lol jehovah's witnesses

[cimorene]

HAH. The Jehovah's Witnesses just came. I actually understood them, but I pretended not to understand any of their Finnish at all, and they didn't know any English or anything. They tried to ask if anyone else spoke Finnish, or what language I spoke, and I just shook my head and smiled and shrugged. And pronounced "en ymärää" (if I'm even spelling that right) even worse than my natural pronunciation of Finnish. Ahahahha. Their first guess was Russian.

Go, Crazy Entrepreneurial Opium-Smuggling Jewish White Russian Murderous Great Grandfather! I suppose if you're not used to looking at jews, perhaps we do look sort of Russian. NEW STRATEGY (kind of a time-consuming conversation though).

Or I guess I could just learn how to say "I'm happily Atheist" in Finnish but I have a feeling that would just encourage them. Maybe "I'm happily Pagan" would do a better job. Or maybe "I believe that God hates evangelism"? Then again, they're kind of sweet little old ladies. I guess I don't really want to shock or offend them.

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[telesilla.livejournal.com]

My mother, whose French was actually pretty good, would deliberately mess up the syntax on "I don't speak French well" whenever religious types came to the door when we lived in Belgium.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

When I used to say 'I don't speak Finnish' they'd just assume that I understood them anyway and babble away, which was why I switched to 'don't understand __'. But of course if you only speak one language, nothing will stop you from babbling away in it when people say they don't understand apparently. The problem is that if I say that I speak English they have a special English brochure and will give it to me and then send an English-speaking missionary back, so it's better not to let them cotton on... right now they probably think I was from Lithuania or something.

[revulo.livejournal.com]

I don't know why, but "I'm happily atheist" sounds so funny. I read it as "I'm a happy atheist," which made me think of Richard Dawkins skipping through a field of flowers with a basket full of candy. LOL, now I have to draw that.

[dreamnnightmare.livejournal.com]

Or skipping down the junk food aisle in a supermarket with a basket of flowers carrying well-understood genetic markers.

[hollsh.livejournal.com]

Tell them you're a Jew. Works every time.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

...Wax already suggested it. But it honestly never occurred to me...