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qbert @lemmy.world

2mo ago

Definitely don't ask for it in Spanish!

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Customer: “can I get a coffee, black?”
Robinson: “can’t you see I’m talkin, white?”
- Zach and Miri make a porno, right? Knew the bit in the comic was familiar
  
  It is indeed

I'll take an African American coffee.
- African Americano
  Come on 🤨
  
  El americano es negro.🤨
- You've just offended the Jamaican guy who doesn't have US citizenship.
  
  That's okay, he won't be here for much longer come next year.
  
  Literally no Latin or center American will be offended by the word negro
- “Black” just works as a better term. It’s hilarious when people refer to black folks from other countries as “African American.”
  I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone offended by being called “black.”
  
  If white is not offensive, why would black be offensive? It makes no sense.
  
  "Black" being considered offensive was a thing in the late 90's, but it didn't last.

- (Rebranded to "Nito" a while back)
  
  Back when I was a kid, "bimbo" was another slur for black people.

In latin america we say "Mi negro, mi flaco, mi gordo, mi pelado" ("My black, my skinny, my fatty, my baldie") and could not care less. Sometimes even to strangers.
- Wow, I was way off. ☹️ I guessed "My flaccid black penis is named Gordo".
  
  Nice
- In French gros/mon gros can be a familiar term of endearment, but it mostly doesn't matter how fat the guy really is.

Wait, what would the problem be with asking for a café solo?
- Wait, what would the problem be with asking for a café solo?
  ¿Cómo se dice "black" en español?
  
  I think the Spanish word for black is N
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  Not next to the word coffee, is how.
- Personally, I’d be like “what the fuck are talking about?”
- ...where's your instrument?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdjEhb-2MFo

...an espresso?
- Espresso != A regular black coffee. Espresso is way more concentrated, and is brewed using pressure. Regular black coffee implies the drip method.
  
  Or Perc. Black coffee could mean perc. But that really only happens in places that still think it’s the 50’s.
  (No judgement. Those diners are amazing, and better coffee than fartbucks.)
  
  for the rest of the world normal is espresso and the thing with drip or wtv doesn't even exist.
  
  In your area, that may be true. Around here, and by experience in a good chunk of southern Europe, asking for a coffee will get you an espresso 100% of the time.
  Asking for drip coffee will probably get you scorned and sent off, or if they're nice they may offer to make you instant coffee if they have it.

should've gotten tea
- White, please.
  
  Negro, please

So what does BLM stand for again?

A regular coffee is 1 cream and 1 sugar, so the sentence in the first panel is a command. He's even pointing at the guy while he says it. The nasty racist then backtracks when he notices the barrista's cold dead stare and realizes he is large enough to snap him in half.
I'm just joking around, but really the more I think about that first panel, the more it annoys me.
edit: I wasn't seriously considering this a racist comic, but pointing out a widely used label and grammar will make the first panel hilariously ironic to many people.
- "Regular" being the size.
  
  The term regular size coffee implies the existence of irregular size coffee
- I think that's regional, maybe to east coast US (or just NYC)? Anywhere else I've been in the US "regular coffee" referred to black coffee.
  
  I'm in Western Canada. As an example, Tim Horton's calls a regular coffee 1 cream and 1 sugar nationally.
  But, I was only pointing this out because it's funny considering the point the comic is trying to make.

Now go look in that box of Crayola for the one that's gonna trigger the SJWs to fight against a language because some hillbillies used a word as a slur and now live rent-free in everyone's heads.
- I appreciate your takes on these things. It always gives me a huge boost of self confidence.
- Wait what

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