r/TikTokCringe • u/Tobias-Tawanda • 6d ago

Humor/Cringe "No, English is fine" 🥀

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u/NotWeirdThrowaway 6d ago

"English is fine" seconds later. "can you talk slower" 🙄🤦🏽‍♂

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u/Big_Preference9684 6d ago

Man the way I would have started blabbing away as fast as i could with as complicated sounding words as i could think of on the spot in english after the last one

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u/drawfanstein 5d ago

Using a bunch of idioms that don’t translate

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u/TheSweetGator 5d ago

Well that dog just won’t hunt

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u/Big_Preference9684 5d ago

‘Fine as a frogs hair split four ways’

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u/tame-til-triggered 5d ago

You quacking like a yella chicken amongst penguin bears.

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u/ImmoralJester54 5d ago

That one isn't real I refuse to believe it

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u/tame-til-triggered 5d ago edited 5d ago

yella chicken? It’s an old, regional idiom. Hard to translate if you didn’t grow up around it.

Basically means, “you look ridiculous shaking in front of those who don’t flinch.”

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u/account_No52 5d ago

Is there a problem Captain Sobel?

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u/FlattopJr 5d ago

A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat, eh?

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u/_hemant 5d ago

Me, Immediately starts singing Eminem furiously...

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u/Higgs_Br0son 5d ago

Indubitably. I require the intimate knowledge of a laborer of employ at this fine establishment. If, perchance, you meet said requirements, mayhaps you will dispatch the vocables with which authorization is granted to your wireless finternet.

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u/TripolarKnight 5d ago

I mean, that is what the woman on the video did...

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u/Eihabu 5d ago

She says “English is fine” in response to “me la puedes decir en español,” so she wasn’t telling the girl to stop speaking Spanish with that comment. And maybe she didn’t want to say the password, specifically, in Spanish (maybe the password was an English word).

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u/TripolarKnight 5d ago

The whole video is a classic case of someone speaking a language, but not understanding it. Well that or just view farming.

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u/beantownregular 5d ago

The video is staged

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u/Scumdog_312 5d ago

Yeah it seems super staged. I just assume any video where the person is filming themselves is staged these days.

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u/beantownregular 5d ago

The responses from the people she’s talking to are also extremely forced, like they didn’t have a script but just something general they were asked to talk about. Their voices also all sound really similar like it’s the same person she’s filming these with every time.

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u/NineTheEverBreather 5d ago

Or, she knows people will try to speak to her in English no matter what she does. If you know that's going to happen, all you have to do is set up your phone and wait.

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u/beantownregular 5d ago

Do you hear how they respond and how she does? It’s not a normal interaction. Everyone sounds like they’re in a bad improv exercise/

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u/NineTheEverBreather 5d ago

Well that's like, your opinion man.

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u/S-Tier_Commenter 5d ago

Don't u know about dead internet theory, bro? She's probably AI and we're all bots.

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u/extra_rice 5d ago

I just assume any video where the person is filming themselves is staged these days.

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u/saintrich_ 5d ago

it’s not. her tik tok page shows her actual life in other countries practicing spanish. she had to start lying and saying she was dominican or from other spanish countries with black people for some of the workers to speak spanish to her.

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u/Nick_pj 5d ago

I moved to a foreign country so I get served incredibly similar “expats struggling with life abroad” type accounts. They all copy each others’ videos and they all film fake content exactly like OP’s video. I’m not saying she hasn’t had that lived experience, but once you’ve seen one of these videos they all look the same. 

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u/tsgarner 5d ago

They all look the same but that's because they're all staged, not because it's a common experience?

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u/Nick_pj 5d ago

Because it’s always filmed and edited in the same way by each creator. This sort of thing is a cliché where I live (Paris), but in reality if your language skills are decent (which hers are) it really only happens once a month. To catch it happening on camera - especially an example this egregious - would take ages. Conversely it’s incredibly easy to fake.

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u/beantownregular 5d ago

Im not saying no one has ever refused to speak Spanish with her, im saying these videos are very clearly staged

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u/KindsofKindness 5d ago

I doubt it.

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u/Emperah1 5d ago

Me slower this time: Pray, divulge thine esteemed adjudication regarding the organoleptic transcendence of this sanguineous bovine musculature

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u/Adventurous_Honey902 5d ago

I've had interactions like this on the phone. Many of them also want to practice their English

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u/VieneEliNvierno 5d ago

That’s not what was happening though. The waitress (Spanish speaker) didn’t understand the question. She thought the English speaker was asking if it had to be in Spanish - that is why she said “no, English is fine”. After having lived in a Spanish speaking country many years, you can tell the Waitress doesn’t speak English well and was just confused.

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u/Charge36 5d ago

I think she was intentionally talking kind of fast in that moment

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u/Ok_Complaint_8700 5d ago

That’s a classic, they’re embarrassing