Something that occurred to me earlier
I was thinking about some of the societies at my uni, and I remembered a comment someone I know made once: "If they've got a LGBT society, why don't we have a 'Straight' society"?

At first, I dismissed it as drunken gibberish, but then it started me wondering. There are groups and societies in the world for just about every possible race/belief/sexual orientation. One the surface of it, their purpose is to advocate for rights, provide a place to meet other like-minded individuals and so on. However, I can't help thinking that in an attempt to bring people together, these kind of societies can engender an even greater sense of separation.

Take, for example, an Afro-Carribean society, dedicated to upholding rights and combating segregation. They hold their own parties, they choose their membership purely by skin colour or racial background... So are they actually going in the wrong direction? Do these societies serve any useful purpose in the long term?



tl;dr version:

Minority groups creating their own societies - does it hurt their chances of integrating with others?



Edit: I should add that I have nothing against any of these groups - I just wonder if they really serve their intended purpose.


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( Hdjejjwsjdjjf LOOK, Sun 5 Sep 2010, 20:34, 52 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

So....
not attention seeking, just posting something that crosses my mind now & then- what do you reckon, or have prior knowledge of (like THATS going to be an option!) of ending it all? A few of my friends have said drowning. How the hell would you know?
( Duke Of Belmsford has got 99 records, but Jay-Z ain't one, Sun 5 Sep 2010, 16:24, 22 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I'm having a shitty night in....
I'm having a shitty night in - We've been away for a few days and my girlfriend has gone out with her mates (it was pre-planned anyway), I was under "kind" instructions to not do all the housework, etc and have an early night*

So, how is it that it's 10pm and it seems like not that long ago since I got my daughter to bed, eaten and got the tesco shop in and put away. Yet I've still got to wash the (inexplicable) mountain of dishes, get the washing in, tidy the bedroom (made into an apocalyptic wasteground following my OH getting ready and saying that "she'll sort if when she gets back tomorrow - knowing full well that if I don't, I'll be sleeping on the fucking couch), make the bed, put away the eleventy-ten hundred tons of toys my daughter got out in the 3 hours that we've actually been home and, somehow, relax....

And, and, my OH's mate (who I always thought "wore comfortable shoes") has just posted a load of photos on farcebook of them having a great night out - Not that I'll hear from her because "her phone doesn't fit in her purse".

My day wasn't any better as I managed to pick up a parking ticket and, and, last night my OH's stepdad reversed in to my car twatting it with the fucking towbar.

I would rant on, but then I might end up going in to the kitchen, getting a fuck-off great knife and going next door on a Norman Bates/Jack Torrance inspired knifing spree (thereby doing the world a favour).

My night has been unfathomably shit so far (the bath and bedtime with my daughter was, of course, a joy) and there seems to be no end in sight - someone, please, please just shoot me? Or amuse me....

*I do, of course, note the irony that there is with my being on the internet instead of doing said jobs.
(james_tiger_woods is going to start his killing spree on the, Sat 4 Sep 2010, 22:15, 22 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Hey 'tards!
I say the word 'awesome' way too often. I need to sound more like a grown up when term starts, so what good words are they I can replace it with. I'll need a few, and I do intend to sound eccentric
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sat 4 Sep 2010, 13:16, 38 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

So I'm moving to London on the 25th September
'll be off to Goldsmiths to study (not doss!) Anthropology. It's essential that I have a job while I study as I need money to see me through!

I've applied for numerous places, most recently within the SU shop where despite having 3 years experience working at Tesco etc, I wasn't in the top 7 candidates (I'm convinced there was a hidden agenda as the sabbatical offers wanted their mates in!)

Anyhow, I wonder if any of my fellow B3tans know of anyone or any company who could do with a 15-20 hour a week, reliable, relatively life experienced and switched on chap at their work place?

I expect many crude replies but I'm moving pretty soon so I thought I'd give it a shout.

Thanks in advance!

(Sorry if this feels like a Gumtree-esque post but B3ta is like my second home!)
(PassTheKhat, Sat 4 Sep 2010, 1:30, 15 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I'm sorry, I can't stop myself


What have your non-b3tan friends posted on Facebook that is mildly amusing to them but extra funny to b3tans?
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Sat 4 Sep 2010, 0:45, 4 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Own up
Which one of you is going to go to Pizza Express with chomp?
( WormuIus, Fri 3 Sep 2010, 22:32, 10 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Damnit
why has no one invented the point to point transporter, yet?

Get onto it you lazy oiks
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 3 Sep 2010, 21:05, 15 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I am supremely bored now.
Do you know a fascinating fact that will amuse, intrigue or otherwise engage my feeble mind?

NB anyone replying simply 'yes' wins 6 snowbound months in an Alaskan hunting lodge with only The Cat Hater and 4kg of speed for company.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 3 Sep 2010, 16:11, 144 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Ooooh - you're popular
www.b3ta.com/board/10175136

;)
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 3 Sep 2010, 15:22, 45 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

THis is quite interesting
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11172054
So how many of you can't swim?
(PsychoChomp, Fri 3 Sep 2010, 14:44, 155 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

What's everyone doing this weekend, then?

(am I doing this right?)
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 3 Sep 2010, 14:00, 108 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

At last my period of 'OMFG! I've got so much to do at work' is finished.
Wassup cunts!

Alt Q: Who's the leader of the band, the one for you and me?
( girlinthehole, Fri 3 Sep 2010, 12:32, 108 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

soooo...
what's everyone doing this weekend?

If it's shit, make something up. The more elaborate the better.

A builder in a van stuck his tongue out at me this morning, is this to get around the anti-wolf whistling laws? I'm quite sad they got rid of them, we women used to tut and sigh and make out we hated it, but we didn't.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 3 Sep 2010, 11:37, 203 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Has anyone else commented on the fact that the autistic bloke that hacked the pentagon
looks exactly the same as BBC's 'Sherlock'?
( WormuIus, Fri 3 Sep 2010, 10:51, 76 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

This morning
I'm standing on a building site at about 8am, waiting for a tanker to turn up so I can fill some holes with water. Since I have nothing to do in the meantime I am standing with my eyes closed, gently swaying and trying to stop my guts evacuating themselves into my trousers.

I hear a voice shouting things along the lines of "Oi! Gonna do some work!? Faackin *something* Facckin *something else* *other mumbled comments I wasn't paying enough attention to remember*".

Since the sun is on my face and I know that these shouts are coming from the balcony of a flat overlooking the site where three people were watching me earlier in the week as I dug the holes I am currently filling with water, I don't bother to look round or respond, but once the tanker turned up I did notice a bloke leaning over his balcony with what looked like a can of lager in his hand.

I envied that guy. I bet his ring piece doesn't feel like Edward II just before he died and he was drinking beer at 8am on a weekday.

So, onto questions. I'm getting a new car, should I get a red one, a black one or a blue one? Or alternatively, what's your favourite colour of car and why?
(Bazongaloid, Fri 3 Sep 2010, 10:29, 113 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Good morning to you all.
I am cream fucking crackered, my innards feel like I drank bleach last night, but I am feeling rather chipper nonetheless.

*whistles a jaunty tune*

Question: what have I done with the real Monty?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 3 Sep 2010, 8:51, 190 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Things you wish you'd have the guts to say...
Mr Man in the suit with the rucksack sitting at table 23 having half strength coffee, you're ten years older than me and I was sure that was a wedding ring I saw, its ok because I have a bf. But I just find you incredibly attractive, warm and you have a gorgeous smile. See you before you check out tomorrow. From, Waitress.

Anything you regret never saying?
Or too scared of saying?
Or just can't?
(MissFlee tried again on, Thu 2 Sep 2010, 19:51, 158 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

My sore bollocks are forcing my hand
Hello,

Some of you may have read my "hilarious" scrapes involving cycling and the preceding accidents. Well this time i've pushed it one step to far. Through having complete disregard for my own health and safety i'm currently writing this with huge swollen bollocks and a urine infection that is so painful i'm considering a call to the Guinness Book of Records. Basically, i had a saddle sore from marathon cycling events that i did let heal, this caused a horrible infection to spread. "What a cunt", these were the words of Mrs captaincuntybollocks. So the upshot of this is i've been forced off my bike for a very long time. When the right QOTW comes up i'll explain the weird events around this incident, weirdest month of my life!

So i'm selling my precious Dolan 54cm Track Champion Track Bike. If any one is interested in this then let me know and i'll forward you the gumph and pictures. It is in mint condition and comes with a 50mm tubular carbon wheelset. There will of course be the obligatory captaincuntybollocks special offer for b3tan's and a pint at my local in Leeds. Anyway, let me know if your interested or anyone you know is into fixed gear/track cycling. You'll get your 1 pint finders fee for this.

Bring on the ball bag gags...
(CaptainCuntyBollocks the man who can with a frying pan full of lamb, Thu 2 Sep 2010, 17:03, 17 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I've just been given a leaflet
Would anybody be interested in joining the British Lichen Society?
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 2 Sep 2010, 16:53, 18 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

So when you're writing on B3ta
what are you being paid to actually do?

Alt Q: Gym after work or nine holes after work? (golf not rape)
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Thu 2 Sep 2010, 16:04, 107 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Quick question
does anyone know anything about paypal? For some reason it says that my balance is £50 but my available balance is only £17, but since the £50 went in nothing has gone out. WHERE'S MAH MONEH BITCH!

I also have a boring Word related query if anyone wants to put their underwear on the outside and help me?

Alt hopefully less boring Q: what's the best holiday you've been on and why?
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 2 Sep 2010, 14:46, 219 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Anyone want muse tickets
For Manchester, LCCC this sat? £60 the pair? Make me an offer? Call me a cunt whatever. Gaz moi.
( I have run out of coke is a little sweaty, Thu 2 Sep 2010, 13:28, 133 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Following on from the last thread
I just realised I have no clue what the Moomins are, nor Dogtanian. What do you have no clue about that everyone else seems to?

Alt Q: Club, pub or night in?

Edit: also the popular page seems to be going a bit strange
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 2 Sep 2010, 12:40, 209 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

i've just rediscovered the joy of sketchbooks
i think i got kinda soured on them by having to produce them for a purpose at uni, when they became objectionable and filled with resentful half arsed scrawlings. now i'm rediscovering them as a diary-cum-braindump, they're much more fun. plus, it passes the hour long train journey WAAAAY faster than reading, and it gets me some amusing reactions from old ladies who for some reason, seem to fear the large hairy faced tattooed scruffbag sitting opposite, cutting things out of the metro with a scalpel and glueing them in, then drawing horrendous things on them and intermittently chuckling to himself.. pretty much guarantees me a free seat to myself.
what have you recently rediscovered that's made you smile?
alt question: what last inspired you?
(UppityDamnPrimate LET'S OPEN THIS F*CKING PIT UP, Thu 2 Sep 2010, 11:46, 149 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Consumer delights

When it comes to buying stuff I am usually the guy who buys something in shop A only to see it 20% cheaper in shop B a little while later. Yesterday however I got lucky. I ordered a new telly from Richer Sounds but when I picked it up and took it home it was the wrong one. They had given me the next model up and it is a hell of a lot swankier.

What brucie bonuses have you picked up unexpectedly?

Alt Q: If they work it out do I have to give it back?
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Thu 2 Sep 2010, 10:58, 185 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

It's my Birthday today. I'm 25. Give or take 7 years.
And for the first time I can remember I couldn't get the day off. So I'm relying on my boring workmates and you gorgeous people to make me giggle.

And, in an act of shameless self-whoring, if you want to give me a birthday present, go to the link below and click on "I Like This"

www.b3ta.com/questions/confess/post846659

What filthy self-promotion have you indulged in lately?

Post-Facebook edit - thank you to Amberl, BGB, Kitty, AA, TLiC, Bobby, Noel and Roota for the messages on my wall!
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Thu 2 Sep 2010, 9:52, 180 replies, latest was 16 years ago)