No typicaly theres a strange bias towards gingers. dont no why there just is? fuck if i know.Tranka Verrane said:
Seriously, we're barely a day into the new year and I'm already getting questioned by the police
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That's absolutely outrageous.
I was arrested, charged with assault. Here's what happened:
Normal day at school, talking with the lads, just generally larking around. I knocked into a girl in the year below and, being the gentleman that I am, immediately apologized. She slapped me around the face and I took it and went back to my friends.
Later, I was walking home from school and she was coming up behind me. I started walking a bit faster because I'm not getting involved in that kind of that thing! She started running and pushed me forward. I turned around to face her and asked her what she wanted. She slapped me once more, shouting profanities. I pushed her back and she fell to the floor. I then walked off and got my bus home.
The next morning I'm rudely awakened by the police. I'm taken down to the police station for 5 hours! A day wasted for not letting some ***** push me around!
I was arrested, charged with assault. Here's what happened:
Normal day at school, talking with the lads, just generally larking around. I knocked into a girl in the year below and, being the gentleman that I am, immediately apologized. She slapped me around the face and I took it and went back to my friends.
Later, I was walking home from school and she was coming up behind me. I started walking a bit faster because I'm not getting involved in that kind of that thing! She started running and pushed me forward. I turned around to face her and asked her what she wanted. She slapped me once more, shouting profanities. I pushed her back and she fell to the floor. I then walked off and got my bus home.
The next morning I'm rudely awakened by the police. I'm taken down to the police station for 5 hours! A day wasted for not letting some ***** push me around!
Wow, i'm sorry you live in a place like that. To me thats... twilight zone shit. Its so out there, if it happened here, no one would know how to react. We'd all just stare at her(/him) until she left. Like she was some sort of alien. So um... Where do you live?Kortney said:
I stayed on Skye for six weeks to carry out a mapping project for my degree just this summer. I really enjoyed it too, and we didn't meet any belligerent people... So long as you're not under any kind of physical threat I find that remaining friendly (albeit cautious) works best in almost any situation.
Thanks for reminding me, forgot to add that bit. Skye is a lovely place to visit and I think everyone should go there for a few days at some point in their lives. However actually living there is total hell, the locals are bastards, the kids are worse.Kolossov said:
Honestly if you're the type of person who smashes a phone over wasting 30 minutes, you might need to look inwards. It's difficult to judge situations like this though, and it may well have been the straw that broke the camel's back, but that is a quite violent reaction to something most would just roll their eyes at.
I suppose it was kinda the straw that broke the camels back. I just happened to get a text after being questioned so I launched the phone at the wall. Over-reacting? Yeah, probably. But I've had to put up with this shit for 10 years and it still goes on, man's gotta vent somehow without actually hurting anyone.loremazd said:
Well, I did have a strange encounter with a shoplifter last year. It was on the 12th or 13th of November while I was doing my shopping, a few days before my birthday (irrelevant information, but I know it was a few days before). The man was French, just so you know and this happened in Flanders (the northern part of Belgium). As you all undoubtedly know, the relationship between Flanders and Wallonia is beyond rubbish and both sides of the country are always arguing. Hence the political issues of our country which are well-known beyond the borders of Europe.
Anyway, the anecdote. I was doing my normal shopping when I suddenly notice a man giving me weird and murdering glances without blinking his eyes, which immediately gave me a very strange impression. He had a cardboard box on top of a deep freezer while he was putting items under his shirt which he tucked back in his pants, so that nothing could fall out. At first, I wasn't a hundred percent sure if he was stealing, but his behaviour kept on getting stranger. He was staring at everyone, as if every customer inside the store was a potential tattletale.
I decided to head to the checkout as I had all my groceries. I was lining up at checkout B while the man in question was at checkout A. As I informed the cashier about his activities, he suddenly retreated from his queue and hastely went into an isle. While I was heading to the car and putting all my items inside the boot, the man angrily went to the cashier with a now empty shirt and cardboard box and yelled at her in front of the entire store: "VOIS, RIEN DEDANS," which is French for "Look, there's nothing inside!" This, I heard a week after, when I returned to the store for some more shopping. He also asked her what I had said to her, but the cashier refused to say what exactly.
In the meantime I was done with putting the items inside the boot and took place behind my steering wheel, while suddenly the French man came rushing out of the store, came to my window and ticked on it. As I opened my window, he arrogantly asked me: "Est-ce qu'il ya un problème?" (translation: "Is there a problem?"). At this point I seriously lost my temper. I started the engine and told him first to speak Dutch to me. I drove out of my parking space and yelled at him: "AND NEXT TIME, YOU PAY FOR YOUR FOOD!!" At this point I drove away from the store while the man was giving me gestures to step out of the vehicle and run amok in his face.
I have never seen the man since in the store, but it was certainly a thief. You could call it racist, since I discriminated the man for his language. However, there is a difference. If the man was a tourist, I wouldn't have reacted in such an aggressive manner and replied in French. And even then it's not exactly respectful not even to try and explain yourself first in Dutch.
I would've even accepted an English reply without a problem. But as I have said: the relationship between Flanders and Wallonia has grown so sour that a lot of people have had it with the French arrogant side of Belgium. And right-wing politics are enjoying a huge increase in votes. Actually, in a lot of countries that is the case, with the growing percentage of muslims and immigrants who refuse to adapt. But now I'm going off-topic. But anyway, you get my point.
Anyway, the anecdote. I was doing my normal shopping when I suddenly notice a man giving me weird and murdering glances without blinking his eyes, which immediately gave me a very strange impression. He had a cardboard box on top of a deep freezer while he was putting items under his shirt which he tucked back in his pants, so that nothing could fall out. At first, I wasn't a hundred percent sure if he was stealing, but his behaviour kept on getting stranger. He was staring at everyone, as if every customer inside the store was a potential tattletale.
I decided to head to the checkout as I had all my groceries. I was lining up at checkout B while the man in question was at checkout A. As I informed the cashier about his activities, he suddenly retreated from his queue and hastely went into an isle. While I was heading to the car and putting all my items inside the boot, the man angrily went to the cashier with a now empty shirt and cardboard box and yelled at her in front of the entire store: "VOIS, RIEN DEDANS," which is French for "Look, there's nothing inside!" This, I heard a week after, when I returned to the store for some more shopping. He also asked her what I had said to her, but the cashier refused to say what exactly.
In the meantime I was done with putting the items inside the boot and took place behind my steering wheel, while suddenly the French man came rushing out of the store, came to my window and ticked on it. As I opened my window, he arrogantly asked me: "Est-ce qu'il ya un problème?" (translation: "Is there a problem?"). At this point I seriously lost my temper. I started the engine and told him first to speak Dutch to me. I drove out of my parking space and yelled at him: "AND NEXT TIME, YOU PAY FOR YOUR FOOD!!" At this point I drove away from the store while the man was giving me gestures to step out of the vehicle and run amok in his face.
I have never seen the man since in the store, but it was certainly a thief. You could call it racist, since I discriminated the man for his language. However, there is a difference. If the man was a tourist, I wouldn't have reacted in such an aggressive manner and replied in French. And even then it's not exactly respectful not even to try and explain yourself first in Dutch.
I would've even accepted an English reply without a problem. But as I have said: the relationship between Flanders and Wallonia has grown so sour that a lot of people have had it with the French arrogant side of Belgium. And right-wing politics are enjoying a huge increase in votes. Actually, in a lot of countries that is the case, with the growing percentage of muslims and immigrants who refuse to adapt. But now I'm going off-topic. But anyway, you get my point.
Well I'm an Australian living in Australia. Though alot of peeople constantly question me and often berate me because apparently I speak with an American accent. I just talk normally and I feel that I sound like everyone else, but believe it or not people have often given me racist remarks like I am American, which I really can't wrap my head around.
Nope, I am Australian....
People seem to melt the moment I open my mouth. Seriously it is insane, if this wasn't a family site the things I could tell...
People seem to melt the moment I open my mouth. Seriously it is insane, if this wasn't a family site the things I could tell...
Yes it can, I have lived in some of those places. Those places are why I keep moving back to Washington. You want bad try being an American on an extended stay in some South East Asian countries, after a while I stopped trying to figure out what they where calling me. They where more then happy to take my money from me, at twice the rate they charged everyone else.grimsprice said:
Even Eastern Washington can get bad. I know I get mistaken for a Native American often enough, lucky me being the size I am most don't have the guts to say anything to my face.
Western Washington however is awesome.
Well, it wasn't exactly the point with Belgium. This country is nothing more than a failed marriage between the Flemish and the Walloons. There is a very unstable relationship between both sides of the country, because Wallonia suffers from high unemployment which turned out to be a very bad deal for Flanders. Especially in these bad economic times. Because of their lack to educate themselves properly or to make an effort, the Flemish population is forced to give the Walloons a vast sum of money each year so that their economy and social system would not collapse. They also refuse to adapt to the Flemish side of the country while it is not the other way around. That's about it in a nutshell.Eukaryote said:
