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Related: About this forumRick Santorum says, “Friends don’t let friends use pink balls
Santorum tells young man not to use pink bowling ball on cameraYoure not gonna use the pink ball. Were not gonna let you do that. Not on camera, he said, according to Reuters reporter Sam Youngman.
Look at Ricky, saving the kid from being photographed with something pink! I mean, some people might see a male with a pink bowling ball and assume he's gay! Of course, anyone making that assumption is probably a bigot, but bigots are Rick's base, no?
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/28/santorum-tells-young-man-not-to-use-pink-bowling-ball-on-camera/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29
sakabatou
(42,180 posts)Skittles
(153,212 posts)misogyny is the root of homophobia
sakabatou
(42,180 posts)I've never bowled with a pink ball. Colored balls usually professional, right? The ones that aren't are usually black.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Pink Power!!!
HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)So do many of his coworkers. Oh, Ricky, get with the program. Real men can and do wear PINK. My lesbian daughter loves purple. I wear purple too. So what? Personally, as a straight woman I HATE pink. It looks terrible on me. Pink looks better on my husband than me.
JaneQPublic
(7,113 posts)And they're all career military types (one of whom is also a fundamentalist Christian). However, as such, they openly admit that they rely on their wives to pick out their clothes, because in the service they always got told what to wear.
When by chance a couple of them wore pink on the same day, they began joking that they'd designate one day/week as pink day!
When some other guys at work tried to make an issue of it, I told them not to think of it as pink, but "faded red," if it made them more comfortable.
Kablooie
(18,641 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)This is like that Hitler shampoo ad they were running in Turkey. And just think, people are voting for this wingnut.
cliffordu
(30,994 posts)not using them for procreation.
arbusto_baboso
(7,162 posts)He was 31 years in uniform, and part of MACV-SOG. He has absolutely nothing to prove to anyone about his masculinity, and if anyone implied he was gay or effeminate, he'd just laugh. Then he'd lecture that person about their assumptions and prejudices...
monmouth
(21,078 posts)obxhead
(8,434 posts)Journeyman
(15,042 posts)that, and the span of the finger holes, are the two most critical factors for a bowling ball, especially one you pull off the public rack.
Or maybe Santorum didn't want the guy using a "girl's color" and it had no significance beyond a residual childhood memory.
I know I for one am not going to be bothered by this.
Mopar151
(10,002 posts)The quickest and fastest street car in America is Larry Larson's Nova, seen here in it's original Pink. It's blue and silver as well, now, but still has a stripe of the original pink.
This thing is an f'n MISSLE! It has run 6.9 seconds @ 204 mph , and has done so several times as a winner of Hot Rod magazine's "Drag Week", where competitors run 5 different dragstrips in a week, driving between them on public roads - about 1000 miles - with NO support vehicles. Small trailers can be towed for tires, fuel, etc. Several magazine editors have driven the car on the street, and say that, once you get the hang of the 5-speed Lenco transmission's multiple shift levers, the car drives very well
It takes serious skill, and oversize titanium balls, to race this beast - calculations show 2300 hp at the wheels to run these speeds. Call big Larry a pantywaist, and he'll probably just laugh and go back to wrenching on a fellow competitor's car - the other thing he's known for on Drag Week
Shirley would likely slap little ricky into next week - she never was one to take crap from fools.
204 mph pass. The misfire (flames) at the start line control launch RPM and 'spool up" the twin turbos - much like rally car "anti-lag"
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)Seriously, is Rick a 5 year old boy in a grown man's body? This is the type of stuff I used to worry about when I was in kindergarten! He makes Romney seem sane.
brooklynite
(94,761 posts)I've been married for thirty years; I have three pink knit shirts and my dress shirts are every color of the rainbow.
jerseygal
(67 posts)in the closet. And not in yours. But in his.
Mr.Turnip
(645 posts)No one thinks about Balls as much as Rick Santorum!! I'm still waiting for the Santorum gay sex scandal to break out.