I’ll betcha this drink looks like pee. Don’t drink pee.
It looks more like this.
Rigamarole I’m going to accept that the way you perceived it was accurate as there is no way to prove anything about your past experience here on a message board. She sounds like a moron. That sort of racial insensitivity is annoying. It is sort of irritating when people make a big deal out of stupid shit like that.
‘It’s ok, I don’t need to respect your racial heritage, because you’re white.’
Unless the woman is also posting a thread somewhere about this incident, it seems like the only person who’s making a big deal out of stupid shit is Rigamarole.
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Writing a Pit Thread is a ‘Big Deal’? I thought the entire point of this particular board was to bitch about shit that annoyed you that you have no other outlet for.
Incidentally, my introduction to racism was from black people with a chip on their shoulder about it. Sure what the lady did was NBD but it’s still annoying.
I dunno - maybe when she was introduced to the drink, the person who introduced it to her called it a Tiger Woods, and she just thinks that’s what it’s called?
Nah, let’s not go and do something crazy like give people the benefit of the doubt. After all, some guy somewhere once told you the name change was because Arnold Palmer is white. Clearly, that can be the only reason anyone would ever use a different name for that particular drink, and all black people everywhere (through the magic of African Telepathy) automatically knew the reasoning behind the name change. Which is why that’s the only possible reason that lady called it a “Tiger Woods.”
The woman did not make a big deal out of stupid shit.
She said a joke. It’s not really that funny or cute, but I don’t think it’s OMG! OFFENSIVE!! either.
I don’t know about you, but I don’t call people “douche” unless I’m really het up.
But you go on and encourage his temper tantrum. I’ll remember your sympathy the next time a black Doper “with a chip on their shoulder” posts a similar rant.
I know it’s only May, but is it too early to call this the lamest pitting of the century?
And you know what I hate? When I go into a Starbucks and order a large, and the sanctimonius Cup-Size Nazi at the counter starts…
Oh, you know, I probably shouldn’t go there…
Maybe Tiger Woods is the only other golfer she knows off the top of her head, and she wanted a witty reply to being corrected. Besides Michelle Wu, Woods is the only one I could name right now. I would hope someone would not attribute this coincidence to my race or my gender. It’s just that these two golfers stick out.
She might not have known that the Arnold Palmer was the universal name of the drink (I sure didn’t). She might have thought that was a name Rigamarole or the restaurant came up with, and thus assumed this gives her license with the name of “her” drink. The thinking would be something like this: If everywhere I go I can get lemonade and iced tea with no confusion, and this one place has the audacity to name my favorite drink after some obscure guy and then correct me like I don’t know what kind of drink I want, then I’ll just rib them a little and pretend I ordered another drink, one that’s named after another golfer, just to make myself look clever. Heh heh heh.
I don’t see any maliciousness. I see mild embarrassment and then an attempt to be funny. I also see some snobbery. Just because someone named the drink after a famous dude (who “invented” something many tea drinkers have discovered independently) does not mean everyone is required to use that name.
She would have been a douche moron if she had insisted that Tiger Woods was the correct name. But she didn’t.
After all these years on this world, after all my travels to various coutries, I have never heard of this concotion. So, being culinarily inquisitive, I took the pitcher of iced tea and the pitcher of lemonade from the fridge and made one. BLEAAH!!! I think it should be called an Adam Sandler, because it leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
A Tiger Woods actually fits much better if you think about it. - Half yellow and half dark. Maybe the lady just had a good sense of accuracy.
Thank you. I get tired of “reverse racism” whining. Context means something.
You know, one time my mother sent me to the pharmacy. I went to the counter and asked for a concoction made with water mixed 16:1 with mild vinegar. The pharmacist looked at me with a smirk and said, “a rigamarole?”
I think you mean Michelle Wie.
Whoo, god, you never fail to amuse/astound/edify/intrigue. Seriously, your shit blows me away. I always click on a **KOS **post. Even when I disagree with you, (rarely) I have to give you props for your style. Surely you write for a living, no?
There is no such thing as reverse racism. That implies that only white people can be racists.
Monstro It’s a pit thread, you apparently have higher standards for pit threads than I do. I might call someone a douche on a lark personally. I don’t take what I read here terribly seriously.
Nah. The eight bucks/year you’re paying for the SDMB beats any offer I’ve ever gotten. But thanks for the kind words. I pay attention to posts under your name as well.
To the OP:
The lady asked for half Iced tea and half lemonade. It could have ended there, you could have just honored the order. End of story. But you have to turn it in to a racial event. You are a freaking idiot and if you worked for me I would have fired your sorry ass on the spot. Your hurt little feelings mean nothing in the real world. Grow up and get a skin.
Wouldn’t you end up with a non-alcoholic version of a cement mixer?