Ethiopian Jokes are really popular on the web. Google it, its there! and I think they are pretty funny. I never ever get offended, I just laugh at them. The material is usually related to the 1984 famine. Ya so Ethiopians are so hungry!
My favorate all time joke:
What is the best thing about an Ethiopian [girl giving] Blowjob?
You know for sure she will Swallow! [she is hungry]
Podcated is one of the most popular jokes all time!
Published by November 27th, 2006 in Current Issues.
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The jokes are somewhat funny but it sucked in a way. All the search results on google are the same three joke again and again. Like you said it’s about 84 famine, why not do different jokes on it. On the other hand I find jokes about Obese, fat, pig western people so much funnier coz you can make so many jokes about it not just three as all the google search result showed.
Ohhh Nolawi you got jokes today! You know I go to a lot of comedy clubs/shows. One specific show I will never forget. One comedian was on stage ripping us apart and everyone was laughing, including me and my sis. One of his jokes was “have you ever dated an Ethiopian chick, wow fellas, she’ll do anything for a drum stick. You don’t even have to walk up to her to ask, just hold up your stick from across the room, sit back and watch a beautiful woman begging for it.” hahahahah
After the show he was meeting and greeting people and we decided to have a ball with him and I demanded my money back because I was so offended. Me and my smart ass mouth said, “where the hell is the damn drum stick anyway?” This guy almost died when he found out we were Ethiopian and kept apologizing. We told him to relax it’s only a joke. My sis told him laughing, “I wouldn’t date you for a whole chicken.” Life is about having fun even if the jokes on you and offense is always optional.
H ahaha Celebrate…thats funny for a whole chicken ! enatun ena!:) your sis did excellent!
I bet she would date him for Lam!
Rosi, that is the whole point, what else can they joke about other than our rehab… for the somalians they joke about being poor… i guess they can do that as well…
we are skinny, poor and hungry… that is it…
regardless, a friend of mine had a african american friend and since he saw a lot of cute abesha girls who are friends with us… he decided to go to Ethiopia to find a wife… he figured it would be easier to find one that was really hot and also who is willing to marry him right away… since he is american…
so he went for three months and then he would email my friend with updates… he would also give some of the girls money… and then would sleep with him… so after a month he emails and said that he slept with 13 girls in one month… he said that they are so hot amazing minamin…
the only thing was that he thought they had tore up feet… apparently he thinks that most ethiopian girls had hard bottom on the feet.. …
anyways he ended up bringing a girl from ethiopia.. married her… and then after 4 yrs.. once her greencard was finished she dissappeared…. no one knew were……
I think she just moved…. if you know the saying Asmechi Na Lakih import and exporter ….apparently that is what they say about all guys who bring girls to the US and the girls end up leaving them!
.Nolawi whatever ur name is. U say we are skinny, poor, hungry, and that’s it. The ” that’s it” was actually more funny than the jokes.
If that’s so i wonder why everywhere i go people are amazed to see me. One old black lady at my old job once stopped me in the middle of our talks and said u are so beautiful. Do people always tell u that?
Acually, All types of guys go wild for me white, black, spanish, arab u name it. None of them offered me drumskicks , but all of them offered me their phone numbers and said they would leave their women 4 me. The dudes i work with are even more wild 4 me. At work all dudes come close to me flirting and laughing. All other non Ethiopian women can’t stand me with their jealousy. Gee if i was only poor skinny and hungry why am I so hot and sexy!!!!!
lol mimi, hahahaha, that was funny! The i didn’t know you couldn’t be poor/hungry/skinny and look good?lol.
Mimiye
liya looks poor skinny and hungry but sexy!
I do have one question though, do ethiopian men go wild for you as well?
So funny! I was on the same situation past Saturday with my babe. She was about to walk-out from a comedy club…I was about to get pissed, not because of the joke but because of my $50 that I paid. Here is the story in short, the comedian talking about paying $2500 child support for 4 babi mam’s…and he said, ” If I knew this before I had kids, I would have gone to Ethiopia, have 10 kids and pay 25 cents per kid” I did not get it funny, but he got laugh out of it. That’s when the fight started with my girl but I calm her down…oohh…that would have been it…hell no!!!
Anyways, they can say whatever joke they want but the problem still exist, Nolawi it not only on ’84, it’s still happening, everyone of us should be responsible… Anyways let me stop my lecture and I watched Borat yesterday and was I wondering if he it is offending for Kazakhstan people or not.
Nolawi- you should start a thread something like that about Ethiopian’s first .experience in U.S.
TaTa
know what this is?
ethiopian family portrait.
at the photostudio. for a family portrait …
camera man: cheese!
ethiopian family sticks out their hands.
I don’t care what you guy’s think but Liay ain’t for me. I know she represent Et’s ppl and all that but female’s need some meat on them. The current model look sick and I can’t even imagine sharing bed with them…hmmm…for the money may be.
TaTa
I wish I could share the same views and openions on Ethiopian jokes in particular and African jokes in general. Why do you think jokes are usually not as funny when you hear them repeatedly? Marvin Minsky in “Society of Minds” once said in his book that “jokes and laughter are mechanisms for the brain to learn nonsense”. If you tell me that everytime you hear jokes like this posted on this blog, and you as Ethiopian don’t get a little upset, then I gotta give it to you for being such an exceptionally open minded person. To me, jokes like this that rely on stereotypes are just not funny at all. The pshycological effect is that jokes like this, each time they are told, they automatically link to a familiar expected behaviour, which is why you find yourselves a little shy and cautious around people of different nationalities, ’cause deep inside you worry if they think of you a little differently just because you’re Ethiopian. We have a dark side in our recent history and it just so happens, the majority of the world only knows about that side of our story. So instead of laughing at ourselves with the rest of the world, I say we move on to fighting the cause. Remember, these jokes do not only insult you, but they insult those who died in 1984 and still are dying because of hunger. I don’t know about you but I personally find it degrading and demeaning to those whose life was lost due to the lack of the very natural thing they deserved in this world “Food & Water”. Starve for just one day and let someone joke about how you stumbled on your way to search for food to feed your family, children, brothers and sisters, then tell me if you still think its funny. Nolawi, I don’t think it was a great idea to post that on the blog. It does not show your open mindedness, it shows ignorance and careless attitude. How about we talk about how people are fighting the cause to save the world?
Go Chelema! I like what you said about the repetitiveness of the jokes, they just circle around on the same subject and most of the don’t make sense It won’t make me laugh at all , except the one mentioned above by Nolawi. It just cracked me up, whoever came up with that joke, never been with Ethiopian female. He doesn’t how much Ethio chicks say “ERE ENE AFERALHU” let alone swallowing it.
In any case, one thing I like about this bernos blog is not centered into one topic like politics, dating, social issues…. It has a lot of varieties of topic so I don’t think Nolawi did any thing wrong posting it . Besides, they are just jokes, we shouldn’t get offended with it. It just tells you that the person who is throwing the joke is narrow minded.
TaTa
Tata, truth be told, until today, I enjoyed the bernos blog because it talks about different issues in a more articulative and fun way. But I certainly didn’t expect this. Call me old fashion, but to see my fellow Ethiopians contribute to the world’s ignorance towards Africans just don’t fly with me. May be I’m seeing something different but don’t you see the psycological damage this is creating on our people. Its easy to say, “its only a joke” BUT IS IT? Do you think the million other people who are starving as we speak find this funny? Put yourself in place of one farmer who just lost three of his kids and an infant because he had nothing to feed them, yet the people next door joke about how his 17 years old daughter who just died of hunger could swallow (…whatever was said…). I am not saying everyone should be a saint and try to save the world. But by all means, let’s not be part of the ignorance. REMEMBER, THE JOKE IS ON us.
Chelema, I truly understand what you are talking about. My way of attacking problems might be a little bit different from others. If a person want to attack, put down or offend me verbaly, that wouldn’t stop me form my objective. In fact, it motivates me to double my energy to reach my goal in half time.
My point here is, I know it is very sad that thousand’s and thousands of people are dieing a day due to starvation. Instead of wasting energy on the joke, let’s just it take as a humor and move on.
TaTa
Nolawi, “I do have one question though, do Ethiopian men go wild for you as well?” Thank you for always keeping it real. That’s where the real compliment is from an Abesha guy. When the average non Abesha man gives us compliments it usually translates to “I wanna hit it” and to me the only thing their hitting is the pavement. There are some genuine compliments from the 10% that give it.
“I bet she would date him for Lam!” ohhh suki, suki now I’m gonna have to tell my sis what you said hahaha.
May I request a picture of Toothpicks brain just to see how it’s constructed. It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no, no it’s the pick your tooth and scramble your brain man.
Chelema,
I understand where you’re coming from but I honestly think this topic is therapeutic. Who better to talk about the silliness of the ‘Ethiopian jokes’ with then other Ethiopians? I sure as hell am not going to talk about it with other folk. I mean it exists and they are constantly being told so it’s not like we can walk around it.
True it doesn’t help the starving families but who says we’re not doing our share of assisting them? It’s very difficult to accuse people for not helping out their country. I know of a lot more people who do more then their share and still manage to carry a coach bag worth a grand to work. I can’t be mad at them for trying to look cute while someone else is starving back home. I mean we can always get mad at each other for not doing this or doing that but remember together we stand, divided we fall. Brother let’s stick together thru the good and the bad.
As long as I’ve been here I’ve got some people still asking if we live in homes back home. My reply is always to look sad and tell them, when I see a tree full of branches it reminds of my neighborhood cause we lived in the trees. We can’t change ignorance but we sure as hell can make fun of it…at their expense…now the jokes on them.
“To me, jokes like this that rely on stereotypes are just not funny at all.” Every joke relies on stereotypes.
Chelema….“but to see my fellow Ethiopians contribute to the world’s ignorance towards Africans just don’t fly with me”
…get of your high horse… I am sure you have contributed to the world’s ignorance in many ways that you can image. But as you are human … we readers of Bernos will have to forgive you when you make such condescending comments like that…that is what humans do…they do NOT put them self on a pedestal and judge others…
You made a good point showing “the negative side of jokes” but don’t forget that jokes and laughter are very important and cathartic for humans. It’s a way for humans to deal with problems and move on to the future. How long can we be stuck in the events of the 84 famine…. I don’t know any Ethiopian that has not been affected by the famine directly or indirectly. We all have had to deal with it for such a long time. We have mourned for so long. But now its time to move on in anyway we can and make sure that the reoccurring famines in that region doesn’t come back….
so funny celebratelife. You reminded what my Dad told while he was in College(U of M) in early ‘60. His classmates asked him
Classmates, “Do you live in a tree?”
Dad, “yes”
Classmates ,” How?”
Dad, “The chief of the tribe lives on top of the tree,
and my parents live on the second level, me my brothers
live on the bottom.”
Classmates,” Wow! How does the chief on top of the tree?”
Dad, “By elevator.”
This is the kind of system that I normally used when it comes to a joke. I let them know that they ain’t got no clue what they are talking about. Do you know that 2 million people in U.S gets only 1 meal a day. I heard in on NPR, I was really amazed.
Celebratelife and mitmita(Thought I kill two birds with one stone), ***Mitmita said “we readers of Bernos will have to forgive you when you make such condescending comments like that…”**** Mitmita, please DO forgive me for making such a comment. Who am I to judge. And you were right, I did contribute to the world’s ignorance towards Africans in so many ways. And to you W/t(hope I am right) celebratelife, you seem to understand where I am coming from on this. So I can say we’re almost on the same page. However, I want you to understand that my comments are BY NO MEANS to accuse people (specially Ethiopians) of not doing anything to help out. I should know, because I see people fighting the cause almost everyday. So if any of my comments offend anyone, I would like to appologize for it.
Tata, love the elevator, I’ll definitely start using that. I always mess with dumb and dumber folks when they ask clueless questions….you know someone once asked me how many lions we had in our home, growing up, and I told her the first lion I ever saw was in a zoo in Texas and she said, “get out you’re lying?” I told her “no I said lion not lying” she said “huh?” I wanted to slap her ignorant behind. I can’t stand born to be dumb people.
Oh my goodness, you got me started, the best one was one girl at my former job, and she was well edumacated
she asked, “how long have you been here?”
I replied, “too long”
she asked “how do you like it?”
I replied “what do you think?”
she said, “you must be lucky not to be living in famine huh? Do you have family back home” (This is in 2001. That’s 2001-1984=17 years after the fact)
I walked off while she was still talking, later on she asked if her questions brought back bad memories of my childhood. Does she not give up? I again walked off while she was still talking. When people ask silly questions I just love staring at them with a blank look, twitching my head like I’m having a muscle spasm or just walking away. They have the right to ask stupid questions and I have the right to respond any way I want.
“Do you know that 2 million people in U.S gets only 1 meal a day.” Thanks for the 411.
Chelema, “And to you w/t” was that a sedebe? hahahaha. No need to apologize you spoke from the heart and with a lot of emotion.
NOW I THINK YOU OWE US ONE GOOD ETHIOPIAN JOKE.
Chelema;
I am not going to beat a dead horse here; as people have somewhat made a point.
I was recently sent a video from AFC home in Ethiopia, where the little aids orphan kids where being interviewed, and I saw their positive outlook and was very much impressed…I thought wow this kids are amazing… they continue to live even with their great misfortune…. And then I thought.. that is Ethiopia… It is the Ethiopian way to deal with misfortunes with laughter…
Sure, recently we learned that there is a line that can be crossed as some things will sway hate & bigotry… like that of the Kramer guy.. who used the N word…
Anyways, Laughter is the Ethiopian way… throughout Ethiopian history we dealt with misfortunes through laughter… look at Azmariwoch… our Qine’s our teret and misale’s… our zefenoch.. and Most of all the daily lives…we even deal with our political problems through laughter.. we make jokes about anything and everything…and at times this jokes and misales make excellent educational contributions….noone is above a joke in Ethiopia.. Emperess Taytu was a popular Qine material… Menge and HIS were also considered good material… Now we are ruled by Fiyel president… HECK we even joke about our Qesoch… Laughter is Ethiopian!
Ethiopians deal with misery through laughter….otherwise we could not have survived all the adversity with high morale..
I am a big fan of Editorial cartooning… even Pulitzer isn’t denying the journalistic contributions cartoons have made…
At the end though, I am noone to censor your opinions… you are entitled to label me as you said “… ignorance and careless attitude.”
I still stand by the jokes!
I can’t stand Habeshas with low-self esteem. U guys turn me off everywhere i see u. Especially in schools. My god they are so weird there. That’s why if i have children i want them to always be proud 2 say i’m ethiopian wherever i will give birth 2 them. Most here always try to assimilate with Americans. Even if u are so americanized they will still insult u. It happened to one girl in my school who always kept telling them ” oh i’ve been here so long since i was a baby i don’t remember ethiopia”. One day two guys who sat next to me in class i think they prepared to insult her. When she came in they started their usual talks then when she got involved they said ” u know we sponsored a child for 20 dollars”. she heard them and then was Quiet and ashamed. Then they said it was from ethiopia it could be your cousin. She was still quiet. I was there next to them listening to the whole conversations.
After class was over she stayed in class and i was about to leave. She then starts talking to me and was like ” Can u believe they said that 2 me”. Then I said well u allowed them to say it to u by forgeting who u r. I was also sitting next to them they didn’t dare include me in their insults coz they knew what they will get. I wont be Quiet at all. I would be like really what about your poor African people who are eating monkies. And those who died in Ireland. Are they ok now?
chelema….I am sorry too…I did not mean to go off on a tangent there…
Chelema - I agree with you 100%. A joke is a joke is a joke..BUT there is nothing funny about any kind of human suffering, Ethiopian or not. Would people make jokes about say for example, the 9/11 tragedy? There are a million issues or situations one can joke about so why go there? It is one thing to be directly confronted with such jokes and being able to ignore them without being negatively affected by them, but to go looking for them and actually finding them humorous is beyond by comprehension!!
Hello people! Is it me or is it really allergy season, hachooooo!
True when disaster is happening there is nothing to laugh about but after the dust settles it becomes the butt of everyone’s joke. Yes I’ve heard of 9/11 jokes, holocaust jokes, Princess Diana jokes….and they are not directed at the victims but more like the survivors and the responsible/irresponsible parties. This is similar to the famine jokes. They have not talked about the people who have lost their lives but ‘us’ the survivors.
I think the problem is that as Ethiopianoch we always think we belong to the untouchable group. Let us not try to be so innocent and holier than thou we come from a 3rd world country that was greatly affected by famine and the whole damn world knew about it. Some helped, some watched and years later some made jokes and they were damn funny.
lol
now, the joke is on those who didnt find this funny!
hachooooo!
thanks, celebrate that was hilarious.
celebratelife - One, I am not an Ethiopian just a concerned fellow human. Two, it is obvious you have not been following the news…”the dust has not settled” in Ethiopia… there is still famine in a major way. Three, if you want to laugh at yourself, find something else to laugh about. I am sure you will not have a problem there!!!!!!
Yemanim likimkim yesew lik ayakim.U mofo haters we got Love for u though.But don’t push it.
NOT funny!
Long time reader first time poster.
I actually agree with Nolawi on this. Laughter has long been used globally as therapy for sociopolitical problems. Therapeutic effects of laughter on mental as well as physical health has also been proven.
Ethiopians are suffering, we all no that. That fact is used to make a stereo type joke be it hunger, skinnyness or poverty. The fact Nolawi put this fact out there on the Bernos platform actually acknowledges that this is happening!
Chelema et all, by saying that this jokes or any jokes should not be posted on the Bernos blog, you are saying the perception of westerners towards Ethiopians is a subject that should be off limits from discussion. I find particularly unwise to claim!
I commend Bernos for pushing the envelope; I have been following Blogs and discussion forums for a while and I found that most of them only talk about politics of Ethiopia. For a long time I thought that only despair constitutes being an Ethiopian. Eventually I realized that there are countless aspects to what constitutes being an Ethiopian. I find that Bernos reminds me different angles.
Last but not least, It is also Ethiopian to put down other Ethiopians that are doing anything outside of the Norm till is accepted, then anyone and everyone will follow them. Bernos is selling T-shirts and is talking about music, dating among other things, in about a year, other blogs with similar theme will pop-up!
How about we settle this with “GeMeD GuTeTA”? I need to flux my muscles anyway. Nolawi, thank you for not wanting to beat the DEAD HORSE. And thanks to celebratelife, I’m home sick with flu…”Hachooo!” Now I do find this funny. So I am giving you two enthusiastic thumbs up for that creative writing of yours. I am all about the peace, so peace and love to everyone.
Dear people.
who the hell is messing with my girl liya.
How in the world does she look poor and hungry.
She is a rich as hell Supermodel and i’m her #1 fan.
Look at her dress it’s so demn expensive coz my girl doesn’t model for some cheap designers ya heard.
All those who say they would offer me drumsticks to be with me where the hell are they at? I am actually waiting but all they seem to offer is fancy dates with a beg to be my boyfriends. ANd women are crazy 2 look like me. They spend thousands 4 surgery to have my beauty. What can i say i am hot by nature. I know what u mean Mimi i feel your pain. It aint easy being hot coz u will be bombarded with so many many many dates. It keeps u busy turning down all of them. At least the drumstick offer would have been easier all u have to do is take it. Only problem is no one has offered on yet except their constant begging for dates. Its so hard to be hot, beautiful, sexy, stunning and wonderful. Demn where are u Mr. Drumstick man? I guess he is busy with fat, ugly, trashy women. I am too classy 4 him.
visitor,
One - Ok
Two - Thanks for the world news/affairs update.
Three - Whatever floats your boat.
Chelema, I send you 365 days of Berhan for you great sense of humor.
Awaki, “I commend Bernos for pushing the envelope” DITTO! Long live Bernos!
mimi,
You need to let go off your egos sweetie. I don’t think there are any Ethiopian ladies who are jealous of your beauty that is your wishful thinking. There are plenty of beautiful ladies out there; so if I were you I will stop bragging about my outside beauty (beauty is from the inside). Getting numbers from guys shouldn’t be something you should be proud of, there are other things to be proud of besides you are not the only woman who gets digits from guys… by the way you didn’t say that you get numbers from Ethiopian guys I guess you are not beautiful enough for them therefore you don’t get digits from them how sad! Speaking of a jock, i must say you are very funny! LOLOL!!! With all do respect I don’t like insecure people especial ladies…
33 easy…easy on mimi I think she is trying to generalize about Ethiopian’s beauty. You don’t have to be all over her. Beside that I think you have a low self-esteem, you should be able to wake up and be proud of your beauty. Even though I support you, about ,inside beauty, you should be confident with what you have. Maybe mimi is betam askyemee but I like her confidence.
Mimi. I don’t know what ethio-queen is talking about. I think she has a problem with a people who have confidence about their beauty. . BTW I like what you said about your school.
damn you, calcium silicate! damn you, mirror! damn you, brothers grimm! damn you, snow white!
*runs back into the vault with poster of alek wek*
Ethioqueen. ( although i’ve yet 2 see ur crown)
All i say is people always make fun of me the Ethiopian as u read in the jokes. But when they see me all they do is admire my beauty so far none have offered me food or any beverage as most jokes claim. I don’t see anything wrong with taking numbers from dudes wishing 2 date me.
i know most of u women these days r so cheap u r chasing dudes giving them ur numbers. i’ve never given any dude my number. its u who should be ashamed of giving yo number for thousands of dudes. I accept their numbers only difference is i’m not desperate 2 call them back. i just throw it in the garbage.
Poor Mimi, too much competition, eh? If I find a guy hot, sexy and irresistible you better know that I will not sit around to be asked out; hell I will give him my number myself. While you Mimi the beauty queen is too scared to do anything about it and hate women like moi. Does that make me desperate? Hell no, it makes me a go getter, going after what I want. Life is too short, live it!
MIMI: I don’t see how being beautiful has anything to do with being poor or not. If poor people were ugly then we can assume that about 80% of Ethiopians are ugly? which doesn’t seem to be realistic at all. I would understand though if you argued that people don’t make Ethiopian jokes towards you because of the way you cary yourself, and that others respect you for it. But saying people respect me because I’m beautiful doesn’t seem to be a logical statement. btw, don’t take the jokes litrally!
I think when it comes to jokes we ETs are so sensitive. Back a couple of years a go I got an email message to boycott Rus Parr (DC Metro area’s 93.9 radio host) just because some people thought he cracked a joke about ETs, but Russ cracks about every race and every immigrant, Jamaicans, Mexicans, Blacks, Whitees.
Earthquake the stand up comedian told funny ET jokes on stage and I know many ET people do not like him. Can you imagine what would happen if Borat was referring to ET instead of Kazakhstan? Wawaweewaaa, the whole CUD, EPDRF, PPRF, GGRF, FOBs, OTBs, Kideste Mariam Churche goers, Pente Church goers, the Embassy people, the two opposing Community Centers, Dukem eaters, Alero party goers … will come out to protest in front of the Whitehouse. I think we do worry so much about our image than other things. Do you remember the issue with Gigi’s radio interview? Many misunderstood her and came out with rage and with the “How dare she?” attitude. Am i off track? so what?
So for me ET jokes, are as funny as Mexican jokes, Jamaican jokes, Black jokes and so on. We just need to layoff from this mentality that we are so special. A person I know thinks we ETs are unique and “Chosen by God” “yetekedesse hizb”, if we are chosen by God, why in the hell are we suffering? We are at the bottom of sink… anyways so what?!!
So Jokes are jokes, they are funny and sometimes they are humorous. Lets just get off this ‘How dare her/She?’ attitude.
And we need to just do what we do to better ourselves and our people. SO WHAT?! If some nutshell lectures about how Africans have low IQs?
I go now!!
oh poor females. All u do is pity ur selves all day. u can’t stand me with so much confidence with my beauty.
u say stop ur ego. Well it aight ego it’s called pride.
Something not in your vocabs. Instead take ur energy in trying to build confidence in yourself so u can be like me.
Hey Mimi and Hotethiochick, Girlfriends I’m having the same problems. I have guys hitting on me right and left. I just can’t take it anymore. They’re not just throwing me a drum stick…one gave me his yacht and his Park Avenue condo. I even have a Lamborghini (had to get used to the doors). Girls, I’m just selling the crap and giving the money to charity.
Last Christmas I received so many gifts the FedEX district manager even brought me a gift as a thank you for the business. But you know I had to tell him I only deal with men with seven digit salaries. I’m trying to move up to the Donald Trumps of the world ze billionaires. What can we say girlfriends…I’m glad you know my pain. My boyfriend bought me a 6 carat pink diamond ring and a condo in Rome and he calls himself giving me an engagement gift. I told him to try better the next time.
This one girl, at a dinner for the stars, told me I’m so beautiful she feels like breaking all the mirrors in the room to keep from looking at herself. She even said if she was a man she would ask for my hand in marriage. I had to break it to her…I don’s swing that way.
Hey girlfriends email me, maybe we can share some of our stories my email is yourefullofshit@getalife.com see you at the players club. btw this is a joke so please don’t try the email address it doesn’t really exist or are you too dumb to figure that one out?
lol lol lol…’billinaries club’ what a sense of humore…i like ur humore which we need more…i think beauty is not about the out look but the heart….how u are with others that are not like u such as…life standards of finance, careere, political or religion back ground…it goes beyond all these when it comes to beauty…
Woooooohooooooo!!!! I like that billionaires,I am tired of thoes kind of females as if they are going to be sexy all their life time. Once they hit 30 they go down the hill but that’s when their attitude hit the roof.If they are educated that’s okay I got the respect for them…
peace I got to go my zebegna is staring at me.
to be continued…
Now, now Nalawi, why are we going down this road?
I suppose the West Virginian saying ” if she is old enuff to bl###, she is old enuff to breed was considered too risque?
How do you’ll say double standard in Amharic?
No, thanks. I don’t find most of these jokes funny.
In high school, which was an international school, a few my classmates once had a bet that I was a refugee. Their reasoning was that I was Ethiopian and skinny. In their minds it followed that I was a refugee. I wasn’t amused by it, but I wasn’t exactly offended either because given circumstances, I thought it was a particularly dumb conclusion to come to.
Again in high school, I had a few close friends who used to take it upon themselves to dig out Ethiopian jokes and share them with me. Sometimes they were vaguely amusing. Other times, they were just nasty For example, the joke above about swallowing, which i’d heard before, I did NOT at all find funny. An amusing Ethiopian joke I recall from high school is, “Question How many Ethiopians can you fit in a bath tub?’ Most likely the audience will say that they don’t know. Answer: ‘I don’t know either. They keep going down the drain”.
I guess I tolerate some jokes, like the one above because I am skinny, and the jokes do not necessarily imply starvation. Ethiopians are in general tiny and skinny people, especially when you view them in context of a place like the US.
You often hear jokes about Jews and thriftiness. You NEVER hear jokes about Jews and the holocaust (unless you’re hanging out with KKK). It’s easier to make a joke about Germans being Nazis, even then usually in a disapproving note, than it is of the victims who suffered. Black people in the US may make jokes about themselves in a post-slavery context, at times criticizing their own communities, but I have never heard jokes about enslaved African-Americans.
As somebody else noted, famine is still raging in Ethiopia. Perhaps it’s not as publicized as the ‘84 famine, partly because the world is tired of hearing it, and partly because our government is no more communist and the west doesn’t see a point in vilifying it.
When I hear the joke above, I see a women with sunken false, a protruding ribcage, sad eyes and a bloated belly … kneeling.
Umm. Yeah.
NOT funny.
Ha ha ha ah aha Tobian, the bathtub joke is pretty funny! I just fell out of my chair.
Ok so some find it funny, some not.. as a whole the whole famine issue can’t be compared with hatred villified on jews during holocast.. nor the whole AA slavery… that was done through people….
But there have been Katrina Victim jokes.. so there is a thin line…
REGRDLESS though I stand by posting what I posted, we had to talk about it… It is happening… noone can deny that!
Thanks Awaqi for the Awaqi input…
anyways this is one of those topics where we all can say.. lets agree to disagree…
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you go girl I know what you mean. That’s what comes with being beautiful. All u unattractive females can keep wishing u had all the luxury we have. Just keep yourself busing chasing guys to ask them out. Most will turn u down anyway. Mimi u go girl. U are so hot with confidence. Why would u go after guys when they all flood to be in your presence. Wow some ladies are so jealous of you. All you hot wonderful chicks u all rock.
CHECK OUT THE FOLLOWING SITES AND SEE IF ANY OF YOU GUYS COULD COME UP WITH A REALLY FUNNY JOKE. I TRIED BUT I JUST COULDN’T FIND THE SENSE OF HUMOR. MAY BE SOME OF YOU WILL. PEACE AND LOVE.
who is creative enough with great sense of humor to see if he/she can create a really cool and funny joke about this. check it out. This is what we were talking about after all isn’t it?
Oh well, there was a link on my previous message, but I think it got sent for editing to Nolawi. If he is who he says he is, he will I am sure release them for you all to see. Anyhow, I will try if this goes in a different way. Here is the link…http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/697118.stm
hope you all can see it now.
Chelema,
Thanks for the link, it kind of took me 5 years back. But I don’t think nobody has denied the existence of draught or famine. The content of the topic is that wheteher it is appropriate to make a joke about it or not? What you are seeing in the picture, I have seen it in my real eye. I know that is one of the worst things the will happen to a human being. Since we are here in this world temporally, I am not stressing my head for every little joke I heard. It might not be funny for you, but every time I hear a red neck joke, I am not going to stop laughing because it hurts their feeling. Snap out of it and pleas don’t watch Borat, you might feel bad for poor Kazakhstan’s.
Story, I was being sarcastic sweets, I wasn’t playing along with you and your Hoochi Momma’s. It’s a joke I have my own version of a Lamborghini and a home in the Hamptons and no it’s not inherited or bought for by my pimp. It’s my hard earned money. Peace.
Tata, I am afraid you’re missing the point here. From the very first time I posted my comment, all I was saying was, put yourselves in the position of those you just saw on that link and try to see how you would feel about people like us laughing, having fun and making jokes about their sufferings. Everyone has a right to do as they please. I appologized to the group earlier in this post if I had offended them. But I still stand on my ground and say that there is absolutely nothing funny about human suffering. I see people comparing these jokes to other jokes, and giving a scientific definition of laughing and how it soothes our daily life, but for GOD sake, isn’t there something else to laugh about? why even go there. Someone said that it is good to talk about the issue so they don’t see a problem with the posting. But what is the issue? Is the issue the fact that we have people starving and we need to do something about it? or is the issue, people are making jokes about us because we are ethiopians and we need to ban the jokes or spread them arround so that more people can laugh about us. I am sorry, but I just don’t get it. There are so many jokes and so many other things to laugh about, if our mind so desires it. I just dodn’t see anything in relation to human sufferings being funny. Oh and one last thing, what would you say to that little girl on the picture if she looked at you in the eye and said “what did you do when people made jokes about my hunger?” would you respond saying that you laughed at the jokes? Or would you say that you tried to do everything you can so that people spend more time doing something to stop the hunger and less time joking about it? I don’t know what you do for a living or if you have done your share of doing the GOODWILL, and I am certainly not trying to judge you or accuse you of not doing anything. But I would hope that you will somehow see my point and understand why I am saying what I am saying. That’s all I am asking… God be with you.
SO What…I second your post…every word. I don’t know what it is about Ethiopians and boycotts…am just so sick of it…anyways thanks for you post
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thanks for your post too…I can’t believe “Story” did not even get it…it was just a little over her head.
I truly don’t understant some of this girls…there is confidence and there is CONFIDENCE…
Story and Mimi…girls like you make the rest of us look bad…
Mitmita, What in God’s name are you talking about? I don’t remember saying anything about a boycott?? Haven’t you been listening? Jeeeez! Anyway, I absoultely have no idea why I’m wasting my time. Sounds to me like you get an absolute pleasure getting back at people through smart mouthing. No matter what anyone says, people like you are still gonna come back with more fire. So sweetheart, you’re just not at my intellectual level so I gave up “THE MORE I TRY TO TEACH YOU, THE DAMBER I GET” (you don’t get it do you?). Come back at me with a Thunderstorm for all I care, you’re just too little and your stubern attitude is too annoying for me. So have fun wichuuuuu baaad self.
Billionaires club-You go girl, put these ignorant girls in their place. Just have one more question for them – when did prostitution become something to brag about? Stop selling your bodies for material things, get a job and stop begging men/boys to take care of you!
Re: the question about whether we should/should not joke about those who suffered/are suffering - I commend Nolawi for doing this post. If nothing else, we are at least questioning and debating about the issue. Laughter is medicine, who knows, even those who are in the midst of it may have a joke or two. This in no way makes light of the issue. I am sure there isn’t one author on this blog who does not have compassion for those who have/are going thru the famine….
Peace my people, we too shall overcome one day!
Tata may I give you an online high 5.
Chelema, Mitmita was responding to “so what #39″ take it easy Bonanza, you seem to be on the edge thinking everyone is here to attack you. I like you and your way of thinking because you speak with so much emotion and I can feel your pain with every word you type. But you know sometimes you have to let bygones be bygones, live and let live, agree to disagree….
Some of us don’t take offense to the jokes but want to address the issue that they exist. Do you actually think we walk around with rose colored lenses, put skip in our walk, and whistle everyday pretending to always think all’s well that ends well? Come on wondem Chelema.
Let me tell you, as I mentioned I love comedy, and I’ll guarantee you it is always 100% at someone’s expense. The severity of the situation may differ but the joke is bound to hurt someone’s feelings. When I heard Joan Rivers tell a 9/11 joke I couldn’t stop laughing and I knew in my heart she was taking a risk of crossing the line but it was funny. Mind you Joan Rivers’ family were victims of the Holocaust.
You can choose to be happy or sad. Like you mentioned the girl in the picture…would she rather see a smiling face trying to help her out of her situation or someone with a sad face confirming the end is near. Have you ever looked at death in the face of another person? I have and the person was happy to see me smile and make light of the situation while I did everything I could to help. So please stop with the sermon without understanding why and how people choose to deal with a situation. We don’t all have to react the SAME way.
Nolawi, Thank you for standing behind your decision to post this article. I have more respect for you then ever.
OOOOOOKAY. Now I feel like the butt of all jokes. Mitmita, somebody is gonna have to take my foot outta my mouth. I AM VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY SORRY. SOMETIMES I GET BLINDED BY MY OWN EMOTIONS. I THOUGHT THAT WAS DIRECTED TO ME AND FELT VERY DISSAPOINTED. WAS AN HONEST MISTAKE AND I AGAIN SO VERY SORRY(kanGeT Defa-biyalehu, just so you know). IT WAS AN HONEST MISTAKE, DON’T MEAN NOTHING SERIOUS BY IT. HOPE YOU’LL FORGIVE ME.
Chelema…
I can see that we started off on the wrong foot…the boycott comment was NOT directed at you…it was towards “SOWHAT” (post number 39). I think you were the one not listening (or reading in this case). I was just agreeing with what he/she said.
The last thing I said to you was an apology… (post # 22)
I have been reading your post and the more I read the more I was starting to be impressed by you. Especially by the way you handled my little “outbreak” ( post # 16)
The funny thing is …I was starting to feel bad for what I said (on post # 16) even after I apologized (post # 22) and you come back and attack me (post # 54).
Anyway let’s forget everything and start over…
Celebratelife - Thanks
Personally I don’t find these jokes funny at all. When Ethiopians say them, it reminds me of the saying: Mognin Ande Sidebew, Zelalem Rasun Sisedb Yinoral.
Anyway, what ever rocks your boat.
Nolawi,
I wanted to make the additional comment that your comment #46 is wrong. The Ethiopian famine (and famines in general) are not foregone conclusions even in the event of extreme drought. There is a lot of human complacence and wilful incompetence that leads to them. Your theory may make the jokes bearable to you, but I say a re-reading of the events of the 1984 famine is due. Start with Red Tears; I am fairly confident that you will not find these jokes funny again.
Cheers!
Millionaire’s Club - Now that was funny!
Long live Bernos!!!!!! Keep pushing the envelope!!! We are talking about it.
I still think it’s funny if you replace “Ethiopian” with “Irish”
Here’s the Ethiopian Classic Jokes>>>(Bath Tub was one of them)
How can you tell if an Ethiopian woman is pregnant?
Hold her up to the light.
What do you call an Ethiopian with buck teeth?
Rake.
[Take a comb and hold it upside-down] What’s this?
A hundred Ethiopians carrying a canoe.
How many Ethiopians can you put in a Volkswagen?
All of ‘em!
How do Ethiopians camouflage themselves?
They stand sideways.
What’s the world’s fastest animal?
-The Ethiopian Chicken.
What’s the world’s second fastest animal?
-The Ethiopian running after it.
I’m sure you will find this latest article about Ethiopian child adoption!
Gay Couple Forced to Return Adopted Ethiopian Child – Didn’t Go With Drapes
Interior designer Walter Johnson-Gould and life partner James Gould-Johnson bid a tearful farewell today to baby Zahaddox, the 7-month Ethiopian child they had adopted two weeks ago.
“It was so hard” says James. “In the short time we’ve had her we’ve grown really attached! Walter and I have a lot of love to share and we really want to do that with a child of color. Just not this exact color. As you can see, Zahaddox’s complexion, though gorgeous, is ‘bisque’ or in some lights, ‘burnt umber.’ That just wasn’t going to work with our home’s color scheme.” LOL
Here’s the actual link… http://fakegaynews.com/index.php/2006/03/gay-couple-forced-to-return-adopted-ethiopian-child/
M%W
Dinbulo, Thank you but I’m in the B-B-B-B-Billionaire’s club, I don’t like being
demoted without cause
Mitmita, I CAN’T THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR YOUR FORGIVENESS. BELIEVE IT OR NOT, I FELT VERY BAD ABOUT IT AND AS A RESULT, I COULDN’T REALLY SLEEP THAT WELL LAST NIGHT. WHAT CAN I SAY, SOMETIMES, I AM JUST AN ASS! (I think that sums it up). So we’re starting over.
hahahaha…Billionaires club…that was funny mayn..keep coming…
anyway i fully support tobian comment on #45…it is not really funny making fun of another people suffuring.. and “Homie don’t play that!”
how do you see the ethinic joke though…i know some of you would not agree..but i find it funny rather..
Chelema….Hey already forgotten about…it really was not something to lose sleep over. Actually, I did not see your post # 58 when I was posting #59. We must have been posting at the same time…I would not have “bitten the horse” as Nolawi said, after you apologized
Anyways its water under the bridge….
Cheers to new beginnings and looking forward to our future run in :):):)