The official off-topic thread

petrossa wrote:

Rascal77s wrote:I'll attribute this post to your AS and advise you to do some major deleting.

Ah, the Ape is from the LA zoo You realize that now i have to obsessively research for factoids that make fun of Californians. And from what i remember of the top of my head that won't be a tough research

Well I know I'm truly on an AS forum because it seems like everyone is missing the point. Nobody else sees anything wrong with comparing Mexicans and gay people to hobos and bad traffic? Wtf am I supposed to say? Sorry that getting a Mexican waiter ruined your Japanese dining experience? Personally I find it offensive as I thought any aspie who has been singled out and stereo typed for years would.

Have fun with the California thing, you got it totally wrong.

zausel wrote:

Camelidae wrote:Something I´ve been wondering: Why is it "a phenomena"? Based on the Latin, the singular should be "phenomenon" while the plural would be "phenomena". Just thought the off-topic thread was a good place to ask. Just does not seem to make sense. Anyone care to enlighten me, please?

well, I say phenomena because there are several things involved. Not sure if its correct usage, but I dont get to use the word much so my knowledge on the word is limited lol.

I think she was confused because you used "its a" and then "phenomena" so thats mixing singular and plural.


I must say that I found the hobos to be some of the nicest people in LA. It was the fake people that bothered me. But then again I lived right between Santa Monica and Beverly Hills.

Love San Francisco though, the whole Bay Area, Marin County. Great people and a beautiful place to live. Just can't think of an area in LA I'd stand to live in for a significant period of time.

Rascal77s wrote:Have fun with the California thing, you got it totally wrong.

Ah, you win some you lose some. I indeed totally missed that. But then again its totally outside my frame of reference since those situations don't apply but there. Never met a mexican in my life. I've been a hobo though if that helps.

petrossa wrote:

Rascal77s wrote:Have fun with the California thing, you got it totally wrong.

Ah, you win some you lose some. I indeed totally missed that. But then again its totally outside my frame of reference since those situations don't apply but there. Never met a mexican in my life. I've been a hobo though if that helps.

I'm confused. Racism is outside your frame of reference and doesn't occur in Europe?

Racism in itself is not something that is foremost on my mind indeed. There is only one race and that's human race.

But what i meant was in your frame of reference Mexicans apparently are linked to negative concepts. In mine it isn't. So to see this in context is for you very easy and automatic but for me only visible if pointed out to me.

petrossa wrote:Racism in itself is not something that is foremost on my mind indeed. There is only one race and that's human race.

But what i meant was in your frame of reference Mexicans apparently are linked to negative concepts. In mine it isn't. So to see this in context is for you very easy and automatic but for me only visible if pointed out to me.

What are you talking about my/your frame of reference? Mexicans and gays were portrayed negatively as classes of people in the post. It has nothing to do with frame of reference because it was already framed in the post, there is no reading between the lines necessary. Would it have been easier for you if it were blacks or Jews instead of Mexicans or "gays"?

Indeed. I have no experiences with mexicans, homophobia is so totally widespread i've gotten used to it and it doesn't register anymore. Blacks wouldn't register much neither since that is also a very USA thing.

Jews would register due to the WW2.

What else would register...

Umm, don't know. We have a lot of issues with Moroccans, but they are not a race. Not sure if Mexican is a race either come to think of it. Are they?

It's more stereotyping then racism i guess.

Rascal77s wrote:

petrossa wrote:

Rascal77s wrote:I'll attribute this post to your AS and advise you to do some major deleting.

Ah, the Ape is from the LA zoo You realize that now i have to obsessively research for factoids that make fun of Californians. And from what i remember of the top of my head that won't be a tough research

Well I know I'm truly on an AS forum because it seems like everyone is missing the point. Nobody else sees anything wrong with comparing Mexicans and gay people to hobos and bad traffic? Wtf am I supposed to say? Sorry that getting a Mexican waiter ruined your Japanese dining experience? Personally I find it offensive as I thought any aspie who has been singled out and stereo typed for years would.

Have fun with the California thing, you got it totally wrong.

I feel ya, but what did the hobos do?

-- Thu Dec 01, 2011 11:05 pm --

TheGoodGirl wrote:

zausel wrote:

Camelidae wrote:Something I´ve been wondering: Why is it "a phenomena"? Based on the Latin, the singular should be "phenomenon" while the plural would be "phenomena". Just thought the off-topic thread was a good place to ask. Just does not seem to make sense. Anyone care to enlighten me, please?

well, I say phenomena because there are several things involved. Not sure if its correct usage, but I dont get to use the word much so my knowledge on the word is limited lol.

I think she was confused because you used "its a" and then "phenomena" so thats mixing singular and plural.


I must say that I found the hobos to be some of the nicest people in LA. It was the fake people that bothered me. But then again I lived right between Santa Monica and Beverly Hills.

Love San Francisco though, the whole Bay Area, Marin County. Great people and a beautiful place to live. Just can't think of an area in LA I'd stand to live in for a significant period of time.

I thought you used "a" when a word starts with a consonant, and "an" when it starts with a vowel? singular and plural affect it?

zausel wrote:I thought you used "a" when a word starts with a consonant, and "an" when it starts with a vowel? singular and plural affect it?

True. It's
A boat
and
An Apple

But it's never
A boats
or
An apples

Unless something belongy to the boat or the apple.

The "a" or "an" is just for the singular and to show a possesion of some kind.

At least that's as much as I can guess having no grammar knowledge whatsoever.

TheGoodGirl wrote:

zausel wrote:I thought you used "a" when a word starts with a consonant, and "an" when it starts with a vowel? singular and plural affect it?

True. It's
A boat
and
An Apple

But it's never
A boats
or
An apples

Unless something belongy to the boat or the apple.

The "a" or "an" is just for the singular and to show a possesion of some kind.

At least that's as much as I can guess having no grammar knowledge whatsoever.

ah I see what i did...I should left "a" out completely.

Ok i went back to my post and I never used "a phenomena". Im now really confused whats happening.

I said "it's really a country wide phenomena".