I was sat on a bench waiting for my other half.
A frail looking elderly black woman came and sat next to me, and after a few moments of silence turned to me and asked 'What do you think life is all about?'

My internal nutter detector triggered, but I'm pretty good at the level of inane small talk that's required to stop them from killing me and posting my severed testicles to local councillors. I considered the question, and decided to respond with a question, to further determine precisely how much of a fruitloop she was. 'In what sense?' I therefore asked.

"Well, we're all on this planet, orbiting the sun, none of us really have any sense of purpose because our natural instincts have more or less gone. What is life about now, with all of this considered?"

I was slightly taken aback, it seemed quite intelligent and I doubted my nutter detection skills for the first time in quite some time. So I answered. "I honestly think, as long as you're happy and you don't harm or hurt anyone during the course of your life, then you've made the most of it and made of it the best you can."

She stood up, stepped in front of me, leant towards me and shouted at the top of her voice; "NO! IT'S ABOUT JESUS!"

At which point she twatted me around the head with her incredibly heavy handbag, and stormed off.
( Muns, Tue 14 Jul 2015, 16:26, 19 replies)

quite intelligent
like a first year philosophy student smoking her first joint
(Roger McGough-Pipe, Tue 14 Jul 2015, 19:21, closed)

Yes. It's important that we know her ethnicity, isn't it?
FFS
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 15 Jul 2015, 10:30, closed)

And her age.
And her gender. Not to mention her general state of health.

So many triggers, so much unchecked privilege...
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 15 Jul 2015, 11:06, closed)

Gender, age, and fitness are important.
So you know how hard the beat-down is going to be.
(speedevil, Wed 15 Jul 2015, 14:12, closed)

I'd wondered about the sex thing,
but decided that that'd be apparent as soon as a pronoun were used. The alternative would be to make the story unreadable. The point about her ethnicity doesn't behave in the same way.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 15 Jul 2015, 20:30, closed)

might wanna check you're privilege m8
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-specific_and_gender-neutral_pronouns#Preferred_pronouns
(Roger McGough-Pipe, Wed 15 Jul 2015, 21:17, closed)

I rest my case.

( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 16 Jul 2015, 9:04, closed)

FYI,
Simply using the word black to describe someone who happens to be black is not racist, it's accurate.
(eViLegion Chief Commissioner of the Scottish Lunacy Board, Wed 15 Jul 2015, 11:16, closed)

If her ethnicity is relevant to the story, then go for it.
I can't see how it is here.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 15 Jul 2015, 20:29, closed)

Adjectives provide colour and ambiance to the story.
If you cut out everything that isn't strictly relevant to the story, you end up with this:

Person 1: 'What do you think life is all about?'

Person 2: 'In what sense?'

Person 1: 'Well, we're all on this planet, orbiting the sun, none of us really have any sense of purpose because our natural instincts have more or less gone. What is life about now, with all of this considered?'

Person 2: 'I honestly think, as long as you're happy and you don't harm or hurt anyone during the course of your life, then you've made the most of it and made of it the best you can.'

Person 1: 'NO! IT'S ABOUT JESUS!'

And this isn't as entertaining.
(eViLegion Chief Commissioner of the Scottish Lunacy Board, Thu 16 Jul 2015, 11:48, closed)

It was, but I later decided the strong Jamaican accent was pointless filler as it was only funny to me, and others I relayed the story to. I therefore deleted the reference to it.
Unfortunately, I left her ethnicity in.
( Muns, Wed 15 Jul 2015, 14:06, closed)

I liked the story
but you should have done it all in patois.
(the other guy not the one that gave you coochie warts, Wed 15 Jul 2015, 14:11, closed)

That was the original plan.

( Muns, Wed 15 Jul 2015, 16:27, closed)

Man.

( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Thu 16 Jul 2015, 19:50, closed)

"Using descriptive language to build a mental image of an encounter is racist."
- a stupid whining shitcunt.
(RingoRules554, Thu 16 Jul 2015, 18:01, closed)

yeah but enzyme is a nullo

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 15 Jul 2015, 22:42, closed)

I'm a care worker
I once had to sit with a lady who closely matches that description, while she lectured me about how The Gays caused all the flooding last winter.
It was deeply tedious and quite offensive, and confirmed to me that arguing with a bigot is a waste of time.
( wynoh kills threads by his mere presence, Thu 16 Jul 2015, 7:08, closed)

a bigot the mentally ill
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 16 Jul 2015, 10:02, closed)

So what caused the flooding then cos it wasn't straight people was it?

( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Thu 16 Jul 2015, 19:52, closed)