Those wide leg pants, tho - very mid-90’s. Needs a tank top, a tousled hairdo with frosted tips and sideburns, and to carry a skateboard, and he’d be ready to say “Hello there fellow kids!”
Oh my God, I’d completely forgotten about Barney Frank and his moobs. How I forgot, I don’t know, but I’m going to be haunted now for at least the rest of the day, if not the week.
Sydney Sweeney movie is The Housemaid, not The Handmaid, isn’t it?
My guess is that the “racial stereotype” guy is maybe Dutch. It’s the shoes.
I agree, the shoes look like those wooden clogs that always appear in Holland-related stereotypes. All he needs is a tulip. I think the wide pants are another.
It’s a window onto the days when “races” included ethnicities we’d just think of as “white European” today, at least in the US.
There used to be this whole concept in the US of “white ethnic,” which was basically any white people who weren’t of British or German descent. Kennedy was thought of as the first “white ethnic” president because his ancestry was Irish and he was Catholic. Up through the ‘70s, urban politicians would actively solicit the vote of the various white ethnic populations and think in terms of who was likely to win “the Italian vote” or “the Polish vote” or what-have-you.
I kinda want to hit the X to doubt button on the au pair bra thing because it sounds awfully familiar to an outcome changed version of a Curb Your Enthusiasm bit. Larry David had a maid who did not wear a bra and this bothered him so with his superhuman ability to guess a woman's bra size he went out and bought her a bra.
The au pair bra thing, like the proliferation of the name Kevin in France (mentioned by CR in a note), is another sad example of American culture displacing local customs.
When I met my wife, she didn't own any bras. Hadn't for years, and didn't for years, until she became a high school teacher in the US. Sometime after that, we were having drinks with her cousins (German women, then early 30s) and they just couldn't believe that American women were expected to wear bras all the time.
I think mysterious stereotype guy is Dutch because he has the pointy wooden shoes. We really used to pay a lot of attention to which little European country you or your family hailed from… and not in a celebratory, multi-cultural way.
Waiting to see the 'How to draw' cartoon guy feature in a fashion round-up too.
The fit is really going unnecessarily hard.
Those wide leg pants, tho - very mid-90’s. Needs a tank top, a tousled hairdo with frosted tips and sideburns, and to carry a skateboard, and he’d be ready to say “Hello there fellow kids!”
1. Her waist-length hair was "covering everything"? Is this like an Eve in the garden situation?
2. The racial stereotype looks like some flavor of Eastern European/Central Asian steppe person, like a Cossack or a Magyar
Yeah shouldn’t she say “my _shirt_ was covering everything”? There are a lot of details missing here.
“Hi, I’m your new au pair, Godiva.”
You win the thread.
Highlights: 1. the Leonardo pic. 2. “apologies if this happens to be extremely offensive, but I don’t know who I’m offending”.
Also by all accounts Jim Morrison was a raging asshole, so his career shift totally tracks.
Yeah the only thing that made think twice about Limbaugh is that they both apparently had *enormous* heads 😂
Oh my God, I’d completely forgotten about Barney Frank and his moobs. How I forgot, I don’t know, but I’m going to be haunted now for at least the rest of the day, if not the week.
Sydney Sweeney movie is The Housemaid, not The Handmaid, isn’t it?
My guess is that the “racial stereotype” guy is maybe Dutch. It’s the shoes.
I agree, the shoes look like those wooden clogs that always appear in Holland-related stereotypes. All he needs is a tulip. I think the wide pants are another.
It’s a window onto the days when “races” included ethnicities we’d just think of as “white European” today, at least in the US.
There used to be this whole concept in the US of “white ethnic,” which was basically any white people who weren’t of British or German descent. Kennedy was thought of as the first “white ethnic” president because his ancestry was Irish and he was Catholic. Up through the ‘70s, urban politicians would actively solicit the vote of the various white ethnic populations and think in terms of who was likely to win “the Italian vote” or “the Polish vote” or what-have-you.
so is the pipe
The non-binary one looks like a character from Dune at first glance
The Fremen are men freed from gender.
We needed a Trump tweet on the Kelce home renovation.
I kinda want to hit the X to doubt button on the au pair bra thing because it sounds awfully familiar to an outcome changed version of a Curb Your Enthusiasm bit. Larry David had a maid who did not wear a bra and this bothered him so with his superhuman ability to guess a woman's bra size he went out and bought her a bra.
Old dude is from Holland.
The au pair bra thing, like the proliferation of the name Kevin in France (mentioned by CR in a note), is another sad example of American culture displacing local customs.
When I met my wife, she didn't own any bras. Hadn't for years, and didn't for years, until she became a high school teacher in the US. Sometime after that, we were having drinks with her cousins (German women, then early 30s) and they just couldn't believe that American women were expected to wear bras all the time.
We need further investigation into the Jameela bee situation because I'm fascinated
“Two lesbeins?” Did Facts of Lofe guy really mean to type “Two Lesbeens” and thus terrify Jameela Jamil?
Based on the clogs, my guess is that the caricature is supposed to be of a Dutchman.
Lesbein guy needs to get on Feeld
I think mysterious stereotype guy is Dutch because he has the pointy wooden shoes. We really used to pay a lot of attention to which little European country you or your family hailed from… and not in a celebratory, multi-cultural way.