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Post by Smithee of Zur-En-Arrh on Feb 23, 2010 17:49:04 GMT -5
I dunno, they tend to be pretty nice to me, but maybe that's because every single on of them is related to me.
That's how it seems anyway. God, did the Cadieuxs and Quesnels ever get around.
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Post by Atma on Feb 23, 2010 19:28:54 GMT -5
My best friend admitted two days ago that it pisses him off if he sees a sign in which Spanish text is written above English text. I thought I understood where he was coming from (our neighborhood is pretty heavy on the Hispanic population, and he said he didn't want to feel like a minority in his own damn country) but when I tried reasoning that maybe those signs are Spanish-first, English-second because they've been put up in places where it's far more likely that the customer base consists of Spanish-only readers, and that English-readers rarely visit. He didn't seem to understand my logic. He just repeated himself about not wanting to be a minority. At that point I figured there's no way I could reason with him and elected to drop it. (Then again...he admits that he's extremely Southern, and that this is where his mind set comes from. Doesn't mean I take any comfort in that...) People like this piss me off, too. Other cultures and areas and people and languages exist. It had a translation on it so what's the big deal? Even if it didn't, it's in an area where people who speak Spanish are far more prevalent and aimed at them. What I find absolutely hilarious and karmic about all this though is people who act like this often have the worst spelling and grammar when it comes to English. If you want others to learn it, perhaps you should go back and do it yourself, too. Severe patriotism is disgusting, but in cases like this, it's pretty much laughable. What an odd thing to get upset over. |
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Post by Weasel on Feb 23, 2010 19:43:09 GMT -5
Yeah, I still don't understand why the guy ranted about it for half an hour. I'm just glad there was at least someone else in the van with me at the time to keep him occupied, or else I wouldn't have been able to escape the conversation.
There are just some things even I don't want to talk about.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2010 20:22:48 GMT -5
I can tolerate seeing a copy of People en espanol at the checkout line. That's one thing. I take issue, however, with people who either don't make the effort to learn English, or try to pretend that they don't know it to get away with something. I think that might be the same sort of thing that's upsetting Weasel's friend. It's possible the guy is just being ignorant with the way he expresses those thoughts.
It does seem a bit foolish to have signs in Spanish or Chinese or whatever other language in a country with English as the official language. To a lot of people, that makes it seem as though you expect to move to this country and not put the effort into integrating yourself into the population. By comparison, you couldn't move to Japan and expect the country to accomodate your lack of comprehension of their spoken and written dialects.
True, it would be simple enough for all Americans to be taught English, Spanish and French throughout their entire school careers, but that's kind of missing the point. Non-English speaking people have moved to a country where English is the primary language. The English speakers shouldn't have to accomodate the foreign cultures.
Still, at the end of the day, I can't really get worked up about it. America was formed by the wholesale rape and slaughter of the Native Americans. We really don't have firm ground to stand on when it comes to arguments over outsiders changing a nation's culture.
Just my two cents.
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Post by Jave on Feb 25, 2010 14:18:02 GMT -5
The jerked around by school saga continues...
When we last left off, I was upset because I'd been told that a biology credit was acceptable, and then later told that I'd need to get a chemistry credit on my own time, failure to do so would effectively revoke my acceptance to college, and the $400 to reserve my seat (protecting me from the dreaded "waiting list") will not be refunded.
Fine.
So I got myself set up with a chem course, paid all my fees, and NOW I find out that I'll also need to be certified in both First Aid and CPR (to play second fiddle in a retail pharmacy? Really?) as well as get about seven different vaccines (yeah, fine, that's kind of reasonable) and a criminal background check (that one's very reasonable, actually) all out of my own pocket, and all on my own time.
Jesus, do these people not understand the concept of time constraint? Every one of these damn things cuts into work time, you know, that thing I do so that I can actually afford to take this course?
But fine, if I just attack the corners, and deal with each thing as it comes up, I should have enough time to get everything done without having to quit my job. What grinds my gears, though, is that I was not informed of any of this in advance! In fact, everything I've bellyached about in this post was not told to me until after I'd dropped four hundred dollars on my registration... non-refundable... and a hundred and fifty on my correspondence course... also non-refundable.
Private education blows; socialism for the win.
[/bitching and whining]
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Post by Smithee of Zur-En-Arrh on Feb 25, 2010 16:09:21 GMT -5
That's one left sided argument I agree with, very much. The schooling thing, it works much better.
I'm in a weird middle spot that isn't quite liberal, NDP, or conservative. That is if I could vote, that's where I'd stand. But whatever, that doesn't really matter, I'm but a young man.
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Post by Catalyst on Feb 26, 2010 5:03:36 GMT -5
Pissed off about school related things as well. Ordered my three textbooks from Amazon because the books where being overpriced at the bookstore and the teacher couldn't do anything about it (he tried). My books arrive neat and nice and I saved some bucks. Then a letter arrives. Apparently, somehow there was a stop payment issued on my check and Amazon is charging $50 bucks for collection purposes ontop of the prices of the textbooks.
The thing is though I just called the bank apparently they have no record of ever being charged and they won't budge on paying the $50 without an official statement from Amazon. Amazon's collection agency though says that the bank refused to pay and that they can't hand out an official statement.
Point is, someones lying and when I find out who, there'll be hell to pay.
P.S. I'm peeved finding out that stuff I used to own was actually worth some cash; Dinorider VHS tapes and Dinosarus Attack! collectible cards
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Post by Smithee of Zur-En-Arrh on Feb 26, 2010 10:01:27 GMT -5
I sold a Japanese Mario Advance for two dollars because I assumed it didn't work...
It goes for like 50$ on eBay! D:
I found it in a puddle and it didn't work on the GBA I tried it on. Yeah, because the GBA was the broken one! WHAT?!
Argh, so mad about that. Oh well, I'll get money some other time.
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Post by thethird on Feb 27, 2010 16:10:54 GMT -5
At school and a discussion about music starts, and someone asks a friend "Have you heard of this band?". My friend replies "No, what are they like?". Person replies "They're thrash metal grindcore".
What the fuck.
I dunno, maybe people like being able to exactly pinpoint what genre a band is but goddamn it, it sounds ridiculously stupid and (most of the time I hear it) extremely pretentious. Just call it metal and then demo a song for fuck's sake or something. If anyone can actually understand what a band that they've never heard actually sounds like from a subgenre's subgenre, then I must give you congratulations. Of course, this may be just because the person talking about the music was being damn high and mighty about their position on music compared to everybody else's.
.....and that's my over-the-top nitpick for today :l
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Post by muteKi on Feb 27, 2010 16:37:43 GMT -5
I seriously think someone should start a medio-core band for serious (yes I know that's a NoFX song name). If I have to be the one, then dammit, I will be.
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Post by Smithee of Zur-En-Arrh on Feb 27, 2010 18:44:19 GMT -5
I don't mind specific genres, but that's just a way to describe something. I don't even seperate rock and metal a lot of the time though, because they're often exactly the same.
Like, 80s Rush'd be "Prog Synth Rock", but that isn't nearly the same thing I think.
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Post by Catalyst on Feb 27, 2010 20:43:38 GMT -5
I just dislike it when people seem to chose the best band or first band in a genre and then refuse to give any other bands in the same genre any credence.
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Post by dooz on Feb 28, 2010 9:39:21 GMT -5
At school and a discussion about music starts, and someone asks a friend "Have you heard of this band?". My friend replies "No, what are they like?". Person replies "They're thrash metal grindcore". As a metalhead that is well versed in the endless pit that is metal subgenres, i can safely say that makes no sense. |
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Post by thethird on Feb 28, 2010 12:23:57 GMT -5
I don't mind specific genres, but that's just a way to describe something. I don't even seperate rock and metal a lot of the time though, because they're often exactly the same. Like, 80s Rush'd be "Prog Synth Rock", but that isn't nearly the same thing I think. Well, I dunno, I don't mind specfic genres, but when you're talking to people who largely aren't knowledgable about those things it really doesn't help at all and it's pretty annoying, personally. I have described bands like that before, but mostly I'd just put them in one genre and then try to describe what they sound like without using a bunch of labels. At school and a discussion about music starts, and someone asks a friend "Have you heard of this band?". My friend replies "No, what are they like?". Person replies "They're thrash metal grindcore". As a metalhead that is well versed in the endless pit that is metal subgenres, i can safely say that makes no sense. I can't remember what band the dude said, because he was sending out names pretty quick, but I am nearly 100% sure that was what he described them as. I actually laughed for a second and repeated him, before he confirmed what he said with a competely straight face. I just had no idea what the hell he was talking about. |
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Post by Ike on Feb 28, 2010 14:48:24 GMT -5
I'm too pissed off to rewrite it so I'm just gonna paste the chatlog: 14:10 Ike: i'm about to choke a bitch 14:11 Ike: this mother fucker just talked me out of a sale and then had the nerve to try to return something he had bought 5 seconds earlier so he could go to gamestop 14:17 Ike: he was in here for like 15 minutes 14:17 Ike: butting in front of people to ask me questions while i'm trying to help my other customers 14:18 Ike: and i'm being polite and everything and answering him but trying to do my job 14:18 Ike: so he finds a copy of DBZ Budokai Tenkaichi 3 14:18 Ike: it's marked 17.99 14:18 Ike: he says he wants it 14:18 Ike: so i'm like okay 14:18 Ike: i get it and one of the discs is kinda scratched up so i run it through the resurfacer 14:18 Ike: one of my other customers asks if we have MKvDCU 14:18 Ike: i say no  we don't 14:19 Ike: he asked for the PS3 version, i only had 360 14:19 Ike: dude who was getting DBZ decides HE wants the 360 version of MKvDCU so he grabs that 14:20 Ike: and i'm like fine whatever, i was halfway through fixing your shit for you but ok 14:20 Ike: i ring it up, it's 24.99 14:20 Ike: turn out he doesn't have enough money 14:20 Ike: so he wants the DBZ instead 14:21 Ike: dude who wanted the PS3 MKvDCU hands me two games he's intending to buy and i get him completely rung up and he says "Man I wish you had Mortal Kombat, I really wanted that game" 14:21 Ike: dipshit with the DBZ says "Oh GameStop's got it for $30" 14:22 Ike: so the dude's like "Oh well I guess I'm gonna go down there" 14:22 Ike: so he doesn't buy the games 14:22 Ike: by this time the dude had already paid for his DBZ and he hands it back to me and says "I'm gonna get it from GameStop." 14:23 Ike: so 14:23 Ike: i was like "Uh?" 14:23 Ike: "I can get it cheaper from GameStop." 14:23 Ike: THEN WHY THE FUCK DID YOU COME HERE YOU SHITPILE 14:23 Ike: (as a matter of fact, gamestop charges 19.99 for it, where we charge 17.99) 14:24 Ike: i just told him no, you already paid for it, its yours, you just talked me out of a sale and i actually lost more money than i got off of you so just get the fuck out 14:26 Ike: ughghghhh 14:27 Ike: why do the retards only come out on the nice days? |
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