thedavinci2000

Horrible Rant: As a kid of the eighties You could say that I was their target audience and yet the show never appealed to me. It always gave me the creeps. Somebody else here mentioned Mr. Rogers and that one is even creepier. I felt like it was trying to lure me to his neighborhood to do bad things to me.

Sorry but to this day I still cannot see the appeal of these shows. Why did you like it?

Hmmm. Somehow people I know are always able to watch any game they want online in real time for free. Any sport. I think they may be pirating the games though. A google search is enough to find any game they tell me.

Sounds like something a monolingual would say/snark

Anecdotes are just that. I know plenty of people that can dominate two languages fluently.

Recently read a study where a stroke patient can recover faster if multilingual or that dementia can be kept at bay longer.

I think you should provide arguments as to why shouldn't we. If you are really serious about changing the current status quote you are the one that needs to convince me to join your side. I do no need to justify why things are the way they are.

I wonder if the guy is stupidly ignorant or willfully ignorant. He has said some really despicable things.

Serious question. Why would it not be easy?

In Mexico the ones that bring the gifts are the three wise man. I would be told that certain three stars in a row were actually them in their journey to get to earth. It was magical. One night before gift day I always tried to stay awake at night trying to take a peak at them and their camels. But every time I would fall asleep and would wake up to see gifts already there. Eventually I realized it was all not true (first step towards rationality). I was not heart broken, it was gradual really. And I'm left with very fond memories of that time.

You only get to experience that magic once. I'm glad I did.

Nothing wrong with that. Is rare enough that I think the name chapulin is OK. It says a lot. It means he is probably talking about a region of Mexico and that he is maybe from Mexico. It is an actual thing in Mexico to eat a certain type of grasshoper. There is another type of insect called a xumile that is eaten. No idea how you would call that in English. I'm not even sure if I havr the spelling right in Spanish.

In Some regions of Mexico people eat a certain type of grasshoper. No worse than eating shrimp or lobster (which is just a really ugly large insect).

The Mayans also independently invented the zero.

The past is the past. No use complaining about it. The Americas were also raped by European colonialism but it makes no sese to dwell in it. Work towards the future.

Not trying to be a troll but I really do not understand what you are saying.

I don't know. I'm an introvert but having nice people to socialize and make friends with is one of the key parts of being happy at my job. And if I'm happy I'm more productive.

You can say the same about every new immigration group that arrived to the usa. Usually they are treated lot like crap at the beggining. As they integrate that marginalization disappears. I don't remember them becoming terrorist.

So no, I don't buy it you blaming the host country, in this case France.