oberonsghost
Dateline: bus interchange. A Chinese speaking man pivoting from his phone call to telling an older Anglo man complaining “speak English” “to stop being a nosy f**king c**t” was just a thing of beauty.
Mar 2 at 4:06amWeb
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@oberonsghost beautiful :)

Show threadChozari 賈 (she/her)Mar 2
@oberonsghost This is so delicious for my Chinese little ears.
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@oberonsghost Poetry.
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Show threadPinkyMar 2
@oberonsghost He can speak Chinese and swear in Australian! Love it 😀
Show threadkauerMar 2

@oberonsghost I recall a story from some years ago about two hijab-wearing ladies nattering away in a bus and being told by an irritated fellow passenger to speak English. "We're in Wales dear - and it's Welsh".

Possibly apocryphal, but I do hope it was true.

Show threadLiquorVicarMar 2
@kauer @oberonsghost Came here to post the same story. No idea if it's true I'll have to check. But it's such a great story.
Show threadLiquorVicarMar 2
@kauer @oberonsghost It was reported on the BBC so decent chance it did actually happen: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-36580448
Welsh woman on bus shuts down racist who told Muslim passenger to 'speak English'

A Muslim woman is told she "should really be speaking English" by a stranger - she was actually speaking Welsh.

BBC News
Show threadkauerMar 2

@LiquorVicar @oberonsghost Nice sleuthing!

Interesting to see the changes in the story on its way to and through me:

- niqab became hijab
- white man became fellow passenger
- the demand was simplified to "spek English"
- the woman and her son became two ladies
- the old woman in front of them disappeared to become by implication one of the speakers themselves.

Show threadsunflowerinrainMar 2
@LiquorVicar @kauer @oberonsghost
One of my favourite stories of Everyday Life :-)
Show threadmillennial fulcrumMar 2
@oberonsghost haha the bigot should just go home and finish living after that one
Show threadJoanne JacobsMar 2
@oberonsghost OMG I love this so much 😍
Show threadthefathippyMar 2

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See? Multiculturalism works!

Love it. 😂🔥

Show threadFace ThumbMar 2
@oberonsghost Perfect mastery of two languages, your move, cranky Anglo man...
Show threadWm.sonMar 2

@chrisp @oberonsghost

It's one phrase in English to learn first, just for these occasions.

Show threadTattieMar 2
@oberonsghost fluent Aussie there
Show threadDag Ågren ↙︎↙︎↙︎Mar 2
@oberonsghost "I'll speak what I want, you speak what you can" was my dad's favourite response to that.
Show threadSin VegaMar 2
@oberonsghost malicious compliance
Show threadMichael GemarMar 2
@oberonsghost @samloonie Perfect. No notes.