Teabagging

[Lemur]

I'm sorry to bring it up again, but I just can't stop laughing. Every time some red-faced, sweaty person yells about "teabagging" I burst into a fit of schoolgirl-worthy giggles. They really, truly don't know what it means.

Watch this clip and try not to laugh. When Ms. Cox starts going on about "Who wouldn't want to teabag John McCain?" you have to made of stone to not emit a chuckle, if not a guffaw.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

I managed to hold on until she said "Stormfront endorses teabagging."

[Lemur]

"You could say that there's a split between the teabags. The social teabaggers and the fiscal teabaggers are really starting to move apart from each other."

Can't see ... laughing too hard ... tears streaming down cheeks ....

[Tribesman]

Come on Lemur , you knew the very vocal "republicans" were really hiding some little sexual quirk , now they are out of the stress of running up huge defecits they can finally teabag to their hearts content as a way to empty the heavy load from their sack of despair .

[HoreTore]

I'm confused. What other things than the one involving testicles does "teabagging" mean?

And what do people think they mean when they say "teabag"?

[seireikhaan]

Don't forget that a good teabag is an excellent complement to one's breakfast. Always a guarantee to perk one up in the morning.

[Lemur]

And what do people think they mean when they say "teabag"?

Here's a website for the teabag movement. From the site (try not to laugh when you read the words, "Need a Tea Bag? We'll Send You One!"):

What are we protesting, exactly?

There are so many things that could be protested that it is hard to settle on any single one. Here's a partial list of some candidate issues. Choose the ones that matter to you, and write to your representative about them.

• Forced bailout of mortgages for those who made bad or risky investment choices by those who were more careful.
• Massive federal spending on government social programs that are likely to become entrenched interests.
• Increasing taxes on small businesses and their owners, who are the engine of the economy.
• Massive deficit spending that will take many generations to recover from.
• Ineffective throwing of hundreds of billions at financial institutions with no discernable positive result.
• Reduction of tax breaks for home mortgages and charitable contributions.
• Not allowing details of "spendulous" plans to be seen, read and comprehended prior to a vote.
• Massive "Cap and Tax" on the same kind of air molecules that we breathe out every few seconds.
• Wealth transfer that discourages industry and promotes laziness.
• Lack of concern for the trillions of dollars of personal savings that is being lost in the stock market.

Fox News is promoting the events heavily, and Glenn Beck's 912 project is somehow tied into it. Pardon me if I'm not 100% on how all of this fits together, but the movement itself seems a bit chaotic. As you would expect from a bunch of teabaggers.

Here's a video of a teabag meeting (posted it in another thread, but it deserves to be viewed again).

Also, if you watch the hi-freakin'-larious video in the OP, you'll hear a pretty good summation of why all of these people are engaging in mutual teabagging.

[Xiahou]

I'm confused. What other things than the one involving testicles does "teabagging" mean?

And what do people think they mean when they say "teabag"?

As far as I know, the only people calling it "teabag" parties or "teabagging" with any sort of regularity is Maddow herself. The protesters themselves are referencing the Boston Tea Party by calling their gatherings "tea parties".

Her news show is a joke, so if she gets a good chuckle out of mischaracterizing the protests, good for her.

[Tribesman]

I'm confused. What other things than the one involving testicles does "teabagging" mean?

Well thats because you get confused with history , back in the early 1900s the colonials had this kinda revolution where they did a pre-emptive strike against the evil King George V before he gained the throne as a protest about the invention of tea bags , they rebeled against the tyranny of the German royals . The introduction of the tea bag had given rise to doubts about the percolative effects of the bag on the tea which might weaken the resolve of the american colonial upstarts in the morning withtheir cuppa . They bravely rallied round the table cloth and said no percolation without representation and tipped the offending tea into Boston harbour , unfortunately after they won their heroic struggle their new leaders under the malignant influence of the vested interests of the bevarage industry sold out the revolution and convinced the people to have coffee instead , which of course has that evil percolation thing with it .

[Crazed Rabbit]

I'm sorry to bring it up again, but I just can't stop laughing. Every time some red-faced, sweaty person yells about "teabagging" I burst into a fit of schoolgirl-worthy giggles. They really, truly don't know what it means.

Watch this clip and try not to laugh. When Ms. Cox starts going on about "Who wouldn't want to teabag John McCain?" you have to made of stone to not emit a chuckle, if not a guffaw.

Why, exactly, must we let every vulgar pop-culture meaning dominate discussion?

Since when does a news network air a segment that's based solely on making fun of widespread protests by changing the name (from tea parties to 'tea bagging') and then laughing at the vulgar double meaning? Is that supposed to make me laugh and inspire confidence in the direction of discourse in this country?

Instead, we have here a national news network anchor laughing at a widespread movement against increasing government by using a term connected to what the organizers are using. They're using that to ridicule and dismiss these people without even touching on the issues.

Sure, I'll laugh a bit at the people who actually say they're going to 'tea bag' people. But it just isn't that funny if this sort of discussion is what dominates.

Ladies and (especially) gentlemen, I give you Phil Gingrey (R) of Georgia, holding up his teabags on Fox News. No wonder he looks pleased.

He said he's holding tea bags. Give me a ******* break. He didn't even say he was going to tea bag anyone or go tea bagging. He said he had tea bags. Can a person now never even refer to the ************* containers of tea without some snarky jerk laughing? Are we in middle school?

I'm getting sick of letting every urban dictionary definition, or anything close to an urban dictionary term, dominate discourse like this. But instead of having a short laugh, we have national networks and liberal blogs aiming to take down a whole movement.

I'd call them the American Al-Jazeera, but that would be degrading to Al-Jazeera, which sucks up most of its staff from the BBC anyway. Maybe the American Pravda?

Pravda, arm of the state? How could you miss the network you linked in the OP, msnbc?

CR

[a completely inoffensive name]

CR, I sympathize with the statement they are trying to make, but even I can laugh at this.

[Fragony]

So teabagging isn't humping the corpse of the clueless newbie you just fragged

[CountArach]

Oh my god Lemur, that is gold!

[Lemur]

I'm getting sick of letting every urban dictionary definition, or anything close to an urban dictionary term, dominate discourse like this.

Indeed, I am sick and tired of my workplace hand-safety campaign, "Americans Against Fingerbanging", being mocked on the interwebs. And what about that wonderful group, the Motorway and Interstate Law Forum? Why does everyone titter when I say that I'm going to meet with my MILFs?

Disgraceful. What is this world coming to?

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Indeed, I am sick and tired of my workplace hand-safety campaign, "Americans Against Fingerbanging", being mocked on the interwebs. And what about that wonderful group, the Motorway and Interstate Law Forum? Why does everyone titter when I say that I'm going to meet with my MILFs?

Disgraceful. What is this world coming to?

Any time now, some enterprising searcher for recreational internet "video" will input the term MILF and tumble across this thread as one of the "hits." No doubt he'll be disappointed that you didn't provide a linkee to the Motorway homepage.

[Gregoshi]

Then I'll just add the word Halo to this thread so we get some hits for those "halo + teabagging" searches. Here's an Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 thrown in for good measure. Wii, this is fun.

On topic: actually, I think the Republicans are just sandbagging at the moment...which sounds a lot more painful than teabaggin'.

[Lemur]

I hate to burst anyone's bubbles, but to the best of my knowledge Google does not index the Backroom. It's invite-only, so their spiders can't crawl back here.

There is no way to search the Backroom. People never believe this, but it's true. If you want to find an old thread you have to do it the old-fashioned way, page by painful page.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Indeed, I am sick and tired of my workplace hand-safety campaign, "Americans Against Fingerbanging", being mocked on the interwebs. And what about that wonderful group, the Motorway and Interstate Law Forum? Why does everyone titter when I say that I'm going to meet with my MILFs?

By ignoring all of his post except that specific part you seem to have just proven his point...

[Lemur]

By ignoring all of his post except that specific part you seem to have just proven his point...

Would it be safe to say he teabagged me?

[KukriKhan]

It would be safe, in my little deluded world, to think that 'teabagging' and 'MILF', terms now accepted for usage in my politics-religion-and-culture-backroom...

were tolerated. And laughable.

But hey, I'm just an old guy, out of touch with the cool, hip kids.

Next up: 'corn-hole-ing', 'douche-ing', 'felch-ing'. Hey, It was on TV, so it must be OK, right?











I accept my deserved warning points, standing.

[Strike For The South]

You're supposed to do this to women? Well...heh....ohhhhhhh

[Veho Nex]

Lol Teabag obama.