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(i know i probably am) To be disapointed that whilst at my local shopping parade all around me were foreign.

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MAMAZON · 02/02/2008 21:12

I don't want to start a UCM type thread but it just struck me how prety much everyone i saw at the shops earlier was foreign.

no one seemed to be speaking English at all.

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MAMAZON · 02/02/2008 21:35

ooh dear.

well i shall report the thread before it all goes even more pete tong.

should have known that none of my posts would be read properly and people would just jump up and down

hey ho, know for next time.

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FrannyandZooey · 02/02/2008 21:35

'disappointed'?
what you were going out specifically in the hopes of hearing some people speaking English?

hercules1 · 02/02/2008 21:36

Perhaps if you explained it a bit better...

policywonk · 02/02/2008 21:36

TBH mamazon I think you have got off rather lightly.

FrannyandZooey · 02/02/2008 21:36

report it - why? because everyone isn't agreeing with you?

I want to know what you mean? why were you disappointed?

lennygrrl · 02/02/2008 21:36

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LyraSilvertongue · 02/02/2008 21:36

There's a lot of thread deleting going on tonight.

Lulumama · 02/02/2008 21:37

but i don;t understand your point

i would like to though

becasue it does just read as 'don;t like there being so many forriners around'

and if that is not the point, then i am happy to be corrected

cluelessnchaos · 02/02/2008 21:37

have tried not to jump and down, but quite frankly your posts have been small minded and biggoted.

sherby · 02/02/2008 21:37

I'm not sure why you would be disappointed unless you regularly chat with people when you are out shopping and felt that you couldn't do that today?

Or perhaps you felt that you couldn't identify with anybody in your native country?

PussinJimmyChoos · 02/02/2008 21:37

Oh I have a friend from there! lol at DH helping you with your English! I'm having to take Arabic lessons as my DH has no patience with teaching me! But then again, I am deaf so it does get a bit wearing for him I imagine....

hercules1 · 02/02/2008 21:38

Well, I've been married for nearly 13 years and still can't speak a word of Tamil!

scottishmummy · 02/02/2008 21:38

MAMAZON - are you bailing before you have to expalin your dubious mutterings

hercules1 · 02/02/2008 21:40

I don't think they will delete it unless you report yourself for being offensive. But I would be interested in hearing you explain your points further as it may be that you have been misunderstood.

stayhomemum · 02/02/2008 21:40

Ooh Arabic thats fab JimmyChoos. DH got annoyed when I was learning Turkish as I was always asking 'why this' and why that

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MAMAZON · 02/02/2008 21:41

no i have already said that disapointed was wrong.

it just surprised me, maybe it came as a shock that my communtiy had somehow grown so much so quickly.

i am used to living in London and enjoying the diversity of lots of different cultures around me.

but where i live now is (i thought) a lot less diverse.

but no doubt im a racist for noticing.

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PussinJimmyChoos · 02/02/2008 21:41

Hercules - I can ask for a shag in Arabic so that just about covers it really.....well, for DH that is!!!

I think Mamazon, as far as I understand it, was coming at it from the point of feeling in a minority rather than anything racist imo....but disappointed is not the best word to use as implies disappointment with foreigners

Waswondering · 02/02/2008 21:41

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cluelessnchaos · 02/02/2008 21:42

I was giving you the benefit of the doubt, until you accused everyone who had politely disagreed with you of misreading your carefully worded posts, not sure where I went wrong but I arrived at the conclusion that you didnt like being surrounded by immigrants

hercules1 · 02/02/2008 21:42

Perhaps surprised would have been a better choice. Disappointed doesnt imply the same thing.

Piffle · 02/02/2008 21:43

Given locally how most of the grammar school children here speak English, I'm happier hearing the other languages tbh
My brother is engaged to a Bulgarian lady, she teaches English, my exp is married to a Slovenian lass, she teaches dance (in english of course)
I am a foreigner but because I am antipodean I do not stand out as foreign?
We have a lot of Polish speakers around here, and a special range of products in our supermarket, lovely kids carrot juice in glass bottles.
I dig them being here fwiw same as I dig being here

cluelessnchaos · 02/02/2008 21:43

not for noticing just for being disappointed

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MAMAZON · 02/02/2008 21:44

our local shop has a lot of Polish products on sale now.

i bought some sausage type thing that was deliciouse. had no idea how to cook it asd i couldn't read the label so i cut it up and used it in a kind of rissotto.
was lovely

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CaliAndiemcdowellFrau · 02/02/2008 21:44

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moondog · 02/02/2008 21:44

I don't think there is owt wrong with what you are saying Mamazon.

It's always a worry when an indigenous culture is threatened (I speak as a Welsh woman with a fragile linguistic and cultural background.)

Doesn't make you a racist or a nutter or a loon to say it at all. Carry on m'dear.

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