10/31 What are you dressing up as for Halloween?
\_ paolo, covered in blood
\_ an unemployed geek.
\_ ass pirates!
\_ Ahoy mate-y ...
\_ vampire, reusing old costume from many years ago.
\_ I convinced my (Chinese) friend to dress up as a Chinese
coal-miner (ie, from 1800's era). Will this be offensive?
\_ Everything is offensive to some person in the world.
\_ I convinced my (Anglo-Saxon) friend to dress up as a white
trash (ie, from 1950's KKK era). Will this be offensive?
\_ A white sheet is a white sheet. A ghost is a ghost. Is that
offensive? Yes, to some.
\_ What a horribly crafted counter-example (and poor indenting
to boot). The main difference between your example and mine
is that dressing up as a KKK member is offensive to other
people (namely, almost everyone) whereas dressing up as a
Chinese laborer would probably be offensive mainly to Chinese
people... which my friend is. I'm not convinced that the
costume is not offensive... just that your argument is
flawed.
\_ I am not familiar with the history. Were the Chinese
laborers used as coal miners? I thought they were
mostly working on the railway.
\_ er... yeah... I guess that is somewhat of a
weakness in the whole thing. But some must have
worked in coal mines too right?
\_ Jesus Christ carrying a big ol' cross on his back. Will this be
offensive? If not I will try harder.
\_ if you want to offend this crowd, why not dress up as a pico user?
\_ No.
\_ Try harder. Some Christians even do this (_and_ hang
themselves on crosses) around Easter.
\_ Yes, I see that now. Perhaps, also put a swastika across my
chest, and wear a big rubber dildo on a strap?
\_ Layoff survivor
\_ DotCom CEO or VC. Not sure yet which.
\_ Captain Save A Ho.
\_ E40, n***a! |
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