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24th November 2010, 13:38
CaptainRaiden

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Originally Posted by gadjo_dilo

Besides, the oldie may meet dark skinned people everywhere and I'm sure you're not darker than Banel :laugh:
( maybe the old woman confused you with Banel, you know he's popular.... ).

I have no idea who you're talking about, and I doubt you've seen a proper South Indian guy in reality. So, just picture me a shade darker than Will Smith, and it will all start making sense to you. ;)
24th November 2010, 13:45
CaptainRaiden

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Originally Posted by gadjo_dilo

I don't have doubts about translation but about the way the girl talked. I can say the same phrase in different ways: joking, arguing, threatening, being surprised, etc. I'm sure the person who translated didn't it by "playing the roles" of the couple.
At the same time I read the story told by you but I have no clue how the girl talked. I know the kind of jokes about africans and that's why I suppose she joked.
BTW, let's see the other face of the coin. During the communist period we had loads of african young people who studied here. Unlike us they had money and the freedom to travel. Generally we were friends but some of them looked at us in a superior way. Don't know if it's based on real facts but the usual joke was about a romanian who laughed at an african saying that he was just decending from a tree and the african replied: yeah, but I did it directly in a Mercedes.

Well, IMO any joke based on race, caste, creed, color etc. isn't funny for me, and well that's what I've been taught. So, I guess probably that's why I don't find these jokes funny. However, it's strange isn't it that people make these jokes on black guys, their physical appearance, but I don't hear many funny "jokes" being made on white folks. Why the double standard? :p
24th November 2010, 13:58
Garry Walker

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Originally Posted by Eki

Most likely the farmers get killed because they have land and and the killers don't, not because they are white. The same happened in Russia in 1917 onwards, and it's was not about skin color but political color.

How will killing the landowners help the killers? They wont be getting the land. The killings are based only on racism and hatred of whites and because they know they can get away with it.

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Originally Posted by X-ecutioner

And as far as comparing goes, if you're mentioning white farmers getting killed in South Africa and Zimbabwe, then understand that it's pretty much out of retaliation because of the $h!t their forefathers had to go through for hundreds of years. Apartheid ring a bell? Being a slave in your own country ruled by foreigners too much?

My ancestors were slaves many years before any european had set a foot in South africa or Zimbabwe (in their own country too), that doesnt mean I am going to go killing the ancestors of those who were the ones keeping my ancestors as slaves, right? Or does that excuse it somehow?

But I get your point, killing whites out of retaliation is okay. Because whites are guilty of all the bad things in world and without them, africa and other places would be such booming successes :rotflmao:

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I'm not at all supporting it or trying to justify it, and in fact these things should NOT happen in today's world. It's a bunch of uneducated gun-happy idiots exacting revenge on some innocent farmers, and I completely condemn these actions, but when you cry about something, try to see the bigger picture.

Well, if you start a thread on racism which is a serious issue, you shouldnt start it because of a completely irrelevant happening that didnt hurt anyone or has no impact whatsoever, which you due to being such a sensitive drama queen made out to look like such a horrendous incident.

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Well, if you want to laugh at jokes like these, and even make some up yourself, then I guess that's you and your sense of humor, which I of course would never understand. I'm sure you and that girl will have a blast laughing your asses off for hours on these intelligent jokes.

Oh mister high and mighty, I am sure your jokes contain such a dose of intellectuality that even Marilyn Vos Savant would find it hard to keep up.

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It's easy to jump and say, all the 'minorities' cry racism at the drop of a coin, unless you've actually lived as one and walked in their shoes. And I've seen many folks do this, seems to be the new trend.

I have had guys want to beat me up and attack me purley because of my nationality, a bit worse than you thinking someone gave you a weird look, huh.
But I am sure you can just keep on thinking every bad thing that happens to you in life is due to racism, every time someone gives you a weird look, racism, everytime a girl says no, racism, everytime you dont get a doctors appointment quickly, well, that just has to be racism! Every little incident just has to be racism.
24th November 2010, 14:02
Garry Walker

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Originally Posted by X-ecutioner

Well, IMO any joke based on race, caste, creed, color etc. isn't funny for me, and well that's what I've been taught. So, I guess probably that's why I don't find these jokes funny. However, it's strange isn't it that people make these jokes on black guys, their physical appearance, but I don't hear many funny "jokes" being made on white folks. Why the double standard? :p

There are many, the problem is that whites never have problems taking such jokes and they dont cry racism.
24th November 2010, 14:14
gadjo_dilo

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Originally Posted by X-ecutioner

I have no idea who you're talking about, and I doubt you've seen a proper South Indian guy in reality. So, just picture me a shade darker than Will Smith, and it will all start making sense to you. ;)

It's a shame you don't know Banel. He's the most loved footballer from Steaua Bucharest. He's the proof we're not racist because he's gipsy, he's not very talented, he's ugly as a sin, but we all love him to bits. Despite his stupid own goals.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vmkO9TP-To
24th November 2010, 14:27
CaptainRaiden

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Originally Posted by Garry Walker

My ancestors were slaves many years before any european had set a foot in South africa or Zimbabwe (in their own country too), that doesnt mean I am going to go killing the ancestors of those who were the ones keeping my ancestors as slaves, right? Or does that excuse it somehow?

But I get your point, killing whites out of retaliation is okay. Because whites are guilty of all the bad things in world and without them, africa and other places would be such booming successes

Did I even say killing whites was okay?!? I only pointed out a possible reason for the new idiots to exact revenge. Did you not read what I wrote next or is your brain incapable of making the distinction?

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Originally Posted by Garry Walker

Well, if you start a thread on racism which is a serious issue, you shouldnt start it because of a completely irrelevant happening that didnt hurt anyone or has no impact whatsoever, which you due to being such a sensitive drama queen made out to look like such a horrendous incident.

Did I say it was a horrendous incident? Nope. I said it was something ridiculous. Now, who's the drama queen here taking things out of context and exaggerating them? And do people only start threads in the "chit-chat" section on serious and relevant issues? I didn't even brand all white guys as racists, in fact I said there's racism in every country, and yet you had to jump in to defend all white guys. :laugh:

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Originally Posted by Garry Walker

Oh mister high and mighty, I am sure your jokes contain such a dose of intellectuality that even Marilyn Vos Savant would find it hard to keep up.

I don't know how intellectual they are, but they're definitely better than jokes about race specific inappropriate jokes that make you slap your thighs and spray your beer out normally. ;)

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Originally Posted by Garry Walker

I have had guys want to beat me up and attack me purley because of my nationality, a bit worse than you thinking someone gave you a weird look, huh.
But I am sure you can just keep on thinking every bad thing that happens to you in life is due to racism, every time someone gives you a weird look, racism, everytime a girl says no, racism, everytime you dont get a doctors appointment quickly, well, that just has to be racism! Every little incident just has to be racism.

Point out one place in this thread where I said that people ONLY staring at me or giving me weird looks was racism. Can you find it? No. It's when they start calling names, then it becomes racism. But why would you care to read anything thoroughly before spewing the garbage. That's not right! :laugh:

And the guys wanting to beat you up, are you sure it was because of your nationality? It wasn't because of you being just....you? :p
24th November 2010, 14:30
gadjo_dilo

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Originally Posted by X-ecutioner

Well, IMO any joke based on race, caste, creed, color etc. isn't funny for me, and well that's what I've been taught. So, I guess probably that's why I don't find these jokes funny. However, it's strange isn't it that people make these jokes on black guys, their physical appearance, but I don't hear many funny "jokes" being made on white folks. Why the double standard? :p

Just told you the one about the african who jumped in the Mercedes. I also recall one about Ceausescu visiting a african tribe ( not for a family forum ).

I bet there are such jokes but we don't know them. Romanian jokes are always about the romanian guy who's the smartest. They usually start with " an american, a russian and a romanian...." . Nationality may differ but the romanian wins every time. :laugh:

We also have jokes about guys from different regions of our country speculating the low parts of them and nobody is offended. Those about transylvanians are about their slow mind, oltenians are smart and moldovans lazy.
24th November 2010, 14:34
CaptainRaiden

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Originally Posted by Garry Walker

There are many, the problem is that whites never have problems taking such jokes and they dont cry racism.

Well, if there are, I certainly haven't heard any. Care to share a few?

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Originally Posted by gadjo_dilo

It's a shame you don't know Banel. He's the most loved footballer from Steaua Bucharest. He's the proof we're not racist because he's gipsy, he's not very talented, he's ugly as a sin, but we all love him to bits. Despite his stupid own goals.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vmkO9TP-To

Again on the defensive. :laugh: I'll say it again, I'm not branding your whole country or ALL white guys in this world racists. So, no need for you and Garry Walker to run to the defense of white folks. Some of my best friends are white guys, and probably there are more racist guys in India than any other place.

I just heard something ridiculous said by ONE person, and so posted it, simple. Don't know about you, but that was shocking to me, and judging by the first few replies, was shocking to some other guys as well. I am in no way implying that every white guy is racist.
24th November 2010, 14:49
Eki

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Originally Posted by Garry Walker

How will killing the landowners help the killers? They wont be getting the land.

Who will?
24th November 2010, 17:49
anthonyvop

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Originally Posted by X-ecutioner

Well, IMO any joke based on race, caste, creed, color etc. isn't funny for me, and well that's what I've been taught. So, I guess probably that's why I don't find these jokes funny. However, it's strange isn't it that people make these jokes on black guys, their physical appearance, but I don't hear many funny "jokes" being made on white folks. Why the double standard? :p

You haven't hung around enough black people....At least in the US.

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