BS: Ten Stereotypes.

Subject: BS: Ten Stereotypes.
From: LukeKellylives (Chris)
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 06:31 PM

Just a little game to pass the time by. Name your category, and ten stereotypes about it that really piss you off. You don't have to do what I'm going to and give reasons why you hate them, or anything, but it'd be nice if you did. But you DO have to name one stereotype that you think you actually can be blamed for.

Female beliefs on men:

1: "If he has big feet..." Wrong. We just look weird.

2: "He complimented me, so I think he was flirting." Wrong again. It's a compliment. Half of the time, we just genuinely think something looks nice on you.

3: "All they ever think about is sex, sex, sex." Wrong. We think about other things, too. Like being ninjas. Because, come on. That would just be awesome.

4: "He just is nice so he can get in your pants." Again. Wrong. We can be nice, too, and not mean anything by it.

5: "They never really feel anything in a relationship." What? We can't love? You judgmental bastards!

6: "He wouldn't want to do anything I want to." Meh. Ask. Chances are, if you just sat through an entire night of a football game, we won't be quick to say no if you want to shop for a day, or whatever.

7: "They only want sex." Huh? We can't just want to cuddle?

8: "They don't cry over anything." Really? Break up with one us and see what happens...Or maybe that's just the guys who aren't just in it for sex. >.>

9: "All men are morons." Preposterous. E = MC2, anyone? Don't see YOU comin' up with equations that put limits on the amounts of energy an explosion can release.

10: "They're all pigs." I have no explanation for this one. It just bothers me. I mean come on...That one's just mean.

I believe I fall under the pig stereotype. >.< I scratch in public, swear in front of small children, among others...>.>

Subject: RE: BS: Ten Stereotypes.
From: Peace
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 06:33 PM

Sanyo
General Electric
Akai

OK, that's three.

Subject: RE: BS: Ten Stereotypes.
From: GUEST,lox
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 06:37 PM

Come on peace

Bang and olufsen

Bose

Technics

THAT's three ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Ten Stereotypes.
From: number 6
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 06:39 PM

JVC

MacIntosh

Marantz

Blaupunkt



biLL (no not me the stereo, but me the number)

Subject: RE: BS: Ten Stereotypes.
From: LukeKellylives (Chris)
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 06:41 PM

*cough*

We ARE aware that there are supposed to be ten, right? >.>

Subject: RE: BS: Ten Stereotypes.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 06:43 PM

This thread is better suited to Chongo. I'm going to alert him to its presence ASAP.

Subject: RE: BS: Ten Stereotypes.
From: LukeKellylives (Chris)
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 06:44 PM

Chongo? Interesting...I think.

Subject: RE: BS: Ten Stereotypes.
From: number 6
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 06:46 PM

Chongo? not interesting at all ... he's just a monkey.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: Ten Stereotypes.
From: Becca72
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 06:46 PM

Don't forget Jensen and Fischer...

Subject: RE: BS: Ten Stereotypes.
From: wysiwyg
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 06:47 PM

It's a good thread, Chris.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Ten Stereotypes.
From: bobad
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 06:48 PM

They add up to ten by my reckoning, whassamatter can't count?

Subject: RE: BS: Ten Stereotypes.
From: LukeKellylives (Chris)
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 06:48 PM

Okies.

I'm officially lost...But...Oh, well. *nods and smiles to avoid looking like he doesn't know what's going on*

>.>

<.<

Subject: RE: BS: Ten Stereotypes.
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 07:05 PM

Common prejudices about chimps:

1. "They're dirty." - A rotten lie! WE are not dirty!
2. "They're ugly." - For humans to say WE are ugly is REALLY a case of the pot calling the kettle black.
3. "poop-throwing" - This one REALLY ticks me off! You would probably throw poop too if you were confined to a small enclosure for years and forced to be stared at and harassed by ignorant, inferior lifeforms with digital cameras.
4. "hysterical" - Ha! You call US hysterical? Ever seen a bunch of human bozos going nuts on one of those dumb TV game shows? That's what I call hysterical.
5. "sex maniacs" - Another lie. It's humans who are sex maniacs. Did chimps create Playboy Magazine? Did chimps invent stripping? NO. Humans did. Buncha sickos, that's what.
6. "monkeys" - BUNDOLO!!! Chongo will kill! WE ARE NOT MONKEYS!!!!! Monkeys have tails, chimps don't. We are APES!
7. "destructive" - Another lie! Who invented the A-bomb? A chimp? I don't think so.
8. "violent" - Well, who wouldn't get violent with all this prejudice? Anyway, just refer back to #7 above.
9. "fleabitten" - A libelous assertion! None of the chimps I know have fleas.
10. "They're imitative. Monkey see, monkey do." - AGAIN with the 'monkey' insult! This is so untrue. Chimps have been havin' original thoughts ever since the first chimp slid down the first grapevine. I have original thoughts every day.

- Chongo

Subject: RE: BS: Ten Stereotypes.
From: Sorcha
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 07:11 PM

GOOD on ya, Chongo!!!! Bet you could get ten more if you tried. I'm brain dead, or I'd try Blonde..... hee hee.

Subject: RE: BS: Ten Stereotypes.
From: wysiwyg
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 07:42 PM

Is it true that monkeys have fun only when associating together in tightly enclosed spaces? (like barrels)

Do we have ten posts yet?

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Ten Stereotypes.
From: LukeKellylives (Chris)
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 07:51 PM

We have sixteen now. ;)

Subject: RE: BS: Ten Stereotypes.
From: Lox
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 07:52 PM

This place is full of stereotypes ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Ten Stereotypes.
From: wysiwyg
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 08:24 PM

Yes but can we define them?

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Ten Stereotypes.
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 08:49 PM

Ten stereotypes about Southern US men:

1) "All Southerners drive pickup trucks." Wrong! Sometimes our pickup trucks are broke and we don't drive nothin'. We ride in our friends' pickup trucks.

2) "All Southerners live in double-wide mobile homes." Wrong! Some Southerners can only afford single-wides.

3) "All Southerners chew Redman chewing tobacco." Wrong! Some Southerners chew Levi Garrett or dip Skoal.

4) "All Southerners spend their entire weekends fishing." Wrong! We only fish on Saturdays. We spend all day Sunday paddling the boat back to the launching ramp 'cause that damned ol' Evinrude died ten miles up the river.

5) "All Southern men like their dogs more than their wives." Wrong! Some of us have wives that can run a deer or tree a coon just as good as any dog.

6) "All Southerners love having George W. Bush for President." Wrong! A lot of Southerners don't even know George W. Bush is President.

7) "All Southerners are big NASCAR fans." Wrong! All Southerners are big drinkin' fans. NASCAR races are just places to drink that have cars goin' around 'em real fast.

8) "All Southerners fly Confederate battle flags in their front yards." Wrong! Some Southerners don't have flagpoles. They keep their Confederate battle flags in the rear windows of their pickup trucks.

9) "All Southern men are named Bubba, Jim Bob, or Billy Bob." Wrong! Some Southern men are named Bubba, Jim Bob, and Billy Bob.

10) "All Southerners love grits." Actually, Southerners only abide grits. We only pretend to love 'em when we have folks from up north come visit. We like to look at the funny faces ya'll make when you try 'em out and find out the suck. We knew they sucked all along.

Subject: RE: BS: Ten Stereotypes.
From: Sorcha
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 09:16 PM

ROF, Beedub!

Subject: RE: BS: Ten Stereotypes.
From: Peace
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 09:21 PM

What's funny about that?

Subject: RE: BS: Ten Stereotypes.
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 09:51 PM

Well, we all know about Canadians, don't we?

Subject: RE: BS: Ten Stereotypes.
From: Peace
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 09:59 PM

There's Canadians, then there's Albertans.

Subject: RE: BS: Ten Stereotypes.
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 10:16 PM

Necessity is the mother of strange bedfellows!

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: BS: Ten Stereotypes.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 12:05 AM

Oh, boy....Ten stereotypes about Canadians!

1. They all say "eh?" a lot.
2. They all wear toques.
3. They all have snowmobiles.
4. And they wear mukluks.
5. And they'd rather drink maple syrup than anything else.
6. And they all speak French too.
7. They only say words like "Darn!" or "Poop!" when they get really, really angry.
8. They have sex only on special holidays, like Christmas and New Year's.
9. They do it wearing parkas, because it's too cold to ever undress up there.
10. And they are all praying for the day when they can become Americans and give up their free health care and not be allowed to vacation in Cuba anymore!!! ;-)


.................................NOT!

Subject: RE: BS: Ten Stereotypes.
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 04:15 AM

All Australians

1. love beer (blah)
2. love sport, especially cricket (blah)
3. love sport, especially footy (blah, again)
4. eat pies (well, sometimes, but I try to eat better food)
5. throw shrimps on the barbie (well, we tried at JennyO's last party but what a hassle, eating them chilled is soooo much easier)
6. live on the beach in summer (some of us prefer shade)
7. are bronzed Aussies (we have the world's highest skin-cancer rates)
8 are champion swimmers (they why do some drown?)
9. stop everything on the 1st Tuesday of November for the Melbourne Cup (some of us don't)
10. want a home among the gumtrees (about 90% of us live in cities)

sandra (inner city bird who drinks water, hates sport, hides from sunshine under hats & sunnies & brolly, can barely swim ...)

Subject: RE: BS: Ten Stereotypes.
From: skipy
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 05:03 AM

stereostereostereostereostereostereostereostereostereostereo
There, stereo, typed 10 times!
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: Ten Stereotypes.
From: Grab
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 07:15 AM

Forgive my ignorance, but what's a toque? Is it like a toke, but, like, more upmarket and mellow, man...?

Graham.

Subject: RE: BS: Ten Stereotypes.
From: Becca72
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 08:24 AM

I thought it was spelled "tuque"...it's sorta like a watchman's cap, isn't it?

Subject: RE: BS: Ten Stereotypes.
From: beardedbruce
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 08:47 AM

From: Peace - PM
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 06:33 PM

Sanyo
General Electric
Akai

OK, that's three.

Subject: RE: BS: Ten Stereotypes.
From: GUEST,lox - PM
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 06:37 PM

Come on peace

Bang and olufsen

Bose

Technics

THAT's three ;-)


Subject: RE: BS: Ten Stereotypes.
From: number 6 - PM
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 06:39 PM

JVC

MacIntosh

Marantz

Blaupunkt



biLL (no not me the stereo, but me the number)



Subject: RE: BS: Ten Stereotypes.
From: Becca72 - PM
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 06:46 PM

Don't forget Jensen and Fischer...

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Pioneer

JBL

Heath

AR


So, there are at LEAST 16 stereotypes.

Subject: RE: BS: Ten Stereotypes.
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 09:02 AM

One of our speakers is dodgy, so sometimes we only have a monotype.

It's a Sanyo.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Ten Stereotypes.
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 09:25 AM

Toque

Subject: RE: BS: Ten Stereotypes.
From: Scrump
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 09:48 AM

What, no Sony? Maybe they're too expensive?

Subject: RE: BS: Ten Stereotypes.
From: beardedbruce
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 09:51 AM

ok, at least 17 stereotypes...

Subject: RE: BS: Ten Stereotypes.
From: KB in Iowa
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 09:53 AM

I used to think a toque was fur-lined with ear flaps. I was a bit surprised to discover they are basically the same thing we have always called stocking caps. Not that there is anything wrong with that.

Subject: RE: BS: Ten Stereotypes.
From: Peace
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 09:59 AM

"Subject: RE: BS: Ten Stereotypes.
From: Bee-dubya-ell - PM
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 09:25 AM

Toque"

You are hereby made an honoUrary hoser. It entitles you to dress and act like a redneck when you are in Alberta. In other provinces you will be mistaken for a good ol' boy.

Subject: RE: BS: Ten Stereotypes.
From: bobad
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 10:57 AM

Also known as "tuque"

Subject: RE: BS: Ten Stereotypes.
From: beardedbruce
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 11:01 AM

oh, a watchcap.

Subject: RE: BS: Ten Stereotypes.
From: wysiwyg
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 11:03 AM

I'm so tempted to offer a set of stereotypes and realities, about clergy spouses..... but I think it's not the best time or place. I'll just say-- there are more than 10, they're wide, deep, and strong, and people who know me well know better! :~)

~S~
(I think I'm still the only active one here)

Subject: RE: BS: Ten Stereotypes.
From: Midchuck
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 11:06 AM

All Australians

1. love beer (blah)...

You mean the description of Australians as "Violently alcoholic roughnecks whose national sport is Throwing Up On Your Car" is incorrect?

You mean P. J. O'Rourke lied?

Oh, the horror...

Peter.

Subject: RE: BS: Ten Stereotypes.
From: John Hardly
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 11:07 AM

staireotypes - winding, spiral, fire escape, helical, ladder

stareotypes -- thousand mile, deep into my eyes, blank

Subject: RE: BS: Ten Stereotypes.
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 12:52 PM

The Scots....

1. Are tight fisted.
I've see them buy rounds.

2. All support any team any football team playing England.
   Some of them will support whoever has the most/least   Catholics/Protestants

3 Support whichever football team has the least/most Catholics/ Protestants in it.
Some will support whoever has the least English players.

4 Excessive interest in sheep.
   Most Scots live in cities now

5 Have a sunny and cheerful disposition, to match the weather...

6 Drink too much.
    Where was I?

7 Have time management skills that allow them to finish this list before having to go out. Will do it it later, unless someone else does.