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exploringpaganism:

sonneillonv:

infamousnfamous:

knittedlampshade:

stillcynicalstilladouche:

princess-marutchi:

infamousnfamous:

I’m on the soda side of the debate but can we agree that calling all carbonated drinks coke pretty much invalidates you input in this discussion pls

yes

Agreed

like how do they even differentiate between sodas like

no that does not work omg

“let’s go to the supermarket and pick up some coke”

“which coke?”

“the coke on sale”

“nah how about the other coke?”

“what other coke?”

“the coke next to the other coke next to the one one sale”

You know what I love?  I love when people who live outside a regional linguistic convention act like there is NO FUCKIN WAY that linguistic convention could POSSIBLY work, LOL those people are such idiots.

Except clearly it works.  It works fine.  Because we use it.  Listen, it’s literally NO HARDER than this:

Waiter: And to drink?

Me: Coke.

Waiter: Sure, what kind?

Me: Sprite.

End of discussion.  Not hard.

sooo… do you just say Coke twice if you actually want Coke to drink?

“Just regular Coke is fine, thanks.”

charminggoats:

shaebay:

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brittinreverse:

jasongracist:

daleksdonthavepeoplearms:

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an0thersociallyawkwardteenager:

daleksdonthavepeoplearms:

pussyjackson:

jasongracist:

pizzerpie:

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Grew up in Idaho. Everyone there says pop.

The pop vs. soda map.

lol I love how Virginia is the land of “WE DON’T FUCKING KNOW THIS IS TOO HARD SCREW IT I’M JUST DRINKING LIQUOR INSTEAD”

eliand504:

“To my chagrin, liberals living outside the South deny our existence, lump us all together by using rhetoric about the Confederacy and heap pity on us with a little condescension thrown in for good measure. They also seem to be unaware of nuance.

The fact is, liberals everywhere live among people who don’t share their views. Are you listening Wisconsin, Arizona, Indiana and, yes, New York? Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond are long dead. Michele Bachmann, Scott Walker and other Tea Party darlings are alive and well, and they aren’t all whistling Dixie.

If the Democrats are going to be a true majority party, they will need to build a coalition in all 50 states. So rather than see the South as a lost cause (pun intended), the Democratic Party and liberals north and west of us should put a lid on their regional biases and encourage the change that is possible here.”

Both the Maddow blog post and the original NYT article are great. And honestly, if the Yankees and Westerners could stop pointing fingers and painting us all with the same brush, the left would be getting even more support in the South. There are a lot of people around here who defensively move against the Dems because, hey, they’re pissed about being discounted, brushed aside, and often blatantly insulted.

Also worth pointing out that one of the big political kerfuffles this week is about a blatantly racist GOP chairman… in Maine. The South does not have a monopoly on conservative idiocy any more than the North and West have a monopoly on diversity, tolerance, and liberalism.

(via charminggoats)

Incurable Bluestocking Review: Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell

This is a book I read when I need a moral lesson.

Scarlett O’Hara is, for me, a cautionary tale — and probably not for the reasons you’d assume. I adore Scarlett, and I see so much of myself in her — and so she is a cautionary tale about the high cost of pride, about wanting the wrong things, about not appreciating what has real value. But she also has a lot of traits I admire — and most of what she gets vilified for as a woman wouldn’t be blinked at in a man. I would love to say they wouldn’t be blinked at now, in the 21st century, but, well, women are still held to far different standards than men. She’d get further now than she got in the 1860s, though, and she’d have a lot more company. She’s ruthless and intelligent, and once she gets a taste for where that can take her, once she gets to liking independence, who can blame her for wanting to cling to it? She has charm and knows how to use it. She’s passionate and high-spirited and makes no excuses for herself. She has an iron core. She acts with plenty of self-interest, but she’s not nearly as selfish as she gets painted; if she were, she’d never take on the burdens that she does, she would never do the things she does for the people who are dependent on her. All of that, I adore her for.

[…] This book is billed as one of the greatest romances of all time, but the more I return to it, the central relationship is actually less and less about Scarlett and Rhett, and more and more about Scarlett and Melanie. The biggest shame of the story is that Scarlett realises too late what a tremendous friend she has in Melanie — but I think it’s in her subconscious. Scarlett’s biggest problem, in many ways, is that she is not reflective by nature, that she never examines anyone’s feelings, including her own, beyond the surface of what they present. And so she doesn’t really consciously notice when she starts to genuinely care for Melly — which is, I believe, in the final days of her pregnancy — or when she starts to genuinely think better of her — which is, I believe, when Melly takes up the sword with the intention of helping Scarlett kill the Yankee. Melanie really is a brilliant character — unfailingly good, but not stupid for it, nor even as impractical as her husband Ashley. And so loyal, so undyingly, wonderfully, defiantly loyal. Who doesn’t yearn for a friend like that, who will loop her arm through yours and dare the world to challenge her for it?

Full review on the Incurable Bluestocking.

stfuconservatives:

breebreebobby:

911-pleasehold:

stfuconservatives:

Found on Facebook with this caption: “The New Jim Crow has these folks thinking they can call you a nigger to your face and dare you to say something about it.”

fucking seriously

Hahaha I’m sorry but that’s funny. But then again I’m southern

What a surprise; a white teenager whose Ask link says “ask it n****” is a flaming racist too. Where you’re from is not an excuse for racism. And putting “I’m sorry but” in front of it doesn’t help either.

FFS. I’m a Southerner, too, and this is atrocious, reprehensible, and ought to be utterly unacceptable in modern society. So please don’t try to justify your racist bullshit with “but then again I’m southern”. You do not speak for me, you do not speak for the entire region, and you’re making all of us look bad.

(Source: stfuconservatives, via stfuconservatives)