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22 Jan 2011, 10:20 am

I once went into a chinese takeaway with someone i was supporting up in northern england. The chinese fella started shouting his head off at some Romanian gypsy who was trying to sell the big issue magazine (its a newspaper sold by homeless people over here) the rather ironic phrase he was shouting with his broken english accent was something like

"Go back to romania you "f'ing" immigrant, get a real job"

I found that somewhat bemusing and the irony appeared to be lost on the chinese fella.


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22 Jan 2011, 10:28 am

Laz wrote:
I once went into a chinese takeaway with someone i was supporting up in northern england. The chinese fella started shouting his head off at some Romanian gypsy who was trying to sell the big issue magazine (its a newspaper sold by homeless people over here) the rather ironic phrase he was shouting with his broken english accent was something like

"Go back to romania you "f'ing" immigrant, get a real job"

I found that somewhat bemusing and the irony appeared to be lost on the chinese fella.


:roll: Charming.


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22 Jan 2011, 10:41 am

Welcome to Manchester


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22 Jan 2011, 10:44 am

I am a monkey and my element is water.


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22 Jan 2011, 1:42 pm

Laz wrote:
I once went into a chinese takeaway with someone i was supporting up in northern england. The chinese fella started shouting his head off at some Romanian gypsy who was trying to sell the big issue magazine (its a newspaper sold by homeless people over here) the rather ironic phrase he was shouting with his broken english accent was something like

"Go back to romania you "f'ing" immigrant, get a real job"

I found that somewhat bemusing and the irony appeared to be lost on the chinese fella.


Why would the irony be lost on him? The Chinese fella probably has been told numerous times to go back to China (even if he didn't actually come from there) and his skin color (along with his noticeable "broken English accent") is probably a constant reminder that he can never pass as a native-born citizen.

Just because he doesn't speak standard English doesn't mean he's a complete dumbass.



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22 Jan 2011, 2:13 pm

An Earth Tiger, I guess.


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22 Jan 2011, 3:16 pm

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22 Jan 2011, 7:41 pm

menintights wrote:
Laz wrote:
I once went into a chinese takeaway with someone i was supporting up in northern england. The chinese fella started shouting his head off at some Romanian gypsy who was trying to sell the big issue magazine (its a newspaper sold by homeless people over here) the rather ironic phrase he was shouting with his broken english accent was something like

"Go back to romania you "f'ing" immigrant, get a real job"

I found that somewhat bemusing and the irony appeared to be lost on the chinese fella.


Why would the irony be lost on him? The Chinese fella probably has been told numerous times to go back to China (even if he didn't actually come from there) and his skin color (along with his noticeable "broken English accent") is probably a constant reminder that he can never pass as a native-born citizen.

Just because he doesn't speak standard English doesn't mean he's a complete dumbass.


Laz said nothing to suggest that it did. And the irony is in an immigrant insulting another person for being an immigrant. If what you said is the case, there is the additional irony of a person who has suffered racism being racist himself.


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