Miscellaneous: Today, I was with my grandma waiting in a line. She only speaks...

By kaichennnxx - 17/03/2009 02:09 - United States

Today, I was with my grandma waiting in a line. She only speaks Chinese and there was a black man in front of us talking his phone. My grandma tells me that the black man's really loud and annoying. The man finishes and turns and said fluently in Chinese, "What's wrong with loud black men?" FML

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Today, I went to visit my senile grandma, since she's ill and nobody else in the family visits her. I ended up having to sit through a long rant about the Illuminati, black people, and how we'd have a cure for the common cold already if it weren't for "those god damned foreigners". FML

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By Anonymous - 17/02/2024 11:00

Today, against my wishes, my wife insisted we let my horrible mother meet her first grandson. This is a woman who refuses to learn basic English, but for the sake of insulting my wife who doesn’t speak Chinese, she still managed to say in English, “Baby so ugly, you do better with next one.” FML

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Enough is enough

By Anonymous - 19/09/2015 05:45 - Canada - Victoria

Today, I was confiding in my grandma about how lonely I am and how everything in my life seems to be falling apart. While I was in mid-sentence, she rolled her eyes and made a show of removing her hearing aid. FML

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kotton720 0

Tuesday 17 March 2009 9:25

wow hardly anyone can speak chinese fluently nowadays.

amelinat 0

Tuesday 17 March 2009 9:50

You know it sounds like Mr. Black man was more annoyed by the fact that granma specifically mentioned that he was black. My grandma doesnt speak English either and she would have said the exact same thing. Has anyone seen that "Professor Badass" picture that floats around the net? Thats the picture I have in my mind for this guy.

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louyfi85 0

Wednesday 18 March 2009 7:25

LOL this chinese black man is epic :)

kristineneer 0

Wednesday 18 March 2009 8:22

Your grandma deserved that one.

Bry_fml 0

Wednesday 18 March 2009 8:52

Whoa. What did your grandma say?

123_GO 0

Wednesday 18 March 2009 12:51

I haven't seen anyone say it, so I'll be the first to bring it up. I'm basing my assumption on what I know from my family and my knowledge of the language and culture. Those who keep saying that the problem isn't the fact that she called him a black man: It was most likely the word she used to call him a black man. Chinese people have a word for it. And trust me. It doesn't translate literally to "black person". Other than that, but if I heard someone speaking about me in a different language that I could understand, I would turn around and ask the same thing too.

Staal_Baby 0

Wednesday 18 March 2009 18:00

I know how you feel, I was with my mom, we were some where eating anyways she speaks Mi'kmaq and english so when she doesnt want other people hear what she is saying she speaks Mi'kmaq anyways we were talking about this guy sitting next to us, we were saying stuff like he has a nice ass and everything like little did we both knew, He heard every word we said, he smiled and asked for my number

asar 0

Wednesday 18 March 2009 18:53

If he wasn't mad (and who can be with little old grandmothers), this is just another "oh how cute grandma is" story. I have many of them, it's part of the life of spending time with grandmothers.

MiDdNiGhtPyRo 0

Wednesday 18 March 2009 21:48

So..how did your grandmother respond to the black guy?

becauseisaidso 0

Wednesday 18 March 2009 22:36

How's this FML?

shadowboxer 0

Wednesday 18 March 2009 22:38

That is something that really bothers me... when people speak in another language assuming no one will be able to understand based on their race. That's silly. It's the goddamn 21st century, black people speak Chinese too. I am white and fluent in Korean. I was getting my nails done. The 5 women around the area I was in spent the entire time talking about how pale I am and criticizing my style and the color I had chosen, mocking me and basically summing me up to be some kind of vampire or something. They seemed surprised when I didn't tip them, until I confidently said in Korean (the language they'd been speaking) that I am glad I am not as ignorant as they are, because I may have actually tipped them for making fun of me for the past 45 minutes.