the more i think about it the more this needs its own topic

[Diomedes]

The only issue at hand is your continued presence. 

You make this place intolerable.

Mission accomplished.  And don't come back.

[ice grillin you]

is cr an eagle fan?

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

is cr an eagle fan?

Does it matter?

[ice grillin you]

yeah because if she is i can see a future with her in it

[General_Failure]

Don't worry, we're keeping an eye on her to make sure she doesn't steal our VCRs.

[Susquehanna Birder]

Don't be gettin' all uppity, GF.

[Geowhizzer]

Don't be gettin' all uppity, GF.

GF's pretty much uppity all the time.

[General_Failure]

I'm not uppity. I'm keepin' it real.

[Susquehanna Birder]

I was uppity this morning. But then I kept it real when I got in the shower.

[Geowhizzer]

I was uppity as well.  Uppity the ladder to put up Christmas decorations. 

[General_Failure]

I was uppity this morning. But then I kept it real when I got in the shower.

My girl gets all up in my face when I do that.

[Rome]

I love it when threads take a turn for the worse.

[PhillyPhreak54]

The Eagles FO is flat out wrong on this one. But for the players to be getting all uppity is wrong too.

Like an uppity negro (or worse), right?

You used to hear "uppity" all the time during the pre-Civil Rights era - in reference to some black person who was somehow not docile, subordinate, or undignified enough for white people's taste.  That word is still used relatively often in reference to a black person (especially in comparison to how often it is used in reference to a white person) - as you so clearly demonstrated. 

And yes, I know there are white players on the team - a few of them, anyway.  But what was the predominant image you had in your mind when your mind retrieved the word "uppity"?  A bunch of black guys, probably. That is the predominant image of the league, and the predominant image that people think of when they think of the players as a collective unit.

Thank you for your history lesson you farging bitch. Since Freddie Mitchell has no team and thus no team message board for you to go you're still here buggin the shtein out of us.

The fact that you even brought up race is disgusting. The fact that you brought it up over a word I used is even more ridiculous. I don't care what the history of a word is. I use that word all the time and mostly it is when I'm talking about some stuck up woman who acts like her shtein don't stink (see what I'm gettin at here?). And if you need a demographcal breakdown its the white soccer moms driving the Volvo's cuttin people off in the traffic while on their cellphones who are honored to be called uppity by me.

Your insinuation that I was thinking about a black person when I used that word is an insult to me and it proves that you are what we thought you were...a dumb bitch.

[Eaglez]

blah  blah blah

Even if true, none of this blather justifies your insinuation that a poster is making racist comments, or is intimating as much.  Brother made a football comment, and you come in here like Jesse Jackson on PMS, making an ass of yourself.

Get the farg out.

Why it's Diomedes, the talking rat.  You are such a waste, even as a rodent.

Any time the word "uppity" is used in reference to a black person or black people, it justifies a closer look.  That's the way things have been set up over the centuries - than even to this day, I've seen the questionable, double-standardish use of the word "uppity".  It could be the Phreak is "the opposite of that kind of thinking" as Ice says - but it is not unjustified for a person who doesn't know Phreak from Dustin Diamond to come across this word and take offense.  I don't squat on this board so I don't really know many of the personalities all that well...except for those who have taken the time to distinguish themselves during the times I've been on here as demented jerk-offs, such as yourself. 

What's horrible is that you're importing meaning to a word when that meaning goes against the clear definition of that word. You're assuming that someone is using that word in a historical context that that person might be wholly ignorant about. What's worse is that the context of Phreak's sentence made no reference to the antebellum period or the reformation period in American history.

Uppity -- affecting an attitude of inflated self-esteem; haughty; snobbish.

Yeah, I forgot how oppressive that word is to black people... overly-sensitive idiot...

[PhillyPhreak54]

Thank you, Z.