Kinda makes a bit more sense when you consider that the school is in Sultan, Washington and it’s address is on Turk Drive.
But also: Washington state… redneck?
Outside of Seattle/Tacoma, very redneck. Get up to the mountains where they make all the meth and the cattle farms are pretty redneck too, but they have stripper coffee shacks nearby.
Stripper coffee is where ladies strip? And there’s hot beverages?
Pretty much hit the nail on the head right there. That’s exactly what they are.
This is the first time I’ve heard about these stripper coffee shacks. I want reviews (since I doubt I’ll have enough money to ever visit one)
They’re pretty cheap if you’re in the area, but they are also as trashy as you would expect. My review is… like if you combined a Starbucks and a Hooters with less clothes, put them in a food truck or temporary shack // shed like easy to set up location and most of them have a drive through option if you need coffee and titties on the go. It’s not as crazy as it sounds and I’m actually surprised they really aren’t a more common thing. I guess one thing that helps is that it is illegal to sell alcohol at a strip club in Washington State so strip clubs were already in the coffee business when the idea was created. It’s a little funny because all the strip clubs let you BYOB, you just can’t buy or sell it at the club.
They’re usually called bikini baristas and its a woman in a bikini or lingerie who makes coffee. Some got busted years back for doing handies.
I have never actually patronized one but there’s a few in my area, mostly in gas station parking lots. The operations can be pretty fucking rough.
I always cringe when I see the poor girl throwing on a bathrobe to cart the wastewater across the lot to the gas station slop drain since there’s no internal plumbing in her road facing booth.
As someone from the east side of the state, it definitely fits. Friends joke that I live in West Idaho.
As an European, I can confirm that all Americans (south and north) are Yankee rednecks
As a Texan, I can’t read goddamn thing between my wild diabetes eyes and rampant illiteracy
How can you afford wild diabetes in 2024? Even pasture raised costs an arm and a leg.
Does it though? Like saying the Germantown school mascot should be the Krauts.
Other Options:
Viziers
Janissaries
Genies
Bombards
Footstools
Istan-Bulls
Harem Girls
Mhmm
Wait, what were we talking about again?
I was about to comment how cool the name Bombards would be, but then I read the Istan-Bulls and sorry but you should be legally obligated to go with that name when it’s an option, it’s that good.
Better than their previous name: the Constanti-No-Bulls
Why they changed it I can’t say
People just liked it better that way
Thats nobodies business but the Turks
as a Turk, this is fucking awesome
We were the Trojans, which is basically just Turks as well.
But “Trojans” can be very easily turned into a nasty joke. Funny, but nasty.
True. Unfortunately, we had a higher than average level of teen pregnancy, so we apparently didn’t learn anything from our namesake. It’s also sad that I doubt many in my high school know that Troy is in Turkey, most probably think it’s in Greece.
But at least the mascot looked cool (like this, but more ghetto). It unfortunately looked more Roman/Greek than Turkish though, whereas Hittite would be a lot more appropriate (and way more unique imo). But we weren’t known for our academics, we were known for sports…
Oh my god, I was born in Pekin, though I never spent any time there. That’s fucking nuts
Huh. lemmy.ml also censors links, it seems. This is what I see:
https://ccamuseum.org/1981-the-pekin-*removed*-high-school-team-becomes-the-pekin-dragons/
Rhymes with links, like how you might shorten “chicken links” into a one-syllable word. Put that where "removed " is and you’re golden.
So this dude knows why Constantinople got the works?
Even though it’s been a long time gone?
Yes, but he won’t tell you because it’s none of your business.
We had a boring enough mascot, but my highschool had separate black and white homecoming kings & queens… In 1998.
My small town’s mascot was the Tigers. The next town to the north? Tigers. The town west of us? Their school shut down in 1997, but they were Tigers, too. The town south? Panthers. There is a town in the next county north that also is the Panthers.
Lots of big cats. No Cougars/Pumas/Mountain Lions, despite the fact that they’re totally a native species. There was one town whose mascot was the Bobcats.
My High School was not a sport high school. More or less all the cool kids were what would be considered the band nerds and arts took up half the foot print of the school.
We were originally officially the… Ahem… “Tillicums and Frontiersmen”. Which most kids were only vaguely aware of. There were no mascots, our teams basically just used our town’s name and sport was one of those things you like vaguely knew was happening. Nobody used the team names because we all thought it was stupid.
About 15 years ago the conversation developed that it was a pretty colonial name and not cool and they changed it around the same time three other schools in neighboring towns did theirs. All three towns seemingly independently (a student led conspiracy was suspected but never confirmed) all named their school teams “the (insert school name here) Storm”.
So now there’s just three teams all called Storm with zero mascots and people continue to not give a damn about sports… So I guess sometimes you get a theme?
Big cats, wolves, eagles, and uncomfortable caricatures of people. Heaven forbid a school ever choose, like, a local frog or hedgehog or whatever for a mascot.
There’s also Catholic schools with crusaders which may be more concerning than the caricatures
That’s nobody’s business but the Turks!
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam.
I dont get it, can someone ELI5?
ELI5: It’s politically incorrect to use a group of people as a mascot.
ELIHypocrisy: This mostly gained momentum after an NFL team called the Redskins started getting flak for basically using what became a derogatory name for native americans as a mascot/team name. Pejoration is neat.
The pendulum kept swinging and it removed even non-derogatory names as mascots.
So what could be a different legitimate name used to represent being awesome and excelling on a team where you’re supposed to win constantly started getting shut down. Think Chiefs, Blackhawks (switched to the bird not the people), but they keep the name because these are okay despite plenty of people being able to use almost any cultural group in a derogatory way.
I understand it, but it felt like the usual smart changes that went too far. I blame white people white knighting / virtue signalling too much.
RIP Mia from Land O Lakes butter. You can understand it, you don’t have to like it. The opinion of the masses doesn’t require logic, only momentum. Doesn’t matter if the mascot was an accurate representation of someone, by those people, paid, generally loved, white folk will still kill it.
E: It’s okay if they’re primarily associated with white people or the in-group… or certain country people… not some white people though… or some people from certain countries… or some people from certain geological areas.
Americans, Texans, Yankees? Fine.
Irish, Canucks, Indians? You’ll need context.
Turks, Sicilians, Confederates? Probably not fine since they’re too brown or too American. Americans? That’s fine though, even though Americans killed far more natives than Confederates ever did through systematic governmental genocide… Indians? Ok, Dot not feather Indians get that one now… turns out racism is pretty universal but it’s okay if you’re part of the in group. Don’t emphasize what makes them unique or it’s racist… New characterization requires that you don’t emphasize what makes someone unique even if it’s a point of pride or completely relevant to their people.
Does it matter if you name your team after yourselves? No. Still not fine. You have to first remove the name, wait a period, then give yourself the name back. It has to be allowed to marinate in PC limbo like colored people, african american, black, or people of color.
You have to know what arbitrary linguistic rules people decided are more correct despite them all attempting to describe the same thing. Like trying to approximate someone’s skin color/genetic heritage and/or ethnicity.
People first language! Because it’s better if X is first and not Y…despite describing the same thing and fuck you for not knowing any better by not being part of the In-Group!
Conclusion: People can try to logic their way through it all the way they want, but the ELI5 is the true part. They’ll want exceptions for everything though as long as it’s about yourselves… despite some people being forced to be those things against their will or having no to little ability to change where they we from or what professions they got into. Or that names and terms change meaning constantly and it’s a futile attempt to give yourself an exception because it’s all about you, not about others… even though it is lol.
My high school mascot was the Indian, and after a lot of debate and pitches they decided to change it to Tribe. Because that’s better somehow.
Rival high school: the Greeks
the fucking turks
If that’s the face he makes while he’s fucking then I think he’s doing it wrong
I don’t think many actual Turkish people would be offended by this.
