I'll take your word for it, as you know I live just off Devon and see a lot of inexpert driving by Indians in expensive cars, but could you add some steps to your description here? Why was he signaling for your lane and why did he change his mind? or is the dithering the point?
What's the stereotype? Indians are poorly endowed?
If it's just the dithering, that would also apply to about 95% of Twin Cities drivers, and moreso the more you get into richer and whiter suburbs.
I hate you Chopper, because I was totally going to pipe up and say that it could have been me, assuming I was driving in someplace completely unfamiliar.
I also hate knowing that because I have to go pick PK up at school and then take both of us to the optomotrist optomitrist eye doctor, there'll be a jillion comments on this thread before I get back to it. Fuckers.
4 to 3? That seems like fact, not stereotype.
The real problem is that there's like a dozen and a half people in this country who actually know how to drive. Lane changes are not this hard, people. Learn how to merge.
I read a story today with a quote that plunged me back into the world of Bay Area driving.
Jennifer Summers, 36, was driving from her costume-design job in San Francisco home to the Oakland hills when she saw black smoke and realized the freeway was on fire. She quickly pulled off and looped around so she could see what was going on.
When she got out of her car, flames were shooting into the sky over multiple layers of freeway, and she could hear loud crackling and explosions.
"There were bright, bright orange flames and they were huge," Summers said. "There were cars driving through the flames. The first cars slowed down like they didn't know what to do and then kept going. I was shocked."
Right now it is hard to imagine driving through a pillar of fire, but damn it, if it had been me I probably would've done it too. What is there to do besides follow the person in front of you?
Aren't most ethnic or other stereotypes a kind of full moon syndrome? One sees all kinds of bad driving/ behaviour all day long, but you remember the ones that fit the stereotype. (there aren't more accidents during a full moon, the emergency room people just remember it that way http://www.snopes.com/sports/football/chunky.asp)
What's the stereotype? Indians are poorly endowed?
4 to 3? That seems like fact, not stereotype.
I'm saying that Ogged's new racial stereotype isn't really new at all.
11. But had he not been Indian, you wouldn't have posted your funny story. Besides, it would have been funnier if the driver were Chinese, so please get your ethnic stereotyping right or we will put you on remedial ethnic profileing duty for TSA.
All these threads are depressing or disgusting. Whatever happened to old-fashioned internet thread ideas like "Your favorite ten songs right now?"
12- How can condoms be too long? When they don't fit it's because the width is wrong, but for length, don't you just unroll it more or less as needed?
10: "Confirmation bias" is what the psych majors call it. And damn if I haven't had my biases confirmed about Asian drivers a few times.
8: It's a close call whether the drivers or the traffic engineers in this town are more clueless, but the combination of lousy drivers and badly-designed roads adds a little extra bit of adventure to our days.
I confirmed your mom's bias last night.
Perhaps I'm not as up on my simmering racial and ethnic hatreds as some people, but are Asians not supposed to be good drivers? I had no idea.
Of course, I also managed to wait until my junior year of college to learn that some people disapprove of interracial marriages/relationships, so I have a history of not picking that stuff up.
Kh, Flippanter, you seem nice enough. What are your ten favorite songs right now?
"provided the perfect shape for erecting the giant condom"
That choice of verb was inevitable.
some people disapprove of interracial marriages/relationships
Victor Varnado: "I am a black albino, though, ladies. You know what I'm talking about: All the benefits of being black without the disappointed looks from your parents."
"Confirmed Bias" is such a good name for so many things.
22 s/b "Do you believe magic spells can work?" You just totally beta'ed yourself and fucked up your sarge.
I'm into elite niche artisanal stereotypes, not Ogged's K-mart stereotypes: if you see a tall, muscular East-Asian-looking guy with tattoos, he will be Pacific Islander or Lao. Depending on when and where you see him, he might be surly and scary, or he might be jolly and friendly.
DS, I just beta'ed your mom's sarge.
You'd look good if your ears were more symmetrical.
Depending on when and where you see him, he might be surly and scary, or he might be jolly and friendly.
See, this doesn't cut it as a stereotype. For a good stereotype, you have to pick something. "Italians: sometimes tall, sometimes short! Who knew?" Id just doesn't work properly.
22:
I've been listening to a lot of Motorhead lately. In unrelated news, girls don't like being told "you got a body like a Marshall stack."
21: Dude(ette?), catch up:
Asian drivers: erratic, crazy
Black drivers (mostly applies in the south): slow, no turn signals
Old drivers: slow, constant turn signal
Women drivers: hazardously indecisive, inclined to tailgate
Teenaged drivers: fast, aggressive, inclined to tailgate
Gay drivers: promiscuous, anti-family, inclined to receive oral sex while driving
Indian drivers: actually, I have no idea
Latino drivers: All with the loud stereos and the bouncy shocks
Canadian drivers: drunk, lost, annoyingly pleasant when asking directions
French/Italian drivers: highly inclined to tailgate, disinclined to yield for emergency vehicles, belligerent, drunk, driving shitty little cars
Other kinds of foreigners: lost, wrong side of road
Early middle-aged straight white men, especially engineers: perfect in all respects
Id just doesn't work properly.
LB is all superego.
Indian drivers: actually, I have no idea
See comment #4.
LB, the point is that they're never like Chinese or Japanese: quiet and repressed.
LB, the point is that they're never like Chinese or Japanese: quiet and repressed.
29: I am unaffected by your charm.
31 is true. Also, "short stack" and "'Stacks' Edwards" don't work very well.
LB, the point is that they're never like Chinese or Japanese: controlled, quiet and reserved.
LB, the point is that they're never like Chinese or Japanese: controlled, quiet and reserved.
LB, the point is that they're never like Chinese or Japanese: controlled, quiet and reserved.
Oh, and of course I forgot -
Lesbian drivers: fat; steering wheel gets stuck in stomach folds
35, 36, 38, 40, 41:
John, I think we get it now.
Back when China Airlines started flying into SF, the unofficial slogan around the city was "You've seen us drive, now watch us fly."
Iranian drivers: prone to confirmation bias, like the cat!
42 made me choke on my grapefruit juice.
46: Okay, it took me three hours, but now that I finally got the "like the cat" part, that was pretty funny.
47: mmmmmm. grapefruit juice. bitter.
47: mmmmmm. grapefruit juice. bitter.
Try adding some campari.
Angostura bitters are excellent with grapefruit juice.
MMMMMMM. Campari.
My masterpiece as a bartender:
In a collins glass, over ice:
6 counts gin
fill 1/2 tonic water, 1/2 grapefruit juice
float campari
dash angostura bitters
garnish w/orange twist
The bitterest adult beverage on Earth; I give you:
The Florida Recount
As long as we're doing stereotypes: how true is 42? Are lesbians not generally hot, or is that just american sitcoms?
Are lesbians not generally hot
The L Word lied to me!!!1!
Not many (identifiable) lesbians going around in the Third World, apo. Hence that kind of stereotype is a bit hard for us to come up with, and so we just import the american version (like so many other things, for better or worse).
Apparently I had this one all backwards.
re: 52
The two girls making out next to my wife and me at a gig we were at the other day were, unquestionably, hot.
The Florida Recount
Totally awesome.
51: Are you sure you can't fit a float of Pernod in there somewhere?