Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Ted Allen loses it


28 comments:

chickelit said...

TIME Magazine comes out in support of Ferguson riots.*

Wow. Just wow. Not out of surprise but more out of disbelief. I mean there was a TIME but that TIME is long gone, along with so many other temporary space-time arrangements.

*The views expressed may be those of one TIME employee, Darlene Cunha, a stay-at-home-mom with self-admitted feelings of privilege.

chickelit said...
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Synova said...

"Instead of tearing down other human beings who are acting upon decades of pent-up anger at a system decidedly against them, a system that has told them they are less than human for years, we ought to be reaching out to help them regain the humanity they lost, not when a few set fire to the buildings in Ferguson, but when they were born the wrong color in the post-racial America."

OMG.

Please... I'm a privileged white person here to help you regain your humanity...



chickelit said...

Am I supposed to know or care about the Ted Allen story?

Sorry about that Chip. I throw an awful lot of random stuff up on posts and then ask people to care too.

I'm deleting my second comment out of self-restraint but leaving it here for the record.

Chip Ahoy said...

No. You are not supposed to do anything.

Am I expected to stay seriously political at all times?

And don't hold the impression I expect anyone to care. I don't care if anyone cares. Be amused or don't be amused, I don't care.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

And we r on our way to GA. Even if Chick don't care ;-)

Unknown said...

These democrat media complex "news" organizations should actually READ the grand jury report.

The policeman was acting wholly within the law to protect his life.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

My impression is the grand jury did a thorough job. Nobody should expect more from them.

ricpic said...

TIME has been infiltrated. Gotta hand it to the Left, it's very patient. March through the institutions, put your people in positions of maximum leverage and then society can be torn apart and torn down. What comes after that doesn't concern the vicious nihilists.

ricpic said...

I don't care
I don't care
What people say or do
I'm happy go lucky
Some say that I'm plucky

I DON'T CARE

Unknown said...

The collective let have trouble understanding or admitting truth.


Facts and truth. If it doesn't fit the narrative, just make something up and lie.

KCFleming said...

Dare I ask what Ted Allen lost?

Rabel said...

Things wot Ted Allen made then didn't eat.

Karen of Texas said...


C: ‪#‎blacklivesmatter‬

Me: ‪#‎alllivesmatter

Responses:
K: "Black lives matter" is something that needs to be said beyond "All lives matter" because Black lives are devalued by our society in a way that others aren't. Right?

C: it's also a hashtag for a trending topic that needs to be discussed or, in the very least, remembered.

B: even the assumption that black lives mattering somehow means white lives don't matter... i can't handle today.

L: B...i can't handle today either...wish we were closer to not handle it together...

K: I've been helping plan a vigil in Tulsa today in large part because I need as many hugs as I can gather. This shit is tough and I can hardly imagine how it feels for our friends of color who live this in an entirely different way.

Help me out here because omg, I can't even wrap my brain around the30ish aged, white idjits who responded to my matter-of-fact #this with the tripe that they vomited out. They don't even get why THEY are part of the problem.

Chip Ahoy said...

Rabel, thanks for that. Very funny.

Allen really is talented funny self-aware and fun. But he's reduced on Chopped to mere describing basket contents and counting backwards from ten. Three times each episode. It must be maddening.

But then there's the paycheck.

Guy Fieri who yells at you and repeats catch phrases a dozen times each episode, whistles like a parrot, and never fails to day, "lukattaaaaat" like a proper mong, was told his stolen Lamborghini was found and they caught the teenager (doing life for murder) who stole it. His reaction, "Pffft. That was like so three years ago."

He too is a very good cook and quite funny besides. His show is a great idea but his yelling and his ceaseless repetitions make it unbearable. Surely for him as well any sane viewer.

But, then there's the paycheck.

Fieri (R pronounced with alveolar trill) owns
'04 GMC Sierra pickup,
’65 Cobra,
’96 Impala Supersport,
'07 Corvette C6,
'71 Chevy Chevelle,
'68 Pontiac Firebird,
'76 CJ-5 Jeep.
'08 Lamborghini Gallardo
Chevy 4500 monster semi truck
'11 Chevy Camaro.

ampersand said...

What's best for a cannibal Thanksgiving table? Pilgrims or Indians?

Synova said...

I suppose that my horrible, white, response to #blacklivesmatter is, yes, of course they do. Is this somehow a question? Because all lives matter.

Go back to my quote from the end of the Time piece... how insulting is it *really* to imply that it takes white people to help black people regain their humanity? Implying, of course, they lack humanity.

I reject that bull shit.

Brown's death was unfortunate, as is anything that ends the possibility of people turning their lives around. But he wasn't a poor boy, an unarmed black child, callously shot down by a racist cop. He was, empirically, a self-important thug who thought himself better than those he dealt with. To use a racial code word I saw used by an uber-liberal... he was *proud*. And that pride that viewed his own value in being such a "man" that he could bully a shop owner and EVEN could get a way with messing with a police officer, led to his extremely poor decisions.

This is no lack of self-esteem. This is no thought of *his* that his life didn't matter. Eighteen year olds often feel invincible, but how many of them think that their worth depends on if they can mess with cops and get away with it?

ricpic said...

Brown's death was unfortunate...

I CELEBRATE Brown's death. He was trying to kill a police officer, your line of defense against barbarism, my line of defense against barbarism and Wilson, in defense of his own life and of CIVILIZATION, killed Brown. And if you don't get that you get nothing, no matter how fair, thoughtful and nuanced you think you're being.

Michael Haz said...

There is so much here.

The whole Michael Brown thing is only nominally about Michael Brown. It's mostly about Occupy Wall Street reconstructing Marxism yet one more time and disguising it as racism or white privilege or some other shit like that. And of course who else takes the bait but overly educated white entitled east coast liberal dweebs. They are a sack of dumbness.

Look at the website of scheduled protests all across Our Fair Nation. Who do you thunk made that. Michael Brown's stepfather? His incarcerated father? His felonious momma? Give me a break.

Looking at Fieri's list of cars makes me rue the afternoon when at age 18 I quit my job as a line cook at the A&W and headed off to university. Crap, had I stuck with cooking I could have moved on up to my own restaurants, tv shows and fine automobiles.

Plus, and this really annoys me, Fieri seems like a nice guy. FFS, what's up with that? The owner of Delta Diner, a place I frequent near Lake Superior met Fieri one summer when Fieri's family were vacationing with Jimmy John's family in northern Sconsin. After a year of phone calls back and forth, my friend agreed to having a Triple D episode filmed in his place. He says that Fieri is a polite entertaining, humble man who was a great deal of fun to spend two days with.

Just when you hope somebody's a jerk, they turn out to be all nicey nicey.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

Rioting is rejected because at its core base is saying that the answer to prejudice is extreme prejudice. It's so ridiculous it should be called racist... Or something harsher.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

I should have said perceived prejudice.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

As for the loss of life, I would ask how many demonstrators/rioting/looters there are pro life?

rcocean said...

Chip,

I found your expression of not caring so impressive that I can't help but care that you don't care.

Do you don't care that I care, or do you care that I care? Or it either or neither?

Please respond because I really care.

rcocean said...

Or Carry me back to Old Virginia.

Or Carry Nation.

Michael Haz said...

Carry on.

Carrion.

Carrie on.

chickelit said...

Message? We CAIR!

Chip Ahoy said...

#care

La la la la la la

rcocean said...

#care.

Chip, that's why you are my favorite Lem poster.

Haha. Really.