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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: joanna on May 02, 2008, 01:00:04 PM
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one of my co-workers forwarded me (and a number of other people in the office) a (patently, no-doubt-about-it) racist joke with the subject line "funny!" the office is based in austin, tx, but i'm on the west coast, so it was already in my inbox when i woke up this morning, and i responded back immediately: "was i missing the day that 'racist' and 'funny' became interchangeable terms? is that the day that people decided that carlos mencia and dane cook were funny?" blame the fact that i hadn't had coffee yet, but i just couldn't let her think it was okay to send jokes like that to me. she's sent dozens of jokes to me in the past and i usually just delete them immediately because they're all stupid, but i think this is the first one that was offensive.
she wrote back:
"It’s funny because it’s funny – doesn’t mean that just because you find it funny, you’re racist. I would have thought it was funny if it were any other race or religious preference. Even my own."
so do i bother to explain to her how i feel or do i just let it go?
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Post the joke and I will tell you if it is racist and/or funny.
I am something of an expert in these matters.
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I love it when racist people just go ahead and assume that you're a huge racist like them for no reason.
I also love it when people say or do something (or forward jokes that are) totally racist, and then completely deny that they're a racist. One of my favorite things is when I hear people in the middle of a story drop their voices down to that semi-confidential tone and go, "...Now, you know me, and you KNOW I'm not a racist, but..." That's always a pretty good sign that a racist is about to say something super racist.
I think it's worth it to explain how you feel. You probably won't convince your coworker not to be a racist, but at least you might be able to convince her not be racist within earshot of you (or email-shot).
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I love it when racist people just go ahead and assume that you're a huge racist like them for no reason.
I also love it when people say or do something (or forward jokes that are) totally racist, and then completely deny that they're a racist. One of my favorite things is when I hear people in the middle of a story drop their voices down to that semi-confidential tone and go, "...Now, you know me, and you KNOW I'm not a racist, but..." That's always a pretty good sign that a racist is about to say something super racist.
I think it's worth it to explain how you feel. You probably won't convince your coworker not to be a racist, but at least you might be able to convince her not be racist within earshot of you (or email-shot).
ahahahaaaa. the infamous, ""...Now, you know me, and you KNOW I'm not a racist, [buuuut]..." which is just a no-turning-back, red flag, here comes the axe, get into crash position headline for, "here's a racist joke/comment/anecdote that says otherwise."
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I had a friend who decided, probably rightly, that the most sensitive topic in society was race. This was the year 1995.
Therefore, he also decided that swear words should be racial in nature, and not religious, sexual, or scatological.
But he could not actually bring himself to yell out racial slurs when he stubbed his toe, etc. So he would just yell out, "Black!" and the like.
Is that racist?
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Is that racist?
i think that's just insane.
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Is that racist?
i think that's just insane.
it has a certain Swiftian logic
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You really need to post the joke for us to be able to judge.
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I got a militant christian email from a co-worker that said all americans opposed to prayer in school should shut up and sit down. Then it quoted some meaningless statistics. Then it made some logical errors, like that if you believe in God, then you believe in school prayer because people who believe in school prayer believe in God. It said that if you didn't agree, you were un-American and the usual kind of bullshit rhetoric that goes along with that stuff.
I replied to everyone who got the email, in the nicest way that I could, that I disagreed, was offended, and never wanted that sort of propaganda again. Of course, I couldn't help briefly mentioning a few of the reasons why I disagreed, like things the constitution says, but that was only to make myself feel better. It's important that people don't associate you with the crap sent to you by some idiot, but I think it's more important that people stand up to those kinds of pigs.
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E-mail forwards can eat it. There's five or six in the last month and a half on the What's New page of Snopes that are all weird ultra-right-wing jeremiads and Photoshops of Barack Obama, including one that posits the theory that he's the Antichrist. Stupid internet.
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Anybody ever get the one that's supposed to be Jay Leno talking about prayer in schools? My uncle gave me that one. Forwards are the worst.
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this may be unfair and ageist, but it seems to me like the only email forwards i get are from family members and coworkers over forty. they usually involve some either heartbreaking story or poem by a kid with a terminal disease, a chain letter, some stupid email experiment or racist, lewd or just plain lame jokes. i've considered creating a filter to trash any email starting with "fwd:", but i'm paranoid and foolishly think something important might actually be forwarded to me.
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this may be unfair and ageist, but it seems to me like the only email forwards i get are from family members and coworkers over forty. they usually involve some either heartbreaking story or poem by a kid with a terminal disease, a chain letter, some stupid email experiment or racist, lewd or just plain lame jokes. i've considered creating a filter to trash any email starting with "fwd:", but i'm paranoid and foolishly think something important might actually be forwarded to me.
youre right, it is with people 40 and over. oddly, i have the same paranoia because i actually do get legitimate forwards from friends, like, fwd: "here's my itinerary info" or whatever.
p.s. the aforementioned statement obviously excludes anybody on this board 40+
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40 somethings and a certain group of male friends. Although as more of those male friends get married the less forwards I get. Strange how that works.
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40 somethings and a certain group of male friends. Although as more of those male friends get married the less forwards I get. Strange how that works.
Women keep us civilized
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I got scolded in like 2004 when some Rutgers colleague - an ancient Jewish guy who was one of those lifelong-liberals-turned-neocon-by-9/11 - forwarded some pseudo-academic justification of torture the teachers' list. An Arab-American teacher on the list politely said that he found this offensive and asked that the list not be used for such things, but OCD sucker that I am, I took the bait and actually picked apart the stupid email.
Of course, I work in the English department of a university, so even though I was convinced that the scolding meant I was going to be fired, I think it made my boss like me a little more.
The moral of the story, is: don't leave a paper trail!!! Drive to Austin and punch her instead.
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post the "joke" already
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post the "joke" already
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post the "joke" already
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one of those lifelong-liberals-turned-neocon-by-9/11 -
That shit is the worst. "I used to be a liberal, but then 9/11 showed me the error of my ways! Or it actually just showed me that I have no willpower to back up my convictions when it becomes inconvenient and actually matters. One of those two..."
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fine!
An Amish farmer, walking through his field, notices a man kneeling down and drinking from his farm pond.
The Amish farmer shouts: "Trink das wasser nicht. Die Kuhen haben dahin gesheissen." (Which is German and means: "Don't drink the water, the cows have shit in it.")
The kneeling man shouts back: "I'm a Muslim, I don't understand you. I speak Arabic and English. If you can't speak in the sacred tongue of Islam, speak in English."
The Amish farmer yells: "Use two hands, you'll get more."
so, a) not even a funny joke, b) obviously is an old xenophobic joke and the "muslim" part was recently added, since it makes no sense for an amish person to randomly be anti-muslim, and c) NOT EVEN FUNNY.
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fine!
An Amish farmer, walking through his field, notices a man kneeling down and drinking from his farm pond.
The Amish farmer shouts: "Trink das wasser nicht. Die Kuhen haben dahin gesheissen." (Which is German and means: "Don't drink the water, the cows have shit in it.")
The kneeling man shouts back: "I'm a Muslim, I don't understand you. I speak Arabic and English. If you can't speak in the sacred tongue of Islam, speak in English."
The Amish farmer yells: "Use two hands, you'll get more."
so, a) not even a funny joke, b) obviously is an old xenophobic joke and the "muslim" part was recently added, since it makes no sense for an amish person to randomly be anti-muslim, and c) NOT EVEN FUNNY.
I barely see the humor in it. Actually, this kind of disgusts me. Can't you get someone fired for stupid shit like this?
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More offensive to the Amish than to Muslims, which took me by surprise. In any case, I can't imagine anyone thinking it funny enough to bother forwarding.
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Can't you get someone fired for stupid shit like this?
one of the people she sent it to was our boss, so i'm hoping that she was reprimanded.
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It's not even a little bit funny. When I worked at Macy's, my boss's boss was a horrible racist. She thought it was okay and was pretty high on the food chain. Another girl who was being groomed to be an executive made comments about 'dirty mexicans' and not letting the immigration lawyer's clients use the same elevator as us in front of a lot of people, including her boss and two immigrants. Nothing was ever done about it, though, because I think her boss wanted to get in her pants.
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OK, I hate the moronic racist sentiment too, but I have to admit that I actually laff'd at weird way the joke got warped, and the fact that, evidently, a number of people were too stupid to realize how little sense it made. Amish people hate Muslims? Who knew?
That person should probably get in trouble, though.
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post the "joke" already
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Uh-oh, TL's stuck in his time machine again.
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Uh-oh, TL's stuck in his time machine again.
Ha - no, that was a "joke" about the lack of a joke in the barely-even-racist "joke."
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I got it! (TL's)
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Everything about this whole situation, except for the joke itself, is pretty hilarious.
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Wow, that was really awful.
A google search brings us a possible origin (http://www.city-data.com/forum/tennessee/237932-rules-south-12.html) for this joke (on page 12 of that thread)
So I ask our below-the-Mason-Dixon FOT brethren: Are these really the Rules of the South (http://www.city-data.com/forum/tennessee/237932-rules-south.html) as 'Bones' contends?
The 'Rules of the South' are as follows!!!
1. Pull your droopy pants up. You look like an idiot.
2. Turn your cap right, your head isn't crooked.
3. Let's get this straight; it's called a 'gravel road.' I drive a pickup truck because I want to. No matter how slow you drive, you're going to get dust on your Lexus. Drive it or get out of the way.
4. They are cattle. That's why they smell to you. They smell like money to us. Get over it. Don't like it? I-20 goes east and west, I-85 goes north and south. Pick one.
5. So you have a $70,000 car. We're impressed. We have $250,000 cotton pickers that are driven only 3 weeks a year.
6. So every person in the south waves. It's called being friendly. Try to understand the concept.
7. If that cell phone rings while a bunch of doves are coming in, we WILL shoot it out of your hand. You better hope you don't have it up to your ear at the time.
8. Yeah, we eat catfish & crawfish. You really want sushi & caviar? It's available at the corner bait shop.
9. The 'Opener' refers to the first day of deer season. It's a religious holiday held the closest Saturday to the first of November.
10. We open doors for women. That is applied to all women, regardless of age.
11. We say 'sir and ma'am', 'please and thank you', 'excuse me and I'm sorry' when we are wrong or impolite. Do not make the mistake of thinking it makes us weak. It's just good up-bringing.
12. No, there's no 'vegetarian special' on the menu. Order steak. Or you can order the Chef's Salad and pick off the 2 pounds of ham & turkey.
13. When we fill out a table, there are three main dishes: meats, vegetables, and breads. We use three spices: salt, pepper, and ketchup! Oh, yeah.... We don't care what you folks in Cincinnati call that stuff you eat... IT'S NOT REAL CHILI!!
14. You bring 'coke' into my house, it better be brown, wet and served over ice. You bring 'Mary Jane' into my house, she better be cute, know how to shoot, drive a truck, and have long hair.
15. College and High School Football is as important here as the Lakers and the Knicks, and a whole lot more fun to watch.
16. Yeah, we have golf courses. But don't hit the water hazards -- it frightens the fish, and aggravates the alligators.
17. Colleges? We have them all over. We have State Universities , Universities, and Vo-techs. They come outta there with an education plus a love for God and country, and they still wave at everybody when they come for the holidays.
18. Don't think that since we talk slow, we think slow. You may be in for a big surprise.
19. We have more folks in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines than you do. So don't mess with us. If you do, you will get your butt kicked by the best.
20. Turn down that blasted car stereo! That thumpity-thump stuff isn't music, anyway. We don't want to hear it anymore than we want to see your boxers! Refer back to #1!
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13. When we fill out a table, there are three main dishes: meats, vegetables, and breads. We use three spices: salt, pepper, and ketchup! Oh, yeah.... We don't care what you folks in Cincinnati call that stuff you eat... IT'S NOT REAL CHILI!!
This one seems a bit contradictory.
By the way, the worst Mexican food I ever had in my life, bar none, was when I was in Georgia for a year. It was like dog food flavored with tabasco. People there think that barbeque is spicy (it's not).
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21. Know your place, boy.
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Sorry, TL, slow on the uptake.
KTB, I believe that is the actual constitution of the Confederate States of America. Not a lot of people know this, but secession was actually about ketchup, cell phones, and hat-wearing, and had nothing whatsoever to do with race.
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20. Turn down that blasted car stereo! That thumpity-thump stuff isn't music, anyway. We don't want to hear it anymore than we want to see your boxers! Refer back to #1!
I gotta agree with my rebel brothers here. whatever this "Thumpity-Thump" stuff is, it MUST BE STOPPED!
"Inochi - Thumpity-thump"
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGboH5Gud0U[/youtube]
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6. ... It's called being friendly. Try to understand the concept.
7. If that cell phone rings while a bunch of doves are coming in, we WILL shoot it out of your hand.
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20. Turn down that blasted car stereo! That thumpity-thump stuff isn't music, anyway. We don't want to hear it anymore than we want to see your boxers! Refer back to #1!
I gotta agree with my rebel brothers here. whatever this "Thumpity-Thump" stuff is, it MUST BE STOPPED!
"Inochi - Thumpity-thump"
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGboH5Gud0U[/youtube]
Hahahahahahahahahaha.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
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21. Grow up to be incredibly ashamed that you have neighbors and relatives that are this dumb, force yourself to unlearn Southern dialect, move to large cosmopolitan city to start a new life 800 miles away from "home" without once looking back.
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Um, isn't this trespassing on Mike from the Cynics territory?
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Hahaha.
(sniff)
Ha... ha.
Haw haw haw haw haw!
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I'm not sure what I'm more offended by: the xenophobia or the total lack of humor.
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Um, isn't this trespassing on Mike from the Cynics territory?
We're allowed to make fun of each other. But I'd still give that Cynics guy a beatdown if he slandered Southerners within earshot of me.
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Am I the only one who finds the idea of a contrived "redneck" backlash against mutant Japanese boner music unbearably hilarious?
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Damn Amish, always speaking German.
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14. You bring 'coke' into my house, it better be brown, wet and served over ice. You bring 'Mary Jane' into my house, she better be cute, know how to shoot, drive a truck, and have long hair.
Oh yeah, there's no drug use in the South at ALL. This one is air-tight.
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Im assuming that that Amish joke was originally about "yanks" or "people from Philadelphia" or something instead of Muslims?
But all that changed after 9-11.
As we all know, the Amish were among the most effected by those terrorist attacks.
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21. Grow up to be incredibly ashamed that you have neighbors and relatives that are this dumb, force yourself to unlearn Southern dialect, move to large cosmopolitan city to start a new life 800 miles away from "home" without once looking back, realize there are probably even more dumb people in your new large city, with equally silly accents.
Fixed!
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As we all know, the Amish were among the most effected by those terrorist attacks.
especially the german-speaking amish.
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Philly Boy Roy, walking through his field, notices a man kneeling down and drinking from his farm pond.
Roy shouts: "Trink das wasser nicht. Die Kuhen haben dahin gesheissen." (Which is German and means: "Don't drink the water, the cows have shit in it.")
The kneeling man shouts back: "I'm from New Jersey, I don't understand you. I speak English. If you can't speak in the sacred tongue of English, don't speak at all."
So Roy yells: "Use two hands, you'll get more."
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Who on earth would drink water with only one hand?
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Philly Boy Roy, walking through his field, notices a man kneeling down and drinking from his farm pond.
Roy shouts: "Trink das wasser nicht. Die Kuhen haben dahin gesheissen." (Which is German and means: "Don't drink that wudder, drink one a nem Yuenglings instead.")
The kneeling man shouts back: "I'm from New Jersey, I don't understand you. I speak English. If you can't speak in the sacred tongue of English, don't speak at all."
So Roy yells: "Use two hands, you'll get more."
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Philly Boy Roy, walking through his field, notices a man kneeling down and drinking from his farm pond.
Roy shouts: "Don't drink that wudder, drink one a nem Yuenglings instead."
The kneeling man shouts back: "I'm from New Jersey, I don't understand you. I speak English. If you can't speak in the sacred tongue of English, don't speak at all."
So Roy yells: "Use two hands, you'll get more."
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14. You bring 'coke' into my house, it better be brown, wet and served over ice. You bring 'Mary Jane' into my house, she better be cute, know how to shoot, drive a truck, and have long hair.
Oh yeah, there's no drug use in the South at ALL. This one is air-tight.
No Dorvid, this is their way of saying, bring crystal meth or at least a lot of pseuoephedrine so we can cook our own.
For it has been said: Give a man some meth and you fuck him up for a day. Teach a man to cook meth and you have a cottage industry.
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14. You bring 'coke' into my house, it better be brown, wet and served over ice. You bring 'Mary Jane' into my house, she better be cute, know how to shoot, drive a truck, and have long hair.
Oh yeah, there's no drug use in the South at ALL. This one is air-tight.
You bring 'Meth' into my house, it better be crystal and not some rap guy from the deodorant commercials.
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For it has been said: Give a man some meth and you fuck him up for a day. Teach a man to cook meth and you have a cottage industry he'll eventually blow himself up in a meth lab explosion.
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this may be unfair and ageist, but it seems to me like the only email forwards i get are from family members and coworkers over forty. they usually involve some either heartbreaking story or poem by a kid with a terminal disease, a chain letter, some stupid email experiment or racist, lewd or just plain lame jokes. i've considered creating a filter to trash any email starting with "fwd:", but i'm paranoid and foolishly think something important might actually be forwarded to me.
youre right, it is with people 40 and over. oddly, i have the same paranoia because i actually do get legitimate forwards from friends, like, fwd: "here's my itinerary info" or whatever.
p.s. the aforementioned statement obviously excludes anybody on this board 40+
I think the Forwarded unfunny/racist joke e-mail is the evolution of the unfunny/racist joke xerox from an earlier generation office mutants.
I remember seeing these things passed around my parents work places when i was a kid. They were kind of an unsavory reflection of the posting of bland Ziggy comics on the company fridge.
Does anyone else remember these things or was this some sort of local Midwestern phenomenon?
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So I ask our below-the-Mason-Dixon FOT brethren: Are these really the Rules of the South (http://www.city-data.com/forum/tennessee/237932-rules-south.html) as 'Bones' contends?
No.
That was easy!
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8. Yeah, we eat catfish & crawfish. You really want sushi & caviar? It's available at the corner bait shop.
I hate hate HATE it when I drive my $70,000 Lexus around in the backwoods of the South looking for fresh sushi and the finest imported caviar, and I stop to ask some overall-wearing rednecks where I might procure these fine delicacies, and they just laugh and refer me to Rule of the South #8. They get me every time!!!!!!!
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As we all know, the Amish were among the most effected by those terrorist attacks.
And that they rallied behind the war-effort (typically).
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Amish people hate Muslims? Who knew?
Strangely, I have a family connection to the Amish, and am prepared to assert that most of them probably do hate Muslims. To make a big (yet accurate) generalization, the Amish are pretty racist.
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Amish people hate Muslims? Who knew?
Strangely, I have a family connection to the Amish, and am prepared to assert that most of them probably do hate Muslims. To make a big (yet accurate) generalization, the Amish are pretty racist.
They'll take away all your spank mags, too. Nem Amish are nowhere near as cool as you think they're gonna be.
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Amish people hate Muslims? Who knew?
Strangely, I have a family connection to the Amish, and am prepared to assert that most of them probably do hate Muslims. To make a big (yet accurate) generalization, the Amish are pretty racist.
Do they keep up with news/politics? I'd be interested in knowing how much they know about the modern world.
I just had a great idea for a movie, don't the Amish do that thing where the teenagers leave for a couple of weeks to find out whether they want to live in the regular world or not?
In my story a Amish woman goes out for her weeks and comes back preggo from a tryst with a black man. But she wants to keep the baby and stay Amish.
"Papa don't Preach" it would be a edgier Juno with more laffs.
Christina Ricci as the girl, Anthony Anderson as the one night stand, Jeff Bridges as the tough Amish father.
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"Papa don't Preach" it would be a edgier Under Siege 2 with more laffs.
That word filter makes everything funnier.
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Do they keep up with news/politics? I'd be interested in knowing how much they know about the modern world.
I just had a great idea for a movie, don't the Amish do that thing where the teenagers leave for a couple of weeks to find out whether they want to live in the regular world or not?
In my story a Amish woman goes out for her weeks and comes back preggo from a tryst with a black man. But she wants to keep the baby and stay Amish.
"Papa don't Preach" it would be a edgier Under Siege 2 with more laffs.
Christina Ricci as the girl, Anthony Anderson as the one night stand, Jeff Bridges as the tough Amish father.
Different churches have pretty different approaches to things, but in general they don't keep up with U.S. or world politics. They pay taxes, but don't vote or take advantage of governmental services (like welfare, etc.). I looked at the newspaper that my brother-in-law gets, and it had a page or two of U.S. news, but since he's a convert, he is more connected to the world than most of his brethren.
Apparently that whole "Amish in the City" thing, where they go and experience worldly delights is not something that's done terribly often. It's played up in the western media, because it makes for fish-out-of-water hilarity.
They tend to be locally-minded (or insular, depending on your view of things), and despite what I said above about racism, they - especially the children - seem a lot happier than most of us English.
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Yeah, but don't they just not like anybody that isn't amish? The real joke should be "I'm not Amish. I don't speak whatever Amish language you're speaking."
and then the Amish guy says "Use two hands you'll get more in your mouth. I hope you die, English. But right before you die, my daughter needs a lift to her housekeeping gig, and I need to use the payphone outside of the Travel America plaza off Route 80. Let's say you give us a ride in your fancy Lexus, you yankee piece of shit."
and then the non-Amish guy goes "Holy god this water is terrible! Why oh why did I not simply seek out a well to drink from?!"
Amish guy: "Beats me. Stupid."
The End.
Okay, it's not that funny.
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Yeah, but don't they just not like anybody that isn't amish? The real joke should be "I'm not Amish. I don't speak whatever Amish language you're speaking."
and then the Amish guy says "Use two hands you'll get more in your mouth. I hope you die, English. But right before you die, my daughter needs a lift to her housekeeping gig, and I need to use the payphone outside of the Travel America plaza off Route 80. Let's say you give us a ride in your fancy Lexus, you yankee piece of shit."
and then the non-Amish guy goes "Holy god this water is terrible! Why oh why did I not simply seek out a well to drink from?!"
Amish guy: "Beats me. Stupid."
The End.
Okay, it's not that funny.
Well, they've got ample reason to dislike, or at least be suspicious of, people from outside their communities. For the most part we treat them like props in a Ye Olde Lande theme park, make jokes at their expense, and chuck bottles at them from cars. They certainly have no love for the tourist industry that's sprung up around them (and they pretty much never benefit from it).
Since that's the case, they're amazingly gracious. They do tend to get much closer to the whole Christian charity thing than most others do.
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Okay, it's not that funny.
I disagree. I also propose a racist joke remix contest, if for no other reason it'll bring back memories of FOTchan.
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Yeah, but don't they just not like anybody that isn't amish? The real joke should be "I'm not Amish. I don't speak whatever Amish language you're speaking."
and then the Amish guy says "Use two hands you'll get more in your mouth. I hope you die, English. But right before you die, my daughter needs a lift to her housekeeping gig, and I need to use the payphone outside of the Travel America plaza off Route 80. Let's say you give us a ride in your fancy Lexus, you yankee piece of shit."
and then the non-Amish guy goes "Holy god this water is terrible! Why oh why did I not simply seek out a well to drink from?!"
Amish guy: "Beats me. Stupid."
The End.
Okay, it's not that funny.
Well, they've got ample reason to dislike, or at least be suspicious of, people from outside their communities. For the most part we treat them like props in a Ye Olde Lande theme park, make jokes at their expense, and chuck bottles at them from cars. They certainly have no love for the tourist industry that's sprung up around them (and they pretty much never benefit from it).
Since that's the case, they're amazingly gracious. They do tend to get much closer to the whole Christian charity thing than most others do.
Yeah, they also have ample reason to be racist. Let's face it, the Muslims (etc...)
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For the most part we treat them like props in a Ye Olde Lande theme park, make jokes at their expense, and chuck bottles at them from cars.
To paraphrase Tom., it's "we" now?
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For the most part we treat them like props in a Ye Olde Lande theme park, make jokes at their expense, and chuck bottles at them from cars.
To paraphrase Tom., it's "we" now?
I will confess that I have been known to do this from time to time. What else am I going to do with all those empty bottles in my car?!
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Yeah, but don't they just not like anybody that isn't amish? The real joke should be "I'm not Amish. I don't speak whatever Amish language you're speaking."
and then the Amish guy says "Use two hands you'll get more in your mouth. I hope you die, English. But right before you die, my daughter needs a lift to her housekeeping gig, and I need to use the payphone outside of the Travel America plaza off Route 80. Let's say you give us a ride in your fancy Lexus, you yankee piece of shit."
and then the non-Amish guy goes "Holy god this water is terrible! Why oh why did I not simply seek out a well to drink from?!"
Amish guy: "Beats me. Stupid."
The End.
Okay, it's not that funny.
Sorry. That's funny.
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and chuck bottles at them from cars.
There's a term for that: Direct Recycling.