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everytime someone says/c&p's that i think "you've never heard the n-word?"

the n word spelled itis

This is literally the first time I've heard "itis" or its etymological parent

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 22:31 (21 minutes ago)

― (govtname)mac (darraghmac), Wednesday, January 18, 2012 11:58 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i thought everyone watched Chappelle, if you believe J0rdan S

talk of "the itis" is weird, because chapelle's show was where i first heard the contracted version and learned that it meant food coma.

when i was a teen, certain kids used the uncontracted version as a way of describing the (presumed) general laziness of black people.

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"sophisticated" doesn't mean "hard to get," frogbs. thats something Community fans tell themselves while polishing the jizz and beard hair off their mensa cards

tis true, but it still smacks of something that people say to make their favorite shows appear more important than they actually were

I mean Chappelle's show has been eulogized and jizzed over so much since it went off the air that its almost jarring to watch it now and think "wait, this was it?", it's like calling Arrested Development "the smartest sitcom of all time" because it had better gay jokes

I'm not saying that Chappelle Show wasn't wildly hit or miss; because man, when that show was OFF, ugh. Plus it was like 90% filler, musical guests, commercials, bumpers and talking

it's like calling Arrested Development "the smartest sitcom of all time" because it had better gay jokes

uh p sure that was frasier tbf

Right, I mean one of the things I remember most about Chappelle's show is how little content there actually was. I swear it had more commercials than any other show on the network. Its even worse now since entire sketches are built on premises that only really worked in 2003/2004. I get that it seemed to deal with race better than most but it still made a lot of the same jokes everyone else was.

thread needs more jizz

whiney using omg BEARDS as shorthand for "the worst kind of people in the world" is like watching a guy attempt a shooting spree and putting a bullet into his own leg

i think neck beards is implied

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I am p surprised that ppl didn't know what the itis comes from. I think chapelle was maybe where I first heard it but have always known it from that meaning. Never heard anyone say it irl unless they meant it in that context. Nb most of the times I have heard it irl involved the kids I used to work with who used it more broadly just to mean laziness but not nec food induced.

I don't know any black ppl tbh

Never heard 'itis' either. I got a kindle for Christmas and the first (free) book I downloaded was a genteel war-time British murder mystery with the actual n-bomb in there clear as day, it properly took me aback. Lol Agatha Christie.

Holy shit @ "itis."

I had ZERO clue.

I have used that word, but I'm pretty sure it started when I changed the words to the Happy Mondays song "Lazyitis."

I'm reviewing my 20s and 30s trying to remember if I've used that word in front of any black people b/c it's bad enough that I said it in my family.

A few years ago I waited tables w/ a black girl. One evening our boss made her come in for her shift despite having a bad cold. While we were waiting to be sat she was sniffling and hacking and looking really miserable, so to show sympathy, I said, "Aww, who's a sick monkey?" and for a minute she rallied enough to set me straight about racist connotations of certain terms.

I honest to God had no idea that I was saying something racially charged. My mom called me a monkey, a friend and I sometimes affectionately called each other monkeys, and just never occurred to me that it might not always be OK to say.

It turned out OK. I apologized till I almost puked and told her I was a fucking oblivious jackass, and she didn't hold it against me, but fuck, what a stupid blind spot.

the first (free) book I downloaded was a genteel war-time British murder mystery with the actual n-bomb in there clear as day, it properly took me aback. Lol Agatha Christie.

― kinder, Wednesday, January 18, 2012 5:32 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

original title of and then there were none = ten little n-bombs. no lie! was published in the UK under that title until the late 70s.

Je55e's story is like the IRL version of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0R3OjMcOqg

When I was a server in college I kept hearing a couple of my coworkers talk about the "Canadians" seated in their section, usually in a negative light. The first couple times I was genuinely confused, but didn't ask because I was new to the job and a little shy. Anyway, a couple days later one of these same guys came up to me and goes, "you're new, I had the hostess move that table of Canadians to your section, they don't tip for shit". Once I walked out to the floor I saw that it was an oh so charming code for "black people". Reason #1,434 why central Illinois sucks.

Cant say I have ever in my life heard the "itis" phrase, not once, would have had no clue what it meant, but *might* have at least inferred close to it if I'd ever seen that Chapelle Show skit, which I havent (never seen any of that show tbh)

I haven't seen that Clerks scene in forever. I'd forgotten that his grandmother called him that. And Wanda Sykes!

Besides my being dumb I offer as an explanation the fact that I grew up near the Canadian border in Minnesota and Montana and the first time I ever met a black person was when visiting pastor came to our church when I was 11 or 12.

jvc, people in NC said that too.

chapelle show was not a very good show just fyi

it was a very, very flawed show that occasionally had some of the best comedy ever on tv.

http://gasface.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/breast-milk.jpg

'one hot skit every ten episode average'

the unfunny things were so unfunny that it made me suspicious of the funny things

one to ten ratio seems about right

a friend was born in a very small and almost exclusively white/hispanic town, and i am told by her mother that upon first seeing a black person, in a supermarket at the approximate age of four, she shrieked, pointed and loudly asked "what's wrong with that lady?" plus exclamation points. her mom had to explain that there were black people. the lady in question was allegedly cool about it.

not sure i believe this, but it's freaky either way.

yeah i had no idea that "uppity" was racially charged at all, we've been using that word for years but hey it happens

the difference is most ppl would change their behavior

yeah i had no idea that "uppity" was racially charged at all, we've been using that word for years but hey it happens

― frogbs

yeah i had no idea that "uppity" was racially charged at all, we've been using that word for years but hey it happens

― frogbs

yeah i had no idea that "uppity" was racially charged at all, we've been using that word for years but hey it happens

― frogbs

yeah i had no idea that "uppity" was racially charged at all, we've been using that word for years but hey it happens

― frogbs

yeah i had no idea that "uppity" was racially charged at all, we've been using that word for years but hey it happens

― frogbs

yeah i had no idea that "uppity" was racially charged at all, we've been using that word for years but hey it happens

― frogbs

yeah i had no idea that "uppity" was racially charged at all, we've been using that word for years but hey it happens

― frogbs

Wait - "uppity" what? Is this a joke or am I missing something here? idgi.

Wanda Sykes in that scene was prob the best part of Clerks 2. Or when Jay does the Buff Bill Goodby Horses dance. That was good too.

pussy troll was by some distance the highlight of clerks 2, come on now

I don't remember that at all. Let's be honest here - it was pretty awful.

yes, yes it was

I still don't get the thing where if you've never heard black people called monkeys, you're supposed to instinctively go "Waaait a minute, maybe I shouldn't say this, this person I'm talking to might take it as a racial insult." It seems a little... racist?

original title of and then there were none = ten little n-bombs. no lie! was published in the UK under that title until the late 70s.

Published initially in the states as Ten Little Indians! In order to avoid racism, you see.

I still don't get the thing where if you've never heard black people called monkeys, you're supposed to instinctively go "Waaait a minute, maybe I shouldn't say this, this person I'm talking to might take it as a racial insult."

otm, not being American I found out about this by accident just recently (and had never used it fwiw)

What?

You guys are being Randalls

pussy troll was by some distance the highlight of clerks 2, come on now

its pretty offensive to suggest that movie had any highlights.

I don't care what you guys say about Chapelle Show, I probably love some of the horrible material as much as anything.

The fake commericals: Rockapads. The one where Redman is on a jetski in the toilet advertising a toilet bowl cleaner. I admit it.

You guys are being Randalls

I'd probably be outraged, if I had any idea what you meant.

its pretty offensive to suggest that movie had any highlights.

its pretty offensive of you to not understand that rosario dawson will never not be a highlight, even in such a fan-servicing turdfest of a movie.

xp randall aka one of the two main protagonists of Clerks & Clerks II

Andrew: See most recent youtube in thread

I still don't get the thing where if you've never heard black people called monkeys, you're supposed to instinctively go "Waaait a minute, maybe I shouldn't say this, this person I'm talking to might take it as a racial insult." It seems a little... racist?

*facepalm*

You're not supposed to instinctively know, but when someone points it out to you the correct response is not "oh, well I never heard it that way growing up so I'm going to continue to say it"

you were looking for that "conversations that come up on ILX once a fortnight" thread, i believe

It certainly isn't an obscure or exclusively US thing, cf. soccerfootball fans throughout the ages throwing bananas onto the pitch, making monkey noises etc.