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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: clips on June 28, 2005, 09:18:22 PM
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hmmm..i really don\'t know what to make of this....i mean if the store was closed then it\'s closed...shouldn\'t matter who you are..i don\'t care if you\'re the prez....nobody should get special treatment because of their celeberty status....
http://www.news4jax.com/entertainment/4662899/detail.html
Michael Leake, a black pharmaceutical salesman in Toledo, Ohio, knows this experience all too well. "It happens all the time," he said. "That\'s just life."
Once, at a high-end shopping center in Los Angeles, he said, a sales clerk referred to a white customer as "sir," but turned to Leake and greeted him with, "What\'s up, homes?" He confronted the clerk.
"I was like, \'How\'s he "sir" and I\'m your homey? I\'m interested in why you speak to him in a more respectful way than you speak to me. We\'ve all got money to spend here,"\' Leake said
this has happened to me alot,...but only because at least in my situations the clerk was either black or puerto rican....so for me it wasn\'t a thing of "dissrespect" it was moreso of them relating me to their background or character.....but i didn\'t get the what\'s up homie greeting tho :p...it was more like "what\'s up man" or how you doin\' cuz?...
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I\'d rather be greeted with "Whats up, homes?" than "sir"
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\'\'Sup, nukka?" works for me. I use it all day long....
(only after looking over both shoulders...;))
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man, oprah is such a douchebag!
stupid bitch.
oh and on the "homes" thing. I\'m white and I only say stuff like that to my black friends, cause we all think it sounds pathetic coming from me :D
However, saying it to a random black guy who I don\'t know...probably wouldn\'t attempt it..
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He forgot to say "kno wha am sayn" at the end of each sentence.
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Naw mean?
-Dan
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Oprah can be/is a dumb b*tch. Theres a health club that my dad and i used to go to and we heard that she wanted to rent out a whole area and that none of the employees could look her in the eye. That and something about them not letting her do something and her flipping out.
Shes..... something else.
The whole "whats up homie" issue is far more serious, if that, than Oprah\'s. I know some people are just being silly/friendly but thats almost as stupid as going up to a muslim and saying praise be to allah. You dont do it. I know sometimes its all in fun but eh, whatever.
bah
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dit dit dit...
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Tom Cruise Attacks Oprah (http://www.big-boys.com/articles/tomkills.html)
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^^^
LOL. That was hilarious.
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Originally posted by Halberto
Tom Cruise Attacks Oprah (http://www.big-boys.com/articles/tomkills.html)
Saw it last year.
Welcome to last year.
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Celebs have money. Simple as that.
If I own a store and my usual closing time is 10 and oprah came walking in at 10:30 wanting to spend +1000$ I would happily open my doors. But if a person I never seen before in my life wanted me to I would say no.
As for the other one if the employee was black than I don\'t really see a problem with it, but if he was white its messed up.