Patience?

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  1. Cody Fousnaugh

    Cody Fousnaugh Supreme Member
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    Well, telling a lie is sometimes a necessity. Actually, it is done much more than we think.
     
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    I have known a few uncomfortably blunt people in my time. Many people don't like their forthrightness, but as I point out, they are more trustworthy than someone who is gonna make you feel good by telling you what you want to hear.

    On the other hand, I have people in my life who don't deserve my honesty.
     
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    I love to hear Spanish. I'm learning Spanish and when I hear people speaking, I listen. I'm beginning to pick up conversation, which is a lot harder than reading it.

    We're not all bigots, Cody.
     
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    Hee, hee. That's some major bluff-calling, Chiquita......
     
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    I didn't see any "necessity" in that lie.
     
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    I moved to a place where Spanish was the common language, and lived there for twenty years. Although most people spoke some English, a large percentage of them didn't speak fluent English and a portion of them spoke very little English. They were patient with me speaking English, and not understanding a lot of Spanish.

    It did annoy me some when I went into a Texas bank and couldn't find a teller who spoke English, and it was a little annoying when people who did speak some English refused to speak English to me. But the more Spanish I learned, the more give and take there was on that front, and it never occurred to me that people speaking amongst themselves at the next table in a restaurant should speak English so that I could eavesdrop on their conversations.

    Had people at my table been speaking Spanish among themselves, leaving me out of the conversation when they were capable of speaking English, that would have been rude, but I don't recall anyone doing that to me except as a joke.

    As far as telephone options go, in the United States, the default should be English, while, in Mexico, it should be Spanish, but that's more a matter of convenience rather than being offensive.
     
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    I enjoy hearing all types of languages & all types of accents. Any decent person would not care what language others are speaking no matter where they are.
    However, racists wouldn't like it at all.
     
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    Inevitably, a lie whether spoken or written is a cover up.
    Either to cover for a wrong, cover for what one is actually thinking or to act as a facade in order to make themselves more than they really are.
    The latter to me is probably the most idiotic thing a person can do. Who they are is much more important than whom they wish everyone else to believe they are.
    Either way, I have no patience with any of them.

    Small Edit: To me, the one lie that I really want to smack someone for is stolen valor.
    e.g. Someone who writes or says they went to Vietnam but didn’t.
    You may have been on a ship @Cody Fousnaugh but you were there so it should bug you too.
     
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  9. Cody Fousnaugh

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    That must mean MOST of America are bigots. But, call us what you want, there are folks on this forum that don't like hearing Spanish spoken either. Are they bigots also? To you they are.
     
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    So, very, very true Bobby. It's like the guy I started talking to in a nightclub years ago. He told me he was a Team Roper, but didn't know the brand of rope he used or what his partners name was. I didn't finish the conversation, for obvious reasons, and walked away.
     
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    Mi paciencia está más allá de la gota ahora ;)-Estoy fingiendo mi español
     
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    All of you know that in one way or another, we're all bigots! Most, if not all, of us don't want to admit it, but we are.
     
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    I think there's a lot of fingiendo going on at this rodeo........
     
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    Sad as it is, I wish you were wrong….but you’re not.
     
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