DavidVincent: [cache.io9.com image 526x314]

"Anybody see where I left my shoes?"

No, No I corrected that for you. More like this:

"REMOVE BEFORE FLIGHT"
Seriously?

tukatz: DROxINxTHExWIND: socoloco: The man ain't holding you back if you are going batshiat crazy over farking shoes. You are holding yourself back.


Give me an example of someoone who is buying the shoes and saying that the man is keeping them down. Oh, you just made some shiat up? Congrats.



In a very twisted way, he's got a valid point. The majority of people rushing the shoe stores, starting mob fights and trying to steal these shoes appear to be young black males from poor parts of town. If they are gripping $200-$300 cash for a pair of "got to have" shoes, they shouldn't be needing govt. assistance, unemployment, etc. Yet (at least in our area) this is exactly the case. The people with jobs and bills to pay aren't camping out in the mall parking lot for days....


[Citation Needed]

Funny that no one assumes that the geeks sitting outside to get iPhones can't afford to have them. But, you see a bunch of black people caught up in consumerism and its the root of all their problems. As I recall, the economy was in the shiatter when the last iPhone came out. Unemployment is high as giraffe pussy. Where did the white people get the money to purchase those phones? Do you know who has more poeple on welfare than any other race in America?

Hint: It's not black people

So, I'm curious to know why the stereotype only goes one way?

More than approves.

scanman61: spentmiles: My family was really rich when I was growing up, so it wasn't a big deal for me to have Nike Pumps, the newest Jordan's, some imported flashy Converse.

Did they allow you to run to the gym in 26 minutes?

Get in line.

"So, I'm curious to know why the stereotype only goes one way?"

Because white people waiting for iPhones - whether or not they can afford them - aren't stabbing each other or complete strangers when iPhones are sold out.

I....disapprove.

They_ugly.

DROxINxTHExWIND: tukatz: DROxINxTHExWIND: socoloco: The man ain't holding you back if you are going batshiat crazy over farking shoes. You are holding yourself back.


Give me an example of someoone who is buying the shoes and saying that the man is keeping them down. Oh, you just made some shiat up? Congrats.



In a very twisted way, he's got a valid point. The majority of people rushing the shoe stores, starting mob fights and trying to steal these shoes appear to be young black males from poor parts of town. If they are gripping $200-$300 cash for a pair of "got to have" shoes, they shouldn't be needing govt. assistance, unemployment, etc. Yet (at least in our area) this is exactly the case. The people with jobs and bills to pay aren't camping out in the mall parking lot for days....


[Citation Needed]

Funny that no one assumes that the geeks sitting outside to get iPhones can't afford to have them. But, you see a bunch of black people caught up in consumerism and its the root of all their problems. As I recall, the economy was in the shiatter when the last iPhone came out. Unemployment is high as giraffe pussy. Where did the white people get the money to purchase those phones? Do you know who has more poeple on welfare than any other race in America?

Hint: It's not black people

So, I'm curious to know why the stereotype only goes one way?

Also, there may be more white people on welfare than black folks, but how many more white people are there than black people? And, I don't think that Cletus and his kin are going to the Apple store for the latest gadget with their welfare money in hand, but I am sure as hell sure that Tyrone, Tyrell, Tyvek, Tylenol, and L'Kresha are going to snag a pair of shiatty "Foamposites", and they'll stab a nubian if they have to to get it.

Stinkyy: In before pics of Stan's dad.

I heard the Marty McFly sneakers (in a follow-up segment on ABC) were ugly but at 15 pair to be auctioned, I could probably instead use that money at the Bunny Ranch and end up a lot lighter than if I'd bought any of these foam Jordans.

/Teats

Someone had a pair of the Marty McFly ones on Pawnstars and was trying to sell them of course they kept them after they got really lowballed

emarche: "So, I'm curious to know why the stereotype only goes one way?"

Because white people waiting for iPhones - whether or not they can afford them - aren't stabbing each other or complete strangers when iPhones are sold out.

Oooh, so if someone gets stabbed for some shoes then it means most black people can't afford to buy then? NOW I follow your logic. *slaps forehead* However, I seem to remember white people getting pretty raunchy on Black Friday. Isolated incidents?

No, that's - your - logic.

See what I did there?

whosits_112:
Also, there may be more white people on welfare than black folks, but how many more white people are there than black people? And, I don't think that Cletus and his kin are going to the Apple store for the latest gadget with their welfare money in hand, but I am sure as hell sure that Tyrone, Tyrell, Tyvek, Tylenol, and L'Kresha are going to snag a pair of shiatty "Foamposites", and they'll stab a nubian if they have to to get it.



OOoooh, so its alright that there are more white people on welfare. Your issue isn't with welfare, its with black people receiving welfare. Got it. Also, I see that this should all be based on what YOU think "Cletus" and Tyvek are doing and it has no basis in fact or reality.

/You'll get over it

Negroes *shaking head*

SuburbanCowboy: Those things make Crocs look stylish.

Know how I know you know nothing about crocs?

I'm going to write an album that will lead to the blacks rising up and attacking the whites. Helter Skelter baby! Then I will rule the burning remains! It's working already!

spent

You lost this one already, please move along to another thread.

DROxINxTHExWIND: tukatz: DROxINxTHExWIND: socoloco: The man ain't holding you back if you are going batshiat crazy over farking shoes. You are holding yourself back.


Give me an example of someoone who is buying the shoes and saying that the man is keeping them down. Oh, you just made some shiat up? Congrats.



In a very twisted way, he's got a valid point. The majority of people rushing the shoe stores, starting mob fights and trying to steal these shoes appear to be young black males from poor parts of town. If they are gripping $200-$300 cash for a pair of "got to have" shoes, they shouldn't be needing govt. assistance, unemployment, etc. Yet (at least in our area) this is exactly the case. The people with jobs and bills to pay aren't camping out in the mall parking lot for days....


[Citation Needed]

Funny that no one assumes that the geeks sitting outside to get iPhones can't afford to have them. But, you see a bunch of black people caught up in consumerism and its the root of all their problems. As I recall, the economy was in the shiatter when the last iPhone came out. Unemployment is high as giraffe pussy. Where did the white people get the money to purchase those phones? Do you know who has more poeple on welfare than any other race in America?

Hint: It's not black people

So, I'm curious to know why the stereotype only goes one way?

Well, there's a reason white people are called the majority. I'd imagine you'd have better luck going with percentages or per capita (unless it goes against your point, then I wouldn't bring it up at all).

Also doesn't or at least didn't the iPhone require signing a 2-year-contract? Typically those involve a credit check, which you're unlikely to pass without some form of steady employment (or being on someone's plan who does).

And I'll take 'raunchy' over 'stabby' any day of the week. Thanks,

DROxINxTHExWIND: whosits_112:
Also, there may be more white people on welfare than black folks, but how many more white people are there than black people? And, I don't think that Cletus and his kin are going to the Apple store for the latest gadget with their welfare money in hand, but I am sure as hell sure that Tyrone, Tyrell, Tyvek, Tylenol, and L'Kresha are going to snag a pair of shiatty "Foamposites", and they'll stab a nubian if they have to to get it.



OOoooh, so its alright that there are more white people on welfare. Your issue isn't with welfare, its with black people receiving welfare. Got it. Also, I see that this should all be based on what YOU think "Cletus" and Tyvek are doing and it has no basis in fact or reality.

/You'll get over it

I have no qualms with anyone on welfare. Be they black, white, asian, or hispanic. I would be just as pissed if they were talking about the latest Hillbilly fashion that had the inbred farkers lined up around the block. The Urban fashion is retarded. The 4XXXL T-shirts with Scarface or a Thugged Out Bugs Bunny, the pants that sag to the ankles, and the farkugly shoes at $200 a pop, it's just insane. Anyone who would adopt that fashion is insane. It's not cool, no matter what race is doing it. When the new Jordans came out here in Houston, malls had lines around the block, and most of them were black! I know it may be biased, BUT WHEN YOU SEE THE NEWS and you don't see one white person in the crowd, but you see everyone in line is a thug, then what do you expect? I don't care if a single mom of 3 is raising her kids and she is on welfare. I do have a problem if they use that money to perpetuate the rap/urban stereotype and promote ignorance over education. That's my problem. And I feel the exact same way for the hispanics and whites who do the same stupid shiat. When they line up around the block for something retarded, I will be in that thread and call them ignorant too.

SearchN: spent

You lost this one already, please move along to another thread.

up yours honkey.

"Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it."

/you are reading this post in Leonard Nimoy's voice

Person:
Well, there's a reason white people are called the majority. I'd imagine you'd have better luck going with percentages or per capita (unless it goes against your point, then I wouldn't bring it up at all).

Also doesn't or at least didn't the iPhone require signing a 2-year-contract? Typically those involve a credit check, which you're unlikely to pass without some form of steady employment (or being on someone's plan who does).


Correction. I imagine YOU'D have better luck justifying your bigotry with a per capita argument. If your issue is that "Those peope are taking my money" you wouldn't give a shiat what percentage of those people are black or white.

spentmiles: SearchN: spent

You lost this one already, please move along to another thread.

up yours honkey.

Come now, I enjoy the random trolls you roll out. This one is gone for you. Of course, if you want to be pissed, fine. All though, if you email me I can add you to my list. You might enjoy it.

I eagerly await the shootings.

Walker: All they will do is get you robbed

I never got this. I mean... how do you pick victims? Are you keeping tabs on people's shoe sizes? What if they don't fit?

Silly! If you steal a pair that doesn't fit, you just toss them over a nearby telephone wire.

IT'S THAT EASY!

stampylives: Walker: All they will do is get you robbed

I never got this. I mean... how do you pick victims? Are you keeping tabs on people's shoe sizes? What if they don't fit?

Industry standard is a size 9. Most men will fall into a size 10. Mathematically speaking, if you go after someone for a pair of shoes that will be the optimum size range. Usually that type falls between someone 5'6 and up to 6'2.

/Hate the fact that I know that.

stampylives: Walker: All they will do is get you robbed

I never got this. I mean... how do you pick victims? Are you keeping tabs on people's shoe sizes? What if they don't fit?

probably just sell them to someone who does fit into them, kinda like Cinderella.

whosits_112:
I have no qualms with anyone on welfare. Be they black, white, asian, or hispanic. I would be just as pissed if they were talking about the latest Hillbilly fashion that had the inbred farkers lined up around the block. The Urban fashion is retarded. The 4XXXL T-shirts with Scarface or a Thugged Out Bugs Bunny, the pants that sag to the ankles, and the farkugly shoes at $200 a pop, it's just insane. Anyone who would adopt that fashion is insane. It's not cool, no matter what race is doing it. When the new Jordans came out here in Houston, malls had lines around the block, and most of them were black! I know it may be biased, BUT WHEN YOU SEE THE NEWS and you don't see one white person in the crowd, but you see everyone in line is a thug, then what do you expect? I don't care if a single mom of 3 is raising her kids and she is on welfare. I do have a problem if they use that money to perpetuate the rap/urban stereotype and promote ignorance over education. That's my problem. And I feel the exact same way for the hispanics and whites who do the same stupid shiat. When they line up around the block for something retarded, I will be in that thread and call them ignorant too.


Ignorance is basing your perception of an entire race of people on some shiat that you saw on television 10 years ago. Who the fark wears 4 anything anymore? You don't even have your stereotypes up to date. Look, you're free to call black people whatever you want to from the comfort and security of your home PC. You can hate the hip-hop generation and act like its the source of everything that ails you and none of it will change a thing. But take a look at yourself in the mirror. Do you see what you've become? You're now the parents on "Dirty Dancing" who wanted to stop Bunny from dancing. You've become what you once despised. You're an old fuddy-duddy.

DROxINxTHExWIND: Who the fark wears 4 anything anymore? You don't even have your stereotypes up to date

Maybe the black population in Hampton Roads is behind the times, but I still see guys wearing huge shirts on a regular basis...

Nike should come out with a Santorum Foam shoe for the election.

This thread reminds me of a question I always wonder:
I live near a neighborhood with a high concentration of African Americans. Based on what I've seen while biking, there's three types of dress for males

1) Older dudes who just wear like a polo and jeans.
2) Baggy shirt baggy pants people
3) Super hipster skinny jeans/converse+cap

So my question is, do groups 2 and 3 hang out with each other?

DROxINxTHExWIND: whosits_112:
I have no qualms with anyone on welfare. Be they black, white, asian, or hispanic. I would be just as pissed if they were talking about the latest Hillbilly fashion that had the inbred farkers lined up around the block. The Urban fashion is retarded. The 4XXXL T-shirts with Scarface or a Thugged Out Bugs Bunny, the pants that sag to the ankles, and the farkugly shoes at $200 a pop, it's just insane. Anyone who would adopt that fashion is insane. It's not cool, no matter what race is doing it. When the new Jordans came out here in Houston, malls had lines around the block, and most of them were black! I know it may be biased, BUT WHEN YOU SEE THE NEWS and you don't see one white person in the crowd, but you see everyone in line is a thug, then what do you expect? I don't care if a single mom of 3 is raising her kids and she is on welfare. I do have a problem if they use that money to perpetuate the rap/urban stereotype and promote ignorance over education. That's my problem. And I feel the exact same way for the hispanics and whites who do the same stupid shiat. When they line up around the block for something retarded, I will be in that thread and call them ignorant too.


Ignorance is basing your perception of an entire race of people on some shiat that you saw on television 10 years ago. Who the fark wears 4 anything anymore? You don't even have your stereotypes up to date. Look, you're free to call black people whatever you want to from the comfort and security of your home PC. You can hate the hip-hop generation and act like its the source of everything that ails you and none of it will change a thing. But take a look at yourself in the mirror. Do you see what you've become? You're now the parents on "Dirty Dancing" who wanted to stop Bunny from dancing. You've become what you once despised. You're an old fuddy-duddy.

I'm freakin' thirty! And it's what I see here in Houston! I don't base an entire group of people by what they wear, but Goddamn it seems that the ignorant thugs outnumber the hardworking family type black folks here in Houston 5-to-1. When in the mall or driving down the street, I see the thugs in their flat brimmed sports hat with the sticker still on it, or the jeans several sizes too big that they have to hold up, the super large shirts that hang to the knees. I'm not saying all black folks are like that. Hell, I know they aren't all like that. But it's disturbing that the thug lifestyle seems to be what's "hip" and "cool", when it is nothing of the sort. And maybe I have to spell it out, but ignorance in any group within any race of people is sickening. Whites, blacks, asians, hispanics, etc. all have their inner groups that display ignorance and stupidity.

Mayhem of the Black Underclass:

Man I don't want to get into this heavy race relationd shiat right now, you're all gonna bring my weekend way down man. Not cool. So instead. I'ma call you half-dorkie. Cool?


Please. I have way more than one drop of dorkie in me, thus I am a straight up dorkie.

/come from a long line of dorkies

whosits_112: And it's what I see here in Houston

he does have a point DROxINxTHExWIND usually the south is about a decade behind along with eastern Europe.

Headso: whosits_112: And it's what I see here in Houston

he does have a point DROxINxTHExWIND usually the south is about a decade behind along with eastern Europe.

Yeah, when they said Hampton Roads and Houston, I kinda fell back. But, their point remains idiotic. What you all don't seem to grasp is WHY it seems like "the ignorant thugs outnumber the hardworking family type black folks here in Houston 5-to-1", to you.

Know how it is when you purchase a car and suddenly you see that same kind of car every time you turn around? Know how it gets to the point where it feels like everyone ran out and bought the same car after you got it? Well, we all know that the number of cars like yours didn't really increase. You just started paying MORE ATTENTION. See, for you all, white "thugs" are like a car you've never purchased. They fade into the background. When you hear about a group of white people acting like assholes, you just think about how those guys are assholes. But when the perps are black?? WHOA. That's JUST like you expected a criminal to look. Every incident that you have the pleasure of hearing about involving a black person is a validation of your world view. So, you memorize them, copy them, and paste them to websites so that you can prove to all of us that black people are inferior to your broke ass.


/I disagree

Headso:

Not directed at you.

pute kisses like a man: came here to see a pic of the shows. was disappointed.

GISed for the shoes, and here y'all go:

[www.observer.com image 400x296]

/ perhaps the ugliest shoes I've ever seen.

I actually like them, the galaxy design is pretty cool, the other models, not so much. That said I would never buy them, they are way too flashy. When I was in Jr. High though, I would have been very disappointed my parents wouldn't give me $220 for a pair of shoes.

DROxINxTHExWIND: Headso: whosits_112: And it's what I see here in Houston

he does have a point DROxINxTHExWIND usually the south is about a decade behind along with eastern Europe.

When you hear about a group of white people acting like assholes, you just think about how those guys are assholes. But when the perps are black?? WHOA. That's JUST like you expected a criminal to look. Every incident that you have the pleasure of hearing about involving a black person is a validation of your world view. So, you memorize them, copy them, and paste them to websites so that you can prove to all of us that black people are inferior to your broke ass.


/I disagree

True. GIS for "foamposite":


And from now on this is what I'll think about when I hear about Foamposite shoes (new window).

de_Selby: Here's a new ebay auction for the foamposite galaxy (new window)

That Auction doesn't even list a size.

These things are going to be a walking death sentence for any kid that tries to wear these to school, the park, or anywhere unsafe after dark... aka all of detroit south of 8 mile.

Isn't it the height of irony that the shoes are made by slave labor? You couldn't write this stuff.

only more proof that idiots from the ghetto can make something so trivial like "shoes" lead to riots.

But will they blend!?

I watch my local secondhand stores for Nike, Cons, etc. I've worn really good shoes for the last decade without paying more than $5 for a slightly worn pair of shoes. People are silly paying $200-300 for anything they wear on their body.