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( HappyToast sorted on, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:36, archived)

ARGH!
McCain's in the Oval Office! RED ALERT!

Edit: pardon me, I forgot this: Woo!

AND, for the third time: www.b3ta.com/board/8904206#post8904233
( Awesome Welles petitioning for foetuses to be rebranded 'wombles', Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:37, archived)

some dick kicking a wall?
or do you mean www.b3ta.com/board/8904233 ?
( SkUG HAS BOUGHT A HOUSE - WOO YEAH!, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:43, archived)

Yes
That looks much neater. *tries to remember for future* Damned Toast making me run around everywhere...

*glowers*
( Awesome Welles petitioning for foetuses to be rebranded 'wombles', Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:45, archived)

haha
we an only hope

still love the nodding donkey on the desk :D
( Mushroom, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:37, archived)

I'm posting these in the hope that my positive mental attitide will simply make it happen
and counteract the innevitable call for a recount and then dodgy dealings from the Republicans
( HappyToast sorted on, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:39, archived)

like that godawful ending of Doctor Who the other year
if the rest of the world thinks "Obama Obama Obama" together, maybe it'll happen ;)
( Mushroom, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:40, archived)

hahahahah
that was appalling, perhaps the pinnacle of terrible Russel T Davies' scripting abilities
( HappyToast sorted on, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:41, archived)

you never saw
Love and Monsters, I take it? ;)
( Mushroom, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:46, archived)

They way I see it though
SO many people here are tired of Republican politics that there's really not much else of a choice. I'm just worried that the boys in sheets in the south won't off the man before he even takes the oath of office.

I'm absolutely amazed at the amount of bigotry that still exists here.
( Scoopzilla Cratchett is going to be a faazhaa, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:43, archived)

What, like the frequent generalisations about people
who live in the southern states?
( The Hedgehog From Hell, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:44, archived)

I have quite a few friends in the southern states
all of whom say that racism is still very much rife down there...
( Mushroom, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:50, archived)

I'm not arguing that, I've seen it myself.
I just get a bit tired of generalisations, whichever direction they're aimed in.
( The Hedgehog From Hell, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:53, archived)

You are so very correct...
But the inclination that it's ONLY in the south is wrong. It's EVERYWHERE! It's just more widely accepted in the south.
( Scoopzilla Cratchett is going to be a faazhaa, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:54, archived)

:)

( The Alchemist knows not does he?, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:53, archived)

I've been listening to interviews
it genuinely terrifies me the supposedly educated and privelaged people down there who seem to genuinely think Obama is the anti-christ, or Saddam Hussein with a mask on.
( HappyToast sorted on, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:44, archived)

Do you think the media will give prominence to
well-informed and erudite people who thoughtfully articulate their point of view? No, it's much more fun to pick a selection of barely-literate reactionaries and poke them with a stick until they start shouting.
( The Hedgehog From Hell, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:48, archived)

Do you mean to argue
That somewhere in this enormous country there isn't a group with the forethought to plan an assassination if the *insert derogatory slang here* gets elected?

I'm apologetic if I am generalizing, but this IS something I have witnessed first hand.
( Scoopzilla Cratchett is going to be a faazhaa, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:50, archived)

Absolutely, as I just said up there
I'm not arguing that there is still a lot of racism. Lumping entire populations into the same category strikes me as a counter-productive reaction to it though.
( The Hedgehog From Hell, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:56, archived)

you are right about that.
And as for the generalization I apologize.

I suppose though it was the two sixteen year old kids who kept muttering the slur "nigger"
under their breath to a nice woman and her daughter while waiting in line for the movies
in Texas that had me thrown. All the while the teens kept laughing and the lady did nothing.

Or perhaps it was the kindly sheriff in Oklahoma whom I saw trip a young black man as he
was running, watched him fall, then took out his gun and shouted "Where you goin' in such a hurry, boy?"

Or the fact that in nearly every major city south of the Mason Dixon it's whites out at night, blacks in the evening?

But I egress ;)

Really you are correct. Generalizations are not good things. I'm just worried that we as a country might do something as grown up as electing someone based on their beliefs and politics rather than their color and morality and someone will do something stupid that shows the REST of the world just how moronic we really are...
( Scoopzilla Cratchett is going to be a faazhaa, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 22:07, archived)

absolutely, but I never said they all were like that
It's just worrying that anyone who is meant to be educated and capable of weighing up the situation in terms of which candidate would bring about the best development for their country, turn it around from the economic issues, giv it a better image to the rest of the world, etc, would only vote for McCain because he's anti-abortion or not a slight (and highly unlikely) threat to their personal firearm collection.
( HappyToast sorted on, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:52, archived)

You can have my fully automatic
50mm assault rifle, purchased solely for the purpose of hunting, when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers...
( Scoopzilla Cratchett is going to be a faazhaa, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:56, archived)

Exactly this.
It's so much better to get quotes from people saying "I would not vote for Obama ... he scares me" (!!) than people saying "I disagree with his policies, or some such boring, non-stereotype.
( The Alchemist knows not does he?, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:57, archived)

THINK? Don't make me laugh/cry.
BELIEF is the new thinking, in some quarters.
( namdrah The cat whisperer, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:50, archived)

I daren't think what would happen if they actually fixed it.
{:-o
( namdrah The cat whisperer, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:43, archived)

This^^^^

( Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Ph.D., Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:40, archived)

donkey?

( SkUG HAS BOUGHT A HOUSE - WOO YEAH!, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:41, archived)

Oil pump thing

( HappyToast sorted on, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:41, archived)

i thought so...
is that the technical term for them?
( SkUG HAS BOUGHT A HOUSE - WOO YEAH!, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:42, archived)

no, that's a "ee-orr pumpy-pump"

( HappyToast sorted on, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:45, archived)

ahh just checking
:D
( SkUG HAS BOUGHT A HOUSE - WOO YEAH!, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:52, archived)

I love it!
*clicks*

you FP'ing bastard who is clearly superior to me....
( Scoopzilla Cratchett is going to be a faazhaa, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:38, archived)

only in the bedroom department ;P

( HappyToast sorted on, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:39, archived)

hot...
*gets lube*
( Scoopzilla Cratchett is going to be a faazhaa, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:41, archived)

?
( mictoboy, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:42, archived)

I'm struggling
Super kingsize triple divan with an electric blanket?
( namdrah The cat whisperer, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:46, archived)

:D

( HappyToast sorted on, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:46, archived)

haha. this is my prediction

(was going to work it into an animation, but i... couldn't be bothered)
( plentyofants can't start a fire without a spork, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:38, archived)

hahahahahahahaha*


* Texas voting Democrat... hahahaha!
( Mushroom, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:39, archived)

and alaska
(and mccain's arizona, come to think of it)
( plentyofants can't start a fire without a spork, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:39, archived)

Jamaica?

( HappyToast sorted on, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:40, archived)

must... resist... repost...

( The Hedgehog From Hell, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:41, archived)

hahaha!
Do the Citizen McKane one!
( Awesome Welles petitioning for foetuses to be rebranded 'wombles', Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:42, archived)

Nah, it's had a few boosts
but it's time to let it die with dignity now.
( The Hedgehog From Hell, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:43, archived)

could happen
i was there last year and most people i met were hella democrat
( Tom O'Bedlam Fuck Boom Rapist, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:40, archived)

That is may as well be,
but was that before or after they had a black man leading them?
( Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Ph.D., Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:41, archived)

i think you're getting them confused with alabamans

( Tom O'Bedlam Fuck Boom Rapist, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:43, archived)

just be one of those spanish guys
i never looked up who they were, actually
*researches*
( plentyofants can't start a fire without a spork, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:47, archived)

falangists?

( Tom O'Bedlam Fuck Boom Rapist, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:51, archived)

Pfft!
But let us not be fooled, Texans aren't much better. Don't forget where George W is from :D
( Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Ph.D., Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:49, archived)

christmas card anyone?
( SkUG HAS BOUGHT A HOUSE - WOO YEAH!, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:49, archived)

is that a third party?

( mictoboy, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:41, archived)

I think it's only happened once since the war
so no, it really really couldn't :P

-edit- my mistake, it's happened a few times since the war, '48, '60, '64, '68 and the last time was '76, but since then it's been one of the most solidly Republican states.
I don't think there's a chance in hell of it happening these days.
( Mushroom, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:43, archived)

needs more Hawaiian spurt ;D

( HappyToast sorted on, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:40, archived)

Pffft!
Needs more magenta.
( The Hedgehog From Hell, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:40, archived)

( plentyofants can't start a fire without a spork, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:42, archived)

Something very similar to this actually happened in 1968
when a third party candidate (George Wallace) was running
on a pro-segregation ticket and managed to win five states.


( kinks This is not an ah situation, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:59, archived)

given all those wallace ones would've normally been republican
that's a pretty poor democratic showing

and what? texas? the past truly is a different country
( plentyofants can't start a fire without a spork, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 22:10, archived)

Yahaarr!
Rather ironic that they coloured his state's brown, though! Maybe Rednecks secretly love brown cock?

On a serious note, it would also be interesting to see if any of the states that voted for a segregationist 40 years ago would now vote for a black president.
( Rico, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 22:16, archived)

How do you know that all the black dudes didn't vote for him
Afterall, segregation means everyone getting their own facilities. Maybe they didn't want to share drinking fountains with whitey either.
(Santa Clauswitheringlicktacklefeff won't ask if you don't tell, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 22:57, archived)

yay !
id vote for that for a dollar
( OneOfSome, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:40, archived)

I'd say
Alaska are probably bell ends too.
;)
( Holly Would www.b3ta.com/questions/imagechallenge/post585014, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:41, archived)

fake no bridge

( SkUG HAS BOUGHT A HOUSE - WOO YEAH!, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:44, archived)

lol ...... in a well-hung majority

( elvisweathercock finally got round to updating profile, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:47, archived)

Hahahahahaha
and yay!

( Flowerpot slip in heavenly piss, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:38, archived)

Wooness as per.

( Mstandot, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:38, archived)

Yay!
He's got natural rhythm, hasn't he?


What?
( The Hedgehog From Hell, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 21:40, archived)