What bigotry looks like
Posted by: mikeeschman on 24 March 2010
Down here in New Orleans, the Sunday before St. Patrick's Day, we have big parades. There are bands, and twirling girls and floats. From the floats, they will throw whole cabbages, potatoes, onions, in short, the fixings for a good Irish dinner.
People get really drunk.
The bars are full to over flowing.
I sneak in before it starts and revisit when it's over. The full blast of it is more than I can take.
I heard a story about the revels that chills me to the bone.
A 6'6" Negro man from Texas came into my pub, and a regular pub patron said "Hey! That's the best Negro costume I ever saw!"
In my imagination, I have conversed with that man,
"If you intend to kill him, I must try to stop you. But if your intent is to cripple and maim, I will not miss a sip of my drink."
The man left after one drink, and by now I am sure 3000 people think lowly of my pub.
Posted on: 24 March 2010 by graham55
Mike, sadly, there are complete f*ckwits all over the world, but what can decent people do about it?
Posted on: 24 March 2010 by Tony Lockhart
Just carry on being decent.
Tony
Posted on: 24 March 2010 by Dan Carney
A sad state of affairs...
Posted on: 25 March 2010 by Mike Dudley
I hate it when you can't think of a snappy reply until after the event when you're someplace else.
Like: "Well, that's a real good impression of a f*ckwit"...
Posted on: 25 March 2010 by JMB
A charitable interpretation might be that someone as thick as two short planks thought they were being witty without realising such a remark might be offensive.
Posted on: 25 March 2010 by Richard S
Or the line quoted in today's Guardian and first directed at Phil Tuffnell by the Aussies;
"Hey Tuffers can I borrow your brain?
I'm building an idiot!"
Posted on: 25 March 2010 by BigH47
No need you already have one!
Posted on: 25 March 2010 by 151
quote:
Originally posted by mikeeschman:
Down here in New Orleans, the Sunday before St. Patrick's Day, we have big parades. There are bands, and twirling girls and floats. From the floats, they will throw whole cabbages, potatoes, onions, in short, the fixings for a good Irish dinner.
People get really drunk.
The bars are full to over flowing.
I sneak in before it starts and revisit when it's over. The full blast of it is more than I can take.
I heard a story about the revels that chills me to the bone.
A 6'6" Negro man from Texas came into my pub, and a regular pub patron said "Hey! That's the best Negro costume I ever saw!"
In my imagination, I have conversed with that man,
"If you intend to kill him, I must try to stop you. But if your intent is to cripple and maim, I will not miss a sip of my drink."
The man left after one drink, and by now I am sure 3000 people think lowly of my pub.
why would they think lowly of your pub because of one drunken idiot and why are you getting so irate about one drunken idiot.
Posted on: 25 March 2010 by TomK
I'd have thought that people who frequent pubs realise that encountering f*ckwits is one of the risks.
Posted on: 26 March 2010 by Howlinhounddog
Always better to keep your mouth shut and let people think your an idiot, than to open it and remove any further doubt
Posted on: 27 March 2010 by mudwolf
Yeah I hate those moments nothing comes up to respond properly but I would have said "oh come on, get over yourself" and turn to the man who came in with eye contact and ask "what would you like Sir?"
