BYC's Random Funny Posting Thread! Hosts Mike & Sally

[Smoked Brisket]

 

[PeaShack]

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Doesn’t matter what side yer on…that would be Minnesota right now!

 

[EmmaDonovan]

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Omg... how many times I've spoken perfect Spanish or French and the person I'm speaking to answers in English. I know they're trying to be politely accommodating but I'M IN FRANCE, I WANT TO SPEAK FRENCH, I STUDIED YEARS FOR THIS!

P.S. I was not wearing sweatpants!

 

[notabitail]

Omg... how many times I've spoken perfect Spanish or French and the person I'm speaking to answers in English. I know they're trying to be politely accommodating but I'M IN FRANCE, I WANT TO SPEAK FRENCH, I STUDIED YEARS FOR THIS!

P.S. I was not wearing sweatpants!

Here a lot of places will start with the Spanish first and then the English.

 

[Smoked Brisket]

I spent years trying to learn Spanish without much success.
But once when I thought I was getting it, I ordered breakfast in a restaurant in the Yucatan jungle. The poor waiter looked toughly confused. After a few back and froths we realized, he spoke Mayan, not Spanish.

 

[Smoked Brisket]

 

[EmmaDonovan]

Here a lot of places will start with the Spanish first and then the English.

You know who doesn't do that? Hindi speakers in India. Even if you speak awful Hindi they are so delighted you're trying to learn their language that they will continue to speak Hindi with you and help you right along, even when they know English!

 

[PeaShack]

Omg... how many times I've spoken perfect Spanish or French and the person I'm speaking to answers in English. I know they're trying to be politely accommodating but I'M IN FRANCE, I WANT TO SPEAK FRENCH, I STUDIED YEARS FOR THIS!

P.S. I was not wearing sweatpants!

I had exactly the opposite experience. Picture it, 1990, Paris. I am hungry and waiting in line at a Parisian bakery. I get to the register and she IGNORES me, waiting on the 10 Parisians behind me to be served and then lets me buy a croissant. I don’t speak French but I tried. Worthless female hound!! That’s what I said to myself when walked out. Maybe a different “cinnamon”, but what evs. Saved their derrières in WW2 and this is how they treat Americans?

Have to say outside of Paris the French people were much nicer.

I stepped in dog poop 3 times in one day in Paris (they don’t clean up after their pets) . Nowadays, it probably wouldn’t be dog poop…. Heard they now have human poop avoidance apps for the Champs Elysees just like they do in San Francisco. Ironic.

 

[notabitail]

You know who doesn't do that? Hindi speakers in India. Even if you speak awful Hindi they are so delighted you're trying to learn their language that they will continue to speak Hindi with you and help you right along, even when they know English!

Here if the person only knows Spanish you use Spanglish. Usually involves pointing at things, along with weird bits and pieces of Spanish and English.

 

[Fishychix]

I’ve only lived in Florida and Texas and both places people said “New-tella”.

I’m not sure how they claim it has no artificial ingredients…it does taste like stale, cheap, melted dollar store Easter chocolate found in a random drawer 5 year later, and you kinda look around to see if anyone’s watching before you peel the faded foil wrapper and pop it your mouth. And then you decide it’s disgusting before you eat the rest of the bag. Not that I know anything about that, just creatively visualizing. Ahem.

I hate that you're right ! It used to be SO good. They started using palm oil and who knows what else they did to it, but its really not nearly as good as it used to be.
We always said New-tella, even in Germany
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