jfc do foreigners confuse me

Okay, a-hole clickbait title, I know.

I don't mean in a racist "how can the Mexicans not like Christiphor Columbus?" way, but in a more practical "why is that big bald dude with NJ plates wiping his black SUV down on a dirt road in rural NH while wearing a black suit?" way.

I almost thought about calling the cops--not because he's doing something illegal (he probably is though), but because of the whole scene that just screams disrespect to the locals.

Should I go check it out on foot?

On foot? Only if your heavily armed.

(See what i did there?)

I did walk down with pepper spray and a multi-tool. "Well dressed fire hydrant" man and his shiny black SUV were gone.

Am I going to hear about a body or a bunch of people losing their shyt on some new synthetic psychedelic?

What's the bet he's just some real estate guy or something, keeping his vehicle clean. How he's a 'foreigner' criminal in your mind, idk.

Maybe it was the bumper sticker:

"Leave the gun, take the cannoli."

Ok, I best depart the thread at this point

I get you are being funny (or at least I hope so) but on a serious note I’ve met some people perpetually confused or outraged or scared of “foreigners” (doing mundane every day things but in a “foreign” manner). It doesn’t even matter that perceived “foreigner” is actually American, naturalized or born here. But for them we are all forever foreigners, as soon as they hear your accent or see you looking different or doing something that somehow is “disrespect to locals”. Lol

I know people who travel for work often have to wipe their cars before meetings because it’s just a bad look to show up in a filthy car after long commute. I don’t travel for work but I commute through a long chain of road constructions and my car needs wiping if I go to something important after

So even if it’s a joke, it’s sadly not an uncommon sentiment.

Oh and I gave a good friend, Italian immigrant, although not in NJ. She has multiple examples of people alluding indirectly or making very direct jokes about Italians being in Maphia. Right to her face. She shared that it’s painful every single time. It’s maybe funny but on their expense.

Ultimately stereotypes are painful, not funny though

Right behind you

Muddy never said foreigner.

I inferred pharmaceuticals.

Sorry if i upset anyone.

Eta - sorry, she did say foreigner in the title. I assumed, based on her recent posts, that she was referring to out-of-state (ie non-NH) license plates, as NHians have a reputation for considering new arrivals to be new longer than other states.

The last thing muddy would do is make an "-ist" remark. And if you find such a bumper sticker, please send it to me.

It was definitely more of a joke, but that road is a dirt road with like three houses primarily used for logging and drug deals (if we're talking business, historically, I was kinda being honest about the psychedelic part just because that's where I got my drugs) or hiking/hunting (if we're talking recreation). We also just got out of leaf-peeping season so everyone around here myself included is kinda sick of seeing walking SAR statistics and just looks at people in the woods with shoes obviously not meant to get muddy thinking "this is why property taxes are high." I'm going to admit I am one of those "New England arseholes" who part take in joking about "out-of-staters" (and yes, I've been the receiving end of "Cow Hampshire" jokes when in Boston, 'tis all in good jest usually, of course we know when going 65 in a 55 we're going too slow). And, yes, I am more aware than I'd like to be that everybody wants to do real estate in NH, and this dude might just be looking for a nice forest to take from responsible loggers and chop down and put up some part-time residents in multi-million dollar homes. They hate where they live so they want to come here to make it like where they came from...

Okay, maybe I do have a bit of a hateful mindset towards people who haven't proven themselves to be "safe people," and there's no excuse for that, but you have to understand we have a history of people doing stupid or shady shyt around here because they (think they) can, and sometimes they die, sometimes SAR dies, sometimes someone ends up lugging multiple trash bags of litter from a trail that's not even half a mile long. We've had an astonishingly high (maybe record?) number of fatal car accidents this year, and we're in a horrific opioid crisis, so sorry for bringing this here for whatever reason and hurting people's feelings.

(But you still don't wipe down your car on a dirt road when if you drive 20ft it's going to be covered again. Maybe he got blood on it after hitting an animal. I have seen a startingly high number of dead animals on sides of roads lately. Not sure if they've just gotten stupid or if the sudden influx of people into their environment is causing all that death.)

For sure was referring to out-of-staters. We also have a reputation for rivalry with basically every state south of us to PA/NJ/NY saving RI.

(We do welcome Vermonters and Mainers much more eagerly than anyone else too)

And it's NH-ites ******mit!

There are shady people of course. Everywhere in the world. Don’t have to be foreigners lol Not sure why people from out of state are referred to as “foreigners”. Couldn’t possibly know you meant people from other states. Didn’t see previous posts and didn’t know it’s an ongoing topic. Just going by what’s posted in this post and comments