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AIBU that nothing at all racism related happened to me today, or anyone I know?

79 replies

fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 18/11/2011 18:09

..well?

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fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 18/11/2011 21:40

maybe a handy bus will come along just as he is crossing the road!

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Morloth · 18/11/2011 21:42

Me too, which is even more astonishing because I am in Australia which everyone in the UK knows is a backwards country populated by rabid racists.

PomBearAtTheGatesOfDoom · 18/11/2011 21:43

My pfb and his friend caught the bus to Whitby last weekend, painted blue and wearing full on Naruto garb (think embroidered satin smoking cum dinner jackets and "prat in a party hat" headbands with large metal plates attached to their foreheads) and nobody so much as looked sideways at them, let alone made a racist antiblueskin comment. Obviously North Yorkshire is the centre of the multicultural universe where blue skinned people are welcome!

BeyondTheLimitsOfAcceptability · 18/11/2011 21:43

-hes potty trained, but he cant be arsed to let him use the potty, he just leaves him in nappies. He changes them when he remembers.
-he had him overnight here the other day. in the time he was here, he gave him EIGHT fruit shoots. After his mcds of course.
-he wouldnt go to sleep, so he shouted at him. :( Three hours later, he went to get a takeaway, I gave him a cuddle and sang a lullaby and he fell asleep straight away

Sorry to hijack

garlicbutter · 18/11/2011 21:44

Yeah, but what do we know, Morloth, we're all unwashed pommie pooftahs.

Beyond - Shock Shock - How did you not deck him??!

NoOnesGoingToEatYourEyes · 18/11/2011 21:45

Beyond - "We dont leave the house, just in case we run into a blue person."

<a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=www.greatorlandodiscounts.com/blue1.jpg&imgrefurl=www.ticketmania.com/store/index.php%3Fmain_page%3Dindex%26cPath%3D46&h=296&w=450&sz=37&tbnid=MK6vsNrvFxVT5M:&tbnh=90&tbnw=137&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dblue%2Bman%2Bgroup%26tbm%3Disch%26tbo%3Du&zoom=1&q=blue+man+group&docid=7pNlH4LgR6pPxM&sa=X&ei=c9HGTuSLLoe3hAfMo9nsDw&ved=0CF0Q9QEwBA&dur=900" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> It could happen

Moominsarescary · 18/11/2011 21:50

For my 30th we hwent to an 80s weekend at butlins, there were lots of blue people smurfs there I asked to touch a few so think I might be racist

fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 18/11/2011 22:05

Did their hair feel 'exotic'?

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Thruaglassdarkly · 18/11/2011 22:13

My slippers cant be racist, they're black (oh yes, I went there )

Well I think it's very racist of you to imply that only non-black slippers can be racist. (Oh dear, I seem to have colluded with you in setting up a rather unhelpful racial binary there. Does that make me a racist now too? Hmm )

Moominsarescary · 18/11/2011 22:22

Well untill yesterday I always thought exotic as unusually beautiful so darnt comment fanjo for fear of being racist

BeyondTheLimitsOfAcceptability · 18/11/2011 23:29

Thru Wink

garlicbutter · 18/11/2011 23:43

Ah, those beautiful birds of the Amazon with their [really quite attractive] plumage!
We wandered round the fruit market, revelling in its [rather nice] fragrances.
Should I wear this scent, or is it too [interesting] for the office?

Sigh. Burying one of my favourite words.

Pendeen · 28/11/2011 17:40

What a peculiar thread.

wafflingworrier · 28/11/2011 17:57

i got out of the shower today and wraped my hair in a towl to dry before picking up my baby daughter. she laughed at me. at my turban. can i keep her even though she is racist? she was very, very cute at the same time

wafflingworrier · 28/11/2011 17:58

*wrapped

Rhinestone · 28/11/2011 18:03

I do not like black jelly babies. Could someone point me in the direction of the nearest Equalities and Diversity seminar please.

Also, my DSis is gay and sometimes I find her annoying. I'm Satan aren't I?

flipandfill · 28/11/2011 18:08

I always eat black jellybabies first.
I do feed the blackbirds though.

sue52 · 28/11/2011 18:11

My hairdresser has suggested that I dye my hair biscuit. Is it alright to ask which particular biscuit he means ?

candytuft63 · 28/11/2011 18:12

All the cats in my street pick on my cat just coz e is black innit . Seriously when i was a girl we had a cat called Sambo. I am very old. Blush

fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 28/11/2011 18:19

Pendeen - the thread has been resurrected..when I FIRST posted it there had been about 20 different threads about racism that day, so it was satirical, like.

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RumpleForeskin · 28/11/2011 18:19

I made a racist remark.

I blamed America when I went drive past a massively overweight couple each cramming Macdonalds into their mouths.

wahwahwah · 28/11/2011 18:21

DS told me last week that I was very very white.

BeyondTheLimitsOfAcceptability · 28/11/2011 18:23

wah you're not my dsis are you? Shes practically albino! [grin[

wahwahwah · 28/11/2011 18:26

I am not even that white! Pale and interesting but not porcelain!

RumpleForeskin · 28/11/2011 18:27

Fucking auto correct.