# Sick and tired **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 7, 2009, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635 "2009-03-07T06:15:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2009, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635/1 "2009-03-07T06:15:42Z")
I’m tired of: [ul] [li]Kevin Smith[/li][li]Seth Rogan[/li][li]The whole “Asian girlfriend” thing. What’s the next racist fad gonna be?[/li][li]Fake-faded jean thighs[/li][li]Woody Fucking Allen[/li][li]TV shows made in Los Angeles[/li][li]PBR[/li][li]Gauged ears[/li][li]Kids named Dylan and Hayley and Madison and Tyler; any WASP surname. (Quemby? _Seriously_?)[/li][li]“That’s what she said”[/li][li]“Not so much”[/li][li]iAnything[/li][li]lolanything[/li][/ul] . . . I reserve the right to add things as they occur to me ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2009, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635/2 "2009-03-07T06:24:22Z")
I’m sick and tired of people expressing annoyance at hipsters. It’s easy enough to avoid them and their works, so getting really annoyed at them is largely one’s own doing. ---
**Author:** ![Indistinguishable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/90ced4/32.png) [@Indistinguishable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indistinguishable)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2009, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635/3 "2009-03-07T06:28:20Z")
What’s the Asian girlfriend thing? The fact that some people have Asian girlfriends? ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2009, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635/4 "2009-03-07T06:44:24Z")
> [@Indistinguishable](#): > > What’s the Asian girlfriend thing? The fact that some people have Asian girlfriends? Yeah, exactly, that’s how racist I am: anyone with an Asian girlfriend is on my shitlist. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Indistinguishable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/90ced4/32.png) [@Indistinguishable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indistinguishable)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2009, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635/5 "2009-03-07T06:49:38Z")
Well, I dunno. Help me out. What’s the Asian girlfriend thing? ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2009, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635/6 "2009-03-07T07:15:06Z")
[ul] [li]White people with dreads[/li][/ul] ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2009, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635/7 "2009-03-07T07:19:51Z")
> [@Indistinguishable](#): > > Well, I dunno. Help me out. What’s the Asian girlfriend thing? [I’m not the only one to notice the cliche.](http://www.google.com/search?q=%22asian+girlfriend%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a) ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2009, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635/8 "2009-03-07T08:03:30Z")
Fascinating. Tell us more! Are you also sick of Chicago, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and fun? ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2009, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635/9 "2009-03-07T08:10:04Z")
> [@jackelope](#): > > Fascinating. Tell us more! Are you also sick of Chicago, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and fun? Getting sick of PSH. Chicago, if it fixes that whole weather thing, will get a reprieve from me. Fun, though, is always fun. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2009, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635/10 "2009-03-07T08:18:26Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > [I’m not the only one to notice the cliche.](http://www.google.com/search?q=%22asian+girlfriend%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a) I have an asian **wife** , so I guess I narrowly escaped your tired list. Phew! But I do feel sorry for all the Japanese boys around me with their asian girlfriends. But then I guess they’re not aware that they’re a walking cliche. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2009, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635/11 "2009-03-07T08:20:00Z")
What’s PBR? And what’s the Asian girlfriend racist fad cliche? ---
**Author:** ![Jeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2009, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635/12 "2009-03-07T08:24:42Z")
> [@Isamu](#): > > But then I guess they’re not aware that they’re a walking cliche. And racist! Someone please give me something I can respond to with ‘that’s what she said’. For the love of jeebus. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2009, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635/13 "2009-03-07T08:26:54Z")
This thread is kinda small… ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2009, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635/14 "2009-03-07T08:28:14Z")
> [@Isamu](#): > > I have an asian **wife** , so I guess I narrowly escaped your tired list. Phew! > > But I do feel sorry for all the Japanese boys around me with their asian girlfriends. But then I guess they’re not aware that they’re a walking cliche. Riiiight, cuz that’s so obviously what I meant. Seriously, someone with a Japanese wife isn’t offended by the whole Asian-girlfriend-as-status-symbol thing? ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2009, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635/15 "2009-03-07T08:28:35Z")
> [@Jeff](#): > > Someone please give me something I can respond to with ‘that’s what she said’.. _Sigh_ All right, I’ll do it but I won’t like it. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2009, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635/16 "2009-03-07T08:32:09Z")
Seriously? Maybe it’s a Seattle thing, but I thought the fact that the Dandy Fucking Warhols made a satirical comment about Asian girlfriends [in their 2000 album](http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Solid-lyrics-Dandy-Warhols/F017CEFD53C1EFDC48256C1D00081394), and the 198,000 hits on Google, suggested that it was more universal than that. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2009, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635/17 "2009-03-07T08:33:08Z")
> [@Isamu](#): > > _Sigh_ All right, I’ll do it but I won’t like it. Well hurry up, I haven’t got all night! ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2009, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635/18 "2009-03-07T08:33:25Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > Riiiight, cuz that’s so obviously what I meant. Seriously, someone with a Japanese wife isn’t offended by the whole Asian-girlfriend-as-status-symbol thing? I didn’t know it was a status symbol. I knew it was a cliche, and it slightly annoys me that people might judge us as a cliche couple when they see us walking down the street together. Can’t help that though. ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2009, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635/19 "2009-03-07T08:34:27Z")
> [@Jeff](#): > > Well hurry up, I haven’t got all night! Yeah, that’s what she said! _BTW - you missed my opening!_ ---
**Author:** ![Jeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2009, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635/20 "2009-03-07T08:35:45Z")
> [@Isamu](#): > > _BTW - you missed my opening!_ That’s what she said. ☹ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635.md?page=2)