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bhs, we usually party more often, but cobblesnaps has been on hiatus for a while. you will learn soon enough that ‘ain’t no party like a cobblesnaps party cause a cobblesnaps party don’t stop!’
“It is different now, but suddenly bursting out with Japanese used to seriously freak people out. Like they were having a religious vision, or I was a talking dog.”
dona, I made the opposite mistake on the last train out from ikebukoro one night. I saw a girl who looked like she was about to hurl and whispered to my friend, “she’s waaaasted”… she turned her head slowly and said, “who? ME?” I felt like a total asshole, but she talked to us for the rest of the train ride about her father who was a famous kabuki actor.
I would love a party/event, and would be more than willing to help/contribute.
bhs, in my high school, i was considered one of the ‘good blacks’. white friends used to tell me their parents didn’t like black people but i was ok cause i ‘wasn’t like them.’ urgh.
Freshman year, we lived in a turn of the century dorm that was my cup of tea, dark, gloomy with lots of woodwork. We had a working fireplace, a window seat with casement windows, surrounded by wainscoting all around the room. Also wall sconces. That was the common room. The bedrooms didn’t have any detail, except the casement windows. It was built in 1898. We lucked out, as it was the nicest of the freshman dorms on Old Campus.
That explains me pretty well, I guess.
The school my son goes to is 16% white, and I am pretty sure he is the only white kid in his class.
He has had some social problems, but I think they have been more based on personality, class, and our parenting style than race.
completely off topic, but i just saw that bbp now has a volleyball section. would you losers be interested in a cobblesnaps party where we went there and played volleyball as a cobblesnaps family party/event? kids and dogs invited!
Legion, I grew up in Staten Island and my life was defined by my parish. I went to all Catholic schools. Everybody was either of Irish, Italian, German, or some mixture thereof ancestry. Forget about not talking to black or Hispanic people, until college, I only knew OF one Jewish kid, Deborah Berg, who people said was nice. And my dentist Dr. Klienman. You can imagine what going to college was like for me.
Legion – I had a similar experience in some really backwater parts of the Phillipines. Being a real life pale WASP I was showered with attention and kept being told how handsome and good looking I was. On account of not being totally delusional, I asked my wife what on earth was going on and she explained that whitness is inexplicably seen as better looking than healthy-looking tan skin. Back in manila we went to the store and she showed me skin whitening-soaps for sale in the drug store.