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I thought they were doing to do YMCA!

I wouldn't say that is a better comparison, only different. But I agree that it is pretty far fetched to get bent out of shape over. Plus, it has been a long time now since 911, nearly a decade (wow, time flies). In addition, it isn't like it is a Madrasah something. It's like a YMCA for Muslims from the sound of it, as American as you get! I don't share this uneasiness that others have with Muslims (being as I never have much exposure to the world of the burning ember), but I do understand how the fear of it propagates. The unfortunate ol adage of "a couple bad apples spoils the bunch" comes to mind.

>> ^Herostratus:

Fellow at work told me he's comfortable around black people because he used to go to the YMCA, while we were walking about on a break. He walked right in front of a Hispanic woman who was carrying a box of stuff, while I stopped to let her cross.
Followed it up with, "...and I know this is going to sound terrible, but I just hate Mexicans." Unironically, not sarcastically, non-jokingly.
So I think I really can say, "I think you are racist" in this instance.


No, he's just ignorant of what he really dislikes. What he probably dislikes is the stigmas associated with Hispanic culture in the south-western United States. That's a cultural problem, but he's confused it with a racial one.

Fellow at work told me he's comfortable around black people because he used to go to the YMCA, while we were walking about on a break. He walked right in front of a Hispanic woman who was carrying a box of stuff, while I stopped to let her cross.

Followed it up with, "...and I know this is going to sound terrible, but I just hate Mexicans." Unironically, not sarcastically, non-jokingly.

So I think I really can say, "I think you are racist" in this instance.

A very stylish and unique living space. Wow! Previously was a YMCA building and her apartment was originally the men's locker/shower room? LOL! I really dig her shoe gallery/ storage display.

Fun times.

In reply to this comment by rasch187:
You're an inspiration to us all..and you do make me laugh, so send it to the closest YMCA. That's usually where I hang out during christmas.

In reply to this comment by kymbos:
No it does not, as I have the joy of Christmas in my heart. Where shall I send a certain cd single?

You're an inspiration to us all..and you do make me laugh, so send it to the closest YMCA. That's usually where I hang out during christmas.

In reply to this comment by kymbos:
No it does not, as I have the joy of Christmas in my heart. Where shall I send a certain cd single?

Looks like some boys frolicking at the local YMCA.

It's kind of funny that only 20 years ago, black people were not allowed into the Mormon church. Maybe in 20 more years, they will be singing YMCA.

^what BansheeX said.

NetRunner:
My sources, among others, are excerpts from the best selling author Milton Friedman, the 1976 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics, and hailed "the most influential economist of the second half of the 20th century…possibly of all of it". In "Free to Choose" he writes:

"The combination of economic and political freedom produced a golden age in both Great Britain and the United States in the nineteenth century. The United States prospered even more than Britain. It started with a clean slate: fewer vestiges of class and status; fewer government restraints; a more fertile field for energy, drive, and innovation; and an empty continent to conquer"
"During most of the period of rapid agricultural expansion in the United States the government played a negligible role. Land was made available—but it was land that had been unproductive before."
"...few other government restrictions impeded free trade at home or abroad. Until after World War I immigration was almost completely free (there were restrictions on immigration from the Orient). They came by the millions, and by the millions they were absorbed. They prospered because they were left to their own devices."
"Almost every charitable or public service organization, from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals The Power of the Market to the YMCA and YWCA, from the Indian Rights Association to the Salvation Army, dates from that period. Voluntary cooperation is no less effective in organizing charitable activity than inorganizing production for profit. The charitable activity was matched by a burst of cultural activity—art museums, opera houses, symphonies, museums, public libraries arose in big cities and frontier towns alike."
"Perhaps even more surprising to us today, people were free to travel all over Europe and much of the rest of the world without a passport and without repeated customs inspection. They were free to emigrate and in much of the world, particularly the United States, free to enter and become residents and citizens."


And before you say these ideas no longer apply today...take a look at the economy of Hong Kong, home to 7 million people in 426 square miles.

Hilarious, *gay biscuits, stay at the YMCA, and work as a go-go dance....

This is wonderfully daft *comedy oh and this counts as *1sttube

I've had their CD (E Pak Sa) for a couple of years now and never really found a good use... I don't think Cockroach Spray commercials are optimal, though. It also features their cover-medleys of for example YMCA. Strange stuff.

Yes! Thank you Persephone, I can so relate to everything you've said in this post... there are very dangerous downsides to being considered 'beautiful'.

At 25 I am still in that age bracket of youth that gets all the appearance based attention, and while I would probably not consider myself one of the great beauties of the world I do clean up pretty decent... am one of those girls who can go either way really, it all depends on how much effort I exert in the morning, whether or not I'm wearing contacts or glasses, and what my hair has decided to do that day. And also, I'm thin and petite, and to steal a phrase from oxdottir, 'given the local standards' that is a rarer thing by the day, and so I suppose, more highly valued in some way.

But being someone who can literally go either way (have often been told that I'm that type of girl who can go from nerdy to hottie in an hour (the movie 'She's All That' was the bane of my existence in High School- asshole jocks decided they would run some retarded experiment on me similar to the movie, I didn't realize it at first, couldn't understand why they were being nice to me all of a sudden until one of my friends found out and told me, the amount of hurt that caused is unspeakable and I skipped school for several days and ended up getting into trouble because of attendance. Eventually I grew a pair and told them to all fuck off and hid in the art room until graduation))... but anyway, it has, I think, given me a lot of insight into how this culture responds to the varying degrees of beauty. Because, on days that I've actually cleaned myself up and bothered with the hair and the clothes etc, I too have been whistled at, gawked at, and yes, even followed... I once had a guy honk at me from his car, then pull a U-Turn into a parking lot, jump out of his car and follow me for several blocks about twenty paces behind, the entire time calling to me and trying to get me to go home with him (how is that even acceptable????). I had to ditch him by ducking into a YMCA and hiding out in the lobby for about ten minutes until he wandered off.

And well its nice and all, being considered pretty, it can be bothersome, and indeed very scary sometimes, which I suppose it why these days I generally leave the glasses on unless I know I will be escorted or at least not off by myself (and frankly, I'm pretty damn lazy most mornings). I've also taken self defense courses, and carry mace with me at all times. I look back now to several years ago, when I was younger, and am sometimes amazed at the careless behavior and the situations I found myself in at times and I shudder to think what could have happened. I would advise any women to learn to protect herself and to be on guard when out alone, always walk with a purpose and carry some form of protection on herself.

Upvote because this is the weirdest video I've seen.

Oh and the comment from the prude american thinking this is porn is the dumbest comment I've ever seen! When you shower in your YMCA do you scream "STOP THE PORN!"? No seriously, you're retarded!