This site is hilarious! "Where have all the white cab drivers gone?" and "What do you think about fat people?"

[mota bhai 2,675]

This site - Word on the Street is hilarious. It's a series of absolutely unserious questions asked about semi-serious topics of very serious people.

I'll post two excerpts - one from Where have all the white cab drivers gone? and another from What do you think about fat people?

MOHAMMAD SHIZAD, 42, PENNSLYVANIA

Where have all the white cab drivers gone?

White men have better opportunity, they have money. The quit the job! And somehow, they are the owner of medallions. You know, the thing on the hood? That thing? That is $600,000.

That’s a lot of money. Does a white guy own the medallion on your car?

Mostly white and Jewish.

Do you think Jewish people are white?

They are white, but they don’t think like white-white. Do you know what I mean? They consider theyselves Jewish, not white. American people say they are white.

So you’re saying white people don’t drive cabs anymore because there’s not enough money in it.

I mean, it is a very tough, hard job—believe me. I work 5 p.m. to 5 a.m.

BOOBERRY, 53, NORTH PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN

What do you think of fat people?

They’re people like me and you.

We are people. Neither of us is fat.

They just like you or anybody else, they’re just happy. You know, some people are fat, some people are skinny. Some people are tall, some are short. They just got different styles, and different shapes. They’re friendly people like me and you, like any ordinary person.

Do you think they eat too much food?

Oh, I don’t know, really. It’s just that they were born like that, that they just like to eat.

Do fat people run very often?

Maybe when they run and stuff like that, exercise might make them heavier. I think exercising is not good for you. It’s bad for you. I think it’s something where people work too hard or lift a lot of things. It may not just be that they sit around. Fat can just come from working too hard.

You’re saying there are some people who exercise and they actually get fat?

I think, yeah.

You sir, are a thin man. What’s your secret?

I don’t exercise. I used to lift weights but people say it’s dangerous.

Are you talking about heavy weights falling on a person who’s doing, say, a bench-press?

Yeah, like doing curls or carrying too many bags. Or taking care of babies and wearing heavy clothes. That’s what makes a lot of people fat.

Wearing heavy clothes makes a person fat?

It may be that.

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

That guy's name is booberry?

[mota bhai 2,675]

A quick google reveals that's a real name.

[luckytxn 2,265]

It is New York.

[mota bhai 2,675]

It is New York.

The greatest city on God's green earth, and don't you ever forget it tex!

[luckytxn 2,265]

Who says?

The greatest city on God's green earth, and don't you ever forget it tex!

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

A quick google reveals that's a real name.

It's also a hilarious children's cereal!

[mota bhai 2,675]

Don't be such an elitist.

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

Oh, I mean delicious nutritious cereal.

I wasn't allowed to have sugar cereal when I was a kid

[mota bhai 2,675]

I see, so you're one of those.

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

I see, so you're one of those.

One of what? But if you're thinking what I think you're thinking, then no.

Edited February 15, 2014 by Harpa Timsah

[mota bhai 2,675]

smh

[Penny Lane 8,159]

I'm not sure I've ever had a white cab driver.

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

I'm not sure I've ever had a white cab driver.

I've had a few in London. Most of the black cab drivers were white, iirc.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Most of the cabbies in new jersey seemed to be eastern European. I had a great experience going to the airport once with a Ukrainian bloke who couldn't speak any English.

Police closed the route 22 turnoff due to black ice and the guy tried to reason with the cops with the only English word he knew - 'motherfcuker'.

Pure comedy.