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26 Feb 2016, 9:31 pm
Aristophanes wrote:
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yes, the grass is always greener. lots of wilderness out here alright, so I guess each place has its advantages.
Where is the island of defective toy santa's if you don't mind me asking?
southwestern Washington state, about 2 driving hours from the ocean.
what neck o' the woods do you call home?
26 Feb 2016, 9:36 pm
auntblabby wrote:
Aristophanes wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
yes, the grass is always greener. lots of wilderness out here alright, so I guess each place has its advantages.
Where is the island of defective toy santa's if you don't mind me asking?
southwestern Washington state, about 2 driving hours from the ocean.
what neck o' the woods do you call home?The stereotype is lots of rain in that area, I've never been, but aside from the constant cold rain (if it exists) it looks gorgeous in that area of the country.
Me: southwest Colorado, right near the four corners, snuggled gently between the western Rocky Mountains and the northern Sonoran desert outcropping...only place in the world where mountain forest meets high desert. Very dramatic.
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26 Feb 2016, 9:46 pm
Aristophanes wrote:
The stereotype is lots of rain in that area, I've never been, but aside from the constant cold rain (if it exists) it looks gorgeous in that area of the country. Me: southwest Colorado, right near the four corners, snuggled gently between the western Rocky Mountains and the northern Sonoran desert outcropping...only place in the world where mountain forest meets high desert. Very dramatic.
sounds purty
where I live averages 45 inches of rain per year. it seldom snows, but we are prone to hard freezes and gale-force winds. I can smell the ocean where I live because I live within a few miles of an ocean inlet [Puget Sound]. I see mt. rainier and the cascades from my neck o' the woods.
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26 Feb 2016, 9:53 pm
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It wasnt blackface, and putting a photo of those kids wearing a charcoal pore mask, that is very popular with that age group, online is not in any way politically incorrect.
It doesn't matter why it's all over the news. It bothers me that it happened and they were told to apologize for something they didn't do.
Why don't those trigger happy SJWs just sue the manufacturer if the fact that charcoal does the job and charcoal is black and facial pores get clogged so people put it on there upsets them so much? Make them take it off the market and take whatever they win in the start up a Victims R Us support group nationwide to help all these obviously severely hurting people?
Can you not even admit that it wasn't blackface and that it is black because the active ingredient is black, and they were using it according to the manufacturers instructions? Blackface is not the same as this mask. It photographed thicker and darker than it is. In the mirror it's a very grey color and the consistency of honey. It's obviously not makeup when you look at it. Can't you admit that it isn't what you keep calling it? Because if it is blackface then they should take it off the market, as blackface is offensive. Is it blackface or is it a charcoal containing pore mask?
It wasnt blackface, and putting a photo of those kids wearing a charcoal pore mask, that is very popular with that age group, online is not in any way politically incorrect.
It doesn't matter why it's all over the news. It bothers me that it happened and they were told to apologize for something they didn't do.
Why don't those trigger happy SJWs just sue the manufacturer if the fact that charcoal does the job and charcoal is black and facial pores get clogged so people put it on there upsets them so much? Make them take it off the market and take whatever they win in the start up a Victims R Us support group nationwide to help all these obviously severely hurting people?
Can you not even admit that it wasn't blackface and that it is black because the active ingredient is black, and they were using it according to the manufacturers instructions? Blackface is not the same as this mask. It photographed thicker and darker than it is. In the mirror it's a very grey color and the consistency of honey. It's obviously not makeup when you look at it. Can't you admit that it isn't what you keep calling it? Because if it is blackface then they should take it off the market, as blackface is offensive. Is it blackface or is it a charcoal containing pore mask?
I know they did it in all innocence, but they should apologize for being ignorant about the history of blackface. I almost made the same mistake on Halloween one year, when I dressed up as a shaman with a plastic bone through my nose. Only my own laziness saved me from covering myself in black paint.
No they don't. Nobody ever needs to apologize for not being taught something. If they were ignorant of the history of blackface then the fault would lie with those charges with teaching them history.
Also they weren't ignorant of the history of blackface. They simply failed to see that the mask could look like somebody painting up in blackface. They apologized for any offense they they accidentally caused, and explained that it didn't cross their minds. The fact that they didn't make the connection between how the mask looks and how blackface looks only means their minds didn't go there right then. That in itself is nothing to apologize for.
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