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2017-12-21 Home Front: Culture Wars

Starbucks Customer Demands Asian Student Stop Speaking Korean

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-12-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 "President Obama said that everyone in here in America ... should speak English"

Then why are the ObamaCare websites (and Whitehouse.gov for a time) available in multiple languages?

He may have mentioned it once, but his actions were contrary.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2017-12-21 08:08|| 2017-12-21 08:08|| Front Page Top

#2 Throwing a flag on this.

Posted by swksvolFF 2017-12-21 13:29|| 2017-12-21 13:29|| Front Page Top

#3 I was once told to speak German in Germany. People get touchy when they can’t understand what you’re saying — they suspect you are talking about them.

To be fair, the time the trailing daughters and I were speaking in German in the Cincinnati grocery store checkout line, we were indeed talking about the lady behind us... who as it turned out also spoke German. I was mortified.

Posted by trailing wife 2017-12-21 17:18|| 2017-12-21 17:18|| Front Page Top

#4 I have a friend who was standing in line at the grocery store with her daughter, and they were speaking about the good looking guy ahead of them. In Hebrew. They were up to talking about how nice they thought his butt looked when he finished paying for his stuff. He picked it up and turned to them and said "Toda rabah" and left with a smile on his face. I guess sexual harassment wasn't a bad thing then. :-)

Posted by gorb 2017-12-21 17:25|| 2017-12-21 17:25|| Front Page Top

#5 To be fair, the time the trailing daughters and I were speaking in German in the Cincinnati grocery store checkout line, we were indeed talking about the lady behind us...

Reminds me of when myself and a buddy were riding a bus in Rio, the bus was packed! And these babes got on right behind us. One of the girls that was very well endowed was smashed right up against me. I was looking down her shirt and I said to my buddy: "This girl has a set of boobs that would put a Holstein cow to shame."

So this girl looks at me and smiles, looks at my buddy and says: "Wow, how many Americans are on this bus?" In perfect mid-western accented English. I know what mortification feels like.

Posted by Whusoper Threting3423 2017-12-21 19:23|| 2017-12-21 19:23|| Front Page Top

#6 Ermm, "Toda Rabah" is Arabic, "god willing".

Posted by Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-12-21 20:39|| 2017-12-21 20:39|| Front Page Top

#7 In Hebrew it means "thank you very much." :-)

Posted by gorb 2017-12-21 23:57|| 2017-12-21 23:57|| Front Page Top

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