Social WR Lounge 243: Can you make threads while yellow?

[Bald1]

Like that scene in Spies Like Us?

Yup. Usually it turns into a protracted round of deadpan "Doctor".

None of us, of course, are doctors. What can I say? Sometimes simple things amuse the hell out of me. Lol

 

[panamaican]

I see only one solution now...

@panamaican and @Trotsky need to start their own law firm Ebony and Ivory, if you can guess which one is the black guy through email correspondence only, 10% off their hourly rates.

10% off his rate, I'm always full freight.

 

[Falsedawn]

White people don't get ashy.

They most certainly do get ashy, they just can't see it. Got cats walking around with shark skin hands and shit. Lotion benefits everyone. Especially with aging. Black don't crack, but that black is also moisturized on a regular basis.

 

[Deleted member 405583]

(like "how are you doing?").

Literally the first thing I say to anybody when I answer my phone

 

[Jack V Savage]

Potatoes are delicious and it's not polite to answer that question with anything outside of a variation of "Doing alright"

Potatoes are gross, IMO. And I've learned that you're also supposed to ask the other person how they're doing. Wasn't even that long ago that I saw this (white) woman who I sort of know in the parking lot. I waved and smiled, and she asked how I was. I said good, and kept walking. "I'm fine BTW." And then she even told me wife about it. Like, fuck you lady. Why do we need four conversational touches? Two should be sufficient (and we had three)". Where I'm from, we just raise our eyebrows and don't break stride. I started doing it, though.

 

[LazaRRus]

RR seems to be having a public discussion with himself about what race he identifies as.

Do we have an acronym for that? DSM-5?

Talk to one of my phone's about it. Ever since Sprint merged with T-mobile it's been a shit show.

I'm a white dude

 

[LazaRRus]

They most certainly do get ashy, they just can't see it. Got cats walking around with shark skin hands and shit. Lotion benefits everyone. Especially with aging. Black don't crack, but that black is also moisturized on a regular basis.

This is true. I put lotion on my elbows twice a day

 

[Cubo de Sangre]

Potatoes are gross, IMO. And I've learned that you're also supposed to ask the other person how they're doing. Wasn't even that long ago that I saw this (white) woman who I sort of know in the parking lot. I waved and smiled, and she asked how I was. I said good, and kept walking. "I'm fine BTW." And then she even told me wife about it. Like, fuck you lady. Why do we need four conversational touches? Two should be sufficient (and we had three)". Where I'm from, we just raise our eyebrows and don't break stride. I started doing it, though.

Sounds like she's DTF.

 

[Deleted member 405583]

Talk to one of my phone's about it. Ever since Sprint merged with T-mobile it's been a shit show.

I'm a white dude

1) stop having 26 phones
2) hire more staff to man your phones
3) ya don't say?

 

[Cubo de Sangre]

This is true. I put lotion on my elbows twice a day

As a sports agent I'd have guessed your knees.

 

[Trotsky]

I really haven't seen passion about people of color (hate that term). The persons thing is the right answer IMO.

I've always liked persons of color (/ white persons) because it implies individuality and individual consciousness. "Persons of color" speaks to me as describing individuals who happen to have a certain trait, whereas "people of color" doesn't quite as much and "colored people" sounds like more of a defining language than a descriptive one.

Also, just as a kind of related topic, one thing that I have long been working on personally is cutting back on "you guys," "hey, guys," etc. when addressing mixed company. The problem is that, if I'm nervous or under pressure, that's what my mind defaults to. So in situations where I should be most cognizant of it, I tend to actually use it the most. And "you all" just doesn't hit my tongue right.

 

[Deleted member 405583]

As a sports agent I'd have guessed your knees.

He also does plenty of jaw exercises

 

[Falsedawn]

This is true. I put lotion on my elbows twice a day

I had a friend in college who swore he never got ashy, never needed lotion, all that. Dude had the roughest hands on this earth. I got a nail file and dragged it across the top of his hand. When I say the top layer of dead skin came off and he had a big ass line on his hand, that's not an exaggeration. I've been a lotion evangelist ever since. I didn't know it was a cultural thing.

 

[StoneColdSteveAustin]

What about throwing a paper ball into a water basket and when it goes in you say “I’ve still got it!!”

that’s a very white person thing.

 

[StoneColdSteveAustin]

*waste basket

 

[Falsedawn]

What about throwing a paper ball into a water basket and when it goes in you say “I’ve still got it!!”

that’s a very white person thing.

The exclamation, maybe. Black people invoke Kobe.

 

[StoneColdSteveAustin]

The exclamation, maybe. Black people invoke Kobe.

 

[LazaRRus]

1) stop having 26 phones
2) hire more staff to man your phones
3) ya don't say?

1) You'd be surprised how often you have to toss one
2) Never give anyone your phone
3) lol

 

[Loiosh]

Don’t listen to @Social Distance Warrior . His meds rely on the postal service, which is godawful right now.

Can't wait until the Dems are blamed for that.

And then when they reverse the damage Trump did, they get blamed for wasting money.

 

[LazaRRus]

As a sports agent I'd have guessed your knees.

Nah. I'm not one of Deshaun's massage therapists