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    Image of drunkexpatwriter drunkexpatwriter
    06:04 AM

    In reply to Carrie Prejean, Porn Star? Vivid Has the Sex Tapes and Wants to Distribute Them
    I'm holding out for the infamous Bea Arthur sex tape. #carrieprejean
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    Image of heywhat heywhat
    02:29 AM

    In reply to Is it Racist?: The British "Couples Retreat" Poster
    Faizon Love is best known for being "Big Worm" in Friday and don't you forget it! #racism
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    Image of superconnected (is it time to leave?) superconnected (is it time to leave?)
    02:18 AM

    In reply to A Million Little Palinisms: Leaked Emails Already Contradicting The "Truth" of Going Rogue
    She types like my mother. #sarahpalin
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    Image of Richard Lawson Richard Lawson
    01:27 AM

    In reply to Is it Racist?: The British "Couples Retreat" Poster
    I'm more offended by the continued farce that any of those men could actually land any of those women. #racism
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    Image of Rozelle’s Bagman Rozelle’s Bagman
    01:27 AM

    In reply to Is it Racist?: The British "Couples Retreat" Poster
    I'm firmly in the Let's-play-the-1978-single-"Dreadlock-Holiday"-by-10cc camp. #racism
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    Image of Cecil's Wielder Cecil's Wielder
    01:39 AM

    @Rozelle’s Bagman: It's interesting that Tyrone is the only black guy from the cast that is featured in the Snatch poster: [vanillabomb.files.wordpress.com] #racism
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    Image of kajsa kajsa
    02:02 AM

    @Rozelle’s Bagman: And that's why I don't like cricket. #racism
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    Image of lionboy lionboy
    01:17 AM

    In reply to Is it Racist?: The British "Couples Retreat" Poster
    I'll throw in the Old Whitey McWhitneyness comment: I'm sorry. I barely know who the white people are in this movie. If name recognition helps sell tickets, I sorta get why....OK, it's racist. Wait, maybe it's weightist. #racism
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    Image of Phyllis Nefler Phyllis Nefler
    01:16 AM

    In reply to Is it Racist?: The British "Couples Retreat" Poster
    I'm firmly in the "Not (Any More) Racist!" camp. I mean, I think the US poster may even be worse. #racism
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    Image of pureblarney pureblarney
    02:11 AM

    @Phyllis Nefler: Agreed. British shows are an interesting hybrid of weirdly racist (early-morning kids show with bit characters named things like "Mocha" and "Java") to defiantly [whatever the opposite of racist is, e.g. groovy]--Sir Trevor McDonald, Doctor Who and Freema Agyeman, Chiwetel Ejiofor in... everything. I would never accuse another country of overt racism while we still cast Morgan Freeman as the "magical negro" 95% of the time. #racism
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    Image of VioletViolet VioletViolet
    01:06 AM

    In reply to Is it Racist?: The British "Couples Retreat" Poster
    I hate to repeat myself, but it's still not as bad as the Polish Microsoft ad where they awkwardly took out a black person and added a white person.
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    Edited by VioletViolet at 11/16/09 1:21 AM VioletViolet was starred VioletViolet was unstarred
    Image of Go Like Hell Machine Go Like Hell Machine
    01:06 AM

    In reply to Is it Racist?: The British "Couples Retreat" Poster
    I'm not going to weigh in on whether it's racist or not, since it seems like a fantastically awful movie.

    But Time consistently has the slowest servers on planet Earth. It's like they are powered by hamsters. #racism
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    Image of ronniedobbs ronniedobbs
    01:05 AM

    In reply to Is it Racist?: The British "Couples Retreat" Poster
    My sample size is admittedly small ("Love Actually," "Dirty Pretty Things," and "Secrets and Lies," among other examples), but I'm inclined to say that British films traffic in fewer offensive stereotypes about black people than their US counterparts. In which case, I'm starting to wonder if the folks behind the British version of the poster decided that it was "Couples' Retreat" that was racist in its depiction of black people, and opted to erase them as a way of implicitly distancing themselves from what I can only imagine is the typical tomfoolery handed to black actors in white movies.

    Anyway, I know the above guess is a stretch. My point is that I'm too busy pressing the "THE ENTIRE US FILM INDUSTRY IS RACIST" button to be outraged by this.
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    Image of IamnotStarJones IamnotStarJones
    01:00 AM

    In reply to Is it Racist?: The British "Couples Retreat" Poster
    It would be racist if they photoshopped Madea into the poster.

    At this point, it's just marketing! #racism
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    Image of ronniedobbs ronniedobbs
    01:09 AM

    @IamnotStarJones: Well now you've gone and given Tyler Perry his next movie idea! #racism
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    Image of unclevanya unclevanya
    12:26 AM

    In reply to A Million Little Palinisms: Leaked Emails Already Contradicting The "Truth" of Going Rogue
    "tempermental/fuckingmental" wins you the Pillsbury Blue Ribbon. #sarahpalin
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    Image of VioletViolet VioletViolet
    11/15/09

    In reply to 2012 and Precious Box-Office Takes Prove Worlds' Sadomasochism Fetish Profitable
    Still waiting for Fantastic Mr. Fox to reach non-selected cities next weekend. I know Gawker is all, "waah, hipster appeal! hoodie nation!" about it, but I think it looks like a genuinely good movie. #2012
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    Image of SpyMagician SpyMagician
    11/15/09

    In reply to 2012 and Precious Box-Office Takes Prove Worlds' Sadomasochism Fetish Profitable
    I’d like to go to the movies, but it gets dark at like 6:00pm now and all movies are about death, dying, when you will die, things dying, living a life that’s crap...

    Sorry Hollywood, YouTube wins again. This is the best movie of the past week as far as I am concerned. #2012
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    Image of DoctorEcks DoctorEcks
    12:16 AM

    @SpyMagician: I absolutely LOVE that clip. #2012
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    Image of Helio Helio
    11/15/09

    In reply to 2012 and Precious Box-Office Takes Prove Worlds' Sadomasochism Fetish Profitable
    I have a long standing desire to make it to the end of the world just to see it all crash and burn. The grey and dusty and boring parts is more the post-apocalypse which I sure as hell don't want to suffer through. But pre- and actual apocalypse should be a glorious shit show. Something that barely anyone will live to tell. #2012
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