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InvisibleLayYouIn
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My mom sent me an email...
    #9691647 - 01/27/09 09:38 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

i scrolled through it and this is how it went...

"How ALL phones SHOULD be answered!

GOOD MORNING, WELCOME TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.........Please Press '1' for English.
Press '2' to disconnect until you learn to speak English

And remember only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you, Jesus Christ And the American Soldier"

are christians pushing it these days?

i know how to speak english but that just seems...arrogant to me.

or are evil doers pretending to be christians to make the religion look bad?

:confused:

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Re: My mom sent me an email... [Re: LayYouIn]
    #9691669 - 01/27/09 09:42 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

Wow. Love thy neighbor, right?

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Re: My mom sent me an email... [Re: LayYouIn]
    #9691678 - 01/27/09 09:43 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

Quote:

LayYouIn said:
And remember only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you, Jesus Christ And the American Soldier"




Thanks for this, I'm going to use it all the time.


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Re: My mom sent me an email... [Re: Cameron]
    #9691686 - 01/27/09 09:44 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

yeah, something like that.  sure, anyone can become arrogant but it seems like christians are suppose to serve as an example and....well....they usually dont to me...in fact, they usually make me realize why some people hate on them.

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Re: My mom sent me an email... [Re: Cameron]
    #9691689 - 01/27/09 09:44 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

I don't think I should have to "Press 1 for English"

They should have to press 1 if they don't understand English

:crankey:


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Re: My mom sent me an email... [Re: LayYouIn]
    #9691690 - 01/27/09 09:44 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

eh, its typical conservative christian bullshit.

fuck foreigners, worship the military, GO JESUS! nothing new, i've been hearing this my whole life.

let them embarrass themselves, they don't know any better and they refuse to learn any better.

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Re: My mom sent me an email... [Re: LayYouIn]
    #9691714 - 01/27/09 09:47 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

If this is the worst of Christianity, then we should consider ourselves lucky we live with such a benign religion as the majority.

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Re: My mom sent me an email... [Re: DieCommie]
    #9691745 - 01/27/09 09:53 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

yeah they could be bombing people :bushtaliban:

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Re: My mom sent me an email... [Re: DieCommie]
    #9691814 - 01/27/09 10:04 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

This is not the worst Christianity has to offer. Every religion has extremists.

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Re: My mom sent me an email... [Re: Cameron]
    #9691838 - 01/27/09 10:09 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

Thanks dad.  :rolleyes:

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Re: My mom sent me an email... [Re: psilyguy]
    #9691854 - 01/27/09 10:12 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

Quote:

psilyguy said:
yeah they could be bombing people :bushtaliban:




:ilold:


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Re: My mom sent me an email... [Re: DieCommie]
    #9691858 - 01/27/09 10:13 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

Pardon my reasoning. :lol:

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Re: My mom sent me an email... [Re: LayYouIn]
    #9691861 - 01/27/09 10:13 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

So with that logic, you think I would be in the right if I moved to a small village in Japan and didn't speak a lick of Japanese, and expected everyone to accommodate me?  I'm sorry but if I'm going to live in a country, it's my responsibility as a human being to know how to communicate with those people.

Nothing pisses me off more at work than someone trying to get their computer fixed that doesn't understand 75% of what I'm saying. 

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Re: My mom sent me an email... [Re: Newbie]
    #9691884 - 01/27/09 10:19 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

:yesnod:


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Re: My mom sent me an email... [Re: Newbie]
    #9691903 - 01/27/09 10:22 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

Careful, or you will get labeled a racist publicly which could be devastating.  Those thoughts are best confined to your head and the internet.

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Re: My mom sent me an email... [Re: Newbie]
    #9691914 - 01/27/09 10:24 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

Quote:

NewbieShroomie said:
So with that logic, you think I would be in the right if I moved to a small village in Japan and didn't speak a lick of Japanese, and expected everyone to accommodate me?




lol, i bet if you tried, they would...maybe not...but who knows.  :shrug:

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Re: My mom sent me an email... [Re: Newbie]
    #9691917 - 01/27/09 10:24 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

Difficult business is probably better than no business. :shrug:

Plus, 75% is not 100%, like your Japanese example: a majority of immigrants know enough English to communicate decently; and they all know enough to survive, obviously.

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Re: My mom sent me an email... [Re: Cameron]
    #9691928 - 01/27/09 10:26 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

You dont need english to survive in many of the enclaves.  In fact, you need to know spanish to survive in some.

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Re: My mom sent me an email... [Re: Newbie]
    #9691933 - 01/27/09 10:27 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

Quote:

NewbieShroomie said:
So with that logic, you think I would be in the right if I moved to a small village in Japan and didn't speak a lick of Japanese, and expected everyone to accommodate me?  I'm sorry but if I'm going to live in a country, it's my responsibility as a human being to know how to communicate with those people.

Nothing pisses me off more at work than someone trying to get their computer fixed that doesn't understand 75% of what I'm saying. 




Too bad we have no official language. :shrug:

It could easily be that in the future Texas and socal has a majority of speakers-o-spanish.


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Edited by Acaterpillar (01/27/09 10:27 PM)

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Re: My mom sent me an email... [Re: DieCommie]
    #9691939 - 01/27/09 10:28 PM (15 years, 1 month ago)

I've expressed these thoughts to coworkers and managers, and they have no problem with me turning away a customer in that situation.  If they can't understand me and I can't understand them, there's no point in initiating a transaction.  I've even caught a few lying about it.  They PRETEND not to know english when I'm mentioning fees, data backups, for example.  "It's $99 for 9 gigabytes or less"  they go, "what backup?" I nunno backup" but as soon as I say "free", it's "Oh yea I take backup.  Back up dis dat dat dat."

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