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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWhen you hear someone say "You people", what first comes to mind?
For me it is The Milagro Beanfield War.
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When you hear someone say "You people", what first comes to mind? (Original Post)
El Supremo
Jul 2012
OP
It depends. But usu. it means they're speaking of a group, a group of "others" not like them.
Honeycombe8
Jul 2012
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littlewolf
(3,813 posts)1. Ross Perot
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)2. Ross Perot...
El Supremo
(20,365 posts)4. Milagro came before Perot.
What came before Milagro?
turtlerescue1
(1,013 posts)3. First.
that someone is a pompous self-righteous !%##$. Then that he probably means me.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)5. It depends. But usu. it means they're speaking of a group, a group of "others" not like them.
But sometimes it just is an expression....I've told you people before! I don't do windows! Without "you people" meaning anything in particular.
Generic Brad
(14,274 posts)6. That it was meant pejoratively
It certainly is not a term of endearment.
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)7. a vision of a dog getting up his hackles is what comes to my mind
progressivebydesign
(19,458 posts)8. Ross Perot.. always. n/t
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)9. Rush Limbaugh. nt
madinmaryland
(64,931 posts)10. This (and it has nothing to do with trumad or Walt Starr)...