# 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:** 11\ **Page:** 8
**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 9, 2009, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635/141 "2009-03-09T08:14:07Z")
What’s the middle-aged women are invisible thing? Wait. [You’re not the only one to notice the cliche.](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22invisible+middle-aged+women%22&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=) ---
**Author:** ![rinni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f6c823/32.png) [@rinni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rinni)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635/142 "2009-03-09T10:15:29Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > [ul] > [li][the Papyrus font](http://img.inkfrog.com/pix/muledollar/Font_Style_4_PAPYRUS.JPG)[/li][/ul] Yes, yes, yes. This font needs to be put out of its misery, or at least a long vacation. ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635/143 "2009-03-09T12:59:49Z")
> [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](#): > > Huh, I’ve never heard of the Asian girlfriend thing being a status symbol. I’ve heard of it being like “Oh poor pitiful him, he bought himself a bride from Asia because he \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ (can’t get an American girl/needs a woman who is docile/insert other ridiculous notion here).” > > Learn something new every day! Didn’t you read what Nzinga, Seated typed? People like you and I who are unfamiliar with the notion are obviously just being deliberately obtuse. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635/144 "2009-03-09T13:16:10Z")
> [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](#): > > Huh, I’ve never heard of the Asian girlfriend thing being a status symbol. I’ve heard of it being like “Oh poor pitiful him, he bought himself a bride from Asia because he \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ (can’t get an American girl/needs a woman who is docile/insert other ridiculous notion here).” Don’t all the mail order brides came from Eastern Europe now? I hate to reopen the issue but the Asian chick thing really does exist and it really is tiresome. No, most guys don’t get themselves a fashionable Asian girlfriend, but enough do to make it tiresome. I have another to add to the list and I can’t believe it hasn’t come up: **Young white guys shaving their heads.** I don’t mean skinheads, I mean guys who think it makes them look good. It does not. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635/145 "2009-03-09T13:22:34Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Young white guys shaving their heads. > > I don’t mean skinheads, I mean guys who think it makes them look good. It does not. No, I’m sorry, head shaving is to be encouraged, whether the subject looks good or not. It makes us bald farts stand out less. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635/146 "2009-03-09T13:27:11Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Who the fuck is pretending? Why would anyone pretend to unaware of something so trite and meaningless in the first place? Did it ever occur to you that many places have no significant Asian populations? > > Thank God we can look to people such as yourself to keep us informed on everything douchebag. Ignorance fought, maybe. Sorta. Holy crap. You really weren’t pretending. Wow. ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635/147 "2009-03-09T13:31:35Z")
I’m sick and tired of people who think professing their sick and tiredness of certain perceivedly popular fads elevates them above those of the unwashed masses not yet cognizant of the enormous sickening tiringness of said popular fads. ---
**Author:** ![Zeriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/58956e/32.png) [@Zeriel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeriel)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635/148 "2009-03-09T15:47:58Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > 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. It was pretty current around here when I went to college ten years ago, for one of three demographics roughly ordered from largest to smallest: 1. Jerks of all stripes looking for a Asian girlfriend (typically more interested in southeast Asian, Filipino, and Indian women) because “they’re trained to be submissive to their men, not assertive like all the bitches around here”. 2. Yuppie business/lawyer guys looking for a trophy girl because of the exotic cachet of “Asian” with precious little consideration being given to the actual girl as opposed to the Platonic ideal. 3. Anime nerds of whatever size and sweatiness looking for a specifically Japanese girlfriend. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635/149 "2009-03-09T15:55:03Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > I’m sick of the Swiss! HEY. ---
**Author:** ![SharkB8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/977dab/32.png) [@SharkB8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SharkB8)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635/150 "2009-03-09T16:19:23Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > Is that a whoosh? If not, hear my “OK?” in your head as Queen Latifah might say it. HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!!! ( **lissener** , I hope you feel truly honored that my first Pit post was to laugh at this! I know exactly what you’re talking about, but had no clue there was a way to relay this in text. You have just blown my mind!) \*\*I also agree with the _Papyrus_ font. I was just griping about this the other day…it’s starting to show up on spa signs in strip malls around here. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2009, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635/151 "2009-03-09T17:24:44Z")
> [@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? I confess, my glasses look like that, but only because they were the only frames my extremely high prescription would go in without being super coke bottled. Luckily I wear contacts 95% of the time. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sick-and-tired/488635.md?page=7)