Benetton’s Next Ad Campaign Is Gonna Be Edgy

White chick, examining bacteria plate: Aww, my bacteria are so cute. I have like pink ones!
Blondie: Lemme see. Ewwww… Is that what you colonized from your hand?
White chick: Yeah…?
Blondie: Ewww, you’re dirty, don’t touch me.
White chick: Fuck you, I go on the subway all the time.
Asian chick: Me too. Hey, I have some white colonies on my finger culture… Maybe I have some white in me after all.
White chick: And I have some yellow colonies! Together, we are a perfect rainbow of transcultural germs.
Asian chick: Awesome.

–Barnard Biology Lab

Overheard by: Vicksburg

Posted on May 25, 2008
Asians, Colors, Columbia (& Barnard), Default, Girls, Health and Hygiene, Multiculturalism, Overheard Style, Public Transportation, Race, Science, White People

Until You Promise to Stop Washing with Hot Pepper Sauce

Girl #1: It’s not a date. We’re just going to a show. It’s like if you and me went.
Girl #2: Except he’s not black and short like me.
Girl #1: And I love him.
Girl #2: You love me too.
Girl #1: I don’t want to suck on parts of your body.

–Madison Square Park

Posted on May 19, 2008
Compare/Contrast, Dating, Default, Friends, Friendship, Girls, Height, Madison Square Garden, Parks, Physical appearance, Race, Sexuality

I Waited in Vain for a Blonde Ingenue

[two white women are leaving a performance of The Color Purple]Woman #1: So what did you think?
Woman #2: I don’t know. It was good I guess. It was just…
Woman #1: What?
Woman #2: Very… Black or something.

–Outside The Broadway Theatre, 53rd & 7th

Overheard by: Brandi

Posted on May 16, 2008
Colors, Compliments, Default, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Questions, Race, Theater, Women, Words

Can We Do That?

[At a Thurston Moore solo show]Girl in front of crowd: Thurston, who are you going to vote for?
Thurston Moore: The black dude or the chick. … Actually, fuck ’em all.

–Knitting Factory

Posted on May 12, 2008
Bars & Clubs, Celebrities, Default, Gender issues, Girls, Insults, Musicians, Politics, Questions, Race, Wall Street, TriBeCa, South Street Seaport

Turning Against Your Fanbase?

Actor/giants fan: Tom Coughlin loves Sienfeld, and so they took Seinfeld off the air in Wisconsin! Can you believe that?
Anthony Rapp: Seinfeld is for white people.

–Theatre, 43rd & 8th

Posted on May 9, 2008
About Celebrities, Celebrities, Default, Race, Sports, TV, U.S. Geography

Another Man Wonders If She’s Worth It

Young guy: Hey, what do you think about interracial marriage?
Young girl: What, you mean like gay people?
Guy: [Stares at her blankly.] … What?

–Columbus Circle

Overheard by: Raymond Saada

Posted on May 8, 2008
Default, Gays and Lesbians, Girls, Guys, Marriage, Midtown & Hell's Kitchen, Race, Stupidity, Words

Of Course, They Make Tons More Money Than Me And Actually Help Society…

Guy at hipster party: As white people, we don’t think of Greeks as white –we think of them as… Dirty Greeks!
Girl: I can’t believe you just said that.
Guy: Come on. No one likes a Greek.

–Party, Greenpoint

Overheard by: I have no problem with Greeks

Posted on April 29, 2008
Brooklyn, Compare/Contrast, Default, Foreigners, Girls, Guys, Insults, Race, Weirdness

You Can Watch Them in Their Natural Habitat

Little black boy in school group: Why are there all white people here? Is this a white people place, Miss Hannah?
Teacher: Well…

–Museum of Natural History

Posted on April 28, 2008
Black People, Boys, Default, Education, Kids, Museum of Natural History, Questions, Race, Teachers/Professors

He Was Surprisingly Affectionate

Hipster guy: Yo! My girlfriend gave me a hickey, and now there’s a rumor that I got into a fight with a black kid.
Friend: Dude!

–Edward Murrow High School

Headline by: Justin

Runners-Up:
· “Oh Please! If That Were True You’d Have a Stab-wound, Not a Hickey.” – nosey nafia
· “Shouldn’t Have Let Her Hickey Your Eye, I Guess.” – Internev
· “That’s Funny, I’d Heard Something About a Vacuum Cleaner” – Marv in DC
· “Well, She Does Look Like Gary Coleman.” – stevevc

Click here to see the new Headline Contest

Posted on April 28, 2008
Brooklyn, Fighting and ass kicking, Friends, Guys, Headline Contest Winners, Hipsters, K-I-S-S-I-N-G, Race, Relationships, Rumor Has It

A Little Bit Quieter Than That

Male student: I think it was just like… quiet racism.
Exuberant black teacher, whispering: Nigga!

–ICE High School, 16th St & 1st Ave

Overheard by: Lady-Bastard

Posted on April 28, 2008
Black People, Boys, Default, Murray Hill and Gramercy, Race, School, Students, Teachers/Professors, Words

Race