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Chinese Conversation + Other
So, today was Thanksgiving, also known as, "******** your asinine "tradition" and your shitty food; oriental buffet tiem." Seriously, I have potato and dairy allergies, y'all can ******** yourselves, and your turkey usually sucks, too.

So, as I was sitting there, some Chinese flavored immigrants were speaking in the booth behind us. Something they said triggered Eavesdropping Mode, and the most intriguingly politically incorrect conversation unfolded. What he said was, "I wouldn't raise a family in America. It's not about right or wrong, it's about personal preference." Nothing I put here is word-for-word, but the message is still there.

Interesting things were about to happen, "I was raised in a certain part of China. The way it was for people was the husband got the main portion and the wife and children were fed the scraps/leftovers. For them it was like 1860 (some year in 1800's), and they just needed to get with the times." Right there, that last choice of words was a spectacularly interesting thing to hear.

Here's some health tips, "You need to have great health insurance in America, because everyone has unhealthy lifestyles. Everyone drinks soda and beer and eats fried chicken. It seems like everyone is getting sick a lot when I get sick less than once a year. The people are all lazy and don't do any exercise. We drink tea, and the Chinese food is healthy."

Another thing was about English, "It's hard to understand many people in this country. I'm not sure I can explain it, but you know how if you speak _____ (can't remember; think it started with an "S" wink in one part of China, you can have a sort of understanding of someone who speaks Mandarin in another part of China? There seems to be a divide in the English I was taught here and the mainstream English. The African Americans have this other type of English while others seem to say "y'all"." This was absolutely genius. I'm picturing those idiots who scream at others to learn English, yet they still can't comprehend the English I'm saying. Ya know, Total Language and all dat. Columbus didn't say "y'all", did he? How did that start, and why does the southern accent even exist? Y'all didn't like the mainstream English, so you Hipster'd Le Total Language into Le Special Snowflake Language?

Top-Tier Eavesdropping happened today. I then concocted the best phrase of the year sitting there, "I'm here to conserve traditional liberal values." I lol'd.

It's also a fairly strange Chinese place. They have Chinese music playing most of the time, sometimes with some English, but if you go next to the door to the food cooking room, they have Mexican music on. It's like, Le Gasp, they hire illegal Mexicans to cook Chinese food; lelz. The plates are barely ever clean, sometimes with dishwater, large chunks of food or streaks of food still on it, so I take a napkin and find the cleanest one to wipe off while standing there.





 
 
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