I was thinking of posting on the RealILX thread and then I thought—no leave it—but then I saw this...
http://www.tmz.com/2006/11/22/not-laughing-all-the-way-to-the-bank/
And wondered whether there was a precendent for it? And what was the legal position? And why would a retired judge be involved? So many questions I know...
I know you probably had the best of intentions but seriously if I see or hear anything referring to Michael Richards and/or racism and/or stand-up comedy for that matter I’m setting the fucking chimps loose.
There should be an “again” in there somewhere but I am bitter and have no admin to flex here.
“omnipresent publicity hound”
i love that.
why would you click on a thread with the words Michael Richards in it if you never want to read about him again?
maybe he was wondering if he was going to hold out kuyt and bellamy
THAT’S UNCALLED FOR!
Redneck uncle at Thanksgiving: “I don’t get what the big deal is — he was just calling a spade a spade.”
Later: “If anything, he’ll get a million dollars from this. I sure as hell hadn’t heard of him before.”
Rest of family: “Sure you have, he was on Seinfeld.”
Uncle: “Aw, I don’t watch that shit. That Seinfeld is an idiot.”
I know you probably had the best of intentions but seriously if I see or hear anything referring to Michael Richards and/or racism and/or stand-up comedy for that matter I’m setting the fucking chimps loose.
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There should be an “again” in there somewhere but I am bitter and have no admin to flex here.
“I know you probably had the best of intentions but seriously if I see or hear anything referring to Michael Richards and/or racism and/or stand-up comedy for that matter I’m setting the fucking chimps loose. Again.”
I’m setting the loose chimps fucking.
Redneck uncle at Thanksgiving: “I don’t get what the big deal is — he was just calling a spade a spade.”
hahahah redneck soon-to-be-step-uncle (for lack of better term) in drunken rant at thanksgiving: “The white male is the minority in this country now”
i had to leave the room.
Thanksgiving: the time for discovering wonderful things about your extended family!
“I don’t get what the big deal is — he was just calling a spade a spade.”
omg I thought my Texas redneck family was bad. This is exactly the kind of thing my mother would say.
My grandfather once slipped out with the n-word when he was talking to me. He corrected himself to “colored guy.”
when talking about the war my aunt once said ‘sand-n*gger’ and seemed genuinely confused when I told her that was the most racist thing I had ever heard.
“The point is that Towel Head and Camel Jockey are perfectly good substitutes.”
WTF, is it “my family is more racist than your family” day on ILX???
Yes it is! My uncle used the term “sand-n*gger” earlier in the day, actually, at which point I had to get up and join my uncle’s son and his boyfriend on the patio.
Oh no you had to hang out with teh gayz? When will the madness cease!
j/k obv, towel head
I had a Korean friend in high school who, upon learning my Lebanese descent, decided he needed to call me “camel jockie” etc etc type of names, which was kind of ridiculous, since Lebanon isn’t exactly in the desert. Or dessert. Also because the other 3/4 of me is not Lebanese.
Naderlicious.
inevitable:
My uncle was teasing my Australian wife, asking her what crimes her penal ancestors committed. I tried to shut him up by telling her, “It’s okay. Our ancestors apprehended runaway slaves.”
Didn’t shut him up.
I’m faintly related to Jean Lafitte, who’s a kind of folk hero in Louisiana, despite having made his fortune dealing in contraband slaves.
WTF, is it “my family is more racist than your family” day on ILX???
Yes.
My uncle was teasing my Australian wife, asking her what crimes her penal ancestors committed. I tried to shut him up by telling her, “It’s okay. Our ancestors apprehended runaway slaves.”
Didn’t shut him up.
lolz.
my family is proud of the fact that our aussie bloodline began with an ancestor stealing a loaf of bread to feed her starving family.
(I don’t even know what my ancestors did or didn’t do. I’m pretty sure the Russian Jew had clean hands, slavewise, but I’m not sure about those fur traders.)
http://captainoftheussinevitable.ytmnsfw.com/
something very consolidated about that track.
My family merely enjoyed a moment of quiet, shared liberal indignation over the Richards outburst before moving on to other topics.
See, all the folks in my family who sound like y’all’s relations are dead.
Jesse Jax, a few other lib-fascists call for media to “ban” the N-word (Rev Red Light sez it’s “unprotected” by the First Amendment):
http://www.showbuzz.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/27/people_crusades/main2211059.shtml
Sounds like time for ILX lib-racist fave Quentin Tarantino to switch to Eric Rohmer-style dialogue.
Unfortunately the lawsuit and the grandstanding reverends are going to end up overshadowing the wrong done by Richards. I wish they would just issue a brief statement and move on—they’d actually get much more public sympathy that way.
yeah but they wouldn’t get any money.
this kramer bullshit didn’t come up once at my thanksgiving, so proud.
my mother would probably say things like:
“Seinfeld? never eard of it.”
“American rubbish then”
“Nothing will ever beat Only Fools an ‘orses!“
Roger Lloyd Pack unleashing a torrent of racial abuse at an innocent heckler = money.
Well, MOST of our Thanksgiving was spent discussing a perennial favorite topic: “OMG, antisemitism is everywhere!”
my thanksgiving was spent discussing all the bargains my m-i-l finds at the px. zzz
WTF, is it “my family is more racist than your family” day on ILX???
I heard my grandpops call someone a “cracker” once. I win thread, obv.
This deliberate confusing of Kramer and Richards has lead to “the real Kramer” getting hatemail.
During the disco era, Kenny Kramer came up with a piece of electronic jewelry that apparently did so well, it put him in the black for some time.