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the thread about nothing...
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because he knows it's over. sign of resignation. without Davis, he is nothing.
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I've read some news clip probably a few years ago. couldn't remember which year it was but it was a porn actress getting raped in France. I believed she filed a complaint with either the police or before a judge. what the judge said was really horrifying going on the lines of she got raped or deserved to be raped because she is a porn actress. I think it's not just racism but the general outlook and cultural thinking of how people are treated and should behave. from what I have read, France they say despite it's beautiful architecture and places is an inhospitable place for visitors. unfriendly bunch and arrogant in general from most people I talked to. btw, is it still true that most dog owners don't pickup their dog's excrement over there? I have watched a documentary years ago where the police are struggling on keeping the cleanliness of the city. they said they were playing cat and mouse with the dog owners.
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couldn't blame Jenny. she was messed up from the start. I guess that's what made the movie worked so good. it's not the typical fairytale story and something has to give. Lt. Dan's tragedy, Bubba's death, Jenny's affliction, Mama Gump's death, and even Forrest's affliction and personality. those thing pretty much helped define and shape Forrest's character. and in spite of all those things that happened around him, he maintained his faith, innocence and happy nature.what are the other 4 on that top 5 list.
the movie was good!
I agree with you. I hate Jenny! All he wanted to do was love her
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we got a Karen for a neighbor. we thought he was a nice person, turns out to be a lunatic.
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looks decent. but The Wonder Years will always have Fred Savage as the lead.
funny thing is just by that promo brings me back to this funny segment about the Winnie Cooper character >>>
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One of my annoying neighbors just moved out few days ago. Old South Side Chicago white guy (those from Chicago might know what I mean).
He was parking his van and ended up denting the car of the woman across the street. He thought no one saw so he played it off and went inside. But she was at her window the whole time and saw what happened. So her and her brother went banging on his door to confront him. He denied it and they argued and walked over to the car. Eventually they were all pointing and screaming at each other and words were thrown and then he hurled the n-word
. Her brother punched him immediately and at the same time she grabbed him by the shirt holding him cause he was trying to book. They both started giving him 10 piece combos till he escaped and ran back inside. He opened up the window and started screaming "your going to jail, your going to jail!" Keep in mind this is a guy who walks around acting tough and telling everyone he grew up in the projects and if anyone messes with him he'll take care of them. He never did call the cops. Needles to say he packed his stuff up and left.
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it's funny, most often times, people that barks a lot have no bite at all. I'm just waiting for a valid chance and reason to beat up my neighbor.One of my annoying neighbors just moved out few days ago. Old South Side Chicago white guy (those from Chicago might know what I mean).
He was parking his van and ended up denting the car of the woman across the street. He thought no one saw so he played it off and went inside. But she was at her window the whole time and saw what happened. So her and her brother went banging on his door to confront him. He denied it and they argued and walked over to the car. Eventually they were all pointing and screaming at each other and words were thrown and then he hurled the n-word
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Lol. I get it, but get that hate out your heart. Spread love. It usually wins. Until power/influence gets involved.
Which reminds me, I was so moved by Naomi Osaka's ability to coherently and calmly get a point across, take personal responsibility/blame where it may lie, and work together with the organization she may feel is working against her to try and find a solution to the issue she has presented. She literally got old rich white people to admit that their status quo could use some fine tuning. Could she just take over for Congress n'em? Cuz I swear that level of maturity is sorely lacking in all political matters.
Osaka is my ******* role model man.
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I'm French and I would recommend to no one to come in France except if we're talking about architecture, food or health system. We got some great stuff with these 3 ones and maybe others I forgot.
The language, I am not chauvinist at all but I love our language, with spanish the ones I prefer I think. But people mentality is archaic. I talk for not the France in its wholeness, because I wouldn't be able to say how it is everywhere, but near Paris it's a disaster. The problem is some people are just parasites. For the ones who aren't, there are mainly 3 choices. Adapt to survive, stay "nice" and be a target, or being agressively nice, I mean with values but not just someone with values, someone with strenght too, just in case...It's maybe a cliché but people from Norway, Sweden seemed to be more civilized than us. Basically a lot of clichés are real. We don't respect any rules
Not only thugs disrespecting rules, which is casual, no, no, even average people. As you say the most don't pick up presents their dog offer, but this is just one between an ocean of disrespect. I like sportswear, when you're dressed like that you're often assimilated to thugs. It's dirty here but from what I know it is nothing in comparison of Marseille, in the south of the country...In fact Corsicans who lives in a french island have their own rules and values and don't recognize themselves as "continental". To express it more clearly in the suburbs people could use insults as affective marks between themselves. Which means the sense of something depending on who is using it, adn towards which one, with which tone and intention. So it's very unclear for someone who respect the language.
So people here could interpellate other with someone equivalent to son of a "prostitute", which is unbearable for example for Corsicans. We got a lot of racism towards everybody. Jews, Asians, Blacks, Maghrebians, Whites and other minorities like Pakistani. Everybody is racist, but that's just my point of view. But from the people at work I used to talk, not all of them, I must exagerate, but a lot of them, at least those who have some frank moments I guess, are. When we're just between Whites they could easily tell this or that. And we know it's the same for each community. But what is more relevant for me is the racism between immigrants.
We could have been thinking the fact they're not strictly from here could help them to be united. Not really. Of course some Maghrebians and Africans from Black Africa (I don't know if this term exists in english, "Afrique Noire" which means all Africa without the Maghreb) are cool to each other. But there's a lot of racism from some Maghrebians towards Blacks in general (West Indies or Africa), and the opposite too, most due to this first behaviour. It's not always true because sometimes people share the same religion, which helps. When people are both Muslims it could be different. But there's something interesting : there are different ladders of racism. Some people could be friend as a Maghrebian with Blacks but don't want their sister to be with a Black. And sometimes young generations are not racist, but their elders yes, so, as family is very important for them...And you also have people who break this but they often have to struggle to succeed being together.
I had some story about this, in some ways, not exactly, I'm White, which is, for the ones who are both Maghrebians and racist, not specially good but still better than a Black (...). A lot of years ago by the Internet I met a girl, she was Maghrebian but I forgot which country it was.
I met her at the University. I wasn't a student, just went there to see her as she invited me to do so. We went to a room. And I know we weren't going to do anything extraordinary. But she locked the door and I instantly know that was a bad idea.
A few minutes later someone knocked the door quite agressively I guess. She opened the door. It was a supervisor. The sight he gave us was very explicit. But why ? Because they were both Maghrebians and they are for some of them very protective with women of their origin (which could be a good thing sometimes). And I was White, certainly not into Religion, so it was grave. After that I was shocked because I was used to deal with independent young women. She was talking to some friends of her. Then we leaved the University, a bus arrived. The driver sent us the same sight. He was Maghrebian too, with a long religious beard here. So after that I talked to her, she was telling me she wanted to stay pure till the wedding. I told her I don't want to be married. Then each one leaved on his side and we never talked to each other. But things are even more complex as long as we talked about Maghrebians, because Tunisians, Moroccans, Algerians are from Maghreb, but inside Algeria you got the Kabyles. From what I know from a Kabyle they were invaded by Arabs. In fact when you ask a Kabyle about his origins, he would say Kabyle before Algerian before Maghrebian.
And Algeria and Morocco are very different. In fact Tunisia and Morocco are very touristic. But Algeria not at all. And I never heard someone who was not Algerian or married to an Algerian go to Algeria for a trip or something. That must exists, but it's not banal as someone going to Morocco or Tunisia. In France we tend to use Arabs to design Maghrebians, but by fear of appearing as racists some people avoid to use some words. "Noir" which means Black is often avoided and people could use the "verlan", which means reversing syllabs, and as the "verlan" is associated to the streets, it couldn't be racist in the people minds...So "Noir" becomes "Renoi". "Arabe" becomes "Beur". But for "Arabe" it's even worst : it became "Beur" but the term have been used a lot and sometimes for women : "Beurette", and this term of "Beurette" is extremely pejorative, so saying "Beur" could lead to be called racist. So "Beur" becomes "Rebeu". We got anothers word for "les Arabes" (The Arabs) : "Rabza", which means the song of the "s" letter in "les Arabes" is integrated as a structure for the reversing operation
But for Whites we just say "Blancs". There are other words, some racists, but most of the time, "Blancs".And people avoid to called a Black a Black or a Maghrebian a Maghrebian because they fear to be taken for racists, which is funny because this fear could be suspect, as some racists could be doing the same
The most often, when you're not racist and using "Noir" for "Noir", unless the one in front of you is stupid, if he's Black he wouldn't take it as you being racist. I think I talk too much
But there's a lot to say about this country, like our president being tricky dealing with some famous french YouTubers as he understood that was the thing to do to be one of the most innovative in terms of communication towards youngs (future) electors...But I'm as French as the people I criticized at least on one point : always grumpy
EDIT : A last thing I could add, I was thinking to this these days : Japanese seemed to love our culture and we love theirs. That's kind of unusual this to be reciprocal
EDIT 2 : And we got the PSG
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She has a lot of elegance, "you don't wan't me as what I am, that's okay, I'm leaving", because people thinking you would always play their game because the fame, the money etc.
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i feel like i waste too much time kicking it on NT
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it's quite amusing dealing with people with different ethnicities. some are good and some are bad. although sometimes, we can't avoid having prejudices caused by a few people's behavior. from a cultural aspect, it is also tricky. on the otherhand, what the pandemic was able to achieve is to show the bad side of humanity and a glimpse on how people behave in a state of anarchy when martial rule or order doesn't exist. it can indeed turn into a chaotic society which I don't want to be a part of. I'd rather retire on a beautiful island. freedom at it's purest form is just impossible considering the destructive nature of humankind. I somehow forgot where I read a line where it says that Humankind is a parasite. like we consider ourselves as civilized but we still act like nothing better than what we consider as lower lifeforms. but I must say, the world is NOT FLAT.I'm French and I would recommend to no one to come in France except if we're talking about architecture, food or health system. We got some great stuff with these 3 ones and maybe others I forgot.
The language, I am not chauvinist at all but I love our language, with spanish the ones I prefer I think. But people mentality is archaic. I talk for not the France in its wholeness, because I wouldn't be able to say how it is everywhere, but near Paris it's a disaster. The problem is some people are just parasites. For the ones who aren't, there are mainly 3 choices. Adapt to survive, stay "nice" and be a target, or being agressively nice, I mean with values but not just someone with values, someone with strenght too, just in case...It's maybe a cliché but people from Norway, Sweden seemed to be more civilized than us. Basically a lot of clichés are real. We don't respect any rules
Not only thugs disrespecting rules, which is casual, no, no, even average people. As you say the most don't pick up presents their dog offer, but this is just one between an ocean of disrespect. I like sportswear, when you're dressed like that you're often assimilated to thugs. It's dirty here but from what I know it is nothing in comparison of Marseille, in the south of the country...In fact Corsicans who lives in a french island have their own rules and values and don't recognize themselves as "continental". To express it more clearly in the suburbs people could use insults as affective marks between themselves. Which means the sense of something depending on who is using it, adn towards which one, with which tone and intention. So it's very unclear for someone who respect the language.
So people here could interpellate other with someone equivalent to son of a "prostitute", which is unbearable for example for Corsicans. We got a lot of racism towards everybody. Jews, Asians, Blacks, Maghrebians, Whites and other minorities like Pakistani. Everybody is racist, but that's just my point of view. But from the people at work I used to talk, not all of them, I must exagerate, but a lot of them, at least those who have some frank moments I guess, are. When we're just between Whites they could easily tell this or that. And we know it's the same for each community. But what is more relevant for me is the racism between immigrants.
We could have been thinking the fact they're not strictly from here could help them to be united. Not really. Of course some Maghrebians and Africans from Black Africa (I don't know if this term exists in english, "Afrique Noire" which means all Africa without the Maghreb) are cool to each other. But there's a lot of racism from some Maghrebians towards Blacks in general (West Indies or Africa), and the opposite too, most due to this first behaviour. It's not always true because sometimes people share the same religion, which helps. When people are both Muslims it could be different. But there's something interesting : there are different ladders of racism. Some people could be friend as a Maghrebian with Blacks but don't want their sister to be with a Black. And sometimes young generations are not racist, but their elders yes, so, as family is very important for them...And you also have people who break this but they often have to struggle to succeed being together.
I had some story about this, in some ways, not exactly, I'm White, which is, for the ones who are both Maghrebians and racist, not specially good but still better than a Black (...). A lot of years ago by the Internet I met a girl, she was Maghrebian but I forgot which country it was.
I met her at the University. I wasn't a student, just went there to see her as she invited me to do so. We went to a room. And I know we weren't going to do anything extraordinary. But she locked the door and I instantly know that was a bad idea.
A few minutes later someone knocked the door quite agressively I guess. She opened the door. It was a supervisor. The sight he gave us was very explicit. But why ? Because they were both Maghrebians and they are for some of them very protective with women of their origin (which could be a good thing sometimes). And I was White, certainly not into Religion, so it was grave. After that I was shocked because I was used to deal with independent young women. She was talking to some friends of her. Then we leaved the University, a bus arrived. The driver sent us the same sight. He was Maghrebian too, with a long religious beard here. So after that I talked to her, she was telling me she wanted to stay pure till the wedding. I told her I don't want to be married. Then each one leaved on his side and we never talked to each other. But things are even more complex as long as we talked about Maghrebians, because Tunisians, Moroccans, Algerians are from Maghreb, but inside Algeria you got the Kabyles. From what I know from a Kabyle they were invaded by Arabs. In fact when you ask a Kabyle about his origins, he would say Kabyle before Algerian before Maghrebian.
And Algeria and Morocco are very different. In fact Tunisia and Morocco are very touristic. But Algeria not at all. And I never heard someone who was not Algerian or married to an Algerian go to Algeria for a trip or something. That must exists, but it's not banal as someone going to Morocco or Tunisia. In France we tend to use Arabs to design Maghrebians, but by fear of appearing as racists some people avoid to use some words. "Noir" which means Black is often avoided and people could use the "verlan", which means reversing syllabs, and as the "verlan" is associated to the streets, it couldn't be racist in the people minds...So "Noir" becomes "Renoi". "Arabe" becomes "Beur". But for "Arabe" it's even worst : it became "Beur" but the term have been used a lot and sometimes for women : "Beurette", and this term of "Beurette" is extremely pejorative, so saying "Beur" could lead to be called racist. So "Beur" becomes "Rebeu". We got anothers word for "les Arabes" (The Arabs) : "Rabza", which means the song of the "s" letter in "les Arabes" is integrated as a structure for the reversing operation
And people avoid to called a Black a Black or a Maghrebian a Maghrebian because they fear to be taken for racists, which is funny because this fear could be suspect, as some racists could be doing the same
The most often, when you're not racist and using "Noir" for "Noir", unless the one in front of you is stupid, if he's Black he wouldn't take it as you being racist. I think I talk too much
But I'm as French as the people I criticized at least on one point : always grumpy
EDIT : A last thing I could add, I was thinking to this these days : Japanese seemed to love our culture and we love theirs. That's kind of unusual this to be reciprocal
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Don't be misled. I feel the exact opposite rn. This is somewhat wishful thinking.
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what would u like to do instead?
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Will tune-in for the Wonder Years reboot.
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It’s a order 5 chicken strips and get 7 kinda day. 
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this is the baddest she's ever been. i might be in love.
- Oct 8, 2002
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Riri got what I call the “famous effect”. She’d walk right by you in Target and you wouldn’t even notice.
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Bill Bellamy talks about how Ice-T saved him from the Grape Street Crips. His L.A accent impersonation is funny 
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Saw this yesterday
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Paid for signature confirmation and USPS still delivered the package without it. 
I've never seen a more incompetent organization.
I've never seen a more incompetent organization.
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