#548 - In which Jamie's mouth does something.

[Prezombie]

http://leftoversoup.com/archive.php?num=548

Oh Jamie, when will you learn to never talk to the cops?

This is going to go just swell. He's personally experienced how the police can and will hold grudges, now he has to learn also that vouching for someone under suspicion merely broadens the suspicion to cover you too?

[paddyfool]

Option A: keep your yap shut unless spoken to. Good option.
Option B: say something respectful and non-committal, e.g. "Is there a problem, officer?" Handy if you're a celebrity, or you're whole personage oozes social status or charisma to get the man to go away, but might still irritate otherwise. Subpar option in Jamie's situation.
Option C: do a Jamie. Shitstorm incoming.

[Deepbluediver]

Read panels 1-3: Huh, surprisingly thing's haven't gone FUBAR yet.
Read panel 4: .....oh my god Jamie. *headdesk*


I don't even think I can go back and reread it; this is so painful to watch.

[Cerby]

The sheer number of assumptions Jamie is making, all shortened into a single word, is breathtaking.
FUBAR is probably an accurate description of what it will bring.

[typhon]

Somehow this seems relevant.

[McKathlin]

Yeah...so much facepalm here.

Now, if Jamie actually were to disclose who he is, and they connected his identity with "Halliganiv", Wallace and Jamie would probably look more suspicious to the police than this exchange already makes them look.

[Deepbluediver]

Somehow this seems relevant.

I was thinking something similar, but I couldn't find a good way to work it into a concise-yet-funny comment.

These days, who the hell is racist against Polish or Irish people? No one. We whitened them. They're us now.
We're probably doing the Latinos next. Their technological and cultural distinctiveness will be added to our own. Lookin' forward to it, honestly.

If it means I get to wear fruit-hats to work without getting funny looks from (pretty much) everyone, then I'm all for it!

[Merle]

Oh, no, no, Jamie, no.

Does he have a negative Wisdom score or something?

[Thorulf]

Some whites are whiter than others, and who is and who isn't in the club can change. Fifty years ago, if you were telling a racist joke about stupid people screwing in lightbulbs, who were you talking about? Polacks.

It was about 40 years ago when the "Polack Jokes" made rounds at my elementary school, though this being California, we hadn't even the first clue what a "Polack" actually was. Fast forward about 5 years, and I am looking through a box of very old books when I come across a little joke book from the 1920s - a book of "Newfie Jokes"...people from Newfoundland: they were the same jokes. The jokes hadn't changed, only the national origins of the targets of the jokes.
Fast forward another 15 years, and I was living in Reykjavík (long story.) I has hanging out with a bunch of gaming friends one evening playing Traveller, and several of them start telling jokes about people from Hafnarfjörður (a bit of necessary backstory: Hafnarfjörður is one of the suburbs of Reykjavík, and there is a bit of 'sibling rivalry.' Some people from Reykjavík liked to look down on the people from Hafnarfjörður as being "hicks", while the people from Hafnarfjörður found that irritating, which was very amusing to the sort of people that told jokes about people from Hafnarfjörður. More necessary backstory: three of my friends were from Reykjavík, while one was from Hafnarfjörður.)
After hearing about two or three of the jokes, I realized that...you guessed it...they were the exact same jokes I used to hear about Polacks, and the same jokes that they told about Newfoundlanders in the 1920s. I could also see that the friend from Hafnarfjörður was beginning to get a bit irritated.
So I proceeded to tell about a half dozen of the jokes in quick succession, changing the butt of the joke to suit the matter at hand. Everyone was caught totally off guard: "Wow, where did you hear all these great jokes?" When I explained the whole story and all were amused, though the friend from Hafnarfjörður did take one parting shot:

Q: "Why are the jokes about people from Hafnarfjörður so stupid?"
A: "So the people from Reykjavík can understand them."
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[Horizon]

Q: How many celebrities does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: One. They hold it in place and wait for the world to revolve around them.