Racial comments.

[Bimmerfanatik]

what about fags, midgets, retards, albinos, moozlims, and Canadians?

Can we still make fun of them?

Those are all fair game.

:)

You know the deal - if it's offensive and not funny, leave it out. But if it's in good taste and good humor - no one should take offense to it.

[Ryan Stewart]

I think I can go along with that except for Canadians. My religion requires me to bash Canada.

[parkerbink]

I think I can go along with that except for Canadians. My religion requires me to bash Canada.

Hose off eh.

Is that a question?

They always inflected upwardly on Saturday Night Live when they said that in the Great White north sketches.

wtf is eh anyway?

[AdironRider]

Canadian beer rules, so theyre fine in my book.

[parkerbink]

When I was a kid (15-18 ) the Canadian consul general to the U.S. in L.A. lived across the street. He always saw me working on my 2002 and liked it, he said I reminded him of him at my age. He regulary gave me cases of Labatts. In 84 he gave me tickets to the Olympics. Good times.

[Low Level E30]

It's a shame that Canadian beer is, in fact, really good --- I also like to bash them regularly and declare them generally useless, but their beer IS good, so that's not entirely true...

... bastiges.

[kowalski]

its not canada thats useless, its the eastern part of canada that is useless... from like ontario on, mainly quebec...:D

[AdironRider]

Quebec does suck, Ontario is much cooler from what Ive experienced.

[marakka]

This sounds like something Adolf Hitler would say.

I'm not exactly a fan of racism. But then again I'm a fan of free speech. If I want to make a racist comment (99% of the time I'm joking) then I feel I should be able to make it and not have some "joe" on the other end of a computer pop a blood vessel about it. Where's the O'RLY owls.... Internet is serious business right? 95% of this board are American citizens. I know I am proud to be just that and have the rights I do.

Do I believe in it... no. But I find the humor in some of it.

I got a mexican kid that works with me. I'm his boss. My boss looks at all the guys in the office and askes who stole his broom. Then the mexican guy looks at the boss and askes why everyone is looking at him. I make the comment "Cause you look the most like the janitor in the room". We get a good chuckle. He tells me thats messed up. Since I'm his boss.... I say something to the effect of.... "Be careful or I'll have you out doing yardwork". I can see the honest displeasure on his face. After we all clear out of the office I pull him aside and apoligize. I made sure he knew that what I had said was 100% a joke. Granted, it was at his expense.... but thats part of being a man eh?

[Febi Guibo]

what about fags, midgets, retards, albinos, moozlims, and Canadians?

Canadians? you mean 'snow mexicans' ??

<faggy>
hey, on a serious note...

strictly speaking, as someone who is basically, um, 'non-white' (I'll leave it at that) I have to kind of agree that overall, this board sometimes has a... let's just say 'limited' perspective that comes out in the tone etc.

I *love* a good joke, humor, making fun of idiots, etc, and I'm not like saying anyone's a bad person or whatever, but as in life and the internet, you never really/fully know who you're talking to.

People will always suprise you (in a good way) when you have a larger view of who/what people are as people... I know from personal experience it pays huge dividends for my own life.

To the dude who took a dump on your mexican or whatever employee in front of the whole crew... as they say: 'just like school in summer'.
</faggy>

hey, props to the original poster, talking about this stuff helps.

[hamann318is]

I can't diss Canada. Trailer Park Boys is better than any show we produce.

[Ryan Stewart]

wtf is eh anyway?

I think its a sort of question mark but can also be used like "doch" or "mal" in german to soften a command.

Hose off, eh? Is like saying "Please go fuck yourself."

Its primary use is for indirect questions. I think, since they have funny accents, they cant use inflection like the rest of the world. Where we would say, "You like the WWF?" with a rising inflection they have to go eh to punctuate it.

[hamann318is]

"doch" and "mal" still don't make sense to me. Filler words FTL.

[Ryan Stewart]

Well, they have a purpose.

Mal is like, sometime/once/anytime so throwing it in a command basically means "Do this! When you can get around to it." Doch is like when your girlfriend asks you, "Could you do this for me?" She isnt going as far to say please, she isnt asking you, but she is making it seem like she is.

They show up often in languages that have formal voices.

[parkerbink]

OIC gracias Ryan

Hose off you hosers!



lol

In Spanish it is aorita (sp?) it can mean now, later, in a while etc.