BS: a different perspective...

Subject: BS: a different perspective...
From: tarheel
Date: 09 May 06 - 11:56 PM

OLE'!!!!
A different perspective

On May 1st, as a result of the Mexican boycott, national retailers
reported 4.2% lower sales for the day, with a 78.8% reduction in
shoplifting.

Buenos dias!
tarheel    lol!

Subject: RE: BS: a different perspective...
From: Joe Offer
Date: 09 May 06 - 11:58 PM

I'd like to see documentation of that shoplifting percentage. Sounds like pure bigotry to me.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BS: a different perspective...
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 May 06 - 11:59 PM

And what about mango-picking, tarheel? That's the part that really concerns me.

Subject: RE: BS: a different perspective...
From: heric
Date: 10 May 06 - 12:07 AM

Of course its pure bigotry. I'd heard on a different thread yesterday that tarheel made an offensive racist joke, and I was bummed because I like racist jokes, any race, gender, ethnicity, heritage, religion, orientation, I like them all equally! But this is not even reminiscent of a joke.

Subject: RE: BS: a different perspective...
From: M.Ted
Date: 10 May 06 - 12:51 AM

Tarheel just made an offensive racist joke here, heric--and, typical of tarheel, it isn't much of a joke, it's just offensive. That's what inbreeding does.

Subject: RE: BS: a different perspective...
From: Peace
Date: 10 May 06 - 08:13 PM

Sad.

Subject: RE: BS: a different perspective...
From: gnu
Date: 10 May 06 - 08:19 PM

Ahhh....

Subject: RE: BS: a different perspective...
From: SINSULL
Date: 10 May 06 - 08:27 PM

Speechless and extremely disappointed. Maybe not speechless - tarheel, doesn't your Jesus care about the mexicans, whether saints or sinners? Why don't you?
Mary

Subject: RE: BS: a different perspective...
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 11 May 06 - 09:08 AM

As a southerner who has embraced principles of equality, I used to get offended by the attitudes expressed by people like Tarheel. Now I'm just thankful most of them will be dead in a few years.

Subject: RE: BS: a different perspective...
From: Janie
Date: 11 May 06 - 10:00 AM

Tarheel, your bigotry sickens me.

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: a different perspective...
From: CarolC
Date: 11 May 06 - 10:25 AM

I did some research on shoplifting last night. One thing I found was that a lot of shoplifters belong to a group of which tarheel is a member, namely, senior citizens.

I also found out that the sites that provide instruction on how to reduce financial losses from shoplifting do not mention "Mexicans" as being a significantly greater risk for shoplifting than any other ethnicity or nationality.

Shoplifting is a serious problem, and isn't really very funny. Bigotry is also a serious problem and it's not at all funny.

Subject: RE: BS: a different perspective...
From: tarheel
Date: 11 May 06 - 03:07 PM

someone sent it me
whether the facts are correct or not,it's worth LAUGHING over...
GEEZZZZZ,i've already been dubbed a BIGOT because i passed this on to other sites...
geeezzzz,what has happened to a littlle LEVITY in our country!!!
everyone takes everything so damn serious anymore
and...it's all because of the DAMN POLITICALLY CORRECT CROWD!!!
well,they know wehere they can STICK IT TOO!
TAR...

Subject: RE: BS: a different perspective...
From: catspaw49
Date: 11 May 06 - 03:18 PM

Trying to argue with an idiot is a complete waste of time.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: a different perspective...
From: number 6
Date: 11 May 06 - 03:24 PM

"I did some research on shoplifting last night. One thing I found was that a lot of shoplifters belong to a group of which tarheel is a member, namely, senior citizens."

That explains why my 87yr old mother-in-law and friend (around the same age) where stopped and checked by the security in their local Walmart. Of course they didn't steal anything, and certainly wouldn't .. but overall somewhat cruel as these ladies were very shook up.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: a different perspective...
From: Janie
Date: 11 May 06 - 03:37 PM

Lots of things are funny, Tarheel. Bigotry is not one of them.

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: a different perspective...
From: number 6
Date: 11 May 06 - 03:38 PM

Bigotry is cruel ... period.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: a different perspective...
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 11 May 06 - 04:02 PM

CarolC said:

I did some research on shoplifting last night. One thing I found was that a lot of shoplifters belong to a group of which tarheel is a member, namely, senior citizens.


"A lot of shoplifters"???   What is "a lot"?

Does that mean 10%? Seeing how many shoplifters there are, that's a lot.

Does that mean 20%?   That's more, but is it "a lot"?

50%? Now if you said 50%, that would not only be "a lot", but it would probably be significant.

Even 1% is a lot of shoplifters.

If you gave SOME measure it would be helpful. "Most"? "Nearly all"?
The preponderance"? "A larger proportion than their presence in the population"? Those might mean something.

But "a lot"?   No. Completely meaningless. Merely designed to have something to hit Tarheel over the head with.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: a different perspective...
From: CarolC
Date: 11 May 06 - 05:28 PM

If I remember correctly, Dave, it's over ten percent, but under twenty.

tarheel, I don't think you would find similar jokes very funny if they were being made at your expense.

Subject: RE: BS: a different perspective...
From: CarolC
Date: 11 May 06 - 05:35 PM

Problem with jokes like that one, tarheel, is that if they are repeated often enough (and they do tend to get repeated quite a lot), people start to believe them. And when that happens, it's not a joke any more. It's a tragedy.

Subject: RE: BS: a different perspective...
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 11 May 06 - 08:23 PM

Shouldn't jokes be funny?

I just read that opening post by tarheel as an alleged statistic, not as a joke. If true nothing to laugh about, if false - which I take it to be - pretty nasty.

Subject: RE: BS: a different perspective...
From: dianavan
Date: 11 May 06 - 08:46 PM

Tarheel - I'm not even Christian and I know this tune from childhood,

"Jesus loves the little children

All the children of the world

Yellow, red or black or white

They are precious in his sight

Jesus loves the little children of the world.


How can a person claim to be a Christian and make malicious jokes about minorities? Most people learn to put themselves in the other guy's shoes when they are about ten years old.

Tarheel, have you ever heard about the Golden Rule?

Subject: RE: BS: a different perspective...
From: Susu's Hubby
Date: 11 May 06 - 09:30 PM

Don't sweat it, Tarheel.

I got a laugh out of it.

Just like what Davy Crockett said whenever he looked over the walls of the Alamo and witnessed 4,000 mexicans running towards him.

"Where'd all those roofers come from?"


Hubby

Subject: RE: BS: a different perspective...
From: tarheel
Date: 11 May 06 - 09:53 PM

well,number 6....there's an old charlie poole song called"old and grey and only in the way"!...and the last part of the chorus goes ..."so remember while you're young,old age to you will come ...and you'll be old, and grey,and only in the way!"
!!!!
it will come to you so fast number 6,you'll wonder where the time went!!!!
btw...[deleted for gratuitous vulgarity]

Subject: RE: BS: a different perspective...
From: bobad
Date: 11 May 06 - 10:34 PM

'Don't sweat it, Tarheel.

I got a laugh out of it."

Another christian bigot - makes me proud to be an atheist.

Subject: RE: BS: a different perspective...
From: Peace
Date: 11 May 06 - 11:17 PM

"it will come to you so fast number 6,you'll wonder where the time went!!!!
btw...deleted for gratuitous vulgarity!!!!"



To think that just a few days back, sIx was the guy who said the following on another thread you started:



"Subject: RE: BS: tarheel's wife...
From: number 6 - PM
Date: 06 May 06 - 02:21 PM

Peggi has my thoughts and prayers Tarheel.

sIx"

Subject: RE: BS: a different perspective...
From: Peace
Date: 11 May 06 - 11:20 PM

Tarheel, where is the Christian who just a while back was asking folks to send prayers? Where is that guy right now?

Subject: RE: BS: a different perspective...
From: Susu's Hubby
Date: 12 May 06 - 07:31 AM

Oh come on.

You guys need to take the big stick out of your butts.
It's a little thing called humor. I think your local college may offer some classes you can take to help you recognize what it is.

Lighten up...life is too short to be so serious all the time.


Hubby

Subject: RE: BS: a different perspective...
From: Paul Burke
Date: 12 May 06 - 07:49 AM

Racist "humour" is never funny, especially "humour" that stereotypes groups as criminal or otherwise socially offensive. Or do I have to tell you a joke about a thieving, smelly Jew to get you to understand?

Subject: RE: BS: a different perspective...
From: Susu's Hubby
Date: 12 May 06 - 08:08 AM

Paul,

Whoa, wait a minute. My grandfather died in a concentration camp.


Some things are just not funny.



He got drunk and fell out of a guard tower!


Hubby

Subject: RE: BS: a different perspective...
From: bobad
Date: 12 May 06 - 09:04 AM

Man, some people just don't get it.

Subject: RE: BS: a different perspective...
From: CarolC
Date: 12 May 06 - 02:05 PM

He got drunk and fell out of a guard tower!

Now that, I can believe.

Hubster, are you a member of the "Christian Identity Movement"?

Subject: RE: BS: a different perspective...
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 12 May 06 - 03:13 PM

Has anybody actually checked if these figures are true or not?

All I can find for them is alot of forum amd blogs posts, and none from anything resembling a news organisation, which seems odd if they're true...

Subject: RE: BS: a different perspective...
From: CarolC
Date: 12 May 06 - 03:31 PM

I tried to, but all I got was what I've already posted.

Subject: RE: BS: a different perspective...
From: GUEST,heric
Date: 12 May 06 - 04:02 PM

oh for crying out loud . . . .

No I haven't checked them out and no they're not true.

Subject: RE: BS: a different perspective...
From: Big Mick
Date: 12 May 06 - 04:15 PM

Note to tarheel and Susu's Hubby. Nothing, I repeat, nothing is funny about your jokes. You have shown yourself to have absolutely no sensitivity to others at all. Racism, and jokes about concentration camps don't cut it here. You have forever changed my view of both of you.

Mick