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two words.
Dumb Ass
It…
I just…
It’s only ten to one here, but fuck it, I need a drink now. Do you think my boss will mind?
Two more.
Fuck-witt.
So if they’re speaking Mexican, does that mean they can’t understand the people speaking Cuban or Dominican or Puerto Rican? (sarcasm) Wow.. and all this time I thought it was the same language!
What dumb asses!!
You might be a redneck if…
…okay, I know that everyone will be annoyed by my saying this because we’re not supposed to analyze these, but I really think this is fake. It’s just so over-the-top.
I KNOW there are people who actually think like these posters…I just don’t believe that this is a real conversation. Or so I will continue telling myself so that I can make it through the day without sobbing for humanity.
Frustrated redneck – what do you expect?
It’s only racist if you make it racist.
Let’s have a vote for dumbest poster. I vote for Greg.
Git outta my cuntry! They’re takin rrrrr jerbs!
Mmm, racism.
But how can Ryan and his friends speak english when they are not from England…?
lol @ Anne
As a high school Spanish teacher, I want to cry.
Boy howdy!!!
can you unscribble his last night?
p.s.
this is THE english we’re talking right?
Seems like someone mentioning “Spanish” would tip off SOMEONE else in these comments.
#4: that should be “fuckwit” – one word, one T.
What’s Mexican for “A plague on their houses and Montezuma’s revenge in their bellies”?
I’ve come across educated people who hold this view – that you don’t deserve to be considered a full human unless you can speak English. But unless we’re all going to learn Navajo, there’s no point in taking it back, is there?
I don’t know what’s more disheartening, the fact that this stupid status exists or the fact that there are so many assholes willing to back Ryan up. Ay dios mio!
I see racism is alive and well in certain areas..hmmm
I feel like at least some of the commenters are joking…
I speeka da Eenglish. I learn it from a boook. (Sounds better when Manuel does it)
I speak American!
Meaning, you are too fucking dumb to learn English?
Actually…sadly it is in fact real, I was the one that submitted it.
hehe Six
Amongst being fucking retarded, what the hell are they talking about? Burying boxes? Me no hablo fuckwit.
You should try living in a country with eleven – yes, ELEVEN – official languages!! You’d find it interesting but Ryan would be somewhat at a loss for words!
This is hilarious, “I assume its mexican, none of this losers could possibly be from spain”. I hate my school they forced me to learn american.
hahhahah oh so stupid and they are serious so this is ridiculously hilarious. Obviously they know their history so well and learning a second language is a big deal? complain like idiots stfu for not taking the advantages available that most likely will help you in the future.
Jesus fucking christ
Right on Jax, they should be here in SA with eleven official languages, that would be so bloody funny to see. “Me cague de la risa” LMAOOOO!
lol white people.
also, ADM indeed.
Okay, so I realize that “Mexican” is not actually a language, and that at least some of these people are probably kidding, but A) Mexican Spanish is quite different from Spain Spanish, and not in a good way, to the point that you can kind of justify calling the dialect “Mexican”, and B) having lived in a border state for over half my life, I’m inclined to agree with the sentiment, however poorly expressed. It gets so old, struggling to communicate with people like that. Learn the vocabulary of your trade, people!
And for the record, I’ve studied 4 languages other than English, attaining graduate-level proficiency in two of them, so it’s not like I just think everyone should speak “American” or whatever.
Wait, the Americans know english? Why don’t they use it properly?
@CT: Way to school us all, dear.
I love how your graduate-level proficiency in multiple language gives you the intellectual license to call Mexican Spanish < "Spain Spanish." Even in Spain per se there are multiple regional dialects (Catalan, Galician, Basque), which are vastly different. In fact so different that Hollywood movies are dubbed in Spain in each of the major dialects for theatrical release. So which one is the IDEAL "Spain Spanish," friendo?
Oh, and that quip about "learn the vocabulary of your trade, people"?! Assy!
Jason – THEY TOOK RRRRRRRRRRR JEBS!!!!!!
@sarcasticmeow
You should go to Argentina. Those people torture Spanish.
When I was teaching English in France, a lot of the teachers I worked with told the students I spoke “American.” Not American English, just American. So sadly this isn’t unique to our country.
CT, its all spanish, just different dialects, the vast majority is the same. its almost like the different slang words that scottish people use, which is still english but in a scottish dialect.
omg i just realised im going mexico and i accidentally learnt spanish! shit,
and yes to quote bry again…
THEY TOOK RRRRRRR JERRRRBBBBBBSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK! All this time I’ve been speaking Chilean and I didn’t know ):
Now, how can I learn this “Mexican” they’re talking about? Maybe I should re-watch “El chavo del ocho”
Fuck all you hippie liberals that are so quick to call this guy racist. What happened to freedom of speech? It seems like you cannot say anything anymore with out someone giving you a label.
I know several people who agree with this guy and I am one of them. As an electrician I know exactly what he is talking about. Most sheet-rocker’s get paid per piece they hang. They just screw it to the studs and then take their roto-zip and cut where they remembered the electrical boxes being. On a typical house there is atleast 5-6 boxes we have to find and un-cover. We don’t use the hammer method though,LOL. You can take a small straight edge (Such as a 2×1 or even a 2×4) and if there is a box, the wall will be bowed out. The wall will not be flat and straight. This method works 95% of the time. Another method is to mark on the sub-floor with a carpenter’s crayon. This works as long as you make it back to the job before the carpet or hardwood flooring is down (Which is usually the last thing done on a house)
Being English, I don’t really understand this. Could someone explain the terms to me?
Sheetrockers
Boxes
Real mexican, as opposed to spanish
Boy howdy
Dumb Ass
Fuck witt
Cuban
Dominican
Puerto Rican
Redneck
Frustrated redneck
A bonus point for anyone who can explain why English-speaking Americans have the right to feel superior, based on their language abilities, when they fail to use the English language properly!
@ sarcasticmeow: Last I checked, “Catalan, Galician, Basque” were, in fact, separate languages from Spanish. They’re spoken in Spain (and other places) which may be why you are confused.
And seriously, what is so “assy” about expecting a contractor to know the key terms for his occupation in the language in which business is conducted where he is doing said business? You’re so crippled by your political correctness that you’re going to end up with some remarkably shoddy home improvement work sooner or later, but have no recourse for fear of appearing too ethnocentric.
I understand there are differences in dialects, but thanks for the tip there, LOLJOKES. The Mexican Spanish I hear spoken all the time, loudly, in public, is coarse, guttural, and indistinct compared to that which is spoken in other regions. It’s easily distinguished even from Cuban or Puerto Rican variations. One might argue the same of “Scottish” or “American” versus other forms of English, but that was another post.
@ Goldenfry: Some of your questioned terms seem to be just for the sake of causing trouble, but…
Sheetrockers = people who install Sheetrock (a trademarked name for a variety of drywall, often used generically, like Kleenex or Xerox)
“real Mexican” = people from Mexico are not Spaniards; their language and culture are a combination of European and Native, with some other stuff thrown in
Boy Howdy = what people from other places think that Texans/Southerners say to express surprise, frustration, or other exclamations.
Dumbass and fuckwit = insults (did you really need these explained?)
Redneck = derogatory term for a person of working-class, usually agricultural origins, usually from the Southern United States. The term derives from their necks supposedly being red from sunburn since they work outside. The implication is that these people have little education or class.
The debate over English in America is extremely involved and volatile, but I think the general idea is that since our Constitution and other founding documents are in English, our Founding Fathers and original colonizers all spoke English, and most businesses, courts, schools, and other public functions are conducted in English, that English is our de facto “official” language. Thus, those who cannot or will not learn English are at a disadvantage.
That many Americans speak and write English *poorly* is another matter.
Well, the Spanish that’s referred to when talking about “Spanish from Spain” is Castillan. It’s the official language of the country. Galician, Basque and Catalan are the official regional languages in their respective regions, that’s all.
I’ve got a Spanish teacher who likes to share alot of info with us
… and yea sry, CT’s right.. i forgot to mention that they aren’t exactly different dialects. Catalan may be slightly similar, but Basque and Galician are pretty different from “Spanish”.
wow. CT is annoying.
I don’t know what’s more disheartening, the fact that this stupid status exists or the fact that there are so many assholes willing to back Ryan up. Ay dios mio!
I learned to speak the Mohawk language out of respect to original inhabitants of the country and state that I live in. I haven’t met a single person to have a conversation with but when I do, I will be ready!
wow, CT is racist. he likes those proper european spaniards, but not those coarse, brown mexicans!
and lmao at brian. methinks the gentleman doth protest too much. LOLing at the ‘insult’ of hippie liberals. are you 80 years old, or eric cartman?
it’s the lazy-minded martyrdom of a sad little fundie wingnut who cries about the mean liberals not tolerating his intolerance, or in this case, outright stupidity. sweetcheeks, the first amendment protects our silly ryan AND the people who call him an idiot. isn’t it amazing how it works? don’t like that those filthy liberals also have freedom of speech? try out another, less democratic country. The US is not for you.
@Brian
You had me at ‘Fuck off all you hippie liberals’. I could listen to you talk about your work all day. Tell me more…
@CT
I want to setup a threesome with you and my Brian. Oh the fun we would all have together. I could pretend to be sarcastic and you could completely miss it then we’d roll around in giggles, naked whilst BriBri gets his hammer out.
Too Soon? FTW!
@CT
Whilst I believe that it is important in this day and age for new immigrants to be educated in the English Language, I also believe that Spanish Language Education in the United States is in a sorry state. The reality of history is simply this, Spanish has been spoken on the North American continent continuously longer than any other Indo-European language. You and other English-only people may not want to admit it, but the Spanish language is just as much a part of your heritage as an American as English ist. Think of all the words that have entered our lexicon that come from Spanish: pinata, jalapeno, buckaroo (from sp. vaquero), yo quiero Taco Bell, camisole, casa, quesadilla, tornado, canyon, and on and on and on. California, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Texas,Florida, Louisiana, New York, Illinois, Oklahoma, and Nevada all have significant populations that speak Spanish. Other states that had not had significant populations of speakers are seeing a growth. Another reality that you and others may not want to face is that in this increasingly globalized business world, having another language at your disposal is golden in relations with other countries. Even if you are not fluent, having conversations in another’s language gives you a whole other perspective. Much of the world’s children are bilingual some have more languages than that. Many European children have an extensive education in their own language as well as French and English. American children on the other hand, only HAVE to take two to three years in a Foreign Language in public schools. Truthfully many do choose Spanish, but few usually leave with more than a sackful of useful phrases at their disposal. In this new world, that puts American children at a severe severe disadvantage in terms of employment and pay rate. Considering every country south of us speaks Spanish with the exception of Belize, Guyana, French Guiana, and Brazil (though all four have significant sized Spanish or Spanish Creole speaking minorities), it is time for all people to be educated in Spanish and in English. The fact that those gentlemen couldn’t understand the poster is as much the fault of the poster as it is theirs for living in a country with Spanish as it’s second language and never bothering to learn to communicate in it.
LOL@Too Soon?
Indigo lost me at @…
@Indigo #56: Dear, you raise some decent points, but by G_d, you’re long-winded. This is not the academic peer review forum of the Science Journal, bebeh. Brevity.Is.The.Soul.Of.Wit.
@CT: I am not “crippled by political correctness.” I live in LA and am surrounded on a daily basis by illegal immigrants who work their butts off as maids, produce harvesters, custodians, handymen, and such. They are decent, honest, kind people who come to America, YES, often illegally, with a hope to make better money than in Mexico. They labor like slaves and save every penny they make to send home. If you are not moved by their plight, you are not human. It is grotesque to ask these people to learn proper English. Most of them DO speak elementary English, and make an effort. Lest you fucking forget, California belonged to Spain before it was won over by the US in a war. How dare you put down the immigrant people who assure that you can have fresh tomatoes and cucumbers on your table? These are noble people, and we best honor them.
sarcastic meow and and everyone else talking about Spanish:
Galician and Catalan and Basque are NOT dialects of spanish. They are seperate entities all very unique and distinct. There are others, as well: Leonese, Asturianu etc. They are all romance languages like French or Italian or Romanian(except Basque which is NOT related to any known language except possibly Georgian). Catalan has some similarites to French. Galician is similar (but with very distinct differences) to Portuguese. All the romance languages have individual throwbacks to what we colloquially call Latin. But they are all extremely different from one another and with very diverse structures
As far as Mexican and Latin American Spanish: every country has it´s own slang and expressions and cuss words but it´s still Spanish.
To Ryan and his orignal whine: You learn another language to expand your brain power. Look at how ingenius the Swiss are, with only 4 languages. The brain is not like a file box that fills up. Memory in general is more like a muscle that the more you use it, the more you can remember. There are few things as effective at raising your IQ than learning another language, because it´s like growing another brain, a whole new chain of thought processes. At the very least another part of the brain that you never use.
As a rule, Americans are pathetic at foreign languages. We need to start teaching new languages at younger ages because after 8 years old the brain gets hard wired and it´s much more difficult to pick them up. Most Americans never even study a second language until high school when it´s practically too late. In most parts of Europe it´s in primary (elementary) school and a thousand times more effective.
And one more thing:
Why is it that the only thing conservatives want to have in common with France is the total rejection of a second language?
That is by far the WORST thing about France, that if you don´t have a perfect native accent you are automatically relegated to a lower class. Sound familiar?
I read “streethookers” at first so I was a bit confused.
I do so agree. The type of Mexicano we get is of the lower, guttural breed who cannot–simply cannot– comprehend the Truths of Sheetrock. Their mental conceptions are not adequate. One cannot express the sublime saxon nomenclatural delicacies in a such a coarse manner. BTW I speak Ancient Greek, Sanskrit, Icelandic and twelve other languages– I am no uneducated racist. But the crude border-mexican sheetrock-installer simply does not think of entering graduate school. He has not the proper regard for education. Inasofar as– MANUELA! MANUELA- TE DICHO MUCHO LOS TIEMPOS NO LAVARSE LOS PLATOS MUCHO COSTO DINERO EN EL DEESHWACTCHER!! Excuse me– where was I? It simply offends me that these people dare to seek employment without having mastered the idiom of our forebears– JOSE!? JOSE? MI CAJA NO PONER DONDE NO VER BIEN! TE HABLO ESTO MUCHOS TIEMPOS PERO SIEMPRE EL CAJO NO MIRAR!! USTED MEXICANO NO MUY INTELIGENTE PORQUE NO HAGO MUY BIEN CON LOS CAJONES. COMPRENDA?? O yes– it behooves one, one seeking employment to master the form of speech of those from whom one will be taking orders and whom one will be obeying… after all…
by God that old boy jeb and that old boy roy down nair at the dapartmant store near the post office across the street from that big ol tree near the ha-way….
i felt my brain died a little.
typical pee-brained loosers. I guess them mama is reel proud of dem boys…too much in breeding in that thar trailer park, i what I be thinking …. hick!
@ 65. loosers, them mama, dem, thar, i what i be thinking?
wow. at least some mexicans can speak proper spanish.
the world is full of dumb ass people.
Are they all serious? What dumb idiots! Mexicans and Spaniards all speak Spanish!! Only a few words may differ but generally they speak the language called SPANISH. Thank goodness they’re all friend because they’re all ignorant dumb asses.
I’m also doubting if they’re all Americans because it’s a pity they couldn’t even spell words in their language properly!
JODER!!!
@sarcasticmeow – well played sir/madame! Your posts were incredible!
wow, there should be a site lamebookresponses.com to post all the threads that become international debates
Ahem – http://xkcd.com/84/
Hah! ^ Burn!! Lolz…
PS: i might have used “Burn” in the wrong context… sorry
PPS: XKCD ROCKS
Damn this is offensive or saddening I don’t know. I’m from Honduras and we don’t speak errr Honduran….it’s SPANISH!
Are these people really that stupid or are they pretending???
That’s why we hate gringos…they think they’re all superior. There are obvious exceptions…I don’t mean to generalize…but daaaaaaaamn…
They are hopeless.
They aren’t pretending. They really are that stupid. I’m from America, and I run into idiots like this everyday. It’s sickening.
It’s really funny….¬¬ YOU’RE NOT AMERICAN ASSHOLES! AMERICA IS A WHOLE CONTINENT! MEXICANS, CANADIAN, PERUVIANS AND ELSE…WE ARE ALL AMERICANS!
¬¬ on the other hand…heeeey! look! I can write properly! And I’m not from USA! I’m peruvian, you see? And yet, you have made such a disgusting thin to your lenguage..”This is America..if you can’t speak english..learn it or get out!” WTF? honestly…the very first bunch of people that should leave are they! ¬¬ bleeeeh!
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I’m pissed of, so what!? >:0
I agree with NekoPau
It saddens me on a daily basis to witness such displays of absolute ignorance. I was born and raised in Mexico and I think English is a beautiful language, yet many native English speakers murder it constantly with their lack of basic education.
If as an American you’re so proud of your country, embrace your culture first and foremost by using your language correctly.
disregard that, i suck dicks
@78 FTW WIN
What ever idiot said that Louisiana and Illinois were Spanish names, you’re wrong. They are French. Notice the spelling.