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Title: 'No speak English. No service': Restaurant owner forced to take down sign after threats from local Mexican invaders
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URL Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art ... language-barrier-problems.html
Published: Apr 10, 2011
Author: dm
Post Date: 2011-04-10 14:00:25 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Language barriers can often be a stumbling block for foreigners when they order food. So one restaurant owner in Lexington, North Carolina, decided to take the innovative step of putting up a sign saying: ‘No speak English. No service’ to avoid any problems. But Greg Simons has now taken down the notice at the Reedy Creek Diner, which also says staff ‘only speak and understand American’, after a deluge of complaints. Language problems: Greg Simons, owner of the Reedy Creek Diner in Lexington, North Carolina, put up a sign saying: 'No speak English. No service' ‘We started getting threatening phone calls and people using colourful language’, he told WGHP. The controversial sign was also in Spanish, French, Russian, Irish and German, but Mr Simons said he put it up because of an issue with a group of Hispanic customers. He got the idea after customers left because staff could not speak any Spanish and stressed the notice is down to communication problems rather than racial issues. ‘Nobody here is bilingual,’ he told The Dispatch. ‘If you can't tell me what you want, I can't give you what you need. We don't speak any Spanish.’ Enough: Mr Simons has taken down the notice after a deluge of complaints. He said: 'We started getting threatening phone calls and colourful language' Mr Simons said a group got offended because staff could not speak Spanish. ‘They were frustrated,' he told WGHP. 'I was frustrated as well and they left.' He began working at the Reedy Creek Diner in November 2009 before buying it eight months later and has only had a few ‘problems’ with Spanish-speaking customers. But a brick was thrown through a window shortly after he put the sign up, which also said: ‘God bless America and all who those who protect and serve our great country.’ One local resident complained: ‘There's never been a problem with any other establishment. I was so angry when I saw (the sign). Controversial: The sign was also in Spanish, French, Russian, Irish and German, and Mr Simons said it was purely for communicational rather than racial issues ‘A lot of people were saying they couldn't believe that a local business would do that.’ But Mr Simons said the sign, which was up for a month, had much positive feedback. Hispanic or Latino people make up 8 per cent of North Carolina's population, and last year’s 111 per cent increase was the state’s biggest ethnic group rise in a decade.
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#1. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#0)
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." - Ben Franklin
U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
Even if he takes the sign down he and his staff still can't speak Spanish.
They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords. Lords without anger and honor, who dare not carry their swords. They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes; They look at our labor and laughter as a tired man looks at flies. - G.K. Chesterton
lol......I've been stopping it at the same little mom n' pop diners in Idaho for more than 20 years and they have never taken down the signs stating their refusal to serve tree huggers.
" If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11
in english ?
in english ? ================================ No. SPANGLISH. You'd better learn it if you want to live here.
U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
hahaha..i retired to central ameriKa and beyond. i often pretend to never understand nada. i'm actually fluent now. lol
Right you are, Turt. The guy needs to instruct all his employees that any time someone orders in spanish to just look befuddled and keep repeating K? K?
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." - Ben Franklin
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." - Ben Franklin
As a "hard core" libertarian I firmly believe that people have the right to discriminate if they so desire.
The Pentagon announced TODAY the formation of a new 500-man elite fighting unit called the United States Redneck Special Forces (USRSF) These boys will be dropped off in Afghanistan and have been given only the following facts about terrorists: 1. The season opened today. 2. There is no limit. 3. They taste just like chicken. 4. They don't like beer, pickups, country music or Jesus .... 5. They are directly responsible for the death of Dale Earnhardt. The Pentagon expects the problem in Afghanistan to be over by Friday.
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." - Ben Franklin
to note or observe a difference; distinguish accurately: to discriminate between things. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Simply the ability to differentiate, and make appropriate choices based on your personal discernment. Thinking people do it every day, in every facet of their lives.
Somewhere in Kenya, a village is still missing its idiot.
LOL yeah and gay meant happy.
The Pentagon announced TODAY the formation of a new 500-man elite fighting unit called the United States Redneck Special Forces (USRSF) These boys will be dropped off in Afghanistan and have been given only the following facts about terrorists: 1. The season opened today. 2. There is no limit. 3. They taste just like chicken. 4. They don't like beer, pickups, country music or Jesus .... 5. They are directly responsible for the death of Dale Earnhardt. The Pentagon expects the problem in Afghanistan to be over by Friday.
The days when queer was just odd, or different; and a fag was only a cigarette. Oh well...
Somewhere in Kenya, a village is still missing its idiot.
and a queen was royalty
The Pentagon announced TODAY the formation of a new 500-man elite fighting unit called the United States Redneck Special Forces (USRSF) These boys will be dropped off in Afghanistan and have been given only the following facts about terrorists: 1. The season opened today. 2. There is no limit. 3. They taste just like chicken. 4. They don't like beer, pickups, country music or Jesus .... 5. They are directly responsible for the death of Dale Earnhardt. The Pentagon expects the problem in Afghanistan to be over by Friday.
Better yet, act like they understand, then bring them a hamburger and charge them $28.00
"I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it." - William S Burroughs
So they won't serve English speakers according to their own sign. HAHA, they might want to learn English a little better themselves before they start requiring their customers to speak it. Kind of crazy really, I wouldn't turn down a paying customer even if they didn't speak any language at all. Oh and I would never eat at a restaurant that considers the US military to be "protecting our freedom."
God is always good!
Excellent point.
Somewhere in Kenya, a village is still missing its idiot.
U.S. Constitution - Article IV, Section 4: NO BORDERS + NO LAWS = NO COUNTRY
"We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone" should be every businesses' RIGHT.
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#2. To: Eric Stratton (#1)
#3. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#0)
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#4. To: Eric Stratton (#1)
Shit, if everyone "flinches" over a bunch of name-calling and seemingly baseless threats, ...
#5. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#0)
Enough: Mr Simons has taken down the notice after a deluge of complaints. He said: 'We started getting threatening phone calls and colourful language'
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams 
#6. To: Rotara (#5)
'We started getting threatening phone calls and colourful language'
#7. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#6)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
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#9. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#2)
#10. To: abraxas (#4)
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#11. To: Eric Stratton, abraxas (#10)
#12. To: farmfriend (#11)
#13. To: farmfriend, 4 (#11)
back when, this was the definition of discriminate -
#14. To: Lod (#13)
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#16. To: Lod (#15)
#17. To: Obnoxicated (#8)
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Right you are, Turt. The guy needs to instruct all his employees that any time someone orders in spanish to just look befuddled and keep repeating K? K?
#18. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#0)
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#19. To: RickyJ (#18)
Oh and I would never eat at a restaurant that considers the US military to be "protecting our freedom."
#20. To: RickyJ, Lod (#18)
Oh and I would never eat at a restaurant that considers the US military to be "protecting our freedom."
#21. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#0)
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?"
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
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