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Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:

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Burstall-Leader-Maple Creek area? I enjoyed my time there on a pipeline. The Chinese restaurant in Burstall did a great business, but I can see the overall semi-badlands desolation of the area being the kind of place that would be attractive to the kind of nimrods who don't get along with anyone. Different skin colour would be like pouring some gasoline on their usual simmering anger.

I came from that part of Saskatchewan and the people there are the salt of the earth so your description of them as nimrods who don't get along with anyone is nothing but a stereotype that's anything but true.

I don't know what it was like when you were working on the pipeline but if it was anything like it was when I did it in the late 60's we never got out to meet anyone who we didn't see in a bar or restaurant and there was a definite stigma about pipeline workers that kept the locals away from us. So, in my case I'd never have known how any of the real locals acted and thought if I hadn't lived and travelled the area away from my job.

As for the racism. Every small town in Saskatchewan had it's local Chinese Restaurant and the families were pretty well integrated into the community. The Natives not so much and that's because most of the small towns never saw natives except for the ones hanging around the Regina bus depot bumming cigarettes, money or staggering around drunk so, the perception was that all Natives were like that which, was anything but the truth.

Sorry, didn't mean it that way. The whole post came out wrong.

[raydan]

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I have found a useful tactic for dealing with people who make conversations uncomfortable by dropping some obnoxious comment: Pretend to have no idea what they're saying, refuse to get the 'joke', force them to explain themselves, and relish in how squimish it makes them to fully spell out what a shitty person they are while you give them a confused and disturbed look. Thanks Reddit for this one, I've already started using it and it's hilarious.

I've been using that one for years... makes me laugh when they stomp off, totally pissed.

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Aupu?

[andyt]

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Having a boss that wears a turban has given me ample oppurtunity for this stuff

So are you saying wearing a turban makes him make obnoxious comments, or his comments are obnoxious because he wears a turban?

[raydan]

andyt andyt:

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Having a boss that wears a turban has given me ample oppurtunity for this stuff

So are you saying wearing a turban makes him make obnoxious comments, or his comments are obnoxious because he wears a turban?

Wow, even I'm not stupid to jump to that conclusion... he means that the clients make comments about his boss.


At least that's what I think it means.

[andyt]

Got ya. Of course that's what he meant. Just thought I'd try out the technique. It doesn't seem to work in CKA because people are so oblivious.

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[andyt]

Sikhs get plenty of racism - usually people call them Hindus, don't think they're Muslim. And Sikhs can be pretty racist themselves. I suggest you ask his daughter out on a date to see how he is about that.

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[Freakinoldguy]

Thanos Thanos:

Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:

Thanos Thanos:

Burstall-Leader-Maple Creek area? I enjoyed my time there on a pipeline. The Chinese restaurant in Burstall did a great business, but I can see the overall semi-badlands desolation of the area being the kind of place that would be attractive to the kind of nimrods who don't get along with anyone. Different skin colour would be like pouring some gasoline on their usual simmering anger.

I came from that part of Saskatchewan and the people there are the salt of the earth so your description of them as nimrods who don't get along with anyone is nothing but a stereotype that's anything but true.

I don't know what it was like when you were working on the pipeline but if it was anything like it was when I did it in the late 60's we never got out to meet anyone who we didn't see in a bar or restaurant and there was a definite stigma about pipeline workers that kept the locals away from us. So, in my case I'd never have known how any of the real locals acted and thought if I hadn't lived and travelled the area away from my job.

As for the racism. Every small town in Saskatchewan had it's local Chinese Restaurant and the families were pretty well integrated into the community. The Natives not so much and that's because most of the small towns never saw natives except for the ones hanging around the Regina bus depot bumming cigarettes, money or staggering around drunk so, the perception was that all Natives were like that which, was anything but the truth.

Sorry, didn't mean it that way. The whole post came out wrong.

No problem that's what I figured and for the record you're not the only who's posts don't come out exactly as intended.

[ShepherdsDog]

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"He's Sikh."
"Seeking what?"
- actual conversation

a song, a song to singh.

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[ShepherdsDog]

like the term 'Indian Summer'