diminutive: boobsrgood: Hipsters? Is this thread about hipsters yet? God, I hate hipsters. Don't you?

What about pants? Don't you hate pants?

You know who else hated pants?

This one was done deliberately back in Germany during WWII

i hate illinois nazis

women shouldn't wear pants. or really much of anything.

pics?

I sound fat: Wait, so now all something has to do is sort of RESEMBLE a symbol of a long defeated regime, and everyone goes all Chinese fire drill to spend money and rip up flower beds? Im thinking if you are living in fear of flower beds, perhaps you should get a grip.

sheesh.

/ Mallard Fillmore?
Don't know if serious, but it didn't merely "resemble" a swastika.

DrGunsforHands:
Don't know if serious, but it didn't merely "resemble" a swastika.
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to be fair, I can identify at least 4 problems that would have sent the nazi graphic designers into conniption fits. Although I forget what the 4th was, so 3 problems.

never gonna give you up, etc (new window)

DrGunsforHands: I sound fat: Wait, so now all something has to do is sort of RESEMBLE a symbol of a long defeated regime, and everyone goes all Chinese fire drill to spend money and rip up flower beds? Im thinking if you are living in fear of flower beds, perhaps you should get a grip.

sheesh.

/ Mallard Fillmore?
Don't know if serious, but it didn't merely "resemble" a swastika.
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Its NOT a swastika... Its ALMOST like the gardner looked at what he had made, saw it, then made changes to AVOID it being a swastika

/you're gonna catch holy hell

ozzie_stu: This one was done deliberately back in Germany during WWII
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THE.........LARCH!

ArcadianRefugee: Huck And Molly Ziegler: This one is as stupid as the "chink in the armor" brouhaha over there on ESPN.

As stupid as the brouhaha over that is, even stupider is people calling for the 'retirement' of the phrase (new window).

Given that, I suggest we start making every-day terms into horribly offensive slang, see if we can't obliterate the language entirely.

A brouhaha over a pun that incorporates a racial slur is completely appropriate.

If ESPN ran a story about a Jewish para sailor and the article was called 'Flying Kikes' could you imagine the uproar? How about a story about the Nigerian swimming team getting a bronze in the Olympics, and the headline is 'Nigers can't swim'?

The problem is, Asians are still in the 'so completely dismissed and marginalized that no one even objects when we use racial slurs against them' stage of minority discrimination. The fact that the US is so completely shocked that a Chinese guy can even play basketball competitively is a testament to just how dismissed they are in American culture.

miss diminutive: What about pants? Don't you hate pants?

glassbottomboatcaptain: A brouhaha over a pun that incorporates a racial slur is completely appropriate.

"Italian boxer gets wopped"

This could be fun.

Enigmamf: DrGunsforHands:
Don't know if serious, but it didn't merely "resemble" a swastika.
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to be fair, I can identify at least 4 problems that would have sent the nazi graphic designers into conniption fits. Although I forget what the 4th was, so 3 problems.

#4: It wasn't planted with Wandering Jew?

Hitler?

/did i just godwin the thread, or did the last guy?

The Knights Who Say Ni?

Lone Stranger: glassbottomboatcaptain: A brouhaha over a pun that incorporates a racial slur is completely appropriate.

"Italian boxer gets wopped"

This could be fun.

"Japans hopes for the finals gets Nipped in the bud?"