I’ll call my wife that because of how good she is grabbing things with her feet, but won’t use it in public simply because I don’t want people to misunderstand.

Yes, but in all white dominant, western, even European countries, “monkey” or “ape” has long been a racial slur for black people. “It’s not the US” isn’t an excuse. Someone should have caught on, it’s a big enough issue, and even Sweden and the UK are diverse enough for this to be a big deal. While, most of Europe…

I’m sure it’s happened to every black hockey player. I still remember the racist vitriol flung at Joel Ward after he scored the series-winning overtime goal for the Caps in Boston back in 2012. Like, holy shit, what is the matter with people? I think he said during an interview that he faced a lot of bullshit because…

I would imagine (I’m not black, so all I can do is imagine here) that black people seeing a black kid wearing that hoodie in real life would not be as offended as they would be seeing the ad on H&M’s site.

i feel like i should start a Non-Apology Jar. like a Swear Jar, i put a dollar in it every time i see some stupid fucking racist/sexist/homophobic/garden-variety asshole make some fucking “i’m sorry if you were offended” non-apology. it may very well fund my retirement (and might be the only way to do it, frankly).

This is not an instance of - you noticing it says more about you than the issue at hand. Sometimes that does occur and people are overreactionary. However this is not that at all. Someone lined up all the kids, styled them, took pictures and no one thought to bring this up? And then it got published. How many people…

It is still a very racially charged term. In Europe black soccer players and even politicians have had bananas thrown at them fairly recently. You can’t ignore that history because kids and animals = cute.

While I agree (and it would be a little more understandable if this was just some random black kid IRL who decided he liked that sweatshirt), this still isn’t the sort of thing you’d want to take a chance with online; put the black kid in literally any other of the sweatshirts, and use a white kid (or really, just NOT…

Counterpoint: this country has a history of violence towards African Americans and you need to be sensistive to such realities. Sorry if in your white bubble something as racist as calling a black child a monkey is okay to you

I’ve lived in NJ for nearly 20 years and I will legit stab someone if they start making us pump gas. I know how to do it, that’s fine, but it was TWO DEGREES this morning and I didn’t have to get out of my warm car to do it. Nor do I have to when it’s raining, windy, my hair looks weird, I am in pajama pants, it’s too…

Harsh (not you, but in general). Up here, if we hit a full service station, we always throw a buck (or more if it’s deathly cold) to the attendant.

Or you can blow $2 and not expect any return, but if you do win the jackpot, that’s a heck of an investment.

You can ask anyone from Minnesota to pump your gas for you and they’ll do it.

I bet that kind of waste could be entirely offset by her staying home.

Heated seats are nice. Heated steering wheels are the greatest creature comfort put into a car since AC and the radio.

I used to love getting gas in Jersey, because it was always SO MUCH cheaper there than in NYC. Back in the summer of 2008 when gas prices got really stupid, it actually made sense for me to drive into New Jersey and back (paying like $12 in tolls plus using like 40 miles of gas) to fill up, because the price…

I do the opposite - gas in NJ is usually cheaper and I don’t have to get out and pump it - win/win!

Screw that. As someone who lives here and is smart enough not to get gas on the NJ Turnpike (the only place that line exists), I’ll happily stay in my own car when its 10 degrees outside.

Yep. Its against the law for them to let you pump, not for you to pump. You aren’t the one fined, the station is.

Yeah until recently with the tax changes, gas was routinely 50 cents cheaper in NJ than in neighboring states. It’s still cheaper. I’ll always aim to fill up in NJ.