The Official "Ask A Brotha" Thread - Part 2

[Colossal Spoons]

I could never stand Tigger. I always sided with Rabbit whenever that jerk showed up and started jumping on people's furniture & stuff.

Get the F outta here with that property-wrecking, garden-destroying happy hyper ish! We got a bear trying to nurse his honey addiction, an extremely nervous pig, a depressive donkey, and an owl slipping into dementia; nobody cares how pleased you are with yourself, Tig!
"TTFN"
No, just GTFO.

Owl was the only HAC member I liked.

Funny/creep thing about that whole series, Christopher Robin would come home from school and lock himself in his room and bring all these stuffed animals to life. Almost all of them had obvious psychological problems which is weird by itself. But what really stuck out to me was how Owl would teach[i/] him things. How does an imaginary friend teach you something? Would CR compartmentalize stuff he learned at school that day so Owl could reintroduce it later?

 

[RockSP]

**** John Wayne.

 

[Pink Ranger]

Owl was the only HAC member I liked.

Funny/creep thing about that whole series, Christopher Robin would come home from school and lock himself in his room and bring all these stuffed animals to life. Almost all of them had obvious psychological problems which is weird by itself. But what really stuck out to me was how Owl would teach[i/] him things. How does an imaginary friend teach you something? Would CR compartmentalize stuff he learned at school that day so Owl could reintroduce it later?

Wait, wasn't Owl a real owl though? I thought Owl, Rabbit and Gopher are actual animals rather than magical toys.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

Wait, wasn't Owl a real owl though? I thought Owl, Rabbit and Gopher are actual animals rather than magical toys.

I just looked into it, yeah those 4 weren't CR's stuffed animals but still imaginary.

 

[Pink Ranger]

I just looked into it, yeah those 4 weren't CR's stuffed animals but still imaginary.

Well, whether the residents of the HAW were imaginary or real is kind of the running theme behind the entire Pooh franchise, whether Christopher Robin's love and imagination is powerful enough to make these things real or not.

 

[Arach Knight]

I have always felt that Pooh captured the long held belief that children are far more erudite than we give them for. Be it Pooh, Calvin and Hobbes or The Boondocks (Huey and Riley are 10 and 8 respectively), there seems to be a long standing fascination with precociousness and insight from the child's perspective.

 

[E-Man]

 

[PyroChamber]

I always hated Eeyore because people would always say that I reminded them of him. I'm not constantly depressed and sad like Eeyore is, if anything I'm more of a Stanley Hudson type of person.

 

[E-Man]

Does anyone remember Midnight Love? It was one of the best things BET ever did, and I am wondering if I'm the only one who remembers this song.

http://www.blastro.com/player/impromp2mochasoul.html

The dude on the spoken word sounds like Spoons too btw.

 

[Anubis]

Heh, Kim Fields.

 

[Pink Ranger]

I always hated Eeyore because people would always say that I reminded them of him. I'm not constantly depressed and sad like Eeyore is, if anything I'm more of a Stanley Hudson type of person.

Stanley Hudson = Eeyore. You just defeated your own argument.

Check and mate!

 

[Warhammer]

Does anyone remember Midnight Love? It was one of the best things BET ever did, and I am wondering if I'm the only one who remembers this song.

http://www.blastro.com/player/impromp2mochasoul.html

The dude on the spoken word sounds like Spoons too btw.

I don't remember Midnight Love but I remember Uncut. I spent many nights forcing myself to staying up until 3 AM to watch "No Panties On the Dance Floor" and "Tip Drill."

 

[E-Man]

I don't remember Midnight Love but I remember Uncut. I spent many nights forcing myself to staying up until 3 AM to watch "No Panties On the Dance Floor" and "Tip Drill."

There was also Black Jesus with "What That Thang Smell Like."

 

[Warhammer]

And we should also remember "White Girls" by The Mighty Casey. Truly a hip hop classic.

 

[PyroChamber]

Stanley Hudson = Eeyore. You just defeated your own argument.

Check and mate!

Stanley wasn't sad and depressed, not that I remember, he just didn't give two ****s about anybody. Just wanted to do his work and leave.

And we should also remember "White Girls" by The Mighty Casey. Truly a hip hop classic.

Did anyone know that he was from Alaska? Explains quite a lot.

 

[Ant-manic]

Stanley wasn't sad and depressed, not that I remember, he just didn't give two ****s about anybody. Just wanted to do his work and leave.

that's what depression looks like.

 

[Pink Ranger]

Stanley wasn't sad and depressed, not that I remember, he just didn't give two ****s about anybody. Just wanted to do his work and leave.

"I wake up every morning in a bed that’s too small, drive my daughter to a school that’s too expensive, and then I go to work to a job for which I get paid too little, but on pretzel day? Well, I like pretzel day."

And that the only time he seems to express true happiness is when he gets to abandon his family for short periods (cheating on his wife at PB&J's wedding, Florida), yeah, that guy's really high on life. t:

 

[Ant-manic]

I think there's a difference between blackface and someone that's not black dressing up in costume as a black character. It's not really offensive if some white girl cosplayed as Storm and wore makeup to make her look black. She's just paying tribute to a character who is a different ethnicity then her. Sure she could just be a white Storm, but her trying to look black isn't something that's offensive.

Blackface is looking like the stereotypical blackface. Like Mr. Popo on a certain ****** anime that happened a long time ago. A real long time ago.

Storm isn't all that black looking; depending on the artist.

 

[Pink Ranger]

On the subject of blackface, I'm annoyed at the apparent necessity of competitive ballroom dancers (overwhelmingly white Europeans) to spray-tan to such an extent for Latin routines. I consider that along the "blackface continuum" as it were.

 

[Manic]

Wow, competitive ballroom dancers do that?

Also, ballroom dancers compete?

 

[Pink Ranger]

Wow, competitive ballroom dancers do that?

Also, ballroom dancers compete?

Yeah, it's a real thing called Dancesport. That's where all the professional dancers from Dancing With The Stars come from.

When you think about it, the Latin dance competition is a little problematic. They are generally doing dances invented by blacks and latino peoples in Latin America, yet there are very few prominent black or even Latino prominent competitive dancers. Most of the competitions are dominated by Eastern or Northern Europeans, who are are white as cocaine when you see them profiled in their normal lives, but during competitions are bloody orange, for heaven's sake.

I think someone needs to say something about this, really.

 

[Manic]

Yeah, it's a real thing called Dancesport. That's where all the professional dancers from Dancing With The Stars come from.

When you think about it, the Latin dance competition is a little problematic. They are generally doing dances invented by blacks and latino peoples in Latin America, yet there are very few prominent black or even Latino prominent competitive dancers. Most of the competitions are dominated by Eastern or Northern Europeans, who are are white as cocaine when you see them profiled in their normal lives, but during competitions are bloody orange, for heaven's sake.

I think someone needs to say something about this, really.

1. The name "Dancesport" just makes me think "bloodsport." I can't help but imagine dance battles that end in death and injury.

2. A bunch of Eastern and Northern Europeans doing those dances isn't inherently bad, but getting fake tans for those dances is downright stupid.

 

[Pink Ranger]

2. A bunch of Eastern and Northern Europeans doing those dances isn't inherently bad, but getting fake tans for those dances is downright stupid.

When you combine those factors, borrowing from another culture, but then also painting your skin to look like the culture you are borrowing from, that is dangerously close to putting on a minstrel show, IMO.

It's like those Koreans who compete in b-boy competitions, I don't need to tell anyone here that there would be an uproar if they decided to take that extra step to look more authentic.

 

[Manic]

Yeah, but remove the skin coloring, and it's a non-issue.

 

[Arach Knight]

Wow, competitive ballroom dancers do that?

Also, ballroom dancers compete?

[YT]watch?v=_cy1d2zYwg0[/YT]

Black folks colloquially refer to it as "stepping", but it is generally known as "ballroom dancing". Though, people do traditional European ballroom dances competitively. Just for note, the dudes in that video aren't actually dancing to that Raphael Saadiq song, but whoever synced the video with the music made a decent choice in terms of rhythm and bpm.