OT - Things I don't get #245
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Horror
!!!deleted!!! (22250229) — 9 years ago(December 29, 2016 09:19 AM)
So you're watchin' a movie. You got your hands down your pants fondling your cheesy balls, sharing the popcorn with a first time date, your feet up on the guy's chair in front of you and despite his pleas to show a little courtesy you don't move them in fact you consider taking your shoe off to allow the aroma to infiltrate his nostrils. Just then in the film, a character shouts out something that may or may not be mundane, but they say it in Spanish. You're not Hispanic so you're all "Whatever!" but the Hispanics in the audience think it's the funniest sh!t ever, including your date who you're only now realizing is one hot tamale but, you know, when she was telling you all about the hardships she faced living in Puerto Rico as a little girl, you were busy fantasizing about how you were gonna give her the hot beef injection later that night. Probably before you ever made it home. Maybe in the car. While driving. Maybe in the movie theater bathroom your slimy, filthy little mind pondered.
So I don't get it. It can't be inherently funny
just
because the character broke out in some Spanish. Is there some kind of unspoken sense of kinship here that a 100% cracker such as myself just don't get? Why is it inevitable that someone who speaks Spanish will find it funny every single time?
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AlamoScout210 — 9 years ago(December 29, 2016 09:48 AM)
i know exactly what you're talking about, it's not a kinship thing, but give me a few to put my thoughts together and I'll get back to you after gazing some vids of hot tamale latinas getting it up the keister
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!!!deleted!!! (22250229) — 9 years ago(December 29, 2016 09:58 AM)
Of all the girls I've banged - white, black, Chinese and Latina - them Latins sure liked my beef burrito jammed up their Nacho Bell Grande. They cry and cry, "Aye Papi!" but that just makes me wanna go harder, and I do, 'cuz I give no fúcks, but I lie and say I'm almost done even though I'm nowhere near close, just so they can close their mouths for a little while longer. Them allowing me to continue despite their agony and pain really gets me goinglol.
You got the wrong guy, mang. I don't come off no banana boat. -
AlamoScout210 — 9 years ago(December 29, 2016 10:15 AM)
nicebtw, this movie you're talking about, was it an english movie? I don't mean UK english I mean American english with a mostly cracker cast and maybe one black dude/chick token role?
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!!!deleted!!! (22250229) — 9 years ago(December 29, 2016 10:33 AM)
Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. I really don't think it's what they're saying that they're laughing at, but that a movie that is almost primarily in English, has a character that breaks out in Spanish, even if it's just for one line.
You got the wrong guy, mang. I don't come off no banana boat. -
!!!deleted!!! (22250229) — 9 years ago(December 29, 2016 10:45 AM)
Put it this way:
If the character had said it in English, it'd either elicit a chuckle, or nothing at all.
But said in Spanish, it's all of a sudden split your Calvin's funny.
You got the wrong guy, mang. I don't come off no banana boat. -
AlamoScout210 — 9 years ago(December 29, 2016 10:54 AM)
ahhthat makes sense.sometimes a word in spanish has different meanings and although it's mainstream meaning is what is intended in the context of a scene it can also add subtext that illicitis alternate meanings that are hilarious in the mind of a hispanic
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!!!deleted!!! (22250229) — 9 years ago(December 29, 2016 11:01 AM)
Are you Hispanic? Do Hispanics just find something funny simply for being delivered in an over-the-top, stereotypical Latin way? For instance, Sofia Vergara's heavy accent in Modern Family. Not sure if that's how she really speaks, or it's exaggerated. She sure got some cans, though.
You got the wrong guy, mang. I don't come off no banana boat. -
AlamoScout210 — 9 years ago(December 29, 2016 11:07 AM)
I'm a full-blooded hispanic and yes sometimes the delivery of a word or phrase can be funny.for instance, take "que, que?". Que means "what" in spanish, but depending on delivery and context it's fkn funnyyou're probably saying to yourself what's so funny about saying "what, what?" and you're right thats not funny, but "que, que?" is funny in the right context
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!!!deleted!!! (22250229) — 9 years ago(December 29, 2016 10:49 AM)
Also, I'm sure you're joking, but I live in South FL. I don't think all Hispanics are "Mexican." I wasn't raised in Boise, Idaho.
I'm
the minority where I live. And the phenomena that I talked about in my original post has been something I've observed for many years now on numerous ocassions.
You got the wrong guy, mang. I don't come off no banana boat.