Letters to the Editor
Amerigo
Published Letters: 955 Editor's Choice: 60
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Cultural issues
[Read the article: My husband won't do his laundry]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Gotta go with pagey (see above) on this one.
This column is full of insights into the closed culture that only a trained gringologist would normally ever know about. Do the majority of gringo couples do their own laundry individually? This makes no sense in terms of expenditure on water, power, and detergent. Do they sleep in separate beds so it is clear who washes which sheets, or does she do the bottom sheet and he the top, with each taking their own pillowcase?
At what age does a child assume responsibility for his or her own laundry? Is there a chance that the older grandchild can share some laundry chores, or does that not come until puberty? In Hispanic cultures it is not unusual to see children as young as three helping with laundry, but washing clothes at the river or in a hand tub is more of a team sport than using an electric clothes washer as nearly all American residents do, gringo and regular alike.
And at what age do gringos start to prepare individual meals for themselves? Do better off husbands and wives each have their own stove, fridge, and dishwasher machine so that they can work at the same time without inconveniencing each other.
We really could have a whole column on this, which would be an invaluable resource for all of us immigrants trying to learn how to live better.
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@Paul in KY
[Read the article: My husband won't do his laundry]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thank you for your interest.
The term Gringologist™ was invented by me a few years ago to describe a Dominican girlfriend, who I said ought to be awarded the chair of gringology at the University of Santo Domingo due to her outstanding contributions to that field of anthropological study.
I am afraid you are disqualified from the discipline, because as a gringo yourself, you would be unable to identify bizarre behaviors worthy of study. Why, you probably call a tortilla a "wrap" and don't even know it!
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Flying tomorrow
[Read the article: The U.S. senator and the bathroom stall]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As I will be flying tomorrow, I think I will wear astronaut-style diapers so I don't have to go in the airport men's room and deal with dick-waving Republicans. Instead of separate bathrooms for men and women, can we not have separate facilities for Republicans where they will not mix with other men, women, children, and animals?
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Having cake and eating it.
[Read the article: Yahoo beefs up e-mail. Should you ditch Gmail?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have 2 Yahoo! mail accounts and one Google one.
Like most people, I imagine, I use different accounts for different purposes, and for that reason alone it is difficult, or almost impossible to change from one to another once the account is established.
For example one account will be linked to Amazon, American Airlines, Harbor Freight Tools, E-Bay and other sites where I buy things, another account will be for friends and relatives, and yet another for various bulletin boards, newsgroups video servives that I participate in or post to. (I have another account at my job, but that one is no fun.)
So what I am building up to is your headline, which was probably written by some clueless copy editor anyway, but ditching Gmail is probably not worth the bother even if you did think Yahoo! Mail was better.
Still a comparison of the two is useful for Salon-reading kindergartners and their counsellors, who may not yet have opened their first e-mail account.
If you want my opinion, for what it is worth, Gmail is a bit better than Yahoo! Mail at keeping out spam.
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[Read the article: Yahoo beefs up e-mail. Should you ditch Gmail?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]By the way, I should have added to my last letter that Yahoo! is spelled with an exclamation mark at the end, which seems to have escaped the Salon spell checker. Please ask J.K. Rowling to write you a new one.
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Time wasting?
[Read the article: The U.S. senator and the bathroom stall]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]It seems rather obvious that cops were not just hanging out in an airport bathroom at random. Clearly there had been some kind of complaint of sexual solicitation there.
Perhaps airports need to post signs forbidding sexual solicitation of fellow bathroom users, just in case any traveling Republican congressman should be unsure of airport bathroom protocol.
ATTENTION ALL TRAVELING REPUBLICANS
PLEASE DO NOT LOOK AT OTHER MEN'S WEE-WEES WHILE URINATING. IT IS RUDE. PLEASE DO NOT INVITE OTHER MEN INTO YOUR CUBICLE WHEN YOU ARE TAKING A POO. THE CUBICLES ARE FOR SINGLE OCCUPANCY ONLY.
DON'T FORGET TO WIPE YOUR BOTTOM.
THANK YOU AND HAVE A GREAT DAY.
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Who's sorry now?
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He can't win on the sorry business. He should, of course, be saying that he is glad he was caught, since his arrest put a stop to him harming more animals, which he now regrets. Rapists often use this type of apology.
Good point about irony.
There is a great irony somewhere that the NFL is so concerned about preserving the integrity of the game by making sure that gamblers cannot fix the games by influencing player. Much of the public interest in the NFL lies in the fact that its games are a popular vehicle for gambling, much of which, historically if not now, is illegal.