Not really bigoted, but...

valerie · Post by **valerie** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 12:22 pm

It seems a little strange, but then we can't really know the postal

clerk's intent. Maybe he just does that with everyone, regarless of

race.

Either that, or he was really nervous and trying to ingratiate?

Like I say, we don't know.

cherandbuster · Post by **cherandbuster** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 12:22 pm

Snoozie

If I go to her window, will she only show me accomplished Jewish people?

Seems like she used some questionable judgment.

DesignerGal · Post by **DesignerGal** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 12:26 pm

I agree with cher.

cars · Post by **cars** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 12:26 pm

So Snooze, you didn't mention, did the clerk try to push any stamps off on you?:-2

sunny104 · Post by **sunny104** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 12:27 pm

a little....:-3

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 12:32 pm

So I would get to look at all the Irish, German, American Indian, norwegian, and swedish stamps.

Oh Cher I did'nt know you were Jewish, can I borrow some money?

Post by **spot** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 12:33 pm

cherandbuster wrote: If I go to her window, will she only show me accomplished Jewish people?Cher, perhaps you haven't seen http://www.zazzle.com/stamps/about/helpCreate.asp

Valid US Postage stamps can now be sent to you with your own submitted photo - you design your own Postage Stamp over the internet and receive them in the post.

At the risk of sounding obsequious, if you used your own photo I bet you could sell them on at a profit. I'd have a sheet and frame it. It's not a bad Christmas present, even.

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 12:37 pm

That is cool, Spot! I didn't know you could make your own stamps.

valerie · Post by **valerie** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 12:37 pm

cherandbuster wrote: Snoozie

If I go to her window, will she only show me accomplished Jewish people?

Seems like she used some questionable judgment.

Problem being that your ethnicity is not as highly visible as a black

man's would be/is.

At least to someone like me, perhaps there are those who could tell but

I certainly can't in most cases.

valerie · Post by **valerie** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 12:40 pm

YZGI wrote:

Oh Cher I did'nt know you were Jewish, can I borrow some money?

How DARE you make such a remark?

Perpetuating stereotypes, anyone?

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 12:40 pm

Val if you seen me drinking you would know I had Irish in me.

cherandbuster · Post by **cherandbuster** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 12:40 pm

YZGI wrote: So I would get to look at all the Irish, German, American Indian, norwegian, and swedish stamps.

Oh Cher I did'nt know you were Jewish, can I borrow some money?

Only if you can get me a good deal on a Mercedes or BMW . . . :p

cherandbuster · Post by **cherandbuster** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 12:41 pm

spot wrote: Cher, perhaps you haven't seen http://www.zazzle.com/stamps/about/helpCreate.asp

Valid US Postage stamps can now be sent to you with your own submitted photo - you design your own Postage Stamp over the internet and receive them in the post.

At the risk of sounding obsequious, if you used your own photo I bet you could sell them on at a profit. I'd have a sheet and frame it. It's not a bad Christmas present, even.

Spot

Always the gallant gentleman

Thank you, kind sir :-6

cherandbuster · Post by **cherandbuster** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 12:42 pm

valerie wrote: How DARE you make such a remark?

Perpetuating stereotypes, anyone?

Val

I took YZGI's comment in the spirit of the thread title. I think (and certainly hope) no bigotry was truly intended.

cherandbuster · Post by **cherandbuster** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 12:43 pm

valerie wrote: Problem being that your ethnicity is not as highly visible as a black

man's would be/is.

At least to someone like me, perhaps there are those who could tell but

I certainly can't in most cases.

Oh I agree

I was just trying to be funny

Most people think I'm Italian anyway

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 12:46 pm

Oh give me a break Val, It was a joke. If I truly were a bigot I would not have said it. Sit back laugh a little its good for you.

cherandbuster · Post by **cherandbuster** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 12:50 pm

YZGI wrote: Oh give me a break Val, It was a joke. If I truly were a bigot I would not have said it. Sit back laugh a little its good for you.

YZGI

I'm glad we were on the same page about the comment. I definitely took it in the way it was intended!

Val was just being protective of someone she cares about. I'm honored to have her in my corner . . .

Post by **spot** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 12:52 pm

I get a lot of stick for being English sometimes but I'd still rather be that than anything else. Besides, it's not something one can easily swap into or out of, I'm no actor.

I'm re-reading Puckoon at the moment (and listening to Spike Milligan read passages from it) and my goodness, they knew how to be bigotted in those days. Wonderful stuff. Will it end up sold bowdlerized, or banned in libraries? I do hope not.

sunny104 · Post by **sunny104** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 12:56 pm

people never know what I am.....

and my husband has an Irish/ (US) Southern accent and people always think he's either from Germany or Wisconsin...ahahahahahahah......

anastrophe · Post by **anastrophe** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 1:16 pm

YZGI wrote: Oh give me a break Val, It was a joke. If I truly were a bigot I would not have said it. Sit back laugh a little its good for you.

have another potato!

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 1:19 pm

Thanks I believe I will.

sunny104 · Post by **sunny104** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 1:33 pm

well..........I've had my profession and now my husband and 50% of each of my kids picked on today, what fun!!

I'm off to go boil some potatoes! :-6

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 2:26 pm

Bigotry can be blatant and in your face or it can be subtle like the wind, not really knowing what just happened. Something like this I just shrug my shoulders at, but were all individuals and have our own sensitivity meter.

I work in a very very ethnic environment and its too hard to know whats going on in other peoples heads so I treat everyone the same. Just relaxed and a how ya doin today seems to work for me.

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 2:42 pm

SnoozeControl wrote: I might've mentioned that my co-worker is Foghorn Leghorn incarnate, haven't I? I had someone come up to talk to me today at work, and I made a joke about FL who kept interrupting our conversation, to which the guest asked if I was a manhater. I countered by asking if he (my guest) was a latent homosexual.

Was that wrong?

Many people have told me I resemble Foghorn Leghorn very much

valerie · Post by **valerie** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 3:11 pm

Nomad wrote: Many people have told me I resemble Foghorn Leghorn very much

Son, I say son, you IS a chicken hawk!!

;)