Sensible Erection | Tacos for a somewhat im-Maturo.

Friday, 27 January 2012

quote [ An immigrants' rights group in East Haven delivered thousands of tacos to Mayor Jospeh Maturo's office the day after he made comments that many are calling insensitive. ]

I apologise for that horrible pun.

Goddamn I'm hungry. Googling 'taco' for the thumb didn't help either. Marked NSFW for the potential pink taco references.

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Comments

RailRoader said @ 3:49am GMT on 27th Jan [Score:2]
Carne Asada tacos with fresh, chopped jalapenos!

And a pink taco for dessert!

mrklipp said @ 5:16pm GMT on 27th Jan [Score:2 Informative]
If you try to eat a pink taco after eating fresh chopped jalapenos, things are not likely to end well.

GordonGuano said @ 11:44pm GMT on 27th Jan [Score:2 Funny]
I am so trying that out the next time my ex makes a booty call.

rndmnmbr said @ 2:38am GMT on 28th Jan
Depends on the lady in question.

foobar said @ 3:58am GMT on 27th Jan
So...

Latinos, you're all poopy heads.

Please send tacos.

mechanical contrivance said @ 4:07am GMT on 27th Jan
No kidding.

Hey! Tacos are not the perfect food and I dare anyone to provide evidence to the contrary! Extra hot sauce, please.

swiggy said @ 4:19am GMT on 27th Jan [Score:1 Funny]

Old, but still relevant.

mechanical contrivance said @ 4:25am GMT on 27th Jan
Burritos can be made by legal residents, too.

swiggy said @ 4:35am GMT on 27th Jan
"The latin community" is code for "illegal immigrants," though, isn't it? Like "the urban community" is code for "negroes."

damnit said @ 7:14am GMT on 27th Jan
Not if they're urban suburbans

lilmookieesquire said @ 6:27am GMT on 27th Jan
Even the sushi places where I live have the "Latino community" working in the kitchens. Or gardening. Or roofing. Or doing construction. They work hard as hell. Not that you are saying they aren't, just I like to remind myself.

damnit said @ 7:15am GMT on 27th Jan [Score:1 Insightful]
What can brown do for you?

lilmookieesquire said @ 3:40pm GMT on 27th Jan
Thats why UPS is pronounced "opps".

Naruki said @ 2:22am GMT on 28th Jan [Score:-1 Troll]
Wouldn' that be OOPS?

mechanical contrivance said @ 4:03am GMT on 28th Jan
Or maybe upps.

Jewbacchus said @ 8:44pm GMT on 27th Jan
What has brown done for me, lately?

happiest_sadist said @ 8:34am GMT on 28th Jan
It gives you wings!

mechanical contrivance said @ 11:23pm GMT on 27th Jan
Do the difficult brown.

SnappyNipples said @ 4:23am GMT on 27th Jan [Score:1 Insightful]
yay, free tacos

damnit said @ 6:32am GMT on 27th Jan
I wish I was at that office. Free taco.

danshyu said @ 7:00am GMT on 27th Jan
This just might start a trend for government workers to start insulting latinos just so they can get free lunch.

sacrelicious said @ 7:24am GMT on 27th Jan
but then they'll start to get sick of tacos everyday...

"BREAKING: Minnesota Governor (seen here licking his lips in what appears to be some sort of anticipation) in hot water after accidentally calling small-breasted Thailand first lady 'Padded Thai'"

mky said @ 2:19am GMT on 28th Jan
Just, y'know, be... careful... when ordering the pizzas.

schatten00777 said @ 9:58am GMT on 27th Jan
Despite the fact that less than 5% of the Hispanic community are illegal. Hispanics are perpetual foreigners - no matter how long they've been here, no matter if they're 3rd generation, they're still seen as immigrants.

ComposerNate said @ 11:16am GMT on 27th Jan
It depends heavily on language ability, assumed accent. If dude talks like he, he is like you, or?

oranges said @ 7:39am GMT on 28th Jan
Disagree. I still end up in situations where I'm judged before my accent free English comes into play.

I'm annoyed about all this. Annoyed enough that I think I might attempt a new argument. Illegal immigration from Mexico is the natural consequence of the US invading Mexico, seizing the capitol, demanding land, and then installing a choose your own adventure constitution. Discuss.

ComposerNate said @ 8:38am GMT on 28th Jan
Yes of course, and once you begin speaking naturally with a purely American (regional) accent, do you not feel some transition into 'oh, he's one of us?' For perspective, where are you living?

oranges said @ 2:54pm GMT on 28th Jan
Usually sure. Of course the other day I was driving through a small town purchasing some gas and happened to see an older gentleman filling his truck. I said "hey, how's it going" with a little drawl and he looked at me like I grew a second head.

Texas. Houston specifically. Grew up in Austin.

ComposerNate said @ 4:29pm GMT on 28th Jan
Ah. Sorry about the troubles. Texas really isn't so much a part of the USA as a conjoined and swollen step-brother, in some ways helpful but mostly parasitic and usually threatening to tear itself off.

At least from my perspective, from Virginia, now in Berlin. Germany has one of those, calling itself foremost Bavaria, which has a relatively healthier relationship with its larger host. They still whack bibles with wads of cash down there, to scare off the foreigners.

Barnabas_Truman said @ 6:38pm GMT on 28th Jan [Score:1 Insightful]
Here's my argument:

People move around. People have always moved around. The more I learn about history, the more I learn how universally true this is. [Im/E]migration is a vital part of who we are, not only as a nation but as a culture and as a species. If we try to block that, we are denying our own humanity.

(Yours is also very true.)

sacrelicious said @ 6:56pm GMT on 28th Jan
it should also be noted that it hasn't even been a century in which nations have had the mechanisms in place to determine citizenship through any means other than "he talks funny" or "waitaminute, Asians don't live in France!"

a hundred years ago if you spoke the language, passed for the predominant race, and could affect the common accent, you could cross any border you pleased, and who were the local constabulary to question your citizenship? birth certificate? what's that? oh, is that one of those things that the few people wealthy enough to be born in a hospital had? nah, my momma birthed me in the back of the horse stable. and it's on you, officer, to prove that she didn't or drop the matter.

so "legal" and "illegal" immigration distinctions are a modern invention, and purely a side effect of standardized identity documentation which was designed not to brand people with a nationality, but to track social security claims, draft notices, tax and credit information, and other much more mundane aspects of modern life.

* (The Asshole FKA Morris) said @ 3:34pm GMT on 27th Jan
He should have insulted the east indian community.....mmmm biryani and madras chicken...

Hugh E. said @ 11:09pm GMT on 27th Jan [Score:1 Informative]
I first misread the post title as "Tacos for a some irrumatio". I cringed. Then I was curious. Then I read it correctly.
And cringed again.

dietcoke said @ 10:43pm GMT on 28th Jan [Score:-1 Troll]
all the mexicans up here are rich and none work in any industry but the oilfield, they make a minimum of 35bucks an hour, of course just about every other able bodied man is also working on the rigs. ALot are getting busted for being illegal and getting shipped away (they also are too stupid to learn english)
The motel staff is virtually all polish or russian immigrants (came legally ANDDDDDDDDDDD are doing their best to learn english, lets face it, we hear that polish are stupid,but they can at least easily learn english lo)
I refuse to speak spanish, I speak german, russian, ukrainian, english, Hidatsa, and Cree, if wetbacks cannot learn at least 2 langages, TBSS, we will keep removing em from our state.

Naruki said @ 3:46am GMT on 29th Jan
DIAF, badger.

sacrelicious said @ 4:12am GMT on 29th Jan
fun fact: the Mexicans we usually think of as Mexicans are really just Native Americans from south of the border. and you're prejudiced against them.

oh, sweet irony!

Barnabas_Truman said @ 11:36am GMT on 29th Jan
Sooooo... you're angry at the Spanish-speakers for being unable to learn English, but you yourself refuse to learn Spanish?