Stupid Questions

[The Ween]

Here's my stupid question for the day:

Is my avatar animated or static???

Its suppose to be look like this:

It's static. It just sits there.

 

[averagejo]

Thanks Ween. :

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

Didn't fancy starting a thread so i figured i'd ask here.

1. Saying that someone shouldn't be allowed to do something because of the colour of their skin is racist, correct? Non-aggressive and mild but still racist?

2. What is more offensive, someone saying that or someone calling that person Racist for saying that?

 

[Lejuan]

Didn't fancy starting a thread so i figured i'd ask here.

1. Saying that someone shouldn't be allowed to do something because of the colour of their skin is racist, correct? Non-aggressive and mild but still racist?

2. What is more offensive, someone saying that or someone calling that person Racist for saying that?

Cough up and tell us the exact context you're imagining Nova - I know there is one

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

It's nothing to do with this board

Just something i experienced that was against what i was raised to view as conventional logic.

Basically I was over at Comicvine on a Man of Steel thread chatting about the movie when some people posted how they thought Lawrene fishburne was flat in the role of Perry White, i agreed he wasn't that great really.
Discussion went on and some people basically said they shouldn't have casted him as he wasn't the right colour. i responded in generalities not targetting anyone specific and called out such comments as racist, mild & non-agreesive but still racist.

I was banned for two weeks for making an offensive comment.

Seemed all backwards to me.

 

[Lejuan]

I suppose you could've asked for clarification before calling it out as racism. It may've been a reasonable enough claim depending on context, ie maybe the poster just doesn't imagine Perry White as a black dude?

But yeah, a two week ban for calling it out is kind of ridiculous.

 

[KitFisto]

I don't think that's racist....racial? Yes, but not racist. People are used to reading of viewing character a specific way. When that race is changed in a movie it can make viewers have a hard time seeing that actor as the character.

Mr T. Was B.A on tne A-Team. Suppose they would have cast Hemsworth as B.A. for the film? To all of us, B.A. was a black man with a mohawk. Not a blode guy with longer hair and blue eyes. He just doesn't fit the role.

 

[The Ween]

It's nothing to do with this board

Just something i experienced that was against what i was raised to view as conventional logic.

Basically I was over at Comicvine on a Man of Steel thread chatting about the movie when some people posted how they thought Lawrene fishburne was flat in the role of Perry White, i agreed he wasn't that great really.
Discussion went on and some people basically said they shouldn't have casted him as he wasn't the right colour. i responded in generalities not targetting anyone specific and called out such comments as racist, mild & non-agreesive but still racist.

I was banned for two weeks for making an offensive comment.

Seemed all backwards to me.

I've said the same thing about Will Smith being cast as West in the remake of Wild, Wild West. If you know the original character, and know how it was in those times, it was terrible casting. If someone would've called me racist for that, I wouldn't have liked it either.

As for Perry White being black, well, he was white in the comics, and I can see why some would say the casting was off. That's not racist.

 

[devilof76]

Do aneurysms throw clots?

 

[The Ween]

Do aneurysms throw clots?

They can, yes.

 

[devilof76]

Thought so. Thanks.

 

[The Ween]

Thought so. Thanks.

Anything to worry about?

 

[devilof76]

Only if I'm paranoid. My left ear has been ringing for a while and I'm about 98% that it's not an infection.

 

[Lejuan]

Only if I'm paranoid. My left ear has been ringing for a while and I'm about 98% that it's not an infection.

Last time I decided not to be paranoid about my body doing something out of the norm it turned out to be osteoarthritis. In fact I even put off getting it x-rayed for months because I thought, "Meh. Waste of money. The only thing it'd show up'd be arthritis."

 

[devilof76]

It would be nice to discover that it's just fluid trapped in my ear and not a weak carotid wall that's nearly impossible to reach without breaking my jaw.

 

[Lejuan]

If the only symptom is ringing in the ears I'd say you're safe from blood-related problems. You're about the age where the ear itself starts to play up, so that'd be a more likely cause. But that'd be much more comforting to hear from a doctor

 

[hoodonit00]

It's nothing to do with this board

Just something i experienced that was against what i was raised to view as conventional logic.

Basically I was over at Comicvine on a Man of Steel thread chatting about the movie when some people posted how they thought Lawrene fishburne was flat in the role of Perry White, i agreed he wasn't that great really.
Discussion went on and some people basically said they shouldn't have casted him as he wasn't the right colour. i responded in generalities not targetting anyone specific and called out such comments as racist, mild & non-agreesive but still racist.

I was banned for two weeks for making an offensive comment.

Seemed all backwards to me.

In that context I don't think it's racist. Take Nick Fury for example. He started out as a white guy and now he's black. If I know what nationality a character is supposed to be and they change that for whatever reason it kind of irks me. That doesn't stop at nationality either. Jack Reacher is supposed to be a 6' 4" heavily muscled blonde guy. Who do they pick to play him? A short, shomewhat buff, brunnette guy. Same thing with Operation Red Wing coming out soon. Marcus Luttrelle is about 6' 4" tall. Who's is playing him? Mark Wahlberg

 

[fosing]

Only if I'm paranoid. My left ear has been ringing for a while and I'm about 98% that it's not an infection.

press the tragus of your affected ear. if its tender, most likely its an ear infection.

 

[Lejuan]

I'm going to try to work 'tragus' into a sentence today.

 

[The Ween]

It would be nice to discover that it's just fluid trapped in my ear and not a weak carotid wall that's nearly impossible to reach without breaking my jaw.

You still smoking? That can cause it.