Bored tech guy: Can I help you?
Uninformed Voter: Yeah, um, I need an update on my anti-Semitic virus program.
Bored tech guy: You mean ‘Symantec’?
Uninformed Voter: Yeah, that’s what I said — anti-Semitic.
This was an actual conversation.
Bored tech guy: Can I help you?
Uninformed Voter: Yeah, um, I need an update on my anti-Semitic virus program.
Bored tech guy: You mean ‘Symantec’?
Uninformed Voter: Yeah, that’s what I said — anti-Semitic.
This was an actual conversation.
In west Georgia, they pronounce it Simon tech. Come to think of it, I never met anyone there named Simon, so I guess it did work.
What does it do — block or filter out everybody listed in Adam Sandler’s Chanuka songs?
Ok,got the humor in it….however a point of interest
-“Semitic” actually refers to language history of a huge group of peoples of various
ethnic groups throughout the entire Arabian peninsula from the western Med to the Indian Ocean and south a ways in Africa.The use of the term,particularily “Anti Semitic” being directed primarily at Hebrew/Jewish peoples,generally in a derogatory way
is a “modern affectation” within the last century or so.(just so’s ya knows)
I knew that. But, like always, the mob, and current general usage, defines the term as it is popularly known.
I remember when a “dude” was just a cowboy.
uh-oh. did “dude” change and I don’t know this? It’s not a cornholer thing now is it?
Yep. Jews and Arabs are of the same race, which is why technically, Arabs cannot be Anti-Semitic. I actually argued this point on my blog with a Jewish girl about six years who kept insisting that I was wrong. Even before Mohammed (Piss Be Upon Him) Jews and Arabs shared some of the same customs such as circumcision and eschewing pork.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Marr
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