Years ago my stepdaughter wanted a tattoo on her back. I told her if she was smart she wouldn't do it but if she insisted then make it so it is covered by your clothes; someday you might want a job.

As the owner of a retail business in a rural community I have to look at how a potential employee will affect my business.
I defend their right to be stupid, but that doesn't mean I would hire them.

Too bad Ringling Brothers has gone out of business. May have been a home for them there.

It's simply painful to look at those self-devised freaks.

They are free to be shocking and free to embrace a counterculture lifestyle. Just as society is free to tell them to fukoff.

Freedom is a wonderful thing.

I stopped at an ice cream stand years ago and the counter lady spoke to me and I couldn't understand her. Sounded like "baby talk". I looked closer when I asked for a repeat and observed she had a stainless steel dumbbell pierced in the center of her tongue. Black fingernails and tats on the hands. I turned and walked.

That would kinda turn you off from eating there.

75 or so years ago they could have gotten jobs at a sideshow in a circus.. But they have fallen out of favor

I see tattoos here that would not be appropriate for a bank teller; many of them are on people I'd be afraid to photograph...

I stopped at Taco Bell yesterday for a taco + the "guy" that worked the register had long filed fingernails painted bright red. I was reluctent to take my change + damn sure lost my appetite for the taco. I have a strong stomach but this was something you would have to see to be this disgusted.

Frankly if they show up in sweat pants, pajamas, flip flops, hair not combed, holding a drink or any of the other 87 things that seem to signify that they don't care what anyone else thinks the outcome is the same for me.

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Originally posted by NormanConquest:
I stopped at Taco Bell yesterday for a taco + the "guy" that worked the register had long filed fingernails painted bright red. I was reluctent to take my change + damn sure lost my appetite for the taco. I have a strong stomach but this was something you would have to see to be this disgusted.

the only reason to go into a Taco Bell is because you have the runs and theres no other place to let go w/in 100 miles. Taco Bell is for pot induced munchie homeless.

I was not aware of that. I have wondered though that there seems to be a large amount of blacks working at Taco Bell + a large amount of Mexicans working in the fryed chicken places. Seems kinda backward.

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Originally posted by NormanConquest:
I was not aware of that. I have wondered though that there seems to be a large amount of blacks working at Taco Bell + a large amount of Mexicans working in the fried chicken places. Seems kinda backward.

That's kind of a stereotypical view... At least in my area blacks don't patronize KFC and Hispanics don't patronize Taco Bell! In fact I pass by a KFC on my way to work in the hood that recently closed its doors.. That surprised me too, but it was also an eye opener.

I live in one of the white-est states in the US.
The first time I ever went to a KFC, in a city ( of 40,000) half the crowd of 20 something folks, were black. My first thought was " holy shit, it's true!" Only eaten at a KFC 2 or 3 times in my life, so have no idea whats normal.
I wont eat at the usual run of fast food places anyway.

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Originally posted by theback40:
I live in one of the white-est states in the US.
The first time I ever went to a KFC, in a city ( of 40,000) half the crowd of 20 something folks, were black. My first thought was " holy shit, it's true!" Only eaten at a KFC 2 or 3 times in my life, so have no idea whats normal.
I wont eat at the usual run of fast food places anyway.

be damn glad it wasn't a POPEYES. you'd a never made it out alive.
most a the whites i ever saw growing up in west texas was my inbred cousins. you didn't speak spanish you starved cause thats all they would talk. one time in a wal mart in the 80s the clerk asked if i wanted my stuff bagged in "papel or plastico". yelled i want it in english goddammit and walked out. pulled my son off his hi school baseball team cause they refused to coach em in english. i could go on and on. all true. just because its considered a "stereotype" don't mean its not true.

True that. ALL stereotypes started from some semblance of fact.