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Irene ([info]birene) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2007-11-10 13:56:00
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Current mood:Mildly Amused
Entry tags:vandalism

When my people are gone and all that's left is an adjective, will you defend my people?
Granted most of the wank at Daily Kos is patently unfunny these pre-primary days. (Which candidate sucks more, is Hillary a whore, is Daily Kos more homophobic or racist, who is the most oppressed of all? *blergh*)

But the following brought the funny and has not even anything to do with politics pre se, so it goes here.

Mike Erwin posts a Diary complaining about being troll-rated/piled on for complaining over an ethnic slur in another Diary.

Doesn't sound funny yet?

Turns out the "ethnic slur" that offended the OP so much is "vandalize".

Commenters fall all over each other with snark and bad puns.

I LoLed.


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[info]blackjackrocket
2007-11-10 03:30 pm UTC (link)
From the comments:

Don't even get me started...
...on 'paddywagon'.

Um...refering to Irish cops, right? Isn't that a *good* thing to show them in a position of authority?

And someone says that "we'd recognize a slur against Gypsies". And yet I don't see any wank over the word "gypped". Of course, I only read about half the page before my head started hurting, so it could be there.

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nam_jai
2007-11-10 04:30 pm UTC (link)
Um...refering to Irish cops, right? Isn't that a *good* thing to show them in a position of authority?

I once knew someone who took offense at the term, and she said it referred to disorderly Irish drunks being carted away.

For what it's worth, Wikipedia says its origins are disputed and includes both the Irish cop interpretation and the drunk one.

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[info]brennalarose
2007-11-10 04:52 pm UTC (link)
Hmm...Wonder what her reaction to "Black Maria" would have been.

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nam_jai
2007-11-10 05:51 pm UTC (link)
If she could construed as somehow being insulting to the Irish, I'm sure she would have. Sometimes I think she was sad that "No Irish need apply" signs were an artifact of the past and she couldn't claim such things as personally oppressing her.

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[info]brennalarose
2007-11-10 05:58 pm UTC (link)
My inner Troll wants to go all ghetto-scholar on her ass and claim that "Oh, yeah, biyatch, well, BLACK MARIA..."

But, I just can't. I love this sandbox more.

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[info]visp
2007-11-12 05:34 am UTC (link)
Who's black Maria?

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[info]shaysdays
2007-11-12 07:51 pm UTC (link)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Maria

More a what than a who.

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[info]the_mouse
2007-11-12 07:40 pm UTC (link)
I know I once heard Bill O'Reilly defend the "disorderly drunks" version of it (when talking about the joke on Desperate Housewives about Filipino doctors).

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[info]ecchaniz0r
2007-11-10 04:31 pm UTC (link)
I think the issue with 'paddywagon' is that Paddy's IN the wagon but--

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[info]brennalarose
2007-11-10 06:02 pm UTC (link)
If you push on to the Techno Viking link and take a break to watch it, it's mind-numbing enough to continue. I made it through.

No Gypsy wank. But a lot of bad puns and people pointing out that he was doing wrong.
After reading the Wiki, I have to agree. Vandals=/=Oppressed teddy bears with beards and swords.

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[info]rikiki
2007-11-10 07:10 pm UTC (link)
How do you oppress a teddy bear?

(I want one with beards and swords, though. It'd be so cute!)

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[info]brennalarose
2007-11-10 07:15 pm UTC (link)
It would have to be a Harmonian bear.

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[info]jigofspite
2007-11-10 08:07 pm UTC (link)
I always thought Gypsy was a slur already. Just the word itself. I think they prefer the term "Romani People". Not that I've EVER heard anyone use that term outside of a history class... and this comment is totally not funny.

What I wish I could do is make a joke about the Visigoths, but I don't think I have it in me.

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[info]vzg
2007-11-10 11:33 pm UTC (link)
The only person I've ever known personally who had Romani blood called himself "part gypsy"... which, of course, proves nothing, but he was hot, and that somehow makes this comment relevant!

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[info]dragonfangirl
2007-11-11 06:14 am UTC (link)
I do think I recall that I got yelled at once for using the word "gypped," as in "Man, this power cable broke as soon as I got home from the store. What a gyp." Prior to that time I had not even been aware that the word was a reference to Gypsies...

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[info]chibikaijuu
2007-11-11 08:36 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, it took me ages to get that "gypped" was a slur, mostly because a) I hadn't ever used it much anyway and b) I had only heard it said and not seen it written, so I thought it was spelled "jipped" and didn't get the connection that way. (Also as a kid I had this idea that gypsies weren't actually real and were like, the fantasy version of the Roma/Romany and only appeared in books and films, like fantasy pirates.)

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