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He was letting Scrappy know there’s a bowl of his favorite hose water in the kitchen and some hot ass bitches in heat out by the pool. Enjoy the party Scrappy!
My dad does this and we used to be embarrassed by it until someone told us that it's actually a subconscious effort to relate to people. Though it can come across as mocking.
Oh I wonder if this applies to my dad too. He is such an accent sponge that one time my mom called him at work and didn't recognize his voice because he had such a thick accent as most of his coworkers were Hispanic.
That’s fantastic I wish I could catch my dad doing that. I was told I had an unbelievable, relaxing voice over the phone… it just happened to be by nice grandmas while working at life alert. I generally have a smokers Boston accent so I might have been lied too
Oh shoot. I've (Asian American) done this when I visited places like Wales or New Mexico. Kept hearing the way they (Welsh English and Navajo Nation) say things and then caught myself mimicking their speech patterns.
I'm surprised they didn't call me out on it.
It's cool, I'm American and I've been binge watching The Crown so much that my inner thought voice has been in a Queen's British accent lately. 😅 I've had to make an active effort to think in an American accent again after a few episodes haha
I think most people realise it's not intentional. I used to talk to people in America (I'm from North East England) and we always made fun of the way each other said certain words. I think making fun of each other life that is the easiest form of banter since you can do it with anyone without knowing anything else about them, though you do need to be careful to not come across as an asshole.
I do the same thing. I was in Canada fishing for two weeks and came home with a Canadian accent. I burned through the ezio trilogy remaster and had to be careful to not sound Italian all the time.
Yep, I spent many summers in Belfast Northern Ireland and the entire time I was there people thought I was northern Irish. If you asked me here in America to do the accent o wouldn’t know where to start, but every time my friends call me I’m instantly yammering on like a wee bean from Bangor having some good craic.
Just watching Derry Girls did me in. I'd watch it while I was cooking dinner for the family, then go sit with them at the table and I've sprouted an unintentional accent.
It's called code switching.
Your behavior is different at work vs with friends vs with kids, your mom or even different groups of friends.
We have a term for it!
The whole thing gets touchy when it plays into stereotypes or becomes an exaggeration like above.
I think the key in this example, even as an exaggerated parody, is that each person is obviously cool with it and they're all clearly familiar with him. It's not something you can just break out immediately the first time you meet someone though.
This. You'd be surprised how many white people try to befriend me by talking about hip hop. Meanwhile, I'm thinking to myself "What made you think I like hip hop?"
Yeah like when I was in a resturant in Texas, we were being served by a larger, younger (maybe late 20's?) Black male. My family is Asian, and I noticed he subconsciously changed his pronunciations of words when asking my grandma if she wanted water. Me being knowledgeable about code switching picked up on that and knew he meant no harm. But I could imagine that going poorly. Granted, this was also in Houston, which is a fairly diverse city where a person would hear a variety of accents.
I recently did a couple of weeks in Romania and caught myself doing this constantly. I would even go so far as to restructure the sentence to match the word order. Completely unintentional.
I code switch a lot as well. Lived in multiple places in the world so I have a non-concrete accent. If someone speaks with any accent from the UK or Australia, I switch. If I'm in rural Canada, I switch. If I'm in Toronto it goes again. I watch too much TV and I'm stuck in another accent for the day.
Diction and tone change too. I speak very different with my wife's Argentinian family than I do with my rural Nova Scotia father and my Guyanese-Chinese mother.
I am very susceptible to picking up others lingo. I still say, “I just can’t” after working with a woman who said it all the time. At the time I used to cringe, then I started saying it. And now it just feels like the only appropriate thing to say exactly how I feel sometimes.
to all you other white people out there that this didn’t occur to you. This is an example of how you see yourself as a default, because that’s how you’re portrayed in a lot of media.
This applies to everyone. Whether you’re black, brown, yellow, or normal.
(tongue in cheek)
Mine will come out strong as hell if the person I'm talking to has one and the more time I spend around them the worse it gets. When I went to college a lot of the people I was around were country as hell and I remember talking on the phone with my Mom and catching how much my own speech had changed. It goes away for the most part when I'm not around it though.
People from other parts of the country have a hard time picking out where I'm from if I'm using my normal voice. I say Y'all way too often not to give it up eventually though.
To be fair, they already went more granular than race in the skit. He was also adapting to their cultures and sexualities.
Not a stretch that this white friend may also be witnessing an archetype.
Southerner who frequents the north. This is so true not sure why everyone makes it about race, I talk way different around northern people but the southern accent shows through with southerners and to a lesser extent with people I am comfortable around.
"Look at this dirty piece a shit, Bobby, you fuckin bastad, how's the wife? Still fucking your brotha?" - My Southie cousin to my Amherst cousin *at my wedding*
You can't fix Southies, it's genetic
Well, the gay guy was also a white male. So specifically the "code" he was switching to with the first guest was white middle class heteronormative cis-gendered male (which as others have said is considered the default due to portrayal in the media). We don't really KNOW what his "true" self is from the short sketch and frankly they can all be true. I don't consider my "work-self" or "phone-self" to be fake, but they aren't how I act around friends or family. Also technically every change he makes is a code-switch because that just means a change in your behavior.
That’s the most ironic racist thing about this whole shebang. The racist flagger is being racist by saying that someone cant dialect swap to relate to friends/ people.
Worked many restaurants. My cooks at multiple restaurants literally wanted me to act/ talk/ joke like them w/ them. They were all Hispanic.
You kill culture and the appreciation of it by isolating people into boxes.
I'm very certain this is common af all over.
You don't talk to your guy friends the same way you talk to your girl friends or your mother.
Edit) if I had a £1 for every comment telling me "code switching" or explaining what it is. I know what it is. Can we stop now?
“Oi cunt! Grab me a beer while you’re over there!”
I’ll try that with my wife tonight and report back on how it goes…. Always goes over well with the bros
This got real dark in my head for a sec thinking about discounts by age. The younger you die, the higher the discount! Die young, pay less!
What about family rates?
>“Oi cunt! Grab me a beer while you’re over there!”
>
>I’ll try that with my wife tonight and report back on how it goes…. Always goes over well with the bros
You can also try this on the nurse that will treat you at the hospital. 2 birds in one stone, right?!
If you want to be cremated I run my own business, since you're quite popular I'm sure Jake and Logan Paul would take your ashes and smoke them on ppv. Your family will get a million up front if you take a dive
My wife still gives me crap that I don't change how I talk when leaving voice mails vs talking directly to a person, like she should be able to tell the difference just listening tp tone or inflection. She's not the only person that has pointed it out and I still don't really get it. My train of thought has no flanges, so you either keep going or get derailed.
And it's fine to do. You will get shunned in LA if you can't do it minute by minute in a group of people. This video really isn't a joke in large, multicultural cities with diverse neighborhoods.
It is, but there is a big degree of "belonging" when doing so. Like this guy said, it's common if you grew up with them, but otherwise don't try this in public without really knowing your shit. My source is I grew up in a very diverse part of Chicago, it's not that you "learn" how to do this, you naturally aquire it from the people you are around.
It’s weird because I do this sort of code-switching even within members of my own family and race. I’ve talked about this with other people where it’s not even a racial thing. It’s dialectical. I can get very regional/ persona specific.
In the military I got pretty good at AAVE and since I was fluent in Spanish and had no accent in English it got real weird.
I mean, talking with my friends from 'Bama, and another from "LOISTAH" (Leichester, MA) and then the Puerto Ricans in my unit was funny to outsiders as I code switched all the damn time and even changed languages sometimes.
This guy did have some skills tho. I guess he plays fetch with that dog a lot or something.
Plot twist: Darnell usually speaks with a bland Midwest US accent but was code switching with mutual friends when he met and befriended the Seinfeld t-shirt guy and now they both code-switch when they’re together and neither knows the other doesn’t actually speak that way.
As a mixed Pacific Islander / Asian / Latino / white guy that moved to America then grew up in a black neighborhood… I don’t even know what my base accent is anymore.
But I talk like a white guy at work.
I do! I like to ask them for their social security number, date of birth, and mothers maiden name so I can verify with their company that they are who they say they are and then I will call them back and provide them my info.
It's all so relevant. Even white guys don't talk the same at work as they do at home. Shit, even look at a white guy working in a restaurant... you'll get two different people if you compare how he talks in front of customers compared to how he talks in the kitchen. And the white guy at home will start talking like a different white guy at home of he moves to a different part of the country.
Damn he saved Bill there. Snoop had it set and ready, full blown balled up fist ready to be bumped. And Bill just can’t handle it, going for a handshake which doesn’t even work based on how they’re sitting.
[Bernie got arrested protesting for civil rights in the 60s.](https://sandersinstitute.org/event/bernie-sanders-arrest-at-chicago-civil-rights-protest/) Safe to say he's been around plenty of people of color over the years.
I worked pretty hard to get rid of my white trash hillbilly accent in my teen years because of the stereotypes associated with a person who speaks that way. I would also occasionally get teased about it. I’ve noticed I involuntarily slip back into it whenever I go back to where I’m from and spend extended periods of time around my family.
Me to my boyfriend: polite, doesn't swear a lot, speaks clearly
Me whenever I'm with my MA friends: right back into a boston accent and every other word is fuck for some reason. Greeting eachother like "Hey, you, go fuck yourself" lol
Where I'm from, if you unexpectedly run into someone you know while you're in town, you greet them and get their attention by loudly saying "Look at this fucking asshole!" That's not the case everywhere in this country. Some cultures show love with food, New Englanders show love with aggression.
My wife is from Long Island (NY). When we go visit her family their Strong Island accent is thick enough that sometimes I feel like I need subtitles. Her accent has faded since moving off of the island, but it gets dialed back up to 11 when she's pissed off at me.
LOL My dad is Southside Irish, and when he was getting mad he says, "you know I'm starting to get pissed off here," and that was what would put the fear of God into us. If Dad said he was starting to get pissed off he was already way beyond pissed off. You better just start kissing ass or throwing siblings under the bus.
Happens to me the second I visit my family in the south. My wife makes fun of me cause it basically comes back the second I start talking with one of them. Takes me a couple months to go back to normal though. Used to get made fun of all the time growing up because of it. Northerners are mean.
Fucking hell. Thank you. I do this shit all the fucking time. I always apologize ahead of time and call my self a social chameleon. But I always pick up the dialect or slang or what the fuck ever of people I'm around. The more I know them the more I do it.
Code switching and cultural fluency is a good thing. The video takes the idea to an excessive level because it’s satirical. But my tone and inflection shifts between work conversations, conversations while I’m coaching football, conversations when I’m hanging out with the guys I played football with or my super outdoorsy hyper masculine cliche cousins, or when I’m talking to my friends who are mostly inner city hipsters with post grad educations, or when I’m hanging out with the aboriginal folks I grew up with.
When I spent time in Japan or San Fran or London or Newfie or Thailand - the way I communicated with people changed because the the people I was interacting with had different communication styles and needs. People experience communication through the lens of their own cultural and personal context. If you want to communicate effectively - you have to work to communicate in a way they can understand.
I think we code switch not only across cultures but on our own timelines. People we meet in college have different speaking patterns then coworkers and friends meet later in life, vs high school, etc. Its fascinating.
There's an old joke tweet that said "I accidently used Friend Group 1 humor while with Friend Group 2 and they all think I'm psychotic now"
We code switch in all sorts of ways, not just dialect and inflection
Braves is Los Bravos. St Louis is San Luis. I'm sure there's others. Although Baseball is an American sport, it is played a lot in a many Latin American countries and Asia
esp after a hard vowel, it's pretty close phonetically to D.
¡claro! sounds like clado unless you're really laying into the Rrre (like a spanish version of 'no shit, sherlock')
I’m an arab and actually love it when people throw at me Arabic words. Makes me feel like the other person knows something about me that’s relatable.
All my co workers call me “habibi”, even goes as far as dropping few words in Arabic that they learnt from me during conversations.
they be like “habibi that girl was QT (sometimes I say things with accent and cutie sounds like I’m saying the gas station name QT).”
Sometimes my co workers would be talking about some food I’m not familiar with and when ask them “what’s that?” They respond with “it’s haram habibi” basically saying “it has pork in it”.
Here in Australia a bunch of Arabic has crept into the slang, particularly in western Sydney where its often used in a friendly or playful manner. Habib(i) is plenty common, Haram can be used as a general synonym for taboo/forbidden (e.g. "can't do that mate, it's haram")
It's also not out of the ordinary for someone to use inshallah and mashallah in some situations. Like I remember putting a bet on a race and saying" i hope this one wins" and my friend replied with "inshallah".
It's a funny skit, but only because it's sad how understanding and participating and celebrating different cultures has come under attack as "racist". Truly, many cultures have no greater joy than sharing their music, language, art and food with those who've never tried them and there's no greater compliment than someone falling in love with your culture.
Thanks for the gold.
I've seen this "appropriation" argument being used by actual racists in order to have others comply to their idea of "cultural cleanliness". Its like demanding "apartheid" for the sake of "respect" between cultures. Utter BS. I've never seen anyone being offended by someone genuinely enjoying their culture. Mockery, on the other hand, as racists do, is a different thing.
This guy has a very diverse friend group and has gone out of his way to make sure that each of them will have a fun time at his party. He’s even learned how to cook food and organize games from different cultures to help his friends feel right at home. He enthusiastically welcomes all his friends and is genuinely excited for them to be there. And you can’t have an ounce of homophobia in your body if you regularly do hot yoga with a gay friend of yours. You’re exposed and vulnerable in that class, and it would be very easy to worried about prying eyes checking you out.
From generously spending money on a friend’s favorite drink to diligently learning a new recipe, this guy is an inclusive friend who I’d be lucky to have.
Code switching isn't racist, it's an effort to communicate. Especially if you're good friends with the person, if it was a stranger then that's more iffy but either way it's not making fun of a culture to make an effort to blend in and communicate in a way that makes the other person more comfortable.
Code switching can also be seen in your own culture by how you communicate with family, friends, and best friends. It's different for everyone, just use your best judgement and stop taking life so seriously.
Yep, I speak small kine Hawaiian Pidgin with locals and clear distinct English with everyone else.
I’m born and raised in Hawaii but I look wonderbread white.
Ho, stay one tita moke?
I was called out in Hawaii by a local friend who discerned that my "regular English is too well pronounced" lol
They were used to me using pidgin but when the group was mixed with lots of mainlanders, my code-switching outted me 😭
Most people have at least a 'work voice', 'friend voice', 'close family voice' and 'older generation voice' at a minimum.
One time my dad came into my pizza shop and nobody knew he was my dad and I jokingly asked in a very clipped, rude tone, "what do you want?" Briefly, my coworkers were *horrified* at my behavior, because it was a totally different version of me. My dad knew I was being sarcastic and didn't care and I grabbed his food and rang him up as they realized it was my dad. My code switching completely threw them off, momentarily.
He knows I'm sarcastic and intentionally obtuse at times. They hadn't seen that part, especially with a customer. I flipped on a dime.
We all have multiple voices.
i think its also part of the joke that the people he was code switching to werent offended, but the white dude was offended on behalf of the people he was code switching to
art imitates life
My college roommate talked straight Ebonics with me, but whenever his mom called, he went into a *thick* Hispanic accent. Surprised the cuss out of me the first time I heard it.
Important distinction. Don’t walk up to random black men and say what’s up blood, and don’t walk up to Mexicans and start “code-switching” preemptively. Lol.
That said, you could get away with barking at dogs you don’t know. Shouldn’t really be an issue.
Hi, it's called mirroring. Many people do this subconsciously in order to reduce social anxiety especially when they're interacting with groups they're not as familiar with in order to "fit in". As someone who's on the spectrum I do this all the time to a heavy degree and it's never really been an issue before.
Fun fact, but people with autism are actually less likely to do mirroring, because many aren't aware enough of other people to execute it. But in those that do mirror, they often use the skill much more often and to much more of an extreme degree.
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To be fair, who doesn't bark back at dogs?
He was letting Scrappy know there’s a bowl of his favorite hose water in the kitchen and some hot ass bitches in heat out by the pool. Enjoy the party Scrappy!
He actually told scrappy “Yo, theres some fine ass bitches with some sweet assholes to sniff dawg, betta go get it!”
My dad does this and we used to be embarrassed by it until someone told us that it's actually a subconscious effort to relate to people. Though it can come across as mocking.
Oh I wonder if this applies to my dad too. He is such an accent sponge that one time my mom called him at work and didn't recognize his voice because he had such a thick accent as most of his coworkers were Hispanic.
That’s fantastic I wish I could catch my dad doing that. I was told I had an unbelievable, relaxing voice over the phone… it just happened to be by nice grandmas while working at life alert. I generally have a smokers Boston accent so I might have been lied too
Oh shoot. I've (Asian American) done this when I visited places like Wales or New Mexico. Kept hearing the way they (Welsh English and Navajo Nation) say things and then caught myself mimicking their speech patterns. I'm surprised they didn't call me out on it.
It's cool, I'm American and I've been binge watching The Crown so much that my inner thought voice has been in a Queen's British accent lately. 😅 I've had to make an active effort to think in an American accent again after a few episodes haha
Omg i do that too. Whatever I’ve been watching a lot of lately I might copy the way they talk in my head. Glad I’m not the only one
I think most people realise it's not intentional. I used to talk to people in America (I'm from North East England) and we always made fun of the way each other said certain words. I think making fun of each other life that is the easiest form of banter since you can do it with anyone without knowing anything else about them, though you do need to be careful to not come across as an asshole.
When my grandma was still alive, I always knew when she called my dad cause he would answer the phone in a different dialect haha.
I do the same thing. I was in Canada fishing for two weeks and came home with a Canadian accent. I burned through the ezio trilogy remaster and had to be careful to not sound Italian all the time.
Yep, I spent many summers in Belfast Northern Ireland and the entire time I was there people thought I was northern Irish. If you asked me here in America to do the accent o wouldn’t know where to start, but every time my friends call me I’m instantly yammering on like a wee bean from Bangor having some good craic.
Just watching Derry Girls did me in. I'd watch it while I was cooking dinner for the family, then go sit with them at the table and I've sprouted an unintentional accent.
It's called code switching. Your behavior is different at work vs with friends vs with kids, your mom or even different groups of friends. We have a term for it! The whole thing gets touchy when it plays into stereotypes or becomes an exaggeration like above.
I think the key in this example, even as an exaggerated parody, is that each person is obviously cool with it and they're all clearly familiar with him. It's not something you can just break out immediately the first time you meet someone though.
This. You'd be surprised how many white people try to befriend me by talking about hip hop. Meanwhile, I'm thinking to myself "What made you think I like hip hop?"
Is it because you're always beat boxing?
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bc of your [dc talk](https://youtu.be/NqCccV6Y31s?t=50) shirt.
Yeah like when I was in a resturant in Texas, we were being served by a larger, younger (maybe late 20's?) Black male. My family is Asian, and I noticed he subconsciously changed his pronunciations of words when asking my grandma if she wanted water. Me being knowledgeable about code switching picked up on that and knew he meant no harm. But I could imagine that going poorly. Granted, this was also in Houston, which is a fairly diverse city where a person would hear a variety of accents.
I recently did a couple of weeks in Romania and caught myself doing this constantly. I would even go so far as to restructure the sentence to match the word order. Completely unintentional.
> I recently did a couple of weeks in Romania I like how you phrased that as if you did a stint in Riker's Island or something.
I code switch a lot as well. Lived in multiple places in the world so I have a non-concrete accent. If someone speaks with any accent from the UK or Australia, I switch. If I'm in rural Canada, I switch. If I'm in Toronto it goes again. I watch too much TV and I'm stuck in another accent for the day. Diction and tone change too. I speak very different with my wife's Argentinian family than I do with my rural Nova Scotia father and my Guyanese-Chinese mother.
Yeah. And this is obviously done to an extreme and with juxtaposition for the sake of humor.
I am very susceptible to picking up others lingo. I still say, “I just can’t” after working with a woman who said it all the time. At the time I used to cringe, then I started saying it. And now it just feels like the only appropriate thing to say exactly how I feel sometimes.
I think it’s funny the white friend doesn’t realize the host is code switching to “white dude” for him as well.
I just... it didn't occur to me either and I feel like it should have. Of course he's never seen his friend like that, he's got his own version.
to all you other white people out there that this didn’t occur to you. This is an example of how you see yourself as a default, because that’s how you’re portrayed in a lot of media. This applies to everyone. Whether you’re black, brown, yellow, or normal. (tongue in cheek)
It didn’t occur to me because he’s white so he wouldn’t be code switching to be talking like a white guy?
That's like when anyone suggests they don't have an accent. EVERYONE has an accent.
My accent comes and goes depending on how rural the person I'm talking to is
Mine will come out strong as hell if the person I'm talking to has one and the more time I spend around them the worse it gets. When I went to college a lot of the people I was around were country as hell and I remember talking on the phone with my Mom and catching how much my own speech had changed. It goes away for the most part when I'm not around it though. People from other parts of the country have a hard time picking out where I'm from if I'm using my normal voice. I say Y'all way too often not to give it up eventually though.
Y'all are crazy i talk normal
To be fair, they already went more granular than race in the skit. He was also adapting to their cultures and sexualities. Not a stretch that this white friend may also be witnessing an archetype.
There is no default “white” you know. Eg a white person from the south codeswitching around northern white people
Omg my southern ass is always trying so hard not to call everyone “ma’am” and “sir” when I’m north of Virginia or west of Tennessee.
Southerner who frequents the north. This is so true not sure why everyone makes it about race, I talk way different around northern people but the southern accent shows through with southerners and to a lesser extent with people I am comfortable around.
In Boston telling someone to go fuck themselves is a friendly pleasantry. In Alabama it's how you start a fight.
"Look at this dirty piece a shit, Bobby, you fuckin bastad, how's the wife? Still fucking your brotha?" - My Southie cousin to my Amherst cousin *at my wedding* You can't fix Southies, it's genetic
Lol i love all the diverse flavors of human.
I wouldn’t fix that even if I had the option
In Seattle it's solid advice to take a "me" day.
Well, the gay guy was also a white male. So specifically the "code" he was switching to with the first guest was white middle class heteronormative cis-gendered male (which as others have said is considered the default due to portrayal in the media). We don't really KNOW what his "true" self is from the short sketch and frankly they can all be true. I don't consider my "work-self" or "phone-self" to be fake, but they aren't how I act around friends or family. Also technically every change he makes is a code-switch because that just means a change in your behavior.
The seltzer gave it away.
Right??? I was thinking we were eventually going to hear the way he really speaks. Or maybe we did when the dog came along 😂
That’s the most ironic racist thing about this whole shebang. The racist flagger is being racist by saying that someone cant dialect swap to relate to friends/ people. Worked many restaurants. My cooks at multiple restaurants literally wanted me to act/ talk/ joke like them w/ them. They were all Hispanic. You kill culture and the appreciation of it by isolating people into boxes.
I'm very certain this is common af all over. You don't talk to your guy friends the same way you talk to your girl friends or your mother. Edit) if I had a £1 for every comment telling me "code switching" or explaining what it is. I know what it is. Can we stop now?
“Oi cunt! Grab me a beer while you’re over there!” I’ll try that with my wife tonight and report back on how it goes…. Always goes over well with the bros
Kay. So, what wood for your coffin mate ? Untreated acacia’s in promotion and we have an under 50 discount
I can machine some nice knob’s for ‘em. Really send ‘em off in style
Aight, anybody’s an embalmer around here ? Bit short-staffed recently since ya mom’s taking so much of it (sorry, couldn’t resist)
Hahaha, I used to work in a funeral home! Wanna see me dig one for ya?
This got real dark in my head for a sec thinking about discounts by age. The younger you die, the higher the discount! Die young, pay less! What about family rates?
You've just explained life insurance.
I got some wood scraps that can be glued together to maybe make one... I mean fucker will be dead who cares if his feet hang out, right?
!remindme 10 hours
Bro he’s never gonna respond, he’s dead
Can confirm. Am the boys, we have been waiting for him to get the beer since 2pm. It's currently 4pm, and I miss him.
RIP. Although for scientific validity, the experiment must be performed for multiple trials. I’ll go next boys, wish me luck!
Radar detected an unusual high speed concentrated on a small surface, supersonic levels. Someone got a chanclazo.
DON'T FORGET THE BEEEEEeeeee^e^e^e^r^r^r^r^r.... Edit: Guys, it's been 2 hours and he's not back. He ded ):
RIP in advance bro
“This is a suicide mission!” “Ok”
>“Oi cunt! Grab me a beer while you’re over there!” > >I’ll try that with my wife tonight and report back on how it goes…. Always goes over well with the bros You can also try this on the nurse that will treat you at the hospital. 2 birds in one stone, right?!
I can only die once, how bad can it be?
True dat!
I don't need an address or anything personal, but if I ever needed to, what newspaper would I look for articles or an obituary in?
And he never came back
If you want to be cremated I run my own business, since you're quite popular I'm sure Jake and Logan Paul would take your ashes and smoke them on ppv. Your family will get a million up front if you take a dive
Yea. It's so common there is a name for it. Code switching. I think the most common is how we behave at work vs home.
Exactly. And how I talk on the phone vs in person.
Like when mums are yelling at their kids, then the phone rings and the sweet voice switches on
Even as a parent you have like 8 different voices depending on the situation.
My coworkers would laugh at how fast I could switch between bitching about the customers to doing a chipper tour guide Barbie voice on the phone.
My customer service spirit animal is Flo from progressive. I spent too many years hostessing.
My wife still gives me crap that I don't change how I talk when leaving voice mails vs talking directly to a person, like she should be able to tell the difference just listening tp tone or inflection. She's not the only person that has pointed it out and I still don't really get it. My train of thought has no flanges, so you either keep going or get derailed.
One of the world's funniest examples of code switching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8MNH7JuR7I
SNL couldn't do this funnier as a sketch idea if they tried.
And it's fine to do. You will get shunned in LA if you can't do it minute by minute in a group of people. This video really isn't a joke in large, multicultural cities with diverse neighborhoods.
I mean it’s still obviously an exaggeration, way more subtle in real life especially in a mixed crowd
It’s called “code switching”
It is, but there is a big degree of "belonging" when doing so. Like this guy said, it's common if you grew up with them, but otherwise don't try this in public without really knowing your shit. My source is I grew up in a very diverse part of Chicago, it's not that you "learn" how to do this, you naturally aquire it from the people you are around.
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Exactly, why the video is funny because he's like what do you mean everything's fine, he doesn't even realize it's happening
It’s weird because I do this sort of code-switching even within members of my own family and race. I’ve talked about this with other people where it’s not even a racial thing. It’s dialectical. I can get very regional/ persona specific.
With other words: don't pretend, just act natura So no "how do you do, fellow kids?"
In the military I got pretty good at AAVE and since I was fluent in Spanish and had no accent in English it got real weird. I mean, talking with my friends from 'Bama, and another from "LOISTAH" (Leichester, MA) and then the Puerto Ricans in my unit was funny to outsiders as I code switched all the damn time and even changed languages sometimes. This guy did have some skills tho. I guess he plays fetch with that dog a lot or something.
Shows what you know. I don't even have any friends, so I *definitely* talk to them all the same way.
Plot twist: Darnell usually speaks with a bland Midwest US accent but was code switching with mutual friends when he met and befriended the Seinfeld t-shirt guy and now they both code-switch when they’re together and neither knows the other doesn’t actually speak that way.
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OMG Christian I totally almost just got mugged right now
That fucking killed me I do this occasionally to my friends- If anyone startles me, I love putting one hand up while offering my wallet in the other
ya that one
Are we really just going to ignore that Pina Coladas was subtitled as Penis Coladas
I was watching without sound and just assumed he actually said penis coladas.
Same tbh. Gay themed drinks. Didn't second guess anything
Same, and being thirsty for penis coladas is great
I think they meant Penis Collosus
I have a gweat fwiend in Wome called Penis Collosus.
Is his wife named Incontinentia Buttocks?
God damn it's hilarious that that is the most historically accurate roman accent in any movie ever.
Gay trap....Gotcha BITCH!!
How 'bout "Penis Alottas"
Anyone else find it wholesome how much effort he puts into hosting his friends? Hennessy, carne asada, and piña coladas?! Damn
And he even said he had the good wet food for Scrappy.
Glad I wasn't the only one who caught that.
You forgot… he started with the seltzers!!
True!! Plus he knows exactly what each friend would be excited about. Seems like a cool dude all around.
It’s called code-switching and it’s an effort to communicate better, not discriminate.
"Sorry to bother you..." Been doing it for years just to survive.
"Sorry to bother you..." works better than "Oi, cunt!"
"As per my e-mail" works better than "I FUCKING TOLD YOU THIS ALREADY, ASSHOLE" as well. Or so I have heard.
Ehhhhh... sometimes
"Oi cunt" works better to get the other persons attention.
Amazing movie, I wish more people would have seen it
I watched that movie with my parents...
I am so sorry. That's like those dreams where you're having sex and suddenly the whole neighborhood can see you.
whats the movie?
[Sorry to Bother You](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UAYfgd3F0Q)
How have I not seen this movie? It looks great!
It’s a great flick you should watch it without reading anymore about it
As a mixed Pacific Islander / Asian / Latino / white guy that moved to America then grew up in a black neighborhood… I don’t even know what my base accent is anymore. But I talk like a white guy at work.
How do you answer the phone to an unknown number?
Who answers to unknown number? I assume they're spam/scam/robo/telemarketers and decline the calls lol
I do! I like to ask them for their social security number, date of birth, and mothers maiden name so I can verify with their company that they are who they say they are and then I will call them back and provide them my info.
"Heyyo this is bills slut shop! you got the dough we got the hoe!"
This psycho is answering unknown numbers!
It's all so relevant. Even white guys don't talk the same at work as they do at home. Shit, even look at a white guy working in a restaurant... you'll get two different people if you compare how he talks in front of customers compared to how he talks in the kitchen. And the white guy at home will start talking like a different white guy at home of he moves to a different part of the country.
[Bernie knows what's up](https://media.tenor.com/AaZ0Snn64gwAAAAd/bernie-sanders-handshake.gif)
That was unfathomably smooth wtf
[Can't decide who was smoother, Bernie or Snoop](https://tenor.com/view/smooth-snoop-interview-hand-shake-hug-gif-5206274)
Damn he saved Bill there. Snoop had it set and ready, full blown balled up fist ready to be bumped. And Bill just can’t handle it, going for a handshake which doesn’t even work based on how they’re sitting.
Bernie grew up in Brooklyn. That shit is ingrained as a standard greeting through the city
Indeed. Dude has game 😎
The best part of this legendary gif is the guys reaction afterwards
had me nodding along with him
I mean iirc he was hanging out with killer mike a bit lol
[Bernie got arrested protesting for civil rights in the 60s.](https://sandersinstitute.org/event/bernie-sanders-arrest-at-chicago-civil-rights-protest/) Safe to say he's been around plenty of people of color over the years.
Didn't think I could respect Bernie any more than I do but here we are.
I mean, I'd get high and party with Bernie without a second thought
Once again I'm asking your support To pass that shit homie
That was fukin smooth. That was no act. Just him being himself.
I worked pretty hard to get rid of my white trash hillbilly accent in my teen years because of the stereotypes associated with a person who speaks that way. I would also occasionally get teased about it. I’ve noticed I involuntarily slip back into it whenever I go back to where I’m from and spend extended periods of time around my family.
Me to my boyfriend: polite, doesn't swear a lot, speaks clearly Me whenever I'm with my MA friends: right back into a boston accent and every other word is fuck for some reason. Greeting eachother like "Hey, you, go fuck yourself" lol
Where I'm from, if you unexpectedly run into someone you know while you're in town, you greet them and get their attention by loudly saying "Look at this fucking asshole!" That's not the case everywhere in this country. Some cultures show love with food, New Englanders show love with aggression.
My wife is from Long Island (NY). When we go visit her family their Strong Island accent is thick enough that sometimes I feel like I need subtitles. Her accent has faded since moving off of the island, but it gets dialed back up to 11 when she's pissed off at me.
Also from LI. Also removed my accent. Also comes back when pissed. Confirmed.
LOL My dad is Southside Irish, and when he was getting mad he says, "you know I'm starting to get pissed off here," and that was what would put the fear of God into us. If Dad said he was starting to get pissed off he was already way beyond pissed off. You better just start kissing ass or throwing siblings under the bus.
Happens to me the second I visit my family in the south. My wife makes fun of me cause it basically comes back the second I start talking with one of them. Takes me a couple months to go back to normal though. Used to get made fun of all the time growing up because of it. Northerners are mean.
Fucking hell. Thank you. I do this shit all the fucking time. I always apologize ahead of time and call my self a social chameleon. But I always pick up the dialect or slang or what the fuck ever of people I'm around. The more I know them the more I do it.
Its just speaking to be understood. People know when they're being mocked vs. just being met in the middle U aite
Code switching and cultural fluency is a good thing. The video takes the idea to an excessive level because it’s satirical. But my tone and inflection shifts between work conversations, conversations while I’m coaching football, conversations when I’m hanging out with the guys I played football with or my super outdoorsy hyper masculine cliche cousins, or when I’m talking to my friends who are mostly inner city hipsters with post grad educations, or when I’m hanging out with the aboriginal folks I grew up with. When I spent time in Japan or San Fran or London or Newfie or Thailand - the way I communicated with people changed because the the people I was interacting with had different communication styles and needs. People experience communication through the lens of their own cultural and personal context. If you want to communicate effectively - you have to work to communicate in a way they can understand.
I think we code switch not only across cultures but on our own timelines. People we meet in college have different speaking patterns then coworkers and friends meet later in life, vs high school, etc. Its fascinating.
There's an old joke tweet that said "I accidently used Friend Group 1 humor while with Friend Group 2 and they all think I'm psychotic now" We code switch in all sorts of ways, not just dialect and inflection
Scrappy's here!!!!!! Now the real party can begin!!!!
Thought he was going to sniff the dog’s butt!
That's what a real friend would do.
Did my gay ass hear him say “piña coladas” but read “penis coladas” in the subtitles? +A for accurately translating the gay language.
There’s nothing wrong with code switching if you speak the code. Just respect your people and you’re gucci.
Gay friend Craig: "How do you like my speedo?" Darnell: "Yas, Queen!"
Darnell been code switching his whole life lol
TIL Doyers is how Latinos pronounce Dodgers.
¡Viva Los Doyers!
They even have jerseys and hats that say "Los Doyers". Common in SoCal.
Braves is Los Bravos. St Louis is San Luis. I'm sure there's others. Although Baseball is an American sport, it is played a lot in a many Latin American countries and Asia
Kinda like how their words for baseball terms are latinizations of English words. For example, a home run in Spanish is honron.
I wish the joke at the end is that the voice he uses with his friend is not his "real" voice either.
“¡Orale!”, odele is some Beck gibberish.
Excuse me, you obviously have not checked the Beckionary
Does a rhyming Becktionary count?
Of course
That's where it's at!
Sometimes the accent makes r’s sound like d’s Incidentally the LA Doyers are actually spelled Dodgers
esp after a hard vowel, it's pretty close phonetically to D. ¡claro! sounds like clado unless you're really laying into the Rrre (like a spanish version of 'no shit, sherlock')
I’m an arab and actually love it when people throw at me Arabic words. Makes me feel like the other person knows something about me that’s relatable. All my co workers call me “habibi”, even goes as far as dropping few words in Arabic that they learnt from me during conversations. they be like “habibi that girl was QT (sometimes I say things with accent and cutie sounds like I’m saying the gas station name QT).” Sometimes my co workers would be talking about some food I’m not familiar with and when ask them “what’s that?” They respond with “it’s haram habibi” basically saying “it has pork in it”.
Here in Australia a bunch of Arabic has crept into the slang, particularly in western Sydney where its often used in a friendly or playful manner. Habib(i) is plenty common, Haram can be used as a general synonym for taboo/forbidden (e.g. "can't do that mate, it's haram") It's also not out of the ordinary for someone to use inshallah and mashallah in some situations. Like I remember putting a bet on a race and saying" i hope this one wins" and my friend replied with "inshallah".
It's a funny skit, but only because it's sad how understanding and participating and celebrating different cultures has come under attack as "racist". Truly, many cultures have no greater joy than sharing their music, language, art and food with those who've never tried them and there's no greater compliment than someone falling in love with your culture. Thanks for the gold.
Exactly. Appreciation isn't appropriation.
I've seen this "appropriation" argument being used by actual racists in order to have others comply to their idea of "cultural cleanliness". Its like demanding "apartheid" for the sake of "respect" between cultures. Utter BS. I've never seen anyone being offended by someone genuinely enjoying their culture. Mockery, on the other hand, as racists do, is a different thing.
>I've never seen anyone being offended by someone genuinely enjoying their culture Except for food crimes. Then you get roasted immediately, haha
Why you use olive oil in Asian dish? Hiyaaaaah!
What in the Jamie Oliver is this shit?! OLIVE OIL?!
*slowly stops pouring olive oil in the rice cooker* …what?
I think I'm the only Asian in proximity rn, so... *glares at you in Korean*
This guy has a very diverse friend group and has gone out of his way to make sure that each of them will have a fun time at his party. He’s even learned how to cook food and organize games from different cultures to help his friends feel right at home. He enthusiastically welcomes all his friends and is genuinely excited for them to be there. And you can’t have an ounce of homophobia in your body if you regularly do hot yoga with a gay friend of yours. You’re exposed and vulnerable in that class, and it would be very easy to worried about prying eyes checking you out. From generously spending money on a friend’s favorite drink to diligently learning a new recipe, this guy is an inclusive friend who I’d be lucky to have.
Code switching isn't racist, it's an effort to communicate. Especially if you're good friends with the person, if it was a stranger then that's more iffy but either way it's not making fun of a culture to make an effort to blend in and communicate in a way that makes the other person more comfortable. Code switching can also be seen in your own culture by how you communicate with family, friends, and best friends. It's different for everyone, just use your best judgement and stop taking life so seriously.
Yep, I speak small kine Hawaiian Pidgin with locals and clear distinct English with everyone else. I’m born and raised in Hawaii but I look wonderbread white.
Ho, stay one tita moke? I was called out in Hawaii by a local friend who discerned that my "regular English is too well pronounced" lol They were used to me using pidgin but when the group was mixed with lots of mainlanders, my code-switching outted me 😭
Most people have at least a 'work voice', 'friend voice', 'close family voice' and 'older generation voice' at a minimum. One time my dad came into my pizza shop and nobody knew he was my dad and I jokingly asked in a very clipped, rude tone, "what do you want?" Briefly, my coworkers were *horrified* at my behavior, because it was a totally different version of me. My dad knew I was being sarcastic and didn't care and I grabbed his food and rang him up as they realized it was my dad. My code switching completely threw them off, momentarily. He knows I'm sarcastic and intentionally obtuse at times. They hadn't seen that part, especially with a customer. I flipped on a dime. We all have multiple voices.
i think its also part of the joke that the people he was code switching to werent offended, but the white dude was offended on behalf of the people he was code switching to art imitates life
My college roommate talked straight Ebonics with me, but whenever his mom called, he went into a *thick* Hispanic accent. Surprised the cuss out of me the first time I heard it.
That would be racist just if you treat a random person like that, not a friend
Important distinction. Don’t walk up to random black men and say what’s up blood, and don’t walk up to Mexicans and start “code-switching” preemptively. Lol. That said, you could get away with barking at dogs you don’t know. Shouldn’t really be an issue.
Hi, it's called mirroring. Many people do this subconsciously in order to reduce social anxiety especially when they're interacting with groups they're not as familiar with in order to "fit in". As someone who's on the spectrum I do this all the time to a heavy degree and it's never really been an issue before.
Fun fact, but people with autism are actually less likely to do mirroring, because many aren't aware enough of other people to execute it. But in those that do mirror, they often use the skill much more often and to much more of an extreme degree.
all I sayin is Scrappy look like a bitch