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'People of colour' sounds condescending to me, and its a form of 'Othering'. Much better and simpler to call a spade a spade. If you're white, you're White. If you're black, you're Black.

I don't object when I'm called White.

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:
'People of colour' sounds condescending to me, and its a form of 'Othering'. Much better and simpler to call a spade a spade. If you're white, you're White. If you're black, you're Black.

I don't object when I'm called White.

Apparently "people of colour" is indeed the go to term to use in the states, or so I am told by a workmate, I guess this is the reason that the mods just ignore all the complaints regarding the issue.

Here in the UK my mates call themselves black and are pretty offended when they are called coloured people, the term has also been causing controversy recently with idiots such as Benedict Cumberbatch and even good old Alan Hansen getting labelled racists for using the term also.

I do not mean to derail the thread, I just get pretty offended when there is a blatant use of labels bouncing around, people are people at the end of the day and I do realise that its hard to keep tabs on what is and is not acceptable, sometimes its better just to keep your mouth shut.



anyway back to work for me and apologies if I offended anyone.

My brother got refused service because he curbstomped the manager of an old GW with 3.5 Chaos. The shop closed 4 days later.

The terms "coloured" and "people of color" confuse me, since so far I have not heard of translucent people.

 Shadow Captain Edithae wrote:

 the_Armyman wrote:

whirlwindstruggle wrote:

 col. krazy kenny wrote:

Another good one but kinda Sad was the GAy 40k player that posted on Craigslist that he was looking for another GAy male 40k player to hook up with.
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I don't see what is weird about this?

Probably because like most Craigslist ads, it sounds like a hookup request with a 40K pretense.

Perhaps he should have gone to plentyofheretics.com.

To be fair if he wants to combine two types of pleasure, then go for it. I guess given the largely male demographic of 40k you're more likely to find both a lover and opponent if you're gay. I can see the appeal.

I've met several more gay guys then women in the hobby.

 Rainbow Dash wrote:
I've met several more gay guys then women in the hobby.

Precisely.

We have quite a few women that frequent my FLGS. Not just hangers-on or bored GFs, but actual gamers. We might have gay gamers, but tbh, unless a gay person is flamboyant, they don't stand out to me. Unless you know them personally or they're showing PDA towards someone of the same sex (of which I find distasteful even in hetero couples), how do you know if gamers are gay?

I wonder if some of these guys that really have a gamer-funk problem don't have that disease where you have severe body odor. Especially that guy who was well groomed and dressed otherwise.

I have encountered very many weird individuals at my FLGS, but I primarily hobby at my house and my friends' houses.

The only one I can think of was a guy who was waving around his gamer-card when he kept talking about playing with Gary Gygax and how he was there since the beginning. First, based on his remarks I highly doubt it, and two you don't have to be so obnoxious about it.

"I played with Gygax a few times."

"Cool!"

Move on.

 Gertjan wrote:

 Jehan-reznor wrote:

 jer155 wrote:
WOW. Reading you guys' comments really makes the Assassin's creed guy seem normal...

He is

Back in the Netherlands there was a guy who worked as an assistant at the gamestore, he was a really nice guy, but his thoughts were in a different plane, i played against him often because there was only a small group that played warzone and Chronopia. His armies looked like a psychedelic t-shirt, another guy had color blindness so his armies were a little off, but this guy just slapped paint on them with no logic. and went on monologues explaining why they looked like that and the armies history, he was an even worse tactical player then i am (and that says something). But it was always fun to play against him.

Sounds like a very familiar case, store was in the Southern part of the Netherlands? If so, the dude was a blast, his theories were pretty far out there but so much fun to hang out with.

I didn't check on the thread for like a week and suddenly there's all these fellow dutch people!

 the_Armyman wrote:

Apparently, you don't get it. Why do I have to defend a group and simulataneously belong to it (e.g, I don't care for anti-semites, but I'm not Jewish). Conversely, I can belong to the group I'm defending without bringing up the fact I belong to that group. But, stoners are narcissists, so they tend to broach the topic any time it's even remotely possible.

Sounds like Vegans....

Hey guys, did I mention I do Crossfit?

 Swan-of-War wrote:
Hey guys, did I mention I do Crossfit?

I don't think you did, but why mention it?

It's one of those "HEY! HEY! LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT WHAT I DO! ACKNOWLEDGE ME AND THE ACTIVITY THAT I DO!" things.

 jer155 wrote:

 Swan-of-War wrote:
Hey guys, did I mention I do Crossfit?

I don't think you did, but why mention it?

It's a play on the old Morpheus meme. Goes something like "What if I told you it's possible to be a Vegan/do Crossfit/use Marijuana/etc, without telling everyone you know?"

The implied sentiment is that vegans/crossfitters/heavy marijuana users/etc feel the need to bring up their life choice/habit/etc constantly.


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 BrookM wrote:
It's one of those "HEY! HEY! LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT WHAT I DO! ACKNOWLEDGE ME AND THE ACTIVITY THAT I DO!" things.

You fething NINJA YOU!

BrookM wrote:It's one of those "HEY! HEY! LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT WHAT I DO! ACKNOWLEDGE ME AND THE ACTIVITY THAT I DO!" things.

gunslingerpro wrote:

 jer155 wrote:

 Swan-of-War wrote:
Hey guys, did I mention I do Crossfit?

I don't think you did, but why mention it?

It's a play on the old Morpheus meme. Goes something like "What if I told you it's possible to be a Vegan/do Crossfit/use Marijuana/etc, without telling everyone you know?"

The implied sentiment is that vegans/crossfitters/heavy marijuana users/etc feel the need to bring up their life choice/habit/etc constantly.


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 BrookM wrote:
It's one of those "HEY! HEY! LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT WHAT I DO! ACKNOWLEDGE ME AND THE ACTIVITY THAT I DO!" things.

You fething NINJA YOU!

WHY ARE THESE SCANTILY CLAD WOMEN TALKING ABOUT MORPHEUS MEMES I'M SO CONFUSED RIGHT NOW

 jer155 wrote:

WHY ARE THESE SCANTILY CLAD WOMEN TALKING ABOUT MORPHEUS MEMES I'M SO CONFUSED RIGHT NOW

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/matrix-morpheus

 Grimtuff wrote:

 jer155 wrote:

WHY ARE THESE SCANTILY CLAD WOMEN TALKING ABOUT MORPHEUS MEMES I'M SO CONFUSED RIGHT NOW

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/matrix-morpheus

dammit...

I'll be honest with you - I never liked this thread anyway.