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Anon shares their highschool mascot

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works⁩ to ⁨greentext@sh.itjust.works⁩

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  • PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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?

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    • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      As an European, I can confirm that all Americans (south and north) are Yankee rednecks

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      • thefartographer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        As a Texan, I can’t read goddamn thing between my wild diabetes eyes and rampant illiteracy

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      • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Eastern European = Southern America.

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Hey, Yanks live in real America, those fake Americans to the north and south of us don’t qualify. They can be rednecks, but not Yanks.

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    • Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      As someone from the east side of the state, it definitely fits. Friends joke that I live in West Idaho.

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    • Crack0n7uesday@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Outside of Seattle/Tacoma, very redneck. Get up to the mountains and cattle farms.

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      • Numenor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Stripper coffee is where ladies strip? And there’s hot beverages?

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      • Default_Defect@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You don’t even have to go that far, I used to live in a coastal Navy town that had a meth problem. I bought my car from a dealership that got busted 6 months later. KFC is where they sold the meth that was cooked in the Ford dealership across the street. I almost miss Oak Harbor…

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      • PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Oh yeah, I’ve been around the country enough to know that anywhere outside of the city is Red, no matter what state you’re in, but “Redneck” just has a very specific southern connotation to me.

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Does it though? Like saying the Germantown school mascot should be the Krauts.

      Other Options:

      Viziers

      Janissaries

      Genies

      Bombards

      Footstools

      Instan-Bulls

      Harem Girls

      Mhmm

      Wait, what were we talking about again?

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      • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        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.

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      • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Janissaries

        When you want to make it even worse…

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    • FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      People always expect Oregon and Washington to be super liberal but once you leave the city it’s a bunch of hicks in the woods (respectfully)

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      • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I don’t even expect Portland to be super liberal. That city has a long history with the KKK.

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      • rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Pretty much the story of every blue state.

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    • Jackcooper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes, if you’re more than an hour from Seattle/ half an hour from Spokane you’re probably in redneck territory

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Can confirm. I grew up about 30 min from Seattle and was on the border of redneck territory. I played high school sports with schools out “in the country” and was able a 15 min drive from some ranches and whatnot.

        WA is a very weird place.

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    • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I believe it. Even here in California small mountain towns tend to lean heavily conservative

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    • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Five minutes out the cities or cross the mountains to the east or go on the peninsula or drive south or north…

      Puget Sound has population high density and mostly dominates the politics of the state.

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    • Paradachshund@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      My aunt lives in Sultan and all I can say is: yep.

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  • MrJameGumb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    the fucking turks

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    If that’s the face he makes while he’s fucking then I think he’s doing it wrong

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    • Shard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s the face he makes when doing yo momma!

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      • ModernEraCaveman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        nice, real’ classy

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    • turtlepower@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Maybe he’s the one getting fucked…

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    • thefartographer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Cuz, for some reason, he folds it in half before inserting it

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  • TubeTalkerX@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s nobody’s business but the Turks!

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    • No_Eponym@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Even old New York was once New Amsterdam.

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    • jorp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I feel like if an LLM spat this out every time the word “Turk” is mentioned they’d do a few more iterations before launch but in any comment thread on Reddit or Lemmy we get this wonderful reverse Turing test

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  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t think many actual Turkish people would be offended by this.

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    • tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Looks like Nasretin Hoca meets Sinbad. Then again, I see literally a “black beard” which I’m not going to translate here.

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  • kindatired@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    as a Turk, this is fucking awesome

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      We were the Trojans, which is basically just Turks as well.

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      • qyron@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        But “Trojans” can be very easily turned into a nasty joke. Funny, but nasty.

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  • mctoasterson@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So this dude knows why Constantinople got the works?

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    • nexguy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Even though it’s been a long time gone?

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      • Narauko@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yes, but he won’t tell you because it’s none of your business.

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  • theburninator@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We had a boring enough mascot, but my highschool had separate black and white homecoming kings & queens… In 1998.

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    • scoobford@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Pretty sure that was illegal at the time…

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      • roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        They’re usually done as private parties with invites required and off campus. That way you can’t sue the school.

        observer.com/…/prom-integration-dance-segregation…

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  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s fucking badass

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  • spicytuna62@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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.

      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?

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    • AppleTea@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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.

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      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        There’s also Catholic schools with crusaders which may be more concerning than the caricatures

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    • krush_groove@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      My catholic school growing up was the Wildcats. Every catholic school seemed to be called the Wildcats. Then I found out the city’s catholic high school has the Buttons as their mascot. The Central High School Buttons. San Antonio, TX.

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  • Mortimus@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh it can be worse… ccamuseum.org/1981-the-pekin-chinks-high-school-t…

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    • Classy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh my god, I was born in Pekin, though I never spent any time there. That’s fucking nuts

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      • Reddfugee42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        It’s totarry clazy

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    • Faresh@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Huh. lemmy.ml also censors links, it seems. This is what I see:

      ccamuseum.org/1981-the-pekin-*removed*-high-schoo…

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      • Mortimus@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Didn’t know it censored, but the censored item is a racial slur so that makes sense. Prolly have to search pekin high school becomes pekin dragons

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Rhymes with links.

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  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Imagine if Turkish people really existed. Wouldn’t that be wild?

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nah, only Turkish delight exists.

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  • AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Rival high school: the Greeks

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  • randon31415@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Are they young? Do they dress in suits and chase Cloud Strife?

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  • Telodzrum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Were you allowed to rock the Casbah?

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  • Grayox@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Would be amazing if Their mascot was Hasanabi

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  • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Mine was the eagles. Pretty boring!

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Eagles rock.

      We were the Trojans, which is a fancy way of saying Turks from a specific region.

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      • JamesStallion@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You keep saying that, but it is very much not true.

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  • Turd_Ferg@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I dont get it, can someone ELI5?

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    • blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s politically incorrect to use a group of people as a mascot. This mostly gained momentum after an NFL team called the Redskins started getting flak for basically using a derogatory name for native americans as a mascot.

      The pendulum kept swinging and it removed even non-derogatory names as mascots.

      So even though a legitimate name used to represent badasses on a tema where you’re supposed to win constantly to prove how great you are somehow got shut down.

      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.

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      • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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      • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        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.

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      • Turd_Ferg@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That makes sense, the pc police havent had anything to complain about lately. Ew its so offensive.

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  • BruceLee@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So what is the problem? Is anon some kind of prod racist or what?

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  • pb42184@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This looks like fighting Turks. Fucking Turks would be different

    …I think?

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  • CuttingBoard@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I may have graduated from this high school…

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