# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635/101 "2009-03-08T21:39:25Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > Woody Fucking Allen Actually, Woody prefers to fuck his wife’s kids. Which I suppose may be part of what makes everyone sick of him. ---
**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 8, 2009, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635/102 "2009-03-08T21:59:49Z")
Woody’s sexual, shall we say cliches, have always been one of the things that made his movies annoying to me. When his private sex life came to squicky light, this made those bits in his movies even more annoying, verging on vomitous. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635/103 "2009-03-08T22:04:59Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > Yeah, um, no. Around here at least, an Asian girlfriend is a trophy a shallow yuppie dude treats himself to once he reaches a certain tax bracket. Kind of like a Lexus. Well around here I’ve never heard of it as some kind of “hipster prize.” An anime nerd’s wet dream maybe, but a prize, no. ---
**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 8, 2009, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635/104 "2009-03-08T22:13:21Z")
Since you use your location field to show us all how clever you are instead of indicate your _location_, I have no way of responding to that. ETA: Sorry, I hadn’t noticed that my “Seattle” tag disappeared when membership became free. ---
**Author:** ![Indistinguishable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/90ced4/32.png) [@Indistinguishable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indistinguishable)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635/105 "2009-03-08T22:17:03Z")
Doesn’t it indicate the location Rochester? ---
**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 8, 2009, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635/106 "2009-03-08T22:23:45Z")
> [@Indistinguishable](#): > > Doesn’t it indicate the location Rochester? No. It says “Barackchester.” ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635/107 "2009-03-08T22:35:25Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > No. It says “Barackchester.” Who fucking cares where exactly I’m from (and it is Rochester by the way)? The point is, you are bitching about something that seems to only exist in your social circle. Maybe hipster males date hipster females because a lot of Asian women in their 20s happen to be hipsters in Seattle? I have noticed that in this backwater burg you call upstate New York. But hipster males treating Asian women as some kind of status symbol? What assholes do that and why would you voluntarilly spend any time with them? ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635/108 "2009-03-08T22:45:03Z")
This style of [eyeglasses](http://cache-foo.gawker.com/gawker/assets/video/stills/c/Carla.flv.jpg). ---
**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 8, 2009, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635/109 "2009-03-08T22:58:46Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > Who fucking cares where exactly I’m from (and it is Rochester by the way)? Knowing it’s Rochester? Nobody cares. Not knowing it isn’t Tokyo? Relevant to the discussion. > [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > The point is, you are bitching about something that seems to only exist in your social circle. RTFT. > [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > Maybe hipster males date hipster females because a lot of Asian women in their 20s happen to be hipsters in Seattle? I have noticed that in this backwater burg you call upstate New York. But hipster males treating Asian women as some kind of status symbol? What assholes do that and why would you voluntarilly spend any time with them? Wow, the chain of WRONG presumptions you built that stunning bit of illogic out of is just too formidable for me to tackle. You’re welcome to your extremely impressively constructed fiction, but you have absolutely no beginning of an inkling what’s actually being discussed here. Again, RTFT and we’ll try again if you’d like. ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635/110 "2009-03-08T22:59:18Z")
Can somebody explain the whole “asian girlfriend thing” please. Thank you. ---
**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 8, 2009, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635/111 "2009-03-08T23:00:32Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > This style of [eyeglasses](http://cache-foo.gawker.com/gawker/assets/video/stills/c/Carla.flv.jpg). OK? ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635/112 "2009-03-08T23:02:47Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > [ul] > [li]White people with dreads[/li][/ul] Whiney film geeks with trendy piques. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635/113 "2009-03-08T23:02:49Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > This style of [eyeglasses](http://cache-foo.gawker.com/gawker/assets/video/stills/c/Carla.flv.jpg). My wife was trying to order some new glasses online and that style was pretty much the only one they had. You could get different colors, but one way or the other, you were getting those. She was very, very frustrated. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635/114 "2009-03-08T23:03:57Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > OK? No. Not OK. Pretentious, ubiquitous, and suddenly everybody and their brother is wearing them. Why do people fall for marketing fads like this? To demonstrate their individuality? ---
**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 8, 2009, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635/115 "2009-03-08T23:04:07Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#): > > Can somebody explain the whole “asian girlfriend thing” please. > > Thank you. OK, that was funny. Thanksyouowemeakeyboard. ---
**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 8, 2009, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635/116 "2009-03-08T23:05:08Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > No. Not OK. Pretentious, ubiquitous, and suddenly everybody and their brother is wearing them. Why do people fall for marketing fads like this? To demonstrate their individuality? Is that a whoosh? If not, hear my “OK?” in your head as Queen Latifah might say it. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635/117 "2009-03-08T23:11:14Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > Yeah, um, no. Around here at least, an Asian girlfriend is a trophy a shallow yuppie dude treats himself to once he reaches a certain tax bracket. Kind of like a Lexus. It’s kind of hard to ask this without sounding like I’m intentionally trying to insult you but…you work in a video store. How much interaction do you actually have with this Lexus/yellow fever tax bracket? ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635/118 "2009-03-08T23:11:33Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > Is that a whoosh? If not, hear my “OK?” in your head as Queen Latifah might say it. Whooshed again. Queen La-who? OK, I know who Queen Latifah is, but I still don’t know what “OK” means, even if I imagine her saying it.. ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2009, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635/119 "2009-03-08T23:11:57Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#): > > Can somebody explain the whole “asian girlfriend thing” please. > > Thank you. It’s a film and literature cliche. Nice white boy has an asian girlfriend. She is like by his family. This demonstrates that he’s a multicultural sort of guy without hangups. The fact the asian girlfriend likes him gives him street cred and worthiness from a multicultural standpoint. Later in the movie this racial street cred will become important. He will have the gravitas to feel bad and guilty when his bad white friends do something ugly with a racial motivation. He will talk to his girlfriend about and the guidance she gives him will help him find the strength to turn against his friends and do the right thing. If it’s a comedy, than the racial cred enables him to pull off a joke or something that might be seen as racially insensitive except that his street cred makes it happy go lucky. Lucy Liu started the whole thing by being incredibly hot in that TV show with anorexic lawyer chick. Did you see her in Lucky Number Slevin? Oh man. If I wasn’t married with two kids I would be so in to that. Well, actually if I wasn’t married with two kids, balding, unattractive, middle-aged and suffering from diminished sex drive and totally beneath Lucy Liu’s notice I would be so into that. ---
**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 8, 2009, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635/120 "2009-03-08T23:13:12Z")
> [@Jeff](#): > > It’s kind of hard to ask this without sounding like I’m intentionally trying to insult you but…you work in a video store. How much interaction do you actually have with this Lexus/yellow fever tax bracket? We have two billionaires, that I know of, and two Oscar winners, a National Book Award winner, and a couple household names for customers. There are neighborhoods and neighborhoods. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635.md?page=7)