BINAO: Fry or Gatiss?

Gattis, all of the way.

BINAO: Cumberbatch or Freeman?

Cumberbatch, even dark. Much more so if natural though.

I'm firmly stuck with Nina Simone's version (it is the only real one)

Ah! I was trying to imagine you owning a Juice Newton album and having a really hard time ...

Vt. Barber Says Not Good at Cutting Blacks' Hair

WHY IS THAT NEWS? The last time paid a a white barber to cut my hair, it was a nightmare. Unless it's a straight all-over job with the clippers, I want to see either naps on his head (making an assumption here) or evidence of his previous good work.

I was trying to imagine you owning a Juice Newton album and having a really hard time ...

Ha! I've never heard that version all the way through. Didn't learn it existed until uni.

WHY IS THAT NEWS?

I was wondering. It sounds less like, "ahhhhhh, racism" and more like, "oh, skillset."

Heck, I get twitchy with fine, wavy hair about who cuts it. News flash: different hair is different.

The barber thing is a hot button historical issue in the civil rights movement. There had to be legal rulings that barbers and hairstylists couldn't turn away customers because of their race.

Yeah, note that the actual story is not that the Vermont barber isn't good at cutting black hair, it's that he lied to a black prospective customer about being the barber, in order to turn him away, and this is how he's defending himself.

They buried the lead - this is the real story:

Mike Aldrich, who is white and runs Mike's Barber Shop in Bellows Falls, told the would-be customer when he stopped in last month that the barber wasn't in.

Instead of saying "Sorry man, I have no idea how to cut your hair and wouldn't want to fuck it up" he flat-out lied to get the guy out of his shop. The entirely reasonable-sounding reason he gave for this was after the fact. I'd be pissed too.

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Yeah, note that the actual story is not that the Vermont barber isn't good at cutting black hair, it's that he lied to a black prospective customer about being the barber, in order to turn him away, and this is how he's defending himself.

Ah thank you. Like ita, I was failing to see the story. So this is more like the urologist who put up a sign in his office saying he won't treat anyone who votes Democratic.

Oh, dude. THAT is wrong and messed up. Bigtime.

Mea obvious culpa: I didn't click or read the article but stupidly assumed the headline told me everything.

know what I enjoy? sweeping my driveway. doesn't take that long, but there are visible results and is a wee bit of exercise.