flashback to last week as the champ enters au bon pain to order his usual sandwich:
***btw, the champ never switches sandwiches, because n*ggas with degrees and multiple tattoos never switch sandwiches. we find a sandwich we like, and we stick with it. forever. he’s never had anything at the cheescake factory other than the shrimp and bacon club, and he only eats big macs at mickey d’s. this builds character***
“i’d like a chipped ham on a croissant with lettuce, tomato, onions, and mayo”
the au bon pain hoochie behind the counter squints and sneers her nose at me a bit while asking me to repeat the order…
“i’d like a chipped ham on a croissant with lettuce, tomato, onions, and mayo”
(she replies) “mayo?”
“yes muthaf*cka, mayo!!!“ i reply loudly…in my head.
because this is beginning to turn into a laurel and hardy routine, i finally ask her…
“yeah, mayo. whats wrong with mayo???”
“you’re the first black man thats ever been in here that asked for mayo on his sandwich. i asked because i couldn’t believe what i was hearing”
“i aint your average black man, wrench. now go make my f*cking sandwich” i reply in my head again.
“i cant explain it. i just like mayo, i guess”…
…i finally respond with a unsurprisingly vacant amount of bass in my voice.
when they called my name to pick up my order, i buttoned my coat up, lowered my kangol, and approached the counter refusing to make eye contact with anybody, like i was about to pick up a snuff film.
although this incident took place in less than three minutes, it brought up a more serious issue…something that has been bothering me for almost a decade now…
…who decided that black people aren’t supposed to like mayonnaise?
from overpriced deli’s in depressed mid-atlantic cities, to the wildly underrated undercover brother, mayonnaise is seen as the bane of all black existence, and i need to know why.
in my confusion, i’ve come up with a couple theories to possibly explain our disdain for it.
1. black men are very intimate when it comes to our deli meats, and having a white spread in there makes us think about gentrification and billy bob thornton
2. we disdain mayo because it looks too much like spunk, and nobody wants to be thinking about man spunk when theyre eating a deli sandwich… especially not on thursdays
anyway, this incident made me think about the concept of stereotypes–the stuff your demographic info is supposed to indicate about you and your likes, dislikes, strengths, and weaknesses. this idea permeates everything from the music you’re probably supposed to listen to, to the smooth, off-white condiments you’re supposed to eat.
in keeping with yesterdays tone of post-racial multicultural coitus, i’m sure you’re all aware of the racial, sexual, and cultural stereotypes assumed of you…but what about you completely bucks the trend?
the rhythm-less blacks, the big-booty asian, the 20-something conservative, the virginal latina, this is your time to shine. what are your mayo stories?
—the champ
I went to private PWI for most of my grade school years, juxtaposed by my membership at a black, southern, Baptist church. I caught a lot of flack about my speech, work habits and perspectives from my black “friends” and even some family members. Apparently, I wasn’t convincing as a black girl from the ages of 6-13.
…luckily, I wasn’t dissuaded from my course and am better for it.
P.S. Am I first?
@Resident GRitS,
“P.S. Am I first?”
P.P.S..yes
question: why hasn’t the “we-don’t-eat-mayo” memo hit the projects where the kids eat mayo (and in some cases miracle whip) sandwiches?
and evidently… my hair’s not nappy enough, my eyes are too light/color-changing, and communication skills to proper for me to be black…
later for haters
:-*
@Jay_Delicious,
question: why hasn’t the “we-don’t-eat-mayo” memo hit the projects where the kids eat mayo (and in some cases miracle whip) sandwiches?
last night, i heard about a mayo and banana sandwich.
there are some things you wish you could unhear
@The Champ,
Dag The Champ you could have said earmuffs. My mind’s palate is dry heaving now.
@WuDaMan,
yeah. the imagery is pretty harsh. i imagine it tasting how a tiiny dumptruck in your mouth would
@The Champ,
Oh snap dump trucks can house one of the smells on the planet that can actually make me queesie. (rotting meat, and the smell of raw oysters (reminds me of disecting sharks in high school biology class))
@The Champ,
… Gross.
Me likes the Miracle Whip (or Whhhip as Stewie Griffin would say it).
Me likes banana’s.
Combining the two like captain planet = Fail. And mud butt.
I have texture issues…that consistency is not the business. Not only that, but my cousins (that I visited every weekend) were poor…like, we eat bologna that has bits of crunchy stuff in every bite from the cheapest lil grocery store in the hood that takes WIC because my aunt had 14 kids….poor. Cheap store + cheap bologna = terrible taste. Slather it with Mayo to get past that…sorry, couldn’t get Mayo, too expensive, gotta go with Generic Spread in the black and white CANISTER. Sound nasty, it was worse. Hungry, yep…options, starve or eat. That was it. So yeah, mayo is not for me.
Now pass me the block of cheese and the knife…
@SauleWright,
There is a vegan version of Mayo (has no eggs in it) called No’yannoise and I’m willing to bet that it’s worse than any cheap Mayo out there in the market. It’s very, very, very, very bad. Just reaaaalllly foul.
@ofloveandotherdemons,
Nayonnaise is the only way vegans can work out their love of the stuff and still remain true to their ethics…thanks!
@ofloveandotherdemons,
As a vegan I must agree that Nayonnaise is really gross! However, no self respecting vegan in the know would ever eat that mess we bow down to Vegenaise which is pretty much the Hellmans of the vegan world. yum!
@ofloveandotherdemons,
No’yannoise
this is actually sold, like, in stores?
@The Champ,
Yes, grasshopper. There is so much I could teach you about the wonders and travesties (mostly just travesties) that is the vegan subsititute market.
@SauleWright,
I have severe texture issues (hell, overall sensory intergration and food issues) as well. That’s why I can’t do mayo either. Only if it’s mixed in potato or tuna salad. I’ve gone as far it to take a napkin and wipe EVERY visible condiment off my sandwich if Wendy’s or any other sandwich makers eff up and put mayo on my sandwich. It just cannot be done.
Just the thought of it is making me want to spit right now. BLECH!
@PBG aka The Notorious C.A.T.
YEP!!!! I wipe that shit off too. I don’t order plain because I don’t want them to do anything to it so I just get it normal and wipe that shit off. If it’s in something you made, don’t tell me. The first I attempted to make Tuna Salad and read “add mayo” I just went and had a PB&J instead. I’m over that mess.
@SauleWright,
PB&J is gross. Peanut butter is is Satan’s sandwich spread. How can anybody eat something that stinks??
@PBG aka The Notorious C.A.T.,
Lol you sound like the Waterboy’s Mama
@PBG aka The Notorious C.A.T.,
“PB&J is gross. Peanut butter is is Satan’s sandwich spread. How can anybody eat something that stinks??”
what in the he1!..now im not a pbj fan..but dayum..satan tho???
seriously?
this thai place in dc makes the best fried tofu with a peanut based/lime sweet sauce and its the bomb diggity. and it doesn’t smell at all.
@Princess Duvet,
The Thai people’s apparent obsession w/all things peanut is why I refuse to eat any of their food.
And despite what you say, I’m sure it stinks to high heaven.
@PBG aka The Notorious C.A.T.,
Can I ask you something?
what the he!ll do you eat?
@Princess Duvet
You can’t ask me that. Ask me something else.
@PBG aka The Notorious C.A.T., & Princes Duvet
stop it w/ this thread… I think I have caught the side split of death. Buahahahaha!)
@PBG aka The Notorious C.A.T. & Wuwu
WuWu..i gotta ask one more question tho!!!
***turns to PBG Like I’m Barbra Walters***
PBG… do you think you have a food phobia? With a certain level of balance. Food should be an experience. Food is your friend. Now if you were stuck on an island with only three foods to choose from what would they be? And if you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be and eating which types of food?
@PBG aka The Notorious C.A.T.,
Peanut Butter does NOT stink! Blasphemy. It smells especially good when it’s freshly ground. Delicious!
@pgh muse,
ive been researching…PBG has a fear of smells.
diagnosis=Olfactophobia- Fear of smells
I suspect she also has a fear of chicken
diagnosis=Alektorophobia- Fear of chicken
@Princess Duvet as Barbara Walters,
What part of “sensory intergration issues” did you NOT understand? Do you go around asking blind folks about their difficulties w/the color red or deaf people why they keep the music so low?
This interview is OVER!
*flips over table, knocks over studio lighting and storms the fluck out*
@Princess Duvet,
you totally just Frost/Nixon’d me…lol..wow..
***motions to the camera guy..keep rolling***
@PBG aka The Notorious C.A.T.,
Mr. Carver would like a word with you….
@SauleWright,
bwhahahha
@SauleWright,
Mr. Carver came to me in a vision once. He & I have already worked all this out. In lieu of all my other good works in faith, he’s given me a pass on the whole peanut thing.
Kthxbai!
@PBG aka The Notorious C.A.T.,
So, you telling me the man that made the first pair of Air Force 1′s from peanuts said cool, you can slide? Blasphemy!!!!!
@PBG aka The Notorious C.A.T.,
BLASPHEME!!!!!
How dare thee disrespect the goodness that is PBJ!? PBJ is a wonderful dish and is a treat for all red blooded Americans!!!
@PBG aka The Notorious C.A.T.,
Oh my, how can you not like peanut butter? George Washington Carver just shed a tear. lol.
@SauleWright,
im not tryna start a food fight..but i think the whole texture-mayo thing..i dunno is …hmmm??? all condiments have the same texture, the texture they are supposed to have-you’re not supposed to drink mayo.
so how do you feel about salad dressing? what about when a hollondaise is used as a garnish for the plate..do you send it back?
im sorry…this is not living..you’re in some sort of foodie prison LOL..
@Princess Duvet,
I disagree wholeheartedly w/your assertions.
@PBG aka The Notorious C.A.T.,
im just saying (no judgements LOL) but picky eaters got personality flaws…how tha hell do you hate mayo. What did ya momma/daddy put on your sandwiches?
@Princess Duvet,
Your qualifiers make my heart go pitty-pat-pat. Just in time for Valentine’s Day.
I got whatever I wanted on my sandwiches. Mustard or nothing. A happy child I was.
@Princess Duvet,
I am a foodie too, so when I read stuff like that, I keep thinking :”Oh my god, they must be so sad…
”
@Specialized Sula,
Oh no. I’m very happy. See, look.
@Princess Duvet
actually, I don’t mess with too many condiments. Ketchup gets a pass and it’s not as slimy as mayo. The only other one I really use is Chic-Fil-A sauce and even then, thats VERY sparingly. Salad dressing, don’t fux with it. Get me a spritz of some vinaigrette and get the heezy away from my salad.
AND, my foodie prison is peppered with a lifetime supply of the same 5 foods dammit, and I love it. LMAO. I joke I joke, I kid I kid. But you kinda right, my palate is limited…the scarier part is when I do venture out…it goes bad. THUS, I go back to the old faithfuls. So let me get a chipped ham with….
@Princess Duvet,
all condiments have the same texture, the texture they are supposed to have-you’re not supposed to drink mayo.
I don’t want to talk for anyone else, but I think the textural issues most have with mayo may really be problems with mouthfeel. Every condiment has a different mouthfeel; it varies depending on the ingredients and the formulation . A big factor in this is the type of fats used. Hydrogenated/partially hydrogenated/poly-unsaturated fats will all give you a different sensation as they dissovle in your mouth. I think the problem with mayo is that it has such a high fat content, plus most of it is unsaturated fats that when it hits your tongue it dissolves immediately coz of your body temp and leaves a film like coating. The filmy stuff is what give you that slimy, yucky, yucky texture
@ofloveandotherdemons,
“I don’t want to talk for anyone else, but I think the textural issues most have with mayo may really be problems with mouthfeel. Every condiment has a different mouthfeel; it varies depending on the ingredients and the formulation ”
now this explanation i can appreciate…i hate when non-foodies throw taste and texture around. very well written. however, i aslo find that people who don’t like condiments just don’t like condiments. but too each his/her own.
@ofloveandotherdemons, I think it’s the egg that makes it stick. And it is an emulsion a fine homogeneous mixture of fat and protien. I bet they don’t like whole milk for that matter and or butter other versions of homogeneous mixtures of wildly different substances.
@ofloveandotherdemons,
that is how you break it down…if they gave the Know-Bail prize out for posts, you’d get my vote.
@SauleWright,
welcome and sh*t
@The Champ,
a thank you, a thank you
@SauleWright,
even though i have no issues with mayo…
welcome!!!
*shooting gold stars*
@SauleWright,
I know these memories may be traumatic for you but canned imitation mayonaise is a concept I can’t wrap my mind around! My head almost exploded!! LMAO!
@sxyscientst,
Trust me, it’s much worse than I can describe…don’t look into the light Caroline.
i like mayo. not a lot. just a tad. enough for a thin layer to coat the bread of my sandwich or tortilla wrap. i also like many mayo-based dips/dressings, even tho i can feel my arteries clog with every bite. i HATE miracle whip. dee-scusting.
what else about me “bucks the trend” of my blackness?? hmmm. i refuse to drink kool-aid. altho i did perfect the art of making this hood drink at the tender age of 4. and i used to eat the kool-aid mix straight from the packet. don’t miss those days…
@Gem-nastics, whoa. i just read your post. we’re on the same exact vibe. i want to gather all of the miracle whip in the world and throw it into a toxic waste dump.
@Miss Patterson,
i want to gather all of the miracle whip in the world and throw it into a toxic waste dump.
me too. miracle whip, to me, is actually worse than jim jones
@The Champ,
I’ll throw Miracle Whip, Velveeta and all the other pseudo-condiments in there as well…
@Specialized Sula, Velveeta
I can’t co-sign this one. For perfect baked macaroni Velveeta or some other processed cheese like Land o lakes is ESSENTIAL!
@The Champ,
WOW!! I cannot believe that one would choose that weird “mayo” concoction over the tangy zip of Miracle Whip!! Now, I don’t eat either that much, but when i do…I want that tangy zip!
lol
@Bobby_2010,
There are two kinds of people in the world: Those that appreciate the chef-d’oeuvre that is Miracle Whip, and those that stab kittens for sport.
@nikiloveli,
dont they use kittens to make miracle whip?
@Bobby_2010,
welcome and sh*t, and remind me to not let you cook at the vsb bbq
@The Champ,
That’s coo…I prefer to watch others cook…I just know not to eat the ‘tato salad and other mayo-based ish.
But as long as I’m invited I’m okay.
@Bobby_2010,
welcome!!!
*shooting gold stars*
@Gem-nastics,
“enough for a thin layer to coat the bread of my sandwich or tortilla wrap”
Yeah I normally order it on the side, because they normally put way too much on my sandwich/wrap/burger. lol
@miss t-lee,
I Love Mayo… I always ask for extra mayo and extra cheese:-) i don’t want a sandwich that doesn’t consist of both…
@Jenna Marie Christian,
You’re like one of my BFF’s. She made tuna once that looked like it was swimming in mayo. I refused to eat it.
I asked her, “would you like some tuna with your mayo?”
@miss t-lee,
lol..i know..I love tuna full of mayo.. I want the mayo to “coat” the tuna..lol It sounds bad, but true!!
“I Love Mayo… I always ask for extra mayo and extra cheese:-) i don’t want a sandwich that doesn’t consist of both…”
This is me. I’m more surprised to hear of this mayo ban in the black community. I grew up on that sh*t…word!
@AkShone,
I found that “mayo ban” a bit surprising myself!!
@Jenna Marie Christian,
Your arteries called. I’d tell you what they said, but my granny said good women don’t talk that way.
@nikiloveli,
Girl, My Arteries should have called a long time ago because my eating habits are absolutely horrible:-)
@Gem-nastics,
i refuse to drink kool-aid
blasphemy!!!!!!!!
@Gem-nastics,
i agree. mayo in moderation is what it’s all about. i don’t drink kool-aid either… i just don’t like it.
@laylah,
do you have a soul?
@Gem-nastics,
My sister called me last night to inform me that she was at one of those hoodish “Chinese” food places, and there was Kool-Aid on the menu.
Yes, she ordered it. How could she not have? It’s Kool-Aid! From a restaurant! You’d have to buy it, just to say you did.
@Nikiloveli,
There used to be a BBQ shack here that always had grape (my all time favorite flavor!) kool-aid in an urn right next to the lemonade and sweet tea.
Mayne was it sweet. Went real well with brisket…lol
the idea of buying kool-aid from any store makes me sad and LOL all at the same time!!
@Nikiloveli,
“Chinese” food places, and there was Kool-Aid on the menu.
Ummm…no. This should not exist
@Gem-nastics,
Let me join your ranks. I have, wait for it, never had Kool-Aid before… Ever. And I’m not interested in trying it either… So is there a club or something I can join?
idk but we should start one and have our 1st meeting at Champ’s and throw all his kool-aid out the window.
@Gem-nastics,
you must have a death wish
@The Champ,
I’m on ur side. Koolaid is yummy. I get a little creative with it and mix flavors and add lemons / lemon juice or limes/ lime juice or something to make it more interesting but next to the soy milk in my fridge is a pitcher of koolaid. I even sometimes make it with a little honey and the expensive pure cain sugar… but i do drink koolaid
1st of all…i love mayonnaise, and i hate hate hate salad dressing or whatever they call that Miracle Whip business…yuck! gross!
2nd of all…chipped ham? you are soooo pittsburgh.
3rd of all…you’re going to h-e-l-l for “virginal latina”
~i’ll be back with another comment.
@Miss Patterson, 2nd of all…chipped ham? you are soooo pittsburgh.
i was thinking the same thing!!! That is HILARIOUS! I didn’t even think they still sold this…
@pgh muse, miss patterson
what? the burgh’s the only place you can get chipped ham?
@The Champ,
Real talk it’s the first time I’ve heard of it. It was only after I moved to the great state of Philadelphia that I even payed any attention to chipped beef. Interesting.
@WuDaMan,
“the great state of Philadelphia”
Ya’ll stay quoting that tragic girl don’t ya’ll…lmao!!!
@miss t-lee,
Who said that again? Im drawing a blank.
@Dom,
I believe it was Lil Mama, if I’m not mistaken.
@miss t-lee,
I love her for it. I after moving here made that mistake like probably once or twice. But ever since it’s just hilarious.
@WuDaMan,
Cosign your mortgage AND your car loan on that statement potna. I’ve neva heard of a chipped beef sammmewhich (yeah, i said it) until i read this post. Don’t do it down in Tx like that. (that i know of..) Enlighten us pls Champ…
@Tx10inch,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip-Chopped_Ham
here ya go. (stolen from pgh muse’s comment)
its very tasty and sh*t
@Tx10inch,
“I’ve neva heard of a chipped beef sammmewhich (yeah, i said it) until i read this post Don’t do it down in Tx like that.” (that i know of..)”
You already know we don’t…
*sniggling*
@The Champ,
Pretty much, Champers. It’s even called Pittsburgh style on Wikipedia. It’s a ‘Burgh thing like a primanti bros. sandwich and city steps.
@pgh muse,
I wanna got to Primanti Bros.
*shakes fist* one day, ONE DAY!!!!
@The Champ,
I was mildly afraid to show my ignorance on the matter of chipped ham or chipped anything for that matters. Blame it on language barrier…
.
So what exactly is it?
@Specialized Sula,
Here u go, e-twin
enjoy!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip-Chopped_Ham
@pgh muse,
Thanks Chica! I appreciate you, e-twin.
@The Champ, it’s the quintessential pittsburgh sandwich. duh. do i have to school your a$$?
I used to be vegan (strict vegetarian) and I apparently bucked the trend b/c people kept telling me that black people are not vegan. And I don’t drink Kool-Aid, I obviously don’t eat fried chicken, and when I used to eat meat many moons ago, I preferred baked chicken and grilled salmon to the fried alternatives.
And I prefer spicy honey mustard, and I don’t like ketchup. I’m not sure if that bucks the trend, but there you have it.
@N.I.A. Ms.Alladatshyt….,
And I prefer spicy honey mustard, and I don’t like ketchup. I’m not sure if that bucks the trend, but there you have it.
it doesn’t, but thanks and sh*t anyway
Sooo umm you low on topics huh?? I’m just… serious. Hehe (lofff you like a play cousin named Pookie who I only like to see once a year at the family reunion but errtime we see each other, we have a ball and promise to hang out during the rest of the year but never do)
Anyway, I too, am a fan of the Big Mac. It is the only burger I ever eat. From anywhere. And is mainly the reason why I cant classify myself as a vegetarian (that and my love of fried chicken. And them Great Steak sammiches. Ok so maybe I ain’t close to vegetarian after all)
Ah yes, I’m sposed 2 be talmbout how I don’t match black all the way
I am not a huge fan of kool-aid. *Whew* There, I said it.
*Lifts weights from shoulders*
*Puts on Champ’s mammoth dome* Hold that right quick. I’ll be back after maxing this Big Mac
*Hums* 2 all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce cheese…
@Luvvie,
Sooo umm you low on topics huh??
Haahaaa. Yeah, I had that passing thought when I saw the topic too, but I figured it gave me the opportunity to do two things I absolutely love. Talk about myself and make a list (this statement is 50% accurate).
@ofloveandotherdemons, i smell a reprint *ducking*
@Miss Patterson,
smell deez
@The Champ, ewwwwwwwwwwww.
@Luvvie,
Oh Luvvie Dovey – how your IG makes me swoon, lol.
PS, Big Macs are gross – the Quarter Pounder has it ALL over the BM all day. See? Even it’s initials are an indicator of it’s nastiness.
@Luvvie,
Sooo umm you low on topics huh??
lol…its been a long week
@The Champ,
Tis okay, Humpty. 5 posts a week is tough. Besides, did your breakfast muffin come up missing?
1. black men are very intimate when it comes to our deli meats, and having a white spread in there makes us think about gentrification and billy bob thornton
That elicited a nice, loud and long snort-laugh from me.
2. Made me puke a little in my mouth.
So thank you and damn you.
…but what about you completely bucks the trend?
I’m a 24yr old black female who is:
a.) A vegan
b.) Non-religious (Against organized religion is more accurate, me and BBJ and all other dieties are cool; it’s the dogma and the thumpers that perplex me)
c.) Bi-sexual
d.) Utterly in love with folk music, any and every variation of it. Add to that I have very little knowledge of hip-hop (I’d say none, not counting the occasional stuff I hear in clubs) but I’m afraid of Champ banning me again.
e.) Hate sports (I only list this since it seems, from reading VSB comments, I’m the only female that doesn’t like sports. )
f.) Sadly, I don’t embody the ‘chicks with the baddest wadrobe/shoes/make-up game’ stereotype. I don’t wear make-up, own no heels, keep my hair natural and I’ll pick comfort over cleavage popping-mid thigh-so tight you can’t breathe freakum dresses and their ilk. Yes, I roll into clubs with flats.
I don’t know if the above completely ‘buck the trend’, but I don’t think they are listed under the stereotypical character traits of a black female.
Yes, I roll into clubs with flats.
now, i love a mean stiletto game. 3-4 extra inches to my 5’5″ height makes me feel extra FAB. beauty is pain and my feet have literally carried that burden on many occasions. but… i live in Pittsburgh. so i often roll to the club (and other nightlife venues) in flats.
@Gem-nastics,
I’m 5′ flat, so you’d think I would embrace the stiletto. I just can’t deal with the pain.
@ofloveandotherdemons,
Now how did you transition into becoming a vegan? Have you always been a vegan, Did you just quit meat cold turkey, or was it a process?
I’ve been trying to get into vegatarian lifestyle for a while, but i keep relapsing on meat, like an addict on crack..lol
@Jenna Marie Christian,
I never really ate red meat even when growing up, so the only thing I gave up when I went vegetarian was fish and chicken, which I ate only once in a blue moon. I was vegetarian for 2years and then went vegan. You could slowly try and phase the meat out of your diet, that usually works.
@ofloveandotherdemons,
thanks for sharing and sh*t. and no, (as long as you dont mess with my toast) i’m not gonna ban you again
@ofloveandotherdemons,
sounds like we’re related!
@L,
We could be e-family. My goal is to have 20 e-siblings, make up for my itsy little family in the real world
@ofloveandotherdemons, .) Hate sports (I only list this since it seems, from reading VSB comments, I’m the only female that doesn’t like sports. )
u totally are not. I love the pgh steelers… otherwise i would much rather spend my time doing something else rather than watching sports. it’s not my thing either.
My relatives give me the side-eye because of my disdain for all things potato salad and cole slaw in nature. (and because I say stuff like ‘disdain’)
When I didn’t eat meat for a year everyone told me, “Black folks ain’t no da.m.n vegetarians, go get you a pork chop baby”
i’m giving you the side-eye too for not liking potato salad. now cole slaw is just gross. raw caggabe?? yuck!!
when i stopped eating pork, there was always somebody black (or a real bold 2520) that would say “so what are you muslim now?” as if only muslims in this world don’t dine on swine. lol
@Gem-nastics,
Cole slaw is the ish. Its crispy, a little tangy, a little sweet. Really whats not to like.
…I love cole-slaw…with a passion!
@AkShone,
me 2…especially with some catfish…lol
I’m a black, single parent who:
~graduated high school #5 out of a class of over 350 students
~attended college (THE Ohio State University….I just added that cause i know Panama hates OSU…which is natural for inferior UMichigan fans)
~only has one child who is very well behaved
~is not on welfare, nor is living in poverty
~has no babydaddy drama
~owns a passport, complete with stamps in it
~is articulate and speaks with diction
~is gainfully employed and has a well funded 401K
~is involved in a happy, functional relationship
oh yea, and I like mayo too.
@Wis.Miss,
welcome and sh*t, and thanks for posting your entire eharmony.com resume
@The Champ, lol
@Wis. Miss,
welcome!!!
*shooting gold stars*
@SouthernGirl, thanks!
@The Champ,
Haaaaaaaaa!
@The Champ, womp womp….that wasn’t my e-harmony resume. it was an honest answer to your question.
@Wis.Miss,
it was an honest answer to your question.
correct. i still like to jab though. you’ll get used to it
@The Champ,
*jabs you back*
and thanks for the welcome.
@The Champ,
*chortles*
@Wis.Miss,
My husband graduated from Ohio State!
@L, *hi five for your hubby* does he drive you crazy with his Buckeye fanaticism? I’m sure my Illinois/UWisconsin friends are sick of me and my Buckeye pride already, lol. (Even though we can’t seem to win a d.amn championship to save our lives…ugh)
L for you cuz you order sandwiches from au bon pain on your own accord.
That’s all at this time.
@Dorian G.,
yeah there all over the dc area..and for some reason i’ve never been inclined to go in.
@Princess Duvet,
they have decent food actually. good soups and sh*t
@The Champ,
They do have very tasty soup.
@Dorian G.,
i see you’ve finally recovered from your ravens hangover. good job
I hope no 2520s read today’s posts. They gon be like “Dagnabbit, we KNEW most Black folks loved watermelon and chicken and are on welfare. We just effing KNEW it, man!” I’m slightly ashamed I even mentioned kool-aid lol
@Luvvie,
i know a few that actually are right now. i just hope that they dont secretly work for the fbi
#1 – People say that I’m very proper and don’t understand this because I grew up in New York
#2 – I don’t like to argue and will compromise to end it as quick as possible
#3- I’m black and live in Seattle which gives me a lot of strange looks when I travel to other parts of the country
@Leila,
Everytime I read you… I miss my little Queen Anne apartment… a skip and a throw away from Belltown….
Ah! the good life on Corporate Housing.
I loved it there and wouldn’t mind moving to Seattle at all.
Mitigating my Blackness for sport is not the business. Not at all.
I match a LOT of so-called “blackness”, you ______, and dammit I like it.
Happy Friday, VSB and may BBJ & The Force be with you.
>.>.
@PBG aka The Notorious C.A.T.,
who pissed in your milk this morning?
@The Champ,
Nobody cuz I don’t drink milk.
Psshh.
Mayo really? Everyone I know eats mayo or sandwhich spread I personally cannot stand sandwich spread or miracle whip, thousand island or corn on the cob
@shay-d-lady,
Exactly. I didn’t know about this Mayo conspiracy.
Why my peoples didn’t get the memo? Did we miss a meeting or something?
I can’t reply from my phone but @wiss.miss was that satire?
@shay-d-lady, everything i listed about me in my reply is absolutely true…..except the part about “inferior UMichigan fans”, we Buckeyes have to bust balls when it comes to UMichigan. It’s a longstanding tradition, lol. No harm or snark intended though. Those things I listed are all things that people are actually surprised to learn about me. Odd, eh?
@shay-d-lady,
*snortles loudly*. Girl, you need to stop.
“virginal latina”
ROFLMFAO!!!
I’m a black male and i…i am not a big fan of sports (ducking), i don’t stay up late at night waiting for the next Manchester/Liverpool Darby it just doesn’t tickle my penis at all, hey F**k it i said it.
I love mayo, if i could i would make a mayo shake, that’s how much i love tha ish.
Oh ya, and i really like my job (ducking)
@sisanda,
i don’t stay up late at night waiting for the next Manchester/Liverpool Darby
I’ll bet most black people in America have no idea what you mean by this.
@Deviant, isn’t it “football” ie soccer?
@Princess Duvet,
yeah I I can count the number of black people I’ve met in my entire life that even watch soccer on one hand. The amount that can tell me what that sentence means may be less.
@sisanda,
“I’m a black male and i…i am not a big fan of sports (ducking), i don’t stay up late at night waiting for the next Manchester/Liverpool Darby it just doesn’t tickle my penis at all, hey F**k it i said it.”
if we were on a date and you said this to me…immediately to the “how you doing?” box. Do not pass go, but moisturize and exfoliate if you like.
@Princess Duvet,
You’ll be surprised at how many non American Black males don’t actually care that much for sports.
Blame exposure, blame the lack of variety (it’s Soccer for better r for worse), blame the fact that most (i.e African men for instance) will never actually get to see their home teams playing on t.v.
I mean they may like it if they happen to catch it, but are not at all vested in it like most American men I’ve met.
@sisanda,
‘tickle my penis’…..really?!?!? lol
@sisanda,
Make that Manchester/Chelsea and I will make you stay up with me… (or wake up really early.
)
For starters, I LOVE mayo on my sammiches. Secondly, all you Miracle Whip haters can take a left! Last time I had Miracle Whip, I was a kid, but it made the bologna and cheese sammiches taste so much better. *sighs* Bologna is disgusting (it’s basically a big hunk of thin-sliced hot dog “meat”) but when you’re 4 years old and don’t have a job, what can ya do?
The only thing about me that bucks the norm of being a black folk is that I will NOT eat soul food that’s “extra”. (i.e. chitterlings, pig feet, hog-head cheese, hog maws and scrapple)
If you invite me over for dinner and my knees buckle from the smell of what’s cooking, why on God’s green Earth would you expect me to put that mess in my person? I’d rather starve than eat the intestines of a pig. (chitterlings)
We’s not slaves no mo, we can eat da good pahts uh da pig nah!
@RedBeanzNRice,
you know, chitlins arent terrible if you limit your exposure to them to once every 4 years
1. I can’t memorize the lyrics to a hip-hop song to save my life, and I almost never hear the words right. There’s a select few but I probably had to d@mn near study the song.
2.I seem to be the only girl (black or white) that’s willing to admit that I had a crush on Corey Haim when I was younger.
3. I liked playing with bugs when I was a little girl…and i’m still fascinated by them.
4. I don’t know how to play spades. The rules never stick and I always get out of any invitation to play (and subsequently embarass myself) by ‘helping’ in the kitchen or something like that.
@Miss Patterson, 3. I liked playing with bugs when I was a little girl…and i’m still fascinated by them.
Me too!! I love this!
@Miss Patterson,
I was a fellow bug lover as a child…
I adored roly-polys.
@Datalore,
Ooh, me, too!
I also:
1. Created a game in which I kicked open ant hills to see how many eggs I could grab without being bitten.
2. Did that whole Ramona Quimby thing where I’d wrap earthworms around my fingers like rings.
To this day, I can’t stand to watch a worm struggle across concrete. It just rips their little skin to shreds. I’ll always grab something and transport them to the nearest bit of soft soil. Always.
***Disclaimer***
No animals were harmed in the making of Nikiloveli.
@Nikiloveli, I’m almost embarrassed to admit it, but:
“To this day, I can’t stand to watch a worm struggle across concrete. It just rips their little skin to shreds. I’ll always grab something and transport them to the nearest bit of soft soil. Always. ”
I too have a soft spot in my heart for earthworms. I even had a pet one when I was a kid (although he probably had no idea he was my pet, lol). People give me the serious screwface when I pick them up to move them to the grass/dirt. I dont like to see them get stepped on!
@Nikiloveli, i heart you for the ramona quimby reference. wow! i used to torture bugs too. i won’t go into too much detail, but i used to step on caterpillars for fun. when i was little i lived in a very isolated suburb community. so, i had to entertain myself with nature…
@Miss Patterson,
I had a crush on Corey Haim when I was younger, too. Everyone else I knew crushed on the other Corey, but he looked like a dirty toad to me.
@Miss Patterson,
i don’t know how to play spades either! you just made me feel so much better about myself!
@laylah,
I can’t play and have been banished from blackness no less than 100 times because of it! So glad it’s not just me!!!
@sxyscientst,
Let’s create a club!
@Specialized Sula, yay! let’s do it!
If it’s one thing I know is spades is serious!!! I’ve seen too many times friends not speak to each other for a few days for renigging (where did that word come from?) in a game.
Not knowing how to play spades is parallel to not knowing how to do the electric slide…and black folks LOVE the electric slide.
@AkShone,
i cant electric slide
You may have to change your name from “The Champ” to “The Runner Up”…
@AkShone,
That was too funny.
@AkShone,
hahahah
This is an 8th wonder worthy jab right here!!!
@AkShone,
…………………..
@AkShone,
lol…that was a good one.
@AkShone,
Renig=Renege (shorthand for re-negotiate) but since I love me a conspiracy…
And I hate being the only “ethnic” person at company parties, softball games and feeling like a damn race traitor cuz I can’t hit the ball out the park or slide left with the rest of the group. Esp. considering that the 2520′s are up there doing it with the greatest of ease.
@Miss Patterson,
I’m with you on the spades thing.
@Miss Patterson,
1. *sigh*
2. i did as well. license to drive was my sh!t.
3. i loved them as a kid too. not so much anymore. june bugs and grasshoppers were my faves.
4. *more sighs*
Lol…What type of games did y’all play in college? People that didn’t grow up on spades at least learned in college…it’s in the rule book, dammit!
@AkShone,
I refused to learn. Just to be difficult.
@AkShone,
lol. my sighs were coming from a place of saddness at pattiecakes’ lack of knowledge on these topics.
*Giving SG back her black card, but holding on to Patti’s to pick door locks and sh*t…*
@AkShone, hey now! ya know what’s funny in each phase of my young adult life: early hs, late high school, and college, folks were already self-proclaimed experts in spades. so, it was always seemed too late to learn. i used to attend an overnight journalism workshop and all the kids would spend sleepless nights playing spades and even then my fellow burghers at 15 would look at me cross eyed and say ‘you don’t know how to play?!” so, when? when, was i provided with the appropriate nurturing environment to learn spades? i’ll tell ya! never! *snatching back black card out of akshone’s hand*
@Miss Patterson,
2.”I seem to be the only girl (black or white) that’s willing to admit that I had a crush on Corey Haim when I was younger.”
Mine was Kirk Cameron. Me and my blonde, blue-eyed best friend, Arian. (I was too young to recognize the overkill that is having a blonde/blue eyed child, then actually NAMING her Arian. Just keep the “y” and be damned. You’re not fooling anyone.)
I also didn’t really get the mayo reference in Undercover Brotha.
I think I buck the trend because I prefer mustard on sandwiches.
Also people (only black people) seemed to be surprised that I am ** years old and have no children.
I find that Miracle Whip is too sweet and smothers the taste of your food. Mayo (especially Hellman’s) enhances the flavor of salads and dips.
Someone mentioned the various parts of the pig. LOL. I have to agree with some of those. Pig’s feet and knuckles have never been enticing. And scrapple just looks like lint to me. It’s gray for goodness sake. But I enjoy my traditional serving of chitterlings around New Year’s. I just think of it as tripe. As long as it is not my crib they are smelling up, I don’t mind.
@Ms. Hall,
I also didn’t really get the mayo reference in Undercover Brotha.
you know, i’m beginning to think that they put that in their just to specifically f*ck with me
1. First off, I love mayo.
2. I don’t put hot sauce on my greens or my fish.
3. I have albums from Maroon 5, Fall Out Boy, Lily Allen, etc.
4. I don’t eat weird things like chitterlings, pig feet, hog maws.
@Nicki Sunshine, PREACH!!!
1. Me too!!
2. Me either!! I put mustard on my fish! I’m from the SOUF!!!
3. I freakin love Lily Allen and Maroon 5!!! I think Coldplay’s “Viva la Vida” is my favorite song right about now! LOL!
4. I don’t eat that sh*t either…uugghhh.
All of this while still maintaining my blackness. Life is good.
)
@This Just In…Welcome to SIXBURGH!,
I love Viva la vida!
And I use tartar.
Lily’s been having a hard time as of late… her cd banged though.
@Nicki Sunshine,
I actually like the whole cd…Go Coldplay!!!
)
I use tartar on whitefish and cod….mustard on catfish….what can I say…I’m particular! LOL!!
Her cd does bang!! Fu*k You is my fave song on there!
@This Just In…Welcome to SIXBURGH!, I am digging “Everything’s Just Wonderful” It puts me on some kinda mood. I am gonna try that mustard. lol
@Nicki Sunshine,
I love Viva la vida!
I can’t deal with this CD anymore. Everytime I’m flipping through the radio station, I hear the same two singles from it on at least four stations. Viva La Vida had the shortest shelf life for me of all Cold Play CDs. Have you listened to Parachutes or Rush of Blood to the Head? If you haven’t I really recommend Parachutes; it’s quite, quite lovely.
I thought I was the only brotha that DIDN’T like mayo, Miracle Whip® and thousand island, which means I don’t like potato salad, macaroni salad or tuna salad…..but err now and then I’ll fux with a Big Mac. Ha!
Champ, your theory #2 is enough reason to slap somebody if they ask if I want mayo on my sammich! My auntie makes the best lemon cake, but if she puts that icing on top, that looks like she sent it through the bukake carwash? HELLZ no, B!
@DirtyJerz,
I don’t like icing on my cake either. Too sweet.
“My auntie makes the best lemon cake, but if she puts that icing on top, that looks like she sent it through the bukake carwash?”
LMBAO!!!! D@mn…I’ll never look at lemon cake the same now!
@AkShone,
Me neither.
That image just turned my stomach.
@DirtyJerz,
My auntie makes the best lemon cake, but if she puts that icing on top, that looks like she sent it through the bukake carwash? HELLZ no, B!
i could have lived the rest of my life without that imagery.
thanks
Well, I am really into embracing my inner Chawnqueisha whenever the need arises, and/or am just being myself, sometimes she just pops out!! I can’t suppress her. I am uncontrollably black lol… but I guess there are a couple things about me that some segments wouldn’t equate with black womanhood so here goes:
-I like and drink large quantities of soymilk. It’s been a staple in my home for years now.
- I’m not vegeterian, but have some veggie leanings. I can go days without eating meat. I love fried chicken and prepare it marvelously (i’ve been cooking since i was like 10), but i don’t eat it often.
-I love Dave Matthews Band, John Mayer, and am starting to appreciate Michael Buble.
- I do my own taxes. My dad taught me how when i was like 16 and I’ve been doing them myself ever since. Bump Jackson Hewitt.
-I craft. It’s my passion / hobby/ side hustle and I’ve been doing it since forever. I go to fabric stores and the old white ladies get really surprised when I ask for stuff and know what i’m talm ’bout.
i’ma just throw this out there–soy [milk] may or may not be more harmful than healthful.
rice milk is where it’s at!!!!
@Gem-nastics, I have heard that the estrogen levels in soy can be problematic. I may have to make the switch to rice milk, but i’m going to need something conclusive, cuz i <3 my soymilk, choco soymilk, soymilkshakes… all that stuff
I may need to do some more reading.
@Gem-nastics,
soy [milk] may or may not be more harmful than healthful.
Yeah, this is one of those food myths. Soymilk is good for you. There really is no conclusive evidence linking the estrogen levels in it to stomach cancer or phytoestrogens or isoflavones levels to early menopause or anything else. It’s sort of like HFCS, MSG and Aspartame hysteria, calm the eff down people; they are safe and ish.
i don’t give a damn what anybody says–i stay away from MSG, aspartame, saccharin, HFCS, and large volumes of soy milk (i prefer it to cow-milk in my coffee/tea). there’s enough scientific evidence to support their hazardous qualities outweigh any healthy ones.
@pgh muse,
I love Dave Matthews Band too but right now I heart Adele.
My bucking the trend list include:
-I don’t like ribs, the smell of them turns my stomach
-I’m not big on innards as a food option.
-eggs, seafood and bologna/hot dogs are not my friend
-I knit (slowly, and with a lot of curse words, but still.. old white ladies look at me strange in the yarn shop)
- I dont’ do kool aid.. I just can’t.
- My music does not lean towards the Top 40 radio play lists.. I’m often the only one not singing along at clubs (until the Old School or soca hour)
- I went to predominately white public school so my black card is constantly being revoked and my ‘good diction’ is always questioned (like my mother didn’t raise me to talk ‘good’)
@pgh muse,
-I like and drink large quantities of soymilk. It’s been a staple in my home for years now.
apparently “pgh muse” is swahili for “excessively flatulence”
@The Champ,
Hahahahahaha. Gross! When i say large quantities i don’t think that I drink more than the average milk drinker. We just go through A LOT in my house it seems like. At least a gallon a week if not more.
I’m gonna have to google chipped ham. Not familiar at all.
Since when do Black people not like mayo? I musta missed that memo. Shooot some spicy mayo on turkey with provolone goes hard in the paint. Miracle whip? Yuck. That ish had me hating all sandwich spreads for years. Thanks Mom.
As you know I don’t do the chitlins or the hog maws.
oh yeah and I like Neil Diamond.
(I told my homegirl this the other night during the grammy’s and she said I should give me card back!!!)
If I said anything else I’d just be rehashing old ish.
So I just googled chipped ham, sounds like it could have some promise.
@miss t-lee,
it does. its very promising
1. a sandwhich isnt a sandwhich without mayo, sheesh
2. i dont use hot sauce
3. i listened/listen to and am a big fan of 90s grunge
4. i refer to the pig as swine and i’m NOT muslim
5. not a big fan of organized religion ( @ofloveandotherdemons )
but you’d have to kill me dead to get my black card, i’ll cut ya just the same.
@eysqueen,
A fellow grunge lover! No wonder I heart Seattle so much.
I’m a lover of all things poetic. and good. From photography to literature.
I’m a 20-something who doesn’t club, drink to get drunk and I’ve never smoked…anything.
I am healthy AND overweight.
And I am extremely mental health concsious. I have a therapist. that I visit. regularly.
@Imperfect,
…and you’re an educated black from the b-lo, lol. thats an anomaly in itself
Honey mustard is superior to mayo in every way
@Deviant,
Ummm…I love some honey mustard, too!
@Deviant,
only if you have a lil kid’s palate. (just feel like startin something)
@WuDaMan,
This, and you being a citizen of the Rhythmless Nation is why we ain’t make it. *smh*
@PBG aka The Notorious C.A.T.,
please expound???
What is this thing about black people not liking mayo? I LOVE mayo; so much so I get extra mayo on stuff like tuna melts. Yum. I’m also a fan of mayo’s second cousins: dijon mustard, pesto, thousand island, hollandaise, etc…it just needs to be sandwich appropriate.
my list:
1. All things british; masterpiece theatre, benny hill, bridget jones, period film with british people, queen elizabeth and the whole british monarch and all its associated history.
2. I will HURT somebody over Vietnamese, Indian/Pakistani, Greek, and Thai Food.
3. I’m actually thinking about starting a little contained garden (on my deck) with collard greens, endive, lettuce, tomatos. Just test drive it, to see if I actually do want a real garden. I would ulitmately like to live on a farm (part-time) with horses, chickens and cows. (but the chickens and cows CANNOT be eaten, they would be like my pets), sort of like charlotte’s web.
4. I LOVE motorsports.
5. I LOVE all things antique and the store Anthropology-there furniture stuff is usually restored old pieces (how come NO black people go in there).
5b. I also love that show “what’s it worth?” where people bring in their tv stands and old desks and find out it was owned by some famous army general from the civil war and is now worth 14 million dollars.
6. I’m starting to love the gym. Not the gym itself, but just how I feel when I’m done.
@Princess Duvet,
4. I LOVE motorsports
some angels somewhere are singin…..
@Princess Duvet,
I LOVE motorsports.
If you prefer open wheel racing over NASCAR I will marry you.
@Humble_One,
“If you prefer open wheel racing over NASCAR I will marry you.”
can you afford me? LOL
@Princess Duvet,
“can you afford me? LOL”
You can live off ramen noodles and vienna sausage right?
@Humble_One,
if you throw in smoked oysters in a can and some saltine crackers…its a deal.
But you need a 5 year plan..cause i can’t be living like no pauper forever nah!!!
@Princess Duvet,
“if you throw in smoked oysters in a can and some saltine crackers…its a deal.
“But you need a 5 year plan..cause i can’t be living like no pauper forever nah!!!”
Its a deal then. I am just riding out this recession. If it gets tough you just have to pick up a few more jobs.
@Princess Duvet,
i LOVE LOVE LOVE anthropology… clothing and home decor. my fave store ever.
@laylah,
“i LOVE LOVE LOVE anthropology… clothing and home decor. my fave store ever.”
YES…
***doing the color purple pattie cakes***
@Princess Duvet, 2. I will HURT somebody over Vietnamese, Indian/Pakistani, Greek, and Thai Food.
I’m with you on this!
@pgh muse,
this is kinda weird but it would be cool to fuse some of the above with soul food..fried chicken biryani LOL..
@Princess Duvet,
British theatre, film, and history are def in my list of faves as well
@Princess Duvet,
1. “Keeping Up Appearances” is that heat. Ditto any period piece. Did you see “The Hours”?
2. I went into Anthropologie about a month ago, and there was an uber-conservative black matronly type in there that looked at me like I was a cyclops. Yes, a cyclops. With that exact degree of fascination and abject horror at my very presence.
@nikiloveli,
thats weird..so THEY could be there BUT you couldn’t? You know some of their furniture stuff i think they get from estate sales, they restore it, and mark it up 1000%..gotta love commerce.
Wasn’t Hours kind of dark..see i hate really dark stuff with women as leading characters. Its a weird thing i have..if its dark..its gotta be about a man.
@nikiloveli,
It’s Bouqet not Bucket
@Princess Duvet,
Ok see here? I could have written this list myself.
1. I grew up on British Humor. I felt so naughty when I could understand the innuendos of Benny Hill at 8!
. I actually have a bit of a brit-lover syndrom… and it even spilled in my dating. 
. I was considering moving to London for my Master’s but well, I didn’t like the idea of being a broke foreign student all over again.
2. I can even re-create my favorite Indian and Vietnamese dishes. One of my best friends who is Thai said that I must have been Asian in another life… (thing is I believe it too.
)
3. I have my herbs pots on my kitchen counter. My ultimate goal is to open a B&B/Health Spa where all the food will be grown on the premise. So yeah.
4. Change that to X-treme sports and we’re good (Tony Hawk rawks!)
5. I like Anthropology, there’s just none around these parts. I go to its little step-cousin Urban Outfitters.
6. You don’t want me to get started on this. I don’t know if I like the gym(actual building) per se. I think I prefer the feeling of being an athlete. I’m training for a triathlon in April.
So there you have it, Princess Duvet, we might have been separated at birth. Or maybe we went to the same Ya-Ya boarding school? Lol!
@Specialized Sula,
I LOVE THIS LIST..***color purple pattie cakes***
but this!!!!
“My ultimate goal is to open a B&B/Health Spa where all the food will be grown on the premise. So yeah.
”
is hotness…
sidebar: there’s a guy up the street from me who is growing stuff in his regular ole back yard..but he calls it “a farm” LOL..and he sells stuff to area restaurants ..and its billed as “locally grown”.
@Princess Duvet,
sidebar: there’s a guy up the street from me who is growing stuff in his regular ole back yard..but he calls it “a farm” LOL..and he sells stuff to area restaurants ..and its billed as “locally grown”.
People are business-oriented, mayne! I started planting my little pots of mint and basil when I realized how expensive those suckers were! (I put mint in every-thing!)… So I grabbed some seeds ($.59) and went onto herbal heaven.
I’ll do a lot of stuff to keep spare change in my pocket.
@Specialized Sula,
My ultimate goal is to open a B&B/Health Spa where all the food will be grown on the premise. So yeah
Replace Health Spa with Vegan bakery, and you have my life goal. A friend and I are always saying will move to Thailand and open a hostel with a bakery attatched to it.
I knew there was a reason we were e-sisters.
@Princess Duvet,
1-3, can we be friends? Seriously.
I love British TV. All the old TV comedies:Keeping up appearances, Men Behaving Badly, Fawlty Towers, Black Adder etc. Plus, I’ll take a period film over a chick flick any day of the week. When I’m depressed I’ll get a nice period flick, some good spicy curry, a nice bottle of Reisling and drown sorrows.
I love Anthropology, but there ish is just too expensive. Thirteen dollars for a tea cup? Yes, it’s pretty and all, but seriously GTFOH.
@ofloveandotherdemons,
When I’m depressed I’ll get a nice period flick, some good spicy curry, a nice bottle of Reisling and drown sorrows.
Coincidentally, that’s how I plan on spending my friday nights, but I do that when I’m happy and want to relax.
Tonight’s program: The Duchess, Homemade Naan Pizza (Da Bomb!!), and maybe, just maybe a glass of good Pinot Gris.
We’re def e-sisters.
@Princess Duvet,
I don’t think loving the Gym fits, I go 5 times a weeks. There’s no shortage of Black people in any gym I’ve been in.
*btw, the champ never switches sandwiches, because n*ggas with degrees and multiple tattoos never switch sandwiches. we find a sandwich we like, and we stick with it. forever. *
ditto for the king…..cuban pulled pork
chick at the general store tells me “you always get the same thing King. Why not somethin different?”
“You choose for me today, miss. Hook me up.”
She gives me some devil bird mess that just ruined my day….hell ruined my week.
As for shameless self promotion….
1. Lived in every region of us – cept HI and AK
2. Black man livin in Maine – we covered that yesterday
3. I’ll take the country over the city
4. I suck at shameless self promotion….
5. Oh yeah…i hate chicken but I’ll slay some watermelon any day of the week
@KingPine,
Oh yeah…and I love Volvo wagons…..
my man from canada said…that makes sense “bein a brother, big trunks – it all adds up.”
@KingPine,
“Volvo wagons…..”
that seems very Maine too…
@Princess Duvet,
I just don’t like wastin money….that and the 1st ski trip I ever took as a kid was in a 77 240 wagon….
*sniff*
yeah I got issues so what?!
btw did you get your maine question answered?
@KingPine,
“I just don’t like wastin money….that and the 1st ski trip I ever took as a kid was in a 77 240 wagon….
*sniff*
yeah I got issues so what?!
”
no you don’t my uncle had one of those. It was very buppy back in the day too…our family took it to yosemite one year. That was the best trip ever. And those things were super huge and super safe.
“btw did you get your maine question answered?”
Yes!!! sounds like a beautiful place. I love light houses too. so it might be on places to see this summer.
@KingPine,
ditto for the king…..cuban pulled pork
i never tried this before. sounds interesting
@The Champ,
It’s very good.
Especially the bread.
@miss t-lee,
yes it is…..mmmm
just had it yesterday too
@The Champ,
Must be had man…East Boothbay General store….
yeah…i got to ride into town…but it’s worth it
I don’t like mayo. Closest I will come to it is in tater salad/tuna salad etc. On a sandwich? Yeah, no. I also don’t like ketchup – don’t know what that bucks tho.
Re: Fat Stereotypes …
I don’t like twinkies or any other sweets really.
I’m not a ho (ho’s don’t say no, right? I say no.)
Other ones … umm …
My children don’t go out looking ashy. They are always clean, well moisturized and my daughter’s hair is always done and not dry and my son has locs that are always clean.
@Cheryl,
I’m not a ho (ho’s don’t say no, right? I say no.)
LOL.
i do think ho’s say no occasionally. you just have to ask the right questions (ie “is there anyone you wouldn’t bone?”)
@Cheryl,
To me, your kids going out looking presentable is a stereotype. To me it’s the little white chilrens’ who be walking round looking like homeless cabbage patch dolls.
@MDUBB,
right, because of white parents. imma white parent.
@ the Champ, what is this Blacks don’t eat Mayo mess going on in Pittsburgh?
This is some new shyt to me . . .I guess it’s because I’m from Philly and mayo is a big part of the Cheese Steak (hmmmm steak *sticks tongue out the side of my mouth and starts to salivate like Homer Simpson*) and Hoagie culture. Come to think of it that’s the only time I do eat it
And yesterday when everyone was talking about how the 2520′s wash their hair everyday, I was also flabbergasted, because I wash my hair every time I take a shower. When eff yo couch was just a little love seat my shirts will look like I have snow on them, even when it’s not snowing outside, so I would wash my hair everyday. I don’t have that problem anymore more but washing my hair everyday has become a daily habit. Plus it makes my hair wavy and smell good, without all the oil & grease.
@eff yo couch,
but how do you wear your hair though? i think that 2520 hair washing thing usually refers to the ladies (at least to me it does). a black man washing his hair everyday is not the same as a black woman doing it, ya know?
There are people who don’t like mayonnaise? Now I have heard everything!
My list:
1. I’m a black brit living in DC which seems to throw alot of people. Some guy actually commented that I wasn’t really black since I had a British accent! Wtf- like the two are somehow mutually exclusive.
2. I was a physicist- at university I was the only black person on my course.
3. I’m a total hippy (boho clothes, big crazy hair, vegetarian bordering on vegan and I work for an environmental think-tank)
@Quanta,
welcome and sh*t
@The Champ, and @ SouthernGirl
Thanks for the welcomes- I think I may be addicted to the site now- I’m reading it at 5 in the bloody morning! Must put away lap top and go to sleep…
@Quanta,
welcome!!!
*shooting gold stars*
I don’ t think anything about me is ‘non-stereotypical’. There are hella black families in the military. Hella black familys with 3+ kids.
I love all kinds of music
speak a lil french
becoming a licensed bartender (coming to a Raleigh Bar near you!)
learning to ride a motorcycle
eldest
getting master’s degree
nope… nothing non-standard about me. Except, I like both mayo and miracle whip. What? Wanna fight about it?
@Ro,
What? Wanna fight about it?
not right now. ask me again sometime next week
I don’t care for sweet potato pie, candy yams, red beans & rice, and dark meat chicken (thighs & legs)
My side make forces me to listen to “white music” like soft rock, top 40, rock, house, techno, and rave music . . .and you know what some of it is actually good! you might catch a few of them techno and house joints up in my iPod.
Hell, I may even watch a p0rno movie featuring 2520′s from time to time . . .yeah I said it!
Wifey thought I was undercover 2520 when I turned my nose up at her for putting sugar into various foods (grits, beans, Spaghetti, etc). I hate excessive sugar . . . I drink tea without sugar. I only drink ghetto Kool-aid when it has liquor in it, other than that, I’ll pass. Speaking of Liquor, I drink like a 2520 frat brother at a State college, except I hate American Beer and cheap liquor.
I never put any of my bills in my kids or pets name. I’ve never had the joy of owning a cable box with a “chip” in it.
I sometimes use a bong versus using Dutch masters and other cigars.
I’ll think of more later
@eff yo couch, “Wifey thought I was undercover 2520 when I turned my nose up at her for putting sugar into various foods (grits, beans, Spaghetti, etc). I hate excessive sugar . . . I drink tea without sugar. I only drink ghetto Kool-aid when it has liquor in it, other than that, I’ll pass. Speaking of Liquor, I drink like a 2520 frat brother at a State college, except I hate American Beer and cheap liquor.”
Eff, I think you might be my brother from another mother. I never understood why people put sugar in random foods, or why they need to make extra sweet tea, or what I like to call “diabetic coma tea”. And the only American beer I drink are the ones from the microbreweries, and cheap liquor is for suckas!!!
And don’t even get me started on 2520 music….
@N.I.A. Ms.Alladatshyt….,
Okay I’m w/ all of this @ Eff you da man. & I know that people put sugar in they grits cuz it’s cereal. And sugar goes in Spaghetti only when the sauce is too tart (tomatos were not ripe enough). But beans my yignuh??? Oh yeah I love beer especially microbreweries n yeah cheap liqor is for suckas!!!!!!!
@WuDaMan,
And sugar goes in Spaghetti only when the sauce is too tart (tomatos were not ripe enough).
Your food knowledge keeps astounding me…. I am very appreciative of that.
@Specialized Sula,
Aah Sula you could get it.
@eff yo couch,
people put sugar in grits? really?!?
the more you know…
@eff yo couch,
Hell, I may even watch a p0rno movie featuring 2520’s from time to time . . .yeah I said it!
before the internet, this was basically all i watched, mainly because it was never available. in high school, possessing black p*rn was like having a maserati or some sh*t.
@The Champ,
“possessing black p*rn was like having a maserati or some sh*t.”
You gotta look in your dads footlocker in the basement.
My non-stereotypical trait is that I’m a 2520 who reads VSB
@luvtheshoes,
lol!
@luvtheshoes,
Best non-stereotypical post evah. lol
@luvtheshoes,
I so love you!!!
@Specialized Sula,
Awww…y’all just gave me the warm and fuzzies.
Thanks for the e-love, Southern Girl, Cheekie and Specialized Sula!
My friends have clowned me many times for some of my ways. My brother blames it on me attending a expensive PWI private school.
1. I like mayo especially on my cheesesteaks and chicken sandwiches.
2. I HATE HOT SAUCE. Thats right black people I do not like hot sauce.
3. I was wearing sweaters when before Jay-Z told negroes to and before Kanye West. I like shawl style sweaters.
4. I don’t like cars with ridiculously huge wheels and skittle colored paint jobs.
5. I am a dark skinned dude that prefers dark skin women. Although I never attract them. People assume that I only like light-skinned women or 2520s.
6. I don’t like budweiser, MGD, or any other beer like that. I prefer red stripe, heineken, guiness etc.
@Humble_One,
The fact that #5 Bucks the stereotype makes me sad.
@Dom,
Me too.
But wait, my SO is as dark as they come. And I’m darker than him. Yay, we have a trend!!
@Humble_One,
About #5
I am that weird paperbag color, dark skinned sexy chocolate dudes always wanted my light and bright friends and light skinned dudes always thought my mother was so fine! (my mother is dark skinned)
i got a hellova lot of these, including the fact that i am a produce snob (love fruits and veggies), don’t really listen to much of the new r&b because i think it sucks, i listen to every kind of music out there including classical, and never smoked anything.
But my favorite is that my fam and i love to go camping. My friends try to tell me that black people don’t camp, but i love the outdoors
@Captain Morgan,
“But my favorite is that my fam and i love to go camping.”
This is the one thing I keep saying I’m gonna do one of these days.
Although I’d have to have a cabin or something, I’m not really into “roughing it” lol. I’m just not outdoorsy like that.
@miss t-lee,
i’m not outdoorsy either. i would like to be, because it does look like fun. i just don’t like dirt.
@laylah,
me neither.
Or bugs. lol
@miss t-lee, Yea most people i know, white and black, aren’t really into ‘roughing’ it, but i grew up with semi-hippy parents in the bay area, cali’s just too beautiful to not go hang out outside!
@Captain Morgan,
I’m w/ you on the produce tip. I just love it when I can’t help but buy some peaches or pineapples cuz the enticing smell lulled me into a trance like state. Great produce makes the world go round and brightens my day.
@WuDaMan,
Yeah I like peaches and melons myself . . .wait yall talking about fruit, my bad
@eff yo couch,
Yeah peaches n melons. nectarines make me nervous(got ID)
@WuDaMan,
I guess I’m the “That’s not a non-stereotype police in this bish.”
Once again liking fruits and vegetables is actually very close to who we are as people, remember we grew and picked them for hundreds of years free of charge. So lets just say we have a solid relationship with produce in general.
@Captain Morgan, But my favorite is that my fam and i love to go camping. My friends try to tell me that black people don’t camp, but i love the outdoors
this i love and is close to my heart. I can’t wait to take my babies on a hike or walk. My 4 yr old was born for this.
@Captain Morgan,
Your last point would have been my “why my compatriots think I’m strange”. I absolutely love the outdoors, as in skiing, camping, biking, snorkeling, white water rafting… you name it, if it’s outside I’ll try it.
hmmm…”what about you completely bucks the trend?”
-As people stated upthread, I was teased throughout elementary and high school for using proper English
-I’m 26 with no kids, a Masters, and a Faculty position (tenure-track)
-I’m still not up on name-brand gear (Coach, Gucci, Prada etc.) or makeup
-I prefer to have no credit card debt, a good credit score (800+, YES!), and a hefty savings account
-I’m a Librarian (lol)
@peachi,
dude! (yea i say dude), i’m the only one of my friends who actually has a somewhat substantial savings account, they all look at me in awe, lol. And im an artist, im supposed to be the broke one.
@peachi, I’m a Librarian (lol
I <3 librarians. I have an uncle who is one.
@peachi,
i want to comment directly to this post, given what i read below from you. I think this is A GREAT list. good credit is a fyckin great thing to have.
sometimes its hard for people to read things that embody what they themeselves would like to have. Rock on with your hefty savings self. It is def. true our people havent always been great with money, wealth and savings.
@Princess Duvet,
sometimes its hard for people to read things that embody what they themeselves would like to have
*snickers*
I knew the duvet couldn’t stay too far for too long…
@peachi,
-I’m still not up on name-brand gear (Coach, Gucci, Prada etc.) or makeup
*And let the congregation say AMEN*
I still don’t understand the fascination with them, but there is alot of stuff I don’t understand
1. my booty could be a little bigger (i have been grappling with this since junior high)
2. i cannot and never have been able to jump double dutch… i got teased for this all the time by my cousins. i couldn’t even turn the darn rope right… **doublehanded**
3. i cannot play spades
4. i hate kool-aid
5. relating to yesterday’s discussion, i do wash my hair everyday in the summertime. i have to. trust me. if i didn’t, i would have no friends. (in the wintertime i do like every 2 or 3 days)
6. if i had to pick any artist/artists to listen to… it would be U2.
@laylah, 6. if i had to pick any artist/artists to listen to… it would be U2.
I love U2. And I heart Coldplay!!
@N.I.A. Ms.Alladatshyt…., “I love U2. And I heart Coldplay!!”
Same here!
@laylah,
Now, I thought I was the only one who couldn’t jump double dutch. I got smacked in the side of the face so many times, but was afraid to stop trying because my black card was already on probation for “talkin’ white”. And don’t get me started on the whole “double-handed” issue. I call conspiracy – how you gone tell me (musically gifted and later to receive a music scholarship) that I can’t keep time with a rope?!? You just tryin’ to make yourself look cool on the playground.
@Lil’T,
“…I got smacked in the side of the face so many times…”
LOL
@Lil’T,
Haha. I too am “double-handed”. Still don’t really know what that means or how they could tell. I thought I looked just like everyone else doing it. But why was it that chicks always looked at you like you raped their puppy if you couldn’t turn rope??
No longer a stereotype for me but as a kid I was the quintessential geek and a perpetual new kid because I moved around alot. I still laugh to myself when I recall how many people were surprised that not onky did I not back down from physical confrontations, I actually kinda looked forward to them (as a youngster) I’m too old to fight now .
@laylah,
I’m pretty sure that Bono will rule the world 20years from now. I don’t believe that man is human
@laylah, e-hug…i can’t double dutch either. and my cousins were pros too. i guess we both missed that ‘gene’…
I like all sorts of things that don’t fit to “type” and I got it from my mother. My almost 60-year-old, HBCU college professor mother loves hard rock music, and always has. Picture the two of us at a Tool concert; we counted all of the black people and everyone there over 40. Believe me, she was the only person in that cross section. And she’s perfectly comfortable with that.
And that lead me to be alright with all the things I liked that folks in high school said were “weird” Back in 94, I loved me some Jodeci, but unlike most of my classmates I also loved the country crooning of Randy Travis and Alan Jackson. And if that was “off”, my peers were not definitely feeling me cranking up the Tejano sounds La Mafia. But, when I’d get home and my mom would be blasting Guns and Roses, Iron Butterfly, Janis Joplin and Metallica, I figured, screw it and listened to what I liked.
@AstralTraveler,
La Mafia?! Wow. *daps*
What you know about that La Fiebre?
Can you cumbia?
@miss t-lee,
I know La Fiebre and Los Tigres del Norte. Sadly, my cumbia is weak as I learned years ago, when asked to be an attendant in a quincenera. But my merengue is not half bad.
@AstralTraveler,
Alright, alright.
Yep…been to many a quince…lol
I experiment with rejecting/embracing the stereotypes, and I love discovering new dimensions of my personality. For example, I decided at age four that I would never eat chitlins because they funked up my Grandma Helen’s house that Christmas, and re-committed to my stance as a teen after I found out that the “delicacy” is actually pig intestines. At age 27, however, I was feeling open at Grandma Helen’s house at Thanksgiving, and thought I might try a tiny piece. So I did. And I immediately spit out something salty, musky, chewy, gray. On that day, I realized that slavery has been crueler to our people than I may ever know.
@RiRi,
…”“delicacy” is actually pig intestines. At age 27, however, I was feeling open at Grandma Helen’s house at Thanksgiving, and thought I might try a tiny piece. So I did. And I immediately spit out something salty, musky, chewy, gray. On that day, I realized that slavery has been crueler to our people than I may ever know.”
I wonder if Koreans think that about chittlins when they eat the dish as their “delicacy”.
@Princess Duvet,
Right? I think it might be an acquired taste… maybe, maybe not.
I’ve never had pig intestine, but I will TEAR DOWN some tripes with the quickness… That’s sheep’s intestines. And it’s the business. In a mean pepper soup.
Ok, lemme stop.
@Specialized Sula,
“That’s sheep’s intestines”
oh see i don’t mess with cute animals..im sorry..i might have to question our placental connection now. I MAY taste their milk or chesse. But I will not sacrafice a precious little sheep for my consumption.
this extends to frogs, deer (how could anybody EAT BAMBI), goat, emmu, lamb, turtles, ostrich..
with snail exceptions..i will eat some snail and i have been known to sope up the garlic butter sauce in some bread.
@Princess Duvet,
deer (how could anybody EAT BAMBI)
I have a friend who said that to me one day when I was tearing down some deer sausage, my very Louisiana-redneck-huntin’-and-fishin’ ex-boss had nicely offered. And she was so serious too. It just made me crack up.
@Princess Duvet,
I just tore up some bambi this week…courtesy of my friendly bambi killin neighbor….
good stuff
@KingPine and Sula,
Ya’ll r hilarious for this. I’m not into killing anything when there is a perfectly good supermarket down the road… but I have tasted venison and it was good.
And this is for the Champ if he sees it… I saw deer in garfield… just tralalaing down Fairmont Street.I almost peed myself. ok. the end.
@RiRi,
welcome and sh*t (i think)
and by the way, this…
“salty, musky, chewy, gray”
..is coincidentally, exactly how i’d describe…
…eh. nevermind, lol. that wouldn’t be very nice
@RiRi,
LMAO! Yeah I don’t get why people ate chitlins or pig’s feet once they no longer had to. And why do my people still drink out of jars???
Now neckbones on the other hand is a feast fit for a queen!
where are you black folks from? where i’m from a sandwich isn’t a sandwich unless it has mayonnaise.
when you order a sandwich, the sandwich maker says: “you want it dressed.” and if you don’t say “yeah, dressed,” you get looked at funny.
dressed= mayo, lettuce, tomato and pickle.
@GiGi,
where are you from?
Now that it’s a reasonable time….bucking trends and breaking stereotypical molds….
I’m 26 with no kids
gainfully employed with a good law firm
I attended an HBCU, and got into a top tier PWI law school. O-H-I-O!!!!
I am the product of a 2 parent home, where both parents had good jobs and was never on welfare
I am not sexually promiscuous
I love to watch NASCAR, motor cross, snowboarding, all of the X-Game sports.
I hate it when people add sugar to things that don’t need sugar (grits, spaghetti sauce, etc.). And I only like my mama’s sweet tea, and that’s only b/c she doesn’t make it extra sweet.
I’m a practicing vegetarian, and have been for several years. And before that, I was vegan. And I never has a problem finding great things to eat and drink.
I love microbreweries and imports, and refuse to drink anything Miller, Bud, or Coors.
I love all types of music, and the local classical station is the #2 preset in my car. NPR is #1
I love going to bars and lounges more than I like going to clubs. ( If any Triangle folk know of any good bars and lounges other than some on Glenwood, hit me up.). And I really love sports bars, which seems to break the mold since I am usually one of about 3 black women there.
I’m from the South born and bred, and I’ve never had the “color” issues or the hair issues like some of my brethren, even though a lot of black folks still have and live by the “brown paper bag” “nappy hair” mentality…smh.
@N.I.A. Ms.Alladatshyt….,
And I never drink Kool-Aid…ever.
@N.I.A. Ms.Alladatshyt….,
Me either! I hate it.
@N.I.A. Ms.Alladatshyt….,
“I love microbreweries and imports, and refuse to drink anything Miller, Bud, or Coors.”
I feel you. Everyone clowns me on that. Miller, bud, and others are taste water downed or sweet.
“I love all types of music, and the local classical station is the #2 preset in my car. NPR is #1″
I have 2 NPR stations programmed in my car. I even listen to it at home. People always get into my car and ask what I am listening to.
@Humble_One,
NPR is the shiznit!! I have a mug that says “I heard it on NPR”… It was my gift after I renewed my contribution this year.
@Specialized Sula,
I’m glad somebody is doin a contribution
*is shamed*
as much as I listen…I should be doin somethin
@KingPine,
Yeah, you should!!
Public programming needs you, mayne.
Alot of people have already covered a lot of the things that I do that buck the stereotypes of black people, but one that hasn’t been mentioned that people look at me funny when I admit it.
I always have loved Las Vegas and the Rat Pack type shows and music. On some real Frank Sinatra-glass-of-Brandy-in-my-hand-with- the-tux-and-bow-tie-undone type sh*t! I’ve been to Las Vegas plenty of times and each time I have to check out one of those shows. I’ve often said when I get old, I’d retire to Vegas and sing big band songs and remakes of old hip-hop songs with a big band in the back ground, lol! Can you imagine coming to Vegas in 2049 and seeing that show?!?!
@AkShone,
Ring a ding, ding.
@AkShone,
“I’d retire to Vegas and sing big band songs and remakes of old hip-hop songs with a big band in the back ground, lol! Can you imagine coming to Vegas in 2049 and seeing that show?!?!
”
That would be HOT LIKE FIRE…I would love to go to something like that.
with all my perserved sexxy i imagine i would look a day over 45.
@AkShone,
That would be such a great show. Heck, hip hop needs some new sounds…I think you might have tapped into a great new sub-genre!
@AkShone,
I will go watch that show. I am big on big band AND hip-hop.
Do it!
I remember one time in high school, I went to a cheesesteak place called Penn Station (yall familiar with that? I’m in the Midwest). Anyway, I ordered a cheesesteak, and they prepare it right there in front of you and you have to follow your sandwich as you go down the line. The man asked me if I wanted mustard, mayo or pizza sauce on it. I said…”All three.” I promise yall, the WHOLE line of people waitin on their sandwiches looked at me like…”Ugh!” It was too funny! I just said..”Don’t knock it till you try it!” I really wanted to give them all the finger. I took it personal! Ninjas all up in my sammich!
Now that I think about, I’m prolly gon get one for lunch! It’s good yall!
@nia,
Fellow MW gal here and Penn Station is the greatest for hot sammiches
@nia,
We have a Penn Station (maybe a few) here in pgh. They do make good sandwiches.
@nia,
Uhh, I know I’m mad late but cheesesteaks get salt, pepper, ketchup in regards to condiments and american, provalone or cheez whiz as far as cheese goes.
Cheesesteak=Strictly Philadelphia Cuisine
That is all.
*emerging from the corner in a floor length dashiki, Black fist pick in hand, fluffing out my afro*
sorry I’m a little late (u know we are always late for something) I got held up at Walmart cuz there was a sale on kool aid and pork chops! aside from the facts that I don’t eat cornbread, watermelon, abhor ranch dressing, and love country music…I pretty much fit into stereotypes…the good ones, the bad ones and the ugly ones…
I would like the record to reflect that the comments listed above (from the ones I’ve read, cuz I heard we don’t “reed gud”) are focusing on the distancing ourselves from the negative stereotypes like poor diction, sub-standard socio-economic development, not knowing “conversate” isn’t a fuggin word!, baby daddy collections, etc…when this website is a daily testimony to what knee grows (and the knee grow friendly) population has to offer! we are a new generation that is carving out new and more creative stereotypes as we type…in 20 years, a post like this post will say sh1t like…”I am Black but I don’t own a single piece of Barack Obama memorabilia” or “my parents don’t understand why Jim Jones was a pioneer in hip hop” ok that one was a stretch, but u get what I’m saying…today’s racial stereotypes don’t even apply to most of us, because they were created in a different time…so ur not less Black because u use ur vowels and consonants in the way they were intended…that’s what ur supposed to do! geesh! Stuff like this only gains momentum when we perpetuate them by saying “we” aren’t like “them” because we read books and we really are 100% sure who our baby’s parents are!..similar to that “all Black men are hung” MYTH…we feed that monster, so it gets bigger…no pun intended…
now that I’ve typed that…I gotta go, I’m late for my appointment at Pimp-My-Ride…just got my tax refund and it’s burning a hole in my pocket! carry on!
@GOODENess,
I am in AWE. Love it.
@GOODENess,
aaaahahahahaha. What about when stimulous check hits. WooooooooWeeeee I can’t wait.
@GOODENess,
I heart you for this. Folks listing ish like “I got a master’s degree” and “my credit score is high”. *side-eye*
Remember the post from way back where BBMo was keeping count of how many people will take the post to mean “I must kiss my own ass” today… well we may have to do the same with this post.
Oh sh*t. Did I just say that out loud? Oops.
@Luvvie,
I cosign for sho. Lots of ego masturbation going on around these parts. Excessive name dropping and ego stroking is grosser to me than Kool-Aid and potato salad… *wink*
@Naturally Alise,
i actually enjoy reading about people’s “things” its what makes them them..i would tend to agree with Goodeness though about some of which we black folks “featherize” might indicate other issues in our “hat”.
but i see no problem in reading about people’s quirks and likes (that aren’t necessarily used to make them appear less black..but rather out of a geniune interest)..its what keeps my A.D.D in check..and actually makes people interesting and worth knowing.
@Princess Duvet,
I am a huge fan of reading folks’ likes but this is starting to read like that chain Facebook thing. If this post was called “25 things that make me awesome and wet my panties in glee” then I’d list how un-arid my afro really is and how my hat game is better than most”. But alas, it ain’t.
@Luvvie,
Sorta like the chain Facebook thing, but a lot more cl*t rubbing & d*ck stroking.
@Luvvie,
okey dokey…
@Naturally Alise,
There is no way I need to start listing all black stereotypes & trends I’m but buckin’ all up in thru here. Some folks might get their lil’ VSB feelings hurt.
@Luvvie,
I get the feeling this is directed @ me (since I was one of the few to type those particular responses). There was no sense of personal ego stroking or ““I must kiss my own ass” today”. My comment was in direct response to the post; the things I listed are the things that a lot of my folk challenge me about…like these are things that we’re not supposed to be doing (especially at my age).
we were asked “i’m sure you’re all aware of the racial, sexual, and cultural stereotypes assumed of you…but what about you completely bucks the trend?”
and i answered from my personal experience
@peachi, Awww, girl. You are taking on too much.
Besides, if Luvvie meant you, she would’ve e-hollered your name out like this: “Aye yo Peachi…!!” with her ol’ stereotypical self!! LOL!!
i feel you, chil’, you appropriately responded to the post. this is a post based on STEREOTYPES (as the title very clearly states). everybody has them and everybody fits in to them, somehow / someway. why not have fun with it?? just the other day i was teasing my brother about him doing clean up/yard work type jobs in HS, saying “i see you really put our mother’s mexican genes to good use”. he laughed, everybody in his office laughed, and a good time was had by all.
most of these posts are supposed to be FUN and quirky by nature. but sometimes our VSSs and VSBs can have their knickers on so tight they’re too busy worried about ppl saying this and that instead of just enjoying this for what it is–sh*ts and giggles.
@Gem-nastics,
Word. Life.
@peachi,
I actually wasnt meaning to call u out per se, b/c I read all these examples and urs stuck out in my head and I surely aint remember ur screename but if you feel called out, then c’est la vie.
Anyways Champ’s post was very tongue in cheek, and methinks you were missing last time we had this kind of post, but it aint uncommon around these parts for folks to ignore the topic at hand and make their own “Self-ass licking list” and I’m just pointing it out.
@Luvvie,
Champ’s question was?
“but what about you completely bucks the trend?”
are all blacks now librarians, with 800+ credit scores, 26 and on tenure-track?
im curious to know what bothered you and anyone else in this thread so much about her (or anyone else on a similiar life path) “bucking” these specific trends.
@Luvvie,
it’s all good…
i do all the other “stereotypical” black things listed (chicken, watermelon, cha-cha slide, dislike-of-mayonnaise, kool-aid, non-interest-in-rock-music, etc) so i figured i’d get into the educational/financial/career instances
perhaps if i had given a back-story on every instance, and how the topics came up, then maybe there’d be less of a misunderstanding, but i in no way am attempting to “ignore the topic at hand and make [my] own “Self-ass licking list””. i now know how to respond so folk don’t think i’m tryin to e-brag
have a great weekend
@Luvvie,
Yeah, I agree with this, thats why I havent posted my own list. Black people do all types of sh*t, we’re not limited to stereotypes. Its one thing to say the but an another to really OWN it.
Its rather ironic that we spent all yesterday listing the insulting things we’ve had thrown at us and today we’re doing the same thing.
@Luvvie,
I was gonna just lurk today (and secretly keep count of the “I must kiss my own sweet black @$$ posts) but because you shouted me out.
I e-love you like a fat kid loves cake.
@GOODENess,
LMAO!!!!
Eh, most stuff has already been mentioned so i have nothing to add.
….oh, i lurve the dixie chicks.
yet and still my blackness cannot be denied and is not up for discussion.
that is all.
@SouthernGirl,
I JUST listened to “Not ready to make nice” on my Ipod.
I love the Dixies. I also love Fleetwood Mac, Led Zepellin, and Van Morrison.
@Dom,
I grew up in a 2520 suburb and the first time I heard the Dixie Chicks was my freshman year at an HBCU. Go figure.
@Voiceofreason,
Your 2520 neighbors in Suburbia were too busy bucking trends and defying stereotypes to listen to The Dixie Chicks.
@PBG aka The Notorious C.A.T.,
So true.
@Dom,
please don’t get me started on fleetwood mac. “the chain” is number 4 of my top 25 in my ipod.
@Dom,
Led Zepplin is the ish. I thought I was the only black person on earth that liked them.
@Humble_One,
Not even close to the only one. Deflated egos all around…
@Humble_One,
Nope, you’re not. But apparently, it’s no longer PC to say that.
@SouthernGirl, oh, i lurve the dixie chicks
I like them too. they are a talented trio.
1. My grandmother graduated from college.
2. My parents met in college and they both graduated.
3. I grew up in Brooklyn, however I no longer have an accent.
4. I have never had a perm, relaxer or texturizer.
5. I have a engineering degree and I am about to give birth to my fourth baby. (Usually people are shocked to hear that I have a degree and I am at home homeschooling my kids. My answer is who is better qualified than me?)
6. My husband is white.
7. We are planning to move overseas and raise our children. (No it is not his influence that caused this, I actually had this plan before we got together!)
8. I am Jewish.
9. I have WuTang, Tracy Chapman and Maroon 5 in my music collection.
10. I am a vegan.
11. I was raised vegetarian.
12. I have more African clothes in my wardrobe than anything else.
13. I sew.
14. There was no Kool-Aid to be found in the house when we grew up. My mother’s idea of a treat was a bottle of Orangina that we all split.
15. I don’t buy juice for the kids, they all drink water.
@L,
my mommy is jewish!! i consider myself one too, culturally!!
**waving hi**
@laylah,
Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey! ;-p
@L,
i posted it lower by accident, but mazel tov on your fourth child!
so, no juice, ever ever? a lot of juice is really bad… apple and eve is only 20% real juice, which i think is ridiculous. but there are some goods ones out there… tropicana and motts are 100% percent the real deal.
**im very attentive to my high fructose corn syrup intake… well, just my intake in general**
@laylah,
LOL! They snack on fruit. Sliced apples, oranges, apple sauce and pineapple. My children would rather snack.
If I buy juice, it’s usually for me. My thing right now is Dole, Pina Colada. I am pregnant but some days I really be wishing for a splash of vodka in it!
My kids generally don’t even ask for juice, unless they over at somebody else’s house and it’s offered.
The only thing with high fructose corn syrup in it at my house is the ketchup, which I deem ok since we don’t eat fries every day.
Yeah, I never got the memo about black people not liking Mayonnaise. I used to love Hellmans, now it’s Vegenaise. I have never tasted Miracle Whip, I thought only white folx ate that. LOL!
@L,
I love Miracle Whip. Everything else is too bland.
@L,
I love #15. If they don’t grow up drinking anything else, they’ll probably always prefer water.
@Voiceofreason,
Yep, it’s all learned behavior. Since my kids don’t eat candy, they think dried fruit is a real treat. They will fight over some prunes!
Even if we are out they will ask for a bottled water, rarely do I get requests for juice. Even at a restaurant, they know whats up, water with a slice of lemon in it. That’s how we roll.
On the plus side waiters and waitresses love my kids because they are not hyperactive, having tantrums, being rude and crawling under and over the tables.
@L,
Good home trainin’ ain’t a common thang!
@L,
I am so working on getting my kids off sugar. I know better. But i’m addicted to it….I’m trying though.
I lack the ability to autonomously clap rhythmically. There I said it. I can w/ practice and paying attn to certain clues(read watching someone else’s hands n stuff, or feeling the beat in my chest) but singing swaying and clapping??? something is going to have to give.
@WuDaMan,
This is sad and funny all at the same time.
@Dom,
Ain’t it?
*sniggling*
@Dom,
it sure is…now a have a pic in my head of wu in the chruch pew looking all dazed and confused. lol.
@Dom,
Yeah my brother told me that I’m one of the funniest people he knows but not on purpose…
@WuDaMan,
That’s the best kind of funny.
@WuDaMan,
Oh wow…hmm. You maaaay have to have your black card taken away for this one. I’m gonna have to refer to the handbook on this one…***putting on glasses and flippin pages***
You and Oprah need to get it togetha!
@nia,
THE WOLE CARD FOR THIS ONE OFFENSE. Yall trying to do me worse than the American justice system does black males in Alabama Mississippi Louisiana. Take into concideration. I can make most mothers slap grandmothers n children when I’m behind the stove. Will BUST YO SSA, on a spades dominoes bid whist table. Eat all of the pig… Don’t send me to Oprah Noprah she is unable to completely love a black man. She was tramatized by abuse. *sending the SBBJ a txt message on Oprah Noprah’s behalf*
@WuDaMan, Don’t send me to Oprah Noprah she is unable to completely love a black man
what does this mean???
@pgh muse,
I’d almost be willing to bet that Stedmond proposed to her. But that ain’t what she want to give him what he want…
@WuDaMan, that made me laugh out loud fa real.
@WuDaMan,
LMAO!!! There’s a visual of you in my head clapping off rhythm and all the folks at church shaking their heads at you. You the person NOT to give the tambourine to
@Luvvie,
for reals. I look @ the tambourine like a hot potato. Pass that tish quick.
@WuDaMan,
“for reals. I look @ the tambourine like a hot potato. Pass that tish quick.”
Bwahahahahahaha!!
@WuDaMan,
*howling with laughter*
@WuDaMan,
You know I’m going to clown you, if I see you up in the club trying to soul clap
@eff yo couch,
Loosening tie. Airway feels waaaay tooo small. I can soul clap??? LMAO!)
@WuDaMan,
I have a friend who has no rhythm and she said it’s b/c her mother didn’t rock her as a baby.
@Voiceofreason,
Now I have officially heard it all.
@Voiceofreason, That ain’t my reason. I blame my 2520 ancesters. They not so close as grand parents but they close enough to be messin w/ me (I still love em they family)
…d@mn, dawg.
@AkShone,
It’s aight though usually the organ player n the drummer got my back. They can play the shouting music and it’s on. Ain’t nobody listening or watching no more. Plus this does not translate to the bedroom. tmi in 3
2
1
My first didn’t know it was my first time…
@WuDaMan,
My dawg put himself out there with what has to be the ultimate non-stereotype.
I have to applaud your courage and bravery.
Builds character really? Methinks it possibly makes you predictable and unadventurous.
I always get strange looks and questions cause I am a black women born and raised in the South, but……I don’t eat grits or sweet potato pie AT All.
Oh yeah and I can swim like Mike Phelps. ( I know all the strokes just not as fast)
@TiP,
welcome and sh*t (i think)
btw…
this
Oh yeah and I can swim like Mike Phelps. ( I know all the strokes just not as fast)
..is like saying “you know, i’m just like usain bolt on the track, just about five seconds slower”
I’ll add my 2 cents and say that I love mayo and wasn’t aware that there was some reason why I shouldn’t.
To answer the question…
I’m from an island and don’t like fish/seafood. When i tell ppl that I don’t like fish invariably they’ll say “but you’re from an island”. I look at them like…And? So?
I’m also an island chick that lives and dies for football and can’t watch soccer for more than 60 secs.
@VeronicaL,
what island?
@L,
my mom is jewish. i consider myself to be too, well, culturally!
**waving hi**
mazel tov on your fourth baby!
@laylah,
dammit man, i posted this twice. my computer is not cooperating with me today, whatsoever.
@laylah,
Maybe I was misinformed, but I thought that as a rule, if your mom is Jewish you’re automatically Jewish as well.
@Voiceofreason,
Yes, however going through the Bar Mitzvah at thirteen cements it because you are basically saying that you embrace what you were born into.
@L,
Oh. Thanks!
@L,
yeah, i didn’t have a bat mitzvah. my parents (with my father’s pushing) made the decision to raise me and my sister’s in the christian faith. i still, however, celebrate jewish holidays, eat the food and can curse like a sailor in yiddish! (i’m really close with my mother’s family)
@Voiceofreason,
Actually I heard that is a Roman law that got passed along as what is. Cuz all them Roman soldiers were makin Jewish girls have they baby.
@WuDaMan,
Makes lots of sense. Ol’ xenophob lookin’ soldier boys!
I like the post Champ.
And to answer comment on mayo, I like mayo, just as long as its vegan….i’m not opposed to anyother vegan brand because they all taste about the same. I need that for my tofurky sam-mich.
Now, to answer your question about the sterotype….yes I get it all the time because I have locks. And a perfect example is if I am standing in a cypher listening to headz spit there rhymes, catz are always looking at me to bus a hot 16 bars. when i’m only killing time because the rock the bells show hasn’t started yet.
I haven’t read every post, so I may have listed some dupes.
I love ALL types of music. Every genre has at least one hot song. Even country. One of my best friends is a country singer.
I’ve proudly read every Harry Potter book.
I’m a woman and an only child, but I don’t feel that my wedding (if I ever get married) should be “My Day.” Women should start thinking of it as “Our Day” (ours, ours, ours, ours, ouuuuuuuurs! ). Bridezillas are selfish and they need someone to tell them to calm down and shut up.
Although I can’t surf, I plan to learn how.
I’m not a Luther Vandross fan.
I don’t think thugs are sexy.
I hate when grown men wear cornrows.
Although I can understand it’s entertainment value I think Belly was a HORRIBLE movie. I once got into an argument in my college African Americans in film class with two random guys who insisted I was crazy for not liking it.
Although Halle Berry is gorgeous, I still don’t see why some people think she’s the most beautiful Black woman alive.
I don’t like doing the Electric Slide, Cha Cha Slide, Cupid Shuffle, etc. It’s difficult for me to accept that if I get married, I’ll have to allow these songs to be played at my reception.
@Voiceofreason,
I also STAN for Harry Potter. Book 7 was THE BESTEST EVER!!!
@Voiceofreason,
I’m wit you on the cornrows. Take them sh!ts out and get a haircut. Just stop it.
@nia,
chuuch
@laylah,
this is how I feel about wigs n weave.
@Voiceofreason,
Although Halle Berry is gorgeous, I still don’t see why some people think she’s the most beautiful Black woman alive.
I thought i was being a hater… she’s on the cover of Essence this month and I don’t get it. She’s pretty. But there are a lot of women that I think are prettier.
@pgh muse,
Yeah I second the Halle Berry comment and will even say I don’t like Denzel as a sex symbol or an actor (except for Glory and X) I cant think of any films he was really all that in
Also…
-I never wore braids/weave
-I enjoyed the movie Soul Plane
-I’m a black NYer that DOES eat pork!
-I went to a top-tier college and make no money.
Can’t think of anything else for now…
@Me fail english?,
-I’m a black NYer that DOES eat pork!
-I went to a top-tier college and make no money.
i feel you on this.
1. i am so tired of being lectured about eating pork. i like it dammit! it tastes good.
2. i get mad when i think about the loans i am paying back for my “prestigious education” in comparison to the amount of money i really make.prestigious my arse. i have been trying to soothe myself by saying “hey, you’re only 23, you’re just starting out” or “hey, its alright, we’re in a recession. everyone is broke”…
who am i fooling?!?!
@laylah,
)
lol, girl we was hoodwinked! College is for suckers! (I don’t really mean that I’m just raging against the machine
But I stay meeting people who didn’t go for higher learning at all that are paying mortgage and seem established and I still have to sneak into my parents’ house to steal dinner.
And don’t get me started on all the herpes-blistering, crack smoking ne’er-do-wells who try to lecture me about the pork in oreo cookies. Don’t these fools know I EAT BACON FOR A LIVING?! (which is probably why I’m poor…
)
@Me fail english?,
I EAT BACON FOR A LIVING!
LOL. I’d love to have this on a T-shirt.
@Me fail english?, i love your screename and i love ralph wiggum. LMAO.
@Miss Patterson,
Thanks, Me too! Although Troy McLure is the GOAT to me.
@Voiceofreason,
“I hate when grown men wear cornrows.”
Especially when they look like they’ve been Microsoft copied and pasted on like Shemar Moore’s in Diary of a Mad Black Woman. Fake!
@Cheekie,
LMAO! When I watched that movie with my friends we would take turns running up to the TV screen and covering that d@mn cornrow wig with our hands so we couldn’t see it.
@Cheekie,
They should have never made him wear that wig. It was too distracting. His wig is mainly what I remember about that movie.
@Voiceofreason,
I don’t like doing the Electric Slide, Cha Cha Slide, Cupid Shuffle
But, but it’s the electric slide! the cupid shuffle! come on. even the names are joyous, let alone the dances. Really, really…..???? OK.
@ofloveandotherdemons,
I can’t help it. I don’t know what my deal is. LOL!
A lot of this has been said:
1. I don’t have big lips. Theyr’e very small, actually. More tiny than thin, though. All the juice went to my thighs and booty, I guess. Glad I have the booty…I’ll take that over the soup coolers.
2. I like mayo. Not too much of it though. Don’t give me a mayo sandwich, I wanna taste the meat….um…pause.
3. I listen to ish like Coldplay, Damien Rice, Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, Alanis Morrisette, The White Stripes, etc…all of wish shares space on my iPod with ish I’m supposed to listen to like Hov, Common (my fave!), Lupe Fiasco, Kanye, etc.
4. I use proper grammar when need be…I can do the switcheroo, though. I think I have it (read: corporate voice) nailed.
5. I LOVE the Academy Awards…no matter how boring it is. Family wonders why I bother because it’s so long and boring and full of YT. I’d even watch that over the BET Awards. Probably because I’m so into the movie industry.
6. I watch The Hills (and by extension, The City). And LOVE it.
7. I had a crush on the RED power ranger (the green ranger almost stole my heart when he came along…ALMOST) and thought the Black ranger was gay (or whatever I thought before I knew what gay was).
7. I had a crush on the RED power ranger (the green ranger almost stole my heart when he came along…ALMOST) and thought the Black ranger was gay (or whatever I thought before I knew what gay was).
@Cheekie,
Damn you taking me way back like car seats and sh*t. I remember when the Green Ranger came out, every one in school was hype about that!
And yes the token Black Ranger was gay . . .Not that there’s anything wrong with that
@eff yo couch,
Yep, I remember all too well! I was a stan for the Power Rangers way before there was Stan. I even went to that lame Power Rangers stage tour that had some low-rate people dressed up in the suits and the scenes with the acual actors was taped on a huge projector screen. And at the end, you could take a picture with a Power Rangers background…but you had to leap into the air and yell “Power Rangers”. It was blist (tm New York aka Tiffany).
@Cheekie,
#4
There is no way anyone can tell I’m Black if they don’t see me. I love scheduling interviews over the phone and then seeing the expression on the interviewers face when they realize I was the person they were speaking with.
@Voiceofreason,
You NAILED this. This happens so often it ain’t even funny. Except it totally is. I’ve made a game out of deciphering that look 2520s get when they see I have melanin. Most of the time, it’s the confused face you get when you walk into a smoke-cloud of fart. Hilarious.
@Cheekie,
#4….I got that switcheroo thing down pat too!!!!! It’s a gift!!
#6!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love The Hills and The City!!!! And I get heated when the season is over!!! Like..really mad.
@This Just In…Welcome to SIXBURGH!,
Me, too! I make a big ol’ deal about the season finales.
I thought Seinfeld was funny.
@Herb,
It is.
I HATE mayo. Every since I was a kid. Just hated tha taste and the way it looked. ESPECIALLY Miracle Whip!! **Gags**
I’m a mustard guy now. Gotta have it on all my joints. But you know what the funny thing is?? As much as I hate mayo cause of texture, smell and taste…I LOVE sour cream. I have issues. I realize this.
@Tx10inch,
yeah, sour cream is just nasty. work those issues out.
guacamole on the other hand, is a gift from above.
co-sign on the guac. i make the best!!
@laylah,
We use to have sour cream and sugar for snack as kids. They were called “Petit Suisse”… and it seemed good then.
Now I only use sour cream in recipes.
So when I was in Dubai, I became addicted to ketchup potato chips!!! Num yummy!!!!!! If you’ve never had em, you gotta try em!!
)
And I love mayo…..Miracle Whip is disgusting… *gags*
@This Just In…Welcome to SIXBURGH!,
I used to put ketchup on my potato chips when I was in grammar school! For some reason this was a fad amongst my peers. I’m disgusted by the thought, now.
Or are you talking about some weird ketchup-flavored chips.? Because, then, I’m intrigued.
@This Just In…Welcome to SIXBURGH!,
Ketchup flavored potato chips are dabomb! They are so hard to find here in the states though!
****EXTRA EXTRA READ ALL ABOUT IT****
i got the “surprise” my e-boo sent to my place of “work” (awwwww). 10 cream and purple calla lillies– “1 for each inch” (lma0). e-boo-loving at it’s finest…
THANKS E-BOO!!!!! smooches
@Gem-nastics,
““1 for each inch” (lma0). e-boo-loving at it’s finest…
”
LOL..that is TOO CUTE..
@Gem-nastics,
Awwwwwwww!! That is so so sweet!
1 for Tx men!!!
@Gem-nastics, 10 cream and purple calla lillies
wow. That’s an e-boo that is on his j.o.b!
@Gem-nastics,
Thats hilar! I was hoping you’d tell us what the surprise was!
@ errybody,
i literally LOL’d when i read the note, which elicited curious eyes from our dept administrator. i didn’t want to explain the e-boo or “10 inch” sitch so i just said they were from a friend lol.
i almost lost my mind this morning over my comps document so getting my fave flowers in my fave color totally made my day!!
@Gem-nastics, AWWWWWW. take a picture!
(wait, is this for real?)
i would… if i hadn’t lost my camera lol
@Gem-nastics,
Awww! Calla Lillies are one of my fave flowers next to orchids (my fave). I love the note attached…I’d be cracking up!
*E-Jealous*
@Gem-nastics,
U welcome..
that’s how we Tx boys roll…
Puttin in work 4 dem e-panties…
“Tx10inch” (setting the standard 4 all e-boo’s on VSB..)
@Tx10inch,
U sent some real Calla Lillies… which mean u puttin in work to get some real panties. we ain’t e-dumb, Tx…
@pgh muse,
lol
LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
e-boo ain’t foolin nobody….
@pgh muse,
Bwahahahaha, e-twin! :rofl:
@Tx10inch,
sheet e-boo standards??? REAL BOO STANDARDS.
1. I love scones.
2. I love Country and Western music.
3. Rita Rudner is one of my favorite comics.
Stereotypes I am bucking regarding to myself…
* I grew up in a big city, went to school in bigger cities, but can’t wait to go live in the deep, deep country where even we don’t get the telephone. I know my folks (parents, fam, friends) would be very surprised to hear that.
* I actually do like the idea of settling down and even *gasp* being a homemaker. I am a feminist (or womanist) so folks might see that as counterintuitive, but it might be my only opportunity to raise some feminist males!
Yeah, those are the Sula stereotypes I am bucking right now. When I think of more, I’ll add on.
p.s: what’s up with folks being upset at other folks tooting their own horns? And besides, when did “not liking Kool-Aid and/or Miracle Whip”, or “listening to different music genre” tooting one’s own horn?
We should all relax, (or) relate and (or) release. It’s Friday.
@Specialized Sula,
” I actually do like the idea of settling down and even *gasp* being a homemaker. I am a feminist (or womanist) so folks might see that as counterintuitive, but it might be my only opportunity to raise some feminist males! ”
how long do you think the was..that we shared LOL..
As much as i “gay box” most men i meet..i do want a nice sweet sensitive male child, who doesn’t rap about “crack hoes” (inside thought to self LOL).
“p.s: what’s up with folks being upset at other folks tooting their own horns? And besides, when did “not liking Kool-Aid and/or Miracle Whip”, or “listening to different music genre” tooting one’s own horn?
We should all relax, relate and release. It’s Friday.
”
***Go tell it on the mountain, over the hills and everywhere…***
@Princess Duvet,
waiting for an EBF to correct a factual scientific error in my post LOL..
@Specialized Sula,
I am a male feminist. There are more of us around than you think.
@Humble_One,
I am a male feminist
You are a lovely enlightened person.
@Humble_One,
“I am a male feminist”
explain how that works exactly. ***side eyeing hummy***
@Humble_One,
I just want to share a convo that i just had with the man in my life. I had to tell him that when a woman is doing her thing, being a woman, it’s such a wonderful beautiful thing. She’ll do everything for him on gp, because she loves him. She’ll work for money if ya’ll need the extra income in the house, still come home and take care of the kids and make sure they are right, and the house, and really won’t ask for much in return but to be appreciated. Men don’t get it. It’s only a twisted individual that wants to hurt, destroy, and degrade something beautiful. It’s men’s jobs to let women be women and to protect that.
@pgh muse,
I Love you for this whole comment.
Some folks just dont dam* get it do they?
A friend of mine use to tell me that a real man should know that when you love him, you’ll do anything for him. In return he should appreciate that and not try to take advantage of the situation.
@Dom,
Thanks girl. And a lot of women don’t get it either… it’s sad. But I’m definitely raising my sons to be better men than that.
@Dom,
Thanks girl. And a lot of women don’t get it either… it’s sad. But I’m definitely raising my sons to be better men than that.
@Humble_One,
I have met a few as well. I just wish it was a more general trend, ya know?
@Specialized Sula,
“p.s: what’s up with folks being upset at other folks tooting their own horns? And besides, when did “not liking Kool-Aid and/or Miracle Whip”, or “listening to different music genre” tooting one’s own horn?”
*sniggling*
I was quietly wondering this as well.
@miss t-lee,
i was quiet too…LOL
im improving cause i was about to wet duvet it up in here. But I took a moment, said a quiet prayer to myself…sorta kinda.
@Princess Duvet,
Oh Barbara Walters, spare me. You weren’t quiet at all. Your snark is quite palpable here today (not admirably blatant, but detectable nonetheless). Own it, my sister. Put some mayo on it and eat it betwixt some bread. With some Thai peanut butter on the side.
@PBG aka The Notorious C.A.T.,
“Own it, my sister”
thanks..thats a part of my own @zz i think I will kiss.
Happy Friday
@Princess Duvet,
I invite you to your “delectable” mayo & Thai peanut product and you opt to smooch on your own booty.
*shrug*
This is your Friday. Get it how you live! I ain’t mad @ ya.
@Specialized Sula,
“p.s: what’s up with folks being upset at other folks tooting their own horns? And besides, when did “not liking Kool-Aid and/or Miracle Whip”, or “listening to different music genre” tooting one’s own horn?
1. “Upset” is an overstatement. Eh, ain’t nothing that se’ous
b. The example used by me wasn’t folks liking kool-aid or diggin different genres. But with folks talm bout their master’s degrees or great credit scores as ways they “buck the trend”. Last time I checked, this site is called VSB, and the “VS” stands for “Very Smart”. Therefore, a good number of folks in here have baccalaureate or higher degrees.
3a. Yes, its Friday. Thats precisely the main reason I’m still responding to this. I’m bored.
@Luvvie,
Happy Friday, young lady.
@Specialized Sula,
Same to ya! May ur weekend be fulfilling
@Specialized Sula,
p.s: what’s up with folks being upset at other folks tooting their own horns? And besides, when did “not liking Kool-Aid and/or Miracle Whip”, or “listening to different music genre” tooting one’s own horn?
We should all relax, (or) relate and (or) release. It’s Friday.
Thank you. Hell, if it’s not hurting anyone, what’s all the ruckus about.
I grew up in a big city, went to school in bigger cities, but can’t wait to go live in the deep, deep country where even we don’t get the telephone. I know my folks (parents, fam, friends) would be very surprised to hear that.
Did we not watch the Hills Have Eyes. Sula, e-sister of mine, people get slashed and stored in boxes in the deep, deep country. All that isolation breeds some crazy mofo. Yeah, I’m not even kidding (well, sorta, maybe kinda.) For the love of green peace woman, STAY IN THE CITY.
I was liking thick borderline fat girls when big booty’s were not a fad. My teammates would laugh at me because they thought all i liked was wide hipped big booty girls..lol Now that big booty’s are in..I wonder to myself..Were they really not that interested in a soft big round bottoms…or was they just frontin?? I was liking Deelishis and Buffy Girls in 99′..lol
***btw, the champ never switches sandwiches, because n*ggas with degrees and multiple tattoos never switch sandwiches. we find a sandwich we like, and we stick with it. forever. he’s never had anything at the cheescake factory other than the shrimp and bacon club, and he only eats big macs at mickey d’s. this builds character***
CHAMP THIS ONLY MEANS YOU ARE OLD & SET IN YOUR WAYS!!!
I hate it when people look act like I am only supposed to listen to hip-hop!! I listen to all QUALITY music. Let me take that back…I have only been moved by a few country songs & that hard punk shyt scares me!! But I listen to anything that is of QUALITY lyrically as well as rhythmically. So I have gotten a few funny looks and iggggggnaaant coments when someone hears me listening to something other than a ‘bottle poppin hiphop’ or a ‘stroke you down in the bathroom of the club even though we just met’ RADIO hit!!
My weird food habits . . .
I put ketchup on greens and cabbage (got this from my granny).
I won’t drink anything warm (or hot) . . .only like ice cold drinks (usually water).
I prefer Miracle Whip to mayo (didn’t know that was weird till I read this, lol).
I like to dip plain potato chips in vanilla ice cream (yum).
Vanilla ice cream and Cookie Crisp Cereal is also bomb!
The rare moments I drink a coke I like to drop salty peanuts in it and then eat them.
If I eat ice cream by itself I like for it to melt and get semi-sloppy.
I’ll eat ranch dressing on everything BUT salad (I prefer thousand island or creamy French on my salads).
oh & I tip well no matter what. @ least 20%
@WuDaMan,
True! My husband taught me about the importance of tipping! (sorry, I didn’t know until I got grown) Every waiter/waitress will tell you black or white that black people are certainly not known for being the best tippers.
I like pick up trucks alot.
I used to dip tobacco, sometimes I still do.
And the big one
I don’t really like playing Spades or Dominoes.
I know how to play both, but I don’t enjoy playing either one really.
I suck when I play cause I’m not all emotionally invested in the game like everyone else I guess. I don’t be paying attention to who did what or what was thrown out, so I’m always messing up the game.
So I try to stay away from the spades and bones table as not to piss off everybody when I renege or count my points wrong.
All I gotta say is, lets turn on the Wii and have some real fun, or lets pull out Monopoly, or hell even the Uno cards. Basically,something where I don’t have to think so hard.
Lets see: I’m pretty much Black and Cuban (there’s some other stuff, like Cherokee, but with my drinking tendencies, and such, its fitting).
1. One of my favorite albums is Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morisette
2. I can’t dance, unless I’ve ingested liquid courage.
3. I’m sorta kinda dating an Asian. Yes, I said it.
4. I wasn’t born walking in heels. I couldn’t properly rock “tacones” until I was 19…right around the time that I could actually start buying real bras (yes, I’m president of IBTC, don’t make fun of me).
5. My hair won’t hold in braids.
6. My hair is real, long, and constantly mistaken for weave (despite its inability to cooperate with flat irons and non-Dominican hair dressers).
7. I love mayo on my sandwiches, especially with brown mustard.
8. I hate bass in cars and loud music…unless I’m drunk.
I’m Jamaican. Came to the U.S of A in 98. This is what I hear. Constantly!
I Agree on the sandwich.
No tatts here, But I go to the Deli every day and order the same thing:
Bacon, Lettuces and Tomatoes on a sesame seed bagel with mayo, bacon well done.
1. Being a light skin Jamaican apparently isn’t something people are use to, and reacquires extra eye raking.
2. The lack of slang words in my speech. I’m black living in the Bronx, and most the time get “you’re not from around here are you?”. No I’ve only lived in Bronx, NYC since 98.
3. Being black with freckles. Gets better, 5th grade a kid goes “You have dirt spots on your face.” Classic.
4. I love Bands Like Bloc Party and Brand New.
5. I’m a Polite New Yorker and JAMAICAN. (People think we have rank attitudes
lmfao @ neka w (rank attitudes) honey I live in Brooklyn, grew up in flatbush.. most jamaican’s have a bad disposition.. I love my yards but you know how some can be.
I’m haitian and they think all HAITIAN’s do voodoo.. I’m 100% Christian and I have never done voodoo
I love mayo just a light tasting is good
I don’t like, will never like Kool-Aid.. that sh*t is diabetes in a cup!