In the news today

[Sapphire]

A LOT. In an interview she had 10 margaritas already and she was completely sober and articulate. In 2007.

[XanBcoo]

700-Pound Woman Makes a Career Out of Eating -- a Lot

All of my hate...

Hope she dies on camera

[Sapphire]

Hope she dies on camera

I kind of want a 3-day subscription just so I can see her eat.

[Buffalobiian]

I kind of want a 3-day subscription just so I can see her eat.

You're going to add to her income?

I don't get why one would pay to see her eat though. i mean, there's other fat people who show you how they eat on youtube (animeniax linked one in the Eating thread before). How different can it be to watch some world-title fatty eat?

I don't get it.

[XanBcoo]

You're going to add to her income?

I don't get why one would pay to see her eat though. i mean, there's other fat people who show you how they eat on youtube (animeniax linked one in the Eating thread before). How different can it be to watch some world-title fatty eat?

I don't get it.

Some people have weird interests

[Buffalobiian]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_fetishism

Well Inflation is seen often enough in hentai, but that's about. The other stuff like 'stuffing a pillow up your shirt so you look pregnant' and 'eat so you won't fit through a doorway'... :S

[Sapphire]

You're going to add to her income?

Lapse of rationality. I don't know what came over me. As mentioned, I can just watch fat people eat on Youtube.

[Buffalobiian]

You know what?

I wonder if her 4 year old daughter has been conditioned to be one of those cute, otaku-dream imoutos who do all your house work and wake you up wth a cheery "Onii-chan~"

Every cloud has a silver lining. Even fat ones.

[Sapphire]

Her daughter is probably brainwashed into thinking being morbidly obese and on the verge of death gives you positive attention, or people like this should be worshiped and taken care of with utmost devotion.

[Sapphire]

Baby born 16-lbs.

Also, best interview ever.

[Assassin]

what kind of name is JaMichael? Seriously, what's with black people and names man?

[UChessmaster]

This is not a good news for the baby.

[XanBcoo]

what kind of name is JaMichael? Seriously, what's with black people and names man?

http://ideas.repec.org/a/tpr/qjecon/...3p767-805.html
http://www.slate.com/id/2116449/

The California data establish just how dissimilarly black and white parents have named their children over the past 25 years or so—a remnant, it seems, of the Black Power movement. The typical baby girl born in a black neighborhood in 1970 was given a name that was twice as common among blacks than whites. By 1980, she received a name that was 20 times more common among blacks. (Boys' names moved in the same direction but less aggressively—likely because parents of all races are less adventurous with boys' names than girls'.) Today, more than 40 percent of the black girls born in California in a given year receive a name that not one of the roughly 100,000 baby white girls received that year. Even more remarkably, nearly 30 percent of the black girls are given a name that is unique among every baby, white and black, born that year in California. (There were also 228 babies named Unique during the 1990s alone, and one each of Uneek, Uneque, and Uneqqee; virtually all of them were black.)

What kind of parent is most likely to give a child such a distinctively black name? The data offer a clear answer: an unmarried, low-income, undereducated, teenage mother from a black neighborhood who has a distinctively black name herself. Giving a child a super-black name would seem to be a black parent's signal of solidarity with her community—the flip side of the "acting white" phenomenon. White parents, meanwhile, often send as strong a signal in the opposite direction. More than 40 percent of the white babies are given names that are at least four times more common among whites.

[rockmanj]

http://ideas.repec.org/a/tpr/qjecon/...3p767-805.html
http://www.slate.com/id/2116449/

There you have it; although my siblings and I all have "mainstream" names. Unfortunately, my sister named her son "Arliss" (and she was in her 30s at the time). In no way is that a black name, but then again, it is not the 1800s either.

Seriously...Arliss!

[Animeniax]

There you have it; although my siblings and I all have "mainstream" names. Unfortunately, my sister named her son "Arliss" (and she was in her 30s at the time). In no way is that a black name, but then again, it is not the 1800s either.

Seriously...Arliss!

There was a show on HBO about a smooth talking Jewish sports agent named.... Arli$$.

[rockmanj]

There was a show on HBO about a smooth talking Jewish sports agent named.... Arli$$.

I remember, Sandra Oh played his secretary. But my sister has never heard of that show, and nobody in our family is Jewish. Well, the boy is 13 now, and still chooses to go by that (instead of his middle name), so more power to him.

[XanBcoo]

I saw some Hebrew names among a few of my black students this past year. Ezekiel, Isaiah, etc.

I also had Shaqaal, Domiasha, and Carennia, none of which are pronounced like they are spelled.

Then the more typical "black names". Marquise, Carrington, Torrian, Ruby, Destinee, Miracal, Tre'Mon, Trevion, Lanae, Kierra, and Ikea.

Fucking Ikea...

[Assertn]

So traffic in LA is so notoriously bad that them closing down one of the city's biggest freeways for one of the upcoming weekends is such a big deal, it's apparently become national news.

Here's the fuhrer's concerns about Carmaggedon

[Sapphire]

They sound pretty nice to me.

You people is RACIST. Do you freak out when Indians and Egyptians have weird names?

[XanBcoo]

They sound pretty nice to me.

Not saying the names or the students weren't nice, just giving personal examples.

Ikea was a bitch though. Fuck Ikea.