Jump to content
View in the app

A better way to browse. Learn more.

Surly Horns

A full-screen app on your home screen with push notifications, badges and more.

To install this app on iOS and iPadOS
  1. Tap the Share icon in Safari
  2. Scroll the menu and tap Add to Home Screen.
  3. Tap Add in the top-right corner.
To install this app on Android
  1. Tap the 3-dot menu (⋮) in the top-right corner of the browser.
  2. Tap Add to Home screen or Install app.
  3. Confirm by tapping Install.

Featured Replies

So the National Socialists lose their shit about high school girls and prom dresses but are giving Bobby a pass for appropriating "Beto" from the horribly oppressed people of color? These fascists who go full snowflake over yoga don't seem to mind literally stealing a cultural identity? I thought a privileged white guys stealing from poor brownies was a recipe for full #metoo treatment. What gives?

Jesus Christ you just posted in the thread where this post should go. And you’ve also posted this despite the fact that that thread has covered this ground multiple times already. Quit trolling. 

It’s not cultural appropriation if you grow up with it because you grow up in it.

Some people have become very worried about Beto.  I support him and still only give him a 1 in 4 chance.  Why do I believe Cruz thinks Betos chances are much higher?

8 hours ago, Flaming Moderate said:

So the National Socialists lose their shit about high school girls and prom dresses but are giving Bobby a pass for appropriating "Beto" from the horribly oppressed people of color? These fascists who go full snowflake over yoga don't seem to mind literally stealing a cultural identity? I thought a privileged white guys stealing from poor brownies was a recipe for full #metoo treatment. What gives?

 

11 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Some people have become very worried about Beto.  I support him and still only give him a 1 in 4 chance.  Why do I believe Cruz thinks Betos chances are much higher?

Thats worse the the Red October.

Decent troll, and I'm still gonna answer.

If having a Hispanic name is such a big vote getter, and nevermind the fact that the ballot will use his stolen last name of O'Rourke, wouldn't Lupe Valdez be currently packing her bags as that's about Hispanic a name as there is.

The name argument really makes no sense and falls flat on it's face. It's like like the low information voters were given a talking point and put zero thought into it.

Edited by relapse98

How's the traffic back at the scat site?

Robert is a Norman French name taken from Germanic. O'Rourke is an Irish name. After conquering England, Normans romped around conquering various bits of Ireland, and leaving all sorts of mini-Normans-- the "Fitz" in Fitzgerald, FitzStephen, etc, is the same as the "Fils" in Modern French-- "Son".

So Beto's problem isn't with oppressed Mexicans. It's within his very being, as he drinks and then stabs himself reenacting the scuffles between the ousted King Dermot MacMurragh who returned with Norman mercenaries to take on King Tiernan O'Rourke.

Since you asked.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_invasion_of_Ireland

Remember when the OP used to pretend that his handle was honest? 

42 minutes ago, DDD Dad said:

How's the traffic back at the scat site?

haha holy shit this made me go look... the entire game thread yesterday is two pages of ONE guy doing play-by-play 🤣 

oh, sorry for the derail. um..this thread is stupid and op should feel bad 😝

Edited by mchookem

Decent troll, and I'm still gonna answer.
If having a Hispanic name is such a big vote getter, and nevermind the fact that the ballot will use his stolen last name of O'Rourke, wouldn't Lupe Valdez be currently packing her bags as that's about Hispanic a name as there is.
The name argument really makes no sense and falls flat on it's face. It's like like the low information voters were given a talking point and put zero thought into it.

And if a Hispanic first name is such a big vote getter, why would Cruz go by Ted instead of Raphael?

Only one of the two candidates changed the childhood name he had always gone by — and for the express purpose of appealing to people in the culture from which he appropriated the new name.   That candidate is not Beto. 

And I don't judge Ted Cruz for it.   If he felt embarrassed to go by Felito, and wanted to be "Ted," more power to him.   But him and his supporters going after Beto on this "issue" is pathetic. 

So the National Socialists lose their shit about high school girls and prom dresses but are giving Bobby a pass for appropriating "Beto" from the horribly oppressed people of color? These fascists who go full snowflake over yoga don't seem to mind literally stealing a cultural identity? I thought a privileged white guys stealing from poor brownies was a recipe for full #metoo treatment. What gives?
Aggy lashes out when it is scared

Sent from my SM-G920V using Tapatalk

14 hours ago, Flaming Moderate said:

So the National Socialists lose their shit about high school girls and prom dresses but are giving Bobby a pass for appropriating "Beto" from the horribly oppressed people of color? These fascists who go full snowflake over yoga don't seem to mind literally stealing a cultural identity? I thought a privileged white guys stealing from poor brownies was a recipe for full #metoo treatment. What gives?

Judging by the midnight post, Flaming Moderate should change his handle to "Joyless Drunk"

Wtf is a flaming moderate any damn how?

A sad attempt to be witty, though not smart enough to see he failed at it. He is like Bobo wearing a 9/11 jacket.
On 9/16/2018 at 2:17 PM, kibbles said:

Wtf is a flaming moderate any damn how?

606px-Lindsey_Graham,_official_Senate_ph

One of the funny things about this terrible post was that it completely misunderstands the concept of cultural appropriation because the poster doesn't understand the actual culture O'Rourke is from. A person named Robert being called Beto in El Paso is not cultural appropriation. The concept of Latino culture being the dominant culture in an area is simply incomprehensible to OP so he has no idea of what reality is like in that kind of area.

I've known Mexican guys as dark as it gets who went by "white" nicknames. I've called Juan Johnny because that's what they wanted to go by and I've called Carlos Charlie. Those guys weren't trying to appropriate the white man's culture, they were simply existing in it.

Long story shot, OP is a moron.

OP's SN is clearly a reference to Bruce Chapman's and George Gilder's (creators of the old Advance magazine) "flaming moderates."  OP is clearly more well read and erudite than you schlubs.  

Edited by Fozzz

I see 2018's owning of payday lenders has arrived.  Welcome, welcome.

  • Author

Come on guys, there is a clever poster here. You can do better than that. My favorite is "But Beto has a Mexican friend" POV. Epic Snowsplaining.


I do apologize for the re-tread. I cannot read pages of stupidity on the other thread. However, not shocked on the double standards. Shocking. Next you're going to tell me you care about old rape accusations.

If all you are looking to do is troll, all I'm looking to do is neg.  Good luck with your posting career here.

  • Author
44 minutes ago, NameAlreadyInUse said:

If all you are looking to do is troll, all I'm looking to do is neg.  Good luck with your posting career here.

My intent was not to troll, and I own not reading the 500 pages of name-calling that is the other thread. FWIW, one of the things that fascinates me is double standards in political debates whether it be rape allegations or "cultural appropriation." We live in a world where so-called mainstream news reports on one person being mad because white people like yoga, yet no one seems to care that this guy "appropriates" a Hispanic American nickname? For the record, I kind of think the entire "cultural appropriation" argument is silly, but what fascinates me is people's ability to apply completely different standards and frames depending on whether it confirms or contradicts their biases.

You can say a lot about me - my favorite today is "shitgibbon" - but I am principled and consistent and do not move the goal posts. I realize that blows a bunch of people's minds, and if they need to snowflake and neg rep, so be it. It is not like my life revolves around this board.

I already explained to you why your attempted point in the OP is completely incorrect.

Your principles and consistency apparently have nothing to do with facts and reality, that's the issue people have with you.

20 minutes ago, Flaming Moderate said:

My intent was not to troll, and I own not reading the 500 pages of name-calling that is the other thread. FWIW, one of the things that fascinates me is double standards in political debates whether it be rape allegations or "cultural appropriation." We live in a world where so-called mainstream news reports on one person being mad because white people like yoga, yet no one seems to care that this guy "appropriates" a Hispanic American nickname? For the record, I kind of think the entire "cultural appropriation" argument is silly, but what fascinates me is people's ability to apply completely different standards and frames depending on whether it confirms or contradicts their biases.

You can say a lot about me - my favorite today is "shitgibbon" - but I am principled and consistent and do not move the goal posts. I realize that blows a bunch of people's minds, and if they need to snowflake and neg rep, so be it. It is not like my life revolves around this board.

He's not appropriating anything. It's been his name since he was a toddler.

11 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

He's not appropriating anything. It's been his name since he was a toddler.

He's "just asking questions". He doesn't want to know the facts.

i'm not at all hispanic, that i know of, but i've married into a very hispanic family. certain things have slipped into my lexicon like calling closer friends' daughters "mama," which has kind of been a learned unconscious behavior. i haven't taken the mija dive, because that would too much appropriation, but i've found myself appropriating that term.

i'm called mijo more than my own name by my in-laws' family.

i also work closely with colleagues in our london office and find myself conflating our english with their english from time to time. i still use "yall" when talking with them, but i find myself using words like "payrise" and referring to plural groups of people like a soccer team in a plural fashion. like "newcastle united are shit this year" which strongly contrasts to my saying "i think dallas is shit this year" when i refer to the football teams here. 

it happens. beto grew up in a hispanic community, and got tagged with a nickname. my wife's grandfather (god rest his soul) used to call me by the diminutive spanish version of my english name. is that appropriation? if people called me that from a young age, and that's how people knew me, is that appropriation because i'm not hispanic? 

this thread is weak shit.

Edited by hayden_horn

Who the hell cares if white people like yoga?  Yoga is the shit.

And if you grow up in a latino area surrounded by Latin culture, which Beto O'Rourke did, you are not appropriating the culture.  It's just how you were raised. Furthermore, he didnt give himself the nickname as it's been explained 1000 times on this board and thousands of times elsewhere.

Be better than this.

I can't wait until OP is banned and gets to run off to some other site whining about how intolerant this place was of his abject idiocy and terrible posting style.

34 minutes ago, TornACL said:

I can't wait until OP is banned and gets to run off to some other site whining about how intolerant this place was of his abject idiocy and terrible posting style.

muh 1st amendment!

  • Author
5 hours ago, Huckleberry said:

I already explained to you why your attempted point in the OP is completely incorrect.

Your principles and consistency apparently have nothing to do with facts and reality, that's the issue people have with you.

I know - you were the "but I have a black friend" guy.

  • Author
5 hours ago, TornACL said:

I can't wait until OP is banned and gets to run off to some other site whining about how intolerant this place was of his abject idiocy and terrible posting style.

You snowflakes smart enough to respond intellectually so you let your pussy do the talking.

  • Author
5 hours ago, Tom said:

Who the hell cares if white people like yoga?  Yoga is the shit.

I think they're called liberals.

  • Author
5 hours ago, hayden_horn said:

i'm not at all hispanic, that i know of, but i've married into a very hispanic family. certain things have slipped into my lexicon like calling closer friends' daughters "mama," which has kind of been a learned unconscious behavior. i haven't taken the mija dive, because that would too much appropriation, but i've found myself appropriating that term.

i'm called mijo more than my own name by my in-laws' family.

i also work closely with colleagues in our london office and find myself conflating our english with their english from time to time. i still use "yall" when talking with them, but i find myself using words like "payrise" and referring to plural groups of people like a soccer team in a plural fashion. like "newcastle united are shit this year" which strongly contrasts to my saying "i think dallas is shit this year" when i refer to the football teams here. 

it happens. beto grew up in a hispanic community, and got tagged with a nickname. my wife's grandfather (god rest his soul) used to call me by the diminutive spanish version of my english name. is that appropriation? if people called me that from a young age, and that's how people knew me, is that appropriation because i'm not hispanic? 

this thread is weak shit.

You're clearly in ESL too.

Well it was a good run. I guess. Run of shit. 

He doesn't like chicks in yoga pants and I think he said homosexuality was a mental illness on the old site.  Definitely some American Beauty neighbor dad going on there. 

The general concept of cultural appropriation is asinine. Cultural interchange creates culture. Without it, we don't have our language, music, food, art, etc. It's obviously possible to engage with a culture on racist terms (see blackface), but that's usually not what's being talked about.

That said, even by the most generous definition, what Beto is doing isn't appropriation.

52 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:

Well it was a good run. I guess. Run of shit. 

He could have got a few more posts in. He just ran outa time.

3 hours ago, RPM said:

He could have got a few more posts in. He just ran outa time.

I think he was trying to get banned with the fewest posts.

3 hours ago, Fleming Madarote said:

I cracks me up the fascist snowflakes have the ovens running high and turned the legacy of the cloak room fully aggy. What's your motto, "can't beat 'em, ban 'em?"

That's why I'm actually kind of glad we lost today - five in a row, and ESPN and Austin would have had little options left but to run the Baylor-Briles play on Patterson and the Frogs. Can't beat the them on the field, plan B is to get them off the field!

You guys may be the biggest collection of intellectual pussies this side of Sarah Lawrence. 

I literally have no idea what any of this means. Literally nothing. Is this supposed to make sense to anyone?

 

took me a second.  flaming moderate apparently is a fan of TCU, and thinks that the reason that Briles was fired and Baylor's fortunes fell is because the pussies in Austin conspired against them, rather than all of the raping

I wish I had a better nickname in the Hispanic community I grew up in. I'd have to run under "Guero."

Me thinks Flaming Moderate is also TCUfan12 from the old board.

Coincidentally, they only show up around election time.

 85138A63-12A9-4A62-803F-3CBBD4195723_zps

2F02A13B-825C-49AA-9D42-AC1754AAA431_zps

On 9/23/2018 at 10:53 AM, David Dennison said:

Record unemployment in 2016? 

Huh?

He's either a troll or a moron (why not both), don't expect what he's writing to be accurate.

Configure browser push notifications

Chrome (Android)
  1. Tap the lock icon next to the address bar.
  2. Tap Permissions → Notifications.
  3. Adjust your preference.
Chrome (Desktop)
  1. Click the padlock icon in the address bar.
  2. Select Site settings.
  3. Find Notifications and adjust your preference.