[QUOTE=NinjaChick]
“So, where you you go to school?”
“Ah, it’s a real small place out in New Mexico.”
“Oh, wow, Mexico? You must speak really good Spanish/Can you drink the water there?/Why would you want to leave the US?/Wait, New Mexico? What’s that?/etc…”
I wish it were just one instance with one person…
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Isn’t that why the license plates all say New Mexico, USA?
I mean, it’s the only state in the union that feels the need to point out that it is, indeed in the union. (Which doesn’t say much about the rest of us…)
[QUOTE=MadPansy64]
Today (not yesterday, or the week before – just today, between 3 & 3:15 pst) I heard:
Directed at me – “What, are you Ingrid Gorbo, and vank do vee all-von? Come over here and be friendly!”
Since I am a dumbass who didn’t instantly barf on his shoes in horror (meaning the herd followed him over to my not-hidden-enough smoke-time hiding place), this was followed by such conversation as, and I quote:
“It’s too bad the blacks and mexicans don’t just stay in their own neighborhoods anymore.”
"I told him that ‘all you ay-rabs need to shut up and let me talk to an Englishman’ " (especially priceless since I got stuck taking the complaint call, and the a/p clerk to whom my idiot cow-orker was speaking just happens to be a <gasp> Brit born, raised, and currently living in fucking London, England!), and, as an valiant, but futile, attempt to change the subject when I turned purple and started sputtering –
“I hope that litter-bug Ru-Paul gets the nomination so we don’t have to vote for that woman!”
For those of you who are offended by the term cow-orker, please allow me to introduce Patty.
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I don’t understand a single sentence in this entire post, except the quote about blacks and mexicans.
I’ll try. Really Not All That Bright went out to smoke (on break at work I assume.) Somebody called him anti-social, the herd of workers followed that person over to Really Not All That Bright, at which point he heard all the quoted clever thoughts escape their lips.
Here in Canada we used to have a show called “Talking to Americans.” Yeah yeah, I’m sorry we bashed you, but it WAS funny. Here is one of my many favorites. Rick Mercer was telling people that us Canadians were trying to stop our “National Igloo” from melting by putting a dome over it.
[QUOTE=tdn]
Didn’t come up with much. I did see that in Austria now Holocaust denial is illegal and could result in jail time. Maybe that’s a sign of changing times. But I’m not talking about deniers. I’m talking about Austrians not even knowing about it at all.
I’ve only heard that from two sources, but they were reliable sources. It would be interesting to find out more.
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How long ago would these people have been in school? According to my Holocaust professor, the Holocaust was not talked about or taught in schools in Germany, and likely other nearby countries such as Austria until the 70s/80s due to a general feeling that they wanted to “move on”. However, after the Holocaust miniseries came out in the 70s or 80s (I forget which), it sparked a shift in perspective in those countries. Today there is extensive attention paid to the Holocaust during schooling. If you’d like a cite I’ll need to dig through one of my old papers to find the actual source for that.
[QUOTE=control-z]
I’ll try. Really Not All That Bright went out to smoke (on break at work I assume.) Somebody called him anti-social, the herd of workers followed that person over to Really Not All That Bright, at which point he heard all the quoted clever thoughts escape their lips.
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But what do the clever thoughts mean?? I got the first one though - they wanted to say Greta Garbo, “I vant to be alone.” I’m confused about the “Ay-rabs” one, the cow-orker one, and the “litterbug Ru-Paul.”
[QUOTE=Dolores Reborn]
But what do the clever thoughts mean?? I got the first one though - they wanted to say Greta Garbo, “I vant to be alone.” I’m confused about the “Ay-rabs” one, the cow-orker one, and the “litterbug Ru-Paul.”
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He’s typing an accent. Arabs, and they mean “the litterbug Ron Paul” the politician.
[QUOTE=Ro Carter]
How long ago would these people have been in school? According to my Holocaust professor, the Holocaust was not talked about or taught in schools in Germany, and likely other nearby countries such as Austria until the 70s/80s due to a general feeling that they wanted to “move on”. However, after the Holocaust miniseries came out in the 70s or 80s (I forget which), it sparked a shift in perspective in those countries. Today there is extensive attention paid to the Holocaust during schooling. If you’d like a cite I’ll need to dig through one of my old papers to find the actual source for that.
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Thanks for that.
I have no idea how old these people were, having never met them, but I’m pretty sure they were adults at the time. This probably would have been in the early or mid 80s. And yes, they had just seen that movie.
[QUOTE=ForumBot]
OK, this salt + water crap is ending, right now.
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Sorry, but there is an answer to this. Salt is necessary for al dente pasta; it raises the boiling temperature of the water and changes the ionic concentration gradiant; the pasta cooks faster and absorbs less water as it cooks.
Salt raises the boiling temperature of the water because of the energy of solvation of salt, NOT because of the change in density or surface tension of the water.
If we added salt just for taste, we could do that after cooking; salt is added is for texture.
[QUOTE=Really Not All That Bright]
I don’t understand a single sentence in this entire post, except the quote about blacks and mexicans.
Can somebody translate?
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The “let me talk to someone who speaks English” thing was from a stupid, xenophobic fellow call center-type employee who said it to someone who speaks perfect actual English. Speaks it better, in fact, than anyone in the office, since we are all Americans living in the United States. The cow-orker was bragging about being stupid.
Cow-orker was originally a typo (in the Pit IIRC) that became a SDMB nickname (dare I say meme?) for an unpleasant fellow employee. It is overused, and irritates the hell out of a lot of Dopers.
The point was that very little of what I heard DID make sense to anyone but the people saying it. Sorry. I should have been more clear.
[QUOTE=j666]
Salt is necessary for al dente pasta; it raises the boiling temperature of the water and changes the ionic concentration gradiant; the pasta cooks faster and absorbs less water as it cooks.
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Googling produces plenty of links that suggest the effect of normal amounts of salt on boiling temperature is tiny. Here’s one:
Something like 6 times a normal amount of salt let to a temperature increase of 4 degrees F.
[QUOTE=Maui Lion]
This happened to my friend when she went to the mainland for college. A fellow classmate asked her if we had cars/streets in Hawaii, and if we had licenses and such.
Because apparently Hawaii is such an untouched paradise, and we live in huts on the beach, right?
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My cousin, who now works as an engineer for a MAJOR company, was convinced that I lived in a grass hut in Hawaii.
I would also encounter visitors who would discuss their “return to the states.” Invariably, these people were old enough to be cognizant of current events when Hawaii obtained statehood.
customer calls in about cellphone bill: “There is absolutely no way my bill is correct, I didnt use all that ‘air-time’, I’ve never even been on a plane!”
:smack:
