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Re: Amazingly Stupid Things You've Heard People Say
« Reply #5910 on: August 15, 2013, 10:40:07 pm »

It's not exactly a slur in and of itself.  Coupled with "Jew" and "Polack," the intended context made things pretty clear.

It's kind of like calling someone naive.  You can do that kindly, or derisively.
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« Reply #5911 on: August 15, 2013, 10:41:37 pm »

Oh, I understood the intention in context. It just surprised me.
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« Reply #5912 on: August 15, 2013, 10:45:16 pm »

It's not exactly a slur in and of itself.  Coupled with "Jew" and "Polack," the intended context made things pretty clear.

It's kind of like calling someone naive.  You can do that kindly, or derisively.
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« Reply #5913 on: August 16, 2013, 12:59:35 am »

Polack is counted as an ethnic slur..? But it's the correct nomenclature! Why must you make everything so complicated, language! :S
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« Reply #5914 on: August 16, 2013, 01:00:58 am »

Polak vs. Polack =/  Pretty horrible, that you can turn someone's own name for themselves into an insult.
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« Reply #5915 on: August 16, 2013, 04:45:57 am »

Scored +107. Being a straight white male is already +80. The only reason I'm not higher on the list is because France is somehow equated with Spain, which is hilarious and sad at the same time.
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« Reply #5916 on: August 16, 2013, 07:29:55 am »

Scored +107. Being a straight white male is already +80. The only reason I'm not higher on the list is because France is somehow equated with Spain, which is hilarious and sad at the same time.
I'd rather live in Spain than France.
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« Reply #5917 on: August 16, 2013, 08:06:42 am »

-800?

I'm pretty sure it's not serious when -45 of that comes from the stuff at the bottom.  I don't think I'm the only one that couldn't figure out how to add some of it up.  x3
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« Reply #5918 on: August 16, 2013, 08:18:21 am »

I'm somewhere in the negatives, but can't exactly tell where because "bad eyesight" and "student" aren't listed.
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« Reply #5919 on: August 16, 2013, 09:23:10 am »

+155, somehow.
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« Reply #5920 on: August 16, 2013, 10:43:47 am »

+90.

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« Reply #5921 on: August 16, 2013, 10:47:47 am »

-150.
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« Reply #5922 on: August 16, 2013, 10:49:58 am »

I'm confused. What chart?
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« Reply #5923 on: August 16, 2013, 10:50:40 am »

Scored +107. Being a straight white male is already +80. The only reason I'm not higher on the list is because France is somehow equated with Spain, which is hilarious and sad at the same time.
I'd rather live in Spain than France.
I personally find that putting the eight world power (or is it sixth? Cant remember) and a country currently selling out 27% of its state ownings as equally non-privilegied is showing a small lack of general culture. Nothing else.
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« Reply #5924 on: August 16, 2013, 10:59:09 am »

Scored +107. Being a straight white male is already +80. The only reason I'm not higher on the list is because France is somehow equated with Spain, which is hilarious and sad at the same time.
I'd rather live in Spain than France.
I personally find that putting the eight world power (or is it sixth? Cant remember) and a country currently selling out 27% of its state ownings as equally non-privilegied is showing a small lack of general culture. Nothing else.
I'm pretty sure that that chart predates the crisis in spain.
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