I see we have Schiano men posting attempts at humor and spelling.

As an actual Roma person I'm going to chime in and say a lot of the people saying stuff about "nomadic lifestyles" or "traveler culture" are talking out of their asses, as Romani people are mostly settled now, and are not culturally nomadic- Romani were forced to be nomadic due to racism, slavery, and historic "gypsy…

Oh man... I have written a lot of responses to this and deleted each of them in turn. I have felt offended by a lot of the comments on here, and then realised that I have no defence of us as a country.

I think rule number one should read: "1. Don't invite people who would force you to specify 'no blackface'."

Which "famous person from Africa" would this be? Also, I hope your entire guest list dies in a fire. In Africa.

Blah blah blah American assumptions about race bing bong bing how would they know? Skippity doo the Klan isn't necessarily racist yadda yadda yadda no one outside of the States has heard of blackface so it doesn't count kablamo whamo SO WE CAN'T EVEN LOVE AFRICA ANYMORE? zoobley zoo You're the real racists.

Counterpoint: fuck both these teams.

People have been telling America that the world hates it for years. Our citizens know it, believe me. They know it so well that they then turn around and use it to claim that their vacation to _________ was riddled with people who hated them for being American because _________ and boom, you've got a martyr complex,…

it was completely ignored and pushed down on groupthink. I really like so much about Jezebel.

No mention of any consequences for the actual asshole who wrote the email in the first place?

Oh, not at all. I was blithely referring to the cranky hordes of knee-jerk internet language police who love nothing better than joylessly pointing out grammatical errors and always, always committing solecisms of their own as they do it. And it seems to me to be slightly depressing that so many people on Jezebel who…

The prescriptivists shrieking that the world is going to pot, because the OED is letting in new slang, like a dictionary that's explicitly descriptivist would do, is so depressing. In many ways, it's like when people say "irregardless" because they think it will make them sound smarter.

I hateread these Jez articles. I love English and the words people create that become a part of our vernacular, because the evolution of language is interesting, as is the idea that it's not controlled completely by one group (it's like, totally a classist issue, you guys); instead, normal people invent words -…

I'm waiting for the "How to Draw Real Dicks" post so I can say:

Alright, entitled, middle-class white males, this lady is going to give you a lesson in terminology and reality.

Gee, should we root for the Luddites who hang on to traditional stats that can be arbitrary or do we embrace the smarmy assholes who treat you like a mongoloid if you dare question the almighty bible of SABRmetrics! Both sides are annoying douchebags. Watch the games, enjoy the sport and if you need to evaluate, be…

Kenny is the perfect example of someone who would rather the war continue forever, so that he can forever sneer down at the people who disagree with him, rather than to win. He doesn't enjoy being a baseball rationalist nearly so much as he enjoys ridiculing baseball irrationalists. It's stupid and dead boring.