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Mon Nov 12, 2012, 10:45 AM

Carolina (6,960 posts)

6. I love this

After "schooling" the rude woman, your sister and nephew should have started talking about her in Spanish or the Catalan dialect (?).

I just love it. People like her are rude (she butt in your conversation!), ignorant (no knowledge of Americans abroad, probably a birther too since Hawaii is foreign!) and mean (her tone).

They deserve in-your-face-comeuppance. It was almost like: "Proceed, Governor!"

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110 replies	Author	Time	Post
I Wouldn't Have Believed Things Like This Do Happen...Until I Witnessed It Myself. [View all]	Ikonoklast	Nov 2012	OP
Beautiful! nt	MrScorpio	Nov 2012	#1
Excellent! A lot of Americans are so stupid that they think	MineralMan	Nov 2012	#2
Kathy teaches English as a private tutor in Spain.	Ikonoklast	Nov 2012	#3
How offensive! It's Un-American to learn non-English languages.	MineralMan	Nov 2012	#7
How wonderful	femrap	Nov 2012	#21
Wow, that's so cool....archaic Greek?!? Toooo cool!	BlancheSplanchnik	Nov 2012	#51
Pepe wrote his philosophy doctoral thesis in Koine Greek.	Ikonoklast	Nov 2012	#58
Wow!!!!	BlancheSplanchnik	Nov 2012	#62
I once saw Americans referred to as	SheilaT	Nov 2012	#26
It's unnecessary to learn other languages, or even English,	TahitiNut	Nov 2012	#81
"...they think no American can speak any other language than poor English."	Spitfire of ATJ	Nov 2012	#89
My crazy RW cousin thinks that all billboards and	vlyons	Nov 2012	#103
Gees, wonder how that woman...	dballance	Nov 2012	#4
She should come to St. Paul, MN.	MineralMan	Nov 2012	#37
That's kinda cool the place is so diverse and you elected a Hmong immigrant	dballance	Nov 2012	#110
That woman must have been caught shoplifting at WalMart	JohnnyRingo	Nov 2012	#5
+10	RC	Nov 2012	#15
I love this	Carolina	Nov 2012	#6
Might as well talk about her because she probably thought you were anyway.	alfredo	Nov 2012	#54
or talk about her in English, as if she isn't standing right there	eShirl	Nov 2012	#67
it is kinda odd	hfojvt	Nov 2012	#8
Wait, what?	Aristus	Nov 2012	#9
Thank you, kind sir. You stated my views on this matter exactly.	Ikonoklast	Nov 2012	#12
US citizenship could expire, in the same way that British citizenship does	hfojvt	Nov 2012	#43
British citizenship expires?	Mariana	Nov 2012	#53
see replies 17 amd 18 below	hfojvt	Nov 2012	#55
Or maybe you have no idea what you're talking about. nt.	Mariana	Nov 2012	#73
This message was self-deleted by its author	hfojvt	Nov 2012	#75
Immigration lawyer here	The Hitman	Nov 2012	#98
I'm kinda thinking the same thing...	LanternWaste	Nov 2012	#76
'Skin in the game'.	Aristus	Nov 2012	#64
Thanks Aristus! "Shielded from your vote".. as if!	Cha	Nov 2012	#65
Your post makes you sound like a jingoist	lunatica	Nov 2012	#11
Oh, you....	ProudToBeBlueInRhody	Nov 2012	#13
The US of A is the only country I know...	mwooldri	Nov 2012	#17
I am in the reverse situation...I am a Brit living in the US..	truebrit71	Nov 2012	#18
Skipped all your Civics classes, did you?	MineralMan	Nov 2012	#34
Apparently, you know little or nothing about US citizenship law.	Surya Gayatri	Nov 2012	#41
I could give half a shit about US citizenship law	hfojvt	Nov 2012	#48
"I don't need to know anything about the law to have an opinion on it."	Surya Gayatri	Nov 2012	#50
actually, I know what I said	hfojvt	Nov 2012	#52
...!	Surya Gayatri	Nov 2012	#56
what is a stereotypical liberal?	datasuspect	Nov 2012	#60
no, but thinking you do and that nobody else does - is a sign	hfojvt	Nov 2012	#69
You got a right to your opinion	nadinbrzezinski	Nov 2012	#72
do I have a right to my own cliches?	hfojvt	Nov 2012	#74
Read on people who ave lost national allegiance	nadinbrzezinski	Nov 2012	#78
Interesting....	ProudToBeBlueInRhody	Nov 2012	#96
actually I have done that a long time ago	hfojvt	Nov 2012	#108
"I don't need to know anything about the law to have an opinion on it."	The Hitman	Nov 2012	#101
yeah, welcome to DU	hfojvt	Nov 2012	#109
Scratches head	nadinbrzezinski	Nov 2012	#71
my mum lived in America over 30 years and voted in Brit elections	Skittles	Nov 2012	#80
deduction fail X 2	lunasun	Nov 2012	#95
I find an extra measure of satisfaction in knowing that the woman was shopping in a store	beac	Nov 2012	#10
Precisely, beac! Wonder if she knew That! COSTCO IS A BLUE STORE~ nm	Cha	Nov 2012	#66
And, you have the last laugh.	MsPithy	Nov 2012	#14
Racism is an ugly thing. Being Cherokee when I darken up in the summer I often get, what are you?	sarcasmo	Nov 2012	#16
Where was there racism in this story?	AlexSatan	Nov 2012	#20
It	heaven05	Nov 2012	#27
If you were on the receiving end of the	lalalu	Nov 2012	#30
I would be annoyed by their ignorance	AlexSatan	Nov 2012	#33
The ignorance usually comes from the same source.	lalalu	Nov 2012	#39
Except this post	AlexSatan	Nov 2012	#44
That's one rosy way of looking at it.	lalalu	Nov 2012	#47
You'd be annoyed by their ignorance for the first three dozen times it would happen...	JHB	Nov 2012	#40
If it were based on race, you are likely right.	AlexSatan	Nov 2012	#46
One can see in my brother-in-law his Moorish heritage, he could easily pass as an Algerian.	Ikonoklast	Nov 2012	#32
Thanks	AlexSatan	Nov 2012	#35
come on ....	uponit7771	Nov 2012	#94
You get the what are you or where are you from too?	lalalu	Nov 2012	#29
I've gotten that question, and I'm white as Caspar,	closeupready	Nov 2012	#57
Great Story...thx	femrap	Nov 2012	#19
Makes you...	DirtyDawg	Nov 2012	#22
Im sure when that woman got home	MissNostalgia	Nov 2012	#23
typical	heaven05	Nov 2012	#24
To quote the late, great North Carolinian Republican Senator Jesse Helms, "If	coalition_unwilling	Nov 2012	#25
I've been told that Jesse Helms never actually said that.	AlbertCat	Nov 2012	#45
Have you ever seen an electrical explosion?	geomon666	Nov 2012	#28
That's a great story. Thanks!	mnhtnbb	Nov 2012	#31
I love it when some fascist pig gets it right in their face.	santamargarita	Nov 2012	#36
Perfect. Fuck the morons (well, not in the technical manner).	HopeHoops	Nov 2012	#38
I would have played her....	AlbertCat	Nov 2012	#42
Voter Demographics 2012:	Bernardo de La Paz	Nov 2012	#49
It's vital to remember that as ugly as the woman's words were,	burnsei sensei	Nov 2012	#59
Nope. Not most white people. Obama got a large white vote & many non-racists voted for Romney.	Bernardo de La Paz	Nov 2012	#83
K&R nt	ProudProgressiveNow	Nov 2012	#61
We would be a better country if we spoke another language. My Italian cousins	southernyankeebelle	Nov 2012	#63
I (heart) this story	libodem	Nov 2012	#68
Been on the receiving end	nadinbrzezinski	Nov 2012	#70
Interesting that someone in the line understood Catalan	DFW	Nov 2012	#77
Maybe she just wants her country back. (sarcasm) nt	morningglory	Nov 2012	#82
Don't think she understood Catalan, just knew it wasn't English	bigbrother05	Nov 2012	#85
I don't think she knew what language it was at all, she only heard my nephew speak about	Ikonoklast	Nov 2012	#88
Grocery line steriotyping is amazing.....	ReRe	Nov 2012	#79
My friend, it's no good until you end the conversation with "So Fuck Off !"	RagAss	Nov 2012	#84
Stuff like this happens all the time.	The Doctor.	Nov 2012	#86
re:I Wouldn't Have Believed Things Like This Do Happen...Until I Witnessed It Myself.	allan01	Nov 2012	#87
In which state does she vote?	lumberjack_jeff	Nov 2012	#90
The expansive world of the Teabagger.	AAO	Nov 2012	#91
Something similar happened to a Spanish conversation class.	knitter4democracy	Nov 2012	#92
I am really getting sick of the tiny box Americans put themselves in and then get mad when no one	Heather MC	Nov 2012	#93
I love this!	LittleGirl	Nov 2012	#97
Nice but...	The Hitman	Nov 2012	#99
The citizens native to Valencia speak Catalan, but it is called Valencian.	Ikonoklast	Nov 2012	#104
Kicky.....love the story.	yourout	Nov 2012	#100
Ignorance abounds in this country; thank God, intelligence is, mostly, its superior.	juajen	Nov 2012	#102
Proving once again, how uneducated some Americans are	sinkingfeeling	Nov 2012	#105
Simply Excellent!	Plucketeer	Nov 2012	#106
She asked for it!	reformist2	Nov 2012	#107

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