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I clicked on this thread so I could use my ultra politically correct e-penis to dominate the thread and draw attention to how refined my delicate sensibilities are, but I can see that’s no longer necessary.
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It’s all about your e-penis, isn’t it? It oppresses me.
[QUOTE=Zsofia]
It’s all about your e-penis, isn’t it? It oppresses me.
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Most people have to pay extra for that.
[QUOTE=Miller]
Most people have to pay extra for that.
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Is that some sort of crack aimed at the pricing policies of our free-lance sex workers?
[QUOTE=Colibri]
Ha. For some reason, my Spanish gets much much worse whenever I have to talk to a traffic cop here.
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I only had to speak to one cop, but also a couple of subway ticket checkers when I lived in Vienna. While I could get by in German, the situations made me nervous enough to hurt my fluency, AND in the case of the cop, it was important that I not be misunderstood…he had showed up at hotel room looking for a fugative. In all these cases, I first asked if they spoke english before continuing in broken German. It’s not that I can’t speak German, just WAY more comfortable in english.
[QUOTE=Omegaman]
Of course I considered it . Did you miss the part where I said we hired 2 spanish people to take care of those specific customers? :dubious:
It’s not all about the money. My crew and I make customers for life.
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So why do you laugh at them when they say they don’t speak English? Because they don’t want to get into a long, involved conversations-- in English-- about how they don’t really want to speak it if they don’t have to and you find it hi-larious to make them?
Seriously. I don’t get the funny there.
[QUOTE=Liberal]
The OP is an insult to the whole Mexican race. And you can rest assured that the mods will turn a blind eye — just as they do routinely when people bash the French race or the Canadian race.
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Now there you go insulting the blind race…
[QUOTE=silenus]
Is that some sort of crack aimed at the pricing policies of our free-lance sex workers?
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Yes, and only the homosexual male ones. After all, who else would want a crack aimed at them?
[QUOTE=mhendo]
Anyway, to the topic at hand. The only time i’ve really had occasion to try this sort of thing was when i lived in the UK and was pulled over by the police. On one occasion, i was lost and had made three circuits of a roundabout trying to figure out where to get off, and a cop pulled me over. I made with my strongest possible Crocodile-hunter-style Australian accent, combined with the dumb tourist look, and the cop very nicely gave me directions. Also worked once when i made an illegal right turn.
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My husband pulls this occasionally, when he needs a little extra customer service, usually with a bunch of superfluous “mates” thrown in for good measure. He even keeps his Australian drivers license right next to his U.S. one so that if he ever needs to show his license, it gives the cop the impression he’s right off the boat (although, thankfully, he hasn’t been pulled over in over a decade).
My brother had the opposite of the OP happen to him once. He was working as a landscaper one summer in Georgetown (very wealthy Washington, D.C. neighborhood). He was doing some work on a front walkway and I guess he left his tools in the way or something. The people who lived there came home and, in French, basically went off about him, right in front of him. My brother just happened to be pretty fresh off the plane after having spent two years living in France and Belgium. He addressed their concerns in very fluent French. He said they were dumbfounded.
[QUOTE=D_Odds]
Now there you go insulting the blind race…
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Well, I’m trying to earn my Offenderati Club Merit Badge, by coming up with a way to suggest your username is offensive to people who are Odd (with a capital “o” no less).
But I can’t. Oh well.
Two college friends of mine from Venezuela were making fun of a Chinese-born fellow student, when he walks over to them and, in perfectly accented Spanish, says, “I know exactly what you just said about me.”
[QUOTE=Miller]
Most people have to pay extra for that.
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Not if you’re a hot Persian chick.
That is hilarious!
My first girlfriend’s parents were immigrants from Hong Kong. They came to the US in the early 60’s or so. Her father’s extended family had been migrating to the US since the building of the transcontinental railroad, so they had been in Utah since 1869. Her father, Jack pretended to be younger than he was so he could attend the local high school and get a diploma. He worked in restaurants owned by his relatives and saved money until he could buy his own restaurant, sometime in the late 70’s. By the late 80’s he was a successful business owner and I worked for him as a cook.
I watched him play “dumb chink” (his words, not mine) on lots of people, pretty much weekly. If he tired of someone’s company or their conversation, he would respond to them with a blank look. He would say “Wha? no unnastan you” in a thick acent. And this was after he’d been in country 25 years. Then he would smile and wave goodbye as the person he wanted to get rid of would leave his kitchen. As soon as they walked out the door he would light up a Salem, turn to me and say ‘That fuckin’ asshole. I thought I would he would never leave. Some people can’t take a hint, you know? Did you get those prawns in the freezer?"
Goddamn Chinese bastard.
[QUOTE=Colibri]
I was wondering how soon we would get one of these stupid offenderati posts. The word “Mexican” was perfectly relevant to the situation in the OP. I don’t see any reason why it shouldn’t have been used.
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Le sigh.
OK, everyone, let’s put down the offend-sticks and back away from the keyboards.
I’m with JKellyMap on this one.
Now before y’all go accusing me (or him/her, for that matter) of being a member of ‘The Offenderati’, could I please make a helpful constructive suggestion?
(take a deep breath)
Go back and read JKellyMap’s original response.
Have you read it yet?
Now, is JKellyMap a member of The Offenderati?
I propose not. Here’s why. In order to be a member of The Offenderati, you have to… ACTUALLY BE OFFENDED!
Hello, people! Where in that response from JKellyMap is the slightest hint that he or she was being offended? JKM made a quiet point about the appropriateness of the title.
Contrast to this:
[QUOTE=A Monkey With A Gun]
You’re an idiot. Go away.
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I know who The Offenderati is here. It ain’t JKellyMap. It’s the OP and most of the rest of you.
The Mexican nationality of ‘Avi’ is not in fact so crucial to the OP that it must be affixed to ‘bastard’ in the OP’s title. Avi could have been Swedish and the anecdote would not significantly change. Avi could have been Israeli. In fact I do believe that’s a fairly common name in Israel.
“You Israeli Bastard”.
Sure, upon opening the thread and reading the OP, the context is seen. Does that mean there’s nothing wrong with the title? That the thread starter couldn’t have taken a smidgen more thought in crafting the title?
Guys. And gals. YOU are the Offenderati.
Yours,
Technically a Bastard
As both a Mexican and somewhat of a bastard, I take no offense to the OP, and deem the rest of you who think it’s offensive to be overly sensitive and racially ambiguous bastards.
We just had our house painted by a crew of Mexicans (parental heritage undetermined), with only the foreman being proficient in english. The others, I could communicate a bit with, so that was no real problem. The hilarity and hijinks ensued when my 21 year old daughter was sleeping in late Monday morning, when they started.
I told the boss she was there - they had no reason to even go upstairs the first day, so he told the rest of the guys she was up there, and sleeping. My daughter is much more fluent in spanish than I am, besides also being Messican (parental heritage known, we were married when Wife was 6 months pregnant, so damn near a bastard, though not really…) she had 4 years of Spanish in high school, and has done a Spanish Lit class in college.
She could hear them all talking to each other while she was asleep, wondering what she looked like, etc… She says they kept it clean, but thought she was obligated to give them some crap at SOME point. She woke up and left her room, and as she walked out, she heard the one closest announce about ‘la chica’ being up and about now.
She leaned over the railing into the living room and in Spanish, told them she’d be showering and coming down in a few minutes and asked if anyone wanted Dunkin Donuts coffee to let her know, because that’s where she was headed and would be glad to bring some back.
After that, they pretty much kept quiet when she was around, or just talked about work.
[QUOTE=Nancarrow]
Le sigh.
OK, everyone, let’s put down the offend-sticks and back away from the keyboards.
I’m with JKellyMap on this one.
Now before y’all go accusing me (or him/her, for that matter) of being a member of ‘The Offenderati’, could I please make a helpful constructive suggestion?
(take a deep breath)
Go back and read JKellyMap’s original response.
Have you read it yet?
Now, is JKellyMap a member of The Offenderati?
I propose not. Here’s why. In order to be a member of The Offenderati, you have to… ACTUALLY BE OFFENDED!
Hello, people! Where in that response from JKellyMap is the slightest hint that he or she was being offended? JKM made a quiet point about the appropriateness of the title.
Contrast to this:
I know who The Offenderati is here. It ain’t JKellyMap. It’s the OP and most of the rest of you.
The Mexican nationality of ‘Avi’ is not in fact so crucial to the OP that it must be affixed to ‘bastard’ in the OP’s title. Avi could have been Swedish and the anecdote would not significantly change. Avi could have been Israeli. In fact I do believe that’s a fairly common name in Israel.
“You Israeli Bastard”.
Sure, upon opening the thread and reading the OP, the context is seen. Does that mean there’s nothing wrong with the title? That the thread starter couldn’t have taken a smidgen more thought in crafting the title?
Guys. And gals. YOU are the Offenderati.
Yours,
Technically a Bastard
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Your edit illustrates perfectly why you don’t get the exasperation over being called out and told how to behave when there’s nothing wrong with the behavior that’s being reprimanded.
Ok nancarrow objecting to a innocuous use of the word Mexican doesn’t make you a member of the offenderati? That’s ridiculous. If I say that I know a guy that’s an asshole, is using “guy” objectionable? I mean that’s irrelevant right? I should say that I know a person that’s an asshole. You’re completely in the wrong here.
[QUOTE=Faruiza]
That’s IT. I have had it up to here <Points finger at the sun> with you jackass offenderati. Every time one of you namby-pamby fools rears your ugly head in a thread it derails a perfectly good story and besmirches it with your holier than thou stain.
You know what? Quit wasting our time with your personal crusade to defend the downtrodden, because here, right HERE there is nothing to get all twisted up and outraged about. Your furor over nothing is becoming tiresome. It has been done and done and done to death. Go join Amnesty International and DO something constructive if you have to, because there are far larger injustices in the world that actually need physical help. This thread and many like it are not one of those places.
As much as you’ve learned to search for the small things in life to get offended and scream about, I will hopefully someday learn to tune you dolts out. Think less of me? No problem there. I wish you into the cornfield. So it doesn’t matter. So there. Gah.
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:rolleyes:
[QUOTE=Nancarrow]
:rolleyes:
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That’s the only comment your drunken fingers can withstand, eh?
Bah. Right back atcha.
[QUOTE=Nancarrow]
I’m with JKellyMap on this one.
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You’re an idiot, too. Go away.
[QUOTE=Faruiza]
That’s the only comment your drunken fingers can withstand, eh?
Bah. Right back atcha.
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Actually it’s the only comment your response deserved.
Really. Come on a second will you? Read what you wrote. Compare it to what “The Offenderati” said.
(shakes head)