LawTalkers - Making a buck cleaning Lester's spittle trays on Sequels' 22-year old supermodel abs

Originally posted by ironweed

Spain and Latin America are some of the most racist places on earth. The UK and Ireland win no prizes for racial sensitivity either, now that you mention it (and I'm sure you did). And when you try to call someone on their stupid bullshit they laugh you off for being a typical P.C. American. But the Spainiards - ai yi yi dios mio.

Americans aren't nearly as racist as cab drivers.

paigowprincess

06-02-2005 04:32 PM

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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Is this confirmation that if mmmm spends more time in the Deep South he'll be as big a twat as you?

eta: no insult intended to mmmmm. His last post on the subject was thoughtful and considered, unlike the general bitch-fest that seems to have been unleashed on him by those who seem to think they know everything about his life, including where he has lived, from seeing him on a chatboard.

There are still plenty of nasty, vicious, racist and homophobic comments made, and that's true in the Deep South and in San Francisco and in every place that is geographically or culturally in between. (Yes, in San Francisco. Homophobes tend to get nastier when thay are closer to gay people.) But to suggest that it is exactly at the same level as it used to be is, in my view, unrealistic.

After all these years, I am really starting to like the cut of your jib.

dtb	06-02-2005 04:35 PM

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Originally posted by ironweed
Spain and Latin America are some of the most racist places on earth. The UK and Ireland win no prizes for racial sensitivity either, now that you mention it (and I'm sure you did). And when you try to call someone on their stupid bullshit they laugh you off for being a typical P.C. American. But the Spainiards - ai yi yi dios mio.

Tell me about it.

My Bolivian babysitter (US citizen, but born in Bolivia, has lived here 35+ years, and knows absolutely NO English) said to me (to ME!!) the other day, "Hmmph. The Jews run this city." I forget what context it came up in; I think it may have been during Passover, and so there weren't many people on the subway or something (she didn't consider that it was also spring break in the public schools). Anyway, I looked at her in utter disbelief and said, "What?!?" She quickly backed away from that statement.

Unbelievable.

The most ignorant comment I have ever been witness to, however, was the one from another babysitter (this one from Ecuador) when she commended me on my insistence on purchasing organic milk to avoid the hormones that are in non-organic milk. The reason? Because the hormones in non-organic milk can make your sons gay. Yes. You read that correctly.

edited to fix the quote tag by the always cheerful Not Boberino

futbol fan

06-02-2005 04:36 PM

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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Americans aren't nearly as racist as cab drivers.

That's because the cab drivers are all half-Irish/Columbian mongrels, full of small-minded xenophobic hate and savage bitterness.

taxwonk

06-02-2005 04:37 PM

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
Are you sure the little slut-to-be doesn't have Tourette's?

Or maybe she's just a retard?

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)

06-02-2005 04:38 PM

Eureka!

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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Wouldn't the sucker-things hurt?

I would think they could be deployed to great effect. Still have to watch out for hairy nipples, though.

paigowprincess

06-02-2005 04:43 PM

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Originally posted by ABBAKiss
I am continually amazed by the people here in the Midwest who don't realize that phrases like "jewing down the price" or "we got gypped" are ethnic slurs.

In 1994, when I lived in Spain, I was explaining to a friend about how I had to carry laundry for a considerable distance and that is why my shoulder ached and he said, "Debes comprar un negro." I was utterly floored.

I have never heard thsi term "jewing down the price" Must be a patch a la Grammy Hall thing.

ANd I always thought it was "jipped" so no clue it was a slur as I have never seen it in writing. Is this to say that gypsies tend to get screwed? I am not familiar with the gypsy stereotypes, other than they are a nomadic people. Muchy like Lester.

ltl/fb

06-02-2005 04:44 PM

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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
I would think they could be deployed to great effect. Still have to watch out for hairy nipples, though.

Why? Because they'd interfere with effective suction?

paigowprincess

06-02-2005 04:45 PM

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ltl/fb

06-02-2005 04:48 PM

simple solution

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Originally posted by Flinty_McFlint
I just hate everybody. It's much easier that way.

Me too! Even people who are great lays.

I used to have a great Calvin & Hobbes cartoon about how people suck. Loved it. That was the pre-antidepressant portion of my life.

ABBAKiss

06-02-2005 04:49 PM

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Originally posted by paigowprincess
gypsy stereotypes

Nomadic thieves and hustlers.

paigowprincess

06-02-2005 04:50 PM

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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I rarely (except on these boards) hear people make fun of people with disabilities. That is why I asked my initial question yesterday, in fact (which started this thread). Not saying this to be argumentative*, but it is true. Maybe I've lived in bastions of disability rights enlightenment.

*everyone here knows, of course, that I would never do that.

I like to go up to blind people standing at bus stops and give them rabbit ears. They never know!

Hank Chinaski

06-02-2005 04:51 PM

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Originally posted by ABBAKiss
Nomadic thieves and hustlers.

the gypsy mom in Cher's song was a prostitute.

lookingformarket

06-02-2005 04:51 PM

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Originally posted by paigowprincess