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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
I'm a school bus driver and by far the weirdest experience (which I have regularly) is driving a busload of middle school or high school girl athletes (almost all white) somewhere and listening to them sing along to music with the n-word in it. They do not skip the n-word.
they wouldn't be edgy and cool if they did.
Just say ninja, every time. All those songs can be fun songs about ninjas.
Ninja please!
Ninja, what?!
Go ninja, go ninja, go!
My ninja
Jokes aside, I'm about 95% sure Elmo is supposed to be black-coded
You're not wrong, Sesame Street was developed to look like Harlem. It's been very much about black representation in every aspect they could consider since the very early days.
Wow, even Sesame Street is whitewashing their characters now? :P
Not so much white washing as making sure people know that it isn't the pedophile operating the puppet anymore.
Black guy here:
I give all you motherfuckers the Nigga Pass. I hereby bestow you all the title of Honourary Niggaz.
Person here: I give you the homie badge
Another person here: and I gave you..let's just say you should probably schedule a doctor's visit.
Was there a South Park episode where Tolkien had his allowance cut off, and made up for it by selling "Nigga Passes" to the school? Or did I dream that?
Tolkien or Token? 😂
Tolkien, he got his name retconned in the latests episodes. Pretty funny they basically go around and ask people what they thought his name was XD
Sweet! Now I can sing along to The Story of OJ in Harlem without any worries.
A quick note, YouTube started adding tracking into the URLs that are connected to ur account, if you want to remove these just remove the question mark and everything after it, then you have a clean URL
Idk if you will call me a nerd, but I thought it might be interesting
I once worked with a black dude who said the word all the time. One day we were talking hella shit about our boss and all kinds of n words flying out of his mouth, and I let one loose too, froze, and looked at him and he didn't even give a shit.
When the artist makes the audience do the chorus in a gig, Elmo better not fuck it up
I just make a record-scratch sound instead of say the word if it's in a song I'm singing. If people think that's lame then I'll live with that. I do NOT want to get comfortable saying that word; I'm the same shade as printer paper.
I had a friend get very comfortable with the phrase "yeaaahhh, ma nizzle" (substitute nizzle for the word it's code for, because I can confirm after using a perfectly acceptable word similar to snickering it will be removed and also I don't wanna type it).
One day, we're at a very rough pub in Digbeth. Lots of drinks had. We're all sat at a table outside, behind my friend are two very large, very black bouncers. One legit looked like the Hulk and capable of casually ripping my friend's head off. The other wasn't as muscled but still well-built and very tall. Then... my friend.... says the words. Everyone at the table kinda freezes and goes quiet. The very tall guy goes "What did he say?!" and the Hulk just shakes his head sadly and says "something stupid". Thank you Hulk for not ripping my friend's head off.
And that, boys and girls, is why you don't get comfortable saying words that aren't for you.
"My neighbor' works just fine.
I can assure you that if I saw the guy next door out on his patio, and called over, "What's up, my neighbor?" it would not "work just fine."
Wait, so are you telling me "Elmo's Song" was originally ******'s song?
Yup. All those "la la las" you hear now? Originally something else
Unless you're Korean. "Ni ga" (니가) literally means "you" in Korean. With the not-so-recent surge in popularity of Kpop globally, I know there's been more than one outraged person accusing Korean rappers of racism for saying "you" in their own language.
Russell Peters, a Canadian comedian, actually mentioned something similar in Mandarin years ago in one of his specials. Here he is talking about going to a KFC in Beijing.
Note: Russell is of Indian descent and uses a lot of racial jokes in both the entire special as well as this specific bit.
It reminds me of a problem with Japanese let's players, how they've been playing more and more Western games lately, who have been playing Grand Theft Auto V.
See in Japanese culture, onomatopoeia is a bigger thing, and it's not uncommon for people to sing an onomatopoeia or for them to be accounted for in the dialogue for media, especially in anime.
So a notice actually had to be given to Japanese Grand Theft Auto fans to stop playfully singing the N Word (as is done at the end of the infamous Franklin Roast)
Many fans mistook it for a playful onomatopoeia and just began singing it on stream in the most innocent way possible.
There are compilations of famous Japanese Vtubers doing this and it is as adorable as it is uncomfortable
Oh man I remember this in college. I was grabbing some stuff at a Walgreens and this Korean lady was on the phone saying that. When I got home I told one of my roommates and he was "No, no, they weren't being really racist, that's a common phrase in Korean!"
Incredibly unfortunate false cognate.
Or as League of Legends personality “LS” says
Just call people 니가 and they literally cannot punish you
Okay but if I'm doing karaoke I'm gonna sing the song like it is. I'm not the guy who's just gonna skip the word or say "neighbor" or something, sorry.
Read a room. If you think people will be upset, don't say it. If you don't think people will be upset but they are, apologize and don't say it
