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I want to be a FOB

February 25th, 2005

FOB - n. - Fresh-Off-the-Boat

These three letters mean the world to some, and nothing to others. If you’re part of the former, this article is for you. What does it mean to be a FOB? Better yet, what does it take to become one? (the emo-glasses help, mike)
Well here are somethings I’ve noticed about fob’s.

1. In touch with the Motherland - this is of course obvious for foreign nationals. but also for those aspiring fobs (fobwanabes). Fobs love the homeland, and celebrate foreign holidays when no one else is.

2. Bad Grammar - no speaka engrish. whats the point in learning English correctly when you only moved here to get an education?

3. Awkward dress - they either dress uber trendy, i.e. stuff straight out of Anime or Hip-Hop videos, or uber dorky, i.e. stuff dougie houser used to wear as that 14 yr old doctor.

4. Homoethnic Coalescence - people of like kin congregate together. and then they proceed to move around as a single unit. like a giant asian snowball.

5. Misplaced Style - the haircut is straight out of anime, and yet no one in America watches anime. It is also a different color.

6. Babel - Instead of ever dropping a hint that they are learning from Americans, they speak in their fob bubble in their foreign tongue to only each other. The presence of non-foreign speakers does not stop them from conversing in a language that no one cares to understand.

7. V is for victory - ok, so Asia never won any world war, so why do they give the victory sign? Thus for photographic opportunities, these Vs are ubiquitous among the fobs, with a wide-smile grin to boot.

I leave you with our own Taibro version of the Fob Shot. Add your own observations!

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25 Comments »

  1. hey now.. don’t hate. fobs are cool.

    Comment by Mike — 2/25/05 @ 2:19 am

  2. LOL!! im a fobabe d=

    Comment by loddie — 2/25/05 @ 6:31 am

  3. V :cool: V

    Comment by Jon — 2/25/05 @ 8:22 am

  4. wah lau :mrgreen:

    Comment by tim — 2/25/05 @ 8:29 am

  5. You forget the FOBs in disguise!:shock: The ones that look like normal, everyday people, but turn into uuber fobs the moment they get near a fob “snowball”.

    Also, there’s the whole one-guy-horde-of-girls and one-girl-horde-of-guys effect that seems to take place.

    (and no hating of the anime! =b)

    Comment by zhoue — 2/25/05 @ 9:56 am

  6. The whole thing on no one watches Anime in America is so wrong… Webster even has an Anime club (and not one is asian…). I might add… FOBs are definitely cool. :smile:

    Comment by Elaine — 2/25/05 @ 10:56 am

  7. Hey, you forgot about the fobby emoticons they use, too:

    ^_^ instead of :-)

    >_

    Comment by Eric — 2/25/05 @ 11:26 am

  8. Oops.. I got censored… haha! Here’s a better list, anyway:

    http://club.pep.ne.jp/~hiroette/en/facemarks/

    Comment by Eric — 2/25/05 @ 11:29 am

  9. I like A FOB :grin:

    Comment by Lawrence — 2/25/05 @ 3:37 pm

  10. hahaha, nice :) I like your web page, it’s wonderful

    Comment by Kyla — 2/25/05 @ 4:42 pm

  11. yay for fobs!! you know you like us hehe :grin:

    Comment by Mazie — 2/26/05 @ 9:36 pm

  12. Hi,
    IM Haroon How are you can u send me Emoticons every day. BYe

    Comment by Haroon — 5/14/05 @ 6:56 am

  13. What are Fobs:?: and they do to have anime in America and i acasionally watch them when i get board.They are in english and i live in America so there.:razz:

    Comment by holly — 11/7/05 @ 10:44 pm

  14. The two fingers mean “Yeah!” not “Victory”…and nowadays they also do the “cool” pose where they use the “L” made by the thumb and index finger and put it right in front of the chin. Man, I could go on and on. It helps to live in Taiwan. One more to add to your list:

    They feel compelled to state the obvious. “You gained weight.” “You changed your hairstyle.” “You look like you haven’t been getting enough sleep.” “You have a zit.”

    Comment by Faith — 11/19/05 @ 1:30 am

  15. i love you so much. so much you can’t even imagine

    Comment by meegsy — 11/28/05 @ 10:28 pm

  16. v(^_^)v
    don’t be jealous XD
    “fob shot” was quite creative XD

    Comment by Anonymous — 12/17/05 @ 7:13 pm

  17. Don’t forget that FOB likes to use smileys/emoticons more than needed.

    Comment by Tai Bing — 4/15/06 @ 10:27 pm

  18. Tai Bing,

    You are more FOB than you think!

    Comment by GEE!!! — 9/2/06 @ 1:53 am

  19. uber trendy = awkward dress?
    Dude you need a pair of glasses.

    Comment by GEE!!! — 9/2/06 @ 1:58 am

  20. and a good pair at that.

    Comment by GEE!!! — 9/2/06 @ 1:58 am

  21. so what’s your point on this?
    FOB is not a race idiots, therefore they all don’t do everything like “FOB”’s
    you really need to get a life, if your considering this crap to be something that’d offend “FOB”s you’re just doing what a racist would be, why don’t you offend someone who’d live in ASIA for instance?
    why? cuz they’re trying to learn how to speak english just as well as americans, and how can you get education without proper learning of the language they TEACHES in? dumbass. if you want to learn the education in U.S, you’ll need to learn the american language cuz no one is gonna teach it in Chinese, or Vietnamese. Another thing, the finger in V formation isn’t just for Victory idiot, it can also be “okay” or just a pose for cameras. You’re just a stupid ass stereotype. so stfu before you try to offend someone :mrgreen:

    Comment by trippy — 7/1/07 @ 1:01 am

  22. “giant asian snowball” lol~

    Comment by Sherry — 7/9/07 @ 8:23 pm

  23. LOL THATS FABULOUS. You TOTALLY rock =).

    Comment by Anonymous — 11/17/07 @ 1:02 am

  24. I LOVE FOBS. they are so unique

    Comment by SEED — 12/2/07 @ 7:12 pm

  25. stay away from the triangle of FOBS ^_^ XD ^.^
    Go FOBS!!!

    Comment by Fobbulous — 5/21/08 @ 12:15 pm

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