So, am I racist?

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  1. Aenea

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    Some parts of the world are just fucked up. To bad those that live there or move out still think the whole of the "fly over" country is like that. :(
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  2. Shirogayne

    Shirogayne Gay™ Formerly Important

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    Oh, I'm aware times are changing, some areas more slowly than others. :borg:

    Still, from the stories I've been told by the sailors I've met that did grow up near the area my maternal grandparents are originally from, I'm glad I was born in California in 1986 :shrug:
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  3. oldfella1962

    oldfella1962 the only real finish line

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    Southern Alabama does get a shit-ton of tornadoes! And when I lived there they had no porn and no lottery, so you had to drive to Florida for your heathenish sinnin'.
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  4. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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    If gul says you are, you are.
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  5. oldfella1962

    oldfella1962 the only real finish line

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    Gul or any liberal/democrat actually. It's their world, we just live in it.
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  7. Nova

    Nova livin on the edge of the ledge Writer

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    given voting patterns...
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  8. Dinner

    Dinner 2012 & 2014 Master Prognosticator

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    It is like some people have never heard of Herman the German before.
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  9. Shirogayne

    Shirogayne Gay™ Formerly Important

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    I hadn't, actually.

    Don't spend my time memorizing racial stereotypes of my own native land, let alone those of other countries.

    :bailey:
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  10. 14thDoctor

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    I read somewhere years ago that Colin Quinn used to call Tina Fey "Herman the German," but that's the only time I'd ever come across it until now. :clyde:
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  11. Order2Chaos

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    Fucking progressives... making me agree with Flashlight! Does their awfulness know no bounds?
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  12. oldfella1962

    oldfella1962 the only real finish line

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    I haven't heard of him. The only derogatory term I know for Germans is kraut. Speaking of:

    KRAUT = GERMAN
    BUCKET HEAD = KOREAN
    HAJI = ANYONE IN THE SANDBOX
    YANK = AMERICAN
    SLOPE = ASIAN (JAPANESE, CHINESE, KOREAN FOR EXAMPLE)
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  13. oldfella1962

    oldfella1962 the only real finish line

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    I hear that.......you know why you can't circumcise progressives? Because there's no end to those pricks! :shakefist:
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  14. Dinner

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    Jesus Christ, stop being a nit wit. It has nothing to do with race and is a play on words (Herman... German). I swear you lefties are race obsessed get a new schtick.

    That is Yiddish btw.
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    Yiddish? Are you sure about that?
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  16. Ancalagon

    Ancalagon Scalawag Administrator Formerly Important

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    While I grew up in South Alabama I've spent 4 years living in NW Georgia and 3 in Central NC.

    Maybe I'm not the one making generalizations based on limited experience?
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  17. Dinner

    Dinner 2012 & 2014 Master Prognosticator

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    Yep. Schtick is a word of Yiddish origin.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shtick
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  18. Dinner

    Dinner 2012 & 2014 Master Prognosticator

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    Herman is just a play on words for German and a joke because Herman used to be a common German name. Thus characters like Herman Munster from the old TV show The Munsters.
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  19. Dr. Krieg

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    My bad, I thought you were saying "Herman" was Yiddish. Carry on. :lol:
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    It must be a feminist thing because the song title is the reason a female school shooter decided to take out kids coming into school with a gun her dad bought her. It was one of the first big school shootings and one of the few done by a girl.
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    Because Münster is a Herman city. It all makes sense now. :yes:
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    Yes, but it was also a play on the word monster because all of the Munsters were monsters. Herman was just to show Frankenstein's Monster was German thus the name Herman Munster. Watch the reruns sometime and you'll get the joke.
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    Also "The Hun."
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    In France, we call them "les Boches".

    I am the only one of my family who isn't "boche" and even I am of "boche" descent. :D

    Edited to add: We also call them "les Chleuhs". But that's a little less common.
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  26. Will Power

    Will Power If you only knew the irony of my name.

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    @Aurora
    Maybe all it was was that girl having had way too much hooch in the bar that night.
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    Actually, it's because of this guy:
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    The Hermann monument in the Teutoburg forest. He was a huge thorn in the side of Rome at the time of Caesar, responsible for destroying three Legions under Varus at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.
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  28. oldfella1962

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    While we are talking about The Munsters here is something weird about The Adams Family. Gomez is Spanish (duh) but his last name is Adams? :unsure: Doesn't sound too Spanish to me. Then again, I went to high school with a Puerto Rican named Jose O'Neill. :huh: I figured okay, fucker must be adopted because he's obviously hispanic but an Irish last name? But today I googled his name and HOLY SHIT! There are a gazillion Jose O'Neills running around. Damn....I guess you learn something new every day.
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  29. oldfella1962

    oldfella1962 the only real finish line

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    Guy has some broad hips! That's inspiring, I have broad hips too but many people don't know that the hips/ass provide a lot of power to kicks, punches and strikes of any kind including swords and shit.
  30. Spaceturkey

    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    so it would follow that "republican" is a far more accurate euphemism.
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