AFG Sallies

[shoki_de_nai]

Rainey_angel81

I live in California and there are a lot of immigrants here.. That's not the problem..but whenever I go to a restaurant with hispanic servers, they always ask me in spanish, what I want. I don't speak any spanish at all so I just end up shaking my head and telling them in english, what I want.

I don't think I look hispanic at all. And I'm not, I'm filipino and it seems that no one can tell the difference between hispanics and filipinos. I don't know about a lot of people...but the differences are pretty big.

But I guess what bugs me the most is that they expect me to know spanish and at least talk to them in spanish and I've even had bad service because of my inability to speak spanish to someone.

My brother and I are about 1/8 Native American, and my brother has darker skin. He gets mistaken as a hispanic a lot too....but only by people who are really hispanic. Odd how they're the one's that can't tell the difference.  

[Shaviv]

Rainey_angel81

I live in California and there are a lot of immigrants here.. That's not the problem..but whenever I go to a restaurant with hispanic servers, they always ask me in spanish, what I want. I don't speak any spanish at all so I just end up shaking my head and telling them in english, what I want.

I don't think I look hispanic at all. And I'm not, I'm filipino and it seems that no one can tell the difference between hispanics and filipinos. I don't know about a lot of people...but the differences are pretty big.

But I guess what bugs me the most is that they expect me to know spanish and at least talk to them in spanish and I've even had bad service because of my inability to speak spanish to someone.

Stupid question time.

Are there English-speaking restaurants around?

Mind you, when I go to restaurants, I'm just as likely to order in Hebrew as in English, but I don't eat out that often and the places I usually go, well, the help may or may not speak English but always speaks Hebrew.  

[Rainey_angel81]

Shaviv

Rainey_angel81

I live in California and there are a lot of immigrants here.. That's not the problem..but whenever I go to a restaurant with hispanic servers, they always ask me in spanish, what I want. I don't speak any spanish at all so I just end up shaking my head and telling them in english, what I want.

I don't think I look hispanic at all. And I'm not, I'm filipino and it seems that no one can tell the difference between hispanics and filipinos. I don't know about a lot of people...but the differences are pretty big.

But I guess what bugs me the most is that they expect me to know spanish and at least talk to them in spanish and I've even had bad service because of my inability to speak spanish to someone.

Stupid question time.

Are there English-speaking restaurants around?

Mind you, when I go to restaurants, I'm just as likely to order in Hebrew as in English, but I don't eat out that often and the places I usually go, well, the help may or may not speak English but always speaks Hebrew.

they're all english restaurants, but because of the high rate of immigrants, fairly all the cooks and servers are hispanic. Then again there are the expensive restaurants that have english/french/german servers.  

[Sirus Jin]

...So annoyed right now.

I comissioned someone off of gaia to draw some RP character's. Mind you, I mostly only do yaoi roleplays, and I was asking for something with two guys. I mentioned this in the thread, AND I mentioned it to her in a PM.

I wanted our character's doing something cute, or romantic! I EVEN PMed her to check on progress.

What do I get?

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/5415/copi1.jpg

THAT is not two guys. That is indeed a girl. So I PMed her, asking her about it, and she comfirmed it was a girl. Her excuse was that he looked like a woman. Yeah, I understand the mistake because he is rather femmy. BUT STILL. How can you ignore the fact that I TOLD YOU IT WAS A GUY. And I have GUY writen all over the thread. I'm annoyed. I'm even more annoyed that she won't redraw it. So basically 7.5K down the drain.  

[FogSage]

Poor Sirus. I'm sorry there's nothing that can be done...

If.....if you like, I'll gladly lend you some more gold if you want to comission someone else for what you want. o.o

I just want to be of some use to people.....and giving stuff to people always seems to help....I dunno. Just thought I'd offer.  

[Manda_Tifa]

shoki_de_nai

Rainey_angel81

I live in California and there are a lot of immigrants here.. That's not the problem..but whenever I go to a restaurant with hispanic servers, they always ask me in spanish, what I want. I don't speak any spanish at all so I just end up shaking my head and telling them in english, what I want.

I don't think I look hispanic at all. And I'm not, I'm filipino and it seems that no one can tell the difference between hispanics and filipinos. I don't know about a lot of people...but the differences are pretty big.

But I guess what bugs me the most is that they expect me to know spanish and at least talk to them in spanish and I've even had bad service because of my inability to speak spanish to someone.

My brother and I are about 1/8 Native American, and my brother has darker skin. He gets mistaken as a hispanic a lot too....but only by people who are really hispanic. Odd how they're the one's that can't tell the difference.

I encounter that a LOT down here in Miami....Especially with a name like Amanda...which is a hispanic name (I guess)....they just assume I speak Spanish. I hate that they seem to assume that I SHOULD speak Spanish...even though this is America. And while I'm aware that America doesn't have an official language, MOST of the populations speaks English...so...yea.

/rant.  

[Sirus Jin]

FogSage

Poor Sirus. I'm sorry there's nothing that can be done...

If.....if you like, I'll gladly lend you some more gold if you want to comission someone else for what you want. o.o

I just want to be of some use to people.....and giving stuff to people always seems to help....I dunno. Just thought I'd offer.

Aww thank you Fog heart

I threated to PM a mod, so now she's redrawing it. So you don't need to give me anything  

[Kakarotto-san]

Kaky is another year older today.. :O.. Whether or not I turned another year wiser is another thing..

Free cake for everyone!

weeeeeee  

[Eddily]

Happy Birthday Kago!  

[Crenn]

Happy Birthday Kaky!

(Although shouldn't this be in the birthday thread?)  

[Shaviv]

Happy birthday.

For your birthday, here's a joke, although I understand if you'd rather cry than laugh.

Q. What do you call a man who cuts social welfare funding to increase military spending by a quarter of a trillion dollars? (Mind you, total military spending is way over that.)
A. A patriot who loves our country more than any stupid socialist.  

[Selene Aries]

Shaviv

Happy birthday.

For your birthday, here's a joke, although I understand if you'd rather cry than laugh.

Q. What do you call a man who cuts social welfare funding to increase military spending by a quarter of a trillion dollars? (Mind you, total military spending is way over that.)
A. A patriot who loves our country more than any stupid socialist.

Unless that is meant to be ironic, it really isn't all that funny.  

[Sunegami]

Rainey_angel81

I live in California and there are a lot of immigrants here.. That's not the problem..but whenever I go to a restaurant with hispanic servers, they always ask me in spanish, what I want. I don't speak any spanish at all so I just end up shaking my head and telling them in english, what I want.

I don't think I look hispanic at all. And I'm not, I'm filipino and it seems that no one can tell the difference between hispanics and filipinos. I don't know about a lot of people...but the differences are pretty big.

But I guess what bugs me the most is that they expect me to know spanish and at least talk to them in spanish and I've even had bad service because of my inability to speak spanish to someone.

That happens to me a lot-- and I'm Italian! whee

I do know how to say "I'm sorry, I don't speak [or "only speak a little"] Spanish", so when I say that, they usually apologize & switch to English. Which leaves me sitting there like, "You couldn't've used English in the first place?" ::hopes she doesn't sound evil for writing it like that:: whee  

[Manda_Tifa]

Sunegami

Rainey_angel81

I live in California and there are a lot of immigrants here.. That's not the problem..but whenever I go to a restaurant with hispanic servers, they always ask me in spanish, what I want. I don't speak any spanish at all so I just end up shaking my head and telling them in english, what I want.

I don't think I look hispanic at all. And I'm not, I'm filipino and it seems that no one can tell the difference between hispanics and filipinos. I don't know about a lot of people...but the differences are pretty big.

But I guess what bugs me the most is that they expect me to know spanish and at least talk to them in spanish and I've even had bad service because of my inability to speak spanish to someone.

That happens to me a lot-- and I'm Italian! whee

I do know how to say "I'm sorry, I don't speak [or "only speak a little"] Spanish", so when I say that, they usually apologize & switch to English. Which leaves me sitting there like, "You couldn't've used English in the first place?" ::hopes she doesn't sound evil for writing it like that:: whee

I encountered a conversation between a hispanic woman, and a man she assumed spoke Spanish. He understood enough Spanish that when she spoke, he could respond...but he didn't speak enough to be able to respond back in Spanish. So they were having a Spanish-English converation. Half-way through she finally snapped and said "I find it really rude when two Spanish people are talking and one refuses to speak in the language." And he said (in English of course) "I totally agree with you, ma'am...but I'm from New York and don't really know much Spanish."

Apparently the two of them get along really well now....but hispanics who live in highly-hispanic populated communities seem to just assume that EVERYONE who lives there speaks Spanish, and thus that's the language they should (and in most cases CAN) start with.

Forget the fact that this is America and not Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua, Cuba, Spain, or wherever their from..... sweatdrop  

[FogSage]

If some guy at McDonalds said "How may I help you?" in Spanish around here, there'd be a riot. There are a couple Hispanic people around here, and people don't seem to like them, namely because "they're stealing all the jobs, a huh huh huh." stare

Well, I don't mean to sound this way, but would YOU want to go and clean a airport restroom for those wages? No thank you.....