Fealty bling!

Actually, she seems to be a bit off balance and wants to lean against the rope, but it gives way.

The Flava Flav bling the mayor is wearing is his "livery collar" or "chain of office". Old European affectation.

I criticize the bling culture of rap because it's butt-fucking stupid, de-evolution'ry, and insults the species. Oh, and if you're all-about wearing high-end designer duds for status or the semblance thereof, look out. It's people like me who'll steal your shit and wear it just to trash it.

Would rather drive a Bentley into a river than take a picture of it with an iphone....Can't do that anyway, smashed the iphone against the pavement.

Hip Hop can be a great thing if you remove all that bling bling, "bitches", and bentleys.

Hip Hop used to be almost completely about social criticism. And it needs to go back to that.

Are you seriously suggesting that criticising the "bling" culture of rap is racist?

There's a massive difference between criticising people for their behaviours and criticising them for their race. I don't like the champagne/rims/gold jewellery bollocks either, does that make me racist?

If anything, it's racist to assume that all black people subscribe to the worst elements of hip-hop just because they're black.

Regarding the song itself: great message, lousy execution.

If corporations acted with honor as Glenn Beck likes to argue, we wouldn't need to raise the minimum wage. But we keep attempting this time and time again, we give corporations all this influence and power hoping they use it wisely and fairly. But they don't. They never have. They use it to make themselves more wealthy than they need to be, masking their selfishness under the banner of "rugged individualism"

I guarantee you that no one *wants* to artificially raise the minimum wage, but it's a necessary step to lessen the income gap and offset inflation.

The right wing talking point is always "a poor person never offered me a job" Well my response is "I never met a rich person who didn't get their money from poor people buying their stuff"

where do you think any business who makes a product gets their money from? Do they just will it into existence because of the power of their ego? They get it from a poor person buying their stuff. But yeah, the corporate apologists don't like to talk about that particular reality.

There is always going to be poor people and always be rich people, but we can be a nation that decides as a whole that we're not going to piss on our poor people so that even the poor can led happy healthy lives.

The right wing talking point is that the poor have rich people envy. The poor don't envy the rich, they don't want McMansions and Hummers and all the stupid bling rich dolts buy. they just want to have their needs met. They just want to not go broke if there is a major illness

If corporations acted with "honor" then the free market idea *might* work, but as long as greed rules the day, there will always be the need to put measures in place like raising the minimum wage and other regulations.

nice bling!

Nice bling!

BAM!!! Bronze star!!!! Nice to see that one of my favorite people on the site now has a little bling by his name.

Way to go Blahpook! Congrats on the shiny new bling!

congrats on the bling!

Well I prefer guys without so much body hair and less bling but hey, do you hear ME complaining?

Ok besides ant here....

Who down-votes with a tincture of sensibilities, pet-peevish disdain for tone and timbre of a particular user's comments or antics, half a fifth of, "That'll panty-knot yer grandstandin'!", and maybe a dash of, "Oh fuck off, up or down and I don't care!"??

My take on the dichotomy that does not exist here with regards to the efficacy of votes and their effect on anything but fake bling, is that up and down should be tossed-around with fervor and abandon on offerings of users who have been here the longest, are the most active etc., and that more attention should be paid to the offerings and activeness of the USERS WHO ARE:

A newbies
B talented and resourceful, (feel'em out, dipshits!)
C show the fuck up at all and say ANYTHING on this flaccid site!

Kinna boringly cliquish and dull around here, maybe you charters who put money to mouth should get a room and come up with some ideas-Place needs a douche

A hearty handclasp on yer new bling-Cheers

>> ^chingalera:

Fast n furious , energy relegated to the now. That's the mettle, that's the dedication shining...
You have obsessively proven yourself far into the above and beyond, kiss a kitty to celebrate your new bling.
A major accomplishment in about 6792 less comments it took choggie to sink into infamy....Congratulations, have a latte'..☕


This peppermint soy no whip mocha is for YOU! [sip] =oD

Someone will have to fill me in on this Choggie character some day ... I've noticed the name bandied about here and there =oI