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Use this post for any exchanges running from January onwards into the first quarter of the year. Try to keep final Yuletide thoughts in the last coal post of 2019 for ease of conversation.

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Re: Fandoms to Nom for 2020 Exchanges

[(Anonymous)]

Are you just not bothering to read the comments you're responding to, or is this some kind of,weird performance art?

"No one’s going to break into your home and burn your stockpile of BBC thug erotica, Barbara"

That statement confused people because they've no clue as to the references or what it's trying to say. That doesn't make them racist, it means they have different cultural references to the poster that made the comment. Responders asked what it meant in an attempt to understand and have gotten nothing but nonsensical accusations in response. Your xenophibia would be amusing under other circumstances, but at this point you're just annoying.

Re: Fandoms to Nom for 2020 Exchanges

[(Anonymous)]

Ditto all of this.

I have no idea who Barbara is - or Jan, to mention another name reference that gets used a lot. That doesn't mean ANYTHING except that I don't like US sitcoms or whatever it is.

Re: Fandoms to Nom for 2020 Exchanges

[(Anonymous)]

New Coalie

They're not sitcom characters. It's a sort of internet meme style of speaking. I'm struggling to accurately describe it but basically over the last ten or so years certain names like Karen, Sharon and Barbara have been used to denote the kind of (mostly Republican) white woman who complains in supermarkets.

BBC means, unfortunately, Big Black Cock, and seems to be from my googling a type of race kink porn that is degrading.

Putting these two together I'm guessing the commenter (which seems to be a different one from the OP who anon failed?) was accusing the other coalie of being the sort of person who gets angry if anyone tries to take away their right to racism/guns/etc.

I hope that helps!

Re: Fandoms to Nom for 2020 Exchanges

[(Anonymous)]

As one of the people who couldn't work it out, thanks for explaining. I got stuck on the BBC thing as it's so fixed in my head as a acronym for the British tv channel that I was trying to figure out if it meant something about fetishizing thuggish characters from BBC shows but couldn't figure how that worked in this discussion.

The names thing is interesting, as while, because in my culture those names wouldn't bring to mind privileged right wing types at all, for most of those names people would probably guess the opposite stereotype. Which is half the problem of throwing around stock attack phrases like the unhelpful coalie from upthread, as they only work if everyone is familiar with the specific stereotypes being invoked.

Re: Fandoms to Nom for 2020 Exchanges

[(Anonymous)]

Another coalie here who never heard BBC used for anything but the British TV channel, so thanks for the info.

But in some cases the names do seem to be references to American sitcoms, actually! This one for example: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Sure%20Jan

Re: Fandoms to Nom for 2020 Exchanges

[(Anonymous)]

sureJan was the only one I was familiar with, that and the nonnie from ffa who tried to make butthurt!Lois Griffin a thing (and they would never explain it either) so I had assumed the other names were specific references I was unfamiliar with, like sitcoms that weren't popular in my country or memes like the "Hi, Rebecca, did you forget I had a livejournal" thing

Re: Fandoms to Nom for 2020 Exchanges

[(Anonymous)]

'at this point you're just annoying'

..........at this point??? they've been idiotic since the start.