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Author Topic: Amazingly Stupid Things You've Heard People Say  (Read 1049843 times)

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Re: Amazingly Stupid Things You've Heard People Say
« Reply #7395 on: November 18, 2013, 07:39:46 pm »

Quote from: My mom's boyfriend
You know what you should do? You should make your own website, and get rich like those people on the internet.
That's less stupid and more...easier said than done. I mean, a lot of the really popular websites that made their creators wealthy were pretty simple ideas, or even copies of ideas other people have had just done better or got luckier. Unless he was assuming that simply making a website at all would somehow make you wealthy.

Kind of like saying 'You should invent something amazing that everyone wants and become a billionaire!'

He has no idea about how the internet works. He can barely open his e-mail.

Apparently just owning a website can make you millions.

Ah, well, that certainly counts, then.
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Re: Amazingly Stupid Things You've Heard People Say
« Reply #7396 on: November 18, 2013, 07:44:00 pm »

Quote from: My mom's boyfriend
You know what you should do? You should make your own website, and get rich like those people on the internet.
That's less stupid and more...easier said than done. I mean, a lot of the really popular websites that made their creators wealthy were pretty simple ideas, or even copies of ideas other people have had just done better or got luckier. Unless he was assuming that simply making a website at all would somehow make you wealthy.

Kind of like saying 'You should invent something amazing that everyone wants and become a billionaire!'

He has no idea about how the internet works. He can barely open his e-mail.

Apparently just owning a website can make you millions.
So i can make millions by owning a website that just says "shit" in large letters? WHY WAS I NOT INFORMED?
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Re: Amazingly Stupid Things You've Heard People Say
« Reply #7397 on: November 18, 2013, 08:11:07 pm »

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We aren't mexicans! The fact that we were born and raised in Mexico is pure semantics.
Ummm:
1) You obviously have spanish heritage
2) You were born and raised in Mexico

Yep, that about fits the definition of "Mexican" to me. :P
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Re: Amazingly Stupid Things You've Heard People Say
« Reply #7398 on: November 18, 2013, 08:51:28 pm »

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We aren't mexicans! The fact that we were born and raised in Mexico is pure semantics.
Ummm:
1) You obviously have spanish heritage
2) You were born and raised in Mexico

Yep, that about fits the definition of "Mexican" to me. :P
This so much.

I hate hearing "I was born and raised in whatever, but that doesn't mean I'm from whatever, because peanuts!".
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Re: Amazingly Stupid Things You've Heard People Say
« Reply #7399 on: November 18, 2013, 09:19:25 pm »

Quote from: Girl on the bus with obvious spanish heritage
We aren't mexicans! The fact that we were born and raised in Mexico is pure semantics.
Ummm:
1) You obviously have spanish heritage
2) You were born and raised in Mexico

Yep, that about fits the definition of "Mexican" to me. :P
If... they've naturalized wherever they are now, and it's not Mexico, then. Yeah, they're no longer mexican? If someone spent the first, say, five years in one country, and then then next 10-20 in the one they're in now... I'd say they're of the latter, m'self. They're from Mexico, sure, as per Tomato, but I wouldn't particularly consider 'em mexican anymore.

I can see where they're coming from, and I do imagine it's a source of great frustration for a lot of immigrants. Y'spend decades of your life in another country and they still label you as "other", despite you being one of them in basically every way but maybe skin tone and a few years back when you were a kid. Annoying, at the very least.
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Re: Amazingly Stupid Things You've Heard People Say
« Reply #7400 on: November 18, 2013, 09:21:34 pm »

Eh, I was born, raised and never been away from Australia, and I'm still a European. There is just no pleasing some people.  :P

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« Reply #7401 on: November 18, 2013, 09:31:23 pm »

I think the correct course of action is to not care about this sort of thing.
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« Reply #7402 on: November 18, 2013, 09:38:17 pm »

I think the correct course of action is to not care about this sort of thing.
Waaaay ahead of ya.
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« Reply #7403 on: November 18, 2013, 09:40:44 pm »

Where is your sense of over the top nationalistic pride?
Its as if you don't even take credit for the accomplishments of other people who were born in vaguely the same geographical region as yourself!

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« Reply #7404 on: November 18, 2013, 09:41:26 pm »

Where is your sense of over the top nationalistic pride?
In the same place as my racism and homophobia.
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« Reply #7405 on: November 18, 2013, 09:43:26 pm »

Where is your sense of over the top nationalistic pride?
Its as if you don't even take credit for the accomplishments of other people who were born in vaguely the same geographical region as yourself!
You're right, great people such as... uh... gimme a moment... any second now... nope, drawing a blank here.
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« Reply #7406 on: November 18, 2013, 09:45:40 pm »

You're right, great people such as... uh... gimme a moment... any second now... nope, drawing a blank here.
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« Reply #7407 on: November 18, 2013, 09:54:42 pm »

I feel much more Scottish than I do Canadian.

But I also feel very Canadian as well.

So I don't know?
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« Reply #7408 on: November 18, 2013, 10:22:53 pm »

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« Reply #7409 on: November 18, 2013, 10:39:35 pm »

Bone viking. Is it an adjective or a verb? CAN IT NOT BE BOTH‽
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