Posts by oh_ho

Favorite cold drink besides water: I don't like much anything besides water :X I suppose orange juice.

Best summer dessert: do pineapple slices count?

Favorite summer meal: shrimp!

Most enjoyable outdoor activity: Swimming and biking

You are at the beach, scorched, what drink would you like calories aside: WATER, always :D

Favorite summer fruit: Pineapples and strawberries :9

Beach or pool: pool

Favorite salad dressing: Italian

Seedless or seeded watermelon: seeded, I can pick them out

What SPF (sunscreen) do you start off with at the beginning of summer: 40

Favorite road trip snack: apples and tuna kits

You get stung by a jellyfish…what do you do!!!?: Pee on it!

Any certain brand of bottled water you buy: Not really.

Best BBQ food item: Uh, chicken?

While out in the sun do you burn easily, tan, or acquire more freckles, or what: I'm tan naturally, so I tan more, occasionally burn if I'm out for too long.

Is it called coke, pop, soda or soft drink: soda

Favorite smoothie flavor: Mango

Salsa, queso, or pica de gillo:   ?? I guess queso.

Favorite vegetable to eat raw: carrots

Original Post by pochahontas:

Original Post by misscherryjane:

Original Post by pgeorgian:

Original Post by misscherryjane:

...and non-english speaking people, do tend to be a lot less sensitive.

seriously?  seriously?

Er yep. Things translate differently into english and different cultures have different ideas about social faux pas.

Er, yep, if he was a Spanish man talking in English.Which he wasnt, at least not in my understanding.  But  it is true that what counts as funny in one language may sound offensive in another if translated word by word. I doubt that was the case here. Assuming that non-english speaking people- such as myself- tend to be less sensitive is a,well, very insensitive remark.

Just jumping in to say that I'm of Spanish descent and for some reason my Spanish relatives consider it acceptable to make comments about weight and assume the subject will take it lightly. 

Example: My aunt calls me "gorda linda." Gorda means fat. She may mean it as a term of endearment but I hate it when she calls me that. Or if someone tries on a shirt it's not considered uncommon for someone to say, "Oh and it doesn't even make you look that fat." They don't mean to offend, but what they consider socially acceptable is definitely different from what I consider socially acceptable, since I've been "Americanized," so to speak.