Peanut butter and Jelly. Kool-Aid and sugar. Ham and burgers.
Those are things that go together like Peaches & Herb, Sonny & Cher, jail and buttchex.
Some people just seem to fit together. Some folks are just peas in a pod. But there’s also the other side of the game where you get oil and milk. Vodka and Hennessey.
OJ Simpson and life.
Some things just aren’t intended to be no matter the Fates best intentions.
With that said, here are 6 5 couples you’ll NEVER ever see together.
1) the guy who drives a Dodge Magnum with a Hemi and a woman who drives a Prius
Think about it. Anybody who drives a Prius actively went out and bought the armpit of ugly cars. And they bought it because they care about the gas mileage AND the environment. You can’t tell me otherwise. If you just care about gas mileage you’d get a Camry or an Accord or something…anything that looks better than a Prius. If you have a Magnum, you’re basically saying f*ck it to all things environmental. Those two people would not be getting along…at all. Though I almost think a dude with a Prius might date a chick with a Magnum assuming she was hot enough. But women tend to be more steadfast with their causes…even those that put you in a Prius.
2) PETA advocate and a person with common sense
I hate PETA. F*ck PETA. And I’m an animal lover. Any organization that willingly goes after the motherf*cking PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES for killing a fly has clearly lost its ever loving mind. Besides, its hard for somebody with such an extreme cause to date anybody who isn’t 100 percent on that bandwagon, especially something as polarizing as PETA. You can love animals and not be insane, though I’m not sure Pink knows that.
3) The Ohio State University alumni and University of Michigan alumni
Well, at least you shouldn’t see this. Even if you don’t care about sports you should at least respect the history here and just date somebody from the other state schools or something. Where’s the respect for the rivalry?
4) the jazz music lover and the person whose only CD is the Best of No Limit
If you’re both, great. Otherwise, there’s no way these two could probably ever work out under any circumstance. For one, he probably wants to get some lovin’ to Mingus and she’s like, who’s Mingus? Can we get some Adina Howard. Or she’s like, Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue
always puts me in the mood and he’s like, “yeah, I feel that, but when I need to unwind I listen to Pastor Troy ‘Vice Versa’ cuz that song is deep and it makes me think.”
By the way, “Vice Versa” is not a deep song. At all.
5) Spike Lee stan vs. a Tyler Perry stan
Both make some pretty wack movies at times, but at least Spike will always have Malcolm X, Bamboozled, School Daze, and Do The Right Thing. Tyler Perry only has Why Did I Get Married? This probably wouldn’t work because they’d annoy each other arguing about the nuances of each “genre” and anybody who would make a positive argument for the Madea character would get stabbed by the Spike stan who’s probably overstating Spike’s relevance at this point. For God’s sake, he made She Hate Me. I’m not sure what’s worse, She Hate Me or Tyler Perry’s Family Reunion, but I do know one thing, they both sucked monkey nuts.
6) black dude with dreads shouting Black power and a white Becky-style chick
I mean any dude with dreads has to be down for the cause right? He wouldn’t dip in that pool and let down his sisters like that. Earthtones, Malcolm X rhetoric, and the locs representing the motherland? That brotha is all about making sure he’s looking for the woman with the sweetest juice.
So, my good friends of VSB, what other couples have no way of ever happening?
-VSB P aka THE ARSONIST aka TANGLE JIG P aka GIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRL, HE A 3
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#5…i def feel u for…i cant deal with a madea stan…it damn near starts a war between me n moms when we talk about it (maybe its cuz im a film major, and what tyler perry makes is NOT films…and why did i get married was NOT good flick…i dont care what anyone says, as much as she hate me perplexed me, i would still choose that over why did i get married any day)
#6…we wont touch on that except to say, i’ve seen it happen waaaaayyyyy too frequently
as for the others who should never get together…i got nothin
@trin-trin, “#6…we wont touch on that except to say, i’ve seen it happen waaaaayyyyy too frequently”
This happens all of the time.
@Leila,
Yea saw it at my son’s graduation. I was like was up rasta then becky hopped out tha car lookin like she fresh from the 60′s. all i thought was wow
@trin-trin and @panama,
For the stricken text, you should have found a picture of Pacman Jones with dreads in a strip club paying a blonde dancer. lol. That woulda been perfect.
It happens all of the time.
@thismayconcernyou, that would have been a perfect pic.
@Panama Jackson,
I’m still tryna figure out the purpose of that angry, angry cat.
@Me fail english?, the cat has a moustache.
cats + moustaches don’t go together.
but mostly its just funny.
@Me fail english?,
umm…met too.
That kitty is not friendly looking.
@Me fail english?,
I’m very uncomfy to the fact that the cat has a pronstache. A feline Ron Jeremy? *shudders*
@Cheekie,
I didn’t even notice the Ron Purr-emy. Awww.
On another note, I’d NEVER get naked in front of that cat.
@Me fail english?,
I’m still tryna figure out the purpose of that angry, angry cat.
this is exactly how i feel about michael dyson
@Me fail english?, the cat looks like inspector Cluseau (sp)
@me fail english?,
“I didn’t even notice the Ron Purr-emy. Awww.”
*DEAD* @ Ron Purr-emy. I wish I knew how to quit you.
@Cheekie,
I need to quit both you AND me fail. Y’all cracks me up.
@iloV.E.G.rits,
I’m wondering if we should go on tour. The me fail english and cheekie Comment Revue.
Shooot, this whole lot of VSB-ers should go on tour with that ish ya’ll be coming up with sometimes. lol
@trin-trin,
I have a theory, a controversial one, about films whose target demographic is a ‘minority’ group. I’m talking about all minority groups before anyone jumps down my throat: racial minorities, sexual-orentiation minorities, religious minorities, chia pets, whatever. My great theory is that these groups are so grateful to see stories about themselves that they lower their standards for the finished product to nil. Which would explain the phenomeneon that is Tyler Perry’s success.
Spike Lee may be talented but he is and narsacisstic pseudo-intellectual bore. He is to ‘edgy social satire’ what Woody Allen is to ‘quirky social satire’; over-hyped and losing relevance.
@ofloveandotherdemons,
Ooooh, as to #6…let’s just let people love/phuck who they wanna love/phuck. No harm, no foul.
@ofloveandotherdemons,
interesting point. I agree with most of it. Most of us, white and black, want to see colorblind Bojangles 24/7. Most of us are looking for laughter, not mental stimulation.
I don’t think Spike cares to please the bigger audience much if at all.
But in the moments where he’s taken a chance to do a film that has broad appeal, like Inside Man, he has stuck some great pieces of propaganda in the framework that probably still go over some idiots heads.
a la, the kid in inside man playing Get Rich or Die Tryin” the video game in front of the moral robber in Inside Man. smh. Or the white guy with the “Gold Digger” ringtone that says the N-word. smh.
@ofloveandotherdemons, I disagree. tyler perry is successful on film because he knows what topics to pander to and he has a dedicated fan base that snowballs. your argument may have been the case in the 50s and 60s, but I think we all know better these days. at the end of the day i think lower common denominator entertainment wins just because it’s lowest common denominator. not because we are thankful Massa allowed us to be on the silver screen.
@Liz,
I get what you are saying, but it’s not only films that carter to a black audience that I think are held to a lower standard. Have you ever tried sitting through a film whose primarily audience is the gay/lesbian community? 80% percent of those are Godawful; 5% are unwatchable, and the rest are fair-to decent. The same with Bollywood/Nollywood productions, or any religious films I’ve sat through. So I’m not so sure it’s Tyler Perry’s great ability to pander that has made him such a household name. I’m sure it has helped, but I think it’s deeper than that. It’s not a scientifically quantifiable study, true, but I really do think that being able to identify with those characters up on the screen on something as big and fundamental in our lives as race/sexuality/religion outweighs whatever other standard of ‘excellence’ we usually place on a film. Plus, I don’t think that that much has changed in the film/tv industry as far as exposure for blacks since the 50s and 60s. Our stories are still disproportionately represented in main stream media (I’m talking about big production companies targeting a larger segment of the population rather than a specific niche) than those of the white chocolate drops. It sucks, but it is what it is.
@ofloveandotherdemons,
Actually, your comment makes an entirely different argument.
Yes, movies written for a particular audience will tend to have a better reception among members of that audience and not so much among outsiders.
It just so happens that “mainstream” movies have the entire country (more or less) as the intended audience. It stands to reason that “most” people would like them more.
You may then say, why do our “mainstream” movies tend to do well internationally relative to Nollywood and Bollywood productions. The answer is easy: most other countries are quite uniform in the background of their citizenry compared to us.
@Liz,
“your argument may have been the case in the 50s and 60s, but I think we all know better these days”
thing is, lizzard, ive read and seen interviews about tyler perry where diehard fans express that they love him because he does show sh*t and tell stories that they feel aren’t told enough (on screen).
i think you’re both right. hes popular because of his subject matter, and he stays popular because he knows how to pander
@The Champ, yeah to me “not told enough on screen” means pandering to what sells. not a coincidence his movies solve the same problem lol.
@ofloveandotherdemons,
I will defend Spike to the death. No matter what, his work (old or recent) is still 20x better than ANYTHING the rest of Hollywood is putting out. People don’t respect him the way they should, and i think that’s partially his doing cuz he makes himself the antagonist too often…
same time though, he’s an artist…and all artists are defensive about their work…so i can understand where he’s coming from. i would never say he’s lost relevance. His films are timeless and are as relevant today as they were when he first made them.
@trin-trin,
I don’t mean his old stuff is losing relevance I mean the new things his put out. School Daze, She’s gotta have it, Mo Better Blues vs. She Hate Me, Bamboozoled (sp.???), Miracle at St. Anna (man he rammed that moral down your throat in that one). I can’t really string a coherent thought right now; be back in the morning.
@ofloveandotherdemons,
I didn’t see St. Anna, precisely for the reason you mentioned. Every critic, cinephile, baby mama agreed that he really hit the ants with a sledgehammer on that one. Subtelty is your friend.
@ofloveandotherdemons,
…and i never said “his old stuff”…bamboozled and miracle made your list of bad movies??? seriously???
yeah his old stuff will always be revered, but bamboozled and miracle are just as groundbreaking…no one touches those subjects, but they need to be talked about. they need to be part of our consciousness. were they exaggerated a little, yes…but it was to prove a point, because the “madea” crowd dont seem to get the idea when its subtle.
@ofloveandotherdemons,
Am I the only one that thought Bamboozled was terrible, the moral of the story was great, but the actual story sucked.
@Omar,
I thought Bamboozled was funny, but not where Spike intended it to be. I don’t see why Spike feels the need to go all absurdly surreal on us with the accents and one-dimensional archetypes. Sometimes I feel like he thinks we’re stupid.
And with that said ” I…I be smackin my hoes! I be SMA-CKING MY HOES!!!”
Bwahahaha
@Omar, i actually liked Bamboozled. i think it was one of spike’s better movies.
that might be a post in and of itself…spike lee’s best movie.
sounds like folks would go in 12 different directions fromm “he aint got none” to “she hate me” is the best thang smokin’…like Dro.
who in 2007, was clean in this b*tch.
@trin-trin,
I have to say that Spike Lee is my favorite director. I’m not really into modern movies (love old movies) but he’s made many I enjoy. He mixes comedy with social issues pretty effortless in all the films I’ve seen (there are still some I haven’t seen though).
@trin-trin, i’m glad you’re defending spike lee. though i can’t say that all his movies are head and shoulders above the rest. i think spike’s a good director when he can focus. a lot of the time he tries to do 12 thigns too many in his movies. sometimes it works (school daze) sometimes it doesnt (she hate me).
i like spike though…
@Panama Jackson,
“a lot of the time he tries to do 12 thigns too many in his movies.”
This is a perfect description of Spike. Ol’ dude is so creative and artsy he goes into overdrive…he doesn’t place limits on himself sometimes to the detriment of his films actually making sense. A lot of his films are some of my favorite, though, with “X” being near the top of my all-time fave list.
@trin-trin,
cosign spike make respectable movies that you can learn something from
@trin-trin,
“#6…we wont touch on that except to say, i’ve seen it happen waaaaayyyyy too frequently”
Sure does! It’s such an interesting dynamic of my people. It really makes me furrow the brow.
This is actually what PETA had to say about the Fly situation. Sorry I had to go to the video tape, but I´m a member, and I´m fucking crazy:
http://blog.peta.org/archives/2009/06/obama_and_the_f2.php
“As we all know, human beings often don’t think before they act. We don’t condemn President Obama for acting on instinct. When the media began contacting us in droves for a statement, we obliged, simply by saying that the president isn’t the Buddha and shouldn’t be expected to do everything right—if not for that, we would not have brought it up. It’s the media who are making a big deal about the fly swat—not PETA. However, we took the opportunity, when asked, to point out that we do offer lots of ways in which to control insects of all kinds without harming them, including the humane bug catcher we sent President Obama. There is even a chapter in PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk’s book The PETA Practical Guide to Animal Rights about how to rid your home of “uninvited guests.”
We have lots of other items on our agenda, as you can imagine, and PETA’s focus will remain on our core issues—promoting alternatives to eating animals, opposing fur and products made from animal skin, opposing laboratories that torment animals, and fighting the abuse of animals in circus training camps as well as other overt abuses that fall within our mission statement, which states that animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or use for entertainment…”
Posted by Alisa Mullins
@GabbyTime, thank you for de-lurking to inform us on this! LOL!
see, delurking always brings knowledge into the circle of love, folks.
@GabbyTime, welcome and sh*t.
thanks for the clarification. serves me right for getting my news from places like cnn.
@Panama Jackson, Thanks. Don´t worry….Ingrid Newkirk (PETA President) is a fantastic c*nt anyway, I thought that shit was true when I saw it on the news.
@GabbyTime,
Yeah, much thanks for the clarification. Glad ya’ll realized it was purely instinct, which ya know, all of us are prone to act on no matter what you choose to eat or not eat.
Oh and in reference to number six. My cousin Darren is as militant and hood as they come (although his dad was a Tuskeegee Airman and oceanographer and his mother a nurse, but whatever).
He married a white woman.
And when we as a family collectively looked at him like he´d gone nuts, he responded by shrugging and saying, “WHAT? She´s ALBANIAN! That ain´t really white.”
Looked white to me. And now his baby “got good hurr.” No dreads for her, I guess (not without a ton of wax anyway).
@GabbyTime,
*sung to the tune of The Temptations “The Girl’s Alright To Me”*
“…the girl look white to me, you know, that girl is white…”
@Panama Jackson,
You are too much. I love it.
@Panama Jackson,
**overloud chortle**
@GabbyTime,
the old albanian trick huh lol if they aint neva been slaves they white
I feel you on the spike versus tyler point. tyler is all about business whereas spike seems to be more about art/thinking.
i couldn’t finish watching she hate me. it was too painful.
@Liz,
the sad thing is that one of my homeboy’s thinks that was a great movie…but, then again, he’s a kappa, so what does he know about quality(j/k, G)…
@N.I.A. LivingLifeOffTheWall…., i dont trust people who think that was a good movie. now, i do appreciate the dania ramirez/kerry washington scenes, but other than that…that movie was an a** factory.
@Panama Jackson, “i do appreciate the dania ramirez/kerry washington scenes”
Word . . . I’d buy the DVD for that . . . or try to find a “special” copy on the street. . . *back to work*
@Panama Jackson,
naw, that’s my boy. i trust/luv him, and his redeeming qualities outweigh his like for that movie…
@N.I.A. LivingLifeOffTheWall…., LOLOL!!!
“the jazz music lover and the person whose only CD is the Best of No Limit”
I met a guy recently who was attractive, smart, well-traveled, and we vibed really well until the discussion of music came up. He’s from Atlanta and argued that no rappers came out of the NYC (I’m not making this up) and said that TI and Lil Wayne are the best rappers of all time. That was a wrap for me, especially when we went to club and he refused to dance because he doesn’t dance.
@Leila, I meant no good rappers. He said that not one good rapper came out of NYC and went on and on praising Southern rappers.
@Leila,
The only excuse he could have was being born in 1998 other than that he’s cuckoo for cocoa puffs.
@Leila,
Good observation
Gangsters and dancing.
Booooo on dude’s lack of knowledge of BIG, Jay-Z, Dipset, WuTang, Redman, N.E.R.D,, Clipse, Fabolous, etc
@Nola Darling,
N.E.R.D., Redman and Clipse are not from NYC….and Dipset are great rappers?….I confused…lol!!
@Nola Darling, yeah, and i’m not sure i’d call N.E.R.D. (i assume you mean Pharrell) a great rapper. lol. i mean he’s entertaining and all, but it.ends.there.
@Nola Darling,
Booooo on dude’s lack of knowledge of BIG, Jay-Z, Dipset, WuTang, Redman, N.E.R.D,, Clipse, Fabolous, etc
lol, i’m assuming nola has daily convos like this:
“…and i cant stand a guy who says that all liberals are dummies. you mean to tell me that bill mahr, keith olbermann, pat buchanan, jon stewart, and michelle malkin aren’t smart????”
@The Champ, “…and i cant stand a guy who says that all liberals are dummies. you mean to tell me that bill mahr, keith olbermann, pat buchanan, jon stewart, and michelle malkin aren’t smart????”
LOL. i wanna fight michelle malkin.
@overit?,
I will hold your heels and your earrings and put the vaseline on your face.
@The Champ,
LOL!
@Leila, “He’s from Atlanta and argued that no rappers came out of the NYC (I’m not making this up) and said that TI and Lil Wayne are the best rappers of all time”
R U SERIOUS? He gets the award for most ignorant comment.
@Nicki Sunshine, wait…lil wayne isn’t the greatest rapper of all time?
if it isnt him it surely is Diddy.
take that take that take that.
@Panama Jackson,
“if it isnt him it surely is Diddy.”
Yup, just you wait, VH1 will do a Hip Hop Honors to the Diddy Bop alone.
@Cheekie,
You know it’s coming right?
I give ‘em 3…maybe 5 years tops.
@Cheekie,
LOL. Wouldnt put it past them…but even Diddy knows he doesnt deserve that.
@Me fail english?,
*brow raised*
You truly think he has enough humility to turn that down? I can’t imagine it, but would believe in humanity once again should he do so. I’d honestly become a fan of his for one second if he were to do this. lol
@Cheekie,
lol. I just said he KNEW he aint deserve it. I aint say nothing about giving it back. He’d snatch that bish up faster than he took Day 26′s award last Sunday nite!
@Panama Jackson, LMAO.. Not gonna be able to subscribe to either one of them.
@Leila, yeah dude is clearly trippin’. everybody knows that the best rapper alive right now is straight out of Brooklyn…
Maino.
@Panama Jackson,
LOL! Black flaggin’!
@Panama Jackson,
best ever out the east
KOOL G RAP
@Leila, *somewhat off topic* my friends boyfriend yesterday said that in a few years Drake could be the next Jay-Z…now mind you I wouldnt know Drake if we were shackled together on the same chain gang, but I do know in three years Drake could hold Jay-Z’s colostomy bag if he had one, I was like dude you have had too much to drink. Really stop now
Joe Jackson and Common Sense (not the rapper tee-hee)
Michael Jordan and a black woman
beyonce and personality
Kelly Rowland and record sales ( although I like her)
Bet and good taste
Tuesday July 07 2009 and a lack of MJ funeral service coverage (much respect to MJ)
Lil Kim and her original anything
Puffy and normal sized teeth
Usher and Tameka????
Vh1/MTV and music videos
Miss Honey and whomever is calling her ( don’t you hear me calling you?) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3S8OLCZuRc
Dude who got his world of warcraft account canceled and Dude’s mom http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMcor8xLxxc
A patchouli princess and a dude that listens to Plies
A Michael Steeler and a Barack Obamaniac
Vibe and circulation (too soon ?)
that’s all for now. TTFN
@Nola Darling, LOL! Love all of these!
@Nola Darling,
iDied. Yes, my comment was corny.
@Nola Darling,
Tuesday July 07 2009 and a lack of MJ funeral service coverage (much respect to MJ)
It shouldn’t but this made me laugh. Kim Jong Il could launch those pesky little nukes his been going on about this Tuesday and the only way we’d know is the mushroom cloud everyone would see on Wed. Yellow journalism anyone???
@Nola Darling, I stan for this list.
@Nola Darling,
lol…good list
@Nola Darling, you’re ice cold for the Kelly Rowland and record sales comment.
besides, i hear she’s very popular in Cameroon.
@Panama Jackson,
*spitts water on floor* bwhahahahah
Um, I see alot of #3 happening here in Ann Arbor. At least I hate both teams so I won’t choose a side. (Go Green!)
But yea…
Another couple you wont see: Morris Chestnut and I. Which makes me mad, because I want to
jump his bonesmake him happy.But seriously. You will never see me with a Patriots fan. You will never see a young (meaning under 30) alpha male with an alpha female because they are probably arguing over who’s right and who’s dominant as we speak. You will also never see a stripper marry a pimp. The h*es get no love.
(as you can see, I need sleep, because I’m getting silly. )
@chaoticdiva, ho*s get lots of love.
i distinctly remember in some song some rapper say, “i love all you ho*s.”
they get love.
@Panama Jackson,
That was Jazze Pha…hardly a pimp…lol.
@chaoticdiva,
You will never see a young (meaning under 30) alpha male with an alpha female because they are probably arguing over who’s right and who’s dominant as we speak
lol, you should probably change that to “you will never see a non-neutered male with an alpha female”
@The Champ,
That too. But being an alpha female, I tend to end up butting heads with alpha males under 30. Now over 30….much different story.
Bacon & The Breakfast Song dude (sorry, it was stuck in my head, and yes, I know he’s gone to glory…)
BET and humanity
Parents and modern technology (I just got a fwd text from my mom, and was thoroughly unnerved. Help.)
Desmond Hatchett and contraception
Lil Wayne and contraception
Oprah and Steadman (zing!)
Twitter and Facebook (twitbook?)
(real)Thugs and college (you gangbangin’ with a backpack? NEXT.)
@Beez,
(real)Thugs and college (you gangbangin’ with a backpack? NEXT.)
Whoa, whoa! We had alllllll the tough guys, straight outta the meanstreets of Connecticut. You betta ax sumbody?!
@Me fail english?, Stop playing cause Yale is around the block from the hood as is Brown… True Story
@Intellectual Hedonist,
I think she’s talking about the actual matriculants (is this a word?).
@Beez, (real)Thugs and college (you gangbangin’ with a backpack? NEXT.)
you know, i dont know if i agree with this. i’ve been amazed at how a many known gang members have attended at least a year of college. i suppose it was on some type of Chicken Soup for the Gangster type steez or something. hell, even when i was at morehouse, there were a few cats with very distinct gang ties out of Chicago up in college.
Gangsters 4 Ejukasion.
^^t-shirt.
@Panama Jackson, I say you pen this book “Chicken Soup for the Gangster Soul” the people at that publishing house wont know what to do with it
@Intellectual Hedonist,
You can’t make it a book though. It gotta be a DVD full of World Star type clips.
@Intellectual Hedonist, \
Or a mixtape…
@Beez,
Parents and modern technology
-hell yea I believe in age maximums for certain stuff cause Old people and fast cars? um why they still go slow as fuq in um.
Old people and iphones? Why it takes my mom 5 min just to make a phone call. WTF
@BLUNTBLAZER,
Then you get phone calls at random times of the day… “now how you program numbers again? I’m gonna get me one of them iphones, but why it ain’t got no buttons? How you dial with it?”
I can. not. deal.
@Beez,
I LOL’d at that one.
My dad still can’t program numbers he writes them jawns down in a lil notebook negating the purpose of the cell.
Speaking of Panama and She Hate Me…
#5 – Any conversation that starts “I know you don’t like Tyler Perry but…” comes to no good end…
#6 – Can someone explain this?
For some reason the nerd-boy, thug-girl thing doesn’t work out too much.
Bear Fan-Packer Fan neither.
@maximillian, LOL @ u citing yourself citing P from the way back machine!
@maximillian, actually, thanks for that link. i’d been trying to find that damn review i wrote.
I used to have me a Hemi. A black Charger on 20′s with the BIG SRT Hemi at that. The Hemi is not only a fuck you to environmentalists, animal lovers, and vegetarians, the Hemi is a complete fuck you to polite society. BMW’s say “I enjoy the precision of German engineering.” Hondas say “I’m a reliable, sensible guy.” Hemis say “I do not share your middle class values” or “I prefer to drive without wearing a shirt” or “Yes, I do have an unregistered gun under the seat, thank you for asking.” While I agree that on the surface, the natural enemy of the Hemi is the Prius, in reality, the Hemi has only two foes: $4/gallon gas and education. I would argue that the couple you’ll never see is the guy with the Hemi and the woman not actively pursuing a video modeling career.
@Brandon St. Randy,
While I agree that on the surface, the natural enemy of the Hemi is the Prius, in reality, the Hemi has only two foes: $4/gallon gas and education
Lol.
@Brandon St. Randy,
“I prefer to drive without wearing a shirt”
LMAO!
@Brandon St. Randy,
lol @ “Yes, I do have an unregistered gun under the seat, thank you for asking.”
@K to the…,
hell yea
@Brandon St. Randy,
Hondas and Toyotas have to be the most boring cars on the planet. They are 100% utilitarian.
@Humble_One,
Hey! My Accord is sexy with shiny paint.
@Me fail english?,
No.
@Humble_One, I have put about 12ooo miles on my 2002 Honda Accord in 6 months and she is the bomb… about to buy her some new tires got to take care of her.
@Humble_One,
I was rollin in my boys Accord two days ago. It was right. Of course, if he had changed the headlights and brake lights, put a megaphone on and a few other things it would have been righter.
@Brandon St. Randy, you’re right. that $4 gas was kicking my arse something awful for a while. i attempted to wage war against rising gas prices until i realized that i’d lose.
@Panama Jackson, I feel you. When I sold that girl, the lifetime COMBINED MPG on the trip computer was 13.9. Fortunately, at the time, I had a more fuel efficient car I used for everyday stuff. It was a Suburban.
Hangs head in shame.
@Brandon St. Randy, i should hangeth my head with more shame.
i bought my Magnum…at the HEIGHT OF bad gas prices. when i bought my joint gas was hanging around steadily at $4/gallon. this AFTER driving an very gas efficient japanese confection for 5 some years.
@Panama Jackson,
whateva jus get a chick with a v6 and drive her shiiii lol I only put 10k miles annually on my v8 my girl understands. Once you drive a v8 there is no going back.
@Brandon St. Randy,
This whole thing slayed me.
@Brandon St. Randy,
I would have gotten the Charger, but it didn’t come in a manual. . .so I settled for a bmw.
@kamakula, Yeah, test-drove some M3′s but I really needed 4-doors at the time. Also, I felt much safer in bad neighborhoods with the Charger. BM’s are inviting to carjackers and jump out boys. Hemi-based Chrysler products and ’95 Impalas, not so much. You could pull up to an Al-Qaeda pep rally in a star spangled Charger, and Mullah Omar and ‘em would think twice about f*cking with you.
@Brandon St. Randy,
true my 94 buick roadmaster has the same body as the impala and it getts respect. One chick said it was a gangster car. I call her “Babe”
@Brandon St. Randy,
I am dying at your comments. Hilarity!
@Brandon St. Randy,
welcome and sh*t
@Brandon St. Randy,
Audi’s say I have money and im stupid
@BLUNTBLAZER, Naw. An Audi is the ultimate f*ck you to everybody car. Audis say “I have money, but I’m way to sophisticated and classy to drive that flashy ethnic Benx/BM/Maser trash you’re driving. And I only eat free-range organic pork. Unlike you chitterling eating commoners.” S5 and R8 are kinda hot though.
@Brandon St. Randy,
lol@ “And I only eat free-range organic pork. Unlike you chitterling eating commoners.”
@Brandon St. Randy,
audi’s suck compared to a benz if im goin luxury im goin benz eryone i kno that has a audi hates it and is mad that they cant sell it
@BLUNTBLAZER,
The A8 is sick. I also saw an Audi coupe that looked suspiciously like a BMW coupe. Swaggerjackin?
@Brandon St. Randy, this was hilarious.
“Black man and a black woman.” ~ Chris Rock … he really said that, lol.
Seriously, though:
–Rush Limbaugh’s Dittoheads and pretty much anyone in California, specifically in The Bay Area…
–John Mayer-types and Jessica Simpson-types … oh yeah, that actually happened, though I don’t know how.
–The woman who wants to order lobster on a first date with a guy she doesn’t like & the guy who wants to take the “ho” to Burger King.
I’m done.
@thismayconcernyou, kudos on the “Rush Limbaugh” comment…its not just in the bay..its just about everywhere! lol
@thismayconcernyou,
I have yet to meet a “Dittohead”. I live a blessed life.
@thismayconcernyou,
BAY AREAAAAAA
sorry had to say that
whats a Dittohead and fuq rush
@thismayconcernyou,
–John Mayer-types and Jessica Simpson-types … oh yeah, that actually happened, though I don’t know how.
I think this one can happen…just not last. It’s the theater/artsy geek from high-school trying his hand at the cheerleader/airheaded girl…
Besides, guys are simplistic enough to smash anything…
1. Doves and Hawks (not when there is an actual war going on anyway.)
2. Considers Zane the greatest author of this century and the rest of humanity
3. An active member of the KKK/Neo Nazi and an active member of the Nation of Islam/Black Panther
4. Volunteers at LGBT/PFLAG and volunteers at the Godhatesfagsandwillsendthemalltohell center
5.Conspiracy theorists and the rest of humanity
6. Storm Thurmond supporters and anyone that is not a bigot/hypocrite
7. Ann Coulter and Ann Coulter (the world would implode)
@ofloveandotherdemons,
Ann Coulter and Ann Coulter (the world would implode)
Indeed it would. How I HATE the fact that she went to my alma mater.
@ofloveandotherdemons,
“7. Ann Coulter and Ann Coulter (the world would implode)”
God forbid there are TWO of these wenches. I would’ve even want to live in a world where this is remotely possible. I’m of the mind that Ann Coulter snuck into earth when God was resting on Sunday.
#6 actually lives down the street from me.
you’d never see:
Tina Turner and Chris Brown (don’t know how it’d happen, but if could, she’d beat the sh*t outta him). that’s all i got
@Naomi,
welcome and sh*t (i think)
# 6 happens ALL the time…in both directions these days.
I would say super Right Wing and super Left Wing but I’ve seen it…and it’s creepy
Middle Eastern Extremist Cleric Type and Super Progressive Western Woman
I’m honestly at a loss…
@Siobhan Means Woman of Wisdom, i’m often confused when two people with extreme personalities or ideologies “give it a go”. it’s bound to fail faster than a condom owned by a 35-year old childless woman with a baby itch.
@Panama Jackson,
Hahahahaha. You mean the faux condom??
@V Renee, pretty much.
The person buying produce at Whole Foods and the person adding more ketchup to their steak sandwich trying to get in those 5 fruits and veggies recommended by the FDA.
A Japanese person and someone from mainland China. This is true most of the time. They’ll do Taiwan, maybe even Hong Kong. But the mainland…oh h333333ll no.
A black person who refuses to say the “n” word and the black person who uses it as both a noun and an adjective. The latter also frequently (unnecessarily) employs mutherf#$$’&r.
@Ms. Hall,
“The person buying produce at Whole Foods and the person adding more ketchup to their steak sandwich trying to get in those 5 fruits and veggies recommended by the FDA.”
Im in this relationship right now.
@Me fail english?, Im in this relationship right now.
LOL.
@Ms. Hall, A black person who refuses to say the “n” word and the black person who uses it as both a noun and an adjective. The latter also frequently (unnecessarily) employs mutherf#$$’&r.
as a connoswar of the n-word, i’ve run into this problem. seems like mutherf#$$&rs always trying to slow my roll.
@Panama Jackson,
“connoswar”
lol. These phonetic spellings are cracking me up today.
@Ms. Hall,
Hmm, I suppose I could never seriously date a girl that used the n-word in such a manner but I do have a close friend who tosses it around like rice at a wedding. I think we mostly let it go because said friend is known for doing things to get a rise out of people and has been doing it so long we’ve just gotten used to it.
@Ms. Hall,
Haha – you know what’s funny, I’m a big meat eater and my girlfriend was a vegetarian. Then on her birthday, she had some fish “only while we’re on vacation”. Then last week, she had some of by bbq chicken at Dave and Busters. Then a couple nights ago, I cooked her some chicken. Now she claims she the only meat she’ll eat is chicken but me and the ribs know tis only a matter of time.
It’s been a while since I’ve corrupted anyone. Still feels good.
@kamakula,
lol…i was a strict vegan, and then i brought it down to vegetarian for a while. then last year, my guy friend took me to a fish fry, and i just couldn’t say no. now, i only eat fish like once a month. and i still call myself a vegetarian….
@N.I.A. LivingLifeOffTheWall….,
you, my dear, are a pescatarian… like me **hugs**
let’s internationalize it a bit….
1. robert mugabe and sarah palin – ha ha ha ha ha, just the thought kills me…. i kill myself! tee hee!
2. the first lady of cameroon, chantalle biya (google her, baby! she has to be seen to be believed) and barack obama
and closer to home for you guys….
3. luvvie and anyone who works at BET…
guys – i’m not sure about this new format, what are the benefits, hmmm?
@superwoman,
I stan for this comment too! VSBers took their HILARIOUS pills last night.
Lady Cameroon has taught me the Art of the Side Eye. I thought mine was fierce. She taught me what perfection of the side eye really can be. Now as far as her lion mane and complextion courtesy of “Fair and White”… yeaahhh…..
@blackberry molasses, i thought she used “Fair & Lovely”? lmao, i have never heard of Fair & White.
Lady Cameroon has also taught me the art of the side eye, which i use on her hair and makeup choices all the time. i heart her.
@blackberry molasses,
I’m still side-eyeing the fact that ol’ girl is only 38.
@miss t-lee,
she is officially screwing with the “Black Don’t Crack” postulate…. trying with all her might to prove it a fallacy.
@blackberry molasses,
*laughing loudly*
6) black dude with dreads shouting Black power and a white Becky-style chick I mean any dude with dreads has to be down for the cause right? He wouldn’t dip in that pool and let down his sisters like that. Earthtones, Malcolm X rhetoric, and the locs representing the motherland? That brotha is all about making sure he’s looking for the woman with the sweetest juice.
HAHAHAHAHAHA
Oh you are soo funny. Have you ever seen those guys. First ones to turn a Becky out. When they met was all ponytails and cheerleading and after one week its dirty blonde dreds and fake army-navy surplus. Hilarious to witness (if you got the right sense of humor)*. Cuz you gotta think. Those guys are mostly angry and therefore think about vengeance more than uplifting (no matter what they say) and therefore care more about getting one in at the Man by poking his precious daughter than about ‘building strong black families.’
*Its also hilarious to see their rxn to a black woman with a nonblack man while they have turned out Becky on their arm. And Becky will be grumbling too half the time!
@willnotbetelevised,
I have a friend who is the “thuggiest of thugs” and now his “rib” is a flower child, barefoot, au natural, huggin a tree and a few more black people to show that she doesnt see “color” kind of chick!…what they have in common is Weed! lol
@aja,
what they have in common is Weed! lol .
That’s cause the weed be letting you know! ha
@willnotbetelevised,
“care more about getting one in at the Man by poking his precious daughter than about ‘building strong black families.’ ”
lol. This is funny cuz now that you mention it, quite a few of these “militant” black men tell some ol’ bitter ass story about a non-black woman who didn’t want to introduce him to her parents, and that’s when he decided to go hard for the black race. FOH reject!
@willnotbetelevised, what movie mocked this? was it Im gonna get you sucka or Hollywood Shuffle? I cant recall, but it was funny
@Intellectual Hedonist,
It was “I’m gonna get you sucka” cuz Jan Brady(rockin the braids n beads) was married to Link aka Clarence Williams and they had that lil blonde kid reading his essay about how the Man was keepin the black man down..lol
Weed brings all types together.
An Asian and an Indian (those from India) as a couple. I’ve looked for this couple everywhere to prove my theory wrong. lol
@Nicki Sunshine,
I’m not sure but I thought Indonesia was a country of people of Indian and East Asian decent. At least that’s how they look to me (my bad if that sounds politically incorrect).
@pinksghetti,
Good point. I forgot how many people from Myanmar, and Nepal look just like this mix. And dont sweat it. My father and Pop Pop still call Filipinos “those Chinese Mexicans” as if they don’t have their own country.
@Me fail english?, ” still call Filipinos “those Chinese Mexicans””
I have died and went to ……
Hold up, it’s hot in hurrrr
@Nicki Sunshine,
LOL!
@Me fail english?,
“My father and Pop Pop still call Filipinos “those Chinese Mexicans” as if they don’t have their own country.”
Lol!
@pinksghetti, I have no clue!
@Nicki Sunshine, i know 3 such couples, northern va be a melting pot lol.
@overit?, NOT in kentucky!!!!
@Nicki Sunshine,
I was just noting that in the Chi, I saw all kinds of international/racial couples. I can’t say for sure I saw an Indian and Asia, but due to the sheer number of other ones I saw, Ima go ahead and claim to have seen one.
@V Renee, I saw a lot a cultures, PERIOD while we were in Chicago… we ended up at a Latino club by mistake but it was fun.
@Nicki Sunshine,
I know of one!
They have the cutest little girl … She is dark-ish with slanted eyes… She can pass for anything she wants… and she speaks Hindi AND Mandarin…
Both parents met while in a phD program at my school… It’s very rare though, I agree.
“Though I almost think a dude with a Prius might date a chick with a Magnum assuming she was hot enough.” Very true. Most guys aren’t gonna let a little thing like a “cause” get between him and some ass.
Oh and take it easy on “She Hate Me”. That film gave us one of the greatest lesbian scenes in all of cinema…
And you’ll never see a Bush supporter dating an ACLU worker. One of their heads would explode…
@J, Oh and take it easy on “She Hate Me”. That film gave us one of the greatest lesbian scenes in all of cinema…
it also provided the most insanely retarded storyline in cinematic history. any movie that manages to weave the SEC, lesbianism, suicide, CONGRESS, George Wills, mobsters and Q-Tip into one is a mess waiting to happen.
@J,
My ex had a VW Bug (and it was bright orange) and I would never be caught dead in the mofo jus like prius NAW jus cant do it. IMA MAN dammit lol. I actually told my ex that cause she wondered why i would neva drive her car lol
1. bible-belt southern baptist and an islamic fundamentalist
2. sarah palin and david letterman
3. a neo-nazi and an orthodox jew
4. a vegan and a person who still thinks veggies are “yucky”
@N.I.A. LivingLifeOffTheWall…., i think this works for most religious extremists. no matter your bent.
btw, just like i’m highly opposed to backtracking (name that movie!), i’m hightly opposed to religious zealotism.
i like the word zealot.
@Panama Jackson,
roll bounce, i think? which is crazy since i’ve only seen that me 1.5 times….
@N.I.A. LivingLifeOffTheWall…., good job. that’s straight from roll bounce, a movie that i love.
@Panama Jackson,
I jus like nu-nu? is that the same movie
You’re right about that. I saw it only once in HS. It was a Desi with a Far East Asian, but even then I don’t think she was Indian.
A couple I’m starting to see more is Ricans with Asians.
@Me fail english?,
That comment was for Nicki Sunshine. Apparently, the grey “REPLY” link isn’t a reply at all. Hmph!
@Me fail english?, i know desi’s married to black folks, lmao..tis a new day.
@overit?,
Yeah I grew up all around cooley-negro unions. That’s probably not the PC way to say it but, hey… my name is MeFail. This is what I do.
@Me fail english?, and that is why you da besss.
Rod Stewart and any non-blonde non-2520 woman (I’ve never seen him date/marry a non-blonde).
Opera lover and lover of hip-hop or heavy metal.
Lawyer and religious fundamentalist. And you know why.
@pinksghetti, Opera lover and lover of hip-hop or heavy metal.
gonna go ahead and call shenanigans on you for this one. it’s totally possible to appreciate bof.
hell, wyclef merged hip-hop and opera into one of his songs on The Carnival (can’t remember the name, it’s track 2).
and i love heavy metal.
i am the american dream.
@Panama Jackson,
gonna go ahead and call shenanigans on you for this one. it’s totally possible to appreciate bof.
Yep.
@Panama Jackson,
I just can’t really see someone who enjoys sitting at the Opera with the mini-binoculars dating someone who is into hip-hop or the same Opera lover dating a heavy-metal lover. First most Opera lovers are like 50+ while the Hip-hop/metal fans are younger. Can you see a long haired ripped jean man dating a prim and proper opera loving female (or vice-versa for a man/woman). I can see a hip-hop lover and a heavy metal person dating though. I think Wyclef is just into being different and trying every music genre. Opera is boring/relaxing the opposite of metal/rap.
@pinksghetti,
lol. I enjoy all three…and I look like I listen to whatever it is they play at The Gap.
@Me fail english?, LOL, same here. if you have a real appreciation for music, you will appreciate opera.
@pinksghetti, “Opera is boring/relaxing the opposite of metal/rap.”
WHAT!!!! there is as much drama (sex murder and mayhem)
in opera as there is in the Bible. Opera is the ish!
It takes a special apreciation of music, and a patience (especially if you dont understand the language it is sung in)
@pinksghetti,
Opera lover and lover of hip-hop or heavy metal.
Yup, I’ll call this one out as well. Good music is good music regardless of the genre.
I’m stanning for this comment.
It made me spit tea all over my screeen. Congratulations. And I’m giving the IT dpt your email, when they look for someone to blame.
@blackberry molasses,
this needs to be deleted… why did it show up down here?
Women with cassie’s new haircut and men committed to never trying to turn a h* into a girlfriend/housewife again.
@An Island,
Seriously, Cassie looks like she was sleeping on her side and mistook a razor for a pillow. I still refuse to believe that was done on purpose.
@Cheekie,
Lala too?
@V Renee,
Yup, her too. There needs to be a PSA for confusing pillows for razors…it’s getting serious.
@Cheekie
It’s a good lesson for women out there. If Cassie can’t pull it off, don’t think you’ll be the one. But she’s only seconds from being smokin again, she just needs to do the female comeover while waiting for that shyt to grow back.
@An Island,
*nods*
I agree.
Oooh, look at the new sparkly VSB. Nice work ya’ll!
“Any organization that willingly goes after the motherf*cking PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES for killing a fly has clearly lost its ever loving mind.”
Word. Look, I respect the theory behind PETA even though I’m a carnivore. I’m not really into fur,
but if I was I’d cut a paint-throwin ninjaso they’ve never done anything personally to me. But, mess with Obama and you best get crane-kicked. He did swat a fly Miyagi-style, so please believe he can crane-kick on a tree stump.Other couples that are dag nabbit near impossible to co-mingle:
- Lil’ Wayne and non-roaches. Oh, he knocked up two pretty ladies? I can’t hear youuuuu.
- Super liberals and super conservatives. Yeah, AHH-nold and Maria are doing their thing, but I am hard-pressed to believe that a supporter of gay rights will mingle with a non-supporter as both views are extra strong. Which is why I added the “super” onto the noun, because the extremes? Well, they’re too extreme.
Either that or the hardcore arguing is bound to lead to hardcore something else.- Soulja Boy fans and Music fans.
- Dick Cheney and anyone with a soul
- Flava Flav and a mirror
- Cheekie and anyone who hates Disney/Pixar films. I don’t even wanna breathe the same AIR as you. Begone soulless heathen!
@Cheekie,
I’m not really into fur, but if I was I’d cut a paint-throwin ninja so they’ve never done anything personally to me. .
IF I wore fur or even faux fur and someone threw paint on me, I hope I’m already in handcuffs prior to the paint being thrown. Otherwise I will beat the sh*t out of someone. Don’t let it be chinchilla. They might as well sign their own death certificate. LMAO.
I kid I kidI am so sincere.@Cheekie,
- Cheekie and anyone who hates Disney/Pixar films. I don’t even wanna breathe the same AIR as you. Begone soulless heathen!
Oh wow…and I thought we were cool.
Dah well.
*giggling*
@miss t-lee,
Hmm…WHAA?
Your application is in pending status since you’re otherwise mad cool. lol
@Cheekie,
Trust me…I’m in pending status with more than a few for a myriad of reasons.
@Cheekie,
“Dick Cheney and anyone with a soul”
I swear this man reminds me of Darth Vader.
@Humble_One,
I like to think that he was Charles Dickens’ muse for Scrooge when he wrote A Christmas Carol and he’s old enough to have been back then too.
@pinksghetti,
LOL. I can’t imagine a very Cheney childhood. I feel like he came out of the womb old and evil. Like Benjamin Button without the regression
@Humble_One, no, he is worse than Darth Vader. Darth had a soul, Cheney is that organic evil.
@Humble_One,
I swear this man reminds me of Darth Vader.
**mechancial breathing** that was cold man. I ain’t do nothin except exterminate the Jedi, exercise the will of an evil emperor and torture people for no reason. At least my son was able to bring me back to the light. That dude ain’t got no hope.
@Cheekie, ” Dick Cheney and anyone with a soul” I went to a 2520 wedding in Philly this weekend (that’s a real nice place. . . well outside of the ghetto movie theater on broad street i was at last night) and the bride’s pops looked exactly like Dick Cheney but he was a real nice dude . . . I felt like I was in the twilight zone . . . I figure he must get that alot though.
@IVR,
I’ve missed your liberal use of elipses…
oh and ghetto thetre… you can only mean Avenue North. Someone should have warned you. The bridge is better.
1) the guy who drives a Dodge Magnum with a Hemi and a woman who drives a Prius
This makes me think of everytime I pull up to Trader Joe’s in my Firehawk Trans Am. LOL. I think a better contrast would be a dude in a 1983 Caprice Classic and a chic in a Prius.
Couples you’ll never see
Hip-Hop head and 106 and Park or mainstream radio fan
the super ambitious independent professional black woman and the super ambitious professional black man
Fox News and actual truthful unbias reporting
Detroit Lions and a winning record
@Humble_One, ’95 Impala and a Prius driver also a no-go.
@Humble_One, the super ambitious independent professional black woman and the super ambitious professional black man
sadness, my sadness.
@Panama Jackson,
I swear these 2 groups want each other but never find each other.
@Humble_One,
Hella unfortunate, yet so true. Is it a “looking in the wrong places” type thing or is it a “don’t really want what you say you want” type thing? Hmm.
@Cheekie,
I feel like two superambitious ppl of any racial combo is tough just cause who has time to go see the other one? And at least one of em is bound to have control issues.
Plus when you’re at one extreme, law of averages kicks in and the people you date are bound to be significantly less ambitious
@Me fail english?, you’re right, the best mate for an ambitious person is lazy f*ck who isn’t a, ya know, lazy f*ck.
@Me fail english,
Great point! Especially re: the control issues.
@Humble_One,
fire hawk trans am *whipes drool off chin*
dam I dont know what I like more girls or cars.
prolly cars cause cars will get you a girl lol
@BLUNTBLAZER,
imagine rollin up to a chick in ya shiny new prius tryna get ya mack on hahahahaha
@BLUNTBLAZER,
Imagine rollin’ up in a VW Beetle tryin’ to mack on a girl. lol
lest we forget these other couples you’d never see:
mccain voter with obama voter…my ex told me she was thinking about voting for mccain based on his stance on abortion. i refrained myself from yelling ‘bidch you ain’t never even been pregnant!” and remembered all the reasons why she’s my ex.
nas stan with a jay-z stan…as soon as takeover or ether plays on the radio fisticuffs would ensue…
a noassatall chick and carverthemotherfluckingreat…sorry ma, can’t do it.
“ya boy’s off the wall, these other nuccas is tito” – hov
@Carver The Great!
“a noassatall chick and carverthemotherfluckingreat…sorry ma, can’t do it.”
I’m An Island and I support this message.
Screw both of yall!
*checking the mailbox for my lack-o-ass reparations*
@8th Wonder
Look cute, be funny, and do the sweater wrap around, that should get you back in the game.
@An Island,
This doesnt work. We can notice the lack of “poke-out” under the sweater.
@Humble_One
I’m tryna be supportive over here. Work with me.
@An Island,
Thanks for the effort boo. I already got cute and funny on lock…just waiting on them reparations.
@Carver The Great!,
“a noassatall chick and carverthemotherfluckingreat…sorry ma, can’t do it.”
Cosign 100%. I did this once and hope to do it never again.
@Humble_One,
yea boney booty’s hurt mayne 4real like humpin a wall
Funny! I have been asked out by a guy that went to Michigan and I was not at all interested.
Go Bucks!
@Babs, i see you have questionable taste in education and men. lol.
I’d say there was hope for couple number one. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Toyota-Prius–T3T4-Turbo-Charger-Kit_W0QQitemZ260431999334QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting
@WuDaMan, Me I want to go fast for cheap.
@WuDaMan, & green
@WuDaMan,
@WuDaMan,
“Me I want to go fast for cheap.”
Get a 5.0 mustang. If you want to be green run it off E-85.
@Humble_One,
you can get a good 5.0 for like 15 hunned out here but who wants a ford I cop a Iroc first need that 5.7
@BLUNTBLAZER,
Me I got plans to trick out my trap star starter kit. aka my 2000 buick lesabre
An MJ fan and an Elvin fan shouldn’t be together. These two would be going all DJ Khaled with each other all de time…”He da BESSSST! Who?”
@K to the…,
lol, i guess lisa marie presley doesn’t count then huh?
@The Champ,
You saw that kiss at the MTV VMA’s right?
The answer to your question is a resounding: no.
@Cheekie,
lol That kiss was mad sus!!!
@K to the…,
That is hands down the best comment i’ve read.
LOL @ He the Bessssssssssst!
Khaled gets on my last good unused nerve. He the Kirk Franklin of DJs.
First off, the site looks great! You guys have officially landed!
Thanks for making the mobile connect easier.
As a researcher, there is no group of people that I dislike more than PETA (or any animal rights activist group). I had to stop supporting the local animal shelter because 75 cents of every dollars supports PETA and similar organizations. They are misguided and ignorant. I think in their mind they have logic but the logic is based on lies and there not being enough positive information of there. Targeting animal research is stupid for the following reasons (in brief):
1. ALL of our current medications come from some form of animals research, whether it be in a cell line or whole animal model.
2. Most animals live longer in captivity than in the wild, unless of course if it’s an acute study.
3. ALL animal research is HEAVILY regulated by the government. Protocols are written to ensure the least amount of stress and pain.
4. These animals live great (i.e. sterilized food and water, regulated room temp, annually trained vet techs support, fresh fruit that the average person may not even be able to name).
I’ll end my list there. Animal research is necessary and should be supported. PETA folks should be educated and take a step back and look at the hypocritical life they live.
@Ivy St.,
They are against animal research for the same reason we are against child labor. Sure, there are places were animals are being treated right, not exploited, etc, but given their otherwise inability to protect themselves from victimization by us, the cost benefits analysis will always be contentious.
A lot of the research we discussed in my neuroscience class could not be carried out today (decerebrating cats for example). However, like many advocacy groups, they advance their arguments by taking exceptions and painting them as the rule, rather than working on a dialog that recognizes there is a legitimate other side.
@kamakula,
I understand what you wrote, but I don’t get the main point. Are you justifying PETA’s mission or are you saying you see where they may get their logic? In the second part “like many advocacy groups, they advance their arguments by taking exceptions and painting them as the rule, rather than working on a dialog that recognizes there is a legitimate other side, “it didn’t seem like you were. The first part “They are against animal research for the same reason we are against child labor,” comes off as your supporting why they would believe what they believe. Are your really equating human life to the life of an animal? If they were supporting what they say they are supporting, they’d really be after meat production. Those animals are really but through bad situations.
Second, I’m sure your neuroscience class taught you that MOST of the science done prior to the 90′s couldn’t be done today. There were humans that receive lobotomies for being “crazy” or received drugs that were quite lethal. It wasn’t JUST animal research that was done unethically.
Third, I’ve been in many lab at many different institutions as well as industry, I can say that at least 90% of animals are treated very good. All scientist know that the happier your subjects the better they are at doing the task or being a good model for human diseases etc.
@Ivy St.,
Well, my neuroscience class was in the context of bioengineering and controls so we focused on understanding how the brain works, how one would go about investigating it from a control system standpoint and how to integrate our engineering knowledge into a biological context.
My main point was that I can understand what PETA is doing and while I don’t like some of their tactics, I think it is the end result of pushing a specific agenda.
Also, I was attempting to make (what in retrospect came across very weakly) the argument that PETA isn’t so much against research using animals for medical purposes. Or rather, the impetus for their push against animal research use did not stem from medical research – just now, it encompasses it since they have adopted a “either all for or all against” mantra.
So, the point there is that PETA is against it for what were initially good reasons but now can seem idiotic.
@kamakula,
“that PETA is against it for what were initially good reasons but now can seem idiotic.”
I agree with this point. I’m just annoyed that bimonthly they target my lab.
“how one would go about investigating it from a control system standpoint”
Control system?
@Ivy St.
Yes, controls. Simply put, it is the study of how system outputs respond to inputs. When it comes to the human system, we want to understand how the inputs (desires/commands, senses) result in outputs (motor commands, etc).
If we understand such systems, then we can design things to compensate and correct when one part is not working properly (Parkinson’s, nerve damage, etc).
Controls engineers have well established techniques for studying and characterizing systems. For example, there are “generic” system models that result in a certain type of behavior. So, when you are designing the control system of a car or the response of a wii, if we see a certain system has some behavior that matches a known model, that makes our job easier.
The brain and human body is vastly more difficult. While there are certain behaviors and responses which at times fit models we already know, they do not generalize well. Or, the interactions between various systems are so complex, that we are still trying to figure it out.
For example, let’s imagine someone has nerve damage and can no longer control their arms. We can target neurons in areas that we suspect have dominant control over arm motion, take recordings in normal humans of them performing that motion, then apply control theory to give us a generalized model that if someone where to record stimulus and not tell us what the person was doing, we could figure it out.
Then, all we’d have to do to cure the person is have a device that intercepts the electrical impulses in your brain and convert those to signals at your muscles. Except it turns out that we don’t fully understand the brain yet. And perhaps it turns out that our model only works when people are sitting down and by sheer luck, we designed the experiments with everyone sitting down.
As engineers, we follow Occam’s razor (The simplest explanation is best). Primarily because it makes our work easier, but also because while we could eventually come up with an exceptionally complex model of some sensory-response system, in all likelihood there exists a much simpler response with high fidelity in 95% of the cases.
So, the goal then is to iteratively apply control engineering techniques, starting with simple models and gradually increasing complexity. This in fact serves a couple purposes. When the simple models don’t work, it suggests that we are oversimplifying some aspect of how the brain/sensorimotor system works. And so, the work of engineers in this regard not only finds better and better solutions to problems in this domain, we also advance the state of the art in terms of studying the human system and understanding structure, function, and how it all fits together.
@Ivy St., First off, the site looks great! You guys have officially landed!
Thanks for making the mobile connect easier.
thanks,
lizthe champ and I did it all ourselves too.liz did the whole thingwith no help from anybody.@Panama Jackson, ” the champ and I did it all ourselves too. ”
you need more people, try the Republic of China
@Intellectual Hedonist, you need more people, try the Republic of China
and a few indians..i’ll take a few virtual math tutors.
@Panama Jackson, LMAO. you ain’t right. quit lying to people!
Thanks Ivy St
@Liz,
LOL…I had a feeling at least one half of the brotha duo would take credit for Liz’s hard work. Liz, big ups for your work! Girl power and all that jazz.
@Liz,
I know that it’s all you Liz! I’m sure both P and Champ are quite appreciative of all you’ve done to make this site look so official.
Great job!
@Ivy St., Do they live great? I mean….the government is of course your AND my best friend, and I´m sure they regulate EVERYTHING exactly to the standard as they are supposed to all the time.
Right? Well, no. Our government doesn´t even regulate the treatment of inmates in jails or children in foster care right all the time. You HONESTLY think they check up on the welfare of a lowly mouse or monkey as they should or say they do? I´m sure some of them live quite nicely (if you call never seeing the sun nice, but whatever). There is also evidence of many that live through hell. I´m sure you won´t click the link below because it´ll make you want to cry..or vomit. But hey:
http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/Prefs.asp?video=covance_30
Listen, I´m a more moderate PETA gal, i really am. Medicine is important. I have Lupus. I get that. That doesn´t mean that I don´t want that little cat or mouse or macaque or cockroach to be properly anesthetized before a painful medical experiment. That´s how a lot of us feel at PETA. We wouldn´t be able to survive without testing, but we should certainly demand that people respect the creatures that lay down their lives so that we may live.
I think that when an organization (as nuts as we are) sometimes catches wrong being done and blows the whistle, demanding better conditions (which is what PETA Really does….they yell and scream for an end to factory farming, testing, etc. But they know it´ll never happen, and instead rally for legislature to make conditions BETTER, not do away with it all together) is it reasonable for you to really HATE them? Like HATE them for real? I think standing up for mercy and demanding mercy of others is not worth hating someone for. Our investigations and protests are annoying, but they get results. HATE us? There are WAY more awful people to hate….I promise.
p.s. – being vegan made me lose 10 pounds and I poop twice a day. YAY!
My list of rappers isn’t a who’s who of lyrical content but they have something there. Dipset is in mu fave because I find them hilarious.
*Hopefully this is a reply and not a new post as this is my first time attempting a reply from my celly*
@Nola Darling,
*Hopefully this is a reply and not a new post as this is my first time attempting a reply from my celly*
lol, try again
Jon Stewart fans and Glenn Beck fans.
Glenn beck fans and books…
@Omar,
Glenn beck fans and books…
i would have said glenn beck fans and teeth, but this works just as well
@Omar, co-sign!
I gotta co-sign the V8 & Hybrid connections cause I drive a guzzzala 5.7liter 350 v8 and you either love or hate my car and I dont care cause I love it and I hate prius’s with a passion.
Odd couples
1) Black guy and a traditional Jewish girl
-tried it and it wasnt gonna work im Baptist so my religion aint hella strict and all this cosher, going to church stuff naw i wasnt with it. Im baptist i like my pastors that drive cadi’s and have rings on almost every finger and dress like Joe Jackson. Plus Holocaust vrs Slavery arguments get really ugly.
2) A chick with weak lungs and ME
-”ridin in my jag you gone need a gas mask” One chick told me after we broke up that she used to have to wash her clothes after she left my house cause they smelled like tree smoke. lol. Anotha chick said could you please not smoke when im here I said coo “gedafuqout then boootch” lol shiii i pay the bills I call the shots.
@BLUNTBLAZER,
“I gotta co-sign the V8 & Hybrid connections cause I drive a guzzzala 5.7liter 350 v8 and you either love or hate my car and I dont care cause I love it and I hate prius’s with a passion. ”
Welcome to the anti-Prius club. Until today I thought i was the only member. You won’t catch me dead in a Prius. You can have a respectable car and still get decent gas-mileage. I also have a 5.7 liter 350, turbocharged V6, and 4.6 liter V8.
@Humble_One,
my chick has a supercharged v6. I cant stand the 4.8′s whats the use really I know some lincoln 4.8 that get worst gas mileage than my buick 5.7
@BLUNTBLAZER,
You must have one of those big body Roadmasters with the LT1. The supercharged V6 is nice. They run. My turbocharged V6 is my Grand National. The supercharged V6 is the newer version my engine.
@Humble_One,
yupyup an mines has 65k on it. the ultimate sleeper
@Humble_One,
grand natty awww shiiii thas my shi right there luck mofo
@BLUNTBLAZER,
I tried the Jewish thing once too… But i ended the arguement saying the Nazis killed blacks too so we had it worst…. that also ended the relationship too…..
@The_Eighth_Hokage,
yea i tried before but jus to many differences i was like i think i found the exact opposite to black people. I went to the holocaust museum and they ignored my slavery ? cause they know the truth
@BLUNTBLAZER,
yeah true but i love me potato latkas a week b4 christmas and teasing my friends with donuts during passover
@BLUNTBLAZER, LMAO!
I´m dating a Sephardic Jew from Israel (wiki that if need be, I´m not explaining it…but Pharaoh gave them hell and they´re the niggers of Jewry). Anyway, it works out cause neither one of us can eat shit when we go out. I´m Vegan, he keeps Kosher. He calls pigs and shellfish “bottom-feeders,” I call them friends. He drives a BMW, I drive Stella McCartney vegan sandals onto the F Train. It all works out.
Plus he´s rich, so I don´t care if he eats a live piglet, buck naked, while singing Porgy and Bess tunes right in front of my face. Nope. do. not. care.
Fan of Souljah Boy and fan of GS Boys. Imagine this asinine couple arguing over whose coonish dance is better. Oh wait…maybe that’ll make them a good couple. *Hmmm*
Anywho, *side eye* to self for letting the leg get a lil un-fresh at times when I hear “Stanky Leg”. Don’t judge me!
@K to the…,
If I were caught alive doing the Stanky Legg, I’d say my leg had a mind of its own.
@K to the…,
(Off topic) I was at a block party on the 4th in NW, DC. The guy running the block party decides that the little kids should have a dance contest, to the “Stanky leg” and a couple of Souljah Boy songs, to win an Ipod. In a nutshell they had a bunch of pre-teen girls, in the middle of the street, “twirkin’ it” for a damn Ipod. And I’d swear I saw some of their parent s cheering them on.
It’s a damn shame how young, girls are taught how to sell their bodies…
@Omar,
Wowzers…that’s crazy!!!
(off topic) I was out in D.C. this past weekend visiting friends…had a blast!
LOL
OH-
what about a Hampton Alum and a Howard Alum
because u have to respect the rivalry I dont see me not mentioning how much better hampton is to anybody that even thought of attending Howard… lol me and my Howard friends always go back and forth
OR
A person who idolizes Keanu Reeves (Idk why) and a person who idolizes Sam Jackson…..
this actually happened but ended very bad
@The_Eighth_Hokage,
I went to Hampton before I got kicked out.
Im kinda like a legend out there.
I had the deans daughter on payroll
@BLUNTBLAZER,
ob5 huh?
lol, I’m just gettin started making a name for myself…. and if ur a legend hoow come i never heard of u?
@The_Eighth_Hokage,
dat was 10 yrs ago i bet tha dean still kno me lol
@BLUNTBLAZER, lol which dean?
a Soulja Boy fan and a Charles Hamilton fan
see death of a mixtape rapper by CH for further reasons y
oh and lets expand that to a SB fan and anybody who likes music with meaning
@The_Eighth_Hokage,
“oh and lets expand that to a SB fan and anybody who likes music with meaning”
I went further in my list and said SB fans and Music Fans. Meaning, music, PERIOD. Whatever Soulja Boy does is what he does, but it ain’t music. lol
So one more cousin anecdote and I´ll leave you nice people the hell alone.
My cousin Lamman Rucker played the beefy police officer in “Why did I Get Married” (the sweaty close ups made me want to blow chunks).
I told him about how I saw it on bootleg and how I was ashamed to call him my family. He agreed with my reactions.
@GabbyTime, so um, was this before or after he decided to take further rolls in Tyler Perry productions (Meet The Browns, and “meet the browns (tv)”)???
i guess shame only goes as far as the paycheck, huh?
and i ain’t judging, i’d do it too…just asking though. if he thought it was so bad, why sign on for additional coonery?
@GabbyTime,
Wait…your cousin is Jimmy Ruffin?!
*screams*
@GabbyTime,
Damn, I thought Why Did I Get Married was one of the better done Perry flicks. Didn’t seem like a coon role to me.
The dude that was the Assistant Director of Slow Motion Titty Photography for Drake’s “Best I ever Had” video and the president of the National Organization for Women’s Anti-Exploitation task Force
@Brandon St. Randy,
“Assistant Director of Slow Motion Titty Photography …”
LMAO! WHat in the Sam Cassell!
@K to the…, Actually the dude that had the best job on that set…..wait for it….the Key Grip!
(pretend I said that in the Huggy Lowdown voice. Or Katt Williams. whichever you prefer.)