# Vent your spleen thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 1, 2013, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vent-your-spleen-thread/672818 "2013-11-01T04:49:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2013, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vent-your-spleen-thread/672818/41 "2013-11-07T01:30:33Z")
> [@Neidhart](#): > > This is an English-speaking country. Ballots should not be in Spanish. Neither should announcements on the buses. Neither should signs, labels or anything else not specifically directed toward the Latin-American community. > > When my ancestors came over, nobody put up signs in Gaelic for them. Why should today’s immigrants have it any easier? Try living where I live, in Quebec. I’m a member of the English-speaking minority in a place where many signs have both English and French, French being the dominant language. I’m grateful when the language of the minority (my language, English,) is present on signs as well as French. (Even though I do understand french.) ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2013, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vent-your-spleen-thread/672818/42 "2013-11-07T01:56:20Z")
> [@Asimovian](#): > > No, I meant a single, barrier-enclosed lane for those people. 🙂 Oh dear Og no. It’s easy to get shunted into one of these lanes because traffic is solid in both lanes and now you’re BEHIND someone who is terrified of concrete walls. You’re now trapped with no other option but to follow them. I still remember years ago getting behind some clod who drove WAY under the speed limit on a double line road. eventually the car behind would pass against the double line out of frustration and Mr Clod would then blare his horn at them. oooffff… rrrrrr… !#W$%$$#$^^&& ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2013, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vent-your-spleen-thread/672818/43 "2013-11-07T15:24:16Z")
> [@Neidhart](#): > > When my ancestors came over, nobody put up signs in Gaelic for them. Why should today’s immigrants have it any easier? Maybe they would have appreciated and benefited from some signs and forms in Gaelic. Government agents and business owners were notorious for using immigrants’ unfamiliarity with English to mistreat them or rope them into unfavorable contracts. I could do without this creeping trend towards putting news stories into Buzzfeed-esque lists. “Five Reasons The VA Election Matters”, “Three Things To Know About [Healthcare.gov](http://Healthcare.gov)”, “Six Facts About Syria’s Chemical Weapons”, etc. It’s as though people can’t keep up with a six paragraph article unless its enumerated. And, if that’s the case, I’m also tired of people who can’t keep up with a six paragraph article unless its enumerated. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2013, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vent-your-spleen-thread/672818/44 "2013-11-07T17:13:31Z")
> [@Seanette](#): > > My husband and I aren’t drinkers, so we feel a need to stay safely home and indoors on the big drinking holidays. See, it’s people like youse guys who force people like me to drink more in order to keep Big Liquor happy. Hope you’re happy! ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2013, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vent-your-spleen-thread/672818/45 "2013-11-07T19:16:56Z")
> [@Neidhart](#): > > This is an English-speaking country. Ballots should not be in Spanish. Neither should announcements on the buses. Neither should signs, labels or anything else not specifically directed toward the Latin-American community. > > When my ancestors came over, nobody put up signs in Gaelic for them. Why should today’s immigrants have it any easier? This is not an attitude to be proud of. Just because immigrants were treated poorly decades ago doesn’t mean they should be treated poorly evermore. How would we ever end any form of oppression if everyone had this mentality? ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2013, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vent-your-spleen-thread/672818/46 "2013-11-07T20:38:30Z")
> [@Rachellelogram](#): > > This is not an attitude to be proud of. Just because immigrants were treated poorly decades ago doesn’t mean they should be treated poorly evermore. How would we ever end any form of oppression if everyone had this mentality? If losing her arm in a textile mill was good enough for my grandmother, I don’t see why _today’s_ seven year olds should be any different :mad: ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2013, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vent-your-spleen-thread/672818/47 "2013-11-07T23:43:23Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > I can swipe my debit card while the cashier is ringing up my order. The store’s computers talk to my bank’s computers and get the OK before my order is rung up and I’m waiting on the cashier to finish. I start grabbing my bags and put them into the cart and all I have to do is wait for the cashier to tear off my receipt and hand it to me. Much faster than paying cash, IMO. I must shop and queue behind morons. The people ahead of me who want to use credit and/or eftpos invariably cannot remember the PIN or choose a card which is signature not PIN. Or choose a card which has expired, so they have to dig out another one. And then they choose one, the use of which takes them over their limit so they have to choose another one. So, yes, credit/eftpos can be swift. In my experience, though, it is seldom so. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vent-your-spleen-thread/672818/48 "2013-11-08T00:04:49Z")
> [@Neidhart](#): > > This is an English-speaking country. Ballots should not be in Spanish. Neither should announcements on the buses. Neither should signs, labels or anything else not specifically directed toward the Latin-American community. > > When my ancestors came over, nobody put up signs in Gaelic for them. Why should today’s immigrants have it any easier? When I travel outside the US, I’m grateful for things like road signs with English translation. Just sayin. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vent-your-spleen-thread/672818/49 "2013-11-08T00:38:45Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > When I travel outside the US, I’m grateful for things like road signs with English translation. Just sayin. Same here in Quebec, as I described above. As an aside: If this thread devolves into arguing, we’ll all know why ordinarily, mini-rants threads go in the Pit. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2013, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vent-your-spleen-thread/672818/50 "2013-11-08T01:18:17Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > Same here in Quebec, as I described above. > > As an aside: If this thread devolves into arguing, we’ll all know why ordinarily, mini-rants threads go in the Pit. 😉 oui mademoiselle! 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vent-your-spleen-thread/672818.md?page=2)