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  • We sing English in this country!

    This was more of a 'WTF, did that actually happen?' than anything bad. There is a bonus 'that could have been bad' story.

    On my way home yesterday evening I had the window rolled down since it was a nice day, listening to some music on my iPod. Traffic was heavy due to everyone trying to make it to Busch Stadium for Game 7 of the World Series; a drive that normally takes me about half an hour took nearly an hour.

    Waiting at a light that is notorious for being really short, I'm singing along to an opening song when I hear someone hollering "Hey you!" I ignore it, thinking it's towards someone else.

    I hear it again, and look around. I finally glance around then next to me and the car next to me has their passenger side window rolled down. I don't say anything, waiting to see what the driver wants.

    He leans over to his passenger side seat and says loud enough, "We sing English in this country!" then zips off when the light turns green.

    I was stunned.

    And the supposedly offensive song? "We Are", Strawhat Version.


    Bonus Story:

    The husband and I are heading to the gym and where the gym is located is right off the off ramp of the highway. Traffic is still kind of heavy and it's hard for me to get over. I end up going one light past and turning around. Just before I turn off, I mention how bad traffic is in the morning because the idiots don't know how to merge over into traffic. Just then, an idiot nearly gets himself plowed into from behind because he thought he could merge over.
    Random conversation:
    Me: Okay..so I think I get why Zoro wears a bandana
    DDD: Cuz it's cool

    So, by using the Doctor's reasoning, bow ties, fezzes and bandanas are cool.

  • #2
    Makes me wish I'd learned the Norwegian folk song my uncle tried to teach us at a family reunion. The only phrase I remember is "... a anus du ku ...", so I guess it was about long winters and cattle husbandry.
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    • #3
      I have my romanian buddy feeding me romanian dubstep, and I headbang to german metal or scandanavian metal in my car, or bollywood dance numbers. I think I have probably 75% nonenglish music on my Ipod ...
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      • #4
        I think we're in different countries; however we get the 'English!!!!' rant here too.

        So thanks to this idiot I now have the incentive to relearn the words to the Lichtensteiner Polka, which I used to sing with my maternal Grandma, so I can play and sing it REALLY LOUDLY while driving in my car.

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        • #5
          Quoth AccountingDrone
          scandanavian metal
          *drool* Swedish metal is awesome.
          A good chunk of the metal I listen too is foreign.
          But I ride the bus and listen to it via headphones. I've definitely gotten some looks though.
          Driver Picks the Music, Shotgun Shuts His Cakehole.
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          • #6
            that is just .. bizzare ..

            Quoth fma_fanatic View Post
            And the supposedly offensive song? "We Are", Strawhat Version.
            i love that song XD i'm also partial to rumble ball and run run run ^.^

            the second story is the reason why i don't dare learn how to drive.

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            • #7
              Quoth fma_fanatic View Post
              And the supposedly offensive song? "We Are", Strawhat Version.
              I wasn't familiar with the offensive song, so I clicked the link. I am very dissapointed. with a tagline of 'strawhat version' I was expecting some type of unrequitted or trecherous love triangle song involving blood relatives accompanied with high pitched wailing, banjos and beer bottle whistling.
              Last edited by Josh; 10-29-2011, 07:39 PM.
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              • #8
                I'm sorry, I didn't mean to disappoint.
                Random conversation:
                Me: Okay..so I think I get why Zoro wears a bandana
                DDD: Cuz it's cool

                So, by using the Doctor's reasoning, bow ties, fezzes and bandanas are cool.

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                • #9
                  Quoth fma_fanatic View Post
                  "We sing English in this country!"
                  This dude would hate me. At any given time, I will be listening to/attempting to sing along to songs in Japanese, German, Gaelic, and Spanish. And occasionally Italian if I'm listening to my Ten Tenors playlist.
                  "Things that fail to kill me make me level up." ~ NateWantsToBattle, Training Hard (Counting Stars parody)

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                  • #10
                    "We sing English in this country!"
                    Somehow I really doubt that.

                    Hell how many times have you heard a love song in the US or England where the supposed language includes phrases like "I wan chew".

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                    • #11
                      Oh, this guy would absolutely hate me. A quite large portion of my iPod's music is Touhou arranges, with a couple albums from Swedish artists on there (the rest is relatively "normal" rock and metal). I'll also sometimes switch to one of the Spanish radio channels (Spanish music always seems really upbeat and happy).

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                      • #12
                        Quoth PepperElf View Post
                        "I wan chew"
                        Somebody said, "Bite me!"
                        I am not an a**hole. I am a hemorrhoid. I irritate a**holes!
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