Chat Thread: Chopsticks and teacups

[Fiddlers Green]

Tea, you have seen the Cracked article about racial slurs?  

[Violet Song jat Shariff]

Fiddlers Green

Tea, you have seen the Cracked article about racial slurs?

eek eek
Wow.  

[TeaDidikai]

Fiddlers Green

Tea, you have seen the Cracked article about racial slurs?

Nope... ~huggles then scampers off to read it~  

[Fiddlers Green]

I spend far too much time on cracked these days, and tvtropes besides that. sweatdrop  

[TeaDidikai]

Quote:

Wait, What?

Gyp is thought to be short for "Gypsy." And long before that term meant a group of odd people who roam the countryside running scams, it was an ethnic slur for the Romany Rroma people who immigrated from Eastern Europe Northern India. The term "Gypsy" evolved from the habit of calling the people Egyptians, because they sort of looked Egyptian and the locals were apparently too shy to ask the people where they were actually from.

The point is the negative meaning of the word started centuries ago, and even now plays off the common stereotype of Gypsies as sneaky, thieving con artists. At least they don't break all your s**t like the Vandals, though. Assholes.

Fixed. 3nodding  

[TeaDidikai]

Ultraviolett1127

Good luck with it mrgreen

So far so good. I actually think I really like it. heart

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What languages?

Latin, Unified Romani, Aramaic, Konine Greek, Biblical Hebrew...

You know, the really common ones!  

[TeaDidikai]

Fiddlers Green

I spend far too much time on cracked these days, and tvtropes besides that. sweatdrop

It was an interesting piece.

I liked the last one too. wink  

[Violet Song jat Shariff]

TeaDidikai

Latin, Unified Romani, Aramaic, Konine Greek, Biblical Hebrew...

You know, the really common ones!

Ah yes xd
Latin might actually be kind of practical....I would think, anyways.  

[Fiddlers Green]

Send the correction in, they actually read their emails and try to keep things pretty accurate, in their own snide, sardonic way. 3nodding

Yeah, Picnic.
I love picnics. ~missing paper-bag demon eating~  

[TeaDidikai]

Fiddlers Green

Send the correction in, they actually read their emails and try to keep things pretty accurate, in their own snide, sardonic way. 3nodding

Yeah, Picnic.
I love picnics. ~missing paper-bag demon eating~

They killed Domo!
You bastards!  

[Fiddlers Green]

I haven't seen a pogrom since the last time we all got drunk, hated on the president, and then heard Boot to the Head and decided to act out the part about people voting republican.
It was comical, but really, not much of a pogrom. xd  

[Violet Song jat Shariff]

Tea! I'm watching your TV boyfriend!
4laugh  

[TeaDidikai]

Awww... now I want to watch my TV Boyfriend.
Instead I have to pick up my husband.

In other news...
Someone:
1) Assumed I'm pagan,
2) Called pagans "my people"
and
3)Suggested that getting a date from a pagan reflects on me as a person.

Is there a reason it should not bring me endless delight to point out that not only am I not pagan, but "my people" would likely not touch said boy with a ten foot pole?

Don't get me wrong- I've dated plenty of non-Rroma, but there's a right way to approach that subject and a wrong way. And "Ha! You're pagan that makes you loose!" strikes me as very very wrong.  

[Fiddlers Green]

I'm currently trying to help a "religions change" person who refutes the orthopraxic nature of Wicca. Something about Gardner being dead now, and therefore irrelevant. Also evolution of words makes her use of Karma okay.
I'm really trying to be civil, but I'm about to be threaded on it. sweatdrop