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My twenty-four hour journey to an Chess Hussler

My Plan: Get an Elo about 1300, while making as much as possible blunders. Move every piece twice. Knigt at H3 or a3 / H6 or A6. Sheepcheckmate as main tactic. Very important: Talk trash and smell after Cigarr. Need to drink Beer + and beeing an illegal immigrand. Very important: Steal some pieces, when opponent get on phone.
So, my immigration status determines the likelyhood of me being a thief? LOL I could be offended, but the mere fact that someone would utter such nonsense is just so sad.
@UN how can your classical differ 700 points from your bullet and how can you have 2k at bullet and 1200 tactics?
@alex_beneath didnt play for a longer time except bullet and my tactis are old. Old stats.

@d-totenkopf First of all, I am myself an immigrand. How can u be offended by this? Grow some balls in your save space. Second: This thiing here has a sense. There is an other thread like this around, as somebody wrote his journey to be a gm in 24hours(obv not seriously). This was an homage to it. I dont think this all is that sad after all.
@UN I was not offended at all. I'm just sad at the thought that anyone's idea of humour could be that being an illegal immigrant implies

a) Talk trash
b) smell after Cigarr. (sic)
c) Need to drink Beer
d) Steal some pieces, when opponent get on phone.

Mind you that d) is highlighted as "very important"

My issue is that while in general, abusing stereotypes is a poor substitute for witty humour, the fact that we humans as a species have a fondness for deriding, labeling, classifying and abusing other human beings for such arbitrary nonsense as not being born within certain arbitrary borders, or distance from our own place of birth, ethnicity, cultural heritage, religious beliefs or lack thereof and reproductive preferences and habits. Not what you would call "very bright" if you think of it.

Making it yet more distasteful, is attaching the matter of legality as if anyone but the proper authorities could be he judge of anyone's lawful stay on their jurisdictions, and only based on appearance and preconceived ideas that are clearly neither true nor representative of a population.

Being an immigrant should NOT give you the idea that it is acceptable or even funny to abuse yourself as perpetuating that mindset only spreads and validates that hateful message.

My calling you on what you consider humor to be only a distasteful and wrong assertion is indicative that indeed, I do have a huge pair of balls, made of reinforced steel, -rumor has it- and well accustomed to ignoring hate speech and discrimination after spending long years in a land that was not my own among strangers that did not share my cultural values, beliefs or language.

TL;DR:
what you think is funny, just makes you a dick.

so there. n_n
Abusing stereotypes is seriously like 90% of humor. Race, sex, politics, fatties, everything all make for great humor.

I agree his humor was pretty lame, but your response makes you look even worse. Relax a bit and the world would be so much nicer for everybody! This sort of insane political correctness is why we now have Trump as the US president and far right parties are rapidly growing all across the EU. You drive people in the exact opposite direction with this sort of language policing.
Humour is a very helpful coping mechanism and often provides an outlet for deep felt frustrations with life's woes. A person with no sense of humour is more likely to become an extremist.

perhaps @d-totenkopf is a hustler himself and felt misrepresented when @UN said that hustlers like beer so he wrote a wall of text explaining why he isnt offended

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