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[–] [email protected] 171 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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?
[–] Arbiter 70 points 1 month 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] 46 points 1 month ago
  1. It's pretty obviously a casting-couch-type picture.
[–] alquicksilver 32 points 1 month 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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[–] xantoxis 30 points 1 month 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 5 points 1 month 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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[–] Windex007 27 points 1 month 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] 13 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Macaroni_ninja 10 points 1 month 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] 9 points 1 month 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 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] Dorkyd68 7 points 1 month ago

3, beautiful woman on leather chair glows like an angel

Duh

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month 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.

[–] Dkarma 5 points 1 month 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 month 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] 139 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 month ago (4 children)

i like how the bar turned into a restaurant

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

He was in the bar for a looong time.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In the UK you can buy food there

[–] recentSloth43 22 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Aye but we consider it a luxury

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] Omgpwnies 9 points 1 month 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 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

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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[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 month ago
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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (5 children)

That model is beautiful. Who is she?

[–] very_well_lost 92 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Agent641 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Hey guys, I found the restaurant owner

[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 month ago

She's the owner of the restaurant, duh.

[–] SpaceNoodle 29 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

anok yai, maybe

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting 11 points 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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??

[–] Breezy 6 points 1 month 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.

[–] feedum_sneedson 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"the rich man boobied the black boobies"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

There needs to be an !upvotedbecauseboobs

[–] spirinolas 7 points 1 month ago

Suddenly I got this urge for chocolate. Weird.

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