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(I helped save b3ta! rob, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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assumptions, cliches and stereotypes
are they ever justified? give us some that you believe in or do not believe in.

alt: favourite book as a child?

altalt: elevenses anyone?
(I helped save b3ta! rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 10:59, 121 replies, latest was 11 years ago)
I hate everything

(I helped save b3ta! Kroney, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:00, Reply)
this is the sort of open and constructive, gently humorous dialogue that makes this place what it is today

(I helped save b3ta! rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:02, Reply)
fuck you, I won't tidy my bedroom.

(I helped save b3ta! the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:02, Reply)
RATM really lost their anger in the later years

(I helped save b3ta! sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:06, Reply)
these make me laugh so much
it's really quite sad
(I helped save b3ta! rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:07, Reply)
I quite liked that one

(I helped save b3ta! sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:09, Reply)
I set 'em up, sporters...

(I helped save b3ta! the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:10, Reply)
*trigger fingers*

(I helped save b3ta! sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:11, Reply)
Women are all a *bit* lezza and they love a bit of muff action.
alt: Razzle/Fiesta
altalt: Jumbo cashews.
(I helped save b3ta! MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:04, Reply)
except, of course, the ones that claim they are "totally" lezza
they just need a good dose of cock to "convert" them, amirite?
(I helped save b3ta! the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:09, Reply)
Only the 'fit' ones

(I helped save b3ta! MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:10, Reply)

fit real
(I helped save b3ta! Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:27, Reply)
Far be it from me to argue with a scientist.

(I helped save b3ta! Kroney, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:10, Reply)
Don't worry, I'll delete mine

(I helped save b3ta! Bill Clay a.k.a. Claudio, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:05, Reply)
I have one in the pipe too

(I helped save b3ta! sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:06, Reply)
TMI

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:08, Reply)
if indeed you ever had a mine

(I helped save b3ta! rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:06, Reply)
He had loads
but sold-em-on
(I helped save b3ta! sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:12, Reply)
Anyone dressed in a tracksuit with shoes on is a cunt
Whippet/flat cap/pigeon

Alt:
I really remember reading The Rats Of Nimh as a child

AltAlt:
Ham sandwich as I forgot breakfast and Mrs Cow forgot to take her lunch
(I helped save b3ta! sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:09, Reply)
Americans are thick and hateful, without exception.

(I helped save b3ta! Kroney, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:11, Reply)
Men who post regularly on internet forums are all virgins and live with their parents.

(I helped save b3ta! MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:12, Reply)
THEY LIVE WITH *ME*!

(I helped save b3ta! Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:31, Reply)
Alright, 'Norman Bates'.

(I helped save b3ta! Slippery Mick ‏, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:35, Reply)
alright

(I helped save b3ta! Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:01, Reply)
It's *nice* staying together, as a family isn't it?

(I helped save b3ta! MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:37, Reply)
I don't know. I've found that if you believe in a stereotype you'll take more notice of things that back it up.
In terms of assumptions I just assume every other driver on the road is a cunt hell bent on pissing me off. See also, people in supermarkets. Er, and people in general.

Alt: More Tales Of Mrs Hedgehog
(I helped save b3ta! Bill Clay a.k.a. Claudio, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:13, Reply)
I get quite pissy with all the casual anti-American cliches I encounter this side of the pond.
The whole "Americans, eh?" bullshit, like we're better somehow.

Alt: Was introduced at a young age to Escher's work, which in equal parts fascinated and terrified me.

Altalt: banaaarna!
(I helped save b3ta! Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:14, Reply)
We *are* better.

(I helped save b3ta! Kroney, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:16, Reply)
I also get fed up with similar bullshit from the Scottish nationalists.
I'm all for a ruck, but not when it's founded in bitterness and whining.
(I helped save b3ta! Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:25, Reply)
Racism is a convenient ruse to deflect people who know no better from the real issues
In Scotland's case it's because Salmond is a power-hungry bastard.
+ (godwins)
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:28, Reply)
Give them ten years of independence and they'll be voting for reunion again.
Anybody with any sense in either Wales or Scotland can see they don't have the capacity to be anything other than dead weights to the EU.
(I helped save b3ta! Kroney, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:32, Reply)
I'm amazed the Tories haven't gone for it
Cut a load of Labour seats out of Parliament for the loss of one of theirs, surely would give them a much better chance at the next election?
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:36, Reply)
I don't give a shit what they do, to be honest.
I'm more concerned over what the hell the flag will look like without the Scottish saltire in it.
(I helped save b3ta! Kroney, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:40, Reply)
Essentially it will become the international symbol for dithering indecision.

(I helped save b3ta! Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:48, Reply)
I thought that was me in the supermarket.

(I helped save b3ta! Slippery Mick ‏, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:52, Reply)
Also, won't every country that has a Union Jack as part of their flag need to change it too?
e.g. Australia, etc?
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:52, Reply)
That'd be up to them
but as the canton represents their history as ex colonies, they might choose to keep it based on that being the flag at the time of their independence.
(I helped save b3ta! Kroney, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:54, Reply)
I like it when the EDL types say "You're being racist against Tommy*....."
I have a very witty reply "How can anyone be racist against Tommy? Tommy isn't even a race, it's a facist idioloigy".


* the leader of the EDL
(I helped save b3ta! G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:57, Reply)
Americans don't do an incredibly good job at not appearing to be idiots though.

(I helped save b3ta! Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:29, Reply)
The same for every nation.

(I helped save b3ta! Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:39, Reply)
Bulgarians, Romanians and Albanians are shifty
Alt: I liked 'Stig of the dump' and the Chronicles of Narnia early on but I got into Sci-fi at an early age (about 10-11)
Altalt: Don't mind if I do!
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:18, Reply)
I'm not being racist, but what time's the next bus due?

(I helped save b3ta! Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:23, Reply)
Depends how tightly they pack it

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:26, Reply)
Dunno, just make sure you sit in *your* section.

(I helped save b3ta! MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:28, Reply)
Yorkshire folk are tight and generous in equal measure

(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:25, Reply)
Oh Pizza Hut...
"Hey Two Hats...Watching the match tonight?"

Hahah....sure, why not?
(I helped save b3ta! Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:29, Reply)
some of my "friends" have got in to the NFL recently.
I was invited to a party to watch it. I politely declined.
(I helped save b3ta! Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:30, Reply)
Yikes
But then I'm not into sports at all. The looks on people's faces when I told them the olympics passed me by and I didn't watch a single event. It was like I'd set fire to an orphanage.
(I helped save b3ta! Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:33, Reply)
Pittsburgh Steelers played Minnesota Vikings at Wembley the other day.
When did that sort of shit start happening?
(I helped save b3ta! Kroney, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:33, Reply)
I watched the superbowl once.
Never again.

That clock in the corner is made of LIES.
(I helped save b3ta! Slippery Mick ‏, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:37, Reply)
I watched the Superbowl in New York* once.
I was showing off and rolled a huge neat spliff. On top of a load of '40s' it was a disaster

*round some chicks' gaff
(I helped save b3ta! Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:49, Reply)
I watched the game the other day, it was alright.
You only need to look up at the telly every few minuites so you can get on with other stuff at the same time. You won't miss anything.
(I helped save b3ta! G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:55, Reply)
I've never believed anything about anyone and you can't prove I did
Except all Jews are money grabbing jesus killers etc etc

alt: A ragged porn mag I found in a bonfire.
(I helped save b3ta! Theoban What of it, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:38, Reply)
Oooh gurl! it's gonna blow up in here!
*sips cocktail watching Sex and the City*

I find that there is a grain of truth in stereotypes but it represents a cliche.

Alt. I liked Robin jarvis books. The Deptford Mice and The Whitby Witch series.

altalt. FUCKING FRUIT!
(I helped save b3ta! GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:43, Reply)
alt: a book called Shetland Peg about a horse.
In hindsight I've no idea why. I've never given much of a toss about animals unless I'm eating them
(I helped save b3ta! Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:47, Reply)
'Shetland Peg' sounds like a dodgy sex act.

(I helped save b3ta! MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:50, Reply)
Basically you stick a haggis up your 'krankie'

(I helped save b3ta! Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:51, Reply)
Then shit out a horse?

(I helped save b3ta! MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:52, Reply)
of course

(I helped save b3ta! sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:52, Reply)
I dunno how I've got by so long without knowing the things I have learnt from here.

(I helped save b3ta! MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:54, Reply)
yes

(I helped save b3ta! Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:53, Reply)
Male or female horse? THIS IS IMPORTANT

(I helped save b3ta! MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:54, Reply)
OBVIOUSLY *makes tutting noise* female
Otherwise you'd shit out a stallion (like Darth of a weekend)
(I helped save b3ta! sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:59, Reply)
*puts haggis down*

(I helped save b3ta! MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:07, Reply)
What happened to Darth?

(I helped save b3ta! JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:17, Reply)
he's done a Richey Edwards innit

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:18, Reply)
he sent me a birthday gaz
Your card had me in fits btw
(I helped save b3ta! Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:19, Reply)
You should have got Lusty to throw the washing in

(I helped save b3ta! b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:20, Reply)
I'll take you out for a curry when I'm next up.

(I helped save b3ta! JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:29, Reply)
xxx

(I helped save b3ta! Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:34, Reply)
Most stereotypes are born of ignorance of another way of life, I guess.
Except the ones about thieving pikeys and chav scumbags.
Alt: Fire & Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones.
AltAlt: Just having a pint-sized cuppa with FOUR chocolate digestives. To be fair, I didn't have breakfast, but I still feel four was possibly a tad excessive.
(I helped save b3ta! b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:07, Reply)
the English are arrogant pricks
The Scots are miserable pricks

The Germans are power hungry pricks

The French are lovely

The Dutch love bestial porn and hard drugs

Blacks do crime

Browns are shit drivers and smell of curry.

Alt: as a kid I read loads of Stephen King. When I was about six I was into Narnia and Famous Five and shit like dat.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:11, Reply)
And your new trainers are bent.

(I helped save b3ta! JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:18, Reply)
your face is bent

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:19, Reply)
It is, you know.

(I helped save b3ta! b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:20, Reply)
his face is flamboyantly homosexual

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:21, Reply)
As is the rest of him.

(I helped save b3ta! b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:29, Reply)
has he bought some more sk8 shoes again?

(I helped save b3ta! Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:25, Reply)
I had a pair of 'Etnies' when I was 20.
Twenty years ago.
(I helped save b3ta! Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:26, Reply)
I had long hair and a leather jacket when I was fifteen.
Eighteen years ago.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:42, Reply)
Ha ha! Old people woes!

(I helped save b3ta! MEATSNAKE Richard Hammond, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:44, Reply)
+p

(I helped save b3ta! rachelswipe with a fork, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:47, Reply)
nah, IT WAS REAL LEATHER!!!

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:50, Reply)
This is the only time I think I've ever agreed with you.

(I helped save b3ta! Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:23, Reply)
One of the guys in work has just recounted how he was winding his cat up
and it spunked on his head
(I helped save b3ta! sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:29, Reply)

'winding his cat up'? Is that code for 'wanking his cat off'?
(I helped save b3ta! b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:31, Reply)
It would seem so, yes

(I helped save b3ta! sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:35, Reply)
Cornish people really do eat pastys
however I have never fucked my sister and do not actually speak like Jethro.

Alt As a child I loved The wonderful story of henry sugar and six more.

Altalt. No, only fatties eat between meals
(I helped save b3ta! Peej, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:32, Reply)
I loved that book as well.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:35, Reply)
Which one was your favourite?
I liked the one about the boys who killed a swan cut his wings off and tied them to a kids arms, tortured him and forced him to jump out of a tree. Years later the bulger case happened. Coincidence?
(I helped save b3ta! Peej, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:37, Reply)
I think The Mildenhall Treasure
Or the title story. I can only remember those two, the one about the pickpocket, the brain in a tank and the one with the Chippendale chair.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:44, Reply)
That one was non fiction too, great tale

(I helped save b3ta! Peej, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:47, Reply)
indeed.
Roald Dahl was one of my favourite authors in my childhood.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:49, Reply)
I would believe that
but I've spoken to you on the phone.
(I helped save b3ta! b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:36, Reply)
"Och, is that Phillie?"
"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR"
(I helped save b3ta! sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:37, Reply)
*checks phone for taps*

(I helped save b3ta! b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:38, Reply)
Yes you have
You sounded younger and posher than I thought you would
(I helped save b3ta! Peej, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:38, Reply)
I have a stupidly high-pitched and posh voice.
I sound like Violet Elizabeth Bott.
(I helped save b3ta! b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:40, Reply)
I did not sound like Jethro either you fucking liar.

(I helped save b3ta! Peej, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:41, Reply)
YOURN a liarrrrr

(I helped save b3ta! Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:42, Reply)
FOYFPC

(I helped save b3ta! Peej, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:47, Reply)
i was just stood behind a fellow at the bus stop
and was genuinely unable to work out whether he was 'really trendy' or a terminally ill mental case from the hospice. I really don't know.

Goodbye Shoreditch.
(I helped save b3ta! Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:33, Reply)
I would happily firebomb Shoreditch
any babies, children and innocents would be simply collateral damage.
(I helped save b3ta! Peej, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:35, Reply)
JETHWISH IV

(I helped save b3ta! Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:38, Reply)
Thar Craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaackdown

(I helped save b3ta! sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:40, Reply)
Bit of both really.
You have to be terminally ill to wear the 2 inch heel brogues you see them wearing. It's like wearing uggs and wondering why your knees are fucked after a couple of years.
(Himjim died a little more inside on, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:36, Reply)
Uggs are shit

(I helped save b3ta! sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:37, Reply)
The Shamen's blatantly product placing follow up single....

(I helped save b3ta! sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:38, Reply)
Drugs not Uggs
That's what I always say.
(I helped save b3ta! Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:39, Reply)
Dr. Uggs

(I helped save b3ta! sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:40, Reply)
Officelol.

(I helped save b3ta! Slippery Mick ‏, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 13:11, Reply)
I went to the pub a couple of weeks ago and he greeted the barman with.
"Alright, didn't you used to be in The Shamen but left before they were popular?"

The resigned nod and sigh suggests this wasn't the first time he was asked that particular question.
(I helped save b3ta! Slippery Mick ‏, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 13:13, Reply)
I cant believe they are an Australian brand
What do they need them for in all the heat?

Apparently for surfers when they come out the sea? What's wrong with a towel? They will stink!
(I helped save b3ta! GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:59, Reply)
Uggs are dangerously bad for feet
www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/7447328/Ugg-style-boots-damage-feet-due-to-lack-of-support.html

As someone with a back problem at a young age it beggars belief that people still wear them as often as they do.
(Himjim died a little more inside on, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 13:09, Reply)
They are idiot slippers for tarts

(I helped save b3ta! sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 13:09, Reply)
or Mrs Cow

(I helped save b3ta! sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 13:09, Reply)
Or Mrs Badger
Apparently we've married idiot tarts. Who knew?
(I helped save b3ta! the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 13:18, Reply)
I DUN GONE AN' GOT ME A NEW THREAD

(I helped save b3ta! sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 13:17, Reply)

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