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Post by ouchy on May 16, 2007 12:16:40 GMT -5
Okay. So, obviously, I LOVE to be politically incorrect! I love off-color jokes and racial slurs! I crack jokes about my herritage, and I think everyone should loosen up! What are some of your favorite funny sterotypes that just seem SOOO true? And no one take offense, please! This is all in good fun! If it becomes hostile, obvioulsy, we'll lock the thread. Keep this in good taste like the accent thread.
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Post by ouchy on May 16, 2007 12:19:20 GMT -5
My favorite sterotype where I live is that Asians can't drive! Each time my husband and I are on the highway and see a car going slowly, we no longer guess that the driver is a little old man or woman! We automatically look for Oriental-type hair! LOL. 99% of the time, the driver will, in fact, be Oriental! It's so funny! And it's usually Oriental women in white minivans! The funny thing is that everyone out here refers to Orientals just as "Asians." My husband is not Oriental, but he is, technically, Asian! It's so funny! So whenever he bitches about Asian drivers, I have to remind him that he is also Asian!
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Post by JackMcFarland on May 16, 2007 12:39:48 GMT -5
Italians are always a) in the mafia or b) connected in some way. I grew up in an area were the majority of the population was Jewish. I was definitley the minority being Italian. My friends were all Jewish, and all my school holidays were based around Passover, etc - they never understood why my family was so loud, why there were so many of us, etc. And the best part? Most of them thought my dad was in the mafia! In fact, I had a friend who took to calling my dad Mr. Soprano. I even scared some girl one time, she asked me if we were in the mafia, I told her yes...and that now i'd have to have her wacked. It was hilarious!
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Post by ouchy on May 16, 2007 12:41:46 GMT -5
LOL! I have to say, though, that most of the Jewish people I know (including in my family) are all really loud, just like Italians!
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Post by chloelouise on May 16, 2007 12:47:25 GMT -5
I think the streotype about the British always queing for everything is great, we brits are very good at organising nice orderly lines when waiting for anything, the bus, the cashier in a shop, anything. We cant deny it, I mean if you go to spain or something in the middle of summer you can literally pick the brits out cus there they are, in their little lines being all polite, I reckon half the time we dont even know what we're queing for!!
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Post by ouchy on May 16, 2007 12:47:44 GMT -5
OOOH! When I was in high school, one of my favorite sterotypes was that black people love fried chicken! I had this really smart black guy in my Geometry class. I walked in before class started one day, and he was grubbin on some KFC at his desk! LOL! He looked at me and said, "Don't you know that black people need their fried chicken daily?" It was so funny! He had none of the stereotypical speech, either. No Ebonics for him. It was great! I'll never forget him! I think he got a full scholarship to university! Whatever happened to Micahael and his KFC? LOL
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Post by JackMcFarland on May 16, 2007 12:51:46 GMT -5
LOL! I have to say, though, that most of the Jewish people I know (including in my family) are all really loud, just like Italians! I've discovered that through the years as well! I don't know why they were so shocked when we had a surprised bday for my dad and there were over 200 guests...90% of them being family lol. Ohhhhhhh. Similar to the fried chicken - Italians eating pasta every night! I mean maybe 3-4 times a week, but not every night!! lol The Polish being...well, not so smart. Lol. The #1 is our class was Polish. Haha.
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Post by ouchy on May 16, 2007 12:53:59 GMT -5
The Polish being...well, not so smart. Lol. The #1 is our class was Polish. Haha. My husband's favorite sterotype is that Polish mamas can cook. He and his friends used to tease boys...."Why dont' you go back to your Polish mama so she can cook for you!!!!" His father is Polish. LOL
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Post by chloelouise on May 17, 2007 13:53:22 GMT -5
What about the sterotype that all Jews have big noses??? How random it that!!! I mean surely its not a Jew thing rather then it is a race thing??? LOL!!!
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Post by irishmuse on May 17, 2007 14:04:19 GMT -5
That Pagan women are either all a) lesbian-man-haters or b) s**ts. LOL!
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Post by ouchy on May 17, 2007 14:07:04 GMT -5
What about the sterotype that all Jews have big noses??? How random it that!!! I mean surely its not a Jew thing rather then it is a race thing??? LOL!!! Well, Judaism isn't a race. There are white Jews and black Jews, and if purple were a skin color, I'm sure there would be purple Jews. It can be an ethnic background thing, though. A lot of my family have been Jewish for centuries, and none of them have big noses. But I do know a lot of Jews who do have big noses. LOL
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Post by chloelouise on May 17, 2007 14:26:27 GMT -5
OK, ethnic... race LOL sorry!!! You knew what I meant!! I just think its so random. Comedians are always making a point to joke how big "Jews" noses are, I just think its such a random stereotype!! Where did that one come from?? LOL
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Post by ouchy on May 17, 2007 14:30:23 GMT -5
^I think it is because the bigger the nose, the easier it is to smell money. Maybe it was evolutionary. LOL jk!
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Post by cherry on May 17, 2007 17:28:17 GMT -5
I love that people around me don't know what to identify me as, and cos my name is so mixed they end up just asking outright, usually 'what are you with a name like that?!' I just reply 'I'm special' with a little smile, and leave them to guess sometimes *evil smile* I love the stereotype that Liverpool is a city of thieves, when it's actually one of the safest cities in the UK. And that we have a good sense of humour, cos working in a call centre I find that people do often tell me rubbish jokes and react warmly to the accent Love that my dad, being asian and a very caring man, assumed he could mould me into becoming a doctor! That is so 'asian dad' of him! And the huge asian family... he has 8 daughters and one son, and yes he has that many kids cos he wanted a boy!
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Post by ouchy on May 17, 2007 17:31:25 GMT -5
LOL!
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