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Xun posted:I have met a lot of people who literally didnt know the Roma are not a fantasy Disney cartoon creation and that g*psy is a racial slur.
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Nov 11, 2021 19:53
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CannonFodder posted:Fat man goon here and I qualify for this and I'm not pregnant, why I don't even have a uterus! But have you had a period? You could be pregnant right now!
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Nov 11, 2021 19:53
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Cthulu Carl posted:But have you had a period? You could be pregnant right now! Does bloody stool count?
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Nov 11, 2021 19:54
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Halloween Jack posted:I would say that's pretty accurate to where I grew up (rural Virginia). No one ever mentioned Roma and nobody knew that like "The soda machine gypped me" is racist. Ravenloft was written by Tracy and Laura Hickman who, being Mormons from Utah and California, were probably just as ignorant. But the treatment of Vistani as quasi-aliens went on for like 20 years. I remember a friend of mine legit thought it was "Egypt me," like the joke about the cheated Pharoah and the hollow pyramids.
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Nov 11, 2021 19:57
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Lone Goat posted:some people's stomachs are like that when they're not pregnant A guy that I used to know that had a really big beer belly always had a weird walk I felt I had seen before but just couldn't place. Then I saw him walk next to a pregnant woman and everything clicked.
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Nov 11, 2021 20:00
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Pondex posted:Is there a shorter name for letting your fetishes turn you into a complete shithead?
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Nov 11, 2021 20:01
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Xun posted:I have met a lot of people who literally didnt know the Roma are not a fantasy Disney cartoon creation and that g*psy is a racial slur. It's uh. Pretty odd. Some of them got real weird about it when I pointed it out too like "everyone knows they're a fantasy staple! How could you say I'm being racist?" Gypsy isn't a slur in the UK, the preferred way of referring to people from these groups is "GRT" which stands for Gypsy, Romani or Traveller.
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Nov 11, 2021 20:35
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AceClown posted:Gypsy isn't a slur in the UK, the preferred way of referring to people from these groups is "GRT" which stands for Gypsy, Romani or Traveller. I've only been inferring from context on an occasional panel show, but I thought Travellers were the UK equivalent of New-Age appropriation like they do with Native American mashed-up generic spiritualism over here in the US?
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Nov 11, 2021 21:03
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Bruceski posted:I've only been inferring from context on an occasional panel show, but I thought Travellers were the UK equivalent of New-Age appropriation like they do with Native American mashed-up generic spiritualism over here in the US? There are other ethnicities that identify as Travellers as well. kissekatt fucked around with this message at 21:07 on Nov 11, 2021 |
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Nov 11, 2021 21:04
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girl pants posted:
Doc: You need to stop masturbating! Patient: What? I thought it was safe and healthy! Doc: No, you need to stop masturbating right now as we speak. Patient: You told me the last time that I could masturbate as much as I wanted! Doc: NO! I told you you can have a stroke at any time!
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Nov 11, 2021 21:09
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Bruceski posted:I've only been inferring from context on an occasional panel show, but I thought Travellers were the UK equivalent of New-Age appropriation like they do with Native American mashed-up generic spiritualism over here in the US? Irish Travellers are a legit thing. I don't know how old they are as a people but they're definitely not a made up New Age thing. It's funny that they get lumped in with the Roma, though, as IIRC they're completely different groups with the only similarities being traditionally nomadic lifestyles and a shared ability to drive the worst kinds of people absolutely wild.
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Nov 11, 2021 21:42
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AMA: I watched a Law&Order Criminal Intent episode about Travelers once.
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Nov 11, 2021 21:47
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NO gently caress YOU DAD posted:Irish Travellers are a legit thing. I don't know how old they are as a people but they're definitely not a made up New Age thing.  It's like literally every other minority or ethnic group, there's like ~5% of them that are pieces of poo poo and everything that 5% does is used against the 95% as proof of their perfidious nature. In the UK at least you have the Sun and Daily Mail more then willing to run story after story of Travelers leaving messy campgrounds and not paying taxes in the same vein as them screaming about the millions of Eastern Europeans and Muslims sneaking into the country taking British jobs and forcing Sharia law on dutiful Christian white women.
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Nov 11, 2021 21:54
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Xun posted:I have met a lot of people who literally didnt know the Roma are not a fantasy Disney cartoon creation and that g*psy is a racial slur. It's uh. Pretty odd. Some of them got real weird about it when I pointed it out too like "everyone knows they're a fantasy staple! How could you say I'm being racist?" I was in my 20s before I learned that a gypsy wasn't simply a mystic fortune teller or anyone that looked like one. To be honest if it wasn't for the forums I probably still wouldn't have any idea. I don't think I've ever heard anyone mention the Roma out loud, though I suppose there's a chance I just presumed anyone who did was saying "Roman." Also if it weren't for the forums I'd probably still think a pony was a baby horse. Zulily Zoetrope posted:Ahh yeah, that’s the one I was fumbling for. Thank you! No prob, I was trying to post when the submit button was disabled (I'm guessing either because of Lowtax's death or just a fluke with my browser), and I was like, "What is this? I must post this pun, I must!"
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Nov 11, 2021 21:56
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NO gently caress YOU DAD posted:Irish Travellers are a legit thing. I don't know how old they are as a people but they're definitely not a made up New Age thing. Irish travellers came from various laws banning encampents and provision of charity to unemployed Irish labourers, and the population has big spikes during the enactment of the poor laws/ major disastrous events in Irish history like the famines. They aren't more than 1000 years old and I don't think many people think they predate the poor laws. Orwell wrote about joining a group on one of the routes at the end of Down and Out, trekking up and down the country to find food as each parish is only allowed to offer one meal a week. He goes into a gay panic when one of the workers hits on him. Spangly A fucked around with this message at 22:36 on Nov 11, 2021 |
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Nov 11, 2021 22:29
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AceClown posted:Gypsy isn't a slur in the UK, the preferred way of referring to people from these groups is "GRT" which stands for Gypsy, Romani or Traveller. It should be pointed out that in the UK Gypsy not being regarded as a slur is less a weird denial like say, the Dutch and Zwarte Piet, and more so because it’s outright clinical compared to the horrendous depths of slurs that exist here that are freely dropped in reference to that community.
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Nov 11, 2021 22:29
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DoctorWhat posted:Google used to be able to handle it but it's been made deliberately useless for anything other than Pinterest image search and procedurally-generated clickfarm content. Some of the old flags still work. If you put a + in front of a search term it will (mostly) only return results that include that exact term. Remember when booleans were an important part of internet searches?
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Nov 11, 2021 22:41
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Spangly A posted:Orwell wrote about joining a group on one of the routes at the end of Down and Out, trekking up and down the country to find food as each parish is only allowed to offer one meal a week. Reminds me of how in turn of the previous century London there were homeless shelters where you weren't allowed to stay consecutive nights and also if you stayed at one you weren't allowed to stay at any others within 10 miles.
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Nov 11, 2021 22:46
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muscles like this! posted:Reminds me of how in turn of the previous century London there were homeless shelters where you weren't allowed to stay consecutive nights and also if you stayed at one you weren't allowed to stay at any others within 10 miles. That'll teach em
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Nov 11, 2021 22:51
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WIBTA: Hired with a fired coworkerquote:Hi, so I have a friend who was fired from her job about 9 months ago for keeping a gift card with a remaining balance that a customer left, essentially theft since she used it a week later and got caught. I don’t really know all the details if I am being honest since I didn’t work there with her. I found out from another reliable friend who did work there with her. Anyways, fast forward, I got hired at a restaurant this week and interestingly enough, my friend who got fired also works there now and has been employed there for about 4 months already. I don’t think my managers know she got fired from her last job. Will I be an rear end in a top hat to tell them?
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Nov 11, 2021 23:01
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NO gently caress YOU DAD posted:Irish Travellers are a legit thing. I don't know how old they are as a people but they're definitely not a made up New Age thing. That's probably why I made that mistake, I saw people unrelated to the Roma being lumped in with the Roma and drew my conclusions from there. Thanks for the info. Bruceski fucked around with this message at 23:06 on Nov 11, 2021 |
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Nov 11, 2021 23:04
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There was another bit, I think in the same book, where he described staying at a shelter and seeing that they were throwing tons of good leftovers away while the homeless men were being fed terrible food. When he pointed out this was stupid, the staff were appalled at the notion of giving those lazy loafers the food.Spangly A posted:Irish travellers came from various laws banning encampents and provision of charity to unemployed Irish labourers, and the population has big spikes during the enactment of the poor laws/ major disastrous events in Irish history like the famines. They aren't more than 1000 years old and I don't think many people think they predate the poor laws. The Road to Wigan Pier posted:It is impossible to watch the ‘fillers’ at work without feelling a pang of envy for their toughness. It is a dreadful job that they do, an almost superhuman job by the standard of an ordinary person. For they are not only shifting monstrous quantities of coal, they are also doing, it in a position that doubles or trebles the work. They have got to remain kneeling all the while—they could hardly rise from their knees without hitting the ceiling—and you can easily see by trying it what a tremendous effort this means. Shovelling is comparatively easy when you are standing up, because you can use your knee and thigh to drive the shovel along; kneeling down, the whole of the strain is thrown upon your arm and belly muscles. And the other conditions do not exactly make things easier. There is the heat—it varies, but in some mines it is suffocating—and the coal dust that stuffs up your throat and nostrils and collects along your eyelids, and the unending rattle of the conveyor belt, which in that confined space is rather like the rattle of a machine gun. But the fillers look and work as though they were made of iron. They really do look like iron hammered iron statues—under the smooth coat of coal dust which clings to them from head to foot. It is only when you see miners down the mine and naked that you realize what splendid men, they are. Most of them are small (big men are at a disadvantage in that job) but nearly all of them have the most noble bodies; wide shoulders tapering to slender supple waists, and small pronounced buttocks and sinewy thighs, with not an ounce of waste flesh anywhere. In the hotter mines they wear only a pair of thin drawers, clogs and knee-pads; in the hottest mines of all, only the clogs and knee-pads. You can hardly tell by the look of them whether they are young or old. They may be any age up to sixty or even sixty-five, but when they are black and naked they all look alike. No one could do their work who had not a young man’s body, and a figure fit for a guardsman at that, just a few pounds of extra flesh on the waist-line, and the constant bending would be impossible. You can never forget that spectacle once you have seen it—the line of bowed, kneeling figures, sooty black all over, driving their, huge shovels under the coal with stupendous force and speed. They are on the job for seven and a half hours, theoretically without a break, for there is no time ‘off’. Actually they, snatch a quarter of an hour or so at some time during the shift to eat the food they have brought with them, usually a hunk of bread and dripping and a bottle of cold tea. The first time I was watching the ‘fillers’ at work I put my hand upon some dreadful slimy thing among the coal dust. It was a chewed quid of tobacco. Nearly all the miners chew tobacco, which is said to be good against thirst.
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Nov 11, 2021 23:06
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ad090 posted:WIBTA: Hired with a fired coworker Not sure this person knows what a friend is. Should I try and get my single mom co-worker fired by telling everyone she's a thief, which I actually don't know for certain, and don't know if she was deliberately left like a $2 gift card by a customer who didn't want to carry it around after spending most of the balance or whatever? Should I do my best to ruin this person's life because I'm bored?
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Nov 11, 2021 23:09
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hallo spacedog posted:That'll teach em There was also an extremely weird rule where people weren't allowed to sleep in parks at night but it was fine to do so during the day.
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Nov 11, 2021 23:13
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Thundercloud posted:Not sure this person knows what a friend is. Should I try and get my single mom co-worker fired by telling everyone she's a thief, which I actually don't know for certain, and don't know if she was deliberately left like a $2 gift card by a customer who didn't want to carry it around after spending most of the balance or whatever? Should I do my best to ruin this person's life because I'm bored? Why is this person a born snitch? Like wow
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Nov 11, 2021 23:16
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TheWeedNumber posted:Why is this person a born snitch? Like wow I wonder if both people in this story are white or maybe only just one?
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Nov 11, 2021 23:19
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ad090 posted:WIBTA: Hired with a fired coworker I would fire a snitch like this.
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Nov 11, 2021 23:19
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Thundercloud posted:Not sure this person knows what a friend is. Should I try and get my single mom co-worker fired by telling everyone she's a thief, which I actually don't know for certain, and don't know if she was deliberately left like a $2 gift card by a customer who didn't want to carry it around after spending most of the balance or whatever? Should I do my best to ruin this person's life because I'm bored? But professionalism
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Nov 11, 2021 23:21
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AITA for reminding my half-sister of my existancequote:Hi guys, first time poster. As context for this tale you need to know that I come from a midle-sized town in the bible belt and well.... things here work a little bit different. Like, 1950's different.
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Nov 11, 2021 23:23
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cumshitter posted:AITA for reminding my half-sister of my existance Wow
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Nov 11, 2021 23:26
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cumshitter posted:AITA for reminding my half-sister of my existance NAH, but if she decided to be one, I'm on her side.
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Nov 11, 2021 23:27
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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:NAH, but if she decided to be one, I'm on her side. Yeah same. I just can’t believe someone actually wrote those words. Like this is for real and it’s loving wild
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Nov 11, 2021 23:42
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Who wants to play "guess the search term"? AITA for telling my sister what she said is a HIPAA violation and she shouldn’t share personal information? quote:I can’t believe I’m even asking this, but others have told me I was an AH for “getting on to” my sister. AITA for not telling my roommate about my “vag*na razor” quote:I know it’s not technically the vagina, but that’s what it’s being referred to AITA for reminding my husband's friend that I make 3 times his salary quote:My (30F) husband (32M) has a friend 'Mike' (36M) who fancies himself the wolf of wall Street. AITA for blowing up after my cousins boyfriend ate my leftovers? quote:I (21f) moved across the country to live with my boyfriend (23m). But back in June I visited him for 3 months. He lives with his grandma and cousin (21m) who I'll call S. Grandma has been staying at a different house with her sister so it was just us three. Me and my boyfriend bought all the groceries, cooked and cleaned while S sat in his room and did nothing. He has depression and anger issues and has been this way for years. S mom and dad live two blocks away with a full house of kids which is why he lives here. We have tried to include S in things we do but he has never made me feel welcome and would eat all of our groceries and we never got any of it so we started hiding food in our room. When something happened with S we would try to talk to him but he would basically tell us to F off. We told his mom and grandma about it but they say " oh you know how he is he's been having a hard time lately" so nothing has ever been done about it. We decided we wanted to move in together so now we are living with S and his grandma while our trailer is being rebuilt so we can move out soon. S got dumped by his girlfriend and has been more depressed than ever posting on social media about death and continuing to eat all our groceries. On Halloween we felt bad and decided to surprise him by going out to dinner and paying for his meal. We invited our friend (21m) who is also S best friend and he invited his girlfriend. Two of our other friends didn't show up because they had food poisoning and then S refused to go so it turned into a double date. When we came back we invited S to watch a movie with us but he turned up his music so loud you couldn't even talk so our friends quickly left after feeling uncomfortable. The next day me and my boyfriend came home late and saw that S had eaten all of my leftovers from the dinner. My boyfriend yelled at him to apologize but S said no and "so what it's food get over it" so we called his mom and asked her to pay for the meal. This is where I might be the a**hole. S mom is a interior designer and we asked for her opinion on building the trailer and she went out of her way to buy us supplies and help us build it for free. She was offended by us asking for money and told us that she didn't want to work for free and that we were on our own. She got grandma involved and now everyone is mad at us because S should be allowed to eat whatever food is in the house regardless of who buys it and we should be ashamed for inviting him on a double date knowing that he just got broken up with and then brought the party back to the house where he's at. My boyfriend has been on the phone all morning arguing with the family and now we feel super uncomfortable. AITA?
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Nov 11, 2021 23:53
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you know how they are Edit: AreWeDrunkYet posted:Who wants to play "guess the search term"? Sorry I didn't even realize we were playing, that is just a term that sets off sirens whenever I see it.
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Nov 12, 2021 00:01
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:Who wants to play "guess the search term"? God, “you know how he/she is” is so perfect
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Nov 12, 2021 00:02
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:Edit: It wasn't going to be a difficult one. And yeah, that stuck out like a sore thumb in the half sister story which prompted the search.
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Nov 12, 2021 00:07
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AITA for lashing out at my husband for suggesting I stop buying formula instead of cancelling his streaming services to save money?quote:I'm (f32) the breadwinner and have a toddler and a 9 month old baby. Their needs are neverending and everything I buy is expensive. quote:I still do the cooking/cleaning/washing after I get home but he says that's my part of chores so I shouldn't complain. throw the whole man out
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Nov 12, 2021 00:45
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BOOTY-ADE posted:Yeah that's what got me...regardless of how "caring" he is, he flipped on a dime for his ex & decided to keep a kid when he supposedly didn't want any. That's a BIG decision & OP probably thought he'd either give up his rights or suggest terminating/aborting. When that didn't happen, she was understandably upset at him choosing his ex & future child (again, that he claimed to never want from the start) over her & their life. What kind of cockamamie beep boop logic is "someone reacted very differently than they thought they would on finding out some major news, therefore they were lying about their feelings".
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