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omaha_red wrote: well.. here's one with subtitles..

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMceZREc ... re=related][/youtube]
Omaha and his fancy foreign films....

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Leroy wrote:I think you missed something along the way. There was a post or picture where the black guy was saying 'Amberlamps'. My guess was that he was trying to say 'ambulance' but his mouth was bloodied.

They took that word and named my new girlfriend with the hot purple leggings.
Actually, a lot of people without bloodied mouths say Amberlamps.

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clevername wrote:and even if the nbc website people didn't know nip was a derogatory term for Japanese people you have to wonder why they would include it in a headline about women's sports...much less a women's sport that takes place in the cold on ice.
I really wouldn't have thought twice about it. I've also never heard of nips as a slur.

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ghostrunner wrote:
clevername wrote:and even if the nbc website people didn't know nip was a derogatory term for Japanese people you have to wonder why they would include it in a headline about women's sports...much less a women's sport that takes place in the cold on ice.
I really wouldn't have thought twice about it. I've also never heard of nips as a slur.
If the title had been "Japanese women squeak past USA" that would have been construed as making fun of how Japanese women sound.

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longhornbaseball wrote:
ghostrunner wrote:
clevername wrote:and even if the nbc website people didn't know nip was a derogatory term for Japanese people you have to wonder why they would include it in a headline about women's sports...much less a women's sport that takes place in the cold on ice.
I really wouldn't have thought twice about it. I've also never heard of nips as a slur.
If the title had been "Japanese women squeak past USA" that would have been construed as making fun of how Japanese women sound.
by whom?

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stlouie_lipp wrote:[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQJFv9SM ... r_embedded][/youtube]
Something no one has pointed out yet: The final frame of the park bench. "Clean & Safe" indeed.

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lukethedrifter wrote:
longhornbaseball wrote:
ghostrunner wrote:
clevername wrote:and even if the nbc website people didn't know nip was a derogatory term for Japanese people you have to wonder why they would include it in a headline about women's sports...much less a women's sport that takes place in the cold on ice.
I really wouldn't have thought twice about it. I've also never heard of nips as a slur.
If the title had been "Japanese women squeak past USA" that would have been construed as making fun of how Japanese women sound.
by whom?
Them.

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Freed Roger wrote:
omaha_red wrote: well.. here's one with subtitles..

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMceZREc ... re=related][/youtube]
Omaha and his fancy foreign films....
heh

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and the saga continues

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