Would you say that he had a plethora of dicks?

Jefe, do you know what a plethora is?

Aww, I thought this was Hand-Carved Phelous!

i love epic rap battles as well, what's you're favorite and who won?

Why does Tara look like a guy now?

*sadface*

"Too strange to take seriously is a wonderful lead-in to" (fade out)

Well played, sir! :)

Heeey. highfive for Kyle, we share a similar no-fucks-given stance on sports.

I lol'd at "a member of hamouse" XD

Hey, Oancitizen mentioned "Manneken Pis"...the man knows his peeing statues...

doesn't "Chink in the Armor" just mean a weak spot in the defense?

The c-word is also a slur for people of Chinese descent, and as Lin is of Taiwanese-Chinese descent it should be definitely avoided.

Yes, yes it does. If he had really thought about it putting the word chink in an article about an Asian basketball player is a terrible play on words.Or maybe a dent in the armor.

yes thats what it means, people are just being overly sensitive about

No, they aren't. The term was specifically put in as a pun. It makes absolutely no sense if not about an Asian player, since the article was specifically not about holes in someone's defense.

I knew it! I knew it! Our schools really ARE just prisons trying to stomp out all forms of joy! Say what you want about Mickey Mouse, he makes kids laugh, and they're trying to keep him from escaping into the world!

ESPN- Ethnic Slurs Portrayed as News.

Am I the only one not seeing a Watch Video button on the side bar for this vid?

Sphinx, you are correct. The term "chink in the armor" has been around WAY before the days when the Chinese immigrants worked on California railroads. This had nothing to do with racism but now-days EVERYONE is a "racist". Funny how people are so quick to cry racist even when the intention isn't even there. It's getting old and it's a shame so many of my fellow Americans have paper thin skin! Everyone is looking for a reason to get offended and I find that offensive!

I believe the point was that the phrase, which has indeed been around since the wheel was a new and innovative design revolution, was in this case used as a pun upon the man's ethnicity.

The editor in question (yes, it was the editor and not the article's author who wrote the headline and was fired for it), has claimed that the phrase was not intended as a racial slur, but rather that it was an honest mistake.

Now while this may be a case of a bunch of insensitive editors and proofreaders not recognizing that they were inadvertently insulting a man or a case of a deliberate attempt to slip a racial slur past screening, either way it needs to be recognized and remedied. It could be argued that firing the guy was a knee-jerk reaction to appease offended parties, but then again.. he really did fuck up at his job. He might be a really nice guy in person, but he fucked up royally there.

Making the people around us feel unwanted and ostracized is not OK and never will be, no matter how un-"PC" a person wants to be. As a HUMAN race we can all do a lot better.

if anyone did further research into this they would find out that:

1. the editor in question had, in fact used the term many times before and was using it to describe the situation and not lin himself; which if you read the definition fit this situation perfectly.

and

2. the editor publicly apologized and jeremy lin said that he wasn't offended by it in the first place.

Exactly, I wish Nash would have done his research and brought that up. I honestly think that the reporter did nothing wrong. It's a saying and he meant no ill-intent with it. It's the people that over-reacted faults. They saw the word and automatically assumed racism like Nash is doing. And as you said, Jeremy Lin wasn't offended at all, so why should we care.

Honestly, I'm more just pissed off at Nash for not getting the reporters or even Lin's side of the story and just assuming that "OMG HE SAID CHINK, RACIST, RACIST!!!" It's immature and very unprofessional.

you pretty much just described my feelings for this entirely, thank you for that

I'll say it again, whether he meant it or not, the man made a big fat boo-boo, the kind you _expect_ to get fired for.

The term is racist whether the guy meant it or not. But he clearly did mean it as a pun, seeing as the article was not about holes in anyone's defense. Defense isn't even the issue of the article.

And of course the guy is going to say he wasn't trying to be racist. No racist ever admits it. And of course Lin is going to say he wasn't offended: that would hurt his image as someone who gets upset easily, seeing as so many of you guys believe the fake story.

The fact that you are upset at Nash for knowing something is racist, while not being upset at the editor for allegedly not knowing he is making a racial slur really says a lot about you, and none of it good.

If you are a journalism editor and can't catch a basic ethnic slur, you deserve to be fired, whether for racism or sheer incompetence.

I don't know, I think she looks kinda cute this way. I'd prefer it if her hair wasn't so short now, though.

Disney: YOU WILL HAVE FUN OR BE DESTROYED!

As for the "Hamouse" - wouldn't be WTFIWWY without terrible puns.

Dude...don't leave penises about, it makes YOU look like the obsessed one.

AH AH AH AH NO NO NO NOT MORE DRUGS IN SOMEONE'S ORIFICES I BEG YOU! AND NO MORE PUBLIC SEX EITHER!

Oan - kudos for keeping your cool.
Ven - AWWWWWWWWWWWW hippo! :)

Nice one, guys!

Article 1- WOW, are people thin-skinned or what? Okay, maybe they could have phrased it better, but STILL...

Article 2- ...Honestly, I'm surprised she didn't kick him in the balls. That's what I'd do.

Article 3- "A-hole"? REALLY? And why didn't they say what the guy did?

Article 4- What, just, WHAT? (Also, LOL at JO's comment at Mickey not being on TV anymore...)

Article 5- ...I want to stab something now.

Article 6- ...No comment.

Article 7- No comment either.

I agree with Kyle %100 on the aspects of Basketball, and yes it is that. However, it was White Men who stole Basketball from Blacks and then around the 1970s, Basketball became more international. So, in a sense it is rich white men controlling athletic black men...but then you got to factor in Germany and China.

Well, things get a little more complicated when you consider that long before Blacks came to dominate the sport in the US, back in the 30's & 40's the vast majority of professional Basketball players were Jewish. Back then it was a path out of the Ghetto for poor inner-city Jews just like it became one for inner-city African-Americans later.

So it's probably incorrect to say Basketball was "stolen" from Blacks; they were never allowed to actually "own" it, they were just permitted to be hired to play it, probably after some "gentlemen's agreement" keeping them out was tossed aside sometime after Baseball was desegregated and the world failed to collapse as a result.

I'll put that last story right up there with another from some years back about cops being called in on a man that was leading his girlfriend around by a chain, in public. And the chain wasn't attached to a collar around her neck.

It went up her skirt.

Use your imagination.

I quite honestly do not understand people.

Nice glasses, Kyle. ;)

Clearly the error in "Chink in the armor" is that basketball players don't where armor...duh

Okay, I live in a conversative area in Iowa where I know some people who don't condone the homosexual lifestyle and believe marriage should be between a man and a woman.


But I am okay with that you know why.....THEY don't spend thier entire weekend making real-life phalluses from concrete to put on gay peoples' front yards. Because they know how stupid and wrong that sounds on thier end. So as long as one of them doesn't ever do that, I won't feel embarrassed for even saying "hi" to them on the street and asking about thier day.


24:19-You know, I can just imagine the conversation and how it would go, between a guy shoving drugs up thier ass and someone using said drugs.

"Hey does this cocaine smell funny to you?"

"Yeah, its been up my ass for two days."

"Uhhhhh huh, yeah, I am going to find another drug dealer that isn't a freaking pervert thank you very much."


26:21- OMG! I remember that story. A friend of mine linked it on her facebook wall and I commented on it saying "Sexual role-play and LARPING are not the same thing." lol

Hope had the line of the day: "I spent time lovingly crafting these giant cocks!!" Let's just say laughter was achieved, soda was spilled, headache was accomplished, and Advil was taken.

OanCitizen needs to shave that bad facial hair. It's an eye sore. It's like he's trying to look older and more intellectual by growing that..whatever it is. Trying to look like Hemingway n shit.

You a smart motherfucker! The smartest performer on this site (alongside Diamanda Hagan. You both share my top spot for smarts here. Lindsay Ellis is a distant second. That's saying a lot, because everyone on TGWTG is pretty sharp, being nerds and all.) Wait until you can actually grow a full beard, when you're in your thirties. (For you, maybe forties.) Until then, be the Doogie Howser baby face motherfucker that you are.

I'd be very interested in Oan and Tara hosting the show at some point. I mean, I love Nash and Hope, don't get me wrong, but Nash and Hope and Oan and Tara might be too much, and I'd be very interested in Oan and Tara conversing about the crazy news.

Oan, you said "Eleanor of Aquitaine" … *swoons*

The pepper spray story was odd, because on the one hand you have a guy getting pepper sprayed at Disney of all places … but on the other hand you have the ride attendants, the elderly security guard, and regular people all working together to take this guy down. It's kind of heartwarming, in a bizarre kind of way.

Well, actually, someone in a big costume like that Mickey Mouse one randomly showing up and then vanishing … they could hide all kinds of stuff in that suit, guns, explosives, drugs … a kidnapped small child? It sounds silly, but from the administration's point of view, it was the right thing to do. Imagine if it had been someone else in that suit, and the news story had been "Pedophile Dressed as Mickey Mouse Kidnaps Child, Bypasses Security" or something?

In Ancient Rome, phalluses were lucky. They actually had these wind-chime things of little dicks over doorways that it was lucky to touch or make chime when you walked under them. 2,000-odd years ago, a guy leaving model dicks in front of your house would probably have been a nice gesture.

Awwww, Oan and Hope bonded over "Maria Full of Grace!" I had to watch that for Spanish class. Very interesting movie.

You'd be surprised how common ravishment fantasies are. Doesn't get me going, but quite a lot of people are into that, and that's ok so long as they play it SCC. Doesn't sound like those two were playing it SCC, though, if there was duct-tape over her mouth, that's dangerous! Also, they shouldn't have done that in a public place where it would have looked like a crime in progress. Silly people, don't they read Dan Savage?
I mean, if they just had to start out in a public place, he could have handcuffed her discreetly and draped a blanket over her arms and put her in the backseat or something. There, problem solved! Don't do naked or duct-tape stuff in public, do that in the privacy of your own home.

Awwwwww, hippo drawing! Yet more proof that Ven is awesome!

Having Oancitizen on really brought a whole different perspective to WTFIWWY, it's not every day they have someone on who can causally reference Eleanor of Aquitaine or name the European city that has a (sorta) famous peeing Cherubim fountain. But still, it's really just not the same without Tara.

I also had just heard a bunch of background "buzz" this past week about some major faux-paz ESPN had made in a reference to Yao Ming but didn't really know exactly what it was about. But given increasing frustration with excessive Political Correctness that I've developed lately, I just sort of made a knee-jerk presumption that it was all some sort of overreaction and that some poor guy was fired needlessly. But then I finally see here what all the fuss was about, and..., yeah. That really is pretty damm inexcusable. I gotta admit, for an outfit like ESPN to let that slip by is the sort of thing that some people really *do* need to be fired over.

And please, spare me any bullshit claims of "What? you mean the word means *that*??? We had no idea!" I suppose maybe if a commentor is a child or a young adolescent it *might* be possible that they've never come across that slur (which would actually be kind of a wonderful thing if that were possible), but there's no Goddamn way you can be an adult in this country and never have come across it, and * certainly* no way in hell you can have a job as a professional sportswriter and not have come across every damm ethnic slur there is. The dick who wrote that headline knew exactly what he was saying.

Thinking about the concrete penis protest, I just can't help but wonder if maybe the reporter just somehow got the key facts completely mixed up and badly mangled the whole story, so that in reality the Gay one was the guy who crafted the penises & set them up outside the other guy's house, and he was actually trying to protest and/or torment his homophobic neighbor. The whole thing just makes so much more sense that way. (Wait, maybe, that's going a bit too far. Let's just say it comes so much *closer* to making sense that way.)

Ah, so this was the infamous racial slurred article of ESPN. As an ABC (Asian-born Chinese), I do not approve of that article. EVER!!!! Oh, and actually, Jeremy Lin is Taiwanese-Chinese, but he was born in America. But that word refers to any kind of Chinese, and it's not okay at all.

Kyle is not as pretty as Tera

Love the looks on the title-card. :p

Kyle: "Let me tell you a wonderful story..."
Hope: "Huh. I'm mildly interested, tell me more..."
Nash: "Ummm... no, please o.o;"

I tried watching this live, but Justin.tv kept screwing me over.

Tara got one hell of a haircut there.

The "Chink in the Armor" thing would be okay if it was said by a commentator during an unscripted round-table discussion about his defense. In an article that gets proofread and you have plenty of time to think it over it's not okay - especially in that article where using that phrase for his race was the joke.

Kyle realizing what "in Stuart" meant is pretty funny.

"It's not a bag of holding." Nor is it a handy haversack.

Yeah I'm a little disappointed, this would have been a perfect title for Phelous to guest spot in.

Anyway, I have to call bullshit on the first article. Really? A commonly used phrase is offensive just because the subject of the article is Asian? Grow the fuck up. So if the person is white, black, hispanic, Native American, etc it's fine, but not if he's Asian! This is the same as segregation to me, a completely innocent phrase can't be used with a person of a certain ethnicity. And the c-word? Really you can't say chink when discussing the phrase chink in the armor? And remember, someone lost their job for this completely innocuous term. Honestly, the writer is less racist for not thinking twice about using the phrase than the people that say "you can't say that, it's racist cause he is one! Oh, wait..."

For the concrete dick article, you forgot to throw in a "was it circumcised?" joke. Gay dude should paint the tops red and put them out as lawn gnomes. Fuck em girl, fuck em!

For Valentine's Day story: you learned bodies always go in trunks!

Now, if they had phrased it "Lin is the chink in the armor for N.Y. Nick" that could have been called racist!

"So if the person is white, black, hispanic, Native American, etc it's fine, but not if he's Asian!"

Well, that's how racial slurs work, yes. They're a slur against a specific race.

Personally, when I heard Disney's popo the first thing I thought of was some horrible hybrid between mister popo and the genie from Aladdin. Kind of like what they did to him in DBZ kai only wearing a Mickey Mouse sheriff badge.

Nash, love your work, but I have to jump on the nitpick train here.

Taiwan is also known as the Republic of China. This is because it was founded by the Nationalists who fled China after Mao Zedong came to power.

It is referred to as Taiwan because its big, red neighbor would throw a big fit otherwise. Not saying it would start a war (at least not these days) but it would become a massive political shitstorm.

not to nitpick a nitpick but kyle saidthat already in teh video...if you kept watching