To the black folks:
Why do some black folks talk at the movie at the movie theatre? it’s weird and annoying and I don’t know why some black people do it! – any thoughts – hopefully none of you do that…my husband doesn’t and he can’t seem to give me a good answer on it
now ask away at all the annoying things us white people do – let’s get this rolling!
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I can’t figure out why SOME white people have a hard time calling a black person “black”
i cant speak for others, but people in their early 30’s, when they were in middle school it was taught to us, quite outright, that the term black was a negative term to call someone and that it’s african-american. seriously, it was taught to us that was the case.
black sounds better to me than african-american tho.
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Rob, you have a soho dentist and you sell your metrocard? you are an enigma
well, 1. i have dental insurance and 2.) all dentists are expensive for the most part no matter where you go and 3.) it’s right around the corner from me at work so it’s easy to make appointments on my lunch hour and 4.) ive seen the dentists office near me in park slope. they are grungy, gross, and full of little children! no thanks!
There was a piece on NPR this morning about a new book being released at the New York Comic-Con this weekend: The Adventures of Unemployed Man. It includes characters such as Unemployed Man’s sidekick, Plan B, and a dastardly group of supervillains, including The Human Resource, Toxic Debt Blob, Pink Slip, The Outsourcer and The Free Marketeers (“All for the few! The rest for you!”), whose current members are Gutterball (Timothy Geithner), Rueben (Robert Rubin) and Summerhouse (Larry Summers).
Some of the other down-but-not-out heroes emerging from the economic crisis include perpetual grad student Master of Degrees, fix-it-with-tape Ducto, pain-shrinking therapist Good Grief, checkbook unbalancer Zilch, shadow worker Fantasma, and Wonder Mother, who built her invisible jet from pieces of the glass ceiling.
I’m not usually a comic fan, but this sounds hilarious and I plan to buy a copy. See http://www.unemployedman.com.
Rob and Donatella, please share the names of your dentists! I’m another dentist-phobe, and I really need to find someplace where I don’t feel like I’m voluntarily submitting myself to torture.
“May have been a racial thing in your case, but it’s often just a Santa thing.”
Yeah, maybe. I was seriously freaked out in any event.
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CGar, sounds like you need to do an indecent proposal – ie sleep with me if you want me to buy this house.
To the black folks:
Why do some black folks talk at the movie at the movie theatre? it’s weird and annoying and I don’t know why some black people do it! – any thoughts – hopefully none of you do that…my husband doesn’t and he can’t seem to give me a good answer on it
now ask away at all the annoying things us white people do – let’s get this rolling!
I’d get my teeth cleaned every friday night if they gave me nitrous oxide.
I know. I got scammed by the pediatric dentist. Serves me right for going to Tribeca.
I don’t have a single picture with a white santa. I guess the Black Panthers didn’t allow white santas in my neck of the woods.
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I can’t figure out why SOME white people have a hard time calling a black person “black”
i cant speak for others, but people in their early 30’s, when they were in middle school it was taught to us, quite outright, that the term black was a negative term to call someone and that it’s african-american. seriously, it was taught to us that was the case.
black sounds better to me than african-american tho.
and
quote:
Rob, you have a soho dentist and you sell your metrocard? you are an enigma
well, 1. i have dental insurance and 2.) all dentists are expensive for the most part no matter where you go and 3.) it’s right around the corner from me at work so it’s easy to make appointments on my lunch hour and 4.) ive seen the dentists office near me in park slope. they are grungy, gross, and full of little children! no thanks!
someone called me a yogurt dipped raisin in yesterday’s OT
:-/
*rob*
Maybe because you have so much in common with black people. Poor black people, that is. *kanye shrug*
There was a piece on NPR this morning about a new book being released at the New York Comic-Con this weekend: The Adventures of Unemployed Man. It includes characters such as Unemployed Man’s sidekick, Plan B, and a dastardly group of supervillains, including The Human Resource, Toxic Debt Blob, Pink Slip, The Outsourcer and The Free Marketeers (“All for the few! The rest for you!”), whose current members are Gutterball (Timothy Geithner), Rueben (Robert Rubin) and Summerhouse (Larry Summers).
Some of the other down-but-not-out heroes emerging from the economic crisis include perpetual grad student Master of Degrees, fix-it-with-tape Ducto, pain-shrinking therapist Good Grief, checkbook unbalancer Zilch, shadow worker Fantasma, and Wonder Mother, who built her invisible jet from pieces of the glass ceiling.
I’m not usually a comic fan, but this sounds hilarious and I plan to buy a copy. See http://www.unemployedman.com.
Rob and Donatella, please share the names of your dentists! I’m another dentist-phobe, and I really need to find someplace where I don’t feel like I’m voluntarily submitting myself to torture.