• Letstakealook@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    I’m autistic and I’ve learned to stop trying to play this game. Instead, I just make assholes like this explain their sideways ass comments in a straightforward fashion for the group. Forcing people to explain bigoted comments and not allowing the subject to change has now made everyone uncomfortable. Not so fucking funny anymore. I usually don’t have to do this more than once or twice within a specific group.

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      4 months ago

      “Well, you know, Irish cuisine has a lot of potatoes in it.”

      Joke fucking explained. How do you figure the guy’s going to be on the spot, exactly?

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        4 months ago

        I guess you never heard of the potato famine then, which was a type of genocide visited upon the Irish by the British. Hence the 'sudden’jump from potatoes to bombing hospitals.

        That’s the source of potato jokes people crack about the Irish.

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            4 months ago

            Well played, though I doubt some Israeli making genocide jokes is going to be that familiar with Irish cuisine.

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                … Hummus is a popular staple of cuisine all over the eastern mediterranean and much of the middle east.

                The word ‘hummus’ itself is from Arabic.

                Hummus is not particularly unique to Israel.

                You’ve apparently heard of hummus but you don’t know much about it.