A Morning in a life…

Not even a quarter past ten and I have the pleasure of choosing to make a noise at the local greasy spoon or to walk away and write the following.

It is unfortunate that one does not always possess the energy to launch into battle especially when one seeks only breakfast. Whilst having to endure the badinage of a couple of Whitemaninstanians™ about their perceived privations endured during the reign of BlackHitler I felt that discretion was warranted and kept my tongue.

For a bit,

When my suggestion that Obama was simultaneously the source of all malevolence in this world and a blithering idiot was met with un-ironic assent I bit down on my tongue.

In response to the graybeard who suggested that Obama was gonna put a white woman in every bed of a black man I was forced to say something and I told both the greybeard and the idiot he was speaking with that they were both fools as I made my way to the register.

And yet an hour later I feel like a coward.

 

Comments: 83

 
 
 

There’s no way to win with that. They are obviously oblivious in their bigotry, the best you can do is point out that their behavior is unacceptable in modern society and move on. In fact that by itself is pretty gutsy.

 
 

I was at a party one time and some idiot started spouting that same kind of bigoted shit.

Was a black dude there, and he said, “You know, that old KKK shit is kind of stale.”

The idiot skulked off without response… I’m guessing that most ordinary bigots, no matter how bigoted, still hate being compared to the KKK.

So I mad a mental note to keep that one in my back pocket!

 
 

Well, to each his own, but I’m a really big white guy with a gray beard, so when I get in their faces and tell them how full of shit they are, they usually back down, mumble something about fucking liberals and nuking the middle east, and crawl away. Occasionally I’ve been hit, and had to fight back, totally worth it.

Once a woman tried to run me over with her truck because she didn’t like the bumper stickers on my car, which I was walking back to. She sued me for the damage to her truck hood, which I crawled up on so she couldn’t get me under it. That wound up on the Judge Joe Brown show, and I won, after having the Judge ask me what some of my bumper stickers were.

It was awesome.

So, never be afraid to throw out at least one witty remark. About 99% of the time they’re chicken shits and will just back down after mouthing off some more BS.

My theory on this is that it sticks with them, your bravery, and they might think twice before mouthing off in public again.

 
 

In response to the graybeard who suggested that Obama was gonna put a white woman in every bed of a black man I was forced to say something and I told both the greybeard and the idiot he was speaking with that they were both fools as I made my way to the register.

Next time, the witty rejoinder to that is “No, it’s white guys like you who will do that.”

 
 

Yeah, why feel bad? At that point it’s choosing not to dispute the hallucinations of schizophrenics.

I mean, the “white woman in the bed of every black men” is veering into cuckold territory. It’s always projection, indeed…

 
 

I think you should get some business cards from the nearest mental health clinic and just hand them out when you encounter such asswipes in the future.

 
 

I live in an area that has a slightly higher than normal proportion of those fucking racist assholes. If I’m sober, I don’t engage. If I’m drinking, the fight’s on. (All but like 2 of them have slinked away, yelling about how they totally would have kicked my ass if it weren’t for the painful hangnail or gout or some shit).

Don’t engage. It’s so not worth it. Black guy vs. white guy: Guess who will automatically be assumed is the bad guy.

 
 

The last time some dude in a bar told me he was going to kick his ass, I got him to back down by asking him in a matter-of-fact manner how his medical coverage was. If that the guy had been eligible for Obamacare then, he might have taken a swing.

THANKS, OBAMA!

 
 

I could have titled the thing chains, chains, chains and constraints…

Go ballistic, while in an ideal world, perfectly justified, not supported by the calculus in question. And it is a dollop of the concept that “…silence in the face of evil countenances same…” (pathetic paraphrase) within that calculus that particularly rankles, even though I was not silent.

What currently sticks in my craw is that fact that I felt the need to flee, disengage. That I live in a world that requires self restraint when faced with preening, pig-ignorant (apologies to pigs,) privilege, has me seething.

 
Pupienus Maximus
 

Reprise from last thread, Happy Liberalia!

I put a brisket in to cure – the flat cut anyway, the point cut is in the freezer – last Friday. I don’t do the brine thing, just spices and salt and Prague powder rub then vac seal. I know BBBB, but we are Americans so that’s what we eat. There will be colcannon. And tomorrow, REUBENS YAYZ!

Note to he who shall go unnamed – Just as we don’t celebrate Xmas in favor of Saturnalia, we don’t celebrate St. Pat’s in favor of Liberalia, which the church stole as St. Pat’s in the same manner they stole Saturnalia for Xmas.

 
Pupienus Maximus
 

Obama was gonna put a white woman in every bed of a black man

Is there enough wimminzez to go around? I mean, the gay goons are going to put as many as possible in womb barracks. Given the awesome power of the liberal homosexual agenda I doubt there will be many left to distribute to teh darkies.

 
Helmut Monotreme
 

What currently sticks in my craw is that fact that I felt the need to flee, disengage. That I live in a world that requires self restraint when faced with preening, pig-ignorant (apologies to pigs,) privilege, has me seething.

This is both the rationalization for, and best counterargument to, stand your ground laws and concealed carry. Even as we speak, armed jackasses go about their daily business fantasizing about how they will be able shoot down some thug engaged in violent crime. They hope to someday be the hero that ends a violent rampage by shooting some homicidal gang member or members dead. And like those people in Florida who interpret ‘stand your ground’ laws as a license to kill, they hammer every interaction with younger people who aren’t instantly deferential to fit that narrative. So I for one, am happy you are here to complain about a pair of jackasses, rather than a sad story on the evening news.

 
Pupienus Maximus
 

I wasn’t planning on drinking any Guinness today but now they’ve pulled out of the NYC parade I’ve changed my mind. Not my favorite stout but it’s not bad. I’ll go get some.

 
 

Why, Provider? It’s two guys talking, minding their own business.

Really?

I just wanted to provide an opportunity for you to see the own-goal of irrelevance that is your entire oeuvre.

It might be one thing if the ignorants were conversing within a private club, or the local Klavern, but the idea that one should be able to spout boneheaded blather in public without challenge….

Come on man, I finally see what it looks like when own loads up his slingshot with sand and prepares to take on the “Rat Patrol”.

 
 

Sounds like you did just fine … no reason to feel cowardly … but feelings are strange things.

 
 

Completely missing the point for 200$ Alex…

 
 

I know BBBB, but we are Americans so that’s what we eat. There will be colcannon. And tomorrow, REUBENS YAYZ!

I’ve got a brisket simmering away, I didn’t buy boiling bacon this year. You may be an American, but I’m a Yonkersite. Colcannon is good stuff… made in the little skillet pot.

 
 

Pointy-headed trolls don’t want to see the point…

 
 

…no reason to feel cowardly…

I know that on an intellectual level, but choosing to leave the scene, ceding my ground, as it were, due to a lack of the proper privilege in the context, to articulately eviscerate the idiots in question,

In the future I intend to be a bit more assertive.

And for the asshat who couldn’t find the point with a dozen maps and a rucksack full of compasses or his ass with both hands, a flashlight and two mirrors your demonstration of massively unearned privilege is showing.

 
 

Per QuadB’s latest link…beautiful tune…temporarily traded Hendrix for a listen.

I really need to find some good corned beef or a brisket and a good recipe…

brb…

 
 

Looks like a 10 day affair to properly corn a beef. Will have to keep that in mind in the future while considering a commercial option in the mean time.

 
 

Just threw a quartered head of cabbage in the Dutch oven with the brisket. I like to fish everything out of the water and finish it in a slow oven. Merely boiling the beejeezus out of the brisket isn’t sufficient for me.

Now, back to colcannon… Pup, have you ever made it with kale instead of green or white cabbage? It imparts a most lovely color to the dish.

 
 

Looks like a 10 day affair to properly corn a beef. Will have to keep that in mind in the future while considering a commercial option in the mean time.

One of my favorite cheap eats is pickled beef heart. I can get heart for $1.99/pound. It’s a good, lean cut with a denser “grain” than other muscles- just simmer it for a good long time and throw it in a jar with brine and pickling spices, and let it sit for a couple of days. It’s a good, cheap substitute for corned beef.

 
Pupienus Maximus
 

Prov, most recipes you will find use the brining method. I don’t like that because it takes up too much space in the fridge. […] I can’t even find a recipe that uses my method. Harumph. In any case, it takes at least five days to cure. Some people think it’s a waste of time to do it yourself when you can buy one at the market for less then what fresh brisket will cost. I, of course, disagree.

The stuff at the store is good, if not excellent. I prefer the flat cut but it’s more expensive and bigger than what your small dining circle will consume readily. The point cut is like $1.79 / pound at the local Kroger. Affordable!

You can boil or bake it. I almost always boil a corned beef brisket. It’s really easy to make a good boiled dinner. Just throw it in a big pot with the spice package that comes with it, bring to a slow boil and walk away for three hours of drinking Guinness or some other appropriate beverage. Now turn on your broiler. Retrieve the brisket from the pot and place on a roasting pan or baking sheet or whatever the fuck you have, fat side up. Throw some bigly cubed potatoes in and let it go for another 15 minutes. Meanwhile, sprinkle brown sugar over the fat cap and put that bitch under the broiler until the sugar caramlizes and the fat hisses and all is right with the world. Actually, I usually do the spuds then put them under the broiler with the meat, to dry out so they will soak up more butter. Whatever. You also want to throw some rough cut green cabbage in but just for a couple minutes, don’t want it to overcook. Slice the beef. Put some spuds and cabbage on the plate. Salt and pepper the veg. Now drop a metric fuckton (or an Imperial fucktonne, doesn’t matter) of butter on both. Smash the spuds up with the butter.

Eat.

 
Pupienus Maximus
 

Colcannon with kale! Hmmm, might be too fucking trendy but I like the idea. I don’t have any kale on hand at the moment. Purple kale would be really interesting.

 
Pupienus Maximus
 

I’ll get some purple kale when I go out for the Guinness.

 
 

Page saved for pup’s corn the beef advisory. For offline future examinations…

Provider carries the one, looks at wallet, and considers if the task can be accomplished with with hotplate, pot and finished in a toaster oven.

As far as the home made version is concerned, I may employ a cooler and what remains of the winter (outdoor refrigeration) to attempt a proper brining.

As far as butter is concerned, lets dispense with earthly measurements and proceed with the implication in all future discussions that a “galactic fuckton” is the only appropriate amount of butter to employ when discussing potatoes.

I will admit that the idea to dry out the spuds so’s they are amenable to more butter is something that I will add to my culinary tool kit.

 
 

 the graybeard who suggested that Obama was gonna put a white woman in every bed of a black man 

So, the graybeard’s a sexist as well as a racist. What a surprise. I guess that’s why we have words like “bigot.”

I suppose it’s the pollyanna in me, but I’m still kind of surprised when someone’s publicly, casually, racist like that. Not at the racism, because we will always have racist assholes among us, but at the assumption that that attitude is such the accepted norm that it doesn’t need to be edited in public. And also, sadly, because there are still far too many public places where that would be acceptable.

 
 

From J.P.’s comment on the previous thread:

One of the locals has pledged a truck/trailer to get me moved to the ass-end of [Rutherford] County, and many have offered PayPal to defray expenses.

Glad to hear it. I hope you, Curly, and L.E. find your new digs pleasant.

 
 

I suppose it’s the pollyanna in me, but I’m still kind of surprised when someone’s publicly, casually, racist like that. Not at the racism, because we will always have racist assholes among us, but at the assumption that that attitude is such the accepted norm that it doesn’t need to be edited in public. And also, sadly, because there are still far too many public places where that would be acceptable.

this…

 
 

What currently sticks in my craw is that fact that I felt the need to flee, disengage

That’s not an abnormal reaction, nor is it anything to feel shame about. You did what you felt was right. You could have ended up shot or stabbed had you chose another path. Don’t let this make you feel like any less of a man or any sort of coward. Fighting (despite my predisposition to beat a motherfucker down for acting that way) isn’t really the answer to fixing racism and stupidity. You just end up fueling the OMFG PERSECUTION narrative, in most cases. I have never deluded myself into believing that the 3 (I think) fights I’ve been in over this sort of thing have changed a damn thing in this world. It only served to make me feel like a bigshot tough guy–and my day is coming when I bite off more than I can chew and get my ass pounded into next week.

 
 

It only served to make me feel like a bigshot tough guy–and my day is coming when I bite off more than I can chew and get my ass pounded into next week.

hubbkf is always warning that this will happen to me someday…you may be shocked to find out that i get a little mouthy from time to time…

 
 

you may be shocked to find out that i get a little mouthy from time to time…

You may be shocked to find out that I’m in no way shocked.

 
 

Colcannon with kale! Hmmm, might be too fucking trendy but I like the idea

Trendy! It’s trad!

 
 

Colcannon with kale! Hmmm, might be too fucking trendy but I like the idea

no, it would just be gross…i took the time to make kale chips last week…eck. the daughter ate all of them though…someone told me to try baby kale, i might in my new found spirit of trying things i have always thought were gross but are good for me…

 
 

I suppose it’s the pollyanna in me, but I’m still kind of surprised when someone’s publicly, casually, racist like that.

And to spout this type of bullshit within 3 feet of an obviously not white person and act surprised when called a fool by same. I fear that I will hear apologies from the wait staff who were within earshot of the exchange the next time my shadow lights upon my seat at the bar.

That’s not an abnormal reaction, nor is it anything to feel shame about. You did what you felt was right. You could have ended up shot or stabbed had you chose another path.

I agree, though it is terribly frustrating that I felt that I had to truncate my challenge, because situational calculus. I fear that I have corked something, and that the next time, I won’t be the person leaving in discomfort. I fear that my next response will feed into the idiot’s victim narrative, but at the same time, after our next encounter, I do wish to make greybeard think twice about opening his pig ignorant maw when he lays his eyes on me.

It is a conundrum.

Exercising my first amendment rights=playing the “race card.” A fucking great game they have rigged…

 
 

My first HS debate colleague’s first name was Kale. That’s all I got on the Foodie Front.

 
 

Foodie Front

Could work in a BoB. Not doing them for a while: Over the weekend I band names from an epic Zardoz–currently at 540–over at teh Zombie’s place. I’m glad my braanz wasn’t ‘t eaten !!! But my branz is tired, buckaroos.

 
 

Also:

Tired Buckaroos

(((Sometimes I can’t help it. It’s like trying to resist the One Ring.)))

 
 

Ohhhhhh. Now I get it: Traffic in Sadlyville has dropped because of St Patrick’s Day.

 
 

Alright, people, it’s time to bid you slán agus beannacht leat and head out for some drinking. Since Guinness dropped its sponsorship of the parade because of its anti-gay stance, I’ll knock back a few pints to toast that inevitable day when Pup leads the parade in a chariot pulled by shirtless Gaelic Athletic Association footie boys. I’m sure I’ll receive some odd looks when I shout out, “Up Pupienus!”

 
 

And to spout this type of bullshit within 3 feet of an obviously not white person

Shit, somehow I missed that you are black, Provider_UNE.

Fucking assholes.

That wasn’t bigotry, that was bullying. No wonder you were shaken up.

My apologies on behalf of my fellow white people.

 
 

Pup leads the parade in a chariot pulled by shirtless Gaelic Athletic Association

I find your ideas intriguing. Web site?

 
 

On a related note, I was just reminded that today is the 102nd anniversary of Bayard Rustin‘s birth.

 
 

Artist’s impression (Pupienus at left).

 
 

Artist’s impression (Pupienus at left).

Too many wimminz.

 
 

Remember thou art mortal.

 
 

(Pupienus at left)

hmmm…looks crankier than i have imagined…also like the ‘talk to the hand’ attitude…

 
 

The closest I ever get to outright bigotry this days is my barber. He’s a good guy, but he’s always got Fox News on and he’s always going on about how minorities get all the breaks. I just avoid talking politics with him.

Anyway, my last time there, we somehow got on the subject of Yelp, and he complained that he cut one guy’s hair and treated him to a discourse on “wetbacks,” and next thing he knew, there was a review on Yelp denouncing him as a bigot.

I commiserated with him, but in the back of my mind I was thinking, “The system works.”

 
 

“…these days…”

 
 

The closest I ever get to outright bigotry this days is my barber. He’s a good guy, but he’s always got Fox News on and he’s always going on about how minorities get all the breaks. I just avoid talking politics with him.

i’ve been avoiding talking politics with A LOT of people…my latest brush with bigotry came two weeks ago…we have a family made up of mostly racists in town, and one of the nieces is dating a black guy…this came up in conversation at the bar one night, and the family member i was talking with said, ‘if she wants a pet she should get a dog, not a monkey.’ i was like, ‘holy shit _________, did you really just say that?!’ and he owned it…also owned that he and most of the family wouldn’t go to any wedding or have anything to do with her should it come to that…

 
Pupienus Maximus
 

Just leftover tandoori chicken, aloo goobi and saffron rice. Pigs that we are, there’s no naans left.

 
 

also owned that he and most of the family wouldn’t go to any wedding or have anything to do with her should it come to that

How’s that weddin’ sposta have class-out-the-ass without that clan in attendance? It’s gonna suck! That’ll learn people

 
 

I just avoid talking politics with him.

As a rule I try to avoid arguing with someone who is either cutting my hair or preparing my food.

 
 

As a rule I try to avoid arguing with someone who is either cutting my hair or preparing my food.

Also dentists.

 
 

As a rule I try to avoid arguing with someone who is either cutting my hair or preparing my food.

Also dentists.

Also, anyone with your life in their hands, like the person operating the vehicle you’re riding in. It’s why I kept my mouth shut when the limo driver taking me to Newark airport told me he was planning to retire to Florida “because they know how to treat the niggers there.” This while (quite illegally) cutting off a driver, because he was in front, and the guy in front has the right of way (no, you must yield right of way to the driver already in the lane, it’s just harder to prove, and every driver’s first duty is to avoid an accident, no matter who’s “in the right”). I’m sure that limo driver is happily ensconced in FL, packing heat and hoping some untermensch challenges him. If he hasn’t been smeared into the sand by one of the local rednecks for being a yankee prick, of course.

 
 

Also dentists.

Also cops.

 
 

BENGHAZI!

 
 

Lindsey Graham said,

March 18, 2014 at 0:05

BENGHAZI!

Um, could you specify what has your trunks in a twist this time? Other than the perennial BPWB, or BPWNotARepublican, of course.

 
 

the limo driver taking me to Newark airport told me he was planning to retire to Florida “because they know how to treat the niggers there.”

He couldn’t have. The Supreme Court says that racism is dead.

 
 

He couldn’t have. The Supreme Court says that racism is dead.

Right, right. Silly me. Who am I to believe, the SCOTUS or my lyin’ ears?

 
 

also owned that he and most of the family wouldn’t go to any wedding or have anything to do with her should it come to that…

That’s a good thing. Reduces the chances of FAIL by a comforting amount. I wouldn’t want any assholes like that at my wedding anyway. They’d all be mad because I won’t play Skynard or serve Budweiser. I’d also turn anyone wearing camo away. Not gonna have a bunch of losers ruin my wedding day or look like scuzbag rednecks in the photos. No thank you.

 
 

Lindsey Graham said,

March 18, 2014 at 0:05

BENGHAZI!

OK, I’ve seen the ad now, courtesy of Digby and CPP. Seriously, there’s so much wrong there, probably including “and” and “the,” to paraphrase Ms. McCarthy. Really? “Peace through strength?” And I can think of a “strong, conservative leader Who Gets Things Done,” but Mr. Putin is not someone anyone who’s supposed to be standing against tyranny should be admiring.

 
 

 I’d also turn anyone wearing camo away.

Do they make camo cummerbunds?

 
 

Do they make camo cummerbunds?

Sadly, yes.

 
 

RIP Clarissa Dickson Wright.

CDW on bubble and squeak: “It must be made with lard. If you can’t bring yourself to using lard then make something else.”

 
 

I’d also turn anyone wearing camo away

When we got married in Vantucky, er, Vancouver, we wore our spiffy new tuxes. When leaving the courthouse Teh Ho said of the numerous couples and firends gathered, “I didn’t expect everybody to dress up but I thought they’d at least put on a clean shirt.”

 
 

Oops.

 
 

Provider-

*Hug*

Yeah, that feeling is a rough one. While I try my best to be myself when out and I have a tendency to fuck with people who go out of their way to try and enforce their worldview on me (I was once lightly arms-around cuddling with my partner and girlfriend while waiting for our name to be called at a restaurant and got loudly called out by another patron who louder and louder noted that there were “children present”. I responded by telling both lovers that I needed to kiss them and then did so, much to the shock and rage of the complaintant in question), I still have moments where I can’t do much else but freeze as I try and process what happened and if I should respond (including a moment when a random guy spat at me and swore to God because I was wearing a skirt).

And there’s been times when I had to figure out if it was worth it to engage knowing that the bigot would feel more justified to get violent and knowing that if they did, the law would not treat me fairly even if I was the non-aggressor.

And I may not understand to the extent of being black in the age of Trayvon Martin, but I do understand being trans* the lingering fear in every encounter that a random bigot may easily decide your light rebuke or existence is an excuse for violence or murder.

In short, I echo the arguments that you were brave and tell you that it is perfectly normal to feel sheepish and ashamed that you weren’t able to do more. It’s part of the shit sandwich we get being minorities in America.

P.S. No worries on the post trampling. I’ve done it enough to you. 😉

 
 

Do they make camo cummerbunds?

Sadly, yes.

and sadly, it’s still a thing here…a young girl i know is in fact having camo and blaze orange as her wedding colors this may…

 
 

Speaking of racism… krugman nails it

oh, i say…that is excellent…

 
 

a young girl i know is in fact having camo and blaze orange as her wedding colors this may

I generally don’t let my leisure activities define my life like that.

I like to bicycle but I didn’t wear bike shorts to my wedding.

 
 

Wearing a condom could be discrete, but then it wouldn’t make a statement would it — although the requisite status might

 
zombie rotten mcdonald
 

As a rule I try to avoid arguing with someone who is either cutting my hair or preparing my food.

Also dentists.

Also Architects. No, most of us won’t hurt or kill you, but MAN, can we be annoying.

 
Smarter Than Your Average Bear
 

Not so bad up here living north of the 49th and all but when I do run into them I just shake my head and walk away. Just no point dealing with them they ain’t going to change their minds, at best they’ll grumble and walk away, at worst, especially if you are the proverbial 185 lb 98 lb. weakling like me and in your 60,s to boot, they’ll put you in the hospital (though damn few of them have the guts to actually get in a fight -with them it’s all mouth courage.)

 
 

And I may not understand to the extent of being black in the age of Trayvon Martin, but I do understand being trans* the lingering fear in every encounter that a random bigot may easily decide your light rebuke or existence is an excuse for violence or murder.

Cerb, hugs back atcha.

I personally think that you are singularly qualified to understand the plight of being black in these quadrants of the US of A, as is anyone else who might be subjected to a dose of daily “otherizing” by a synchronized pack of screeching Howler Monkeys who wear their racing striped underoos like a shit-stained badge of Honor.

In fact I am certain that you have had to put up with a wholesale raft of daily indignities at the hands of the pignorant, that would make my day to day seem like a walk in the fucking park.

I love you, buddy, your strength is an inspiration!

 
 

Never been gladder to live in the bowels of the city, where the only honkies are aging wretches like myself or the twenty-nothing hipsters, none of whom I’ve heard any such crap from (yet).

 
 

In response to the graybeard who suggested that Obama was gonna put a white woman in every bed of a black man

You showed amazing self-restraint by not responding, “It’s already happened, my friend. Ask yo’ mama!”

 
 

That was wonderful Comment, Cerb.

 
 

Am speaking like Russian. No articles. No prepositions. Not results of sloppy keyboard. Am like Russian.

 
 

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