"They got a ranch they call Number fifty-one Can't see it all 'Less your flying by Just sitting there square Baking in the sun Beneath the sky They're gonna put it down Right on the strip They're gonna put it down On the Vegas strip They're gonna put it down And step outside Into the lights Right outta that ship Saying Hi!"
The squeaky wheel no longer gets the grease. Oh well, that's what children are for.
Interestingly, now that 80s music is all over the radio, I've noticed I can't turn it up without hurting my ears. It's grating to me now, so my parents' objections to it make more sense. Sorry mom.
Yes, minor is the operative word there. I would be plenty upset if someone were denied employment or something like that over their heritage. Being denied a fondle of a $38,000 handbag is a whole 'nuther thing. To quote louis Armstrong, "That's life." ;)
I'll say it again: discrimination is everywhere. As someone who grew up in a small, Southern town with a "Dago" last name ("No, my people didn't come down here from New Jersey") I can tell you discrimination is not confined to racism. Different skin color or not, people will find a way to put one another into either the in crowd or the out crowd. Smarts, looks, talent, money, status, politics friends, relatives and on and on, everyone has something "wrong" with them in someone's eyes.
Not to discriminate against O, but, rather than making a international incident out of it, most of us just laugh it off when we're treated to some minor discrimination.
Number fifty-one
Can't see it all
'Less your flying by
Just sitting there square
Baking in the sun
Beneath the sky
They're gonna put it down
Right on the strip
They're gonna put it down
On the Vegas strip
They're gonna put it down
And step outside
Into the lights
Right outta that ship
Saying Hi!"
Rolly-polly fish heads,
Fish heads, fish heads,
Eat them up, yum!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKDtUzRIG6I
Interestingly, now that 80s music is all over the radio, I've noticed I can't turn it up without hurting my ears. It's grating to me now, so my parents' objections to it make more sense. Sorry mom.
Not to discriminate against O, but, rather than making a international incident out of it, most of us just laugh it off when we're treated to some minor discrimination.