Stereotyping - Humorous or old hat and offensive?

im sure you do

 

Probably stereotyping, but since when has being an estate agent been a high pressure job?

 

Firstly in this supposedly modern age we live in, how people are or how they live or where they live should'nt really matter. but in the real world that we all have to live and work and struggle to get by in, it does, it really does, even if you try to blind yourself by right on modern thinking, and that's because the majority are forgot about to please the few. If truth be told being white working class and northern is probably at this moment the most offended against stereotype going, but no one kicks up a fuss about being one of them do they' and if they do they just get told to shut up and get on with it. In my opinion the people that do get offended or do kick up a fuss are self made victims of their own lifestyle, they think because way they are or the way they live is normal to them it should be normal to everybody else, they might have friends or mix mostly in circles that are either like them or are nonplused by the way they live, they have the victim syndrone the second anyone dares to " offend them " they kick up a storm over what most people would'nt bat an eyelid at, but they then get listened to because, it would'nt be PC not to, I really don't care what anyone says to me as long as their prepared to say it to my face, I also don't hold grudges, it gets sorted out and then its history in my book, life's to short, do one and move on

 

You lot are nothing but a bunch of whinging Pommies.

Nothing more needs saying.
Love from A Sweaty Sock who lives in Australia (Strayla in the local vernacular)

 

Ooh you have wounded me with that one, I reckon I've had a few sleepless nights to be fair. I'd be happy fiddling around with my bus all week but I wouldn't make a living, that's why I need to be at techenders!

 

Well said. To me that is the point of stereotyping, get proven wrong, devils advocate, whatever.

Works face to face, but on a forum?


@jammy, you do strike me as a stoned, old, hippy btw (tongue in cheek smiley but can't do that on tapatalk type thing)

 

Someone pulled me up on here a while back for referring to me mum as a Sweaty Sock, which she is

 

Im as open and accepting to another persons differences as they are to mine

 

Quite right. A very sock-ist remark, if I might say so ...

 

I was merely portraying the elitist English view of anything that lives beyond the borders of "Merrye Olde Englande" (or more likely the south east corner of the island) is inferior.
As a Scot I can call myself whatever I please & as an Australian resident I no longer have to accept that the English are my overlords.

 

I'm from Norfolk and my brother challenged me to see how much women we can have sex with in a week. He's winning 3-1
I'm going to have to up my auntie...

I AM from Norfolk originally and I reckon that it's our differences that are always a talking point. Taking the pee out of each other is probably the oldest form of humour.

 

When i was in the forces we were part of a team from all sorts of backgrounds
There was always of jock,scouse,manc etc etc
We constantly riled each other about our upbringing,birthplace background etc
Each and everyone of us knew that the next guy had your back when the cookie crumbled

There was sporting events between the stereotypes from boxing to rugby and i remember well the drinking games during the rugby
Where the welsh drank the english under the table whilst the jocks looked on in desbelife at how poor both sides were

Stereotypes only knock you if you let them

I say be proud of your stereotype after all im a flat cap whippet owning northerner

 

Making assumptions about another person is very much a part of our DNA....without this facility the human race would probably be extinct by now...or would operate on a different social protocol entirely. As such, I don't have any issues with 'stereotyping'...but when it's second-hand, ie. not based on your own personal experience, this is more akin to predjudice, or racism....a judgement, based on spurious notions and unenlightened thought process.
What exactly is a typical Scouser, or Geordie...what do you actually mean when you say an 'Asian'? F*cked if I know! It's just short hand....a means to convey an idea, or a bundle of associations....these may be positive, or negative, based on your own experience....It's more commonly used to besmirch an entire social group or nation...
He's a Muslim, she's Irish Catholic...typical German... it's utter b*llocks....the problem lies in people's minds

 

So your the butch one then