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Here we are, two days after The Morgatory Blizzander took exception to one of my submissions that was approved by another ed. Strange, because TMB is not even an ed, he is only a coder, from what I understand, so how could his objection overrule the decision of an editor? The result, as documented in my last journal, is that my submission has been deep sixed, marked as hidden, so that it is not in the queue, not in the pre-queue, not anywhere! I request, respectfully, that the eds cease this act of censorship. TMB's objections are no more valid than mine, and since I thought this particular article important enough to be a submission to SoylentNews, TMB's objections are noted, but now I think he may actually be a Nazi. Which, as a Native American, seems strange. But I do remember a scene in the movie "Under the Volcano", starring Albert Finney, where a Metis riding on a bus, and wearing a National Socialist Party Pin, harasses a full-blood Native American Mexican. And then it hit me! Not about racial purity at all, since the half-breeds could feel superior to the full bloods, as long as they were not of the "right" blood. TMB is a mongrel. Not that there is anything wrong with that, I am one, too! But to object to an investigative piece looking into the alt-right, because he is afraid, and I repeat, AFRAID, that I am calling him a Nazi? Methinks the Buzzard protests too much. Let my submission go, eds! Let it go.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday September 29 2017, @02:48PM (5 children)
Would you remind me, sometime next year, to put this on the list of things to give a damn about? Or, next decade. I'm in no rush, after all.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 3, Informative) by aristarchus on Friday September 29 2017, @04:17PM (4 children)
Bohemian rhapsody, Runaway, the proper response is: "We will not let it go!" Followed at some point by "Scaramouche! Scaramouche! Can you do the fandango?" Or, I guess, you could just tell us what you think. Again. Frumping Nazis!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday September 30 2017, @12:56AM (3 children)
Uh-huh - but - how many Bohemians are there on the forum?
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Saturday September 30 2017, @03:56AM (1 child)
Know your Slavs, since you are one, Runaway. Bohemians are everywhere. It was originally the kingdom that had Prague as it's capital, now part of the Czech Republic, formerly part of Czechoslovakia.
As for the Rhapsody, I cannot tell if you have missed the cultural reference, or you are just being Runaway. So, here!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ9rUzIMcZQ [youtube.com]
Queen, "Bohemian Rhapsody", Featured in "Wayne's World"
Enjoy.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday September 30 2017, @02:34PM
*sigh*
I WAS just jerking your chain. No one in the US of A over the age of about 6 has never heard the song. Radio, internet, home stereo, a friend's house - whatever. And, of course, the song doesn't refer to a Bohemian ethnicity, it refers to the alternative definitions:
Bohemian
adjective
1. (often not cap.) unconventional, alternative, artistic, exotic, way-out (informal), eccentric, avant-garde, off-the-wall (slang), unorthodox, arty (informal), oddball (informal), offbeat, left bank, nonconformist, outré, out there (slang), boho bohemian pre-war poets
unconventional conservative, square (informal), conventional, bourgeois, stuffy, straight (slang), straight-laced, Pooterish
noun
1. (often not cap.) nonconformist, rebel, radical, eccentric, maverick, hippy, dropout, individualist, beatnik, iconoclast, boho I am a bohemian. I have no roots.
Take your pick, you can make most of those work. Or, you can use Romany, or Gypsy. The song will have the same meaning with any of those terms.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Monday October 02 2017, @09:44AM
Bohemians were rather good at killing Nazis, even after they invaded their country. Perhaps you have heard of Operation Anthropoid [wikipedia.org]?
This is why I, for one, so enjoy the movie "Inglorious Bastards", just for what could have been. And, at least Inglorious bastards are patriots, and not some deplorable Nazi sympathizing white cuck Southern Conservative Hillbilly livestock-molesting Republicans.
Only takes a few dedicated Bohemians, that's all I'm saying.