Southern Illinois has a similar culture to Missouri and northern Kentucky, both slave states that, with difficulty, remained in the Union during the Civil War. None of those are, by any means of definition, “old south”, and certainly Chicago has never ever in a million years been considered such.
Wait, if the man offering his hand is a prostitute, does that mean the woman can shake it?
Now he’s saying that his nephew is <shock!> sexually active, and must be protected from himself at all costs. My bullshit detector immediately went off as soon as I started reading it.
ZPG’s a she. And yeah, after reading that thread I now think she’s just a troll. She wants the son to falsely accuse the girl of raping *him *because she’s angry he had sex with his (same age) girlfriend.
All those who doubted me owe me a nickel! I need it to buy the bear trap.
Sure enough. You called it - good job.
extends hand to jsgoddess in congratulations. But with an underlying current of arousal.
Regards,
Shodan
Well, technically it’s not a false accusation since apparently he can’t legally consent in their state. Unfortunately, neither could the GF, so I have no idea what might happen in that case.
I hope they didn’t shake hands! :eek:
Damn. Total troll.
ZPG being a troll shoots my quantum dimensional internet information bleed-over theory to hell.
I’ll get you next time, Gadget, next time!
I still vote nuts.
Yeah, sorry. I was firmly on the side of stupid and ignorant before, but I think I’m going to have to change my vote to Trolly McTrollerson. Up until now I really thought **ZPG **was just reporting mundane real life events as seen through the eyes of a person who was both floridly psychotic and also an enormous tool. But it has just become too much.
Where should I mail my nickel to?
Well, she’s Roma, so she SEEMS to fit the stereotype of never staying in one place for awhile.
As for the new information on the nephew…what the fucking fuck?
Crikey jingoes you have a very unique world view.
Your proposition is that if a man initiates contact with a female he is more likely to be a rapist. I would agree if such contact was rubbing or patting on the bum but a handshake is an ingrained norm within western society.
Shaking hands with a woman is a sign of respect. If I go into a business meeting and there are women and men present and I only shake hands with the men, I am excluding the women based on their sex alone. This is disrespectful.
Why would she be a whore if she chooses to shake hands?
Nah you got the sack because you are a loony, in the opinion of your employers.
Yeah gotta watch those free hug people.
I have no idea. You don’t think that was my idea, do you?
It was clearly established in that thread that nothing illegal is happening because they are both 16. She is paranoid that a false allegation of rape because the girl is white. Still don’t understand the distinction. Since when are the roma not white?
Come on, you all cannot possibly believe that this one is for real. I haven’t seen this level of intentional crazy since FORMERAGENT got his all caps government issued keyboard.
Anyway, screw handshaking; I prefer a good old fashioned tit grab myself. “Hi, nice to meet you! honk honk” It’s a real ice breaker and greases the social wheels nicely.
Oh **BoBettie **FUCK you made me laugh…
In most of eastern europe Roma are essentially non-citizens, treated pretty much like our southwestern states treat illegal mexican ‘wetbacks’ except they have been living in the countries for several hundred years. It is essentially a problem shared by the jewish population, though where the jewish population set themselves up in ghettos and isolated themselves that way, Roma were nomadic and made their living by thievery, as tinkers [repairing small items like relining tin pans, re-welding seams on cookware, sharpening knives and scissors and so forth] telling fortunes, dancing and entertaining [hence the prevalence of the ‘gypsy violinist meme’] small scale circus performing, and occasionally as animal trainers [dancing bears, trained animals like ponies, monkeys and the like]
There is also a cultural difference attributed to their origin, which includes what seem to be draconian cleanliness laws such as setting up the camps in such a manner that water is drawn upstream of the camp and washing is done downstream of the camp, not washing up in the same vessels used for cooking, disposal of garbage and body wastes and so forth that are similar to the health laws in the old testament [which are sensible sanitation measures for nomads with limited access to water] And as such, genetic consideration for marriage, consanguinity being considered. Marriage with outsiders tends to be forbidden, probably because in previous unenlightened times religion tended to be enforced rather violently [convert or die] and as they were not at that time strictly judeo-christian, rather sensible.
I can try to see if my Romanian buddy has a few Roma friends he can get onto the Dope to answer questions from a non-crackpot viewpoint. My Roma friend that I had, I have unfortunately lost contact with as something happened to her during some unsettled political times and I have never been able to find out exactly what.
Obviously I understand there are cultural differences. But that does not equal race. Its the OP who keeps bringing up white people and seems to not understand that white does not equal WASP. I find it funny because I have never seen anyone who doesn’t consider roma as caucasion. We are talking about texas and america. Most people will have no idea what roma is and would need a class on why they should be prejudiced.