NOT_RICK

It’s pathetic really. These people hate their existence and yet they continue to carry water for them. Useful idiot isn’t a strong enough descriptor.

Idc if there’s no munition in there, I’m not risking having a backblast rip off my nutsack

I remember my friend using it here in NJ directed at a kid in our class who was from Pakistan which I found pretty odd as my buddy’s family is from Egypt. I’d expect a little solidarity but I guess middle school is not a great time. It’s definitely not very common here though.

It sounds like you’re not from the UK; there’s a lot of violent hate towards South Asians there. People have had their houses burned down while they’re called this very slur just this past week.

It’s Paki, a racial slur for South Asian people common in the UK.

Nah, it’s a regional racial slur common in the UK, Paki. I’d compare it to how people outside of the UK don’t realize it, but spaz is a heavy ableist slur over there too.

I’d generalize it to South Asian brown people in general as racists aren’t exactly geography experts

Ugh I don’t miss having to parse someone else’s regex at my old job.

Yeah, for the most part. He definitely was present and engaged with us despite having a good deal of the boomer parent tropes like “ask your mom” or running off to the basement to scream at a sporting event and drink beer away from the family. Like, I remember he went to all the parent teacher conferences, not just my mom, or he would take off to go on some of the field trips.

Ramses II was a common one due to the bible, as was Judas and I think Brutus and Cassius for betraying Caesar. The Divine comedy features the latter three being chewed on by Satan in the deepest pit of hell.

Ah the gulf of sarcasm

Also a millennial. My parents were largely like this. My dad was just around less because he was commuting to and from manhattan. He was up at 5am every day. My mom did random jobs here and there but my dad made the bulk of our household income.