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Why must the IBT rely on physical intimidation in the UPSF campaign?
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<blockquote data-quote="nospinzone" data-source="post: 240601" data-attributes="member: 1335"><p>Dork,</p><p>Against my better judgement, I'm goin to engage you in this pissing contest. However, as everyone has read in the above posts, <strong>you</strong> were the one who made this into an ethnic discussion as I did not single out a particular group of people in my post.</p><p></p><p>The term "guido" does have its origins in the early Italian-American culture. As defined by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_(slang)" target="_blank"><span style="color: Red"><strong>wikipedia</strong></span></a>...<em>"Guido" is a stereotypical term for a young, working class, Italian-American male from the urban Northeastern United States. The guido stereotype is often portrayed as humorously and incorrigibly uncultured, with a thuggish and overtly macho attitude and unyielding in his Italian ancestry.</em></p><p></p><p>However.... just as cultures change, so do people's definition of cultural lingo change. My interpretation and application of the term "guido" more closely follows this definition offered by a psychiatrist on the <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=guido&defid=1558919" target="_blank"><span style="color: Red"><strong>Urban Dictionary </strong></span></a>website..... <em>Although most of its examples are of Italian-American descent, many times other <strong>non-descript Caucasians </strong>will follow suit in an attempt to achieve an identity- <strong>in fact any identity</strong>. The Guido is highly recognizable by his attention to muscular development, status symbols</em> (Teamsters paraphanelia), <em>and regional dialect </em>(in my application, the Southern drawl of the Teamster faithfuls</p><p> in Gaffney).</p><p></p><p>And for the record, my roomate in college was an Italian whose family was from East Meadow, Long Island. Some of my best memories from school are with him and his family.</p><p></p><p>When people attempt to devolve arguements into a <u>false and baseless </u>race or ethnic discrimination pissing match, like you have done Dork, you distract us from the real issues at hand which just makes us all dumber. Thanks.</p><p></p><p>And BUG, when you bring a real arguement to the web board based on fact and not <em>juice (whatever the hell thats suppose to mean)</em>, I'll start addressing you again. My right pinky has grown tired of exchanging pointless dribble with you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nospinzone, post: 240601, member: 1335"] Dork, Against my better judgement, I'm goin to engage you in this pissing contest. However, as everyone has read in the above posts, [B]you[/B] were the one who made this into an ethnic discussion as I did not single out a particular group of people in my post. The term "guido" does have its origins in the early Italian-American culture. As defined by [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_(slang)"][COLOR="Red"][B]wikipedia[/B][/COLOR][/URL]...[I]"Guido" is a stereotypical term for a young, working class, Italian-American male from the urban Northeastern United States. The guido stereotype is often portrayed as humorously and incorrigibly uncultured, with a thuggish and overtly macho attitude and unyielding in his Italian ancestry.[/I] However.... just as cultures change, so do people's definition of cultural lingo change. My interpretation and application of the term "guido" more closely follows this definition offered by a psychiatrist on the [URL="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=guido&defid=1558919"][COLOR="Red"][B]Urban Dictionary [/B][/COLOR][/URL]website..... [I]Although most of its examples are of Italian-American descent, many times other [B]non-descript Caucasians [/B]will follow suit in an attempt to achieve an identity- [B]in fact any identity[/B]. The Guido is highly recognizable by his attention to muscular development, status symbols[/I] (Teamsters paraphanelia), [I]and regional dialect [/I](in my application, the Southern drawl of the Teamster faithfuls in Gaffney). And for the record, my roomate in college was an Italian whose family was from East Meadow, Long Island. Some of my best memories from school are with him and his family. When people attempt to devolve arguements into a [U]false and baseless [/U]race or ethnic discrimination pissing match, like you have done Dork, you distract us from the real issues at hand which just makes us all dumber. Thanks. And BUG, when you bring a real arguement to the web board based on fact and not [I]juice (whatever the hell thats suppose to mean)[/I], I'll start addressing you again. My right pinky has grown tired of exchanging pointless dribble with you. [/QUOTE]
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