KnitFreak

Once or twice a week, I go to Munich's Stitch'n'Bitch. Usually it's a whole lot of fun, there's a bunch of English native speakers, a few near-native speakers, and then me, of course, the German (who has been invited by one from the group), but I also speak English when I go there. At the group, we normally speak English (me too), and very very rarely somebody says a sentence in German. A couple of weeks ago, however, there was a German lady who had heard about our group, so she came along as well, although she didn't speak more than a few words of English. But this was fine with the group, well, with almost everybody in the group. There was one (English) lady, however, who got pissed off because the German lady dared to speak to her in German, and that's why she (the English one) left the group (after making rude comments). Now, this SnB is organized through a chat forum for English speakers in Germany, and that same lady is still around in that forum. The thing is, she doesn't come to the SnB nights any more (due to the "wrong" language usage, which didn't really happen at all), but she still is around in the SnB thread in that chat forum, critizising the others for inviting the "wrong", aka German, speaking people. 

I mean, when she has a problem with Germans, why is she still living in this country then? Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to start anything discriminatory here, but, come on, what do you expect when you live in a foreign country? That everybody adjusts to your needs and your language? If you want a German-free (or should I say "germ-free"?) environment, then don't leave your house and only invite the people you think speak the "right" language. But don't continue to annoy all the others with your opinion, because they don't share it. You seem to have a problem here, a rather large one I might add, so you should better get some help. After all, this is a free country, and yes, it's okay if you have an opinion like this, but don't try to control the group like this. You're not going there any more anyway, so what are you trying to do here? You're only making an idiot out of yourself. True, the name is "Stitch'n'Bitch", but you are obviously only looking for a place to bitch, so leave the rest of the group alone. People like you just make me want to throw up. This is supposed to be about knitting, and meeting other people. So, my English isn't good enough for you, because I'm German and you teach German students how to speak English? And this is the reason why, on weekends, you don't want to have to listen to Germans who speak "crappy" (not-perfect) English? If I discriminated against you because of your language, what would you say then? But you have the right to do so? What makes you so superior?

I needed to get this off my chest... back with some real knitting content soon.