Overhearing foreign languages is annoying!

macroboy

Very simple,when i walk anywhere these days,day or night and i forget to bring my radio or mp3 player,all i hear are foreign language conversations on the street.Either on the phone or the bleating girlfriend or the overly loud mates.
Its annoying for the simple reason ,it just sounds like noise to me.
Extra noise.And im sure they dont tone it down as they know im not from wherever they are from.
who needs it.??

Kasabian

Racist undertones

ChunkyLover_53

macroboy wrote: »

who needs it.??

Foreigners. To communicate.

My name is URL

Yeah, how dare anyone speak a foreign language. This is Ireland ffs, we should all be speaking.. oh wait

poisonated

Some can be annoying but I'm sure it is the same with English speakers in non-English speaking countries. That being said, I really like hearing most of them as they bring a sense of different culture to our society.

Canis Lupus

macroboy wrote: »

Very simple,when i walk anywhere these days,day or night and i forget to bring my radio or mp3 player,all i hear are foreign language conversations on the street.Either on the phone or the bleating girlfriend or the overly loud mates.
Its annoying for the simple reason ,it just sounds like noise to me.
Extra noise.And im sure they dont tone it down as they know im not from wherever they are from.
who needs it.??

There should be a vote for stupidest thread of the day cos you've got an awesome chance of winning.

Agricola

Move down da country. All you'll hear is the soft whisper of the wind and the bleating of frightened sheep.

admiralofthefleet

we sound foreign to them so it works out both ways

krudler

macroboy wrote: »

Very simple,when i walk anywhere these days,day or night and i forget to bring my radio or mp3 player,all i hear are foreign language conversations on the street.Either on the phone or the bleating girlfriend or the overly loud mates.
Its annoying for the simple reason ,it just sounds like noise to me.
Extra noise.And im sure they dont tone it down as they know im not from wherever they are from.
who needs it.??

The sound of your own ignorance not drowning it out no?

we'llallhavetea_old

i kinda like it...

macroboy

Kasabian wrote: »

Racist undertones

Nothing racist about it. b4 you make any other PC assumptions,please try being objective.

Spunge

Que ?

Red Hand

we'llallhavetea wrote: »

i kinda like it...

Kinky, but each to their own, I suppose.

CokaColumbo

It's the worst when the foreigner is on the bus and on a mobile and the call goes on for ages. But fúck it, they have to communicate somehow and we communicate in a foreign language ourselves!

macroboy

krudler wrote: »

The sound of your own ignorance not drowning it out no?

M..missing the point there i think.
There is nothing ignorant about the point im making.

landsleaving

macroboy wrote: »

Nothing racist about it. b4 you make any other PC assumptions,please try being objective.

You first.

Mankyspuds

They have a cheek alright. They should all just shut the hell up and learn sign language:)

Joneser

Tbh when I hear people speaking other languages it gets me interested and makes me want to learn the language so it isn't just noise to me.

chucken1

macroboy wrote: »

Very simple,when i walk anywhere these days,day or night and i forget to bring my radio or mp3 player,all i hear are foreign language conversations on the street.Either on the phone or the bleating girlfriend or the overly loud mates.
Its annoying for the simple reason ,it just sounds like noise to me.
Extra noise.And im sure they dont tone it down as they know im not from wherever they are from.
who needs it.??

macroboy wrote: »

M..missing the point there i think.
There is nothing ignorant about the point im making.

Oh really??

landsleaving

macroboy wrote: »

M..missing the point there i think.
There is nothing ignorant about the point im making.

Should there be no cars? They make a lot more extra noise.

MrStuffins

The point your making is non-existant!

You don't like hearing foreign languages, the alternative is you hearing it in English and listening to others' private conversations, which you shouldnt be doing either!

macroboy

landsleaving wrote: »

You first.

I have already made the objective point,which is extra noise is annoying.
It really dosent matter where the extra noise is coming from.

A lot of people just missing the point and getting all personal.

What a surprise!

It wasn't me!

"Nosy person annoyed that they can't eavesdrop on conversations in a foreign language - Daily Mail Exclusive"

we'llallhavetea_old

macroboy wrote: »

I have already made the objective point,which is extra noise is annoying.
It really dosent matter where the extra noise is coming from.

A lot of people just missing the point and getting all personal.

What a surprise!

extra noise, wtf is extra noise supposed to be?! seriously?! people speaking english, why isn't this classed as extra noise?!

MrStuffins

By the way, as an Irish person speaking English, you ARE speaking a foreign language!

chucken1

we'llallhavetea wrote: »

extra noise, wtf is extra noise supposed to be?! seriously?! people speaking english, why isn't this classed as extra noise?!

Cos its them there foreigners thats making the OP annoyed when he forgets his iPod or something....I hate sitting beside someone with one of them...really annoying being forced to half listen to someone elses music.

macroboy

we'llallhavetea wrote: »

extra noise, wtf is extra noise supposed to be?! seriously?! people speaking english, why isn't this classed as extra noise?!

Very simple. You can understand what they are saying.
I spoke to a polish girl about this recently and she understood completely,
In fact she agreed it would be annoying.
"You hear just extra noise" was her quote.

So why are the pc brigade so uppity now?

its a valid point.Thats all.

foxinsox

Voulez vous couchez avec moi ce soir?

Oui?

Non?



Oh, you can't understand me?

Oh well...

macroboy

MrStuffins wrote: »

By the way, as an Irish person speaking English, you ARE speaking a foreign language!

Oh dear i see,so while i was speaking my first words of english,there were my parents saying, oh no hes started speaking a foreign language.

deary me

we'llallhavetea_old

macroboy wrote: »

Very simple. You can understand what they are saying.
I spoke to a polish girl about this recently and she understood completely,
In fact she agreed it would be annoying.
"You hear just extra noise" was her quote.

So why are the pc brigade so uppity now?

its a valid point.Thats all.

no, it's not a valid point, just because your polish friend said so. "extra" noise, possibly one the stupidest things i've ever heard.

can you understand animals yipping and barking? cars? wind? are these all this magical "extra noise"?

cml387

macroboy wrote: »

Very simple. You can understand what they are saying.
I spoke to a polish girl about this recently and she understood completely,
In fact she agreed it would be annoying.
"You hear just extra noise" was her quote.

So why are the pc brigade so uppity now?

its a valid point.Thats all.

Ermmm?
Why is it foreign languages specifically,rather than any conversation.
I merely seek enlightenment.