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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: bull930 on March 27, 2007, 12:08:00 am
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I went past Rhode Island Ave today and saw alot of hispanics outside by the Home Depot. I think they are manual labor workers looking for a job. If you need to get your house painted or some work done....stop by!
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Maybe you're just stereotyping. Sucks to be you.
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Originally posted by Joe Marshmallow III:
Maybe you're just stereotyping. Sucks to be you.
go there and see for yourself.
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A guy knocked on our door at 10 am Sunday morning asking if we needed any yardword done. 10 in the morning on a Sunday. Talk about freaking rude.
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Maybe they were BULLfighters. Get it?Bullfighters.
Originally posted by bull930:
I went past Rhode Island Ave today and saw alot of hispanics outside by the Home Depot. I think they are manual labor workers looking for a job. If you need to get your house painted or some work done....stop by!
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Laborers at Home Depot? You don't say!
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They might be there tomorrow as well. Potentially for the rest of the year.
Originally posted by bull930:
I went past Rhode Island Ave today and saw alot of hispanics outside by the Home Depot. I think they are manual labor workers looking for a job. If you need to get your house painted or some work done....stop by!
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Maybe they were a mariachi band.
Or maybe they were Tony Stewart fans. NASCAR has been trying to get Hispanics to tune in.
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Those fans are lined up at the Texaco.
NASCAR has been trying to get Hispanics to tune in. [/QB]
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Originally posted by Joe Marshmallow III:
Maybe you're just stereotyping. Sucks to be you.
Maybe you're just an idiot. Sucks to be you.
In the District, Latino advocates say the Home Depot is the largest day-labor site since one of two paint stores closed at 15th and P streets NW. During the summer, residents say they have seen as many as 200 day laborers at the Home Depot. Residents say police have not acted on their complaints about loitering because the parking lot is private property.
link (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/25/AR2007012502029.html)
<small>[ 03-27-2007, 11:56 AM: Message edited by: econo ]</small>
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Someone I know went and picked up a day laborer from Home Depot. He bought some green paint and told him to paint his porch, and that he would pay him when he returned from his golf game. Later that day he got back and the porch was just the same but the young chap was covered in green paint. "What have you been doing all day?" he asked the young laborer..."Exactly what you wanted amigo" As he opened the garage door. "I painted it green, but it's not a porch it's a Ferrari"
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Whatever, dude. You're an a**hole. If bull had given me the link, I wouldn't tell him he was stereotyping. Asswipe.
Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
Originally posted by Joe Marshmallow III:
[qb] QUOTE]Maybe you're just an idiot. Sucks to be you.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/25/AR2007012502029.html (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/25/AR2007012502029.html) [/b]
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I thought it was common knowlege that day laborers gathered at places like Home Depot and Lowes every morning.
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Maybe in DC. Not where I'm from.
Originally posted by Brandon Brendall, the thief:
I thought it was common knowlege that day laborers gathered at places like Home Depot and Lowes every morning.
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Where are you from?
Originally posted by Joe Marshmallow III:
Maybe in DC. Not where I'm from.
Originally posted by Brandon Brendall, the thief:
I thought it was common knowlege that day laborers gathered at places like Home Depot and Lowes every morning.
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temporarily living in Germantown, MD
permanent residence in Santa Rosa, California :D
Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
Where are you from?
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Alternatively, you could have spent three seconds on Google verifying the situation before lobbing accusations.
Originally posted by Joe Marshmallow III:
Whatever, dude. You're an a**hole. If bull had given me the link, I wouldn't tell him he was stereotyping. Asswipe.
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ggw, there are some people that I won't take seriously...and bull930 is one of them...
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This story says it's a common occurrence in cities across America. link (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/10/national/10depot.html?ex=1286596800&en=f7d8881a5ad66a46&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss)
I see (Hispanic) day laborers outside of 7-11 in Sringfield when I'm up early enough on a Saturday. Are you sure this aint the case in Germantown as well?
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I don't recall seeing any the last couple times I was there (on a weekend)...Do you want me to double-check this weekend?
Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
This story says it's a common occurrence in cities across America. link (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/10/national/10depot.html?ex=1286596800&en=f7d8881a5ad66a46&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss)
I see (Hispanic) day laborers outside of 7-11 in Sringfield when I'm up early enough on a Saturday. Are you sure this aint the case in Germantown as well?
<small>[ 03-27-2007, 11:57 AM: Message edited by: econo ]</small>
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Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
Maybe they were BULLfighters. Get it?Bullfighters.
Originally posted by bull930:
I went past Rhode Island Ave today and saw alot of hispanics outside by the Home Depot. I think they are manual labor workers looking for a job. If you need to get your house painted or some work done....stop by!
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA - My co-workers are looking at me - HAHAHAHAHA
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there werent any hispanic people at all in my hometown, and i was well aware of this before i moved here
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Originally posted by bull930:
I went past Rhode Island Ave today and saw alot of hispanics outside by the Home Depot. I think they are manual labor workers looking for a job. If you need to get your house painted or some work done....stop by!
That's some racist shit right there, Bull. To be fair about it, had Dupek or one those other cats (For the record, I'm NOT defending him or cats of his ilk) made a post like that you'd be screaming out "Mississippi Burning" and what not. Yeah, that may have been why were there. Then again maybe they all just coming thru to cop some ladders. Who knows?
Just cause you may catch me at a Metallica show outside Verizon/MCI/The Phone Booth, it doesn't mean I'm there to scalp tickets or on my way inside to pour beers or usher people in. I may just be there to see Metallica. (I use this example, cause it happens ALL. THE. TIME.) I remember I was walking in the door, & this white cat turns to me with a shocked look & says, "You're here for THIS???!!" I'm like, um, yeah. Are ALL of Metallica's fans supposed to be white???
Stereotypes are a slippery slope, homey. Don't scream bloody murder, & turn around and do the same shit. It paints (not sayin' you are, cause I don't know you) you out to look like a hypocrite. Just my two "sense" . . . .
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Originally posted by Joe Marshmallow III:
ggw, there are some people that I won't take seriously...and bull930 is one of them...
thanks for your words of wisdom....now you can shut your pie hole and no one will ever have to listen to your filth again!!
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thanks for your workds of wisdom....now you can shut your pie hole and no one will ever have to listen to your filth again!!
¿?
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bad dog, i won't play fetch with you anymore...and no more treats!
Originally posted by bull930:
Originally posted by Joe Marshmallow III:
thanks for your words of wisdom....now you can shut your pie hole and no one will ever have to listen to your filth again!! [/b]
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Originally posted by Joe Marshmallow III:
ggw, there are some people that I won't take seriously...and bull930 is one of them...
i think you are the asshole here.
in fact, not just here.
and FYI, i dont take anything you say seriously on this board.
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wait wait wait...this thread is about the dumbest thing to come across this message board since the Incubus presale!
if anyone lives in such a sheltered place to have JUST noticed the hispanic day laborer situation in the Baltimore/DC area is growing faster than a Daisuke Matszuaka fastball, then its their fault.
i know for one, that i pass by at least 100 every day at the 7-11 in Fells Point and have seen then in DC and PG County as well.
i know they're fuckin day laborers...have i asked one though? no. but i am not stupid.
just like the black dude that stands on the corner on my way home, trying to flag down cars....is he a drug dealer? would i be stereotypiing if i thought he was? well, he is, and i know, i am not stupid.
did bull say "hispanics are all day laborers"?? no. what else could they be???
if anything, i think its kinda silly that he needed to point this out on a message board....i figured it was a part of daily life around here and cant believe him and others are just taking notice that MD alone has over 100,000 illegal aliens looking for tax-free work in our towns!
so all of you STFU! already. if you dont like the "mexican" day laborers...close your condo doors and pretend they arent there.
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Originally posted by TheDirector217:
Are ALL of Metallica's fans supposed to be white???
umm, maybe thats not the best analogy ;)
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sonick what did we tell you about posting after partaking in a special lunch...
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Originally posted by kosmo:
sonick what did we tell you about posting after partaking in a special lunch...
sorry!
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have you ever been out to germantown? i can totally believe that someone from there might not be familiar with the day laborer situation in DC/Bmore. and believing that joe didn't know about it, his reaction is understandable... i'm sure that given the update beforehand, joe would have reacted differently - ah, the power of knowledge. so let's all calm down.
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Originally posted by sweetcell:
have you ever been out to germantown? i can totally believe that someone from there might not be familiar with the day laborer situation in DC/Bmore. and believing that joe didn't know about it, his reaction is understandable... i'm sure that given the update beforehand, joe would have reacted differently - ah, the power of knowledge. so let's all calm down.
well, considering joe is the biggest knowitall on the board, i must've just figured he knew that too!!
should we tell joe about the black people living in DC too?
(yes, i've been to lily white germantown, and believe it or not, i've been through lily white Santa Rosa too!)
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I have no idea why you think I'm a know-it-all guy. I do remember that you had a problem with me when I pointed out to one guy in the Just Announced thread that a show has already be mentioned. Other than that, I dunno what you are talking about...
I actually live in a small town called Boyds, but people ask me all the time where Boyds is so I just say Germantown (which is right next to Boyds). I seriously was not aware that Hispanic laborers hang out outside Home Depot. In Santa Rosa, Calif, they are roaming a specific street - not Home Depot.
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Originally posted by le sonick:
Originally posted by TheDirector217:
Are ALL of Metallica's fans supposed to be white???
umm, maybe thats not the best analogy :D
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Originally posted by Joe Marshmallow III:
I have no idea why you think I'm a know-it-all guy. I do remember that you had a problem with me when I pointed out to one guy in the Just Announced thread that a show has already be mentioned. Other than that, I dunno what you are talking about...
I actually live in a small town called Boyds, but people ask me all the time where Boyds is so I just say Germantown (which is right next to Boyds). I seriously was not aware that Hispanic laborers hang out outside Home Depot. In Santa Rosa, Calif, they are roaming a specific street - not Home Depot.
you can hit san rafael and see them all hanging out in the Canal. and theres no home depots around there. but George Lucas's ILM is around the corner (unless that moved to SF). maybe lucas can find some jobs for them.
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So has anyone taken bull's advice and hired one or more of these guys?
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I also have a large organ. It's a Hammond.
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Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
So has anyone taken bull's advice and hired one or more of these guys?
a former boss used to pick up the day laborers all the time for work on his house. eventually he hired a few of them on a full-time basis to help with everything. he was always satisfied (and he didnt speak hardly a word of spanish). this was in Cali tho, so not sure how they are out in DC.
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Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
So has anyone taken bull's advice and hired one or more of these guys?
a friend tried to hire some to help him move once. he wanted 3 guys, 5 guys jumped in his car, they haggled over money, etc etc...could've just been a bad few guys, but if i were going to hire some, i'd make sure i (or someone with me) knew some espanol. just so theres no confusion!
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What do you get when you cross a Mexican with a Canadian?
Mañuel LaBour
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Originally posted by TheDirector217:
plus I have a fairly large, um, "organ"
<img src="http://www.acc.umu.se/~zqad/cats/1163980866-wuzthisbig.jpg" alt=" - " />
ok, ok, i'll dial it down with the f*ckin' cats... but this one just called for it.
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Originally posted by bull930:
I went past Rhode Island Ave today and saw alot of hispanics outside by the Home Depot. I think they are manual labor workers looking for a job. If you need to get your house painted or some work done....stop by!
Words: 41
Female Score: 68
Male Score: 43
The Gender Genie (http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.html) thinks the author of this passage is: female!
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Originally posted by sweetcell:
Originally posted by TheDirector217:
plus I have a fairly large, um, "organ"
<img src="http://www.acc.umu.se/~zqad/cats/1163980866-wuzthisbig.jpg" alt=" - " />
ok, ok, i'll dial it down with the f*ckin' cats... but this one just called for it. [/b]
LOL. That was funny. I can't front, S Dot Cell. That was kinda funny . . . .
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Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes,Japanese Golfer:
So has anyone taken bull's advice and hired one or more of these guys?
when i used to live off of columbia rd, we'd hire guys off the street to clean our house after parties ... it's amazing how difficult / long it takes to clean up after a couple hundred people
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Originally posted by le sonick:
Originally posted by Joe Marshmallow III:
ggw, there are some people that I won't take seriously...and bull930 is one of them...
i think you are the asshole here.
in fact, not just here.
and FYI, i dont take anything you say seriously on this board. [/b]
Sounds like someone has taken my place.
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on the bus ride to work every morning, i see the morning shift hanging out front of a sherwin williams store in lower haight/alamo square.
i'm sure santa rosa has its fair share of day laborers, the wineries need people to prune the vines and pick the grapes. i know that napa and sonoma have large immigrant enclaves thanks to the wineries.
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Day laborers have been using the Weenie Beenie in Arlington for as long as I can remember. Back when I moved furniture for a living we'd pick one or two up every once in a while. The trick is to find someone you can trust and look for him every time.
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so i guess they are everywhere BUT germantown!
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Originally posted by le sonick:
so i guess they are everywhere BUT germantown!
And El Salvador.
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Tabernac!
Originally posted by le sonick:
so i guess they are everywhere BUT germantown!
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econo, are you from la belle province? or just been blessed with the opportunity to spend time there?
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JE ME SOUVIENS!!!1!1
No, I'm not from la belle province. I'm from the midwest. My Grandfather was from Hamilton, Ontario. That's about it.
I do love some poutine though.
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pooooooooooooutine... clogged arteries, yum...
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Originally posted by Dupek Chakra:
Originally posted by le sonick:
so i guess they are everywhere BUT germantown!
And El Salvador. [/b]
damn, i hate when your posts make me laugh!
but seriously, when i was in Cancun last year, i saw more mexicans standing outside hotels (the ones doing renovations after the hurricane) looking for work.
some hotels had what mustve been up to 1000 dudes! sad i suppose, but i was on an air conditioned bus drinking beer and watching a Steve Martin movie!
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Originally posted by TheDirector217:
Originally posted by bull930:
I went past Rhode Island Ave today and saw alot of hispanics outside by the Home Depot. I think they are manual labor workers looking for a job. If you need to get your house painted or some work done....stop by!
That's some racist shit right there, Bull. To be fair about it, had Dupek or one those other cats (For the record, I'm NOT defending him or cats of his ilk) made a post like that you'd be screaming out "Mississippi Burning" and what not. Yeah, that may have been why were there. Then again maybe they all just coming thru to cop some ladders. Who knows?
Just cause you may catch me at a Metallica show outside Verizon/MCI/The Phone Booth, it doesn't mean I'm there to scalp tickets or on my way inside to pour beers or usher people in. I may just be there to see Metallica. (I use this example, cause it happens ALL. THE. TIME.) I remember I was walking in the door, & this white cat turns to me with a shocked look & says, "You're here for THIS???!!" I'm like, um, yeah. Are ALL of Metallica's fans supposed to be white???
Stereotypes are a slippery slope, homey. Don't scream bloody murder, & turn around and do the same shit. It paints (not sayin' you are, cause I don't know you) you out to look like a hypocrite. Just my two "sense" . . . . [/b]
I am not racist at all.....i just made an observation!!!!
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Originally posted by Joe Marshmallow III:
bad dog, i won't play fetch with you anymore...and no more treats!
Originally posted by bull930:
Originally posted by Joe Marshmallow III:
thanks for your words of wisdom....now you can shut your pie hole and no one will ever have to listen to your filth again!! [/b]
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You're sounding racist to me.
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Originally posted by le sonick:
Originally posted by Joe Marshmallow III:
ggw, there are some people that I won't take seriously...and bull930 is one of them...
i think you are the asshole here.
in fact, not just here.
and FYI, i dont take anything you say seriously on this board. [/b]
Thanks for your outstanding opinion. I think I will now slap myself!!!!
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Originally posted by le sonick:
wait wait wait...this thread is about the dumbest thing to come across this message board since the Incubus presale!
if anyone lives in such a sheltered place to have JUST noticed the hispanic day laborer situation in the Baltimore/DC area is growing faster than a Daisuke Matszuaka fastball, then its their fault.
i know for one, that i pass by at least 100 every day at the 7-11 in Fells Point and have seen then in DC and PG County as well.
i know they're fuckin day laborers...have i asked one though? no. but i am not stupid.
just like the black dude that stands on the corner on my way home, trying to flag down cars....is he a drug dealer? would i be stereotypiing if i thought he was? well, he is, and i know, i am not stupid.
did bull say "hispanics are all day laborers"?? no. what else could they be???
if anything, i think its kinda silly that he needed to point this out on a message board....i figured it was a part of daily life around here and cant believe him and others are just taking notice that MD alone has over 100,000 illegal aliens looking for tax-free work in our towns!
so all of you STFU! already. if you dont like the "mexican" day laborers...close your condo doors and pretend they arent there.
Calm down and take a chill pill. Of course I have seen it on the news. I was just suprised by what I saw and posted. You need a holiday.
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Originally posted by le sonick:
Originally posted by sweetcell:
have you ever been out to germantown? i can totally believe that someone from there might not be familiar with the day laborer situation in DC/Bmore. and believing that joe didn't know about it, his reaction is understandable... i'm sure that given the update beforehand, joe would have reacted differently - ah, the power of knowledge. so let's all calm down.
well, considering joe is the biggest knowitall on the board, i must've just figured he knew that too!!
should we tell joe about the black people living in DC too?
(yes, i've been to lily white germantown, and believe it or not, i've been through lily white Santa Rosa too!) [/b]
What?????? :mad: :eek:
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Originally posted by TheDirector217:
Originally posted by le sonick:
Originally posted by TheDirector217:
Are ALL of Metallica's fans supposed to be white???
umm, maybe thats not the best analogy :D [/b]
TOO MUCH INFO!!!! :eek: :eek:
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Originally posted by Dupek Chakra:
Originally posted by bull930:
I went past Rhode Island Ave today and saw alot of hispanics outside by the Home Depot. I think they are manual labor workers looking for a job. If you need to get your house painted or some work done....stop by!
Words: 41
Female Score: 68
Male Score: 43
The Gender Genie (http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.html) thinks the author of this passage is: female! [/b]
Nope I am a tranny!
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Originally posted by bull930:
Originally posted by Dupek Chakra:
Originally posted by bull930:
I went past Rhode Island Ave today and saw alot of hispanics outside by the Home Depot. I think they are manual labor workers looking for a job. If you need to get your house painted or some work done....stop by!
Words: 41
Female Score: 68
Male Score: 43
The Gender Genie (http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.html) thinks the author of this passage is: female! [/b]
Nope I am a tranny! [/b]
thatguy is a nanny.
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Originally posted by bull930:
TOO MUCH INFO!!!! :eek: :eek:
TOO MUCH PUNCTUATION!!!!!
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just like the black dude that stands on the corner on my way home, trying to flag down cars....is he a drug dealer? would i be stereotypiing if i thought he was? well, he is, and i know, i am not stupid.
You live in Baltimore right? This "black dude" you see trying to flag down cars is most likely trying to catch a hack.
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Exactly what I suspected when reading that!
Originally posted by The Parkers are dead:
You live in Baltimore right? This "black dude" you see trying to flag down cars is most likely trying to catch a hack.
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Originally posted by The Parkers are dead:
just like the black dude that stands on the corner on my way home, trying to flag down cars....is he a drug dealer? would i be stereotypiing if i thought he was? well, he is, and i know, i am not stupid.
You live in Baltimore right? This "black dude" you see trying to flag down cars is most likely trying to catch a hack. [/b]
actually, living in baltimore you learn that hackers and dealers have two extremely different demeanors. could you imagine people regularly confusing the two!!!?? (guy getting in your car thinking he's going for a ride, you think you're getting high, or vice versa, lol)
no, there's the hack signal(the two fingers) then theres the staring at every car doing the little eyebrow thing. its hard to describe, i suppose "flagging down" cars was the wrong term.
and unfortunately, i have more knowledge of the ways of baltimore's open air drug market then i'd like to...
(aside from the fact that if you were trying to get a ride, you wouldn't be at the corner of a dead end street and an alley!!!)
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Originally posted by bull930:
Originally posted by le sonick:
Originally posted by Joe Marshmallow III:
ggw, there are some people that I won't take seriously...and bull930 is one of them...
i think you are the asshole here.
in fact, not just here.
and FYI, i dont take anything you say seriously on this board. [/b]
Thanks for your outstanding opinion. I think I will now slap myself!!!! [/b]
i wasnt talking to you.
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Well now that you put it that way...
What if you confused someone looking for a hack with one of the women of washington blvd? that would be awkward. not that they even wait for any certain invitation before trying to get into your car. I had one confuse eye contact with hey baby, how bout one of those 5 dollar hand jobs
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Originally posted by The Parkers are dead:
Well now that you put it that way...
What if you confused someone looking for a hack with one of the women of washington blvd? that would be awkward. not that they even wait for any certain invitation before trying to get into your car. I had one confuse eye contact with hey baby, how bout one of those 5 dollar hand jobs
are you trying to be funny?? i live on Washington Blvd!!!!!!
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What's a 'hack'? And Bull930 sit in that corner and Le Sonick in that one, and I want the two of you to think about what you've done. We are nice to each other in this daycare.....anything else is unnacteptable.
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Originally posted by le sonick:
and unfortunately, i have more knowledge of the ways of baltimore's open air drug market then i'd like to...
i sure hope you've stopped snitchin'
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Originally posted by Hoyas Final 4:
Originally posted by le sonick:
and unfortunately, i have more knowledge of the ways of baltimore's open air drug market then i'd like to...
i sure hope you've stopped snitchin' [/b]
HAHAHAHA
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Originally posted by Roadbike Mankie:
What's a 'hack'?
Short for hackney carriage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackney_carriage), it's slang for a taxi.
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I still have no idea why someone would do this.
Originally posted by bull930:
I think I will now slap myself!!!!
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Originally posted by econo:
I still have no idea why someone would do this.
Originally posted by bull930:
I think I will now slap myself!!!!
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I think it depends upon what is being slapped.
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When Manuel and his S.A.'s go back home to visit, they should each be made to carry back a 5 gallon jug of toxic waste, or else no readmittance later.