Accent=racism!

[Sronpop]

I am amazed the 'stereotype' of Irish being stupid exists! The Isle of Saints and Scholars are we not? The funny thing is, those kids will slag the Irish off on xbox live all day long, but as soon as St. Patrick's Day comes around, 'Oh yeah, I'm Irish, my grandmother came over here during the famine'*. This kind of carry on is one of the MANY reasons I have stopped playing MW2. I enjoy a good slagging match now, hell I am sure I enjoy it alot more than most people do, but there is a huge difference between having an adult slagging match where the aim is to one up each other to ridiculous degrees, and hearing some retarded 15 year old try out all the curse words he just learned.

*St. Patrick's Day, it gets abbreviated to St. Paddy's day. I corrected a few people online before(they were Americans) who called it Patty's day. What I got back was the most bigoted, misinformed and quite frankly retarded replies I have ever seen.

 

[Sronpop]

Racism's a very strange thing because it's so contextual. In America I'm "Black" or African-American(btw, THE most retarded term ever), but when I went to Britain and Scotland, I'm just American where as Africans are "Black". Same deal with Australia, my cousin wen't there and she was "American" while the Aborigines were "Black".


Another thing I never got was why there's tension between the Irish and Black people (Mostly on the East Coast). I mean, I get WHY there would be initially: Both were battling for second place class-wise in the early 1900s, and a great number of blackface performers (the guys who basically gave us most black stereotypes) were Irish-American actors. What I don't get is that, seeing as most people of both races don't even know that history, why there is still animosity?

The funny thing is I read in some book before(it was some kind of massive dictionary, but it happened to contain every curse word imaginable) and it listed the entry Green-N****r, with the definition as something like, what the Irish were called when they immigrated to the US during the famine, it also say something like, 'the only thing worse than a n*****r is an Irishman'. Unreal.

 

[slipknot4]

I tend to avoid the subject as much as i could and not listen to people who talk what-so-ever. And it works, mute ftw!
But, it happens from time to time that even i get insulted, however, i find sexism more of a problem than racism.

 

[SultanP]

But what are the odds of people who act like that coming on to this site, reading this thread, and actually taking it to heart?

 

[lwm3398]

Support a different football club.

Isn't that often a motive for murder in Britain?

 

[Booze Zombie]

This sounds like you've gone straight from Live to this forum, but it's not like I'd blame you for being incensed by being mindlessly insulted, I've had it happen when some Gordie GITS mocked me for being Welsh.

THE FUCKING CUNTS!

*Cough*

What I'm trying to say is that twats are twats, think of it like they're bees, they're doing something mindless and they're probably not really sure why.

 

[Jeremy66]

I know how you feel man. Most people on Xbox live aren't worth talking to. Party chat may be disabled, but you can always mute everyone in the game minus your friends, if they're playing with you.

 

[teisjm]

Well, the basic idea of trash talk isn't to let them expose a reson for you to call them stupid based on logic conclusions, but merely to piss peopel off, so they can't focus on playing their best.

I was playing MW:2 with some friends at one point, and one of them decided it was time for psychological warfare, so whenever a map started, he would hide someplace sortof safe, and just talk (type) trash to teh other team, and he would just go with whatever he could find that might get a response, so when people used their flags colors in their name it was easy.
He would go
"did you hear that "insert country here" is having a major crisis due to underpopulation cause all teh dudes are gay? i mean u can fuck each other all you want, no problem, but at least knock up your chicks for the sake of reproduction" or somehing like that.
Someone always ate teh bait and started whining and ranting, and usually more than one, so teh rest of us could easily pick them off while they were bussy typing.
I don't think they ever realized it was meant as a team-play-weapon and not just some random dude trolling, but then again, if they had ralized that, it would prolly not have worked.

 

[Hiphophippo]

You've chosen to play the worst game, on the worst community in the world. I'm stunned you expected better.

 

[zana bonanza]

This only happened because you were playing with guys. Had you the fortunate to be playing with girls, you would have been fawned over. Chicks dig accents. I should know, I am one.
That being said, I always get ragged on for that.
That or it's just pure shock. Given the main audience, it's not surprising to think they've never met a real girl before.

 

[Void(null)]

I literally join a lobby with my friends and no sooner have i said a word i get decended upon by brits or americans sayin oh look an irishman that can work the internet or other clearly well reserched insults or the british that repeatedly call us idiots because of pre 1890s and sing ronan keetan to me.

It goes all ways.

Now you know how I (as an Englishman) feel whenever some American or European twat starts quoting Monty Python at me... I fucking hate Monty Python.

"Oh, Your English and a Gamer? Ni ni ni ni ni ni ni ni ni ni ni ni ni ni ni ni ni holy hand granade ni ni ni ni ni its a Parrot hahahaha arnt I funny and now were close because I know something English."

No... you're not big, clever or funny for quoting the same old, tired and worn out Monty Python skits at me... it just means your a sad pretentious twat.

Why can't someone quote some Young Ones, Spike Milligan, Armstrong & Miller, Vick Reeves & Bob Mortimer or Eddie Izzard? And why do I feel like I am the only one in this god forsaken country who has ever seen Withnail and I.

But Noooo its all endless repetition of a comedy troupe who made a name by being spontaneous and unpredictable. you know what? Its not fucking spontaneous the 50,000th time!

Sorry... Just... erks me how culturally ignorant people can be.

 

[Void(null)]

Chicks dig accents. I should know, I am one.

So how is that working out for you? Do you find it difficult to live only as a disembodied voice or does it free you from the normal constraints of life and society?

 

[SupabadMan]

I hate anonymity and the internet.

Everytime I play MW2, any one who isn't white is immediately bombarded with racist comments.

It's just facepalm worthy.

 

[Shynobee]

You now witness the wonderful power that anonymity gives to people. Guaranteed, most of the people who were screwing with you are probably not racist at all, they just live with the fact that you have no way of knowing who they really are, and thus, they can feel free to say what ever they want because it seems funny at the time, and that kind of shit is expected online.

 

[Paksenarrion]

I feel bad. Every time I hear someone with a British accent, I keep thinking they're only pretending to be British, and I join right along, only to find out they really are British. To be honest, I love accents! I think they're neat! Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery; I wish I could somehow express that whenever I do an accent, but in the end, I come out looking like a racist, and I am so sorry.

 

[Outright Villainy]

I'm from coolock in dublin what bout you and i know i'm a newbie to this forum stuff

I'm from Westmeath, so I'm a culchie.

By the way, if you press the quote button when you want to reply to someone, they get a message so they know you're replying to them.

HA! Im from roscommon and we have the worst internet ever! HAHAHA-(sobs in corner in fetal position.)

I'm from Limerick, and My dad's a farmer. Who can't even open a web browser. Do I win the Culchie competition?
Heh, anyway, I don't have a mic, and I'll probably keep it that way, I've a pretty thick accent and the less people hear it, the better! I'd be very suspicious if somone found my accent sexy...

 

[Marik2]

Wow I feel like I'm the only person here who's never heard racism things on XBL sure I hear stupid kids arguing, but that's about it. If anyone wants a friend that can hold intelligent conversations on XBL I'd be more than happy to add you.

 

[ZippyDSMlee]

Racism is what you make of it, its just words you give it power when you re shocked and sadden by it..... when you should really be shocked and sadden by the stupidity....

 

[Deimateos]

Now you know how I (as an Englishman) feel whenever some American or European twat starts quoting Monty Python at me... I fucking hate Monty Python.

I can't watch Python anymore, I like Peep Show better.

The only fun joke English accent to do is the "Fat Gentlemen Englishman" because it always devolves into some form of "I say" "Yes quite", "jolly good" and "rogering", all punctuated by "hhrub-brub-brub" in between. It basically turns into a game of getting an intelligible sentence /story out while still doing the voice. I honestly can't think of one person who doesn't like that one, people either join in or laugh in utter confusion.


PS: If you can't do the accent authentically (IE: people of that nationality aren't offended by the way you do their accent) it won't be funny. So if you can't do an accent good, DON'T.

 

[Deimateos]

Racism is what you make of it, its just words you give it power when you re shocked and sadden by it..... when you should really be shocked and sadden by the stupidity....

This is exactly how I feel about it, you only be offended by something that you identify with and are ashamed of. That goes for any word.