3. TIL Abuse of the smoke signal is known to have contributed to the fall of the We...

TIL Abuse of the smoke signal is known to have contributed to the fall of the Western Zhou Dynasty, 8th century BCE. King You of Zhou had a habit of fooling his warlords with false warning beacons in order to amuse his queen. When an actual rebellion occurred, no one came to the aid of the king.

I'm gonna have to disagree with you there. I have a fair few Chinese aquantices and they're all terrible at the r sound. I'm not disagreeing with you, and I'm definitely racist, but mostly cause I think people take shit too personally so I make jokes about their ethnicity, bit of banter. And the best bit. I'm a privileged white dude, so they literally have no comeback.

"yeah well you whites are bad at math!"

"Yeah but you have tiny penis, if you were so good at maths wouldn't you be able to improve the length?"

"it's in the works but at the moment we're working on growing moustaches"

I'm racist when it comes to making jokes, it's like banter. Constantly working with backpackers all over the world you start to realize that protected species the middle class male does have some weaknesses. If instead of crying about someone's stupid opinion, you should work on that mustache first- wait... I mean work on your banter and sarcasm. In saying that, why are Asians terrible at sarcasm? I know some are better than others, met some funny as fuck Indonesians but the Japanese take everything literally but they're adorable so it's even funnier.

Ok, I think that's enough casual racism for one comment. Peace out, except for those new Zealanders, they're messed up.

  • some privileged white Australian male. Damn it's a good day to be a white dude. If only I could sing and dance like a black man I'd be complete
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