Yes. Yes they are.
A couple other pet peeves to add to my ever expanding list:
'PC'; not personal computers, political correctness. It's all just bovine feces in the end.
People jumping to conclusions; e.i. "OHMAIGAWD UR RACIST!111!!!" No, I'm just foreign enough that I can say I have relatives all over the world. Mind you, I'm such a mongrel that I'm a race unto myself. So fuck it, call me racist if you want. But I'll give you some family history...
On my mother's side - father was(is?) West-Indian Hindi (Black & Indian) Yup, a little African decent with some Asian thrown in for good measure. Her mother is Scottish, Irish, English. A true Brit with the potential of a little German in there. I haven't traced that old windbag's history very far.
My father's side: father was Chinese & French-Canadian. Mother was Russian.
What does that mean? I'm foreign, in the 'PC' way of saying it: Anglo Scottish Irish Russian Chinese French-Canadian West-Indian Hindu.
But fuck it, as I'm half the races on the planet, I'm obviously the most racist of you all, with my roving ravings about how shit the current country I live in is - despite the fact that I bitched constantly about how shit Singapore was when I lived there. Oh, and the fact I'm offensive to anyone and everyone irrespective of race, gender, sexual orientation or political stance.
Obviously makes me scum because I'm honest about shit y'all clam the fuck up about.
Right, that's enough ranting, I'm off to do some writing. o/