The extended family from hell
So I'm working in Sainsbury's as a student and this huge foreign family comes in. Not sure where they were from, but they looked Arabic and were all dressed in long brightly-coloured robes.

And they stank, as if the only eau-de-cologne available to them was made from rotting badgers and the-morning-after-a-night-on-real-ale squits. We could smell them four aisles away, which was even worse than the mad catlady who came in on Saturdays at 5pm (she wore a fur coat covered with catshit, yet she smelled like roses compared to this lot).

Anyway, they mooched around the store for half an hour or so, picking up the odd exotic vegetable, and eventually the manager had to ask them to leave because they were driving out all the other customers.

However, just before they did so, one of the little boys chundered into the cheese display and we had to throw away about 100 x 250g blocks of cheddar, luckily not the expensive Canadian stuff.

I still wonder if it was some kind of "Beadle's About" stunt.
(rogerzilla, Sun 5 Feb 2012, 10:01, 13 replies)

I can't help but think
This is ever so slightly racist.
(The Luggage is haunted..., Sun 5 Feb 2012, 11:37, closed)

I can't help but think that..
it is a truth that you'd rather not hear because it is difficult to admit.
(Glucose-Maximus All over the world., Sun 5 Feb 2012, 12:44, closed)

How is it racist?

( Major Turd for tonight only, Sun 5 Feb 2012, 14:09, closed)

It's a simple description of something that happened, true.
However, the way it is told leaves me with a nasty taste in my mouth on reading it. Almost with the implication all foreigners are nasty.

It's like saying all Tories are clueless money-grubbing cunts with no care for the wider world.
(The Luggage is haunted..., Sun 5 Feb 2012, 14:31, closed)

Poor foreigners often have inferior standards of hygiene to people in developed nations. We should make sure people are clean and healthy before we allow them the privilege of entering this country.
(and this is coming from someone like me or my wife who both have foreign ancestry)
(PockGibberty Likes to satisfy his Quimlust!, Sun 5 Feb 2012, 12:52, closed)

Maybe we could set up internment camps to teach them the error of their ways.
The motto could be 'Cleaning will set you free.'
( The Mock Turtle ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sun 5 Feb 2012, 15:49, closed)

Gad sir...
... the smelliest foreigners I've ever encountered were a row of Russian merchant seamen at the entrance to the Imperial War Museum. All of 'em had gag-inducing BO that you could feel attaching to your own skin. Since they're white, I can gripe about them being whiffy foreigners without anyone questioning my right-on-ness.
(mudskipper, Mon 6 Feb 2012, 2:28, closed)

It is certainly important and relevant to the story that this family was 'foreign' and 'looked Arabic.'

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Mon 6 Feb 2012, 10:15, closed)

Im not a racist, but all foreigners smell.

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Mon 6 Feb 2012, 10:53, closed)

I'm not smelly, but all foreigners are racist.

( Infidel , shit and wrong, Mon 6 Feb 2012, 12:51, closed)

Holy fuck, I'm agreeing with AB.
What is the world coming to?
(The Luggage is haunted..., Mon 6 Feb 2012, 21:01, closed)

Isn't it for this very reason...
...that supermarkets now keep all their cheese in wipe-clean plastic packets?

No need to throw out vom-encrusted comestibles when a couple of wipes and a squirt of the trade-only cheese-fragranced Febreeze will do just as well.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Mon 6 Feb 2012, 13:07, closed)

I don't see what their looking Arabic, or what they were dressed in has to do with this story
other than isolating them as forrins for the purpose of slagging them off.

Seems a bit racist to me.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 7 Feb 2012, 8:54, closed)