To the group of Arab students in the library behind me… This is a fucking library, get the hell out of here if you’re just going to sit around, take up space, and yell in crazy languages, because honestly it’s pissing me the fuck off and I’m sure many MANY other people. Some of us are actually trying to get work done unlike you loud mouths. Learn to respect the fucking people around you! —Unimpressed Student
This article appears in Mar 31 – Apr 6, 2011.
Hey Pally, those budding doctors paid for the privilege and if you can’t appreciate the diversity that they bring to our homogenized whitebread Canadian culture, well I guess someone’s got some growing up to do. >; )
Seriously though did you ask them to keep the noise down or were they wearing bulky vests and mumbling to themselves?
..racist bastard.. these peeps are oppressed.. they must be allowed to vent anytime anywhere…
But seriously, why the thinly veiled racism? I’m sure you’d be just as annoyed if those folks were white and screaming in english.
What does it matter if they’re Arab. An annoying person is an annoying person. You sound like that annoying UCLA racist girl! Google it.
they were probly discussing ways to piss you off in arabic, and seeing how nuts you would go. guess it worked out well, cause here you be bitching about their crazy language.
and by the by, they are probly paying a fuck of a lot more in tuition than you could ever afford, even with loans. and hey, they just might turn out to be your surgeon one day, and that crazy talk, could be medical theory that they are going over. arabic is not a quiet language, trust me, it sounds as if they are yelling, but in reality, they are just noermal voiced.
They are PATRONS not ARAB students……your post speaks more about your attitude than their behaviour!
Ahhh that time of year: end of term and beginning of stupid library bitches. Greeeeeat.
I’ll add my usual response to this: ask them to stfu. It would probably take less time and energy to do so than coming on here and bitching about it.
Fucking wanker.
Also, i will add that culturally speaking, some cultures tend to talk louder than others, just like some tend to speak faster than others. Native english speakers, for example, tend to speak the slowest just like Mandarin and Cantonese native speakers tend to speak in their mother tongue quite quickly.
I doubt these people are speaking loudly to be assholes, they’re just speaking with the tone and inflextion they always have. And that’s what you have to learn to deal with when you go to a university in Canada with an international student population base.
Dude, hypocrite much?
Learn to respect the people around you before telling others to do so.
What the hell does there race and the fact that they weren’t speaking english have anything to do with this.
I hate bigots!
OP, what were they do? Firing weapsons in the air? Making that “la-la-la-la-la-” tongue twister sound? Were they plotting anything? There must have been a reason for all the noise they were making. Keep your eyes open OP.
i agree. their race is irrelevant, you giant ass hole.
And would it have made a difference if they were yelling in english? Who the fuck cares if they were Arab?!!? I bet what came out of their mouths sounded alot prettier (I like the way their language sounds) than the garbage you probably spew; and hey, atleast if they’re as sheltered, shallow and stupid as you seemingly are, nobody that doesn’t speak their language could know the difference, so more people would be spared! Too bad for you, you fucking retard, that your education doesn’t seem to be working you; you’re still an idiot and I promise you WILL NOT go far in life with a creaking, sputtering brain like the one you seem to have! Fucking idiot. Do you think all Arabs spend their days bowing to Allah and plotting the destruction of the west? If I could reach through this computer screen and whack you hard against yourt thick skull, I would!
Z, that was some serious A+ roasting. highfive.
I’m torn on this one… and don’t give a fuck what y’all call me for it…
though I’m inclined to believe they would be more annoying WERE they speaking english, simply BECAUSE you would be able to follow their useless conversation.
Like my early programming days, I could listen to (for lack of a better term) techno or instrumental and code with no issues…
but when it came to listening to lyrics, I always misspelled variables, functions… always had to go back and debug.
I’m also inclined to believe that were they speaking english and talking about how their parent was in the hospital or how some murderer got off that affected their family, you’d be inclined to shut the fuck up and let them vent… you’d be an idiot and insensitive prick not to…
because you didn’t know what they were saying, you went off kilter.
I dunno… I’m thinking you wrote this in a fit of rage and you don’t really mean it the way we’re reading how you wrote it…
if you can follow that convoluted sentence.
or maybe you do … I dunno.
hmm good point, however, instantly pointing to the fact that they’re Arab rather than just saying they’re hella annoying is kinda … a red flag.
Plus the person had to sit there and type that out … it’s different when it’s a thought in the moment, “oh those stupid etc etc people”. I mean you’re human, you’ll think it, haven’t we all. Taking that out of mind though, voicing it and typing it, I think is wrong.
The simple fact is, as I mentioned, different native speakers of different languages have unique cultural ways of speaking: tone, volume, speed, etc…. If you’re one culture (english, in this case — a native english speaker is used to mid toned or softer slower speaking) and you’re suddenly exposed to another that’s louder (Arabic speakers do tend to speak louder than native english speakers) it might throw someone off. While I think the “yell in crazy languages” is more than a bit insensitive, I can totally understand why she would be pissy. Especially if she’s there to get work done.
HOWEVER: were you in a quiet area, OP? You can’t expect people to be quiet if it’s not a quiet area. For example: getting quiet study on the main floor of one of the university libraries I studied at was futile because it was like a party complete with people bringing their laptops and laptop speakers and blasting their tunes. If you wanted some quiet study, you went to 2-3 or 4th where you were told the fuck off if you weren’t quiet. As well: did you ASK them to keep it down? Jesus, say something to them! Grow a pair ffs! I just had an incident at a certain coffee shop in a certain academic building at a certain university. Lines are always long as fuck and most people are great about waiting their turn but this bitch decided she was too good to wait like the rest of us — her time is obviously more important than all of ours. So she found a friend and butted. She was right in front of me and I had waited my fucking turn. Anyway, as she was going up I leaned in and said to her “you know, there are some people here who have been waiting a hell of a lot longer than you have.” Since students are general pansies when it comes to this shit I got some pretty wide eyes. I’ve done this before too in stores where people line jumped. Last time I was in Sears some old fuck tried doing it, I called him out, the cashier backed me up and when his friend asked him what was going on and he made up some bullshit “they’re so unfair!” story, I turned around and said “your friend here tried to jump the line, that’s what happened.”
If you want something, speak up! And if you don’t, don’t complain about it!
it’s funny… because I had a couple guys on the bus from the ‘learning english centre’ yesterday yammering away beside me in…. I’ll take a stab… arabic? maybe? dunno
and I was thinking *Sigh*.. here we go…. I found my ipod but now I’ve lost my headphones (the specific ones with all the controls for the ipod on them… STUPID APPLE) so I can’t drown them out.
and then this woman got on with her friends and started blathering away about how she sneakily (?) set up her kids facebook account and friended herself in a secret account and set the privacy settings so she could snoop on her kids… and BLAH BLAH BLAH….
FUCKING ANNOYING lady…
those two guys were a distant memory to her rambling on about how you have to track your kids with GPS and know what they’re doing every second… and who they’re interacting with and on … and on… and on….
thank GOD my bus is only ~15 minutes
Why’s it apple’s fault you lost your earphones? Other earphones work with the damn thing (they didn’t make the earphone jack proprietary, you know). Just go buy a $30 pair of sony in-ear earphones and there you go. WOW! 😀
*sigh* I’m sorry guys, I’m kinda bitchy and a little on the cunty side today. Spilling hot coffee all over yourself (and your white lambswool sweater) and getting hit in the face with a door (all before 9am) tends to do that to a person. 🙁 I’ll be nicer tomorrow, I promise!
I’d be a lot more sympathetic if you didn’t go out of your way to make it about race/foreigners. Any loud people are annoying. You don’t have to make a comment about their “crazy language”.
“So she found a friend and butted.” PK I don’t consider this butting if it’s just one or two people entering the line. They’re not personally attacking you and so what, they found a friend and entered the line. It’s a coffee place … Chances are if you’re standing in line there … you’re in no HUGE rush. If I see a good friend in line I’m not going to go stand way in the back and neither should you. The same way she did it here one day you can do it somewhere else. Now people just entering the line … no, or doing that at say the bank … no. I think this is the “down south” mentality speaking in me. No one got hurt, nothing happened, it’s ok, just roll with it.
I have a friend who used to walk fast everywhere. We were in the mall, she’d power walk to the next store, we were leaving class, she’d power walk, like she was in a rush everywhere. Why? I said, where are you going?
Chill out, you’ll live longer.
I completely disagree, donk. Why should I have to wait 15 minutes while they can just waltz in and make my wait longer? Everyone should wait for their own damn turn.
And yes, I was in a rush — lunch time and since I took my lunch at 2 the faculty lounge was closed and that was my only alternative for lunch. And being diabetic, I have to choke something down for lunch.
In any event, it’s rude and unfair to those of us who waited for our turn to come. In fact, a girl behind me had friends come up to her and say “hi” and then went to the back of the line. If the bitch in front of me wants to chit chat with her friend while in line so badly, she can go to the back with her friend.
… mm hmm ok
OP open your mouth and say something you spineless racist turd, or fuck off.
I spend plenty of time in the Killam and you can be sure race has nothing to do with how loud and inconsiderate any of the students can be.
I take a middle ground between Donk and PK.
Personally, I’m not going to really care if one person joins a friend in a line (the type of line considered), but if it were me personally going up to another friend in line, I’d probably just hand them my money and ask them to get me whatever it was I was there to get..which in this case, would probably be a coffee. That way I can stand and chat, but don’t have to worry about butting in line.
I’m with Calvin on this one. Fo’rill. Besides, we all know that Native Americans are the loudest folks in the library with their totem polling and tomahawking.
Why would you even bring race into the picture. No need at all. And for Nice Goin’ Fat, before you try and be funny, think before you type, your words are also racist and highly uneducated.
I’m pretty sure there was some heavy sarcasm coming from NGF with that comment lake.
It’s purely a guess though.
Yeah, considering that Fat is an “Original Immigrant” himself. Sarcasm indeed (and pretty funny at that)
Wow, don’t get all PC or nothin’. When I was growing up Arabs were known for being less concerned for those around them, since that is how they act at home. We think it is rude and they think it is them being them. On the waterfront it means nothing; in a library, whether they are red, white, green, purple, there is no excuse to yap like that. Whether on the 1st floor or 80th floor, if the area is not acknowledged to be an open area, then these twats need to have their pow-wow elsewhere.
lakersfan72: Ivan’s right — NGF is aboriginal himself and it always poking fun of himself. I think it’s great when people are able to not take themselves too seriously (kinda like how I refer to myself as fatabetic when I’m feeling particularly obese :P). 🙂
Hey PK, if Tiny ever gets too obnoxious with you , you can always tell him that according to Occupational Health & Safety anywhere within a 3 foot radius of him is legally considered a sweat lodge ^^^
Now us Russkies prefer the banya and if it comes with a devotchka like this one:
http://brainfood.howies.co.uk/wp-content/u…
All I can say is “Pass the birch boughs, Tovaritsch”
I agree 100% with you, guyute. I think people (myself included) got a little turned off by the reference to Arabic being a “crazy language.” Sure, Arabic isn’t a romantic language like French, for example (mmm j’adore), and it’s a bit rough, but so is German, and i doubt OP would refer to German as a “crazy language.”
“I found my ipod but now I’ve lost my headphones (the specific ones with all the controls for the ipod on them… STUPID APPLE) “
let me turn up the volume PK…
http://www.letsgodigital.org/images/artike…
THE JACK IS GENERIC BUT THE HEADPHONES HAVE THE CONTROLS ON THEM
so I can’t hear shit with other headphones, that’s why they had so many complaints they went back to this piece of crap.
http://assets.gearlive.com/blogimages/ipod…
PS.
wow… they’re SOOO innovative….
http://obamapacman.com/wp-content/uploads/…
fuck they suck
AHAHAHAHAHA. That’s funny, Ivan, because NGF sweats a lot. He could sweat in the north pole, ffs!
I think which languages are sexy,compared to which are not, is all a matter of opinion.
😛
Well you didn’t specify which one you had, and i don’t bother with the shuffle. Give me a break, dude, yesterday I was dealing with a sore cheekbone, a coffee burn on my abdomen and a ruined brand new sweater. PK was a sad apple++
In any event, putting the controls on the earphones is the stupidest fucking thing I’ve ever heard. Esp since their earphones crap out super fast and esp since some of us prefer better quality in-ear earphones. Apple’s in ear earphones are 80 bucks a pop.
Fucking crapple 🙁
Also: that’s as much of an apology as you’re gonna get from PK, zed. So consider yourself lucky. Most people don’t even get THAT. heh.
PK, one tiny criticism if you don’t mind. In one of your earlier posts you told the OP off for singling them out because of their race, then further down you put “Last time I was in Sears some old fuck tried” – what does the persons age have to do with the fact that they cut in line?
He was old and he was a fuck. I was trying to provide a visual. I wouldn’t have a problem with OP stating that these people were Arab because she would’ve been trying to provide a visual, but when she referred to their language as a “some crazy language” that’s where I got the impression she was kind of a bigot.
I have nothing against old fucks. I hope to BE an old fuck one day — all cranky and shit. I was just calling it for what it was 😉 heehee.
PK, you are right. I was being Devil’s Advocate earlier, I do feel reading the bitch again that OP was writing as if addressing these guys; however the crazy language reference is a little out-of-line. As long as they don’t start yelling “allahu akhbar” or “holy hanna my sister is having triplets”, or “ACHMED, I WEAR SIZE 44 VEST, YOU GOATFUCKER”, then it really is immaterial what they are saying.
Years ago I was tipping the elbow at The Paternal Facial Hair with SOBova and her younger brother who was serving in the reserves at the time. The table next to us was occupied by 4 young men of Mediterranean origin and their conversation was loud, heated and accompanied by much gesticulating. 2 of them were going eyeball to eyeball over the tabletop and while they may have been discussing what to get on their pizza or when to call and wish their mom a happy Mother’s day, MCpl Bro-in-law asked “Should we be concerned about this?”
I didn’t miss a beat and replied “THEES EEZ NOT YOUR FIGHT CANADIAN SOLDIER. THEES EES CY-PROOS!” just like in that wank Heritage commercial.>: )
Hahaha I don’t believe I’ve seen that one.
zZz – will any headphones with a volume control work? If I can find them, they’re yours.
Sexy languages? Refer:”A Fish Called Wanda”
I think you probably need them to switch the tracks too, Hugo 🙁
Brendon – it features a Toronto waiter slash actor wearing his Blue Beret like a pizza chef’s hat flouncing up to a pair of obvious ethnic stereotypes and warbling “Return to your homes, we’re the U.N.” *Snort*
Me Old Dad who actually served in Cyprus when the Greeks & Turks decided that glaring at each other over the Green Line was much less fun than full-on ethnic cleansing says it’s a little bit different than that.
Still, it was one of those rare occasions when I was able to think of the perfect response at the perfect time. >: )
Yeah that must have aired before my time.
Ivan knew it was sarcasm the moment he read “Native.” And it’s a well-educated statement; NGF is a Masters candidate!
master wabble wouser^^
Dat’s me! I’m dat cawwot chewin’ wascal!
yeah, one click in the middle gives you the name of current track (assuming it’s not pirated), two lets you skip ahead one track, and three clicks sends you back one track.
http://www.stupidautocomplete.com/wp-conte…
^^^ that’s stupid.
http://images.cheezburger.com/completestor…
http://ijustwanttofitin.com/wp-content/upl…
Yeah, you tell those apple loving freaks! They suck! Fucking crapple! ^_^
If my comp were a person, I’d do it. Fin.
well fellas, I can understand the sarcasm but as an aboriginal myself, poking fun at myself is one thing, in an open forum it is another, especially since we are dealing with racism. Alls cool!