Pressing 1 for English is serious business.
 

I'm at work, and I just got another jackass who was "offended" that they had to press the number 1 to continue through our phone system in English.

God forbid we have a Spanish option in the Southwest corner of the United States.

Anyone else regularly have people "offended" by menial shit like this at work?

ROFL. You should have started speaking incoherently pretending to only speak spanish. Que? Que? No hablo ingles amigo!

It's just so damn irritating, and I can't put these assholes in their place because it'd end up with me fired.

It rather depresses me that the country is simply THAT full of racist bigots.

I like when people call the business and ask if it is still open (not store hours, but actually functioning). You would think that they would know when someone picks up the phone, but yah know. Old people are stupid. Our generation of old people are going to be smart and not stubborn. Except for K_A, of course. XD

If you want to go bitch about him, make another thread instead of fucking up mine. I'm actually rather tired of seeing this shit in every thread.

You don't like him, we get it. Was that really necessary?

Yes. The matter at hand is shortsighted bigot hicks whose heads reside firmly in their colons.

I love when they pitch me the, "This is America" crap about it too.

I'd love to point out that the country originated from immigration from pretty much every corner of the globe. Most of these jackasses are likely not even English in origin, either. I'll bet a large portion of them are of Germanic descent, like myself.

Fuck the immigrants. THEY TOOK OUR JOBS!!

You don't even work... but then again neither do I. lololololol

I wish I could get away with that, but alas...

Way to not contribute to your own thread by bitching at me. If you want to argue this point, please PM HoH or flame HoH in the flame forum.

I, for one, have to deal with many hispanics, so around here it is very common.

haha this was a thread not too long ago.

Although I agree with you on your first post, Volls, it can get irritating. My buddy C has this voicemail to where as soon as it stops ringing a lady's voice comes on and says "to leave a voicemail in spanish press 2, to continue in English press 1." Come on man. It REALLY confused the hell out of me the first time I called him, I was a bit tipsy, and ended up just hanging up. I thought I dialed the wrong number. That kinda gets to me a lil bit, but I'm the least racist person I know.

Why wouldn't people be offended that illegal residents invade our country and take our jobs, then not only does the government suggest we just let them stay, but companys start catering to them too? Really, most of them try to start learning English as soon as they get here, so the ones who can't are fresh-off-the-truck.

That's not the issue. All's fair in love and war, some competition never hurt anyone. It's when, like WW said, our government starts to cater towards them. They shouldn't even be here in the first place, why are we trying to make their stay more comfortable?

Because they are just as much human as we. They are just trying to escape desperate conditions as our great-grandparents were.

Could be worse. Look at Canada. They got stuck with French as their other language.

Well said.

I agree wholeheartedly with Grav in that sentiment. Except about the great-grandparents part. My (x)great-grandparents were brought here to be slaves. At least I assume as much.

But French sounds so much better than Spanish does.

I'm also with WW. From my observations, however, they don't try to learn that much English. I've learned a little retail Spanish to help out with sales and stuff, but for the most part I get sick of hearing "No hable ingles!" Or just having people smile at me like a big, shit-eating idiot.

I guess I don't interact with Spanish speakers that often. Mostly I get asian people who don't care enough to learn English.

And FUCK French. It's a snooty bullshit language designed for talking down to people. Spanish (I'm talking real Spanish, not the Mexican bastardization) sounds much better. But that's just my opinion, of course. Fuck French.

Mexican kids aren't allowed to have toys unless it is a soccer ball.

I had a black woman get really pissed at me because I asked to see her ID. Her card wasn't signed.

Too bad I do that to anyone without a signature on their card. Stupid whore.

I disagree. French is a beautiful language and flows smoothly. Spanish, niggard whether it's Mexican Spanish or Spanish Spanish, sounds choppy and rough.

French is the worst language I can think of to listen to, period.

Regarding the illegal immigrant stance, not all foreigners are illegal, and many do end up learning English (at least around here). I personally find it irritating that people are so damn high and mighty about it when their ancestors likely came over here not speaking a word of the damn language themselves. Most of these jackasses are merely speaking from the, "If English is good enough for me, then by god it's good enough for the rest of the world!" attitude, and it's just sickening how self-centered people are about this.

I think French is better than Spanish, but I've said that enough as is.

I've heard a lot of people say the whole world should speak English and only English. I find it foolish and sad because these people don't care how language is apart of cultural identity or anything of that sort.

I think a central language would actually help ease tensions in the world, but it's just bad to attempt to force it on others.

English is the hardest language to work and adapt, has the most rules and is the most complex... apparently. Though, there will NEVER be a universal language, anytime soon atleast, maybe a few thousand years from now we may see some sort of unity in language, but anytime soon not a chance.

I would never want a universal language.

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Just feels like it'd be something to slowly strip us of something...

It would also be a uniting factor for humanity. Personally, I would gladly rid myself of culture for the preservation of humanity.

I'm a bit torn on this, but I think I'd be for a unifying language. It would be another step closer to the world being, uh, united, to be redundant.

Just imagine what we could accomplish with the whole planet under 1 banner.

What we could accomplish could go both ways. I don't trust mankind, honestly, or have much hope that a lot of good would be accomplished, but I'm skeptical and I've no reason for my skepticism, sadly.

Honestly, a unification of mankind will not happen until we trust each other. That won't happen until after a fair period of goodwill, so I'm thinking that by the time this would truly happen, we'd have moved past the possibility of large-scale failure in regards to human relations.

Possibly, but then again look at our species. We can put on a mask of sorts and still hold hidden grudges and the sort. We'd unify, but there'd be much backstabbing in the higher-ups and it'd slowly poison into the common people. It's how our kind rolls, sadly.

We're ever moving towards mutual cooperation, even despite the crap we still pull. At some point we'll pass the event horizon and actually make it, I think. :)

I guess, despite the optimistic attitude I push out at people, I'm still a pessimist at the core. Maybe they will.

I might be the reverse, or have a slight multiple personality disorder. :p

Dissociative Identity Disorder is so sexy.