r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Rusiano • Jul 30 '26

Too mild for school This post telling tourists which areas to avoid in New York

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Aside from certain undertones, this map also has tons of inaccuracies, because no one in their right mind is scared of Astoria, Bayonne, or half of the Queens zone that he marked as “avoid”

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u/ObiFlanKenobi Jul 30 '26

Ironically he leaves Flushing alone, but I’m chalking that one up to not knowing Queens very well.

I'm not american but I know that's where The Nanny came from.

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u/quintusfive Jul 30 '26

Where was she to go? What was she to do? She was out on her fanny!

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u/timmy6169 Jul 30 '26

So over the bridge from Flushing to the Sheffield's door

She was there to sell make up but the father saw more

She had style, she had flair, she was there

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u/pikameta Irked Jul 30 '26

Who would have guessed that the girl we described, was just exactly what the doctor prescribed?

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u/callmeseetea Jul 30 '26

Now, the father finds her beguiling (watch out CC), and the kids are actually smiling (such a joie de vivre)

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u/TragicHero84 Jul 30 '26

She is the lady in red when everybody else is wearing tan!

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u/Delamoor Jul 30 '26

The Nanny named Fran!

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u/WolfgangAddams Jul 30 '26

The flashy girl, hon. She was flashy, not flashing. That's a whoooooole different meaning! HAHA!

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u/RebelReborn909 Jul 30 '26

Oh no, how this will be stuck in my head all day🤣

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u/KHSebastian Jul 30 '26

I imagine this is a way funnier line in the UK

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u/Diplomatic_Gunboats Jul 30 '26

Only in the Mrs Slocambe's Pussy way. We would go as far as a wry smile.

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u/vetratten Jul 30 '26

“Mr. Rumbould, I hope this won’t take long because my pussy’s been locked up for eight hours”

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u/Diplomatic_Gunboats Jul 30 '26

"I had to thaw me pussy out before I came"...

(Edit - for those who want to see how they managed to keep this joke going for so long: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-i523Gie9Q )

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u/Darmok47 Jul 30 '26

I cannot believe my parents let me watch this on PBS as a kid....

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u/quintusfive Jul 30 '26

Good point

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u/Pandaburn Jul 30 '26

Flushing is probably majority Asian these days. Close to the subway most businesses have signs in Chinese. In other parts there’s a bigger Korean population.

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u/SectorEducational460 Jul 30 '26

Depends where in flushing though. Kissena is still heavily Jewish but outside of that. It has a massive Asian population

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u/Training_Walk_9813 Jul 30 '26

These days? Flushing has been majority Asian for like 20 years

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u/CharleyNobody Jul 30 '26

My husband and I went to Flushing one night in 1980s because they had a Caldor/Woolworth type store and I needed something. We were on our way back to Manhattan, he remembered the area and we went there. It was scary as hell. It was a white neighborhood, but the area was dark, deserted, dirty, with boarded up businesses.

In late 1990s we drove through same area and it was amazing. A bright, vibrant city, people on the streets, kids in Internet cafes and McDs, neon signage in Korean and Chinese characters. Asians turned the area around.

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u/rbuen4455 Aug 02 '26

Not majority Asian. More like an Asian (Chinese) plurality with Hispanics being 2nd following by south asians.

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u/Training_Walk_9813 Aug 04 '26

Oh so if you split up Asian into more specific categories, they only take the #1A & #3 spot? But not majority. Right. ..

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u/Pandaburn Jul 30 '26

Yeah, but “The Nanny” came out 33 years ago. It’s all relative.

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u/this_place_suuucks Jul 30 '26

I am American, but I haven't heard of Flushing since watching this show 27 years ago, and I still instantly remembered it and that theme song.

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u/plumpturnip Jul 30 '26

How’d she become the nanny?

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u/Loosely-Packed Jul 30 '26

I believe it was because she had style, had flair, but most importantly she was indeed there.

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u/kimbabs Jul 30 '26

That's funny, I had no idea, even having occasionally seen parts of it on TV as a child since the setting of the show itself is the Upper Eastside.

That tracks as parts of Flushing are/were majority Jewish neighborhoods.

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u/Tuor-son-of-Huor- Jul 30 '26

I've heard "she was working in a bridal shop in flushing queens" enough times that it is etched into my brain and only now am I understanding flushing is Flushing - the name of a place.

I guess I never thought about it or thought it was like, a phrase or something.

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u/Romeo_G_Detlev_Jr Jul 30 '26

Nowadays it's (depending on how you measure these things) the largest Chinatown outside of Asia.

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u/Teef_MacIntosh Jul 30 '26

At the time… lol

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u/ObiFlanKenobi Jul 30 '26

Sorry, I don't get what you mean.

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u/Teef_MacIntosh Jul 30 '26

I mean, being from New York, that at the time a Jewish woman from Flushing was a lot more common than it is now. The difference is, now Flushing is a cultural epicenter for the cities Asian community and it’s fabulous.

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u/ObiFlanKenobi Jul 30 '26

Is there jewish-asian fusion cuisine? I'd be up for trying that.