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Facebook is racist against fat bald guys with beards and assumes we all look the same, because it's always suggesting I'm one of the other random fat bald guy w

by IvyMike 12y ago

Facebook is racist against fat bald guys with beards and assumes we all look the same, because it's always suggesting I'm one of the other random fat bald guy with a beard I know. (Actually, after going through a lot of bogus suggestions over the course of a few months and correcting them, it's a lot better. But the joke doesn't work as well this way.)

crpatino 12y ago
Mmmm, interesting. You mean that if I eat more, groom a mightier beard and, ahem... wait for my hair loss to run its course, I will be immune to the spook-industrial-complex's tracking? Pass the burgers, please!!!
skrebbel 12y ago
What does being fat, bald and bearded have to do with race?
- keerthiko 12y ago
  Semantics; clearly he meant "discriminatory towards". But you know, "being racist against" has kind of been accepted to have essentially the same meaning colloquially. You know what he meant :)
  - darrhiggs 12y ago
    >> You know what he meant :) How can you say this? I certainly didn't; colloquialisms are often geographical in nature.[0] [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colloquialism#Examples http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colloquialism#Examples
    - keerthiko 12y ago
      If you want to argue, way to cite a flagged Wikipedia section, for not having any citations and "possible original research," and also being exactly just that one sentence long with no added explanation. I'm from south India/grew up in the middle east/studied on the east coast/worked on the west coast of the US, lived in Singapore and Thailand briefly. And there are definitely some colloquial usages that are fairly universal. In my experience this is one of them. Please also note appended smiley face. Obviously not everyone is familiar with every colloquialism. It's too bad if you were confused by the implied meaning of "racist against", and if my clarification of its colloquial usage was insufficient for you, but i find your comment adding very little value here.
      - bitJericho 12y ago
        You're just being racist against him.
    - SunShiranui 12y ago
      I would say it's pretty easy to infer the meaning from context.
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by IvyMike 12y ago

crpatino 12y ago

Mmmm, interesting. You mean that if I eat more, groom a mightier beard and, ahem... wait for my hair loss to run its course, I will be immune to the spook-industrial-complex's tracking? Pass the burgers, please!!!

skrebbel 12y ago

What does being fat, bald and bearded have to do with race?

keerthiko 12y ago
Semantics; clearly he meant "discriminatory towards". But you know, "being racist against" has kind of been accepted to have essentially the same meaning colloquially. You know what he meant :)
- darrhiggs 12y ago
  >> You know what he meant :) How can you say this? I certainly didn't; colloquialisms are often geographical in nature.[0] [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colloquialism#Examples http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colloquialism#Examples
  - keerthiko 12y ago
    If you want to argue, way to cite a flagged Wikipedia section, for not having any citations and "possible original research," and also being exactly just that one sentence long with no added explanation. I'm from south India/grew up in the middle east/studied on the east coast/worked on the west coast of the US, lived in Singapore and Thailand briefly. And there are definitely some colloquial usages that are fairly universal. In my experience this is one of them. Please also note appended smiley face. Obviously not everyone is familiar with every colloquialism. It's too bad if you were confused by the implied meaning of "racist against", and if my clarification of its colloquial usage was insufficient for you, but i find your comment adding very little value here.
    - bitJericho 12y ago
      You're just being racist against him.
  - SunShiranui 12y ago
    I would say it's pretty easy to infer the meaning from context.
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