Irish Car Bombs are pretty popular year round here in Boston. smdh.
Well that's where they got the money from to make them in the first place, so fair enough
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
There are still biases against some "white" people though, Whiney! I grew up in an area that had a huge Italian immigration period around 1900 and still had a fairly entrenched Italian community -- Italian community center, festivals, kids in high school who had "proud to be Italian" t-shirts and all that shit. Not so much the Jersey Shore parody of it, but definitely from the same place, culturally.
To be fair the bias against that group was more rooted in the fact that some members of the community were complete assholes, the "Italians are better than everyone else" attitude is kind of an ugly personality flaw, and there seemed to be a pervasive bias against more recent Hispanic immigrants when their families were only a couple generations removed from migrants themselves.
OK, I admit it, I'm racist against Italians :(
― mh, Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
comeback about him being german but i couldn't think of anything that didn't involve accusing him of mass murder
People do make comments about that ALL the fucking time and, OK, fair enough. It does get pretty annoying though when you realize how often people do it. You know what else was really annoying? When kids drew swastikas in my 5th grade year book because they thought it was "funny".
― ENBB, Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
"hippie style" is pretty safe for that manner of sitting
― omar little, Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
yeah tbf i'm not buying wgw's outlook on eg irish slurs tbph
― (govtname)mac (darraghmac), Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
if they knew what was up they would have drawn a German tourist wearing socks with sandals
x-post
― mh, Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
I used to have a "I'm not only perfect, I'm Italian!" shirt that I bout in Little Italy years and years ago. I am not Italian.
― ENBB, Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
x-post - and small funy colorful glasses
funny
― ENBB, Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
I was a weird kid... I always knew it as "half-lotus"
― Frobisher (Viceroy), Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
i mean, 'run the world' we don't even run the 75% of our country the british didn't want ffs
― (govtname)mac (darraghmac), Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
is hating 3rd gen italian americans really racist?
― iatee, Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
I believe I was instructed to sit "cross-legged"
not sure where applesauce comes into it, unless they're serving pork chops
― mh, Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
i always knew of germans as goofy drunkards, like the irish (according to single panel comics)
― omar little, Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
some kids can't eat pork chops mh
― iatee, Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
x-post - dats me
― ENBB, Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
― iatee, Thursday, January 19, 2012 11:29 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I think it's mosty just very anti-Long Island.
Oh, man, my family was stationed in Germany from 1976-79, so we moved there when I was nearly 7 and my sister was 9. We lived off-post in a high-rise apartment leased by the Army from the local government.
Anyway, we interacted a lot with the local German kids in the neighborhood, and one day my sister got in a shouting match with some boy, and, having vaguely heard the word and knowing it had something to do with Germany, called him a Nazi. I have never seen a fistfight between two kids start so quickly. My dad had to come downstairs and separate them!
― Famous porn scenes like "shake that bear" (Phil D.), Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
I think that in larger cities where haven't moved around and still have ethnic family roots, there's still a racism or at least bias of sorts among groups. I think it's partially a leftover strong pride that was useful in the face of real discrimination in the past, but now has turned more into a persecution complex that causes the behavior to come on to strong and, paradoxically, cause people to be looked on in a negative way because they're overreacting to a perceived bias.
― mh, Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
i miss the days when we were all goofy drunkards, the white man got us with his promises of untold wealth and now we're all joyless coke-snorting architects
― (govtname)mac (darraghmac), Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
for years i knew nothing about the nazis except they seemed to hate singing and wanted to steal antiquities
― omar little, Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
x-post - Yeah. The only time I know of that my dad actually punched someone out was when a guy called him a Nazi directly to his face. He knocked that fucker down fast.
― ENBB, Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
There are more "German Americans" than any other kind of American though
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
"Well, ___________ are the blacks of Europe" = "Hey, want to watch me lose an argument?"
― deltron the escape g.o.a.t. (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
It was crazy. It was like someone had shot a crazed chimp out of a cannon at my sister's face.
― Famous porn scenes like "shake that bear" (Phil D.), Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
And we're all like "Go for the eyes, Fritz!"
HAHAHAHAHA!
x-post Maybe in the Mid-west but not around where I grew up and not necessarily ones actually from there.
― ENBB, Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
I pretty much grew up thinking everyone was literally either Irish, Italian or Jewish.
I'm of German heritage obv, and I would seriously need a fuckin reality check if i got IRL upset at someone calling me a Nazi
― deltron the escape g.o.a.t. (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
Whiney. You're not actually from Germany. I think that makes a big difference.
― ENBB, Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
heritage != nationality != race tho
― (govtname)mac (darraghmac), Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
troo
― deltron the escape g.o.a.t. (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
dying @ whiney rn
― tyga mother (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
so can I just ask if there was any intentional irony in the "pork chop" digression upthread, because that's a slur against Portuguese people
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
rn?
― deltron the escape g.o.a.t. (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:40 (twelve years ago) link
right now
― ENBB, Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:40 (twelve years ago) link
okay lol i have never heard of 'pork chop' being used as a term for portuguese ppl? please tell me that's a joke dan
― i think this is serious (elmo argonaut), Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
when i worked with a crew of dutch/italian/english guys, it's fair to say you wouldn't be taking huge offence at the ethnic slurs tbf
― (govtname)mac (darraghmac), Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I'm wondering about pork chop too
REALLY?!
― ENBB, Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
what wd be a dutch slur? "lol you like weed and porn"??
― the smell of Whiney's cheap perfume (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
last time i fought with nv was about gypsy/romany stuff iirv
― (govtname)mac (darraghmac), Thursday, January 19, 2012 4:07 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
bit of a debate as i recall back in the heady days before My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding put an end to discrimination here in the UK
― the smell of Whiney's cheap perfume (Noodle Vague), Thursday, January 19, 2012 4:10 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
^
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
Yes, the English have to endure so many ethnic slurs
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.caffeinenebula.com/quizzes/quizFiles/doug/porkchop.jpg
― deltron the escape g.o.a.t. (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
'lol the germans kicked ur merchant arses' tbh
― (govtname)mac (darraghmac), Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
once, my grandma's friend served us potatoes and sausages and called it krauts and micks. tasty, and offensive.
― rocognise gnome (remy bean), Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
"go find a prostitute, rutger"
― omar little, Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
i got clogs, tulips and windmills and that's me done
― the smell of Whiney's cheap perfume (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/12/04/sports/main3573855.shtmlhttp://www.chacha.com/question/why-is-pork-chop-a-racial-slur-against-portuguese
more links here: https://www.google.com/search?q=pork%2Bchop%2Bslur&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&client=firefox-a&safe=active
includes the ever amazing Racial Slur Database: http://gyral.blackshell.com/names.html
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
This thread is moving rather fast, but re: not knowing the connotations of stuff like "uppity", I remember being told off for using "inscrutable" about someone who was Japanese - my mind was blown that this was a *thing* but I never used it again.
― emil.y, Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
I can't think of a Dutch slur tbh. 'Cheeseheads' is what the Krauts call us tho ;)
― I certainly wouldn't have, but hey. (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 19 January 2012 16:44 (twelve years ago) link