Black Olives Matter

[MeanGreenMailbox aka TFLF]

Yes, at Italian Restaurants in New Mexico, they sure do!

http://www.kob.com/albuquerque-news/black-olives-matter-sign-stirs-up-heated-debate-on-social-media/4200674/

"I think it shows an interesting state of affairs of where our country is that people, first of all, can be offended by a statement about a vegetable. Black olives matter, and it does matter in our tapenade."

Edited July 19, 2016 by MeanGreenMailbox

[UNT Five&Dime]

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I think it shows an interesting state of affairs of where our country is that people, first of all, can be offended by a statement about a vegetable.

Sorry, but I'm not trusting a restaurant that calls a fruit a vegetable.

[Army of Dad]

24 minutes ago, UNT Five&Dime said:

Sorry, but I'm not trusting a restaurant that calls a fruit a vegetable.

Are you accusing them of lyeing?

[UNT Five&Dime]

11 minutes ago, Army of Dad said:

Are you accusing them of lyeing?

I just get bitter when people don't know their produce.

 

 

ps Thanks for dropping some knowledge about olive processing on me.

[MeanGreenMailbox aka TFLF]

Science, fruit; culinary, vegetable.  Same as tomato.

To me, it was more surprising to discover that there are still white people in Albuquerque.

[MeanGreenTexan]

2 minutes ago, MeanGreenMailbox said:

Science, fruit; culinary, vegetable.  Same as tomato.

To me, it was more surprising to discover that there are still white people in Albuquerque.

What do olives have to do with white people?   Given your history, I would stay on topic (your own topic) or the hammer will come down on you.

 

[MeanGreenMailbox aka TFLF]

1 minute ago, MeanGreenTexan said:

What do olives have to do with white people?   Given your history, I would stay on topic (your own topic) or the hammer will come down on you.

 

Stranger to New Mexico, eh?

[MeanGreenTexan]

4 minutes ago, MeanGreenMailbox said:

Stranger to New Mexico, eh?

Actually, I just got back from there 3 days ago!    TX summers are the pits.  The cooler weather in the mountains is a refreshing break from olive the heat.

[MeanGreenMailbox aka TFLF]

42 minutes ago, MeanGreenTexan said:

Actually, I just got back from there 3 days ago!    TX summers are the pits.  The cooler weather in the mountains is a refreshing break from olive the heat.

Yes! ¡O sí!

 

[ChristopherRyanWilkes]

This thread is about as funny as that Pokemon thread @Quoner made. 

[Quoner]

22 minutes ago, ChristopherRyanWilkes said:

This thread is about as funny as that Pokemon thread @Quoner made. 

Brb...uploading your grandfather's shady past to an imugr Wonka meme to post later.

[UNT90]

1 hour ago, Quoner said:

Brb...uploading your grandfather's shady past to an imugr Wonka meme to post later.

Already found yours: 

http://jail.com/arrest-records/richard-head-631347

Edited July 20, 2016 by UNT90

[Army of Dad]

7 hours ago, UNT Five&Dime said:

I just get bitter when people don't know their produce.

 

 

ps Thanks for dropping some knowledge about olive processing on me.

You're green so you started out bitter, but with a caus(tic) you can be much better.

[TreeFiddy]

Green olives also matter. 

#allolivesmatter

[MeanGreenMailbox aka TFLF]

So, everyone who posts is either:

(1) grinding a political ax, or
(2) expecting to piss off people?

There are no posts that are simply posts of information/news to start a discussion?  You are required to read some sort of intent into every post?

 

 

[ChristopherRyanWilkes]

2 hours ago, MeanGreenMailbox said:

So, everyone who posts is either:

(1) grinding a political ax, or
(2) expecting to piss off people?

There are no posts that are simply posts of information/news to start a discussion?  You are required to read some sort of intent into every post?

 

 

Not everyone, just you.

[UNT Five&Dime]

There's a part of me that thinks you're inflicting your will as a tyrannical moderator to show us how great we have it in the US.

[Rudy]

#allolivesmatter

 

#inbeforethelock

[MeanGreenMailbox aka TFLF]

You do realize that the section which holds this particular forum is called, "UNT News and Opinion."  Let's focus on the opinion part, particularly the reality that not everyone will have the same opinion.

Take this thread for example, I could care less about olives or racial movements, even though I eat olives and am married to a Mexican.  But, I thought it was interesting that the business owner stuck his neck out in such a public way given the events of the past two years, and so shared the news story.

Where people take it makes no difference to me.  They could love the guy or hate him.  I don't care.  All I've done is posted a news story. 

Because everyone posting is an adult, why does it matter whether or not we all agree on things in this forum?  We don't all agree on things in the football section of the forum, or any other. 

Adults, shockingly, often disagree with one another about even things they agree about on the surface:  I want UNT's football team to win, and I think this is the blueprint; someone else has another blueprint.  Our hope is the same, but how we think the hope will be fulfilled is different.  What's the problem?

They are just opinions.  You might have one, I might have another.  Who cares?  Are there really people here - adult, grown up, "grown ass men" people - who are so fragile that they cannot brook someone simply disagreeing with them in an online forum comprised of people they rarely, if ever, see?

 

[MeanGreenMailbox aka TFLF]

Okay, I get it...some people are thin-skinned to the point where they can't separate sports and political discussion. 

Sad.

[UNT90]

But then you will have people who will intentionally do this when you allow it again just to get it shut down. 

There are brand new national issues that were being discussed, not the same old ones. That thread and that discussion led to the shut down.

Whatever happened to disciplining people who break the rules? Why punish the many for the sins of the few? 

Communism is alive and well on GMG.com ?

[Rudy]

I'm still curious why the thread on the military coup in Turkey was locked?

[UNT90]

Sometimes people read into things what they want to read into things...

The only thing mentioned was the possible cause of the coup attempt. Boom. Thread shut down. 

When Cerebus mentions the possible cause of the Ukraine conflict, no shut down.

Look, I like that thread. But you can't have it both ways. You can't say "it's ok to talk about world events, except in Muslim countries," which is exactly what you have done here.

So, instead of disciplining those that deserve it, we are now left with only being able to talk about what Tasty wants to talk about? 

I was wrong. It's facism, not communism.

#fightthepower

Edited July 21, 2016 by UNT90

[Censored by Laurie]

3 minutes ago, UNT90 said:

Sometimes people read into things what they want to read into things...

does anyone remember how to add a quote to your signature line? all the board updates have made it more difficult, if I recall. 

[UNT Five&Dime]

6 hours ago, Rudy said:

I'm still curious why the thread on the military coup in Turkey was locked?

He doesn't want us to get any ideas.