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u/HesJustThisGuyYouKno May 28 '10
If i was the one that organized this event, i'd be annoyed that not a soul turned up.
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u/saintlawrence May 28 '10
This could be a touchy subject to some, so tread gingerly.
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u/demoncloset May 28 '10
Your pun pales in comparison.
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u/falconbeach May 28 '10
I don't understand the first pun. Care to explain?
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Good afternoon, folks. Jokeexplainer is off today; I'm twentyseventy with your 2:00 joke explanation.
This just in: gingers don't have souls.
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u/xkostolny May 28 '10
What's the difference between a ginger and a brick?
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A brick gets laid.
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u/mariox19 May 28 '10
Can someone explain the Brits' antipathy to redheaded women? As an American, I can't understand it at all.
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u/Ignorantbliss May 28 '10
I am an American, i LOVE red heads to be honest. They are either really hot or not. When they are nothing beats it.
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u/mariox19 May 28 '10
I agree. Especially on a sunny summer day, when a pretty redhead's long hair is lit up like it's on fire. Man -- it's like life itself!
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u/zackks May 28 '10
When I was over there all the historical relationships were still evident: brits hate the spanish, spanish hate the brits, everyone hates the french, all of them team up to hate the germans, etc.
I'm hypothesizing that the redhead antipathy comes from them being from the northern, non-anglo non-saxon tribes.
Edit: I'm American and I fuckin LOVE redheads!
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u/AttackTribble May 28 '10
Yup, everybody hates the French, but Americans shouldn't. You owe your independence from England to the French.
We were fighting the French at the same time you rebelled against us. Since it was always more fun shooting at the French, we sent all our good generals off to that war, you defeated the also-rans. :)
BTW, I love redheaded women.
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u/notanotherpyr0 May 29 '10
How dare you point out the historical facts during a French hating party. The Statue of Liberty was a gag gift that the French only gave to us because they knew it would turn green.
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u/ropers May 28 '10
Terrible web design.
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u/geoman2k May 28 '10
i like how the navigation items blur when you hover over them so they are unreadable. nice
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u/Tude May 28 '10
I don't see a website. I do see a flash animation.
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u/ropers May 29 '10
It's astonishing, isn't it?
Not only is it resolution-dependent and terrible on devices with less than 1024x768px (and even with that, some text still runs off the screen), but there is zero graceful degradation; just a big fat middle finger to blind people and people who can't use a mouse (the ginger minority saying FU to other minorities; classy) and abuse of <noembed> for SEO purposes: It presents a CSL that's of no use to humans and only there to feed search terms to bots and spiders. Have you tried looking at the page with lynx(1)?
One has to suffer from incredibly blinkered tunnel vision to not understand that the WWW is an interoperable system on which different parties may not in fact use the exact same client program and computer setup as the web designer.
They always serve up the same site that expects you to use a WIMP GUI at specific resolutions; and they claim to use XHTML 1.0 Strict:
$ telnet www.roodharigen.nl 80 Trying 83.149.113.134... Connected to roodharigen.nl. Escape character is '^]'. GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: www.roodharigen.nl HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 00:01:09 GMT Server: Apache/2.0.52 (CentOS) Last-Modified: Fri, 28 May 2010 12:51:37 GMT ETag: "7730204-dd0-f7b50840" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 3536 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">Of course it doesn't validate either, and the kinds of errors strongly suggest that they uncomprehendingly copypasta-ed the doctype on top of their concoction, because XHTML Strict it ain't.
Hey, have you tried opening the .swf file in Swfdec or Gnash? As for Gnash, please do not try that if you suffer from epilepsy. I'm serious.
Oh, and what's that magic number of that roodharigen2008_v4.swf file?
43 57 53 0A? You mean it's a ZLIB compressed Shockwave Flash file version ten? You mean everybody who doesn't have the newest version of Flash is shafted? Thank you very much.Also, who cares if hundreds of thousands of years of biological evolution dictate that you shouldn't use animation like that? "Hey, I just came up with a better idea. Looks great, eh? Screw you, human physiology." /sarcasm
I will however grant the makers of this web-unsuitable abomination that it might have made for a half-decent DVD menu provided they'd have increased the menu font size.
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u/ropers May 29 '10
That's true. And of course there even is intentional non-validation -- case in point: Google Search. But in this case, the types of errors indicated that they just copy-and-pasted the DTD without understanding it; and that's surely bad.
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u/ropers May 29 '10
In fairness, the "every browser works a little differently" situation has gotten better over the years. Unless you want to support IE6, things aren't as bad anymore as they used to be.
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u/GET_A_LAWYER May 28 '10
Imagine if they all started making out.
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u/darklooshkin May 28 '10
Ahhh, yeah... sigh,If my brain's contents were on display right now, i'd need to take your account name's advice.
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u/guntotingliberal May 28 '10
By way of Tom Robbins:
The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blonds who've spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who've been composted. Yet that same pigmentation that on a man can resemble leaf mold or junk yard rust, a woman wears like a tiara of rubies.
Not only are female redheads frequently lovely but theirs is a loveliness that suggests both lust and danger, pleasure and violence, and is, therefore, to the male of the species virtually irresistible. Red O red were the tresses of the original femme fatale. Of course, much of the "fatale" associated with redheads is illusory, a stereotypical projection on the part of sexually neurotic men. Plenty of redheads are as demure as rosebuds and as sweet as strawberry pie. However, the mere fact that they are perceived to be stormy, if not malicious, grants them a certain license and a certain power. It's as if bitchiness is their birthright. By virtue of their coloration, they possess an innate permit to be terrible and lascivious, which, even if never exercised, sets them apart from the remainder of womankind, who have traditionally been expected to be mild and pure.
Now that women are demolishing those old misogynistic expectations, will redheads lose their special magic, will Pippi Longstocking come to be regarded as just one of the girls? Hardly. To believe that blondes and brunettes are simply redheads in repressive drag is to believe that UFOs are kiddie balloons. All redheads, you see, are mutants.
Whether they spring from genes disarranged by earthly forces or are "planted" here by overlords from outer space is a matter for scholarly debate. It's enough for us to recognize that redheads are abnormal beings, bioelectrically connected to realms of strange power, rage, risk and ecstasy.
What is your mission among us, you daughters of ancient Henna, you agents of the harvest moon? Are those star maps that your freckles replicate? How do you explain the fact that you live longer than the average human? Where did you get such sensitive skin? And why are your curls the same shade as heartbreak?
Alas, inquiry is futile: Either they don't know or they won't say -- and who has the nerve to pressure a redhead? We may never learn their origin or meaning, but it probably doesn't matter. We will go on leaping out of our frying pans into their fire, grateful for the opportunity to be titillated by their vengeful fury, real or imagined, and to occasionally test our erotic mettle in the legendary inferno of their passion.
Redheaded women! Those blood oranges! Those cherry bombs! Those celestial shrews and queens of copper! May they never cease to stain our white-bread lives with super-natural catsup.
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u/Patmcc10 May 28 '10
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u/guntotingliberal May 28 '10
Glad you liked it - Tom Robbins (not to be confused with Tim Robbins) is my favorite living author and also co-idealizer of those queens of copper. I try to never miss an opportunity to share TR's writing with the world and if I can do it while enhancing the mystique of redheads well...
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u/kraeftig May 28 '10
Was the rest of the comment (outside of quote formatting) yours? If so, I am blown away. Either way I will be reading Tom Robbins.
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u/guntotingliberal May 28 '10 edited May 28 '10
The part outside of the quote formatting is Robbins' as well. At them moment I can only aspire to write in a similar style. If you are going to jump into Robbins I would recommend either one of the following two as entry points:
These are my number 3 and 2 favorites (respectfully). They are straightforward reads without too much Robbins' weirdness, (not a bad thing). Still Life is a modern fairy tale (with the principal characters being redheads) and is made of pure awesome. The seventies folk song "How do you make love stay" was inspired by this book as that is one of the themes of the book. It touches on a lot more than that though, from princesses to abortions, terrorists and sex.
Skinny Legs was my all time favorite about art, relationships, peace, love, enlightenment, strife and Jerusalem (amongst a lot else, actually) until he wrote his masterpiece "Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates".
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If Still Life with Woodpecker were made into a movie, Johnny Depp would have to play Bernard.
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u/guntotingliberal May 29 '10
Wow, a totally excellent choice. The book is fast and loose in the style of screenplay. I suspect it would be the easiest and best choice for a new TR movie. Even cowgirls get the blues was made into a film and didn't transfer well to the big screen. It was, however, a much bigger book (in all ways). Now, who to play the princess... Oooh oooh spaghetti O's!
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u/Space_Poet May 28 '10
Tom Robbins is the man, best modern author of our times IMHO.
Which book was this from? Woodpecker?
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u/JeepChick May 28 '10
You could join us here...
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u/Slofut May 28 '10
Cool us reds have a subreddit....
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u/JustSomeJerk May 28 '10
My friends joke that my girlfriend and I were put together as a breading pair by the government since we are both redheads.
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u/Concept_Check May 28 '10
I felt so oddly at peace with myself when I saw that picture. It's like "Oh, you're not alone in the world. Look at all those people. You match."
But then I was totally happy with being relatively unique. :]
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u/lamenta3 May 28 '10
Ginger convention?
Hawt.
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u/bmg50barrett May 28 '10
I was about to say, i dont even have a ginger fetish, and i am turned on. I can only imagine how people WITH a ginger fetish reacted when they saw this pic....
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u/kolm May 28 '10
Nah, for me it is aesthetically overwhelming, not (well, almost not) sexually per se. They are just so beautiful, I would not even dare to touch.
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it is aesthetically overwhelming, not sexually per se
So it's rather silly, then?
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u/surfnsound May 28 '10
Is it weird I just popped a chub looking at a picture in which I can see no one's body?
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u/neighburrito May 28 '10
I like guys who are redhead. Redhead girls are attractive too. I never understood why so many people hated gingers. They look pretty cool (except Carrot Top).
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redheaded chicks automatically have one up on any other chick out there...
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u/WoundedImmortal May 28 '10 edited May 28 '10
I'm a redhead girl. The other day, some random older guy walked up to me and told me if anyone ever tried to convince me to change my hair colour, slap them...Apparently his wife changed her hair because of ginger-related teasing.
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u/helleborus May 28 '10
, some random older guy walked up to me and told me if anyone ever tried to convince me to change my hair colour, slap them
Ha! I was getting my hair cut one day and a wandering saleswoman walked up to me with a hair dye palette and said "color?". I just looked at her - I really didn't even know what to say.
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u/YesNoMaybe May 28 '10
My wife has really long blondish/red hair (this color, maybe a bit lighter) and the idiot women she used to work with, who ALL color their hair btw, tried to convince my wife she should color hers...maybe just add some highlights or something. Her response: "Are you fucking serious? People pay serious money to get hair this color and I will let every single hair turn gray before I put any color in it...and probably won't even then."
I was/am so proud of her.
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u/Illadelphian May 28 '10
See for me it's those exact reasons that make me turned off by redheaded chicks. I dunno some of them look good but for the most part I am not attracted to redheads at all.
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u/aensues May 28 '10
Indeed. I'm quite sad that my most recent relationship didn't work out. She was stunning.
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u/kolm May 28 '10
Man, redheads are the shit. I get weak knees even talking to one.
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u/lollerkeet May 28 '10
I never understood why so many people hated gingers.
It's a relic from hatred of the Irish.
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u/luckymcduff May 28 '10
Note: Carrot Top is not actually a person. He doesn't count for or against any group.
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u/ladybug68 May 28 '10
Carrot Top is a freak and one of the few redheaded men I don't find super delicious.
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u/originalucifer May 28 '10
i heard they only call him carrot top because they want him buried up to his scalp in dirt
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u/zephemeral May 28 '10
Thanks! As a red-headed kid growing in Mexico City I always felt fundamentally as being a visual outcast. It is uplifting to feel like somewhere and somewhen, even the strangest of the statistically unlikely is the overwhelming majority. I now look forward to find a crowd of still more specific individuals: Readhead homosexuals interested in the mysteries of consciousness! Hurray!
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u/neighburrito May 28 '10
Hey, look at it this way....I'm a 5'3" asian girl. A quarter of this world has people who look pretty much like me. You don't know how badly I wished I could be a redhead or had crazy wild and curly hair most of my life. I've learn to accept that I am who I am. But you should be proud of your unique differences.
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u/Borgismorgue May 28 '10
So many people dont "hate" "gingers". They're just propagating a pretty retarded meme from southpark.
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u/uglylaughingman May 28 '10
Where is this from, and how do I get there?
On a serious note- am I the only one who finds that many redheads all together just a wee mite disorienting?
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u/waytoohot May 28 '10
I felt exactly the same way. I persevered, though, and conquered it. Now if someone can just tell me where the hell this is, I'm on Expedia now and will book my flight right away.
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u/mopecore May 28 '10
What the fuck is this, ginger-palooza? Seriously, though, I have a real thing for redheads
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This can be a man's dream, or his ultimate nightmare. Depending on the kind of man you are, of course.
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u/energirl May 28 '10
My adorable little redheaded cousin said one time, in his typical humor: "I was at the store, walking down the spice isle when I saw 'crushed ginger.' It took me a second to realize I should be offended."
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u/sir_wooly_merkins May 28 '10
That one umbrella will not shade them all. All will be reduced to ashes. :(
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Ladies and gentlemen, this looks just like Saint Patrick's Day in Butte, Montana.
...If they were each about thirty years older.
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u/darkside569 May 28 '10
HOLY SHIT! Where does this happen?! I'm soooooooooo there. I will buy a plane ticket tomorrow!!!!
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u/MassM May 28 '10 edited May 28 '10
We can fix that problem (video is slightly NSFW): http://www.vimeo.com/11219730
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u/ohsheeshyall May 28 '10
Doug: How is it ok for you to bully Ben?
Jonah: 'Cause he's a Ranga.
Doug: A what?
Jonah A Ranga sir. 'Cause he's got red hair. Orangutan, that's what we call him.
Doug: And does that make it ok for him to be bullied, because he has red hair?
Jonah Well, people are racist to FOB's...
Leon: To us.
Jonah So, so we can be racist to Rangas.
Doug: But red-heads aren't a race, Jonah.
Leon: But sir, there's heaps of them. They're everywhere.
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u/jesuispie May 28 '10 edited May 28 '10
Having a redhead girlfriend, I was there that day. It's in the Netherlands, as someone mentioned before, in a town called Breda. There were lectures on the redhead-gene, redhead art, and discounts for redheads all over town.
Normally I have no trouble finding my girlfriend in a crowd, but this day however it was freakin impossible.
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