Hi Lee M.
Sorry for not noticing your help problem.
I really don't know how to change that. Comics you assist show up automatically in your profile, they don't need editing to do that.
I'd suggest that Lorddrake take you off as an assistant and then remake you as one. Maybe that will fix things?
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Lee M wrote:
I posted the following on the Help forum a while back, but there's been no reply and I'm not sure anybody noticed it… so apologies for the repost, but I would appreciate a little assistance.
I've been a member for some time, but I've only just begun assisting Ed Kline on Nightshade the Merry Widow.
I'd like this to appear on my Profile where it says Comics Assisted By Lee M, but I can't find any way to edit that part. On the Help pages it says "You'll see an "edit" link for these", but I can't for the life of me see where. (Edit) And I don't know why the font changes mid-post.
Really sorry we didn't see your post there, Lee! Next time you have an issue please feel free to PQ me or send me an email (see address in my sig), I check my inbox regularly. :)
Just to add to oz's reply there - I believe the Help page is referring to the person who created the comic. So Ed Kline should go to edit-assistants, enter your username, and then click "request assistant." Once you've accepted, the comic should show up under your profile.
HippieVan wrote:Thanks, guys. I didn't realise the edit had to be made at the other end. I'll talk to Ed about it. Thanks.
Lee M wrote:
I posted the following on the Help forum a while back, but there's been no reply and I'm not sure anybody noticed it… so apologies for the repost, but I would appreciate a little assistance.
I've been a member for some time, but I've only just begun assisting Ed Kline on Nightshade the Merry Widow.
I'd like this to appear on my Profile where it says Comics Assisted By Lee M, but I can't find any way to edit that part. On the Help pages it says "You'll see an "edit" link for these", but I can't for the life of me see where. (Edit) And I don't know why the font changes mid-post.
Really sorry we didn't see your post there, Lee! Next time you have an issue please feel free to PQ me or send me an email (see address in my sig), I check my inbox regularly. :)
Just to add to oz's reply there - I believe the Help page is referring to the person who created the comic. So Ed Kline should go to edit-assistants, enter your username, and then click "request assistant." Once you've accepted, the comic should show up under your profile.
I am currently watching Jupiter Ascending and having one of the best laughs of my life. I took the movie too seriously when I started watching it earlier today, but now I am seeing it as a comedy (of errors) and the film suddenly became a lot more entertaining.
It is definitely not going to be up for any Oscars, but the acting is oddly delightful.
I tried to watch that film on the plane back from Euprope, but I just couldn't get into it. :(
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I took my good office shoes in to get repaird last week, and since then I've been wearing my riding boots to work. They're elastic sided ankle boots, high quality, well made, I've owned them for decades and they're still in fantastic condition. (probably because they rarely get any use)
But just yesterday the top of my left foot started to hurt badly when I walked in them and today it's much worse. Thank god the shoe repair people rang to say my normal shoes are ready to be picked up! SAVED!
My foot really feckn huuurts…
I mean, I have other smart shoes to work my way through, but I didn't want to waste them on the office. I was gonna buy new ones but I really do NOT want yet another pair of boring shoes to clutter up my room.
If someone says something obviously racist to me, I always try to sort of call it out. It's probably not a very useful thing to do, but it just feels wrong to say nothing and let someone babble racist nonsense. But a lot of the time people in my city (especially older people) will say things like "blah blah blah, and there was an ~aboriginal man~ passed out in the park blah blah blah." Like, why is it relevant that the person was aboriginal…unless that's supposed to mean something to me? I never know how to respond to that kind of thing. Really I just note them down in my head as *potential racist*. It always feels so awkward letting that sort of thing slip by in a conversation, though.
If someone goes out of their way to note the ethnicity or skin color of a person in distress I'll usually point out that is because often the statistics indicate they're at the bottom of the heap. An aboriginial man passed out? Well alcoholism and unemployment are epidemic in their population. One feeds into another and their misfortune is society's problem.
But then mostly working with blacks and Hispanics I get "there was a white guy…" or "there was a Pork chop…' (slang for Portugese) Whoa, that one's a (Dominican/Puerto Rican/Cuban et al). You know how they are!
Nope, I'm a white guy we lump all of your diversity together under one label just the same as you do with us. (he's a polock, that one's a Russian, crazy kraut, dumbass Southerner, drunken redneck…, Frigging white trash)
It all devolves into what I call "US- NOT US" mentality. It's not even US-THEM. It's our group and everyone who isn't in our group.
Growing up in a slightly different era to you Hippie, I would never have considered calling someone out on something like that because you would spend your whole day calling people out and have no time to do anything else. Since hooking up with my wife I stopped hearing it for obvious reasons, so I don't really know how much progress has been made - your post suggests at least some.
People would assume being white, you must also be a commited racist and they'd start spewing out ill informed xenophobic nonsense at any opportunity. Mini cab drivers were the worst - I stopped using them in the end, but teachers weren't far behind.
I got my shoes back… they cost $90 dollars to get fixed T_T
But my foot hurts way less atleast when I wear them.
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Institutional racisim can be weird.
There was this study that came out in Australia about a month or so ago about rates of imprisonment, poverty, drug addiction etc of "black" people in Australia Vs "Black" people in the US.
…I'll just let that sink in for a moment…
This "well meaning" survey made the magical, fantastical lightyear leap into assuming that people with dark skin are the same people wih the same issues… because of their skin.
OK, I'll break it down:
The survey compared black African American people who make up like around 15% of the population or something, who's herritage involves immigration and being brought to the country as slaves originally etc etc
Comparing them with Austrlian aboriginal people who make up around 2% of the population, who are NATIVE to the country.
Obviously the issues affecting those very different groups will be disimillar. Aboriginal Australians face issues of post-colonialisim, reclaiming tribal lands, most live in rural areas, bushland, deserts, mostly they have jobs in agriculture, they tend to live in the traditional areas that belonged to their tribal langauge groups and be part of large tribal famlies with elders as the spoke people.
They have ZERO in comon with American black people apart from skin tone.
It would have been more sensible to compare native populations in the US and Canada with the native population in Australia… but no, that somehow didn't occur to those people. Apparent "black" is all a single race with no differences what so ever. The skin tone makes all black people one homegenous group…?
Yeah… I rant about that but it was pretty bad. This was an accademic study with political traction reported all over the reputable press. It was trying to be anti-racist but in doing so it was just as racist as any apartied era South African crazy person.
@ironscarf: I do think progress has been made - just how much depends on where you are, I'm sure. Winnipeg is kind of an odd place because it's quite diverse and tolerant in many respects. If you were to throw out some generalization about black people, jewish people, Asian people etc. I think it would be pretty shocking in most circles. But for whatever reason racism against aboriginal people is very mainstream. I feel as though it's getting better among young people, but then most of the people my age who I talk to are students at my very left-wing university. Although they sometimes go to the other extreme which I'm not very fond of either, glorifying the past of first nations peoples as if they never had problems or internal/inter-tribal conflicts.
But yeah, this: "People would assume being white, you must also be a commited racist" is exactly what I'm talking about! I've even had times when I told someone that my cousins are aboriginal and they still didn't get the clue that I wasn't interested in their thinly veiled racism.
@ozone: That's…a very silly study. I'm not even sure what else to say about that! Just, who thought that would be a good idea? Even comparing Canada and Australia's native population would be pretty tricky, I think. I can't see any value whatsoever in comparing African Americans to Australian aboriginals.
I was surprised to hear that Australia's aboriginal population is only 2%! But then did a quick google and Canada overall is only ~4% aboriginal apparently. My city has an aboriginal population of ~12% iirc, and we're close to a number of reserves.
ozoneocean wrote:Holy cow! What was wrong with them? I don't think I've ever had my cobbler charge me more than $25-30 to fix a pair of shoes.
I got my shoes back… they cost $90 dollars to get fixed T_T
But my foot hurts way less atleast when I wear them.
You know how hard it is to unteach kids about notions of skin color as "race"? The first lesson when I taught World History.
There are varieties in population but that has nothing to do with the color of the skin. It's just skin color. It's an obsolete expression of a notion disproved by genetics and the study of human population movement. Like in regards to American aboriginals there is as much skin color variation between the aboriginal people of the North and South American continents as there is between Europeans and tribal groups. There is as much variation in skin color on the African continent as there is between the typical European and a typical African. But localized populations do share certain genetic traits but they are not as simple as skin color and usually involve diet.
GAH! Idiots on parade! Now how do I get a grant to study idiots doing idiotic studies with other idiots about idiocy? Something like how do nocturnal rodents perceive the night sky or do sheep count shepards in order to fall asleep. Let's all go back to the 1920's and teach eugenics and racial purity again. Life was so much simpler when any idiot could be sterilized for failing an IQ test.
Institutionall racism is fading slowly even in Dorset, the white most part of england. I often point out the ethnicity when telling stories it's nothing to do with racism just a detail. I don't mean I go round saying I was hanging out with my nigger mate or some crap like that but if I'm describing a situation I paint a picture with words. "I was in the garage and a black BMW with blacked out windows was pulled over by armed police right next to where i was filling up with diesel. The armed police surrounded us and pulled me aside before demanding the guys in the car come out of the vehicle and lower their weapons. Out of the car come two gangsta looking black guys. It was like something from a movie. Turns out they had a shit load of drugs in the car. Surely if you are black and are a dealer, dressing gangsta and driving a black BMW with blacked out windows is a really bloody stupid thung to do. It's like begging to be pulled over.
True story
Racism, ideology, religion, gender… bigots (is that what they're called) will always show up and try to put themselves on some kind of pedastal. It's a pretty nasty thing to look at. Worse… they'll use ANYTHING to accomplish this, so if you eliminated all the obvious stuff they'll find something else to use.
Like how they might say that anyone who wears glasses or has red hair is superior to all other people. Or how inferior people with birth defects are to everyone else.
I have no idea why the shoes cost that much to fix… they replaced the leather soles pretty nicely though with fine grain hides from itally, did a good job on the heels and the toes… Part of the issue was the place where I took them shipped them off to another specialist repairer so I'm paying THEIR premium on top as well as the shipping costs to and from the place.
I know where the actual repairer is now s next time I'll go direct. -_-
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GJ that's pretty severe… But you know I doubt many "ganstas" would even bother if they couldn't get dressed up and act like tough little boys. The image is the main thing that atracts them, that and they're obviously not the brightest bulbs.
I remember one instance when I was being too PC for my own good:
I was phoning the computer shop I'd recently bought a PC from and the guy on the other end of the line asked me who I'd dealt with at the shop… I couldn't remember his name (I can't remember names and faces well), all I could recall was that he was "Asian".
I was tongue tied when asked to describe him, there was just NO WAY I was going to say "the Asian guy", so I gave a half arsed description instead "Ummm, he had glasses, black hair…"
I felt like an idiot, because I WAS one.
Haha, yeah, I'm not talking about those times when race is a necessary or convenient descriptor of a person the same way you'd call someone tall or blonde. I'm talking about those times when mentioning a person's race is supposed to be a shortcut to the listener going "oh, of course."
"My friend got mugged last week!" "Oh really?!" "Yeah, by some [race] guy in the north end."
Right, the north end means something to me - that area has a high crime rate. So if the only other detail the storyteller is providing is the person's race, obviously that's meant to mean something to me too.
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My family has only been gone a few days and I'm already set to be one of those old people who talk to the retail clerk for 20 minutes when they go in to buy a single can of cat food. I'm not the only one, either - the pets are used to having three people doting on them. So I just have seven animals all going "pay attention to meeeee!" I never felt too lonely when I was living on my own in Montreal. I think the difference was that there was always so much going on just outside my apartment. I used to enjoy being able to hear my neighbours, just talking to each other or playing music or whatever. It's so deserted out in the suburbs. It's the middle of summer but I take the dog for a walk and there's hardly anyone out enjoying the day. (I did see some cute funny kids playing tug of war with an imaginary rope though. They pretended to stumble when I walked 'through' it.)
Having a whole house to myself is weird too. I really only need like three rooms maximum.
On the plus side, no one to get annoyed at me for playing all my Sam Cooke albums. Mr. Soul is fantastic.
Genejoke wrote:BUT THAT's RACIAL PROFILING! The police are soooo wrong to do that. Any man of color driving an expensive car is fair game. There's a whole MO they go by. Then ther is also DWB or driving while black. Being pulled over simply because the cops suspect you're up to no good on account of the when, where and the color of your skin. Wrong if you do and wrong if you don't. Lose-lose situation.
Soty about BMW gangstas and drug.
Recently there's been the whole big thing over racial profiling by the NJ State Police and detailed statistics complied, then there was the whole "stop and frisk" thing in NYC. The new mayor stopped doing it and now everyone is rolling their eyes that crime has gone up exponentially. You know racial profiling works because for every few innocent guys who are inconvienenced there's gonna be a guy who is breaking the law. And shootings will decrease becasue those people with guns won't carry them because they're afraid of being stopped and frisked. It's a two edged sword though. Are dark-skinned people really committing more crimes or is it that the cops are targetting them for apprehension more? Or is it that dark skinned people go to jail whereas white skinned folks get sent home on their own recognizance? I just shake my head. At this point it just goes on and on and feeds on itself.
Open any newspaper, turn on the news and it's all over. And it has been since I can remember. That's what I get for living in the USA and especially in the crossroads of NYC and Philly; NJ. And then there's Camden and Newark and the wanna-be crime havens of Long Branch and Asbury Park. And just why does a small town barely a coupel of acres need a SWAT team and a full blown narcotics branch? Welcome to NJ in the 21st century.
I used to have these arguments with my dad because we're both jazz fans, but I'd be talking about guys like Parker or Jelly Roll Morton and he'd keep bringing up names like Stan Kenton and Bix Beiderbecke, saying they were the originals which had me tearing my hair out. How was he so misinformed?
Turns out he'd been watching the American movies and listening to the American Forces Network during the war and they whited out the entire history of jazz!
Funny thing is, his father was a huge Fats Waller fan and used to buy records of him and Louis Armstrong direct from the states via some local trader. Similar thing happened with the blues, where white America didn't get to hear it until brits took it over. Pretty sad that you could have the most significant musical developments of the 20th century happening on your doorstep and not even get to hearthem.
bravo1102 wrote:Yeah it's racial profiling and that's my point. We know that, everyone knows that. So they have to be pretty dumb to play up to the stereotype when contucting illicit activitis. Chances are if they had a Ford mondeo or anything that didn't scream arrest me they might have gotten away with it.
Genejoke wrote:
Soty about BMW gangstas and drug.
BUT THAT's RACIAL PROFILING! The police are soooo wrong to do that. Any man of color driving an expensive car is fair game. There's a whole MO they go by. Then ther is also DWB or driving while black. Being pulled over simply because the cops suspect you're up to no good on account of the when, where and the color of your skin. Wrong if you do and wrong if you don't. Lose-lose situation.
Recently there's been the whole big thing over racial profiling by the NJ State Police and detailed statistics complied, then there was the whole "stop and frisk" thing in NYC. The new mayor stopped doing it and now everyone is rolling their eyes that crime has gone up exponentially. You know racial profiling works because for every few innocent guys who are inconvienenced there's gonna be a guy who is breaking the law. And shootings will decrease becasue those people with guns won't carry them because they're afraid of being stopped and frisked. It's a two edged sword though. Are dark-skinned people really committing more crimes or is it that the cops are targetting them for apprehension more? Or is it that dark skinned people go to jail whereas white skinned folks get sent home on their own recognizance? I just shake my head. At this point it just goes on and on and feeds on itself.
Open any newspaper, turn on the news and it's all over. And it has been since I can remember. That's what I get for living in the USA and especially in the crossroads of NYC and Philly; NJ. And then there's Camden and Newark and the wanna-be crime havens of Long Branch and Asbury Park. And just why does a small town barely a coupel of acres need a SWAT team and a full blown narcotics branch? Welcome to NJ in the 21st century.
It's the press who act as if crimes goes up all the time, when in reality that's rarely the case.
Also, in the US by far most crime of eery type are committed by "white" people. Blacks in the US tend to get harsher sentances for the same crimes- things that wouldn't send a white guy to jail can end up with the b;ack person's entire life ruined or even them being shot by the arresting officer.
I would say racial profiling does not work.
Ha, good idea to confirm with people what with me being a big old forgetful pants all the time!
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Have to agree with oz there that profiling does not work, and further that stop and frisk has been a disaster. Very few of the people who are frisked are guilty of anything, and even fewer are violent criminals. So in order to catch a few people will drugs or whatever, they've ended up criminalizing entire communities and destroying any kind of relationship there might be between police and community.
Also, just checked out the stats and murder is up in NY, but crime overall is actually down.
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Had a pretty fun day at work today. We had sort of a staff party, I brought in cupcakes and we just played Cards Against Humanity for like seven hours. It was a rainy day, so there were no visitors except for one guy who came in to ask about bringing more people by on another day.
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