That was not meant to single out Snoopy Fan, as many have said that in this thread.
Just making an overall observation…
Jesus, sometimes you people (yes I am generalizing) are uptight. Some of my best friends are Indian (hah hah hah)…
No but seriously, one of my closest friends and associates, a fellow graduate student in my lab from Hyderabad, left his previous graduate school after his advisor ran out of money. When experiments go bad now, his responses range from “don’t force me to go to another graduate school” to “at least I can always get a job driving a taxi” to “yes please sir $1.95 for the hot dog” to “Homer, please do not feed peanuts to my God.” Comedic gold I tell you.
Sure we are uptight about one group stereotyping another group. We are perhaps at one end of the pendulum right now, but looking at popular comedy, the good ole’ stereotypic joke is coming back in vogue. Just watch South Park, or that terrible Colin Quinn interview show – they are always making waaaay over the top race jokes (which are, unlike Hilary’s joke, usually pretty funny). I predict this will only be imitated more and more and trickle down through society, so we had better start getting used to it again.
Eh, I appreciate it when a politician can show a little bit of humor, even if it is a little edgy. I think the most disconcerting thing about all of the current round of presidential candidates is the dearth of humor around. How fuckin’ sad is it when George W. Bush is the most entertaining politician in the country? If Howard Dean were to step off of his high horse and take himself a little less seriously, we would gold plate him and worship him as a pagan god. It was arguably the best thing about Clinton – the “lame duck prez” video he made for the press corps, when he absolutely lost it at a press conference with Yeltsin, etc. How far we have fallen since the days of LBJ showing off his appendectomy scars or lifting his beagles up by his ears. Sometimes it seems like nowadays you would get impeached for that sort of behavior…
How far we have fallen since the days of LBJ showing off his appendectomy scars or lifting his beagles up by his ears.
Oy. If LBJ were president today and he lifted his beagles up by the ears, PETA would probably have him assassinated.
OK, I talked about this with some of my confirmation students last night, and I think I get it. Insofar as it can be gotten. It was just a lame reference to a stereotype that Indians own gas stations, and Apu is a Simpsons character who is Indian and owns a gas station.
I don’t watch the Simpsons, and I never heard the stereotype, so the reference whooshed me. Sort of like the jokes with Belgians and pommes frites that I used to hear in Germany.
** If you mean this thread, I am wondering how you get either that I am Pitting Hilary (especially when I say things like “I am not particularly offended” and “I was going to put this in General Questions”), or that it is a symptom of irrational hatred.
Not that it matters. If you would prefer to drop it, so much the better.
Regards,
Shodan
How did I get that you were pitting Hillary? The fact that the thread you started was in the Pit, and about Hillary.
Irrational? Check. Hatred? Check.
Where’s that “Duh” smiley when we need it?
Trans: “Say, did you hear about the Grand Vizier? He was Sumerily dismissed [fub-a-dub, clank!]”
So the part about “I am not particularly offended” went right over your head, then? Unless you didn’t bother to actually read the thread in question. Irrational hatred? Perhaps we are projecting just a little.
Irrational? Check. Hatred? Check. On my part? Nope, sorry.
Regards,
Shodan
Shodan:
Apu owns some sort of 7-11 or Quik-E-Mart. No gas station.
You are missing out on some seriously good comedy if you’ve never seen a Simpsons episode. Chceck it out, man.
it’s almost like we have Father John back with us.
Good days man… good days.