Irreconcilable differences?

[Aurora]

Poor Britney. She really needs an advisor of sorts. Someone to follow her around and say "that would be unwise dear" and "you really should keep your legs together when you aren't wearing any underwear and the paparazzi are flashing pictures."

 

[Olaf the Stout]

Poor Britney. She really needs an advisor of sorts. Someone to follow her around and say "that would be unwise dear" and "you really should keep your legs together when you aren't wearing any underwear and the paparazzi are flashing pictures."

For some reason I don't think too many guys are complaining that there isn't! I haven't seen said pictures yet but I imagine that they're on the Internet somewhere already.

Olaf the Stout

 

[Olaf the Stout]

I've always wondered about that, since my home town didn't have any significant Greek or Italian presence. I remember having to ask what a "wog" was, when it came up in a comedy circa 1988.

Personally, I get a bit tired of the suspicious glances I get when sitting on the train with a full backback (I'm said to look a little bit "Middle Eastern", although I am not). Interesting times we live in. :\

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As for the Britney / K-Fed thing. Man alive... it's hard enough going through break ups, let alone in public. Still, they seem very, um. Unwise.

Hey Sound of Azure, are you playing in a game at the moment. My player that met you said that you didn't end up going to his Saturday game. I haven't played in the Vampire game that he said you played in but if it was like most Vampire games I have heard of it would be enough to scare me off too!

Off-topic but hey we're in the right forum for that sort of thing at least.

Olaf the Stout

 

[Aurora]

For some reason I don't think too many guys are complaining that there isn't! I haven't seen said pictures yet but I imagine that they're on the Internet somewhere already.

Olaf the Stout

Oh. they are and she shows the whole thing! I mean WOW. The "I feel like I know her intimately, and now feel dirty and need to shower" kind of wow.

 

[Khuxan]

I'm half-Italian (but I don't really look like I am). People call me a "wog" all the time (mostly friends in a "nice" derogatory way ). "I tell them that I'm a dago not a wog. If you're going to racially vilify me, at least do it correctly!"

Of course this is all done in humour.

And for those that don't know, "wog" refers to those of Greek origin, "dago" to those of Italian origin although wog tends to be the commonly used term for a lot of people that look like that (including Lebanese for example).

And so ends today's lesson in racial slurs in Australia.

Well, for today's lesson on racial slurs in Oz, I have a friend who's half-Maltese, and she calls herself a wog. I think a Serbian girl identifies herself as a wog too. According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wog#As_a_racial_reference_in_Australian_English), wog refers to SE European and Middle-Easterners, which is how it's used at my school. Like 'curry' for Indians, Sri Lankans, etc., it's used affectionately as self-identification. I've never heard of "dago" (it looks like it's an American thing - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dago).

 

[Bubbalicious]

Actually, "wop" IS a derogatory term for someone of Italian decent- at least in New Orleans, so I can understand the confusion.

And as a testimony to the psyche of that great city that you could often go into quite reputable places and order "Wop Salad"...even in Italian places.

People are a wonderment!

Originally, "WOP" was an immigration designation at Ellis Island in NYC. It stands for "Without Passport". Anyone entering the country without documentation (this would be circa 1890-1930) had their documentation stamped "W.O.P.". At the time, a great many of these were from Sicily and were escaping their criminal pasts and making a new life for themselves (although many of these supposedly went on to form the American Mafia), so people of Italian descent became derrogatorially called "Wops".

 

[Marchen]

I've seen those photos. Gross . She needs to learn to keep her blubbery, white-trash legs closed.

 

[Sound of Azure]

Hey Sound of Azure, are you playing in a game at the moment. My player that met you said that you didn't end up going to his Saturday game. I haven't played in the Vampire game that he said you played in but if it was like most Vampire games I have heard of it would be enough to scare me off too!

Off-topic but hey we're in the right forum for that sort of thing at least.

Olaf the Stout

< tangent mode Suiichi! >
No, I'm not in anything right now. And I feel awful about not going along to the Saturday game. A number of things happened including losing my internet, lack of phone credit, exam season being on, and finally guilt about not being in contact.

The Vampire game wasn't bad or anything... I just am totally not used to the system, so I pretty much froze up and had trouble getting into it. Add to it that I was totally unprepared to be roleplaying at all that night.... How embarrassing...

If you're interested in meeting, send me an e-mail at the address you sent to before (or just follow the link attached to my name).

</tangent mode Suiichi off!>

Well, for today's lesson on racial slurs in Oz, I have a friend who's half-Maltese, and she calls herself a wog.

I guess that makes me a Wog too!

 

[Aeson]

Poor Britney. She really needs an advisor of sorts. Someone to follow her around and say "that would be unwise dear" and "you really should keep your legs together when you aren't wearing any underwear and the paparazzi are flashing pictures."

No she doesn't. I think she is doing fine on her own. I for one applaud her wardrobe choices.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

Well, for today's lesson on racial slurs in Oz, I have a friend who's half-Maltese, and she calls herself a wog. I think a Serbian girl identifies herself as a wog too. According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wog#As_a_racial_reference_in_Australian_English), wog refers to SE European and Middle-Easterners, which is how it's used at my school. Like 'curry' for Indians, Sri Lankans, etc., it's used affectionately as self-identification. I've never heard of "dago" (it looks like it's an American thing - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dago).

Maybe dago is just a regional thing in South Australia (or maybe just in certain areas of Adelaide). Of course wikipedia hasn't ever been wrong before have they?

I guess you could conclude that wog is a general catch-all term.

Olaf the Stout