"You can only tell them today with one hand over your mouth otherwise you will be insulted as a racist. I find that ridiculous. In those earlier days every friendly clique had a 'Sam the Jew' or 'José the Mexican' - but we didn't think anything of it or have a racist thought. It was normal that we made jokes based on our nationality or ethnicity. That was never a problem. I don't want to be politically correct. We're all spending too much time and energy trying to be politically correct about everything."
So says Clint Eastwood.
February 25, 2009
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 217 of 217Exit polling from prop 8 (gay marriage in Caifornia) makes that pretty clear, people under 25 voted heavily for it while seniors voted heavily against it.
That's backwards. Voters under 30 generally opposed the measure, while those over 65 favored it.
Stop me if you heard this one: An Indian Poobah, a Chinese Emperor, an African King, and a Liberal Asshole walk into a bar and start talking about their wives. The Indian says "You should have seen the expression on my 12 yr old wife's face, when she heard she was going to be burned alive after I die." The Chinese Emperor says "You think that's funny, you should have seen the expression on my seven year old brides--all twenty of them--when the binding started to crush their feet." The African King said "Ha, that's nothing. You should see what my wives went through when we mutilated their vaginas." The Liberal Asshole says "These stories are horrifying. This is supposed to be a joke. Where's the humor?" All three laugh like crazy and tell him that the joke is that he's the one who feels guilty.
David,
The best part of Eli Blake's comment is this:
Exit polling from prop 8 (gay marriage in Caifornia) makes that pretty clear, people under 25 voted heavily for it while seniors voted heavily against it.
Prop. 8 was an amendment to the CA Constitution stipulating that marriage is between one man and one woman. I don't think the vote shook out quite the way he says it did. I mean, we're always being told about the new conservatism of youth, but there are limits.
Most women around the world are socialised this way, and they in turn, enforce that behaviour in those around them. Sometimes it's subtle, with laughs and soothing words to diffuse a potentially explosive situation -- but mostly it's with disapproval based on judgementalism.
Victoria, I do believe that you are on to something here.
Playing the dozens. My first husband was a champion.
"Yo momma... is so fat when she was told to haul ass...it took two trips."
So I'm in this bar and this skinny, bug-eyed black woman carrying a frying pan slinks by. The patrons know her and love her. She yells back "Hootie-Hey" and announces she is going to make some pub food with Love! More cheers.
Then some huge-headed Jew named Rosenberg comes by, holding scallops in his hand - "I always have scallops, no meal is complete without them!" He looks at the bowl of peanuts at each table and marvels how orginal it would be to dump a raw scallop in each bowl. "I'd invent a new way of serving my scallops".
Then some bald guy wearing a Suomi Finn sweatshirt comes in, explaining he is actually now a German living in California - bringing European refinement to Lotus Land Philistines. He whispers: "Ask that big-headed Jew how he got the 1st name Hosea. He has no idea why his parents named him that and it makes him confused...hee! hee!" He says he masquerades as a Finn because everyone knows German food really sucks. "It's like having a Brit be announced as a judge in a French cooking and wine show - you'd be laughed out of the place. But Finn, no one knows the Finn..."
Rev, Synova--
No, Silverman didn't apologize. Wikipedia.
David-- Eli Blake, if you please.
So this anti-Semite walks into a bar full of Jews. And they stick a really hot steel rod up his ass -- the sharp end. And they turn it.
Chris Matthews and Keith Olberman walk into a 7-11 and Matthews says: "Oh God..."
Race and ethnic jokes bring people together.
Who knew?
Q. Why don't Polish women use vibrators?
A. It chips their teeth.
How bout a vlog with AA, Eastwood and Holder?
No cowards allowed.
Well, George Lewis told the Englishman, the Italian and the Jew
"You can't open your mind, boys
To every conceivable point of view."
Sorry Clint, but the victimhood train has done left the station. Tell just one innocuous and good-natured ethnic or class identity joke and you'll have all manner of victims eagerly lining up to jump in front of the words so they can snivel about offended they are.
A Chinese guy and African man are sent by their families/nations to attend school in the USA where they become fast friends. Years later they've graduated and found careers in their respective countries, and while traveling, the African guy visits the Chinese man at his home in China, where the African is amazed by the luxurious outfittings of his friend's townhouse apartment, complete with a terrific view looking out of a tall skyscraper, and asks him, “how did you manage that?”
The Chinese man says, “See that freeway out there?” The African gazes out the window, noticing a new eight-lane controlled-access highway below, sparkling in the sunlight, filled with late-model cars zooming along to their appointed destinations, projecting an air of happy prosperity — and inquires, “So?”
The Chinese guy glances at him slyly, raising his hand whilst rubbing the tips of thumb and fingers together, and sotto voce replied: “Ten percent!”
The African mused on this while on the way back to his own country, then years later the Chinese man happened to be passing by on business, and stops to to see his friend. Visiting the fortress-mansion of his old pal, he's stunned and flabbergasted by its overwhelming size, not to speak of the masses of gold and jewels that fill every nook and cranny, covering every appliance. “How??” he squeaks in astonishment.
The African looks at him innocently, and says, “See that freeway out there?” The Chinese man looks out the huge flawless windows, but can see only some emaciated people in rags poking through the garbage cans outside his friend's mansion; a little further on some more thin ragged starving folk listlessly poke the ground with sticks as they attempt to grow some measly crops.
“What freeway,” the Chinese businessman demands in bafflement. The African potentate in his silks and jewels smiles humorlessly beneath lidded eyes, rubs the tips of his thumb and fingers together, and announces proudly, “One hundred percent!”
Chris Matthews and Keith Olberman walk into a 7-11 and Matthews says: "Oh God..."
AWESOME. I may steal this to illustrate the point, Allen!
Cheers,
Victoria
No, Silverman didn't apologize.
Thanks, blake. I must have misremembered (and I got the show she told the joke on wrong, too).
Guy walks into his girlfriend's house carrying a sheep under his arm.
Guy says "This is the pig I have sex with every time you have a headache".
Girlfriend says "That's a sheep, you jerk".
Guy says "I was talking to the sheep'.
Blogger vbspurs said...
OK the bosom thing-I'm uncomfortable...
YOU'RE UNCOMFORTABLE! Think of me, carrying them around all these years. Selfish!
If you want, I could hold those for you.
Blogger Cedarford said...
I got nothin' - that was fucking surreal.
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