Middle Aged Whites - What's your experience? (1 Viewer)

[McGarnicle]

I do think we need to knock it off with the spinach & artichoke dip. 

 

[Del Griffith]

2.  The women look miserable.  A lot of the time they walk alone with very stoic looks on their faces.  If you drive past them on their walks, there's a high likelihood they won't acknowledge your existence. 

Do you mean walk by them on their walks, or are they supposed to acknowledge every car that drives by them at 30 MPH?

 

[cstu]

1.  They're generally not social people, at least outside of their own networks.   

It's often difficult to generate conversation with Middle Aged White male but I've found talking about the latest sexbot news a good ice breaker.

 

[Hov34]

This is a parody thread spoofing the Indians thread, so the copy/paste from that thread wasn't perfect. To be clear, this is the thread where we mock the other thread.I'm not really from Tampa, for starters.

Well done?

 

[Annyong]

if it weren't for white people, there wouldn't be any white people

My God you're right

 

[James Daulton]

While the merits of white people can certainly be debated, the value of white girls can not.

Super Gal

 

[Rove!]

Typically bitter that the glory days of their youth are gone; insecure and quickly triggered to anger over even trivial differences of opinion.  

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

I live in a relatively affluent neighborhood in the Tampa area.  Many of my neighbors are either older, white empty-nesters or first or second whites that work in the medical field.  I try not to paint people with a broad brush, but based on my experience, I've noticed some reoccurring themes.

1.  They're generally not social people, at least outside of their own networks.   

2.  The women look miserable.  A lot of the time they walk alone with very stoic looks on their faces.  If you drive past them on their walks, there's a high likelihood they won't acknowledge your existence.

3.   A specific incident, and maybe this speaks to #1, but I have an 8 year old son who doesn't have playmates in the neighborhood.  Over Christmas, we realized that a girl in his class lives two houses down.  I encouraged my son to ride bikes with her and her brothers whenever I'd see them outside.  A few iterations of that went by before I told him to knock on their door to see if they could play.  The father told my son that he's not allowed to knock on their door, nor are his kids allowed to knock on our door.   Uhhhh, ok.     

I'm curious to know of other's experiences and if there's anything about our cultures that you think has led to my experiences. 

Have you tried approaching them with an offering showing respect for their culture, like a bunt cake or a DVD of Johnny Carson's Best?

 

[Chadstroma]

Bunch of jerks. Hate them all.

 

[timschochet]

As a retail property manager, I know several landlords who prefer any other race or ethnicity to white people as tenants. White folks are the most likely to be demand rent reductions (and when I say demand, that is the proper word; they don't ask politely, and they act like renting property means owning it), they complain the most often, and they are the most eager to threaten to rush to an attorney if anything goes wrong. 

And things usually do go wrong because whites are simply not good at running businesses compared to immigrants and other ethnicities. They're not willing to put in the necessary long hours, and they think they're entitled. They're much more likely to fail, which is the main reason these days that retail small businesses are dominated by other ethnicities more used to struggle. 

Of course these are all generalities...