the random musings not worthy of new thread thread

[Sgt PSN]

Pretty sure anytime you get punched without expecting and (presumably) for no reason, it's a sucker punch even if it comes from the front.

[ice grillin you]

Pretty sure anytime you get punched without expecting and (presumably) for no reason, it's a sucker punch even if it comes from the front.

NO

stomach punches are gay and dont happen except in westerns

[DH]

so there seem to be some nude alba photos which are scheduled to soon hit the web..

[ice grillin you]

sweet...hopefully shes not preggers in them

[mpmcgraw]

apparently all these photos that have been leaking the past few years are from the same hacker and the fbi is about to catch him.  which i dont believe.  because if you were really about to catch him you wouldnt say you were about to catch him. 

[Yeti]

When did you hear they were about to catch me....I mean him....

[Sgt PSN]

I guess I'm out of the loop on what little kids watch now, but I just found out last night that Disney has some character/show called Handy Manny.  He some little Mexican carpenter kid who goes around fixing shtein and cutting grass.

[SD]

I guess I'm out of the loop on what little kids watch now, but I just found out last night that Disney has some character/show called Handy Manny.  He some little Mexican carpenter kid who goes around fixing shtein and cutting grass.

He's been around for a little while. I thought the same thing at first but once you watch the show it sort of squashes all the stereotypes.

[Diomedes]

I don't know any mexican carpenters.  Plenty of landscapers, painters, drywallers, roofers.  Carpentry, not so much.

[PhillyPhreak54]

90% of our retail business is Mexican carpenters

[Rome]

Why would anyone give a Mexican something sharp?

[Sgt PSN]

I don't know any mexican carpenters.  Plenty of landscapers, painters, drywallers, roofers.  Carpentry, not so much.

Maybe not so much in the North East.....the part of the country farthest away from the US/Mexico border.  But in the SW border states....SoCal, AZ, NM and Tayhas, Mexican laborers are Jack of all Trade-type folks.  Ever hear the jokes about Mexicans hanging out in Home Depot parking lots?  They ain't doing it because they want to mow your lawn but because they want to build you a deck or fix your roof.

Besides, Mexicans love Jesus and he was a carpenter so it only makes sense, right? 

As for the content of the show itself, I couldn't say but the basic premise seems to promote the stereotype.

[SD]

I don't know any mexican carpenters.  Plenty of landscapers, painters, drywallers, roofers.  Carpentry, not so much.

Maybe not so much in the North East.....the part of the country farthest away from the US/Mexico border.  But in the SW border states....SoCal, AZ, NM and Tayhas, Mexican laborers are Jack of all Trade-type folks.  Ever hear the jokes about Mexicans hanging out in Home Depot parking lots?  They ain't doing it because they want to mow your lawn but because they want to build you a deck or fix your roof.

Besides, Mexicans love Jesus and he was a carpenter so it only makes sense, right?  

As for the content of the show itself, I couldn't say but the basic premise seems to promote the stereotype.

He's a legally employed worker who helps people out. I don't see that as a negative stereotype. Like you mentioned, it's the reality of the situation. Now, if they had him as some fence jumper who did odd jobs for people then yeah I'd see a problem.

[Rome]

fence jumper

lol

[Diomedes]

Yeah, we have laborers hanging around too...and I'm sure some of them are better carpenters than well employed white carpenters...but around here, people don't hire latinos for skilled labor.