# 15 year old idiot of the week **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 22, 2005, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-year-old-idiot-of-the-week/295783 "2005-03-22T21:55:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-year-old-idiot-of-the-week/295783/41 "2005-03-23T20:40:51Z")
“I never listen to French; it’s unAmerican.” ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-year-old-idiot-of-the-week/295783/42 "2005-03-23T21:08:00Z")
Yeah, kid, there’s a war on, like the American Revoultion in which non-English speakers fought for your independence and helped give birth to your nation, like the Royal Deux-Ponts infantry composed of French and Zweibruckener German soldiers under General Rochambeau that helped win the battle of Yorktown. > [@](#): > > Needless to say, all the Comtesse de Noailles passengers anxiously awaited their arrival in the New World. On July 11, the convoy finally sailed into Narragansett Bay. “We cast anchor and the city of Newport now lay before our eyes. It is adorned with a very beautiful Town Hall as well as a beautiful church tower. As soon as we cast our anchors, sloops from the town approached our ships in order to sell us their wares such as cherries, apples, pears, etc. The people in these sloops were all black, that is, moors. We, however, could not talk a word with them and neither could they talk to us, because their language is English.” [http://www.americanrevolution.org/flohr2.html](http://www.americanrevolution.org/flohr2.html) ---
**Author:** ![Indyellen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/indyellen/32/4176_2.png) [@Indyellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indyellen)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-year-old-idiot-of-the-week/295783/43 "2005-03-24T00:12:53Z")
> [@Philster](#): > > Poor kid. > > He’ll just have to wait for National Intolerace and Ignorance Week. No, no, that’s **National Brotherhood Week** to you! _“Oh, the poor folks hate the rich folks, And the rich folks hate the poor folks. All of my folks hate all of your folks, It’s American as apple pie.”_ 😃 She wanders off humming Tom Lehrer… ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-year-old-idiot-of-the-week/295783/44 "2005-03-24T00:28:12Z")
> [@gobear](#): > > And I’m offended by your offense. Why do you discriminate against Gujarati, Marathi, Telegu, Malayalam, Tamil, Urdu, Assamese, and Konkani? I don’t speak yer crazy moon language. ---
**Author:** ![inkleberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f17d59/32.png) [@inkleberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inkleberry)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-year-old-idiot-of-the-week/295783/45 "2005-03-24T01:03:43Z")
> [@Sublight](#): > > I’m still waiting for one to say that foreign languages are un-Christian. The Bible is in english. And if it was good enough for Christ, it’s good enough for everyone else! ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-year-old-idiot-of-the-week/295783/46 "2005-03-24T03:14:14Z")
> [@Indyellen](#): > > No, no, that’s **National Brotherhood Week** to you! > > _“Oh, the poor folks hate the rich folks, > And the rich folks hate the poor folks. > All of my folks hate all of your folks, > It’s American as apple pie.”_ > > 😃 > > She wanders off humming Tom Lehrer… _Oh the Protestants hate the Catholics, And the Catholics hate the Protestants, And the Hindus hate the Moslems, And everybody hates the Jews!"_ Sorry, I could resist adding another verse, it’s one of my favorite Tom Lehrer songs, along with _Alma_ ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-year-old-idiot-of-the-week/295783/47 "2005-03-24T09:02:04Z")
> [@Sublight](#): > > I’m still waiting for one to say that foreign languages are un-Christian. Didn’t you read teh quote Miller referenced at the beginning of the thread? That’s exactly what they’re saying. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-year-old-idiot-of-the-week/295783/48 "2005-03-24T10:30:10Z")
On the one hand this is depressing, but on the other hand, I’m pretty happy about it. I mean, I can learn new languages and piss off the ultra-“patriotic” right all at the same time? Man, I am going back to my community college! ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-year-old-idiot-of-the-week/295783/49 "2005-03-24T10:43:54Z")
> [@betenoir](#): > > Didn’t you read teh quote Miller referenced at the beginning of the thread? That’s exactly what they’re saying. I know the dad’s comparing it to wearing a cross upside-down in a church, but I’m waiting for one to come out with a full-blown “If English was good enough for Jesus”-type quote equating the language and the religion. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-year-old-idiot-of-the-week/295783/50 "2005-03-24T12:18:31Z")
> [@Sublight](#): > > I know the dad’s comparing it to wearing a cross upside-down in a church, but I’m waiting for one to come out with a full-blown “If English was good enough for Jesus”-type quote equating the language and the religion. Well, one of the languages they seem to be upset about is Latin. . .basically the language of the Catholic church for all but 40 of the last 2000 years. This dude is hardcore VATICAN 2 – 2 THE X-TREME!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-year-old-idiot-of-the-week/295783.md?page=2)