Successful Black Man

Kinda lost me on that one...

Promoted to customer = fired...due to the pot plant

Ok, I'm back :)
Seriously though, does "Pot Plant" mean dope/pot in USA? I get that it can be used humerously that way but where I'm from, it's just a description for interior plants. The comment below from Tttony concerns me a bit, unless they're just kidding ??

Marijuana is commonly referred to as "pot" here in the states. When plants are in pots (usually indoors), we call them "potted plants" over here.

So yes, "pot plant" would mean marijuana to 99% of Americans.

If you're talking about a random plant in a pot and didn't intend to make a joke about a black guy saving some marijuana I wouldn't be concerned at all. It's just part of a global misunderstanding of cultures on both parts.

[image deleted]Pop = Grandfather/Grandpa
:)

Lol. So this is what we call a thong. Yeah, I know :)

Generally I find what England or Australia use makes more sense. Except for what we call flashlights and windshields. Pretty sure you call them torches, but not sure if windscreens is an Aussie thing or not.

[image deleted]Yep, you got it, There's a few more too: shopping centre = mall, petrol = gas...

I'm ok with flip flops. I would prefer soft drink (but it actually depends on what part of the country you're in as to what you call it...the eastern U.S. generally calls it soda, the northern half of the middle of the country calls is pop, and in Texas everything is coke (seriously heard this before: "I'd like to order a Coke" "OK, what kind" "a Pepsi"). Have to totally disagree with boot. Rubbish I'd be fine with. Mum I'd be fine with, but I giggle when I see it. I would prefer mobile phone, but it is technically cellular technology. Never heard of peanut paste before, that makes way too much damn sense. I'm 90% sure George Washington Carver invented it, so whatever name he gave it is probably why I stuck here. Then back to to the stupid imperial vs metric conversation...stupidest thing ever. I would argue gasoline over petrol. While gas does come from oil, petrol makes it sound like it should be closer to petroleum which it isn't.

While we may have some stupid names for normal terms, I have to give the Aussies crap for having the stupidest nicknames for things. Everything should not just get an "ie" at the end. A truck driver here is a trucker...sounds kind of bad ass, but down under they're "truckies"...which sounds pretty sissy to me. The list goes on and on.

Random thoughts from this silly American...lol.

[image deleted]Yeah, I don't think there's any right or wrong, just interesting how it all develops. Although I am with you on the metric thing, makes no sense not to convert. Anywho... Yeah, we love to shorten names, even personal names. We don't ask for permission either, we just do it. Not everything is 'ie', there's also the 'o' option. Johnathan is Jono, David is Davo although you'd be Ghostie. I think we kind of use it because we don't like it when people take themselves too seriously. We even shorten our countries name to 'Straya'. It can also get a bit complicated, we call blokes with red hair, 'blue'. Intersting comment you made about the diffent descriptions of soda depenfing on what part of the US you live in. It's a strange, wonderful world we live in :)

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Of course the black guy is trying to save the pot plant. That's racist dawg.

Hopefully the above conversation with ghostofchurch explains. Definately not racists. I just don't understand that sort of thinking. To be honest, I struggle with the meme description. I mean why is he the successful BLACK man, and not just the successful man? I do like the way this meme has evolved so that you make a shocking statement up the top, and change the context in the text below. But to me, it has nothing to do with color.

The meme didn't evolve to that it was designed that way. The reason "black" is in the title is because the intention has always been to call out the disparity you were calling out. And I was just going along with the joke but kinda on the other side. Pretending not to get it.

Tldr; JK