who ever knew that china made balloons?
those balloons have floated over some american nations
causing all kinds of conniptions from hysterical snowflake gringo conservative buffoons
screeching - they are spy satellites!
evilly piloted above godsownlandia for dastardly nefarious reasons!
and war! war! war!
(what is it good for? - the military industrial complex)
OR
are they just weather balloons gone astray?
as is most fucking likely
shot down with a $380000 aim 9x missile?
como se dice 'overreaction' in gringlés?
imagine if it had looked like this!
there would have been a dino balloon induced nuclear armageddon!
(info and pic stolen from the estimable argenchino)
nemets
german
deutsch
aleman
tedesco
niemiecki
was zum teufel?
How did Asians go from being called “white” to “yellow”
In “The Travels of Marco Polo,” the people of China are described as “white.” Records left by eighteenth century missionaries also report the skin color of Japanese and other East Asian people as clearly white. Yet in the nineteenth century, this perception quietly gave way to descriptions as “yellow.” In travel books, scientific discourse, and works of art, portrayals of East Asians began presenting them as having yellow skin.What happened in between?
In his 2011 book “Becoming Yellow: A Short History of Racial Thinking,” National Taiwan University professor Michael Keevak delves deeply into the origins and history of how and why East Asians went from being seen as “white” to being classified as “yellow.”
The first suspect implicated in applying the “yellow” label to East Asian faces is the famed Carl Linnaeus (1707-78). At first, Linnaeus used the Latin adjective “fuscus,” meaning “dark,” to describe the skin color of Asians. But in the tenth edition of his 1758-9 “Systema Naturae,” he specified it with the term “luridus,” meaning “light yellow” or “pale.”
It was Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752-1840) who went beyond the coloring ascribed by Linnaeus to apply the completely different label of “Mongolianness.” Regarded as a founder of comparative anatomy, the German zoologist did more than just use the Latin word “gilvus,” meaning “light yellow,” to describe East Asian skin color: he also implicated the Mongols, a name with troubling and threatening connotations for Europeans with their memories of Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan, and Timur.
While the references remained anomalous at first, travelers to East Asia gradually began describing locals there more and more as “yellow.” By the nineteenth century, Keevak argued, the “yellow race” become a key part of anthropology.
But the yellow label came associated with discrimination, exclusion, and violence. Just as no one in the world is purely white or black, neither does anyone actually have skin that is deep yellow. By “creating” a skin color and investing traits such as “Mongolian eyes,” the Mongolian birthmark, and mongolism (the old name for Down syndrome), Westerners made the perceived yellow race synonymous with abnormality. They also responded to the arrival of immigrants from Asia by sounding the alarm over the “yellow peril” - a term with a whole range of negative associations from overpopulation to heathenism, economic competition, and political and social regression. The hidden agenda of this racial color-coding becomes apparent when one considers who benefits from a hierarchy that places “yellow” and “black” beneath “white.”
stolen from https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_international/753623.html
skill magill!
it could ALMOST make the proposed pub name of theplacewherepissedbastardshangoutat seem slightly bless absurd.
but it can't shan't and won't
picked from in your pocket
before side burns were known as such
they were known as burnsides
which took their name from ambrose burnside
a gringo uncivil war general
nb. he may also been known as 'that furry faced tosspot'
nb.2 they assumedly had several other names before the burnmeister, but you know, nothing noteworthy ever happened until gringolandia arrived on the scene.🙄
this years world cup has been happily FULL of surprises
THE SUPRISERS
saudi! beat argentina!
japan! beat germany and spain and topped the group!
morocco! beat belgium and canada, drew with croatia. topped the group!
australia! beat denmark and tunisia and through
THE SURPRISEES
germany! lost to japan and OUT!
belgium! lost to morocco and OUT!
denmark! lost to australia, drew with tunisia and OUT!
catarrh! lost all games despite spending billions on stealing other nations players and FIRST OUT!
TWATS
ronaldo! tried to claim a team mates goal and was generally true his nature (a prat)
suarez! still pleased with himself for blatant past cheating
FIFA! still counting their billions of rials and pretending that human lives/rights dont matter
I find covid's attention seeking pandemic based twattery even more annoying than years one to three...
we are now further past the date for the setting of george orwells envisioned dystopia than that time is from when he wrote it.
coño eh?
'Le jour de la commémoration de la nuit du pogrom du Reich, offrez-vous un fromage plus tendre avec le poulet croustillant. maintenant chez kfcheese.'
ouaip, tu l'as bien lu.
kfc en allemagne a envoye un message 'push' sur sa application que suggere de celebrer 'kristallnacht', l'evenement vu comme le commencement de la shoah allemagne des juifs. genial! on va se souvenir le genocide avec la poule et frommage!
bravo! vous avez mis le pied taille trente dans votre bouche corporative!
che cretino dalle basette gigantesche
spero che il suo patetico ritardato veicolo del cazzo si esploda alla partenza
vai tomar no cu!
but no
it wont
not for me anyway
ive been waiting for this gig for years
had my tix sitting in my inbox for months
new songs from new album to flog
new lineup to smash it
(with two drummers!)
and legendary new guitarist
taking the place of legendary old guitarist
making this version of the crunch
something of an oz supergruppo
of course
like all old bastards
i still wish it was the original lineup
from the belle epoque
with bully boy spot on the drums
jamming good with weird and gilly
but im not THAT sad of a bastard
who demands that time stands still
so i can witness exactly what blew my mind at the end of the victorian era
and those are truly plentiful
when it comes to bands like these
- yeah i mean, after bestie left the beatles
they were never the same
they sold out man
or
- ive got the third acetate audio microfiche of the first single
from andy lovely and the jubblies
all that wax cylinder shite is for try hards
nevermind all that bollocks
i was still keen to dig it and wiggle a bit from side to side
the few newies ive come across sound promising
so i was (un)guardedly emozionato about the show
and the reviews of the current tour have been ravey wavey
alas
it was not (to) essere
so its
left me lying here with you, tristesse
