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People that are the Enriques of the low wage world in america are almost universally the nicest people and the hardest working, you'll know what I'm talking about if you live in a mexico border state and worked low wage jobs
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stringball posted:People that are the Enriques of the low wage world in america are almost universally the nicest people and the hardest working, you'll know what I'm talking about if you live in a mexico border state and worked low wage jobs Humility. Don't be an rear end in a top hat everybody, or assume people are dumb because they speak broken English. We are all human.
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Also some people do speak functional if not perfect English, but know feigning "no ingles" when people are being assholes gets the jerks to go away faster. I used to work in a grocery store and some of the other cashiers would complain that "all these illegals can't speak English". These are the same people who sighed dramatically when helping a Latin customer and acted like touching WIC checks was disgusting. The same customers would speak English with me because I was nice to them and helped them get the right stuff if they had WIC.
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pienipple posted:Also some people do speak functional if not perfect English, but know feigning "no ingles" when people are being assholes gets the jerks to go away faster. It kind of reminds me of the waiters/waitresses who complain that black people never tip, so they don't "waste time" giving black customers decent service, so they get a lovely tip from them, and the cycle continues. PUGGERNAUT has a new favorite as of 18:11 on Jul 12, 2015 |
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Please someone just make an itemized list of how Americans do things and how Europeans do things and note which one is the bad one.
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bucketmouse posted:aaaag post content Nothing like the sweet tangy kick of Mercury poisoning. Bonus goatse at the bottom?
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Mr. Gibbycrumbles posted:Nothing like the sweet tangy kick of Mercury poisoning. Also the whole "Kick a Ginger" thing
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CommonShore posted:Also the whole "Kick a Ginger" thing Elaborate.
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Enrique-chat is the funniest thing in this whole thread, gently caress tha haterz
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Last Chance posted:Elaborate. There was some controversy a year or two back about a social-media driven South Park inspired "Kick a Ginger Day." It caused some problems, mostly involving idiotic teenagers. Looks like it's still going. http://kick-a-ginger-day.com/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/10387636/Kick-a-Ginger-Kid-Day-leads-to-attacks-on-schoolchildren.html
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CommonShore posted:There was some controversy a year or two back about a social-media driven South Park inspired "Kick a Ginger Day." It caused some problems, mostly involving idiotic teenagers. A few months ago we were waiting in line at a restaurant and had to listen to this person in line talking about how "once a year everyone in the school would just beat the poo poo out of the one ginger there. Our senior year we managed to break a couple bones." and it was just awful.
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I've heard that while in the US, anti-ginger prejudice is a dumb fake thing inspired by South Park, it's a real thing in the UK and kids are genuinely bullied for it. Accurate?
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I never saw it when I was growing up (mostly because there weren't any redheads in my year at school) but I gather it can get pretty bad. Don't support the prejudice.
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I bought a purse today. Fake leather, which I normally don't do, but it was cheap and cute, so I figured what the hell. There were tags attached proclaiming it to be Vegan! and BPA-free! Good to know if I ever get realllllly hungry, I guess. *I know that some people won't buy things made with animal products, and it's nice that they have options other than terrible hippie clothes and that ol' Freckles got a reprieve from the glue factory. Still, it kind of struck me as similar to when companies slap a gluten-free label on something that never contained gluten in the first place.
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pookel posted:I've heard that while in the US, anti-ginger prejudice is a dumb fake thing inspired by South Park, it's a real thing in the UK and kids are genuinely bullied for it. Accurate? Yup. My younger sister and cousins (all with those flaming red corkscrew curls of the type the girl had in Pixars Brave) were subjected to dogs abuse through high school here in Scotland. Mostly verbal, but pretty much constant throughout their school careers. The worse episode was when my 12 year old sister was pinned down in the toilets by three 15 year old girls while a fourth ground pieces of chewing gum into her hair with the heel of her shoe, while they all laughed at how they were "giving her a makeover".  She's been dying her hair since she was a teenager, but one of her kids has got red hair. We find the jokes both friends and strangers make about how unfortunate the baby was to inherit her hair quite loving offensive. (Especially when someone gave her a card with the slogan "Nobody loves a ginger baby" on it to celebrate her birthday. What kind of card company thinks that's a good idea?)
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Yeah, it does get surprisingly really loving serious in the UK. My friend, whose natural hair colour is beyond the point of being "ginger" and is straight-up ORANGE, routinely shaves his head bald, just because if he doesn't, complete strangers will give him abuse.
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Yeah, even as a kid in Canada I was faced with a perpetual stream of "redheads are always late" and "redheads have bad tempers..." The latter became a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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pookel posted:I've heard that while in the US, anti-ginger prejudice is a dumb fake thing inspired by South Park, it's a real thing in the UK and kids are genuinely bullied for it. Accurate? I'm american and had never even heard of people being called "ginger" until the South Park thing. How virulent it is in the UK just boggles my mind. I never got how ginger became associated with red hair. The skin of ginger root is brown, the root flesh is pale yellow/tan, and turns pink over time when pickled.
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bucketmouse posted:aaaag post content Ah mercury, sweetest of the transition metals.
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The Lone Badger posted:Ah mercury, sweetest of the transition metals. I love this forum sometimes.
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pienipple posted:I'm american and had never even heard of people being called "ginger" until the South Park thing. How virulent it is in the UK just boggles my mind. Ginger tea tinges from pinkish to orangey-red and has been a thing for over a thousand years. That'd be my guess.
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No so much a marketing disaster as much as "Would have been a marketing disaster if it had gotten made" So, it's the late 1990s and someone at Warner Brothers thought this was a good idea. http://comicsalliance.com/batman-musical-2/ quote:...Another super-musical that never got staged might just have been the best one ever…”Batman: The Musical,” a rock opera featuring songs by longtime Meat Loaf songwriter Jim Steinman and scriptwriter David Ive, and possibly going to be directed by Tim Burton — more on that bit later.Why do a musical about Batman? Well, you can’t argue that there’s isn’t something suitably operatic about Batman’s origin and methods. After all, Phantom of the Opera definitely proved that caped singers can bring in tons of both awards and cash. Spurred on by that and the success of the Broadway adaptations of “The Lion King” and “Beauty and Beast,” Warner Brothers started a division to develop new Broadway musicals based on their properties, starting with Batman. Warner Brothers apparently first approached screenwriter Larry Gelbart (best known for creating the TV version of “M*A*S*H*”) to write the musical, but he turned it down. You can hear some of the songs here, a mixture of demos and fan made versions. (I unironically like them) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwIvtlbEmiKgVPuarwUl-oW8cSidNLIvn Fansite with more info here. http://www.freewebs.com/batman_themusical/home.htm
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LoonShia posted:Hey, man, I'm just exercising the 2nd Amendment. Look when the Founding Fathers wrote that they never imagined mechanical bear arms.
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pienipple posted:I'm american and had never even heard of people being called "ginger" until the South Park thing. How virulent it is in the UK just boggles my mind. Speaking as a redhead, I've got pale skin and I turn pink over time in the sun, so...  Anyway, I do not wish (nor have I ever wished) to have any other hair color. Redheads are awesome and everyone should be one. Or at least be friends with one.
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Yeah, the whole "redheads as a persecuted minority" thing is super weird having grown up in the US. Mostly we just wanted to gently caress them, as being lame rear end goth kids in the 90s, pale skin was a very desirable trait.
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Nckdictator posted:So, what happened to it? An official reason for its cancellation was never given, but many point to the failure of Steinman’s musical “Dance Of The Vampires,” an adaptation of Roman Polanski’s “The Fearless Vampire Killers” which was popular in Germany, but closed on Broadway after only 56 performances. (Incidentally, David Ives adapted and rewrote the script from the original German.) Semi-related, but this is amazing, and more people need to be aware of German Operatic Vampire Total Eclipse of the Heart. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8izyFn77BE If Batman the Musical was going to end up anything like this, we have been robbed. cptn_dr has a new favorite as of 05:50 on Jul 13, 2015 |
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Gingers are really hot, what the gently caress.
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pienipple posted:I'm american and had never even heard of people being called "ginger" until the South Park thing. How virulent it is in the UK just boggles my mind. Ginger has red flowers. I"m a ginger who grew up in the US and people did try to bully me for it a little growing up. Nothing too bad, though.
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On ginger hate: https://vimeo.com/11219730 (graphic violence and probably  )
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It is so weird to see the US on the genuinely progressive side of prejudice, but gently caress it there we are.
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mind the walrus posted:It is so weird to see the US on the genuinely progressive side of prejudice, but gently caress it there we are. Who cares about gingers when there are black guys out there not being shot by cops?
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It's a thing here because white kids need a way to be racist when there aren't enough brown kids around.
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Slime posted:Who cares about gingers when there are black guys out there not being shot by cops? There are black guys out there and they're not being shot by cops!?  Chas McGill posted:It's a thing here because white kids need a way to be racist when there aren't enough brown kids around. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQAmdZvKf6M We know 
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pookel posted:I've heard that while in the US, anti-ginger prejudice is a dumb fake thing inspired by South Park, it's a real thing in the UK and kids are genuinely bullied for it. Accurate? Massive speculation here but possibly something to do with leftover prejudice against the Irish and Scottish. Your stereotypical paddy is always depicted as ginner. Either that or it's because kids are nasty little bastards and we didn't have as many minority kids to pick on in the eighties.
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darkwasthenight posted:Massive speculation here but possibly something to do with leftover prejudice against the Irish and Scottish. Your stereotypical paddy is always depicted as ginner. Either that or it's because kids are nasty little bastards and we didn't have as many minority kids to pick on in the eighties. No, that's pretty much it. It sticks around because it's ok because it's not "technically" sexism, racism, or homophobia, which are the "bad" prejudices. I've told people to go gently caress themselves when I've gotten a comment like that, and usually the response is something like "god, we're just joking around? Why are you so serious? God, gingers have such bad tempers, god, just joking around."
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Some of the best sex I've had is with redheaded women. They are freaks in the sheets. 
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Yeah, in the US I would guess red is the #1 desirable hair color for girls. Look at the women's hair dye aisle and like 50% of them will be some version of red. I hadn't heard of "ginger" as a thing until South Park, either. Edit: And at the time, I thought South Park invented it, as a "let's pick the most ludicrous possible target of racial prejudice to show how stupid discrimination is" sort of thing.
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