One time my parents pressured me to say something in Japanese to a chef at a hibachi restaurant and he replied “Oh, was that Japanese? I’m from New York.” I wanted to die.
Restore honor through ritual sudoku it is.
Do it in front of parents in the living room to establish dominance.
Don’t touch-y my moustache!
(I’d never actually heard that one untill a Japanese guy I met at a bar said it, and then explained it to me as a joke, after I attempted a tiny bit of actual Japanese with him).
Also, barely related, but kind of related:
A month before that, I’d gotten a tan hat in the style that Japanese soldiers hats were made in WW2, and was wearing some other clothes that vaguely had a somewhat similar style, but not the same colors, as the rest of the Japanese … summer/hot weather outfit during WW2.
So I’m a white dude, walking up a hill to a store one day, and a guy walking down the hill…
Is Japanese, but wearing basically a full getup of 80s/90s era US milsurp stuff, even a helmet (or at least the liner).
We got to each other, noticed each other at about the same time, fully stopped in our tracks, realized the absurdity of the situation, laughed for about 10 seconds, then went on our ways.
Peak Human experience. That’s an unnamed brother for life.
Cowabunga gozaimasu
“Enjoy your meal!”
“Thanks, you too!”
That’s not weird people eat meals all the time. They can just enjoy their next one. No wasted joy
notices them furiously masterbate while watching me eat
…
nods in approval
Origins of the bukkake udon
Thats the best part 🤤
I live in New York City.
We have a lot Mexican restaurants run by Chinese people.
A few pizza parlors run by Mexicans.
In the Bay Area we have lots of pizza places run by Indian people.
Some of them will offer Indian style toppings, like paneer, which is actually pretty good.
Melting pot
Yeah them too. The fondue restaurants are not run by the Swiss, but the Italians.
Which would make sense if those Italians were from the Aosta Valley, since food and other culture doesn’t stop hard at the border. But I’m betting they’re not.
I love fondues.
And then if you speak Japanese in a Japanese restaurant, they ignore the fuck out of you.
Can’t really say it so clearly. Are you a Chinese exchange student who has been studying Japanese for a year and somewhat gets by? You’re fine. Are you a literal native speaker but your father is black and you’re a ハーフ?
ソリー！イングリッシュメニュー？アイラブアメリカ！
Edit: Sorry, sometimes it helps to click the link. I had that exact situation before. It looks like comedy but it’s the sad reality. Not always though.
Habla escargo? Heh… I’m bilateral!
Don’t forget sayonara. It feels like it could be a Spanish word too.
It was weird learning how many of the random words I had in my vocabulary were actual foreign words, not even loan words but just had been used by neighbors who had likely had immigrant parents or were immigrants themselves. Ciao, sayonara, adios, ohayo (which I seriously thought was just, “Oh! Hi! Oh!” as if it was an exaggerated ahoy)…
ohayo (which I seriously thought was just, “Oh! Hi! Oh!” as if it was an exaggerated ahoy)…
Thats hella Ohio bruhhh
Similar when I was in the UK at a Fish and Chip shop. Sikh man asking if I want Curry on my Chips, and then after paying and leaving he says “Ta Mate”
Seems normal to me.
Did you get curry on the chips?
Of course!
Arigathanks
Grassyass
The lazy screenshot on the right adds to the shitpost
Oh, absolutely. I screenshoted that screenshot
Great movie btw.
I know people shit on this movie, but I love it.
Lol I get accused of being a white savior when I advocate for Palestinian right to exist
Sir, this is a Wendy drive thru.
well sheeeeet, ill take a big mac then
Well, are you a white savior ?
nah. people were just pissed when they saw an american stand up for Palestinians.
might have something to do with a white person using the terror and subjugation of brown people as a punchline and not so much with the just being white.
white people have the worst persecution fetish.
Says the green person 🤢
hulk mildly amused
Who?
i assumed at the time it was desperation, like im pointing out that innocent babies are being killed by Israel and zionist were calling me every name they knew and took them several minutes of name calling to get to white savior.
