Homophobic insults force gay restaurant owners in small Manitoba town to close up shop
A pair of gay restaurateurs is closing up shop in Morris, Man., saying they are sick of being the target of anti-gay slurs. Pots N Hands, which advertises “home cooked meals,” opened in the community of 1,700 70 kilometres south of Winnipeg just four months ago.
Ever since, alleges owner Dave Claringbould, he and his partner have been assailed by homophobic slurs, such as a customer asking if his plate of food was diseased.
“They should get the hell out of here. I don’t really like them — the service and who they are,” resident Aaron Kleinsasse told the Winnipeg Free Press this week.
Since word of the verbal attacks first became public, other locals have tried to bolster the new business by eating there or sending messages of support. But Claringbould says he has experienced homophobia in a small town before and knows some people will never change their attitudes. (Trevor Hagan / The Canadian Press)
Most disturbing part bolded, italicized above.
Gotta hand it to Slate. They certainly know how to pitch something nobody else would think to pitch …
Note to self: When faced with a similar situation, let the iPhone 5 go.
Wal-Mart gets wider entrance: In San Jose on Sunday, some clearly-in-his-right-mind dude drove an Oldsmobile through the entrance of a Wal-Mart store, picked up a blunt object and started hitting people. The dude behind the crash was tackled, hog-tied and arrested. Four were injured, one seriously. (Karl Mondon/San Jose Mercury News)
This is a joke, right?
I was so sure it was a joke.
And then I saw this article in Business Insider called “The Internet Is Trying To Figure Out If This Bacon Mouthwash Is Real Or Fake”:
Scope put out a website for a brand new product set to debut around April 1: Bacon mouthwash.
Mashable notes that“Procter & Gamble, Scope’s parent company, claims this is a real product.”
Scope is tweeting about the product nonstop, and the mouthwash does have its own product page on Scope’s main website.
According to the FAQ: “No pigs are harmed during the making of Scope Bacon. The bacon taste you’ll find in Scope Bacon is a perfectly healthy synthetic flavoring.”
But this product seems too amazingly strange to be true.
Is it good or bad when no one can figure out whether or not your ridiculous-sounding new product is real or fake?
This is why Tumblr went down tonight. The mere existence of this product crashed the server.
I am the mother of two sons who are both Princetonians. My older son had the good judgment and great fortune to marry a classmate of his, but he could have married anyone. My younger son is a junior and the universe of women he can marry is limitless. Men regularly marry women who are younger, less intelligent, less educated. It’s amazing how forgiving men can be about a woman’s lack of erudition, if she is exceptionally pretty. Smart women can’t (shouldn’t) marry men who aren’t at least their intellectual equal. As Princeton women, we have almost priced ourselves out of the market. Simply put, there is a very limited population of men who are as smart or smarter than we are. And I say again — you will never again be surrounded by this concentration of men who are worthy of you.Dear mom, stop writing letters to the editor of the Princeton newspaper telling my classmates to date me. It’s creepy. — Signed, the younger son of whoever this this crazy woman is. (Side note: This letter was so popular it appears to have crashed the Daily Princetonian’s website. A cached copy is here.)
The IRS spent $60,000 producing the “Star Trek”-themed training video above, along with a “Gilligan’s Island” parody that’s equally as bad. If the acting seems wooden, it’s because they had IRS employees playing actors, and everyone knows that IRS employees can’t act. Members of Congress, on the hunt for things to cut, are already on the attack for this somewhat questionable usage of resources. The only thing this video needs is Crow T. Robot offering color commentary.
Court papers do not specify the number of meatballs involved.A story regarding a woman who allegedly stole a number of meatballs from a West Point food hall. The woman, who claimed she was throwing the frozen meatballs away, could face two years in jail and $2,000 in fines for the incident, which took place last week. Side note: Pretty sure the justice system wasn’t meant to send people to jail over frozen meatballs.
The truth of the matter is the only way you can actually test for the issue is to put the pants on and bend over.Lululemon CEO Christine Day • Noting the method the athletic gear chain has been using to check yoga pants in need of a recall for overly-sheer material. Wait, what?
TILDA ZZZZZZ-WINTON The actress surprised museum-goers — and staffers at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art, too — by appearing as part of “The Maybe,” a work of art comprising a glass box, a water jug and an actress sleeping on the job. Not shown: Tilda’s eye boogers. (Photo via the New York Daily News)
The artist is sleeping.
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SendGrid Fires Company Evangelist After Twitter Fracas
Trigger Warning: Rape, Physical Assault
My heart and my support go out to Adria.
Also, my righteous anger.
Here’s the gist of what happened. Adria was at PyCon, a developer conference, and noticed that two men behind her were making lude sexual jokes. She snapped a photo, tweeted it, brought up the behavior to PyCon officials (since they did have a code of conduct for their conference), and the situation was “handled”.
What’s happened after that is a prime example of why women and people of color (and women of color, of course) are few and far between in the world of tech.
One of the men making the jokes, who was there representing his employer, got fired for his actions. Adria’s website starts getting DDoS attacks, as does her employer’s website. People are leaving her nasty comments and she’s been getting death threats and rape threats tweeted to her since yesterday.
Today, SendGrid fired Adria. And they didn’t just fire her, but they announced it on Twitter and on Facebook so people could spread the word and comment on it. The Facebook comments are particularly vile, including one where a man details a particularly gruesome threat against Adria, concluded with the words “Make her pay. Make her obey.”
All of this for speaking up about something which made her uncomfortable.
To say that this is problematic would be an understatement, and it’s particularly troubling in a week when we’ve already seen two high-profile (and altogether disturbing) responses to sexual assault cases capture media headlines. We can’t figure out what possible justification SendGrid thinks they have for terminating Adria — and don’t even get us started on how they handled it — but if you’re as curious as we are then here’s SendGrid’s contact information.
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Lee Hutchinson from Ars Technica had some scientific fun with Ultra-Ever Dry.
Today in grown men covering themselves in condiments, unscathed.
Vladimir Putin and Steven Seagal at a martial arts school on the outskirts of Moscow, to promote healthy lifestyles. The film star acted as the Russian president’s bodyguard in what seemed like a choreographed move.
Photograph: Alexei Nikolsky/AFP/Getty Images
soulmates
Putin with his Bond villan.
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