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poindexter
May 12, 2003, 5:09 PM
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I know, so when some one asked how many beaners i own, i tell them the truth, 3 on the farm and 2 in the kitchen. whats the big fuss? by the way, why dont mexicans have BBQ's? the beans keep falling through the grill.
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centmass
May 12, 2003, 5:29 PM
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All Americans should adopt the Mexican word for carabiners: "karabina."
The abbreviation is "'bina" pronounced BUY-na, kind of like the first part of banana. This will help prevent confusion amongst the growing angry latino minority.
Keep safe and choose your words wisely, it is a very dangerous world out there.
-centmass
To the theme of Rawhide:
"Trolling, trolling, trolling, keep those trollies trolling..."
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calfcramp
May 12, 2003, 6:48 PM
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Well I'm shocked and dismayed that we have enough time to talk about such boring crap. Slow day at work...
But, for someone to fly off the handle after hearing what he thinks might have been a racial slur, clearly without knowing what the context is, is frickin' nuts. There are other words for people like that. Nuts. Apologies to any legume lovers out there...
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grigriese
May 12, 2003, 7:58 PM
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Some people are just waiting to be offended by something.
I'm half Thai and half American. I get cr@p from my asian friends about being white and I get teased by my non-asian friends about being asian. Give me a break, I honestly can not believe that people actually avoid calling a carabiner a biner! WHO CARES!!!
Signed,
slant eyed white girl!!!
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grigriese
May 14, 2003, 5:15 PM
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Hahahaha -
Thanks for my first laugh of the day, Jay!!
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Slant Eyed White Girl
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neadamthal
May 14, 2003, 5:19 PM
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In reply to: Es verdad! My mom, who is Chicana, thinks it's pretty funny, actually. Beaner/Biner isn't nearly as annoying as rappel/repel/repell. IT'S RAPPEL, DAMMIT!! ARG! :x
hear hear!!! i cringe everytime i see it spelled repel. learn to spell people!!! communication is all about clarity...
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corpse
May 14, 2003, 7:26 PM
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Next time I rap down and yelling "RAPPING" - I think I'll sing some eminem or ICP on the way down - maybe it'll make the RAPPEL funner.
I'll have to think seriously about it, I'd prolly get stoned by my fellow climbers (the bad stoned - not the good stoned :wink:)
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drkodos
May 14, 2003, 8:36 PM
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It's tomato...
...not tomato....
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climbsomething
May 14, 2003, 9:23 PM
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heheh :lol:
*sneezes in Jay TANZMAN'S general direction* a-jew! a-jew!
:roll: ;) Sometimes, you just gotta lighten up!
Paz y amor,
~Hilaria
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dingus
May 14, 2003, 9:30 PM
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In reply to: This is ridiculous... should I get insulted everytime somebody says "pass the crackers" or "does anyone want some cheese and crackers?". :roll:
Well... maybe you should? Hehe.
DMT
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robmcc
May 14, 2003, 9:52 PM
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In reply to: Look. Last summer a friend and I were climbing and some white guy said something about his beaner being sticky and my friend, being a very aggressive latino, beat him down. It sucked for the stupid white kid...
Ok, I'm curious. And you did what? You, apparently knowing what was really meant, just let it happen? There's nothing stupid about the "white kid". Prior to reading this thread, I didn't know that "beaner" was an ethnic slur. Climbers, in my experience, talk about biners all the time and it invariably refers carabiners. Only towards the end of the thread did I figure out maybe what it's supposed to mean. I'm not stupid, but I may be ignorant in the area of racial slurs. They don't find their way into my vocabulary. I still don't really get it beyond latinos find it insulting.
It should have been a bad day for your friend, ending in a jail cell. "Beat[ing] him down" is clear assault and battery. Completely misconstruing an innocent comment as an insult would go nowhere as a defense. I'd much rather see violent, er..."very aggressive" people put away than have to worry that the totally innocent word I might next speak might send someone into a violent rage. Imagine, "Pass me that runner" and a Kenyan beats me up (Top distance runners are disproportionately Kenyan, if you don't follow that sport). Thanks, google. In the last 3 years, the winners of the Boston Marathon (men/women) have included 4 Kenyans, 1 Russian, 1 Korean. Does "sling" get anybody's panties in a bunch? Should I not say "panties in a bunch" because it makes women angry? Damn, did I just offend men who wear panties by assuming that only women would be offended by that? I mean, if you're a guy who likes to wear panties, it's none of my business. Whatever trips your trigger. #^%@! No offense to the anti-gun crowd intended.
I just don't get it. It's a nasty, sad, messy world out there sometimes, and all the time in some places. To choose to be offended by something innocent when a lot of people are getting worse treatment than hearing words they don't like... Nope, I just don't get it. "Climbsomething"'s got it. Sometimes you just have to lighten up.
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dingus
May 14, 2003, 10:13 PM
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In reply to: I still don't really get it beyond latinos find it insulting.
I don't know about all Latinos, but Mexicans in particular like to eat refried beans with most meals. It's a staple of their diet, especially for the poorer families. Get it... they eat a lot of beans? I'm perfectly serious.
So calling them beaners is a stab for being Mexican, for eating beans and for being poor. Triple Whammy.
DMT
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kixrox
May 14, 2003, 11:00 PM
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Dog just bit me.
Heard me say I was 'dog' tired.
Of course I'm known for being insensitive and blunt.
BINER, BINER, BINER!!!!!!
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totigers
May 14, 2003, 11:19 PM
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I'm half Mex too and the last time some one asked for a biner to clip in, I was hanging on the side of a rock.
People got to get over it. It's a tool, not an ethnic slang slur.
Got to see what is around you and forget what you came out of.
A biner is a biner even if you call it a beaner.
It's the term. Get use to it.
Now if I want to toss slang at you, then I'll just call you a biner and you wouldn't know the difference but to say that would also mean that I think you are to dumb to know the difference.
So in conclusion, be smart enough to know the difference between the Beaner and the Biner. It's like There and Their. different but the same well not.
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jomamazaho
May 14, 2003, 11:31 PM
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dang str8 man. People just need to get over all the stupid things they get offended about. I'm a white boy and some people call me an albino or some stupid stuff like that, and i don't really care, it's just an adjective. And if you say biner when your in a converstation about climbing and someone gets offended you should just stab them with a piton.
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phugganut
May 15, 2003, 12:32 AM
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In reply to: This is ridiculous... should I get insulted everytime somebody says "pass the crackers" or "does anyone want some cheese and crackers?". :roll:
Exactly!
I got flamed a bit for saying it before, but I'll say it again, because it's the absolute truth: Often when a person is offended, it says more about the person being offended than it does about the person doing the offending.
Man, people need to lighten up!!!
Edited b/c I messed up my own quote :oops:
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curt
May 15, 2003, 2:52 AM
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Boy, Jay--good thing you don't climb with any Muslims. THAT wouldn't be funny, would it? You better be careful so that you don't repel a beaner. Hehe. Also, Hillary, that tree problem looks pretty cool--what does it go at V1, V2 or so?
Curt
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bones
May 15, 2003, 4:43 AM
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powrslave, it sounds like you and your "aggressive latino" friend are the stupid kids in this case.
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