Thread "Your fave stereotype about yourself" in forum "Comic Talk and General Discussion *"

Posted at 1:01PM, Jan. 25, 2008

Well, apart from being Minnesotan so everyone expects me to have a norwegian accent, I'm also really tall, spurring the constant question "Do you play basketball?" That one's always fun.

Posted at 1:01PM, Jan. 25, 2008

What about the hat? Gotta have the hat!

Actually I *have* the hat - but it's in a trunk with about 50 other types of hats. I…I just like hats.

Posted at 1:01PM, Jan. 25, 2008

i've moved around alot, (in the states) so i dont fit any region of the U.S..
however, i have been known to be cocky and arrogant….but that just comes with the job and knowing alot….or a little and needing the cocky part so people back away and not ask too many questions…

Posted at 2:01PM, Jan. 25, 2008

People beliving that I can stand the cold and wilderness becuase I live in Ohio.

Dah Ninny does not like the cold. >=(

Posted at 3:01PM, Jan. 25, 2008

People believing that I can stand the cold and wilderness because I live in Ohio.

Dah Ninny does not like the cold. >=(

The same could go for me, considering that I'm a "North Dakotan". The truth is, as much as I love living in this state, I HATE the snow when it snows. It's just too damn cold.

Summer all the way for me, babe!

Posted at 3:01PM, Jan. 25, 2008

I'm British, Italian, German, and Scottish. YOU figure it out *LOL*

Posted at 3:01PM, Jan. 25, 2008

Hmm so many to pick from… Male, American, Southerner, Mid-Westerner, Geek, Nerd, Computer Tech, European ancestry, I always dress like a square…

I like the one where everyone assumes I'm rich and well to-do. It is something that is not really true but works to my advantage.

Posted at 4:01PM, Jan. 25, 2008

I….don't know…..does liking biscuits and gravy count as an American stereotype? XD

I'm a Scottish, Irish, Native American, Norwegian mutt….I really have no clue.

Posted at 4:01PM, Jan. 25, 2008

biscuits and gravy

You had better not mean dipping biscuits in gravy…

Posted at 4:01PM, Jan. 25, 2008

biscuits and gravy
You had better not mean dipping biscuits in gravy…

I mean biscuits crumbled up in gravy.^^ Mmmm, Mom's cooking is ridiculously tasty.
(Actually Mom's is the only gravy I really LOVE. I can stand some restaurants with it but no one else makes it as brilliant as hers.)

Posted at 5:01PM, Jan. 25, 2008

Wow, never figured this thing would get this many posts so quickly. And I see what everyone says about being many things so they have many stereotypes.

My other one is that I was the kid who was always picked on so around the end of school people were half afraid of me and were waiting for me to go crazy and shoot them all. It was a running joke and, to be honest, I kind of liked the fear in their eyes.

Then there's the fact that because I'm part Irish, part Russian and I think a little German, I should be able to take any drink handed to me. I haven't touched a drop of alcohol since New Years Eve 2006, and I was a lightweight back then. But still, I like pretending I've been drinking and then call everyone wimps because I'm still standing after my twelfth vodka and they couldn't hold four beers.

Posted at 5:01PM, Jan. 25, 2008

biscuits and gravy
You had better not mean dipping biscuits in gravy…

I mean biscuits crumbled up in gravy.^^ Mmmm, Mom's cooking is ridiculously tasty.
(Actually Mom's is the only gravy I really LOVE. I can stand some restaurants with it but no one else makes it as brilliant as hers.)

Biscuit chunks in gravy?

…

*Insert picture of someone vomiting here*

Posted at 6:01PM, Jan. 25, 2008

more of a stereotype for my job….

i deal with local computer hardware….(specific to my job), and i know a bit about computers from that….but because of other super genius's in my career field, i'm always asked about computer problems….(including disgusting macs)…i can help you with these computers…not your home system…..
and it's funny, cause i could say just about anything….and because of this stereotype, it's taken as pure fact….

Posted at 2:01AM, Jan. 26, 2008

Well, I have at least 8 ethnicities fightin' in my DNA, so I'll just go with the apparent perception that I'm very serious. Maybe it's the dark hair and dark clothing, maybe the glasses, but a lot of people have told me I'm intimidating. I don't get it. I'm the most corny, goofy-ass person around.

People must realize I'm plotting their downfall, gotta work on hiding that better…

Posted at 5:01AM, Jan. 26, 2008

I'm Chinese. I don't get stereotyped in Asia since I'm already living with a bunch of other Asians who probably share some similar traits as I do. Maybe some folks on DD forum might think that my style of expression is a mixture of wierd and interesting. Go to my profile and you can read more stereotype info about myself.

However, I do find it funny that TV programs from other countries is full of misleading info about Asia. What is considered stereotype Asian culture in the western world does not always represent true Asia. An example would be the fortune cookies that is served in American Chinese restaurant. In actual fact, you hardly see any restaurants in Asia serving fortune cookies.

Posted at 5:01AM, Jan. 26, 2008

I had relatives in the Washington D.C. area and they were hardcore yuppies. They lived in one of those planned-neighborhood suburb areas where you had a lot of beautiful single family homes around cul-de-sacs. In these neighborhoods, it was basically a competition to see who could have the best of everything–furniture, cars, computers/technology, yards, etc.

Now here I am, living in the same area. It's funny, but no matter how hard you fight it, the yuppiness disease gets you….it doesn't help that we're surrounded by Best Buy, Ikea, Hummer dealerships, etc. Hell, we were just looking at flat-panel plasma screens last night…man, those things are beautiful… lol!

Posted at 7:01AM, Jan. 26, 2008

Being a white guy from the Heart of Dixie, Alabama, I certainly don't fit nor appreciate the steriotypical bigot who hates everyone, though they cetainly do exist. However, I do live in a double-wide (it's like a house), in the hills (the Appalachian foothills, actually), where everyone talks with a Southern drawl. And, yes, we like to shoot, we hoot and holler, and we're deeply religious. But as an artist, I've always been the creative and often misunderstood type.

Hal

Posted at 8:01AM, Jan. 26, 2008

I spent probably the first 10 years of my life making sure I did not have a Southern accent. Really and truly, there's nothing wrong with such an accent but I abhorred it growing up and didn't want to be associated with the stereotype of being stupid/moronic.

Now I use it on humorous occasion to freak people out, because (to them) it seems to come out of nowhere.

I love it how when I tell people I'm from Austin, Texas they automatically say "I'VE BEEN TO HOUSTON (or Dallas)!!!" That's great, I hope you enjoyed it-? I always thought that was funky.

I loved it one time when the local newspaper ran a Foley's ad that was from Marvel Comics and it featured Spiderman (this was in like 1990, I think). And they showed him webswinging through "Austin" which was depicted as flat, sandy with tumbleweeds and actually showed a stagecoach for a chase scene?? The Foley's department store was the only "modern-looking" thing and even it looked out of place in "Wild West Austin of the 1850's." In retrospect, though, it was hilarious. Whatever team did that obviously hadn't visited the South…

Also, being a white guy married to a black woman and having biracial kids together kinda dispels that whole bigot thing, too, which is cool. B)

Posted at 8:01AM, Jan. 26, 2008

Oh haaa.
Well I do drive like a woman– but I have this amazing genderbending technology to think logically.

EDIT: However my falling-for-assholes mechanism is still in place and functioning perfectly.

Posted at 9:01AM, Jan. 26, 2008

Hmmmm…mechanical_lullaby, I just noticed your signature says "For a good time, just dial 6.and then 6 again. " ….Shouldn't you instead say "For a good time, just dial 6 and then 9"? …Huh? huh? (giggle)

(Sorry, I'm bored)

Posted at 2:01PM, Jan. 26, 2008

Lets see…

Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario. So that right there gives me: Anger issues and exceedingly aggressive behavior, always carrying a gun or other weapon, being french, knowing everything about cars, being a wigger, being poor, saying "eh" and "aboot" all the time, liking eminem and street racing.

I now live in Davenport, Iowa so that gives me: knowing a lot about farming, liking pork and pigs, being a country hick, liking country music and working for John Deere.

My ethinicity is German, Native American, Russian, Polish, Irish, Scottish, Norwegian, Dutch and Italian. I guess that makes me an alcoholic, depressed, fighting blonde idiot.

About the only one of those stereotypes that comes close to being true is that an occasional "eh" does slip out.

Posted at 2:01PM, Jan. 26, 2008

i'm from canada,

so that gives me "beer-drinking hoser that wears winter clothes in august"

T_T

i feel so ashamed.

Posted at 4:01PM, Jan. 26, 2008

You forgot saying "aboot" and "eh?" to everything, hoser! lol!

i'm from canada,

so that gives me "beer-drinking hoser that wears winter clothes in august"

T_T

i feel so ashamed.

Posted at 10:01PM, Jan. 26, 2008

I'm a black American and I am expected to….

1. Be lazy(…alright ill give you that one.)
2. Listen to rap music(occasionally, but none of the booty shakin stuff.lol)
3. Be "gangsta" and have a "posse"(does art club count?)
4. Be athletic (haha, thats a good one)
5. Have a criminal record of some kind (do detentions count?)
The list goes on.

also, its funny how some people are suprised that i can complete a sentence without the words "aint" or "cuz".

Posted at 10:01AM, Jan. 27, 2008

Im white and I cant dance! Also even as Americans go Im load!