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Signs you are an awful human being, #88745169
Skeleton is a twist (it was imitation) but people have done that forever in LA. Itās not super common or anything, but not newsworthy.
When I bought a Prius in 2007 some had carpool lane stickers and others didnāt. There was a $10k premium for the sticker.
Fits in with my personal experience for MA. No idea why there are so many Brazilians around here though.
I assumed that was primarily influenced by the fishing villages along the coasts, which were heavily settled with Portuguese. Or were you making a joke?
Arabic in Virginia doesnāt surprise me, but Tennessee?
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No, wasnāt joking. Thereās hella Brazilians between Boston and Worcester, and ime thereās been a noticeable increase in other parts of the state as well recently.
Youāre right about the number of Portuguese, though. 300k people in the state with that ancestry.
Interesting, I had no idea. Most of my time in MA is spent in Cambridge though, which is a pretty diverse mix of people from all over due to the schools and tech/pharma industry.
Iāve seen blow up dolls in passenger seats in NYC numerous times to use the carpool lane
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Iām surprised CA isnāt Chinese.
Yeah, itās hard to believe that there are more Filipinos than Chinese or Indians.
Thatās West Virginia, which is even more WTF than Tennessee to me.
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Way more Tagalong than I ever expected.
Was at a poker game with friends, one guy was new-ish, have only met him once or twice. Ethnically diverse group, Iām very white, new guy is hispanic named Pedro.
I drank more than usual, smoked weed for the first time in years, was my boisterous faded self up until I started calling Pedro āJorgeā. Everyone is kinda shock-laughing while it took me 15 seconds to even know why people were aghast. I apologized profusely but was definitely awkward to say the least. I apologized profusely, maybe too much IDK.
How racist is this behavior on a scale of 1 thru 10, 1 being so micro it almost goes undetected and 10 being saying n***** or something heinous. Last person I knew named Jorge was like 7 years ago, IDK what was going on. Like I was confidently and casually calling the guy by the wrong name, to the point I didnāt even get why people were laughing at me.
When you were corrected, did you continue to call him by the wrong name?
Thatās a cookie, not a language.
Once, if Iām being honest, immediately afterwards but that time was definitely because I was super flustered embarrassed and faded, but I immediately apologized again knowing it looked like I was deliberately fucking with him.
Dude is a great guy, mostly laughed it off. But I basically self banned myself from doing much beyond just playing cards the last couple hours cuz I couldnāt trust myself to not make a fool of myself and was pretty deeply ashamed. But the stark shift in my affect post-racist-behavior might have made it worse, IDK been doing a lot of thinking so might be over doing it.
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My former MIL claimed that when she was a young suburban housewife at a neighborās party she spent the evening mistakenly calling someone āPeter.ā
His actual name was Dick.
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I once mistakenly called a white guy Dave when his name was Paul. I got over it.
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Also, way more Tagalog than I expected.