In you rpost you were inveighing against the perception that single mothers are welfore cheats, SPONGing off society. You seemed to feel passsionately about it, so I wondered if you had encountered the attitude so often you named yourself **Spongemom ** in protest. The cartoon connection hadn’t occurred to me.
Are you calling conservative Christians incompetent? Bigot. 
What were the last two?
I suspect people are less surprised at the golf because they know that at a certain corporate level there’s a fair bit of pressure to play golf so you can chat up clients and deal makers. Even if you’ve never played it, you’re supposed to at leat spend a thousand bucks on some used good clubs and make the effort, to hang with the guys and help grease the wheels. I’ve never heard of this coming up with swimming.
Considering the conservative Christian university I went to, I’d be astonished if that could be pulled off. I’d be surprised if that university could manage to get through one school year without making an observant person say, “Well, that’s what you get when you go here. It boggles the mind.” This comes up in many different areas.
Very true. They’re a constant hazard on the road once you get out of town. My husband works at a factory located about 3 miles out of town and kangaroos (both alive and dead) are a common sight along the road. I can’t vouch for the whole country but here in rural south-east Victoria, kangaroos are extremely common.
Yes, it’s true for some rural areas. Not all.
Sorry for the hijack, but how does kangaroo meat taste?
I assume it’s either rank or tough and stringy, because they are supposedly overpopulated…
Any short man who has a nice car/succeeds in business/works out is just overcompensating for his inadequecies and suffers from “short man syndrome.”
Never tried it. In my experience, it wasn’t widely available until a few years ago - mostly found as a dish in gourmet resturants or eateries aimed at the tourist market - and it’s only recently become available in our local supermarket (our Safeway started carrying it a couple of years ago). Even so, I haven’t been keen to give it a go; I read that kangaroo meat can carry some kind of bacteria that can cause birth defects if consumed by a pregnant woman and that because it’s usually served fairly rare the cooking process doesn’t destroy the bacteria. I may not be a pregnant woman, but that really put me off eating something that I was in no rush to try in the first place. I have no cites on this (it’s just a half-remembered article in that tome of scientific accuracy “That’s Life” magazine) so it might be completely bogus, but in any case the idea of eating kangaroo doesn’t appeal especially as I don’t particularly like other game meats (such as venison).
You’re assuming wrong.
Kangaroo meat is like any game meat - how it tastes/eats depends on how you treat it. I was brought up on the stuff, because for many years if you could get it, it was a helluvalot cheaper than beef or lamb.
It’s incredibly lean, so if you’re just eating the steaks, they benefit most from a high-heat grilling to medium rare. Medium at the absolute utmost. The taste is like a very strong, well-aged beef but less fatty. It also roasts and braises very well, but again because of the lack of fat you need to keep basting it, or make sure that there’s a lot of liquid for it to braise in. It takes very well to strongly flavoured marinades that are high in garlic and other spices, it’s not so delicate that you’ll lose the flavour.
Kangaroo mince is great for spaghetti sauces and lasagne, but not so much for burgers/meatballs (at least not the pre-minced stuff, because you want to cook that pretty well, like you would with any other mince. If you ground your own, it’d probably be okay for burgers, because then you could leave it slightly under). Kangaroo sausages are good for a laugh, but I don’t like 'em much. But that may be more because I’m not overly fond of sausages in and of themselves.
The biggest problem people seem to have with Kangaroo is overcooking the damned stuff. They cook it until it’s well done, which means what little moisture there was in the meat has fled the building long before. It ends up dry, and tough. But if you know what you’re doing, and treat it well, it’s really very nice.
Stereotypes about Kentuckians (I used to live there):
All Kentuckians are cousins and their family trees lack branches.
Kentuckians don’t know how to operate flush toilets.
Kentuckians are completely mystified by that fancy newfangled invention known as the fork.
Stereotypes about New Mexicans:
We all live in rustic little mining towns that come complete with an old codger who can play “Red River Valley” on his harmonica.
We eat chile so hot that it burns houses down.
Thanks!
I’m sure I’d love the stuff, then. I love venison, rare.
When we make ground venison, we get free beef fat from the butcher to mix in…
/end hijack
What’s up with the Google ads for mushrooms?
The stereotypes that I personally hate:
College guy means heavy drinker, out all night partying and bar hopping, etc.
I personally don’t drink and am too socially awkward to get into the whole party scene. I actually came to college for education, not for alcohol.
Appalachia is populated entirely by redneck hicks and trailer park trash.
I’m actually more offended by CanvasShoes’ lumping of all of Appalachia in with Springer guests and the drunks and whatnot on Cops. My family has it’s roots in Appalachia and most of us still live in the region. I’m personally very fond of the area.
I’ve got more I’ll post later when I can think of them, but these are the big ones.
OMG there are black people on the internet?!!!111
What’s next? The yacht club?
My demographic is much aligned by the Stepford Wives Association that all SAHM’s are scrapbooking, UberMommies who shuttle kids to soccer and prep their kids for their ACT’s in kindergarten.
This is patently untrue and unfair. I hate scrapbooking, drive a truck and have been brainwashing my children to become electricians and plumbers so that they will fix and repair all of the Yuppie Spawn Perfect Children’s Megamansions of the future.
“How much to remove the Barbie Doll Head out of the poo filled UBend that little Paris flushed down before the nanny could stop her, Kid Ujest?”
“Let’s see. You have a wine and cheese party today in an hour here. $300.”
" I won’t pay. That’s extortion."
“No, this is. My rates just went up to $500 to stick my hand in your husband’s shit.”
What?
Since I’m into theatre and my sister is a lesbian and I don’t want to have sex, I’m a lesbian.
That since I don’t have religion, I am immoral. I’ve been told by peoples of numerous faiths that non-church people cannot be moral.
As a trivia buff, it’s just as interesting to collect misinformation as it is to learn stuff i didn’t know.
When I read of jokes made between, say, Swedes & Norwegians, or Minnesotans and Iowans, I’m scratching my head like Cap. Kirk before it’s pointed out that one guy is white on the left side and the other guy is black on the left side. Except when there is no difference.
One of the most recent obscure stereotypes I’ve collected is this: “A Bulgarian will chase a rabbit with an oxcart, and catch it.”
The “white guys have it made” trope is annoying, because by “white guy” you mean Ted Knight in “Caddyshack,” ignoring the actual broad demographic. Having lived in every part of the US except New England, I’ve observed that while Race is still a big dividing line, Class is just as big, and more perfidious for not being acknowledged in America. If you deny that, you’re just as obtuse as those who deny racism still exists.
This has been my experience. Golf is a corporate culture thing, not so much a racial thing, and most people play (or attempt to play!) once they reach a certain level in the corporate structure. It makes sense- deals are made on the golf course.
Of course, most kids may have no exposure to golf whatsoever as kids.
I would assume you to be in pain.
I would also assume that it is very expensive for you to get a well-fitting support garment.
Lastly, I would assume you’re a woman.
My scoliosis support group was mistaken for retarded once, as we were all in some form of visible brace. At the time, we were having a fashion show. Come to think of it, I was assumed to be retarded more than once b/c of that brace. Hmm.
Black people don’t sweat, and are incapable of thriving on a vegetarian diet because they have more muscles than other races, and can’t get the amount of protein thta they need from non-animal sources.