I hope everybody had a woke Columbus Day.

[Michchamp]

#17 ... really old news. The non-Indian ?weeping Indian?.

Well for those of us who weren't OLD enough to know this OLD news, when it first came out, back in the OLDEN DAYS, it's current...

 

[byco42]

Well for those of us who weren't OLD enough to know this OLD news, when it first came out, back in the OLDEN DAYS, it's current...

Well, news has no expiration date. Especially on the Internet.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Well, it’s that special time of year again, and I know a lot of you like to get a head start on your long Columbus Day weekend activities, so I’m rewinding this a couple of days early.

Of all the possible names for this day, rather than Columbus Day, or indigenous peoples day, as we call it here in California or maybe just Los Angeles – I think “Woke Columbus Day” is a good and appropriate name.

It traditionally honors the expansion of Western civilization to the new world, yet does demonstrate an acknowledgement of the arguable misfortunes this brought upon the indigenous peoples whom inhabited the land at the time.

“Woke Columbus Day.”

I like it.

 

[Michchamp]

wow, has it really been a whole year? seems like just yesterday we were posting in this crappy thread

 

[tinselwolverine]

wow, has it really been a whole year? seems like just yesterday we were posting in this crappy thread

I know, right?

It’s crazy, it’s not like like anything strange or unusual has happened to distract from the normal passage of time; I mean, it’s been like, ya know, the same old boring bull crap, and all of a sudden, it’s a year later already.

Who knew?

Who’da thunk it?

Just weird.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Woke Columbus.

People always keep stealing my ideas from the DSF.

 

[Gulo Blue]

Woke Columbus.

People always keep stealing my ideas from the DSF.

Just have to go the next step then. Bromance/Buddy cop flick where Pre-Woke Columbus and Leonardo da Vinci investigate some murder involving the Borgias. This could also serve as the Woke-Columbus origin story.

 

[Michchamp]

Just have to go the next step then. Bromance/Buddy cop flick where Pre-Woke Columbus and Leonardo da Vinci investigate some murder involving the Borgias. This could also serve as the Woke-Columbus origin story.

.

no

 

[Gulo Blue]

.

no

Don't say no without suggesting something better
(or more ridiculous)

 

[tinselwolverine]

Don't say no without suggesting something better
(or more ridiculous)

That?s actually rule #1 the brass teach a newbie hired to their first job in a television script writers room.

Or if not the brass, some journeyman mentor who takes the newbie under their wing.

 

[tinselwolverine]

That?s actually rule #1 the brass teach a newbie hired to their first job in a television script writers room.

Or if not the brass, some journeyman mentor who takes the newbie under their wing.

EDIT: Oh, okay; I got it...Woke Columbus...instead of dying, Columbus managed to get himself frozen...cryogenics (invented by da Vinci), or he gets frozen in a body of water or something...anyway...he ?awakens? from this state of suspended animation...stumbles into a job at a far left wing online publication in San Fran or New York...and hilariously struggles with the the prospect of adjusting to being surrounded by people who look at things from a radically different worldview.

 

[Gulo Blue]

EDIT: Oh, okay; I got it...Woke Columbus...instead of dying, Columbus managed to get himself frozen...cryogenics (invented by da Vinci), or he gets frozen in a body of water or something...anyway...he ?awakens? from this state of suspended animation...stumbles into a job at a far left wing online publication in San Fran or New York...and hilariously struggles with the the prospect of adjusting to being surrounded by people who look at things from a radically different worldview.

FYI, Seth Rogan preserved himself by falling into a vat of pickles for Netflix.



Is it called something like Columbus Wake, or Columbus Day, or something less on the nose?

 

[Michchamp]

Don't say no without suggesting something better
(or more ridiculous)

The year is 2021... the King and Queen of Spain (note: Spain still has a King and Queen) are hosting a big stupid Davos-like "World Economic Forum" for the world's international banks, the IMF, billionaires, and social media "thought leader" frauds like Malcolm Gladwell... and you know what that means: they're going to need a lot of cocaine. Just a whole mountain of white powder, for the week.

Problem is, CIA- & Mossad-linked, and Mexican Cartel "middle-men" control all known trade routes across the Atlantic, and have increased the prices of cocaine, making the cost to host the conference astronomical. so the King and Queen of Spain hire Christopher Columbus to find a direct route to Columbia, and cut out the middle-men.

Columbus sails across the Atlantic, through the Panama Canal, and down to the small Pacific port of Buenaventura, Columbia, where the local merchants fill his cargo holds with barrels of the white stuff.

Columbus returns to Spain, docking in Seville, and is hailed as a hero, and the King and Queen of Spain appoint him Viceroy of Columbia.

Dumb, loud, East Coast Italian Americans are like "Eeeeeyyyyyyyyyyy dis Columbus guy is a true hero, ehn? Yous gotta hav-a parade for him"

mild-mannered, cynical, intellectual Italian Americans from the Midwest (such as yours truly) are like "What the fuck is this shit? Are you kidding me? You want to celebrate THAT?"

 

[Michchamp]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBD61skoMk8

 

[Gulo Blue]

The year is 2021...

I enjoyed this. Does it have to be East Coasters supporting him, or can it be Buckeyes?

 

[tinselwolverine]

I enjoyed this. Does it have to be East Coasters supporting him, or can it be Buckeyes?

Why not both?

You got a whole ?nother scene.

Bucknut lefties in C-bus wanting to change the name of the city to Flavortown; traditional Bucknuts respond sarcastically ?I think you mean Flavorofmyasstown? - which, BTW is my new name for Columbus, Ohio - and it has nothing to do with wokeness or PC - just an old school rivalry thing.

 

[byco42]

I enjoyed this. Does it have to be East Coasters supporting him, or can it be Buckeyes?

Or Georgians, Illinoisans, Missourians, Minnesotans, Kentuckians, Indianans, Kansans, Mississippians, Montanans, Nebraskans, New Jerseyites, New Mexicans, New Yorkers, North Carolinians, North Dakotans, or Wisconsinites.

 

[Michchamp]

I enjoyed this. Does it have to be East Coasters supporting him, or can it be Buckeyes?

It has to be East Coasters. they still behave like the stereotype. I don't know any Ohio Italian Americans.

anecdote: my frosh year of college, I roomed with a high school buddy. Both of us had Italian surnames.

Across the hall, there was a bunch of Connecticut kids. I was hanging out with one of them once, and he said, "I told, _____, 'It's crazy, we're hanging out with a guy named [my surname] and a guy named [roommate's surname], and they're both like... normal guys.'"

I was confused, and he said "Awww You know what Italians are like..." but I was still confused.

I learned that Italian Americans in Detroit assimilated more than East Coast ones. It was not as big of a population as in Boston, NYC, Chicago, Providence, etc.

By the 3rd- or 4th generation, most of the Catholic ethnic groups in the Detroit area had thoroughly mixed... Italians, Irish, Polish, German, French, Czech, etc. etc., and so the cultural differences were muted.



You're not going to roll around in a wife beater and gold chains, with a high greasy pompadour, goin "EYYYYYYY... Howboutdat?" when your mom is Polish & German, or French American and horrified by that behavior. Just my theory...

(not actually an Italian American)​

 

[byco42]

Here's a "muting" of the cultures in its nascent stages:

https://youtu.be/eB8K1jPBnwc

 

[tinselwolverine]

It has to be East Coasters. they still behave like the stereotype. I don't know any Ohio Italian Americans.

anecdote: my frosh year of college, I roomed with a high school buddy. Both of us had Italian surnames.

Across the hall, there was a bunch of Connecticut kids. I was hanging out with one of them once, and he said, "I told, _____, 'It's crazy, we're hanging out with a guy named [my surname] and a guy named [roommate's surname], and they're both like... normal guys.'"

I was confused, and he said "Awww You know what Italians are like..." but I was still confused.

I learned that Italian Americans in Detroit assimilated more than East Coast ones. It was not as big of a population as in Boston, NYC, Chicago, Providence, etc.

By the 3rd- or 4th generation, most of the Catholic ethnic groups in the Detroit area had thoroughly mixed... Italians, Irish, Polish, German, French, Czech, etc. etc., and so the cultural differences were muted.



You're not going to roll around in a wife beater and gold chains, with a high greasy pompadour, goin "EYYYYYYY... Howboutdat?" when your mom is Polish & German, or French American and horrified by that behavior. Just my theory...

(not actually an Italian American)​

No shit.

He?s Jewish - his parents fled Europe during the Holocaust.

I took a piss next to him at the Rose Bowl once. All the other guys seemed proud to have been the men?s room with him at the Rose Bowl - they all probably still tell the story of it.

Michigan lost to USC.

The character was himself actually a Midwesterner.