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[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 days ago

why that shiny???

[–] [email protected] 166 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (11 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?
[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 weeks ago (3 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.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 weeks ago
  1. It's pretty obviously a casting-couch-type picture.
[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago (2 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.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks 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".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (4 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

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks 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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
  1. Restaurant/bar owner black ladies called Albert Einstein. Its the first result on google image search.
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

3, beautiful woman on leather chair glows like an angel

Duh

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Isn't it supposed to be like those riddles where the answer is that the doctor's a woman?

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[–] [email protected] 136 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 79 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

i like how the bar turned into a restaurant

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago

He was in the bar for a looong time.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

In the UK you can buy food there

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

You can buy food in the UK now? They've came along way

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Aye but we consider it a luxury

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

just because they call it food ; doesn't mean that it is food.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

That model is beautiful. Who is she?

[–] [email protected] 91 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Hey guys, I found the restaurant owner

[–] [email protected] 69 points 2 weeks ago

She's the owner of the restaurant, duh.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

anok yai, maybe

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

I just don’t scroll through the feed at all. I spend around 5 minutes on linkedin in a week just to check connection requests and that’s all my usage.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks 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.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago

Wow, I did NOT expect that story after seeing the picture. Doesn’t seem related.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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??

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Well shes just kinda crouching in the corner quietly judgeing everyone with an un happy look. Then says thank you whenever someone buys something. I wouldve stayed clear of her too.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago

"the rich man boobied the black boobies"

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

There needs to be an !upvotedbecauseboobs

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Suddenly I got this urge for chocolate. Weird.

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