Report the Israeli to HR for the potato joke before anyone reports you. Also mention everyone else and say that they were all laughing and pointing at you.
“Remember when a colonizing power tried to exterminate your people?”
Haw haw.
Though seriously most Americans think the potato famine was a natural disaster and have no idea why it is called the great hunger.
I would have spat my drink out laughing.
Fuck them all if they deal it out but can’t take it.
Seems like everyone there but anon didn’t understand the insult implied and got upset when it was returned in kind.
Like all other 4chan it’s just fake news, but it would make a lot more sense to school them and what the potato famine was actually about rather than to assume they’re getting in a pissing match.
Also, in any case where coworkers are worried enough about race and politics to go to HR they’re not going to sit around and talk about ethnic stereotypes. If you’re going to sit around and talk about ethnicity and stereotypes you’ve already made a social pact that everybody isn’t going to get butt hurt and go to HR.
At my old place five of us got together once every few weeks and had a nice dinner out. It was America so nobody that was there was first generation anything. We were descendants, Irish Israeli, black, Vietnamese. If the Jewish guy would have made the potato famine joke to the Irish guy, and the Irish guy did come back with bombing hospitals, The worst outcome would be the Jewish guy would have said touche new subject and we would have continued bs about work, sports, or technology.
If it were actually a true story, maybe autistic OP thought he was returning the joke in kind. “Lol shouldn’t you be starving because the British stole all your crops but potatoes”, “lol shouldn’t you be bombing hospitals”. Seems like a fair trade if you don’t understand what was intended. Signed: an autist.
My son has challenges, and I understand the story in context.
My point is the group at the table would likely not have responded in whole that way.
The way I see it, don’t dish it out if you can’t take it…living memory or not
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Rule #3: always assume the anonymous 4chan poster is making it up
Maybe get rid of any walkie-talkies or pagers you might have.
One thing I learnt in Ireland is you better have a thick skin because no quarter is given when it comes to slagging and taking the piss. And the more you take yourself seriously and the more they will gang up until you learn to shut the fuck up. Absolutely love it.
So it sounds like the Irish and the Aussies would get along
Funny thing, that…
Nearly a third of Aussies claim Irish heritage. And a lot of those families ended up there because of, you guessed it, the Famine.
Famously well, in my experience… as a Masshole who gets along with both groups equally well.
“Haha, remember that time the Irish were nearly exterminated via forced famine?” Odd thing to joke about with a random coworker. Should’ve instead suggested potato vodka served by a teenage split-lipped ginger mother of six and then segued into the specific reasons Ireland deserved the troubles. Or just avoided atrocities entirely. Either/or
The only response to that should have been a “too soooon!” Followed by uproarus laughter
That’s a hilarious retort imo.
Gotta say, it’s fun to read in-depth conversation explainers from other autistic people. As an autistic person myself I think it’s quite fun and informative.
Fuck Israel but don’t blame your coworker.
The same goes for the Irish car bomb drink. As I heard one comedian say “imagine how many Americans would be up in arms if I made a drink that was two kamikazes in a Manhattan and called it a 9/11.”
This is how to do carbomb jokes.
Don’t throw around insults if you don’t want to be insulted.
i want to like this but I have to assume anyone still using pepe against the creator’s wishes is a shitbag
Sir, you are on greentext. Idk what you’re expecting.
It’s a frog
Anon shouldn’t care about working with people who support genocide.
I’m not autistic, but this is a burn I’d only (but definitely) use of the other guy was an asshole. I’m not a good person lol
