Brickbat: Bananas

New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletics Association Executive Director Steve Timko says Summit High School's practice of plugging a hole in a football locker room door with a banana "did not appear to be driven by racism or bias." But the association is still forcing the team's coaches to take sensitivity training and certify for the next three years they have reviewed all the association's sportsmanship rules. The team first used a banana to plug the hole last year, and it became a something of a superstition until a visiting team complained about it earlier this year.
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yes, we have no bananas, we have no bananas today...
So the 'right' to not be offended applies to fruit ? I'm sure someone's making big bucks from all this 'training'.Just like mandatory rehab
Some fruit can be pretty offensive. Take durians, for example.
So now,it's gonna be racist to jam bananas into a tailpipe (a la Axel Foley in Beverley Hills Cop)?
I wonder if the Micks can cry foul if they shove a potato in there next time.
Despite the evidence that my paternal ancestors fled Ulster due to the famine, this irish-named individual has no connection to the tuber in question.
Besides, the exhaust pressures in automobiles actually force out vegetable matter that is only held in by friction.
My question is - where did the hole in the door come from? Why did they use fruit instead of tape and cardboard? When were they planning to repair/replace the door?
Maybe something like this. And Charlie Kelley would have solved the problem.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edkgYKFjIjA
Micks will cry foul about anything and everything they can.
I take offense at that accusation!
You want to fight about it?!
DRINK!
You know who else wanted to plug a hole in a football locker room?
Pele in "Victory"?
Hitler.
Ben Roethlisberger?
No, no! That was a bar bathroom!!!!
OT, but speaking of bananas. There I was minding my own business eating breakfast (you know, because of white privilege and e'ything) when I caught the morning news mention something about providing meals to poor kids on snow days. I just...I...
Most recent link to a story about it I could find
Yeah, I love the idea of this. Don't worry about the logistics of getting food during a snow emergency out to all those rec centers. I'm sure there won't be any accidents involving DC drivers taking the meals there.
If this was a place that had real snow days like sunny Minnesoda, I'd also point out the danger in asking kids to walk through a blizzard to get their free meal. Luckily though, this is DC where a snow emergency is any time there is a bit of white stuff on the ground.
Is it really asking too much from parents to stock a few basic food items for an emeregency?
These are people for whom personal responsibility is an anathema (those suggesting the plan I mean), they honestly believe that if guvernment doesn't feed these kids, they would all starve.
Does anyone suggest this scene be edited from Beverley Hills Cop?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y-pdLyZPJ8
It's almost as if Damon Wayans was made to act like a flamboyant gay man.
Would it be more racist to use cotton?
In what form? Spun, unspun, compressed into a dollar bill?
I thought dollar bills were mostly linen.
Nope.
There is some linene, but it's mostly cotton.
Recycled underwear. Seriously.
No. Bananas are more racist in that they could offend Blacks and Asians.
What now? Use it as a glory hole?
Uh, oh. I have bananas growing in my yard.
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Using the Bananaman image with this story is clever. I like it.
A banana is the new n-word? I feel so old and out of touch.