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Trivial Pursuits => Wild Card => Topic started by: Bobby Isosceles on January 24, 2008, 03:44:18 pm
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Well, that's an unfortunate design.
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The only way that could be improved is if he was holding a pizza box, or perhaps a popcorn tub.
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No way that was unintentional. These are probably sold as some Hot Topicesque hipster store.
Funny as hell anyway.
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No way that was unintentional. These are probably sold as some Hot Topicesque hipster store.
Funny as hell anyway.
QFT. That is a pretty crazy design. Heh.
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Hencho en mexico? I've never ceased to be amazed at how awesome (yet tacky) south america can make religion look.
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Hencho Hecho en mexico? I've never ceased to be amazed at how awesome (yet tacky) south america can make religion look.
Fixed that for you.
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I shall pray to St. Peter for greater multi-lingual acuity.
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Better pray for geographical acuity, too. Mexico is part of North America.
But we'll forgive you, being as you are pretty much as far from North America as one can physically be.
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Better pray for geographical acuity, too. Mexico is part of North America.
Think NAFTA
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The largest gathering of people ever was when the pope came to Mexico City.
This is some of the useless knowledge I got from my history degree. (Did you know Red Foxx and Malcolm X had the same nickname when they were doing drugs in NYC?!)
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Better pray for geographical acuity, too. Mexico is part of North America.
But we'll forgive you, being as you are pretty much as far from North America as one can physically be.
Damnit. Now the secret is out: Us non-americans can be clueless about geography too. They're going to have my head for letting that one out of the bag.
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Eh, you'd be surprised how many Americans would make the same mistake. I think people sometimes use "South American" as a catchall when they mean "Spanish-speaking." Which is in turn often used as a euphemism for "illegal immigrant." (I'm not sayin' it's right, I'm just sayin' it's true.)
When Pedro went to Argentina to visit his mother's family, they laughed at him for referring to himself as "American." "We are *all* American," they said. "You are from the United States!"
Ah, cross-cultural semantics. Gotta love 'em.
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When Pedro went to Argentina to visit his mother's family, they laughed at him for referring to himself as "American." "We are *all* American," they said. "You are from the United States!"
Or was it "Usted es de los Estados Unidos!" ? It always weirds me out to see our country's name abbreviated "E.U."* We've got nothing to do with those crazy New World Order europeans!
Also, what is their collective word for us? "Estados Unidosanos" doesn't really roll of the tongue. I've heard "Norteamericanos", which we've already established isn't correct. Mostly, I hear "gringos".
* I actually see it pretty often, what with California getting stuff imported from Mexico.
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In high school spanish they insisted that it's E.E.U.U. which ever made sense to me. Maybe it was because they also insisted on teaching us a dialect that's only spoken like 7 time zones away.
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My biggest pet peeve is news stories or other serious writing using America or Americans to describe the U.S. I use it in speech but would never use it for something serious. It isn't right. America is a big place.
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So now I'm curious: Would you define Mexico as part of 'Latin America' or is it culturally distinct enough not to be that either?
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Eh, you'd be surprised how many Americans would make the same mistake. I think people sometimes use "South American" as a catchall when they mean "Spanish-speaking." Which is in turn often used as a euphemism for "illegal immigrant." (I'm not sayin' it's right, I'm just sayin' it's true.)
When Pedro went to Argentina to visit his mother's family, they laughed at him for referring to himself as "American." "We are *all* American," they said. "You are from the United States!"
Ah, cross-cultural semantics. Gotta love 'em.
Should we talk about how lots of people wonder what kind of money is used in Alaska, or what language we speak?
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So now I'm curious: Would you define Mexico as part of 'Latin America' or is it culturally distinct enough not to be that either?
Wasn't it Mexico that Dan Quayle was infamously referring to when he spoke of his regret about not learning Latin?
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When Pedro went to Argentina to visit his mother's family, they laughed at him for referring to himself as "American." "We are *all* American," they said. "You are from the United States!"
I've gotten that before and I always call bullshit. I don't think anyone considers themselves a citizen of a continent. Your husbands "American" family Are Argentineans, not Americans. We, on the other hand are Americans from America the country, not the continent.
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Except for we are from the United States of the American continent.
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Should we talk about how lots of people wonder what kind of money is used in Alaska, or what language we speak?
Five words: "What color was your igloo?"
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Five words: "What color was your igloo?"
It was yellow. I don't want to get into detail.
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kids used to ask my aunt if they ate Mexican food in Chile.
also, my grandma thought my mom was going to be Black, because the only Hispanic people in Boston at that point, apparently, were black Puerto Ricans.
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Should we talk about how lots of people wonder what kind of money is used in Alaska, or what language we speak?
Hey, the latter is not a totally stupid question. (http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080123/world/obit_last_eyak_1)