Stuff White People Like: GC Race War 2008

[srmom]

throw them away because their bag of bags is full (like ours is right now).

That's me to a tee. I keep thinking that I'll take them to the recycle bags spot at the grocery store, but instead, I just keep chucking the full bags of bags. I know, I'm probably going to hades for not jumping on the recycle bandwagon.

Have to say though, that my husband, who is in the plastic business
(name this movie quote:

I want to say one word to you. Just one word.
Benjamin: Yes, sir.
Mr. McGuire: Are you listening?
Benjamin: Yes, I am.
Mr. McGuire: Plastics.
Benjamin: Just how do you mean that, sir?)

Anyway, he says that many of the plastics recycling companies that he sells equipment to just throw away most of the recycleable plastics that they pick up, only grinding up the high dollar recycleable products. Don't know where bags fall in the economics of recycling.

[preciousjeni]

Thank you again, GC, for encouraging me to get some work done. LOL! I've been meaning to clean out my many bags of bags and get them under control. They've been taking over my cleaning pantry.

I've just finished counting and sorting and I have a total of 242 bags, mostly grocery but with some larger bags thrown in. I separated the little grocery bags from the others and put them in giant bags.

242 bags, y'all...

[Taualumna]

The dude behind the blog grew in Toronto

hmmmmm

[DSTCHAOS]

Originally Posted by Taualumna

The dude behind the blog grew in Toronto

hmmmmm

The most important thing to satisfy people's curiosity is that he is white.

I like the fact that they discuss how he's "self conscious of his whiteness." That's an excellent concept because for decades only racial and ethnic minorities were viewed as having a race and trends and patterns of behavior and culture. Whites (the Canadian and N American assimilation of different white ethnic groups from around the world) were the mainstream from which the practices of "others" derived and were perceived as different. "Whiteness studies" began in the social sciences because there was a need to study the pattern of attitudes, behaviors, and cultural practices of whites just as they had been studied from nonwhites for a century.

The Toronto part is interesting because it contributed to his knowledge of his whiteness. Whiteness studies were especially salient for the whites who grew up and mingle in contexts like this blogger did. They were the minority in their areas and had to hear nonwhites talk about their whiteness--kind of like how nonwhites have been hearing whites talk about them forever and have been self conscious in racial and ethnic heterogenous settings. Very interesting read.

[DSTCHAOS]

LOL.

[tld221]

this site is... funny, among other things. but i imagine it applies to ppl on the coasts / in big cities.

::has paid $7+ for a sandwich and it was quite tasty::

[DSTCHAOS]

I just drenched my Arby's turkey sandwich with a huge goooblygob of mayo. Even used it as dipping sauce towards the end. YUM!

[skylark]

An update: http://www.observer.com/2008/stuff-w...-least-350-000

It appears the guy who is in charge of this site was offered a major book deal. The publisher seems to be a fan of other things that we GCers like... according to the article the publisher has signed to create an LOLCats book with the I Can Haz Cheeseburger site creator and a Chuck Norris facts book.

[Senusret I]

Originally Posted by skylark

An update: http://www.observer.com/2008/stuff-w...-least-350-000

It appears the guy who is in charge of this site was offered a major book deal. The publisher seems to be a fan of other things that we GCers like... according to the article the publisher has signed to create an LOLCats book with the I Can Haz Cheeseburger site creator and a Chuck Norris facts book.

woooooooooooooow

It's almost like GC opened its own publishing house!

[nittanyalum]

I hope there's a chapter on Chuck's NPC recruitment. *crosses fingers*

[Taualumna]

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