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VoteTedJameson posted:Grad student: "Using a ruler to measure something is a colonial undertaking." You see measuring makes a thing knowable, which makes a thing controllable. This is "the crux of imperialism." Okay, fess up: which DnD/LF poster was this?
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Phosphine posted:To be fair Catholics are Idolaters, though i'm not sure I'd call you pagans. Haven't been to church since my grandmother's funeral, but I'm pretty sure that idolatry isn't one of the pillars of Catholicism.
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Zeroisanumber posted:Haven't been to church since my grandmother's funeral, but I'm pretty sure that idolatry isn't one of the pillars of Catholicism. Catholics revere saints and put statues everywhere. The Catholic church has pretty deep pockets and likes to build big, fancy, impressive churches. I've also known a ton of Catholics who will bow or kneel in front of statues or whatever so other denominations that don't like Catholics decide that they're praying to the statue itself. Granted Catholicism also gets accused of being a front for Baal worship so take that as you will. Ignoring all along, of course, that to Catholics the statues, symbols, and whatnot aren't the important part. You could pray in the middle of an empty field without a single image of Jesus in sight and they'd be like "it's cool."
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Telemaze posted:Do idiots also do stuff like ask everyday English people if they live in a castle? I'm not even joking. The handful of American tourists I've met seem to loose the ability to disbeleive anything an English person tells them. I remember explaining to one that Queen's Park Ranger football team were an actual team of special forces rangers who protected the Queens parkland in the off season.
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I prefer thangkas as a means of focusing meditation, personally.
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High school valedictorian: "Why are so many Mexican kids names Geez-us?" I worked at a bookstore for a long time. The amount of people that would walk up to an employee with a nametag, a lovely store portable phone, and lugging around books and ask if they worked there was astounding. There were numerous occasions where people would come up to the service desk and ask the employee inside if they worked here. Also at the bookstore: "AIDS is a great disease! i hope you die from it!" shouted at the top of her lungs because she wasn't allowed a teacher's discount on her coffee. Other stupid questions from the bookstore: Do you sell balloons? Do you sell foam fingers? Do you provide classes on how to use tarot cards? Do you sell cookbooks in English? After my brother and his wife returned from their honeymoon in London, my aunt asked if they could see the Eiffel Tower from their hotel. When we explained that they were in London, not Paris, she still didn't get why they couldn't see the Eiffel Tower.
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DemonDarkhorse posted:Do you sell cookbooks in English? The rest of your post leads me to believe this took place in the US. Was it in a predominantly non-English-speaking area?
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DemonDarkhorse posted:I worked at a bookstore for a long time. The amount of people that would walk up to an employee with a nametag, a lovely store portable phone, and lugging around books and ask if they worked there was astounding. There were numerous occasions where people would come up to the service desk and ask the employee inside if they worked here. At a clothing retailer a customer once came up to the tills, you know the place with the credit/debit card terminals and computers and cash drawers where people were lined up to get ready to pay for their poo poo, and ask me "Is this the checkout?"
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A blue law derail in another thread reminded me of this gem: "I'm glad that you can't buy beer here on Sundays. I mean think of all the women who have husbands that get drunk and beat them! At least they'll have a day when that won't happen."
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I use to work at a bookstore for a University that is often called the "Harvard of Canada." This one time I saw a woman who seemed to be very confused so I offered to help her locate the book she was looking for. She said she couldn't remember its title, so I asked her a few questions to help narrow down it down (like what the author's name was, who her professor was, what class it was for, etc.) She apparently came to the bookstore without knowing anything about the book, aside from the fact that it was blue. This exact scenario happened more than once with different people.
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Daddy Marbles posted:I use to work at a bookstore for a University that is often called the "Harvard of Canada." This one time I saw a woman who seemed to be very confused so I offered to help her locate the book she was looking for. She said she couldn't remember its title, so I asked her a few questions to help narrow down it down (like what the author's name was, who her professor was, what class it was for, etc.) She apparently came to the bookstore without knowing anything about the book, aside from the fact that it was blue. This exact scenario happened more than once with different people. It's not just your book store. It happens goddamned everywhere.
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Zeroisanumber posted:We have Euro SA posters who literally post this poo poo. It will never stop being amazing to me when the very sane, polite UK people I know will go from bitching about about racism to talking about how vile travelers are within the same conversation
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Aesop Poprock posted:It will never stop being amazing to me when the very sane, polite UK people I know will go from bitching about about racism to talking about how vile travelers are within the same conversation For some reason when people start bitching about travellers and NIMBYI think about the moment in Ed, Edd n Eddy when the Kanker Sister's trailer is teetering between Kevin and Eddy's lawns balanced on their fence. Neither of them want to work out a solution, they just want it to be someone else's problem.
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Daddy Marbles posted:I use to work at a bookstore for a University that is often called the "Harvard of Canada." This one time I saw a woman who seemed to be very confused so I offered to help her locate the book she was looking for. She said she couldn't remember its title, so I asked her a few questions to help narrow down it down (like what the author's name was, who her professor was, what class it was for, etc.) She apparently came to the bookstore without knowing anything about the book, aside from the fact that it was blue. This exact scenario happened more than once with different people. We had a display for this a few months ago at my library. The sign said "I don't remember the title, but it was blue". The whole wall was filled with blue books.
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Aesop Poprock posted:It will never stop being amazing to me when the very sane, polite UK people I know will go from bitching about about racism to talking about how vile travelers are within the same conversation It amuses me that a lot of people go "hurr durr murrica so racism" when Europe is still insanely xenophobic and it's just accepted there. Now I'm not saying that America doesn't have its share of bullshit but I'm just amused people don't realize it happens literally everywhere.
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Tracula posted:It amuses me that a lot of people go "hurr durr murrica so racism" when Europe is still insanely xenophobic and it's just accepted there. To be fair, I think America leads the first world in shooting minorities and having the cops go on paid leave.
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"You can learn the law in about 3 months, on your own. I'm just applying to law school for the piece of paper that says I know it." Oh, and also can we pretty please have this be the 1 thread without a 20 page derail over police brutality?
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Bertrand Hustle posted:The rest of your post leads me to believe this took place in the US. Was it in a predominantly non-English-speaking area? I live in the upper midwest, so no. The neighborhood is pretty white. Unrelated, but during the 2004 election when the whole swift-boaters against John Kerry thing was going on, we had already sold out of the book and were awaiting a second printing. Some rear end in a top hat accused us of being communist because didn't have the book.
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Aesop Poprock posted:It will never stop being amazing to me when the very sane, polite UK people I know will go from bitching about about racism to talking about how vile travelers are within the same conversation Arent travelers white people though? My only realy knowledge of travellers is having watched Snatch though.
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Fashionable Jorts posted:To be fair, I think America leads the first world in shooting minorities and having the cops go on paid leave. Well you have to remember America also has the most minorities as well
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When I was living in California and hadn't gotten a CA driver's license, three times when I was carded I was denied service because the clerk had never heard of Rhode Island. Once was in Gilroy at a liquor store, once was somewhere else around there. The worst was the gas station attendant in San Jose--granted, he was not an American native, but I not only had my RI license but a car with RI plates on it. Yep, I make my own license plates just so I can buy cigarettes!
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sudont posted:When I was living in California and hadn't gotten a CA driver's license, three times when I was carded I was denied service because the clerk had never heard of Rhode Island. Once was in Gilroy at a liquor store, once was somewhere else around there. The worst was the gas station attendant in San Jose--granted, he was not an American native, but I not only had my RI license but a car with RI plates on it. Yep, I make my own license plates just so I can buy cigarettes! IT'S ONE OF THE ORIGINAL THIRTEEN COLONIES! You know, near Boston? People like to use it as a unit of measure when talking about ranches in Texas, etc? Nope.
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Nutsngum posted:Arent travelers white people though? I thought Traveler was the new un-PC thing to call Romany now that in this day and age nobody knows that Gypsy is a slur.
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When I was in university, one of my classmates in constitutional law was this guy who was in one of the Marxist societies. He managed to embody almost every "champagne socialist" stereotype you could name. I think his "greatest hit" was: "It we're honest, working class people are problematic." Another one I heard when I was doing my LLM (though I don't think it was the same guy - I think it was someone else) was: "Black people don't know how oppressed they are. They need white people to raise them up." Social Justice: The White Man's Burden for the 21st Century.  (I don't know, maybe these are reasonable sentiments but they seemed pretty stupid to me from my soggy position.  )
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One of my former coworkers had zero concept of world geography, and only a tenuous grasp on American geography (born and raised and had never left Texas and had no desire to venture outside of Texas). They thought the middle east was somewhere up near Sweden 
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sudont posted:When I was living in California and hadn't gotten a CA driver's license, three times when I was carded I was denied service because the clerk had never heard of Rhode Island. Once was in Gilroy at a liquor store, once was somewhere else around there. The worst was the gas station attendant in San Jose--granted, he was not an American native, but I not only had my RI license but a car with RI plates on it. Yep, I make my own license plates just so I can buy cigarettes! Californians know three places in the US: California, Vegas, and New York. I was dating a guy out here, and when he learned I was from Maryland, a not-insignificant state* with some major sports teams, he asked if it was anywhere near New York. *This is not to say that Rhode Island is insignificant, all I mean is that albeit small, we are in the news quite a bit.
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sudont posted:IT'S ONE OF THE ORIGINAL THIRTEEN COLONIES! You know, near Boston? People like to use it as a unit of measure when talking about ranches in Texas, etc? Nope. Smallest state, constantly stealing Delaware's thunder, the Family Guy lives there? Everyone knows Rhode Island!
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Aquatic Giraffe posted:One of my former coworkers had zero concept of world geography, and only a tenuous grasp on American geography (born and raised and had never left Texas and had no desire to venture outside of Texas). Well, to be fair, Sweden is fast becoming the middle east.
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"Psychology isn't a real science." - White guy with dreadlocks.
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Fashionable Jorts posted:"Psychology isn't a real science." - White guy with dreadlocks. This guy? 
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Maggie Fletcher posted:Californians know three places in the US: California, Vegas, and New York. I was dating a guy out here, and when he learned I was from Maryland, a not-insignificant state* with some major sports teams, he asked if it was anywhere near New York. Nah. We mostly just know California. Why go anywhere else? Sometimes I remember Nevada. I went to Michigan a few times a long time ago but I forgot about it.
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Choco1980 posted:I thought Traveler was the new un-PC thing to call Romany now that in this day and age nobody knows that Gypsy is a slur. No, they're different groups entirely. Travellers are ethnically Irish (mostly) and their first language is English.
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Nutsngum posted:Arent travelers white people though? In Europe there are many shades of white.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:This guy?  A guy I used to work with on a touring show (a sound technician): "Nobody should read the books that a movie or TV show is based off of, because that's spoilers. It's loving stupid to spoil the movie for yourself before it comes out. The movie is always better, anyway, cuz, like, it's faster than reading a whole long book." This was in reference to one of the performers reading "The Hunger Games" a year before the movie was even announced.
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Telemaze posted:
I have been asked this twice when visiting Augusta GA
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Maggie Fletcher posted:Californians know three places in the US: California, Vegas, and New York. I was dating a guy out here, and when he learned I was from Maryland, a not-insignificant state* with some major sports teams, he asked if it was anywhere near New York. I'm guilty of forgetting about Maryland and Delaware, so I don't have much to complain about. I remember Maryland more because I have a handful of friends who work in DC and live in MD. Delaware I think is "famous" for having weird tax laws and so lots of credit companies are there. The Moon Monster posted:Smallest state, constantly stealing Delaware's thunder, the Family Guy lives there? Everyone knows Rhode Island! This was pre-9/11 2001, I don't remember if Family Guy was a thing! But yeah I'd usually get "Long Island?" Which reminds me, a scientist with a PhD in a very specific field (which requires a ton of travel) and who lived and studied in Kentucky asked me if I had to drive over a bridge every day to get to work. Because I think he thought Rhode Island was just a collection of islands. It was like 6am, and we had been working 18 hr days, but I did not at all get the impression he thought it an odd question. My boss said he's never handle something so tactfully in how I answered, haha. I won brownie points that day because I explained that while there are a few islands that give the state it's name, the bulk of our state is not island.
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Choco1980 posted:I thought Traveler was the new un-PC thing to call Romany now that in this day and age nobody knows that Gypsy is a slur. As someone who is half-traveller, "Irish Traveller" is one of the right terms, along with Minkiers.
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sudont posted:Which reminds me, a scientist with a PhD in a very specific field (which requires a ton of travel) and who lived and studied in Kentucky asked me if I had to drive over a bridge every day to get to work. Because I think he thought Rhode Island was just a collection of islands. It was like 6am, and we had been working 18 hr days, but I did not at all get the impression he thought it an odd question. My boss said he's never handle something so tactfully in how I answered, haha. I won brownie points that day because I explained that while there are a few islands that give the state it's name, the bulk of our state is not island. I know as American's we're considered to have virtually no knowledge of the rest of the world geographically, but not knowing major poo poo about our own country is just loving embarrassing. Content: Getting asked if I work there while I'm changing trash bags and pushing a trash bin at work. No customer, I just do this in my off time for fun. And thanks guy who just threw food trash in the trash can without a liner while looking at it and then asks me while i'm staring at him: "oh, was I not supposed to do that?"
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Maggie Fletcher posted:Californians know three places in the US: California, Vegas, and New York. I was dating a guy out here, and when he learned I was from Maryland, a not-insignificant state* with some major sports teams, he asked if it was anywhere near New York. My ex wife was from California, I'm from Michigan. The first time I visited her and her family I was asked if I had needed to get a passport.
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