that show the riches w/ minnie driver + eddie izzard was about travellers
― Mordy, Thursday, January 19, 2012 3:09 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
HOLY SHIT YOU'RE RIGHT
― ENBB, Thursday, 19 January 2012 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
That's why they had such funny accents! I remember thinking that they just had bad ones at the time but now that I know what travellers sound like I realize that's what they were doing. Woah. I wish I knew then what I know know. Maybe I could have watched more than 2 eps.
― ENBB, Thursday, 19 January 2012 20:13 (twelve years ago) link
WGW, I'm not entirely sure anybody would be telling any other people were your hypothesis true.
However, I should probably butt out of this since I am a Britishes.
― Sugary pee is not normal (aldo), Thursday, 19 January 2012 20:14 (twelve years ago) link
Mitt Romani
― gnome (remy bean), Thursday, 19 January 2012 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
there's literally no way his iPhone corrects a word in merriam websters to the most offensive word in the english language
― deltron the escape g.o.a.t. (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 19 January 2012 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
http://c.cslacker.com/8009l.jpg
― pplains, Thursday, 19 January 2012 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
seriously dude is either a) a dude who types n-bombs all dayb) a liar who's trying to get on Damn You Autocorrectc) someone trying to pass off South Park bits as his own original comedy
no matter what, this dude basically sucks imo
― deltron the escape g.o.a.t. (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 19 January 2012 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
x-post - hahahaha
― ENBB, Thursday, 19 January 2012 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
okay nobody cares about this autocorrect controversy
― iatee, Thursday, 19 January 2012 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
true
― ENBB, Thursday, 19 January 2012 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l9rxafmE0W1qakobno1_500.jpg
Seems like a riff on this tbh.
― Seriously, who votes for Drake? (Nicole), Thursday, 19 January 2012 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
xp why can't you just call yourself "nomadic"
― Bruce K. Tedesco (zachlyon), Thursday, 19 January 2012 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
no madd doggie
― (govtname)mac (darraghmac), Thursday, 19 January 2012 20:24 (twelve years ago) link
I mean, when people in North America are talking to other people in North America about "gypsies" and they have no idea it's a real people, and there's no ill intent, etc. then it's not really a big deal. I just kind of think the world is a little smaller than it used to be and stuff like this looks really glaring when brought to light.
Over lunch I mentioned this thread to my friend and she said that one of her coworkers, an acquaintance of mine, said "jewed" as a verb in front of her a while ago and then looked really anxious and sheepish. My friend is Jewish. It just like... didn't occur, and then it did. But if you lived in a small town and never knew anyone Jewish and Jews were kind of these people who lived in big cities and that you learn about in history class....
― mh, Thursday, 19 January 2012 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
btw ENBB I bet you've seen bad "gypsy" stereotypes in film, especially if you've seen the Guy Ritchie film "Snatch"
although they were called "pikeys" which is just another slur for romani or irish travelers...
― mh, Thursday, 19 January 2012 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
Holy hell this thread. It took me 10 minutes to fully skim it while eating my lunch.
I thought w/ the ton of new posts it would be a clusterfuck, but it seems like it's all pretty cool (w/ a notable exception....)
― Je55e, Thursday, 19 January 2012 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
brad pitt's pretty great in snatch fwiw, tho yes everyone in that movie is a terrible criminally minded cliché, including, i'd point out, anyone from london and several orthodox jews
― (govtname)mac (darraghmac), Thursday, 19 January 2012 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
One of my college roommates went on a cross-country thing with her Hebrew school and they made several stops along the way. Some place (I can't remember where right now and I really really wish I could) someone she met, upon learning she was Jewish, asked her where her horns were. They really truly believed that Jewish people actually had horns and since Jen was the first Jewish person she had met she wanted to see them. ._.
― ENBB, Thursday, 19 January 2012 20:34 (twelve years ago) link
that's the kind of story i daren't believe
― (govtname)mac (darraghmac), Thursday, 19 January 2012 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
MH - I've actually never seen Snatch. I heard Pikey a lot while living in England but I always thought it sort of meant something similar to "Chav". I didn't realize it was gypsy/traveller specific.
― ENBB, Thursday, 19 January 2012 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
x-post - Dude, I swear that is real. They asked where her fucking horns were. O_O
― ENBB, Thursday, 19 January 2012 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
holy shit, where was that??
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Thursday, 19 January 2012 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
i mean, geographically
xxp to ENBB, I believe it's true. my family has a few stories like that :/
― Mordy, Thursday, 19 January 2012 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
pikey can be used as a 'chav' type slur, but only because you're comparing somebody to a traveller iykwim
I don't know about Darragh but I've personally had to yell at black kids
fwiw, on record, i've never had to yell at a black kid, though tbf i'm not exactly living in a hugely ethnically-diverse area of the world
― (govtname)mac (darraghmac), Thursday, 19 January 2012 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
jewhorns, ffs
i've had yanks ask me about leprechauns, i assumed they were all joking but yknow man, yanks, who can tell
Goole - I don't remember! Somewhere in the US on this cross-country trip.
― ENBB, Thursday, 19 January 2012 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
when i was in ireland a dude asked me if i knew mike tyson
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Thursday, 19 January 2012 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
I don't know if I actually yelled but I definitely raised my voice to a group of kids who weren't paying attention or following directions when I volunteered at the Boys & Girls Club.
― mh, Thursday, 19 January 2012 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
i guess that is objectively possible tho so point for ireland there.
xp
Some friends are pretty sure Ron Paul is a leprechaun due to some of his facial features and his strong interest in gold, but that's neither here nor there.
― mh, Thursday, 19 January 2012 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
btw with the gypsy thing: probably important to remember that a big reason there aren't many gypsy/roma people around for this issue to be more prevalent is that a huge amount of their population was wiped out by the nazis. relevant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porajmos
― Bruce K. Tedesco (zachlyon), Thursday, 19 January 2012 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
This is going way back but re:
Severance agreement review
Fuck. That's what's in my clipboard, not Dan's quote from way way back ;__;
ANYWAY: As an American, I really should have fucking known better than to call a black person a monkey.
― Je55e, Thursday, 19 January 2012 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
wrt "pikey" : "In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, the definition became even looser and is sometimes used to refer to a wide section of the (generally urban) underclass of the country (in England generally known as chavs), or merely a person of any social class who "lives on the cheap" such as a bohemian". - Guess that's the gypsy link.
- Think that's mostly the context I have heard it in. Things (and not just people) can be Pikey too, right? Like Spar for instance - You could call Spar pikey?
― ENBB, Thursday, 19 January 2012 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
and holy shit with the jew horns thing. i didn't even know about that thing until i was like 17 or 18, and i always thought it was a joke. if someone had said that to me when i was younger, i have no idea how i would've responded
― Bruce K. Tedesco (zachlyon), Thursday, 19 January 2012 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
I've seen a Jew's Harp, but never the horn.
(Unless we're talking about Artie Shaw.)
― pplains, Thursday, 19 January 2012 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
hell no i wouldn't call spar pikey spar is the fuckin business
― (govtname)mac (darraghmac), Thursday, 19 January 2012 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
it comes from here:
http://www.truthcontrol.com/files/truthcontrol/images/3717.jpg
― Mordy, Thursday, 19 January 2012 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
x-post yeah my first real experience learning about the Romani people was when I ended up picking this book for a book report in middle school:http://www.amazon.com/Violins-Stopped-Playing-Story-Holocaust/dp/0531150283
― mh, Thursday, 19 January 2012 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
x-post lol :)
Not advocating calling things (or people!) pikey or chavy btw just checking.
― ENBB, Thursday, 19 January 2012 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
biblical mistranslation of the word 'keren' on michelangelo's part
― Mordy, Thursday, 19 January 2012 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
I honestly didn't know about the jew horns thing until she told me that story!!
― ENBB, Thursday, 19 January 2012 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
And I must have been about 20 at the time. I think the incident happened to her when she was in HS. :/
Huh. A friend just made us reservations for this
http://ih.constantcontact.com/fs057/1102741444543/img/20.jpg
― Je55e, Thursday, 19 January 2012 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
and holy shit with the jew horns thing. i didn't even know about that thing until i was like 17 or 18, and i always thought it was a joke.
I literally learned that just this minute. And I hadn't heard the slur "jewed down" until I was 18.
― Let A Man Come In And Do The Cop Porn (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 19 January 2012 20:51 (twelve years ago) link
and now i'm reading all this stuff about gypsies, and i find this bullshit: http://www.retronaut.co/2011/10/the-new-gypsies/
useful words in the comments section from a roma perspective (Germaine de Pibrac James): Dressing up and calling yourself Gypsy is just as offensive, most especially in light of the the thousands who died in the camps and the many who continue to suffer from human rights abuses such as forced sterilization, false imprisonment, denial of education and access to housing and work and the most basic necessities of life.
― Bruce K. Tedesco (zachlyon), Thursday, 19 January 2012 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zKDjcLXZBTI/SkiZpO77LOI/AAAAAAAACvE/ueapIHpB8BE/s400/041i_Auricularia_cornea_Jelly_ear_fungus.jpg
auricularia cornea aka jews ears
― Mordy, Thursday, 19 January 2012 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
I enjoy this thread in a way, but it always reminds me how crazy fucked-up and racist parts of my growing up were.
― pplains, Thursday, 19 January 2012 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
speaks a country boy
― the smell of Whiney's cheap perfume (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 19 January 2012 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
Law & Order SVU had an episode with a Roma family just this season!
― mh, Thursday, 19 January 2012 20:58 (twelve years ago) link