I had a plumber tell me the toilet at my business was blocked up with white rats. It took me a minute.
I have been living for 59 years under the same rock. I don’t know how long this has been going on, but I grew up in an all-white, blue-collar, casually and openly racist neighborhood in Baltimore, and nobody was using any code words.
And the Boomtown Rats.
That one is about Blondes.
It’s what they write on their shoes so they can remember
'Toes Go** In F**irst".
Yep, “I hate Mondays” is code for “I hate Blacks”. Refering to Wednesday as “hump day” means “I want to have sex with everyone dear to you while you watch”. “TGIF” really means “Those Gays Is Fags”, a slur against homosexuals in general. Refering to Thursday as “Friday Eve” is a slur aginst lebians specifically, given the meaning of “TGIF” and the fact that Eve is a female name. Saturday and Sunday are lumped together in “I love the weekend”, which clearly means “I like your ass”. Since the sphincter is clearly less powerful than the jaws, it is the “weak end”.
Yep, Tuesday is the only day of the week without an agenda.
According to the urban dictionary, it’s used by lower to middle class white people to mask their racism. Usually used in the upper north of the United States.
I’m a middle class white wordsmith in the upper north of the US, and I’ve never heard that expression used that way.
That’s what they meant by Bob Geldof. Anyway, he just said, “I don’t like Mondays,” so it didn’t rise to the level of hatred. Also, he was actually quoting a mass murderer explaining what prompted her to open fire on strangers … which, IIRC, was at a McDonalds. That makes it circle back, somewhat bizarrely, to the OP.
Yep, all gingers are.
Count me as another data point that had never heard of this Monday thing!
Days are the horrible result of chronic shortages in our supply of night.
OMG, it took me a few HOURS. I’ve checked back to this thread several times to see if it would become more clear. The light bulb finally went on!
I get Mondays off pretty much every week. Usually this makes for a fun, stress-free day…
I hate grocers’ apostrophes.
Never heard of this being code for anything, and I’m the whitest whitey ever. Perhaps I’m secretly black and none of the other white people has the heart to tell me–they just sneak up and give me full-body makeup every night.
Wait, hold the phone, STOP!!!
You’re black??
Like we’d tell you about tuesday’s agenda :rolleyes:
Ditto. I’ve heard “Martians” used the same way. (“I’m moving to Montana. Not so many Martians there.” Sigh.)
It’s worse when I get this in face-to-face conversations.
I didn’t read the whole thread, just the OP.
One time years ago on 60 Minutes, there was a panel of upper middle class black men and women, professional, well-educated, and they were talking about this secret code stuff. Several of these people actually believed that on the Snapple label, the little “k” in the circle meant that Snapple is produced by the Ku Klux Klan.
(It actually means that Snapple is kosher, although that designation probably would not be enough for a strictly observant Jew without some sort of identified Rabbinic authority.)
A few pygmy ponies though.
Add me to the list who never knew “Mondays” was a code word about black people.
Just another day ending in ‘Y’…