reminds me of a 'this is racist' moment i had last summer. i was buying water ice at a local Rita's (this is an east coast thing fyi), and i asked the [white] guy manning the counter for a recommendation. he shrugged and i asked him what seemed to be popular. he said, "well, you know in this neighborhood you can't really trust the taste." i couldn't believe that meant what i thought it meant so i naively (trolly?) asked, "what do you mean?" and he said, paraphrasing, "black people have bad taste in food." i was o_O.
― Mordy, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
shipley's post is the spirit of the thread, Mordy is just saying a racist thing that happened.
― wham city bitch, wham wham city bitch (some dude) (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
xp: holy shit
― beachville, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
no justice no peace fuck the thread police
― Mordy, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:09 (twelve years ago) link
i'm trying to come up with a 'the food was kind of blah' joke but i don't have the energy
― goole, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
lol goole
― Vaseline MEN AMAZING JOURNEY (DJP), Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
reminds me of a 'this is racist' moment i had last summer. i was buying water ice at a local Rita's (this is an east coast thing fyi), and i asked the [white] guy manning the counter for a recommendation. he shrugged and i asked him what seemed to be popular. he said, "black, white, purple, green, whatever."
― beachville, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
thank you http://gallery.mtbr.com/data/mtbr/500/thumbs/thread_police_badge.jpg
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
the same company that is selling those camel shorts is selling these hoodies
http://www.porhomme.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/supreme-arabic-hoodie-pullover-spring-summer-2012-ny-1.jpg
now is it racist?
― the late great, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
no?
― Vaseline MEN AMAZING JOURNEY (DJP), Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
would it be racist if you wore the hoodie with the shorts?
― the late great, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
what is that arabic word?
― goole, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
no, but you would look like a female college sophomore
― Vaseline MEN AMAZING JOURNEY (DJP), Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
(is that sexist?)
is that arabic word "subhan" meaning "glory"?
― horseshoe, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:51 (twelve years ago) link
i believe it is
― the late great, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Yr5bXac23Ko/S1mH-u7aIXI/AAAAAAAAByA/jEM8qQBNOvM/s400/Subhan+Allah.jpg
yeah it is (subhan is on the bottom)
― the late great, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:53 (twelve years ago) link
i don't speak arabic, i speak farsi, but from what i know about words from the quran it's probably not exactly the same as our "glory"
in farsi subhaneh means "breakfast"
― the late great, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
it'd be funny if there was a big hole in the front
― goole, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
hahahahahahahaha
― Vaseline MEN AMAZING JOURNEY (DJP), Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
the little arabic i can read is from religious instruction when i was a kid. that phrase was translated as "glory to god" ime.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
right, i just mean that it has the "glorious sunrise" connotation rather than the "glory of battle" connotation
― the late great, Thursday, 8 March 2012 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUG9qYTJMsI
is this racist?
― Joan Cusack clumsily running into a water fountain (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
can we get a "cool stuff about arabic that I know" thread from the people who know stuff about arabic because that is really interesting and cool to me
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:04 (twelve years ago) link
xp: I admit there is dubiousness in there but there is also a lot of awesome and self-deprecation
my final verdict is "I hope not, because I love it"
― Vaseline MEN AMAZING JOURNEY (DJP), Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
wait you mean the video?
― Joan Cusack clumsily running into a water fountain (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
yes (it's currently posted on my Facebook wall)
― Vaseline MEN AMAZING JOURNEY (DJP), Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
― wham city bitch, wham wham city bitch (some dude) (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, March 8, 2012 12:06 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
looking forward to when whiney starts the 'this is racist' thread
― flagp∞st (dayo), Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
particularly if he starts it with the display name "wham city bitch, wham wham city bitch (some dude) (Whiney G. Weingarten)"
― Vaseline MEN AMAZING JOURNEY (DJP), Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
I don't normally say this, but I don't get what might be racist about he Dollar Shave ad? (maybe i'm distracted by the hot pants tho)
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
the factory worker
― flagp∞st (dayo), Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
it's the whole "I'm a job creator to a person of vague ethnicity" section
― Vaseline MEN AMAZING JOURNEY (DJP), Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
which tbh is delivered so ridiculously that I can't take it seriously (which I understand has little to no bearing on whether it comes across as racist to other ppl)
xps I don't either and DJP otm! I love it! I was just curious if people would get really aggro about, like, the idea of a hispanic person not having a job or having a shitty job or something.
― Joan Cusack clumsily running into a water fountain (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
idk it's a little douchey but i think it's ok
― goole, Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
i kind of hope she's really an employee of the firm tho
― goole, Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:16 (twelve years ago) link
He's a stud and Alejandra is adorable. If there is legitimate reason to be concerned about racism, I'm blinded to it by the cuteness of it all.
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, that's pretty awesome. And the dude also wrote it and is the actual head of the company.
― Number None, Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i am unable to make a determination because handsome
― horseshoe, Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
I want to give Alejandra ten thousand jobs hugs
― Joan Cusack clumsily running into a water fountain (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
I found the "what were you doing a month ago?"/"not working"/"what are you doing now?"/"working" really funny b/c Alejandra looks like she's about to laugh. And they're riding around in a wheelbarrow (iirc).
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:29 (twelve years ago) link
she would probably get really tired if she had to work ten thousand jobs
― flagp∞st (dayo), Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:29 (twelve years ago) link
a wagon! + the machete with the tape!
i'm going to stop after this post, sorry!
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:30 (twelve years ago) link
xp what are you implying, asshole?
― Joan Cusack clumsily running into a water fountain (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:32 (twelve years ago) link
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, March 8, 2012 12:04 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
cosign
ex gf was learning Arabic and it was really interesting to hear about; languages in general are fascinating to me, esp since I failed so hard to achieve my dream of being bilingual by the time I graduated college
now I just have a bi roommate
― catbus otm (gbx), Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:32 (twelve years ago) link
yes to this!
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:33 (twelve years ago) link
I like the "I'm good at tennis *whiff*" part
― Vaseline MEN AMAZING JOURNEY (DJP), Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
I am guessing she actually works there because she does not seem like someone who was cast for some role, she seems like someone who was told 5 minutes before it was happening that she was gonna be on camera
― iatee, Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
also she is on the verge of cracking up throughout the entire thing
― Vaseline MEN AMAZING JOURNEY (DJP), Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
We need to stop the presses on the all-time comedy poll and add this video.
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:36 (twelve years ago) link