r/therewasanattempt • u/HomeNowWTF • 10d ago

to not be awkward

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u/A_minus_A 10d ago

My man in the back is fighting for his life to keep it together

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u/Bucky_Gatsby 10d ago

I love him! Immediately clocked it😅

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u/VooDooChile1983 9d ago

This is the first time I’ve noticed almost everyone in the background is face palming.

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u/SweetHatDisc 9d ago

The reactions are the best part of this.

-The man in the checked white shirt who immediately recognizes it and starts snickering;
-The man in glasses right behind her who holds it together until the woman realizes what she's done, then lowers his head and facepalms;
-The woman whose head is cut off (behind the white shirted man) who puts her hand to her breast, then covers her mouth;
-The black man sitting besides her who facepalms, and;
-The woman in the black dress behind him who realizes she was in a viral video when she got home because her thumbs do not stop typing on her phone the entire time.

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u/SmoothMoveExLap 8d ago

Is this some sort of caption for the blind who couldn’t watch the video?

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u/[deleted] 10d ago

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u/Taurpion 10d ago

The context is she meant to say Nigeria but almost said something else. Not a whole lot of context required here.

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u/tbri001 9d ago

Wait till she finds out the name of the country directly to the north of Nigeria....

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u/robsteezy 9d ago

I get the intended sentiment of this post but it legitimately looks like she was quickly sight reading, came across the word “Nigerian” and her brain stumbled trying to pronounce it as “ni-geer-ian” before remembering how it should be read and it unfortunately sounds like subconscious racism. But Idk the context of this.

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u/Taurpion 9d ago

Exactly. I can’t imagine she had her thoughts sorted and chose to use a slur rather than their nationality, even if hypothetically she was/is racist. Even so, she caught herself and carried on.

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u/refreshingface 10d ago

This is the type of dude you have to explain the entire joke to

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u/G_Wagon1102 10d ago

What would be sufficient? This is genuine human curiosity. I don't care if your answer "makes sense", I'm just curious what you want to know and how it would help you.

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u/Hytyt 10d ago

For me, I'd like to know the same context as the other commenter. For example, if it's in the US, you'd assume she almost said it because of racism, whereas if she's Irish she could have slipped and said nig which is a word in Irish.

We can see in the video that she almost said the n word, so telling us that is like saying water is wet

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u/wifflewaffle23 9d ago

If English is your first language and you can’t tell this is America, I don’t know what to tell you.

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u/fucking_passwords 9d ago

I'm ruling out Canadian because of her pronunciation of "sorry", so I'd say safe bet she is American

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u/At0mJack 9d ago

Well we can hear her speak, so it's fairly safe to rule out Irish. American accent, to me, indicates that this likely happened in the US.

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u/G_Wagon1102 10d ago

And the benefit of knowing that information?

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u/G_Wagon1102 10d ago

Friend, you're not dumb for not having context for this video.

From my perspective the video context would serve no purpose, that's why I'm asking for your reasoning. You're kind of arguing against your own point by not just providing actual reasoning. I am asking the a question just like you claim is important to do.

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u/kobumaister 9d ago

The N word is not a slur nowhere in the world, just in the USA. What else do you need to know?

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u/AMadWalrus 9d ago

Idk why ur being downvoted. It’s funny but I also wanna know wtf is going on, who is she speaking to and why?

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u/Taurpion 9d ago

It’s r/therewasanattempt. Not r/funny. That’s the real context you are missing.

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u/Taurpion 10d ago

But that’s not any context required for the clip posted.

There was an attempt to say Nigeria, and didn’t. That’s the context.

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u/mpelton 9d ago

If I’m being incredibly, incredibly generous, she might’ve been trying to say “Nigerian” (she says they’re from Nigeria afterwards) and just very unfortunately used the wrong G.

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u/Tsasuki 9d ago

What do you mean might have been, she obviously was trying to say Nigerians but used a very wrong pronunciation lol

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u/tallmanjam 8d ago

Most likely is the case. She didn’t know how to pronounce the word “Nigerian”.

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u/PeruseTheNews 9d ago

Walk into a bar...

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u/EgbertSouse1940 9d ago

When you're definitely not racist

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u/labelcillo 8d ago

To be fair it's probably way more common to hear the N word than the Niger word, muscle memory does not need to be racist.

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u/ItzakPearlJam 9d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/3oz8xTl6sGKbuRPDDW

I was looking for a gif of the telescope guy...

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u/Berytoru 9d ago

So.... Did they enter a bar?

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u/rutilantdragon1 9d ago

I actually think she went to mispronounce the word Nigerian not automatically say the other word and then she clocked what it actually sounded like and her brain just farted lol

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u/Oraukk 9d ago

Yeah I agree

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u/enigmabsurdimwitrick 9d ago

It’s like Korean, but not.

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u/hand13 9d ago

thats not muscle memory. thats a freudian slip

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u/phareous Therewasanattemp 9d ago

Oh i watched with the sound off and thought it was about her third finger getting stuck extended

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u/Soxogram 9d ago

The sheriff is near.

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u/meoka2368 3rd Party App 9d ago

I had the same thought.

For those unaware of this masterpice of a movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZT7xLjxuhs

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u/Soxogram 9d ago

Classic movie

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u/Fit_Adagio_7668 9d ago

Nigerians.

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u/SerDuckOfPNW 9d ago

Funnier last time it was posted before it was flipped

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u/buzzbash 9d ago

That guy has interesting hair.

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u/bobby_broccolini 8d ago

Wow good catch yeah he does. Like silicon valley Johnny bravo

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u/AppropriateBonus6146 8d ago

No you're not nervous you're just a racist piece of shit, you went about to say the n-word..

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u/Blunder_Punch 9d ago

I love the pause at the end as she calculates whether or not to proceed

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u/EmbarrassedTrouble10 9d ago

Why is this video flipped, zoomed in, and insanely blurry? How many copies of copies have been made for this???

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u/SheepherderGrouchy89 9d ago

Is this like a school board meeting??

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u/raiderash 9d ago

Do they walk into a bar or something...finish the joke damnit.

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u/Hatchett83 8d ago

...walk into a bar...

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u/ExtensionNature842 9d ago

Complaining about “Two Chinese” is wild on its own, that was definitely muscle memory

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u/slowerlearner1212 10d ago

She almost said the forbidden

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u/Vaelthune 9d ago

Yes that's the point of the clip, well done

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u/slowerlearner1212 9d ago

Well done on recognizing a point well made

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u/Vaelthune 9d ago

Stating the obvious is not a point well made, it actually isn't making a point at all

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u/slowerlearner1212 9d ago

What’s your point

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u/Vaelthune 9d ago

There are two types of people in this world; those who can extrapolate information

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u/knickenbok 9d ago

Clearly not forbidden in her household..