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Title: This could be the stupidest article to ever appear in the TU
Post by: Murder_me_Rachel on June 02, 2016, 11:13:58 AM
http://jacksonville.com/news/columnists/terry-dickson/2016-06-01/story/terry-dickson-why-beach-why-tattoos

Title: Re: This could be the stupidest article to ever appear in the TU
Post by: Adam White on June 02, 2016, 11:38:49 AM
How "folksy" and "down home" his delivery is. Cute little asides about things like low country boils or whatever. I guess it's just a column, but it seems a waste of column inches. I guess this is what Dave Barry, et al wrought.
Title: Re: This could be the stupidest article to ever appear in the TU
Post by: funwithteeth on June 02, 2016, 11:49:20 AM
QuoteI heard a resort official say recently that applicants should be high school graduates, be able to pass drug screenings and have no visible tattoos. I don't know what it is about tattoos on a waiter, but they make me lose my appetite. You throw in some dreadlocks and I'll fast like I've got a blood test in the morning.

He had to get in some racism, too. Delightful.
Title: Re: This could be the stupidest article to ever appear in the TU
Post by: Downtown Osprey on June 02, 2016, 11:51:14 AM
#Jacksonville
Title: Re: This could be the stupidest article to ever appear in the TU
Post by: Adam White on June 02, 2016, 11:53:10 AM
Quote from: funwithteeth on June 02, 2016, 11:49:20 AM
QuoteI heard a resort official say recently that applicants should be high school graduates, be able to pass drug screenings and have no visible tattoos. I don't know what it is about tattoos on a waiter, but they make me lose my appetite. You throw in some dreadlocks and I'll fast like I've got a blood test in the morning.

He had to get in some racism, too. Delightful.

If he was talking about white people dreads, I'd have to agree though.
Title: Re: This could be the stupidest article to ever appear in the TU
Post by: funwithteeth on June 02, 2016, 11:56:47 AM
Even if he were just referring to white people, I doubt he was making a critique of cultural appropriation.
Title: Re: This could be the stupidest article to ever appear in the TU
Post by: funwithteeth on June 02, 2016, 11:58:14 AM
"And what's with women wearing skirts above the knee?"
Title: Re: This could be the stupidest article to ever appear in the TU
Post by: Tacachale on June 02, 2016, 12:02:41 PM
Terry Dickson is from Brunswick, Georgia and is an editor for the Georgia Times Union variant of the FTU. His columns are only part of what he writes as editor and reporter.

Some of his columns are considerably more... "folksy" and "down home" than this, being written in the voice of the  Bubba Gene Hightower, mayor of the fictional town of Pond Scoggin, Georgia.

Quote from: Downtown Osprey on June 02, 2016, 11:51:14 AM
#Jacksonville

Lol, you apparently missed the large "ST. SIMONS ISLAND" dateline at the beginning of the piece.
Title: Re: This could be the stupidest article to ever appear in the TU
Post by: funwithteeth on June 02, 2016, 12:18:08 PM
I would love to further explore the collected writings of Terry Dickson, but I've exceeded my free-article limit for the month.
Title: Re: This could be the stupidest article to ever appear in the TU
Post by: Adam White on June 02, 2016, 01:10:06 PM
Quote from: funwithteeth on June 02, 2016, 11:56:47 AM
Even if he were just referring to white people, I doubt he was making a critique of cultural appropriation.

Cultural appropriation? I just think they look gross.
Title: Re: This could be the stupidest article to ever appear in the TU
Post by: funwithteeth on June 02, 2016, 01:50:28 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/GvG9EJk.gif)
Title: Re: This could be the stupidest article to ever appear in the TU
Post by: Adam White on June 02, 2016, 03:34:30 PM
Quote from: funwithteeth on June 02, 2016, 01:50:28 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/GvG9EJk.gif)

;D
Title: Re: This could be the stupidest article to ever appear in the TU
Post by: menace1069 on June 02, 2016, 03:46:07 PM
Quote from: funwithteeth on June 02, 2016, 12:18:08 PM
I would love to further explore the collected writings of Terry Dickson, but I've exceeded my free-article limit for the month.
LOL
Title: Re: This could be the stupidest article to ever appear in the TU
Post by: menace1069 on June 02, 2016, 03:48:20 PM
I thought Bubba Gump was a fictional character...apparently he's alive and well portraying a journalist in Georgia, the land of everything backwards.