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Sherlock03
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05 Jan 2014, 10:30 pm

Do you mean people who look white or Caucasians?


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05 Jan 2014, 10:32 pm

I like crackers.



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05 Jan 2014, 10:34 pm

Sherlock03 wrote:
Do you mean people who look white or Caucasians?


Check with the OP for context, but it should be pretty obvious who we mean.


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05 Jan 2014, 10:35 pm

No. It is just inaccurate. Caucasian would be a better term.

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05 Jan 2014, 10:43 pm

It does seem like quite a large oversight.


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05 Jan 2014, 10:49 pm

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06 Jan 2014, 12:26 am

This should help clarify things.
http://youtu.be/V2b21yAeEpQ


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06 Jan 2014, 6:37 am

Not really but i do get anoyed when someone shouts "hey white boy!" At me when they dont know my name. That's like me shouting hey black dude!


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06 Jan 2014, 6:40 am

They call me olive.


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06 Jan 2014, 6:48 am

Sherlock03 wrote:
It does seem like quite a large oversight.

Truely so. I'm pretty sure I'm somewhere in the genre of 'peach':
http://www.sherwin-williams.com/homeown ... by-family/



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06 Jan 2014, 6:52 am

thomas81 wrote:
yes, poor, poor poor white people.
Yeah white people dont have feelings!


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06 Jan 2014, 6:53 am

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06 Jan 2014, 6:58 am

I can't explain what's in my head.

How f*****g frustrating!


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06 Jan 2014, 7:12 am

I always say 'White girl', when a white girl delivers my Chinese takeaway.

My daughter tells me off :lol:

I say it on purpose, for the reaction.

I am guilty.


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06 Jan 2014, 7:16 am

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06 Jan 2014, 9:47 am

I learned a new concept from the theatre, a theory of comedy: punching up and punching down. As a general rule (and everything in comedy has exceptions), punching up is fine, but punching down will seem mean-spirited. Some people like mean-spirited, though.

Social class exists, no matter how anyone feels about it, and people tend to order divisions in their minds from best to worst. Almost everyone in America, for example, considers the middle class to be the best.