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[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago
[–] rain_worl@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

why that shiny???

[–] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 1 points 8 months ago (5 children)

That model is beautiful. Who is she?

[–] very_well_lost@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] JoeyHarrington@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago

Hey guys, I found the restaurant owner

[–] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 8 months ago

She's the owner of the restaurant, duh.

[–] asqapro@reddthat.com 1 points 8 months ago

From reddit: https://www.instagram.com/p/B3aERIZg2Fp/ (ririshanpriel is tagged)

People claimed that she didn’t have much of an internet presence beyond her instagram and an unused TikTok account.

[–] match@pawb.social 1 points 8 months ago

anok yai, maybe

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[–] Retrograde@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago
[–] superkret@feddit.org 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (10 children)
  1. How is gender and race at all relevant for this joke?
  2. How is that picture appropriate for a professional networking site?
  3. Also, what did the dude google to find that picture?
[–] Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)
  1. Restaurant/bar owner black ladies called Albert Einstein. Its the first result on google image search.
[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Where does the bus driver fit in this story though?

[–] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

3, beautiful woman on leather chair glows like an angel

Duh

[–] bunitor@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 8 months ago

this is supposed to be one of those "take that, racist prick" stories. these are pretty common

[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How is gender and race at all relevant for this joke?

The story itself isn't a joke. The linkedin salesman guy wrote a stupid story about an unrealistically obnoxious rich guy who trips over his own racism.

How is that picture appropriate for a professional networking site?

Maybe he's targeting people who look like that. The [guy who is rude to my target demographic] is quietly pwned by [my target demographic] (Now they will buy my product).

Also, what did the dude google to find that picture?

Ask him? His name is on the image.

[–] Hugin@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The story is a joke. Literally. The version I herd decades ago was a guy keeps buying for everybody but the Jew at a table who ends up owning the bar.

[–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Race is relevant because it's the point of the joke (he's racist, but his racism is foiled). Gender isn't relevant. The picture is what makes this dude a lunatic. If I saw this shit and I worked with him I'd forward it to HR with the note "hey just file this one away, you don't need to act on it right now but you're definitely gonna want this receipt sooner or later".

[–] Repelle@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

What in the joke makes him racist but not misogynistic?

There’s nothing in the joke saying she’s either the only black person or the only woman in the bar. In fact you could say that there’s more pointing to him being misogynistic in that he says “this woman” and not “this black person”.

To me it reads as both

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

He bought drinks for all the other non-black women in the bar, so gender doesn't appear to factor into it for him.

[–] spookex@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That just depends on the order of attributes you prefer to use to refer to a person.

For me gender or age would usually come first rather than race

[–] Repelle@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Okay, that’s a fair point as to that comment not making it more sexist than racist, but not for it only being racist. I don’t see anything in the story pointing to race over sex.

[–] spookex@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I would argue that mentioning race at all is what makes it more of a racist thing.

Like, why say that woman was black at all then?

But it's all just semantics, it's a fake story that has both aspects in it, and it doesn't really matter if it's one or the other

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Who gives a shit about any of that since this was literally stolen from the opening scene of crazy rich Asians.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

This is a variation on an old joke. The way I heard it originally, it was a Jew that owned the bar and the bigoted customer was an antisemite.

[–] Arbiter@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)
  1. The point of the joke is the rich man is racist and/or misogynistic.

  2. It’s just a picture of a woman?

  3. Probably something horny and vaguely racist.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 1 points 8 months ago
  1. It's pretty obviously a casting-couch-type picture.
[–] alquicksilver@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yep. Last time I heard this joke, it was about a Jewish owner and an antisemite buying the drinks. And I think you're spot on with #3.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How did the bigot know the guy was Jewish?

[–] alquicksilver@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

It's in the setup of the joke

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I refuse to believe that you don't already know the answers to 1 and 2 and that you don't have an inkling about 3

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[–] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

I should design a userscript that completely removes the "social" feed of LinkedIn. Then I might actually use it, without being bombarded by the weirdest narcissistic attention seeking behavior I've ever seen.

[–] drd@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

For now anyway you can use ublock to blow away:

  • the promoted inane shit
  • this fucker liked this inane thing
  • et al

Use the picker to select the element for the promoted and step up until you find ="promoted" in the selector. This works for the other bullshit they try and shove down your throat and your feed will be 98% less shitty.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

I can't set foot in LinkedIn. By virtue of having been in tech since 1997, my direct relations include a lot of C level execs from recognizable names. All I get the moment I log in is spam from sales people, recruiters, hustlers, etc. It is just desperate in there.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Good on ya. I think I would rather literally be hunted by dogs than engage with LinkedIn as a serious platform.

[–] puchaczyk@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 months ago

When you want to write an interracial, humiliation-kink erotica but you only know how to post on LinkedIn.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago
[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Was the man's name JD Vance?

Also, are we supposed to believe that someone is not buying the lady pictured here a drink??

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[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

"the rich man boobied the black boobies"

[–] 4oreman@lemy.lol 1 points 8 months ago (8 children)

i like how the bar turned into a restaurant

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 1 points 8 months ago

He was in the bar for a looong time.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

If you're that rich, they will just let you turn a bar into a restaurant

[–] DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

A bar is technically a restaurant I think. At least I feel the terminology can be vaguely applied.

[–] Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Where I live any establishment that serves alcohol to be consumed on premises must also serve some sort of food option to go with it. So by that token, all bars are restaurants here.

Yeah up until a couple years ago my state had a requirement that any business that made more than 70% of its income from sales of alcohol were required to be private clubs with memberships. Which is why so many bars and pool halls had a dusty clipboard with "guest sign-in sheets" near the door that everyone ignored. Like many things, this didn't survive the pandemic.

We have (had?) separate registrations for bars vs restaurants, and there are (were?) limits on how much revenue from each source a bar vs restaurant could have (bars must primarily derive income from alcohol, restaurants from food). I haven't seen the little signs they used to have to place out front that signified whether the establishment was a bar or a restaurant, so I'm not sure if they changed the rules generally or just that one.

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