When I was in the first grade (1982) we had a "joke day" during show and tell and I got up and told a racist black joke:
"Why are there no black ballet dancers ? Because they all stick to the floor."
The gym class P.E. teacher was subbing that day and buried his face in his hands and laughed his ass off. The rest of the class was like, "What ?" (They didn't get the joke and everyone made fun of me for telling a stupid un-funny joke that they didn't get.
I didnt get the joke so I typed in ‘why are there no black ballet dancers’, hoping it would link me to a joke site... but then I was bombarded by people complaining about how ballet doesn’t change to accommodate black people...
Blacks used to be referred to as "tar babies". Get it ? They melt like tar and stick to the floor. It is a stupid joke and I only recited it because I was goaded to do so by my uncle, who thought it was funny that a 6 year old was telling racist jokes.
Gotta Snope you on this one. A tar baby is a sticky situation that gets worse the more you mess with it. Examples: The VietNam war turned into a tar baby for LBJ.
Having said that, do not make the mistake I made and actually use the phrase to describe such a situation. You will get hounded.
No it 100% is a racist term for black people. It is a much less used one like spook spade swoogie deuce moon cricket jungle bunny spear chucker etc. There are a lot for every race except white people we got like 3 unless you include the once for individual ethic groups like mick paddy donkey polock and so on and so on.
Yes, because OF COURSE that very old traditional European dance form should just throw out all its rules, everything that made it BALLET in the first place cuz some non-whites can't do it well. Imagine if white people went around stomping our feet and demanding people in Africa and Asia change anything they came up and have been doing a certain way since thousands of years because we couldn't do it well ...
When I was in the first grade (1982) we had a "joke day" during show and tell and I got up and told a racist black joke:
"Why are there no black ballet dancers ? Because they all stick to the floor."
The gym class P.E. teacher was subbing that day and buried his face in his hands and laughed his ass off. The rest of the class was like, "What ?" (They didn't get the joke and everyone made fun of me for telling a stupid un-funny joke that they didn't get.
Can you imagine that happening today ?
I thought the joke was supposed to be "how do you get black kids from jumping on the bed? You put Velcro on the ceiling. "
I didnt get the joke so I typed in ‘why are there no black ballet dancers’, hoping it would link me to a joke site... but then I was bombarded by people complaining about how ballet doesn’t change to accommodate black people...
Blacks used to be referred to as "tar babies". Get it ? They melt like tar and stick to the floor. It is a stupid joke and I only recited it because I was goaded to do so by my uncle, who thought it was funny that a 6 year old was telling racist jokes.
Gotta Snope you on this one. A tar baby is a sticky situation that gets worse the more you mess with it. Examples: The VietNam war turned into a tar baby for LBJ.
Having said that, do not make the mistake I made and actually use the phrase to describe such a situation. You will get hounded.
No it 100% is a racist term for black people. It is a much less used one like spook spade swoogie deuce moon cricket jungle bunny spear chucker etc. There are a lot for every race except white people we got like 3 unless you include the once for individual ethic groups like mick paddy donkey polock and so on and so on.
Yes, because OF COURSE that very old traditional European dance form should just throw out all its rules, everything that made it BALLET in the first place cuz some non-whites can't do it well. Imagine if white people went around stomping our feet and demanding people in Africa and Asia change anything they came up and have been doing a certain way since thousands of years because we couldn't do it well ...
.....I don't get it
Because the hair will stick to the velcro
... is there velcro on the floor in ballet?
No that’s for jumping on the bed, the other one was a tar baby reference... sorry, trying to keep the tasteless jokes straight...
......I still don't get it but now I'll stop asking.