The common clay--you know... morons
so i was eating bbq at the bar with a friend. there was an older blue-collar white dude two seats down, and we were watching poker, with idle chitchat. i had just finished up an exchange with my friend when i tuned into the last two words that the older dude had said to the bartender:
"frau blucher".
so of course i said "nnneiiiighhhh!!!"
and the dude laughed a lot over the young frankenstein reference ad we got to BSing about mel brooks and somehow onto his racing trucks, computers, oil companies, war and such (as these things tend to go). the dude was totally racist. he wasn't towards the black buddy i was eating with--getting along well actually--but besides mentioning he categorically distrusts all towel-heads, for whatever reason, he distrusts the japanese as well, as if they intend to take over. ^_^ (how 80s..) while talking of computers and all he made clear that he's a man who works with his hands.. this was the minority of the conversation though, i handpicked items he mentioned in passing while enjoying discussing broader things. all things put together, i have to laugh my ass off, because i KNOW he has to know a joke in another mel brooks movie, blazing saddles:
Jim: You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons.
I can only wonder his opinion of that one... and further, isn't it supposed to be the jews (mel!) and not the japanese that have the cabal organized to intercede in the us? that was a new one on me anyway, but he was afraid of all the asians he saw filling the high stakes tables at vegas...
some of my more liberal friends who know my positions wonder at my ability to get on with those of more conservative mentalities (not to pigeonhole them as having a monopoly on poorly-founded opinionatedness, either..) but i just don't have it in me to wholly condemn them. i think many of them know better, but are deeply attached and proud of what they often see as a dying lifestyle, inclusive of its faults. and the political sins they enable are a secondary guilt, akin to all us meat-eaters, as opposed to as direct a consequential action as many would like to blame them for.
"frau blucher".
so of course i said "nnneiiiighhhh!!!"
and the dude laughed a lot over the young frankenstein reference ad we got to BSing about mel brooks and somehow onto his racing trucks, computers, oil companies, war and such (as these things tend to go). the dude was totally racist. he wasn't towards the black buddy i was eating with--getting along well actually--but besides mentioning he categorically distrusts all towel-heads, for whatever reason, he distrusts the japanese as well, as if they intend to take over. ^_^ (how 80s..) while talking of computers and all he made clear that he's a man who works with his hands.. this was the minority of the conversation though, i handpicked items he mentioned in passing while enjoying discussing broader things. all things put together, i have to laugh my ass off, because i KNOW he has to know a joke in another mel brooks movie, blazing saddles:
Jim: You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons.
I can only wonder his opinion of that one... and further, isn't it supposed to be the jews (mel!) and not the japanese that have the cabal organized to intercede in the us? that was a new one on me anyway, but he was afraid of all the asians he saw filling the high stakes tables at vegas...
some of my more liberal friends who know my positions wonder at my ability to get on with those of more conservative mentalities (not to pigeonhole them as having a monopoly on poorly-founded opinionatedness, either..) but i just don't have it in me to wholly condemn them. i think many of them know better, but are deeply attached and proud of what they often see as a dying lifestyle, inclusive of its faults. and the political sins they enable are a secondary guilt, akin to all us meat-eaters, as opposed to as direct a consequential action as many would like to blame them for.
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