At first glance, would you assume that the the writer of this note….
a) is kind of a racist prick?
b) has a thing against students/alumni from a certain university in Providence, R.I.?
c) has a penchant for using confusing euphemisms for bodily waste?
I’ll admit I assumed the answer was either a or b, until I read the submitter’s explanation about where the note was found: above the stinky toilet in a share house of (mostly male) British university students.
The verdict: Still offensive, just, you know, in a different way.
related: 2 notes, 1 cupcake
106 responses so far ↓
#1
Mark
Do not go fishing for brown trout.
Apr 13, 2010 at 5:09 pm rating: 90
#2
Mo®
I fear for what is to surely come…
Apr 13, 2010 at 5:17 pm rating: 90
#3
Woman on the Verge
Poop goes to Hell?
Apr 13, 2010 at 5:21 pm rating: 90
#4
Sean Jungian
I trust this PAN resulted in a huge party with lots and lots of brown “friends” invited to hang out at the pool?
Apr 13, 2010 at 5:22 pm rating: 90
#5
anglophile
But my greenish friends are ok, though?
Apr 13, 2010 at 5:24 pm rating: 90
#6
Bunnee
….or your red friends, or your yellow friends, or your “nutty” friends. The corny ones are OK, though. I enjoy their sense of humor.
Apr 13, 2010 at 5:30 pm rating: 90
#7
QuarterRoy00
My brown friends don’t like to talk for a long time after I invite them to come over, but then they won’t shut up!
Apr 13, 2010 at 5:36 pm rating: 90
#8
Odious
What if I told you they were my brown ENEMIES?
Apr 13, 2010 at 5:39 pm rating: 90
#9
Escape Goat
What’s an a$$hole like this doin’ with neon-green craft paper? Does he have a yard sale comin’ up?
Apr 13, 2010 at 5:43 pm rating: 90
#10
Escape Goat
Is people spelled “peopge”?
Fail, dude. Fail … on so many levels.
PS–my neighbor who does origami wants his paper back. You douchebagel.
Apr 13, 2010 at 5:52 pm rating: 90
#11
park rose
This is the sad tail of the lonesome logger.
Apr 13, 2010 at 6:05 pm rating: 90
#12
0falcon8
the people downstairs must obviously be down with brown
Apr 13, 2010 at 6:31 pm rating: 90
#13
infant tyrone
There’s a pitcher for the Portland Sea Dogs (a Boston Red Sox minor league affiliate) named Tad Browne, who, in a sort of homage to the late, great Jim “Catfish” Hunter, has taken to calling himself “Trout” Browne.
Great control, decent fastball, so-so curve ball, but one hell of a sinker.
He even has a nickname for that pitch…
Apr 13, 2010 at 6:46 pm rating: 90
#14
Blogmella
“Ask them to leave, or introduce them to the people downstairs”? I have no idea what either of those means and I’m British. Presumably one means “flush the loo” – I’ll assume that’s “ask them to leave.” So what does the other one mean? Fling your shit out of the window? Also, “friends”? I thought Christopher Robin was the only person who was friends with Poo(h).
Apr 13, 2010 at 6:52 pm rating: 90
#15
Steff
Sounds like “get them Nazi B@stards outta here” which I hope is closer to the truth than “introduce that turd to me”…
As a foreigner in Britain (german ex pat), I have come to appreciate their peculiar ways, but even over here racists don’t tend to ask to be introduced to… well, brown people. Unless they have spent two weeks in Benidorm. Err.
Apr 13, 2010 at 7:10 pm rating: 90
#16
Pterosaur
This is the first time that I’ve ever wished that someone was a racist. It would be a less sickening option.
Ew, dude. Ew.
Apr 13, 2010 at 7:17 pm rating: 90
#17
Denny DelVecchio
I don’t know about your friends, but I don’t put my friends in a toilet.
Apr 13, 2010 at 8:08 pm rating: 90
#18
Goldie
I can’t believe the note author is kicking Mr.Hanky out of his house! How rude!
Apr 13, 2010 at 8:31 pm rating: 90
#19
Canthz_B
I can understand this sentiment very well.
My sister attended Brown University, and I can see not wanting to meet her…ever.
Apr 13, 2010 at 8:56 pm rating: 90
#20
FeRD
That note writer sure do smell an awful lot like flahhhhhhwers!
Apr 13, 2010 at 9:41 pm rating: 90
#21
Melanie
What can brown (friends) do for you?
Apr 13, 2010 at 10:37 pm rating: 90
#22
TheOldSchool
You can’t comment without logging in.
Apr 13, 2010 at 10:38 pm rating: 90
#23
Jenny
And here, ladies and gentlemen, we have a lovely example of carrying passive aggression to the point of obscurity. An advanced technique by which the note-writer is able to vent, with absolutely no impact on the surrounding environment.
Apr 13, 2010 at 10:50 pm rating: 90
#24
rave
Dear Archie Bunker,
I’ve taken to drinking barium cocktails so as to ensure that there will be no more disturbing visitations from my “brown friends.” It is my sincere hope that my “white friends” will be welcome upstairs, as the radical and progressive downstairs neighbors have expressed concern about having my “white friends” in their home. They say it would be “unnatural.”
At any rate, I look forward to many more friendly gatherings between our friends, both brown and white. Who knows, maybe one of these days things will get steamy.
xoxoxoxoxo
Me
Apr 14, 2010 at 12:21 am rating: 90
#25
Canthz_B
What can Brown do for you?
Hopefully, deliver that package downstairs from now on.
Apr 14, 2010 at 12:28 am rating: 90
#26
passerby
“has a penchant for confusing euphemisms for bodily waste?”
Well, whilst I’ll agree that some euphemisms are really shit, I’m not sure that’s a confusion that’s often made…
Apr 14, 2010 at 12:29 am rating: 90
#27
Mel K
I can sympathise greatly with the note writer.
Who needs “any more” friend requests?
I bet his own friends take up too much of his time already.
Apr 14, 2010 at 12:52 am rating: 90
#28
Lindsay
I actually kind of sympathise with the note-taker on this one. I’ve lived in a flat where the flush on the toilet tends not to work well (we have low water pressure) with the effect that everything gets flushed away EXCEPT the LAST thing you want to see when you go for a pee in the morning. Nobody wants to become that familiar with their flatmates’ excretions. If this flat is like ours, and the flush doesn’t work properly, that’s one thing. But If these people have a working flush and they’re not bothering to use it, then that’s really just gross.
Apr 14, 2010 at 5:03 am rating: 90
#29
Luna (the other one)
It’s a good thing my son doesn’t live there. For some bizarre reason, he and his friends think it’s hilarious to text each other pictures of giant poo. I can’t imagine what the note-writer would have in his inbox. I have failed as a mother.
Apr 14, 2010 at 6:40 am rating: 90
#30
katiewatie
I believe the answer is d) the author is making a political statement
As a Tory, he doesn’t want any more Labour dudes coming over spewing their beliefs. However, the people downstairs vote BNP and would be happy to meet the Brown friends.
Apr 14, 2010 at 7:27 am rating: 90
#31
Rebekah
If anyone watches Modern Family this “Brown friends” misunderstanding came up in a recent episode between Jay and his Columbian wife Gloria
Apr 14, 2010 at 7:41 am rating: 90
#32
aos
I would have cleared things up by calling them “your corny brown friends.”
Apr 14, 2010 at 8:32 am rating: 90
#33
claw71
Color notwithstanding, is that anyway to treat your friends? Leave them in some communal lavatory to fester in an open commode? No sir, I have too much respect for my friends to do that, even the brown ones.
Apr 14, 2010 at 8:38 am rating: 90
#34
oi
this whole thread has gone down the “downstairs”
Apr 14, 2010 at 11:52 am rating: 90
#35
Hannibal Lechter
I ate his brown friends with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjGpcEA-FyE
Apr 14, 2010 at 11:54 am rating: 90
#36
boo ya
Heidi Ho!
Apr 15, 2010 at 10:34 pm rating: 90
#37
Yo
What about “yellow” friends? Or “a hue of brown sort of like Halle Berry but definately not Wesley Snipes?”
Apr 16, 2010 at 9:49 am rating: 90
#38
Michelle
At first glance, would you assume that the the writer of this note….
a) is kind of a racist prick?
b) has a thing against students/alumni from a certain university in Providence, R.I.?
c) has a penchant for using confusing euphemisms for bodily waste?
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