Counterpoint: he can really fuck things up at a place that is already plenty successful. In the weeks after he featured Defontes in Brooklyn they were just out of everything. It was like a run on the bank.
more like dim buttsmeller amirite
anhedon1c
With your own math you are losing 10 bucks, there. And I doubt sales would scale up that dramatically no matter how much you discounted it. The point is that you’ve got a captive market - most people already get the soda and popcorn out of habit, and I don’t think they are really that price sensitive. I think if you…
Yeah, it seems very possible that it’s just the same jagoff creating fake “drama.”
Yeah, all of the starbucks around me (in midtown NYC) are almost entirely staffed by African-Americans. God only knows what their training day is going to look like.
I seem to remember a New York Times story a few years back about a family who found out that their image was on a billboard ad in Brazil. They hadn’t even posed for a pro photographer or anything, IRRC the photo was just ganked from the web. Again, this was told as a funny/weird story, not some tragedy.
Even though this is an incredibly lame objection to a pretty good joke, I have to admit I had the same thought. “But there were no quarters involved!”
If only more people had them, we’d all be so safe.
Rochester Michigan, not Rochester New York.
Look, we’re all going to get up and dance to the big, rocking songs! We’ll do that for sure!
If you’ve been in NYC for a while perhaps you remember the WEP program.
At least a gate does something. Another gate of scandal has opened!
What if a bus driver were to appear in the middle of the scene, and he was like, “my bus broke down.”
In my opinion most porn is under-edited and way too long. It doesn’t have to be a real-time representation of a complete boning session from beginning to end. Make some strong choices, trust your audience!
To kind of clarify why I’m so annoyed with you at this point, lemme just isolate these two lines:
Nah, now you are just being intentionally obtuse. South Asians are indeed more affluent (looking up the median income of Indian-Americans, it is about double that of the white population in general.) But it’s fairly obvious that they lack social and cultural parity (or, to be precise, their parents’ generation…
But at the same time you gotta admit that Kondabolu definitely feels that he is being “punched down.” Here’s a theory - this seems like a reasonable complaint because Apu is actually not an absurd enough caricature. It seems unlikely that anybody would see Cletus or Bumblebee Man and say “that’s supposed to be me.”
Cultural marginalization is different than economic marginalization, though. If your family is successful and yet random people still treat you like a freak for absolutely no reason (which is the phenomenon the people in the doc describe), I’d think you’d be more pissed, not less.
Yeah, I feel like actually watching the Kondabolu piece is kind of a prerequisite for opining.
“as you made fun of everybody, you were in the clear.”