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JieXian
Malaysia4677 Posts
My grandmother was commenting on her disapproval of my cousin's wife not eating rice. (we're Chinese). Her : How is it possible that she can live without eating rice My Dad : She still eats meat and vegetables, people can live on that Her: She won't be able to have children if she doesn't eat rice. People must eat rice. My Dad : Ang-mos (Westerners) don't eat rice, look at them, they are still fine and having babies. Her : *snapped* But Ang-mos aren't people! My Dad bursts into laughter :D  | ||
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sweetsh
Malaysia13 Posts
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Jerubaal
United States7684 Posts
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AnachronisticAnarchy
United States2957 Posts
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docvoc
United States5491 Posts
 . I think we all have a grandmother (or 2 in my case) like this lol. | ||
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StateofReverie
United States633 Posts
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ThomasjServo
15244 Posts
They all had a significant amount of back pay they had yet to collect so all came back relatively flush for the time. Grandpa and some of his buddies came across a hotel for sale that happened to come with a full bar as a part of the sales price. Rather than deal with GI quarters the group pitched in, bought the hotel drank the bar and lived there while on leave and proceeded to sell it before returning to combat. I cannot imagine this happening at any other place and time. For curious parties, Grandpa caught a million dollar wound flew back to Chicago and had a very successful career as a reporter for various papers in the city. | ||
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heliusx
United States2306 Posts
 South USA grows shit loads of it. | ||
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JieXian
Malaysia4677 Posts
On October 13 2012 19:58 sweetsh wrote: Is your cousin's wife ang mo? nope, she's a normal local chinese On October 13 2012 20:45 AnachronisticAnarchy wrote: Well then. I guess not getting a decent education does more than keep your mind clean of thousands of hours of algebra. To be fair they were Westerners she knew were the British colonialists. The Hongkies called them ghosts. I wonder if that was on her mind, though she isn't Cantonese. On October 14 2012 01:32 ThomasjServo wrote: Not sure if it precisely fits, but I always thought this story about my Grandfather while serving in the US military in Papua New Guinea was funny. His platoon was a reconnaissance group, after six or so months ahead of the main US force in the jungle they were pulled back to Australia for some relaxation. They all had a significant amount of back pay they had yet to collect so all came back relatively flush for the time. Grandpa and some of his buddies came across a hotel for sale that happened to come with a full bar as a part of the sales price. Rather than deal with GI quarters the group pitched in, bought the hotel drank the bar and lived there while on leave and proceeded to sell it before returning to combat. I cannot imagine this happening at any other place and time. For curious parties, Grandpa caught a million dollar wound flew back to Chicago and had a very successful career as a reporter for various papers in the city. Pitching in to buy a hotel wth? | ||
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ThomasjServo
15244 Posts
Pitching in to buy a hotel wth? They all combined their money to buy the hotel. | ||
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JieXian
Malaysia4677 Posts
On October 14 2012 03:02 ThomasjServo wrote: They all combined their money to buy the hotel. I know what it meant hahaha I'm saying that it wouldn't be remotely possible today | ||
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ThomasjServo
15244 Posts
On October 14 2012 03:43 JieXian wrote: I know what it meant hahaha I'm saying that it wouldn't be remotely possible today XD I missed the wth. I am at work have to be kind of sneaky. Yeah he had an interesting time during the war. Following that Gramps survived Yellow and Dengue Fever, Malaria and a host of other ailments. He was one tough SOB. | ||
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FractalsOnFire
Australia1756 Posts
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fire_brand
Canada1123 Posts
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