Stuff White People Like: GC Race War 2008

[OOhsoflyDELTA#9]

^^^^^^this lady I use to work with made me a bag caddy....its SOOOOO full right now that I started keeping them in the laundry closet ...ya just never know when you're going to need 1,913 plastic bags....

[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...

[DSTRen13]

Originally Posted by Senusret I

I don't know any black people who throw away plastic bags, except for the ones that throw them away because their bag of bags is full (like ours is right now).

My mama'd kill me if I didn't save my plastic bags, lol! Right now they are kind of taking up a significant amount of food storage space in my not-very-large apartment, tho', so something has got to be done ... I use them for trashcan liners for little trashcans, and to take my lunch to work in whenever I take my lunch, but I still have WAY more than I will ever use up

[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.

[AXi1257]

#51- Living by water

Yeah- that one if me. I don't know if that makes me a yuppie. Not sure what the blog is really about. It's not funny. I don't 'get' most of it and I'm one of those small town midwest white girls.

[TSteven]

Tea Partay

[Senusret I]

Originally Posted by TSteven

Tea Partay

I feel like some people on GC wish this is what their lives were like.

[SWTXBelle]

Some people on GC would have us believe that IS what their lives are like.

[DSTCHAOS]

LOL.

[Senusret I]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

Some people on GC would have us believe that IS what their lives are like.

That's really what I meant, but it was too early in the morning for me to think that clearly yet lol

[catiebug]

No, that;s the thread down the hall...

Seriously though, all I could think of when I saw that video was the Fratalicious one and his minions...

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

Some people on GC would have us believe that IS what their lives are like.

[nittanyalum]

Originally Posted by TSteven
Tea Partay

L. freakin' O. freakin' L.

Now these guys could definitely roll with their southern bros.

"High Tea in the parlor makes the ladies holler." -- classic!

[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::