YES We did!

[bewitched]

Originally Posted by katiesue

My mother will rise from the dead and smite you. She had a fit if you used the fabric sissors for anything but fabric.

I used to. Then I had a kid. Now I'm lucky if I can find the Preschool safety scissors.



(Actually, last month, I bought 2 pairs of really nice fabric scissors, snuck them in the house and hid them. Of course, that doesn't solve my paper cutting problem. )

[Not Afraid]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

I use fabric scissors to cut paper all the time. So there. Ha ha, take that fabric scissors! I even will cut paper with the zig zag fabric scissors. Snip snip, baby!

Zig zag scissors? What are you? some sort of cretin lefty? They're PINKING SHEARS!

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

Zig zag scissors? What are you? some sort of cretin lefty? They're PINKING SHEARS!

Pinking Schminking.

[Scrooge McSam]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Reparations now!

Testify, Brother GD!!

*so enjoying your rant, even though it's "mostly" in fun *

[Morrigoon]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Try going back to elementary school and having no choice but to do every single craft project with the sh*ttiest pair of scissors in the known universe. Worse, forced to actually FIGHT over them with the other lefty in the room (other 2 lefties if your class had 30 people) as if they were something of value, rather than torture devices. Entirely blunt. No, not entirely blunt. The cuttening edges are blunt. The metal in the finger holes (which of course had long ago lost the protective rubber coating) was honed, sharp enough to cut skin and sever nerves.

And there were all you wrongies, gleefully picking and choosing from the forest of bountiful green rubber coated handles, planted in the foul soil of brown scissor holders.

Reparations now!

At my school, the righty scissors had no protective coating, and the lefties got all the comfort a green plastic handle shell could provide. So I have no pity for you, heathen.

[SacTown Chronic]

Hard to believe this much complaining comes from only 10% of the population.

[SacTown Chronic]

For the record, 40% of our household (Crystal, Josh) are lefties. So to be honest, I'm painfully aware how much complaining anti-lefty bias there is out there.


Right-handedness is the reason I do all of the rolling, or so I'm told.

[JWBear]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

Zig zag scissors? What are you? some sort of cretin lefty? They're PINKING SHEARS!

You beat me to it!

[sleepyjeff]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

I must point out that I hated Bush long before he even ran for president. His record as executioner, er, governor of Texas cinched that opinion for me.

Fair enough.

[Jazzman]

Originally Posted by Alex

I still see no problem with saying that whites in general as a group average need to behave better on issues of race. This seems self evident and obvious.

Bullshyte again. Maybe thrity, forty years ago. In the 21st century that's over. Racism is no longer exclusive to whites, nor are whites even the largest practitioners of it. For every white bigot, I can show you a black, or brown, or [Insert Racial Demographic Here] one. If you want to say that the human race could all do better, then fine, I'll agree with that, but limit it to whites, or any single group? Bullshyte.

Originally Posted by Alex

Even if scaeagles and Jazzman are shining paragons of racial integration.

Well, I am probably one of the few whites posting here who actually has black relatives, so yeah, I'll take that compliment. Thanks. Better to walk the walk than only talk a (hopelessly naive and ignorant) talk.

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

And I'm going to file your responses on this topic under "Clueless."

So be it. I always thought you were more intelligent and had more courage than that, but if you don't have the cajones to be open minded enough to question the gospel that you've been indoctrinated with, then nobody can make you. Have fun living in your little fantasy world of self-hatred and ignorant white guilt. I'll enjoy my time in the realities of America in the 21st century.

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

When's the last time you were stopped and frisked by the police?

September of 2006. Pulled out, frisked and ticketed for a brake light that was out, or so the cop said. It sure looked lit up to me. Before that? I think it was '02 or '03. Crossing the 205 bridge, ticketed for going 63 in a 55. Cop decided to ask for permission (what a joke) to search my car. I was twenty minutes late to work.

But then, I guess that I just imagined those occurrences, since I'm a ruling class white and so privileged that those things can't happen to me here in White-merica.

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

This is absurd.

Yes, it is. Hopefully you'll catch on someday...

Originally Posted by Disneyphile

So, you mean to tell me that there are college scholarships available to whites, just as there are other race-exclusive ones? Please show me some, because I need money for school.

Me too! I keep coming across NAACP and UNCF scholarships, but I'll be damned if I can find the United White People's Scholarship Fund or my application for a grant from the Will Help Intelligent Thinkers to Educate Yourself Association. I did miss the last secret ruling class meeting though, so maybe it's already been awarded...