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My point is, as an Irish-American, I don't care about the Fighting Irish stereotypes because I know that there is some truth and that what isn't (or is no longer) true isn't worth protesting. And especially since The Departed came out, a lot of Irish-Americans even embrace those stereotypes, thinking it makes them look badass. For every Italian-American offended by the Godfather or the Sopranos or Real Housewives of New Jersey, there are even more who love that shit, like it gives them some power. Just live with it. That's what the Irish have done and that's what a lot of Jewish comedians have built their acts on. By embracing or even just tolerating the stereotypes, you reduce their power.
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It was the "Prostitution Whoo-rah!" heard around the world.
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The answer may be to raise your kids not to turn into whatever douche-royale is depicted on the screen. Let it be a lesson to you, and stop the madness! It’s a PSA really.
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Oh, if only a comment could be bronzed and mounted on the kitchen wall of every home right next to the standard woodcarving of the Last Supper...
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[www.bennygohome.com]
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It's just sad when the ones who are balding try to do their hair like that. It's so...see-through.
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These are just obnoxious (and rich? haven't seen the show yet) people from the Jersey Shore.
If we're going to get upset it should be because MTV can't come up with a new fucking idea.
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These people exist and deserve to be mocked. On television.
...granted, there is a serious double standard. Throwing a bunch of similarly ridiculous black folks on a reality show, editing the footage to make them look as bad as possible, and calling it "MTV's The South Bronx" would obviously not fly.
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#tips
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#tips
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Let me tell you, lots of the summer beach house renters - Italian or not - are huge fucking douchebags.
The crime rate in Seaside in the summer is astounding - as are some of the crimes I had to cover.
Just one example. Two dudes in a bar get into an argument over whether Coke or Pepsi tastes better with rum.
They ended up stabbing each other over this.
Plus, you can't imagine the number of reported rapes, domestic violence and shitbaggery the cops have to deal with every night once this shits come down for the summer.
It happens that the demographics of New Jersey make it so that many of these fuckwits are Italian, but they really come in all shades and colors.
What's really amusing about this fucksticks is that they are the most homophobic guys in the world - yet dress and act stereotypically gayer than the patrons of Cock during Pride Week.
The amount of hair products they use would put Patrick Bateman to shame and the cologne is worse than a Roman bath house.
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Thanks!
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I have yet to find the place where a version of this culture does not exist, although the split is usually along class rather than race lines.
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The last 2-3 years they have been bringing in a massive number of undercover State Troopers that have cleaned things up a lot as well as improved the rental houses and increased the prices to the point your typical scumbag high school student can no longer go in with a bunch of friends and rent a bungalow for less than a few grand.
I thank god every summer day that the people who frequent those areas dont usually get off the island and stay localized to that side of the Bay.
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My family vacations in Stone Harbor every summer, so we're usually removed from the pit of hell that is Seaside. However, one year, friends of ours decided to take all the kids to the Seaside boardwalk. Long story short, I was three and on a kiddie ride when two sleazebags tried to lift me off the ride. My mother freaked out, started screaming and the men ran off.
Immediately, my mother went to the police station to file a report, but when she got there, the station was completely backed up because there was a line--yes, a line--of women waiting to give their statements about sexual assault. Needless to say, I have never been back to Seaside and have no plans to ever do so.
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Eh. For financial reasons since my divorce my writings have mostly consisted of ads for diet pills/face creams, erotic gay fiction, femdom fiction, ads for male and female escorts and how to ebooks on how to eat pussy, get your husband into a chastity belt, suck cock, "the art of female fingering" and international gay travel cruising guides - because that stuff pays for bills, beer and random trips to brothels in barcelona.
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But, yeah, the sex assault line was famous and I did a couple stories about it.
There was one "fun" crime related thing I go to cover in Seaside. My editor got it into his head that "A night at the seaside heights municipal court in summer" would make a great feature story.
So, I went down and literally half of it was the judge making teenage/college aged girls stand up in front of the entire courthouse and detail how, where and why they urinated in public and/or how, where and why they got caught blowing some random guy in public.
I have never seen more blushing girls in one place in my life.
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If you haven't already watched this, I would recommend that you do. It'll be like a walk down memory lane. [jezebel.com]
Also, if you're trying to dissuade people from wanting to read your writing, the list above isn't going to help much.
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Yet even the itemized list got me hot. Dang, man! You're talented!
:)
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Well, you might want to check out the city guide here.
[www.drag.com]
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Go here. Skip the "Beginings of Bareback Michael" - I don't know who wrote that. Scroll down to "Bareback Michael - The College Years" - I did all those stories and the ones after that.
[www.bareback.com]
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Go here. Skip tGo here. Skip the "Beginings of Bareback Michael" - I don't know who wrote that. Scroll down to "Bareback Michael - The College Years" - I did all those stories and the ones after that.
[www.bareback.com]