The Myth of the Eastern Superiority
This is half-joking, half serious. I was watching Dr. Strange the other day and there is a line that goes “When Western medicine failed…” which always pissed me off since acupuncture, tai chi , Chinese herbs and all that stuff has not cured shit in the Far east. They are still dying pretty much of the same stuff we do, right?
The other thing I had shamefully imagined and turned out to be obviously false was fights. Thanks to YouTube and other video hosting places, we now know that fight in that side of the world do not look like scenes from a Jackie Chan or Bruce lee movie, but resemble pretty much the ame we have seen here: Stupid and graceless. This is from Thailand, go to 00:30 for the fight
We have been lied to all our lives! 🙂
The Latinx thing.
Reading J. Kb’s post:
First of all, Latin people pretty much hate the term Latinx. Spanish is a gendered language and trying to make it gender neutral by putting an “x” on the end isn’t Spanish. It’s what woke white people do to make themselves seem woke and inclusive when really they are bastardizing a foreign language. He identified the Latin woman as a women, so the correct word would be Latina. That he still chose to use the Latinx is proof positive that this person is a preening woke douche bag.
Let me clear one thing for the non-Spanish speakers which include a lot of Latinexes pendejos who were raised in homes where Spanish was not the everyday language. There are three grammatical genders in the Spanish language: Masculine, Feminine and Neutral. That means we have words and phraseology that are considered male, female, genderless or are used to encompass both male and female.
It is perhaps one of the most confusing parts of the language. What determines masculinity and femininity in a word or expression can be done via rules or usage but once is settled, it pretty much stays forever. Now, the words Latino and Latina have been brought as excuse to come up with the BS Latinx, but let’s get one thing out-of-the-way: No person of the Spanish Language persuasion would have written Latinx but rather Latinex. If there is a vowel sound, we write it down, specially when it comes combined with the “x” which is one of the least used letters in the language. Trying to pronounce latinx in Spanish sounds like you are trying to dislodge a ball of bloody mucus from your throat.
Now back to Latino/Latina. There are several things that determine the gender in the Spanish language and we simply do not have the time to go over, as not many would understand when those of us raised in the language still can’t. But one of the things you learn is that there are words that can be both applied to a specific gender or to be gender neutral and one of those words is (surprise!) latino.
So when you have a woke moron using the word Latinx to encompass both genders under the excuse of neutrality, slap him. He is an ignorant asshole trying to look woke cool to the rest of the freshman girlies. Slap twice and catapult* across the southern borders if the offender is from the Latino heritage and tell him not to come back till he has learned the language according to the rules of the Academia De La Lengua Española.
So, Latino is the proper term for both male and female in Spanish. Use it in good grammar and health.
(* Trebuchets are also allowed)
Having solved all major crimes in D.C.
Warning letters in hand, Zach Rybarczyk patrolled the food court at Union Station, looking for offenders.
Past Auntie Anne’s, past Johnny Rockets. At Lotus Express, a Chinese food joint, Rybarczyk peeled the wrapper from a red straw and bent the end — the telltale giveaway.
Plastic.
Washington has become the latest city in a nationwide movement to ban plastic straws, and it’s up to Rybarczyk, an inspector for the D.C. Department of Energy and Environment, to enforce the new law.
The straw cop left the rattled cashier at Lotus Express with a warning that if the store was still using plastic straws by July, when a grace period expires, it could be fined up to $800.
On patrol with the enforcer of D.C.’s plastic-straw ban
I spent an awful night and I just needed one nice morning to try to recover, but no, stupid reared its ugly head with green pride.
Can I go back to bed?