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I put a Jewish curse on my bike. Like literally I wrote on it (in sharpie) that if it was stolen the thief would be cursed. And then I wrote my name in Hebrew cursive because that's the only thing I remember how to spell in Hebrew cursive. So far it's been half a year in a bad neighborhood and I like to think it's worked as a deterrent.

(I do use a lock and have a tracking device on it too though, I'm not that stupid.)

I don't know if I believe that Jews have special Jew powers, but I have no problem exploiting others' beliefs in them. (BTW, if we run the world where the hell is my cut?) How have you used stereotypes to your own benefit?

More likely they don't recognize hebrew and think it is arabic, and they don't want to be mistaken for a suicide biker. Or it is just a shitty bike that isn't worth stealing, which it might be. You Jews sure are mean with money, I wouldn't think that would be worth stealing.

go back to stormfront.

But Hebrew and Arabic look totally different... /priorities

Lol

2/10 only because someone thought you were being serious

We have special Jew powers? Nice. I should try cursing some of my stuff.

Works best on Eastern Europeans, I'm told. Aside from cursing stuff, there seems to be a belief that we know things, and perhaps we do. My family in the old country could sometimes calm people down by saying, "it's going to be fine, I'm positive. Because I'm a Jew, I know these things."

It does help to know some Yiddish curses off-hand though. You start babbling at someone in a half-German half-Hebrew language and that shit is scary. Here's a link to some of my favorites (keep clicking "next" for more):

http://www.yiddishwit.com/gallery/onion.html

But remember, there is an outside chance that we do have these powers. We are the ones behind the Kennedy Curse.

DA

Welp. Imma spend my evening clicking "Next"

May your bones be broken as often as the Ten Commandments.

Dude.

I'm a real big guy with a shaved head. Nobody fucks with me. I don't even have to DO anything. It's really convenient.

I'm a petite, timid and young-looking white woman who can't drive and is bad with directions. I also cry easily and often in public when I'm lost and need to get somewhere quickly. Because of how I look, strangers always feel sorry for me and come up to me wanting to help. Sometimes they drive me or walk with me to where I want to go.

I always hate myself for it afterwards and promise myself not to use this stereotype to my advantage anymore, but it keeps happening anyway and I'm positive that I'd be better at holding my feelings in by now if I didn't the reactions were less sympathetic.

I'm the big guy who posted right above you. I love that we have opposite stereotype superpowers; nobody ever helps me with ANYTHING, but I get to skip right over a lot of kinds of harassment, threat, or nervousness that I bet you have to deal with all the time.

We should team up and fight crime. Or commit crimes. I'm not fussed which.

That's something I wouldn't mind taking advantage of my stereotype for. We could do both!

Uh yeah as a Western person living in Japan I'd frequently pretend I didn't speak Japanese and pull the gaijin card to avoid drama. I never totally gaijin smashed and I always did my best to be respectful, but... yeah.

Flirting to get out of traffic tickets. But since this country is so corrupt it's actually flirting to get out of having to bribe the cop who pulled me over.

I flirted to get out of paying parking charges once. It made me feel tarnished. Haven't done it again.

I'm the person who gets sent out at parties to negotiate music volume with the cops and reassure them that nothing illegal is taking place.

I just look like I've never done a morally questionable thing in my life.
Maybe there really is a stick up my ass? I've never checked.

haha ♥

I'm the big guy from upthread. I'm also the designated cop negotiator, because half the cops look like me anyway, so I just say "Yeah, there was this one guy who was being real loud earlier, that's probably who the complaint was about. I asked him to leave, if you know what I mean. I dunno where he went."

They always believe me because it fits with their own fantasy self-image.

I think I've been lucky that I've never had to deal with female cops. Women always seem to know when I'm bullshitting them.

See, you could feasibly kick someone out of a party. You are large.

People who don't know me are shocked when they hear me use bad language. It's fucked up. They look at me like I'm the cinnamon roll meme or something.

I'm german and a woman, great things to be when moving abroad. I got offers from the landlords of almost all the flats I looked at because they assume I'm big on cleanliness keeping things tidy. At work people assume I'm super efficient and hard-working. Opening a bank account was easy as fuck because banks assume that I'll be saving lots of money.

I am some of these things, but it's hilarious how everybody just assume because of my nationality and gender. Made finding a place to live and work really easy, though.

I've never used it for anything big (doubt it would work anyway, and I'd feel guilty about it if it did), but if I want someone to be helpful I'll try to sound a bit...bubbly, lol. Like, if I need to ask for directions or if I need to ask a question I feel is dumb, I'll play up the age thing ('bubbly' makes my voice sound younger). I've been told I look like a teen and sound like a kid anyway, so I roll with it. People seem to be nicer too, when they think you're younger... not sure why that is.

(Wasn't trying this time, but once I was waiting on my dad to pee at the bank and a security guard came over and asked if I was lost. I said I was waiting for my father and he asked if I wanted to have a seat, that he would find him for me. I said I was fine but once I got out of there I cracked up; my dad is at the age that people should be assuming I'm escorting him around, but they never do.)

I'm just curious about your tracking device. What is this? Where do I get one?

It's a little round Trackr sticky that's easily hidden on the bike. Works with bluetooth, somehow. Here's the website:

https://www.thetrackr.com/

Thank you!

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