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laladypoet

besides, saying "I'd like to" isn't the same as actually pulling the switch.

however, if someone killed a member of my family (or even my pets) I'd figure out a way to take them out. consequences be damned.

salt78

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[QUOTE]Heh, Salt. If I had the ass for them, I'd love jeggings.  I like leggings except when they sag at the knee when you stand up.  So comfy. UO:  I hate Glee. 
Posted by ohwhynot[/QUOTE]

<div>Glee is the devil. </div><div>
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laladypoet

as for the language thing, all I'll say is this: offering goods and services to people of different cultures and languages is capitalism.
forcing one language on a country is socialism.

Y I Oughta

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Unpopular Opinions : My coworker wants his son to go do an English teaching program in Korea. Coworker is half-Korean and his mother has hosted some Korean exchange students in the US and knows a family who said he could stay with them. I also have a friend who's there now teaching English, and I know people who have done the same in China and Thailand. It seems like an awesome experience.
Posted by msmerymac[/QUOTE]


I think everyone should have the luxury of a second language. If we ever have kids together Fi have decided that he and his family will only speak Korean and anyone else could speak English in order to teach the child both. Which will lead to the child speaking both fluently without an accent. 

From what I understand the language center of the brain is like a sponge up to around age six. Which make it harder for anyone over that age to learn a second language.

ohwhynot

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Unpopular Opinions : Now I understand how you can dislike someone off of one post.  JK, but I love Glee, so now I'm side-eyeing you!
Posted by dnbeach12[/QUOTE]

Ha.  I tried, I really tried, but it's just so preachy and unrealistic and eye-roll-inducing to me.  I also don't love the way they're sexing it up. 

Beachy730

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Unpopular Opinions : 1. I'll calm down about you butchering the lanugage you demand that everyone learn once YOU learn it. 2. "I want the blue one" is not a difficult phrase. <strong>The way you were talking about not being able to understand customers who call you, I was under the impression that you worked at NASA rather than Ikea.</strong> 3. I'm glad you won't travel to other countries without learning the lanugage first. Since all other languages are beneath you, you obviously won't take the time to learn them and therefore will be forced to stay in America the rest of your life. That's actually great for us though, because we really don't need you running around being the poster child for ignorant Americans. At first I thought your ignorance was funny, but now you're really starting to piss me off.
Posted by tortis[/QUOTE]

The bolded part literally made me LOL so hard that boogers shot out of my nose.  True story.

TurtlesAllTheWayDown

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Unpopular Opinions : affects. Good lord, learn English or go back to Austria - wait, you said you only speak HS German, where can you possibly go?! You're going to have to live on an island somewhere by yourself. ETA: <strong>The second bolded part - you are really never going to go anywhere until you can speak the language enough to completely get around? That is crazy to me. Clearly travel is not a big priority of yours - which is fine, but just weird to me since for me it is so important.</strong>
Posted by emilyinchile[/QUOTE]

That struck me as odd, as well, and made it obvious she's never traveled. i've been to the Czech Republic. How many visitors to the Czech Republic do you think study Czech for months before going there so they can communicate? Yeah. I learned a few key words AND traveled with a tour group and English speaking guides. And the Czechs are understanding that most people don't speak their language and they DO speak a lot of English. They don't just walk around telling people to speak to them in their language (which has 30 letters BTW).

I learned words and phrases I needed to get along in Germany. I used some of my broken high school French in Paris. It's usually a question of effort. If you can speak a few words of their language and the people working in the tourist industry can speak a few words of your language, you're fine to go on vacation.

Moneypenny424

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[QUOTE]If you don't care, why answer? It's relative, it proves the difficulty of the english language. I've gotta go- highlight for answer  It's pronounced Fish
Posted by Ghoti[/QUOTE]

I didn't know and had to google.  Fairly interesting.  I just assumed it was an Indian name.

The Mel and Todd Show

I hide my Glee obsession IRL.  FI knows because he lives here, but it's a well guarded secret to the rest of the world.  When someone gets in my car and the Glee soundtrack starts blaring from my iPod, I have to do a lot of embarrassed explaining and usually say that I downloaded it for my son. 

ETA- This was relevant when I though it would be right beneath OWN's post on the last page.  Now I'm too lazy to go back and quote. 

salt78

Hahaha I would be hard pressed to understand how you make it through the day if you can't decipher something like "I want the blue one".

MrsMack10612

I tried on the sig - let's see what happens.

Ok, I will concede that some of my "melting pot" comments where far too blanket statement-ish and a very, well, naive way of looking at things.  It really didn't seem that when I typed it.  Mea culpa.

I will also admit - though not sure if I've wholly changed my mind on the subject - you all have pointed out many perspectives I hadn't really thought of and enabled me to look at it with a different POV. 

I do agree that we, as a country are extemely arrogant re: English and we absolutely should require more extensive language classes in school.

I guess the bottomline for me is that I only expect English in the US and I wouldn't expect it in other countries - why should others?  And I don't think either of those things is unreasonable.

TurtlesAllTheWayDown

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[QUOTE]If you don't care, why answer? It's relative, it proves the difficulty of the english language. I've gotta go- highlight for answer  It's pronounced Fish
Posted by Ghoti[/QUOTE]

It's pronounced "fish." I didn't google. I learned that in 7th grade. It proves how difficult the English language is, which I mentioned in a previous post (-o, -ow and -ough, for example).

Edit: Dammit, you already gave it away.

Wrkn925

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Unpopular Opinions : Glee is the devil. 
Posted by salt78[/QUOTE]

Si.

Anysunrise

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[QUOTE]I tried on the sig - let's see what happens. Ok, I will concede that some of my "melting pot" comments where far too blanket statement-ish and a very, well, naive way of looking at things.  It really didn't seem that when I typed it.  Mea culpa. I will also admit - though not sure if I've wholly changed my mind on the subject - you all have pointed out many perspectives I hadn't really thought of and enabled me to look at it with a different POV.  I do agree that we, as a country are extemely arrogant re: English and we absolutely should require more extensive language classes in school. I guess the bottomline for me is that I only  expect English in the US and I wouldn't expect it in other countries - why should others?  And I don't think either of those things is unreasonable.
Posted by kjhowd[/QUOTE]

Add it inside of the <img= /> code. Like, after the url link and " mark, but before the closing arrow thing. And my bad, it should be <font face="Trebuchet MS" size="2">width="200px"

So all together : <span style="font-family:'Trebuchet MS';font-size:8pt;"><img src="pictureurl.jpg" width="200px" />
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Beachy730

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Unpopular Opinions : Ha.  I tried, I really tried, but it's just so preachy and unrealistic and eye-roll-inducing to me.  I also don't love the way they're sexing it up. 
Posted by ohwhynot[/QUOTE]

I think its one of those things people either love or hate.  I'm a big Gleek.  I can't tell you how many times I've busted out laughing so hard, then have to rewind it because I've missed the next few lines.  They definitely are sexing it up a lot, which I do think is a bit much for high school.  But in the same sense, thats exactly how high school is now.  At least the one I taught at.  Its really sad.

emilyinchile

Mery, exactly. I was supposed to learn Greek before I went to Greece? I may have been in a sorority, but knowing a few letters from the alphabet doesn't mean I even know how to say "I want the blue one." I try to learn hello, goodbye, please, thank you, yes and no in the languages of countries I'm going to for the trip just to make an effort, but even so I do not remember how you say goodbye in Croatian anymore.

TurtlesAllTheWayDown

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[QUOTE]Heh, Salt. If I had the ass for them, I'd love jeggings.  I<strong> like leggings except when they sag at the knee when you stand up.</strong>  So comfy. UO:  I hate Glee. 
Posted by ohwhynot[/QUOTE]

Another UO - I wish stirrup pants were fashionable. It solves a lot of the legging-bunching issue.

Birdie1483

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Unpopular Opinions : I don't know that we can be friends anymore. I made an effort last night to make you love her and you failed. Failed.
Posted by louisvillebride21[/QUOTE]


I'm sorry I can't be the perfect you want me to be!!!

Wrkn925

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Unpopular Opinions : Another UO - I wish stirrup pants were fashionable. It solves a lot of the legging-bunching issue.
Posted by msmerymac[/QUOTE]

Yes.  And I wish fanny packs were cool.  Not cool like the way we talk about them, but like cool enough for someone below retirement age and outside of an amusement park to wear.

Moneypenny424

I hate Dane Cook and judge people who think he's funny.

salt78

A friend of mine likened Glee to Cop Rock the other day. 

Most of you probably don't remember Cop Rock though.

salt78

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[QUOTE]I hate Dane Cook and judge people who think he's funny.
Posted by Moneypenny424[/QUOTE]

<div>UGH he's so gross. And have you seen him lately? He looks like a hobo.</div>

laladypoet

I'm bummed that I missed the debate goodness and came in when we're talking about glee.

Birdie1483

If FI and I went by the idea of not speaking to anyone who didn't really know good English, then we would never ever speak to our immediate neighbors since none of them speak English as their native language.

Hell, we should have just kicked the neighbor kid out when he came to translate what his dad wanted to ask us about building a fence between our yards.  Who needs to be friendly with their neighbors anyway?







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Moneypenny424

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Unpopular Opinions : UGH he's so gross. And have you seen him lately? He looks like a hobo.
Posted by salt78[/QUOTE]

Hee hee!  One of my friends paid to see him the other night and a part of me died.

ohwhynot

I've only heard one stand-up routine of Dane Cook and I have to admit that it made me laugh - it was the one about having a good cry. 

But I know he has a rep for ripping off other comics, esp,. Louis CK, and I love me some Louis CK, so boo for Dane Cook. 

I remember Cop Rock!  It was Steven Bochco, wasn't it? Maybe not, but it was supposed to be a big innovative hit and it went nowhere. 

The Mel and Todd Show

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[QUOTE]A friend of mine likened Glee to Cop Rock the other day.  Most of you probably don't remember Cop Rock though.
Posted by salt78[/QUOTE]

Wasn't Johnny Nagarelli (sp?) from Grease 2 on Cop Rock?  I only remember promos for Cop Rock...I was in my "I'm too cool to be mainstream but I'm secretly watching 90210" phase. 

emilyinchile

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Unpopular Opinions : I liked the one where he talked about how you'll never hear a bunch of guys saying they just want to go out and DANCE! in a big circle around their shoes and pocketbooks. that killed me dead. speaking of joke-stealing, I can't STAND Carlos Mencia.
Posted by laladypoet[/QUOTE]

Lala, YES! I will admit that Dane Cook circa 2006 is still funny to me - I have no idea what he's up to now.

Celles, you and me, eye to eye.

salt78

Off topic, but didn't geitler say once that she had a giant cross with a spider on it tattooed on her back? I always meant to ask for the backstory on that one and totally forgot.

The Mel and Todd Show

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Unpopular Opinions : I don't think so, but I could be wrong. It was definitely Steven Bochco though. I think the show only made it a couple of weeks. I watched a couple episodes of it even at 12 years old, I laughed at how moronic it was. 
Posted by salt78[/QUOTE]

IMDB says I'm wrong, too.