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[lihan161051.livejournal.com]

Is it bad of me to cringe when I hear certain regional accents because they are a warning of what is to come?

(No, not the ones you'd think.)

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[jperegrine.livejournal.com]

Like the expected attitudes from customers in any number of countries?

Typical German and Italian customers come to mind...

[brothersterno.livejournal.com]

california = passive aggressive.
english = jerk
new york = you'd better be pushy, too.
boston = whiny
texas = clueless
seattle/portland = clueless, whiny, passive agressive.

[meijhen.livejournal.com]

Hey now, I'm from Texas, and I resemble that remark!

*grin*

[brothersterno.livejournal.com]

I worked at a game store, and one day, this woman walks in who fits the Texas stereotype to a T: big hair, lotsa makeup, and one o them texas accents. So, of course, I treat 'er like she's retarded and unlike everyone in Seattle, she is willing to talk to me. I discover that she 1) has a doctorate in psychology and 2) is totally frustrated with everyone in Seattle treats her like a 'tard because she has big hair and a texas accent.

All I could suggest was that she stopped talking "texas,

[malgrep.livejournal.com]

When I would hear "how yinz doing" I would cringe.

[meijhen.livejournal.com]

Where the heck is THAT from?

[arashikurobara.livejournal.com]

"Yinz" is Pittsburgh-ese, typically.

[meijhen.livejournal.com]

Never heard that one before!

Kind of interesting, the different words that develop in different regions.

[malgrep.livejournal.com]

Pittsburgh. They have some odd usage there of English that made my head spin.

[whysperingwynd.livejournal.com]

Hey, us Canadians is always havin problems hookin' up our interwebz in our iglooz. Word.

[whysperingwynd.livejournal.com]

It's because the best weed is grown in BC and shipped across the country to calm the rest of the crazeh place the frick down. ^_^

Speaking of tooneys (ima spell it like that from now on) is it true the US is introducing a dollar coin?

[whysperingwynd.livejournal.com]

Bah, so do Canadians. We just fool ourselves. We've had the metric system for, what, 30 years? And I'll be damned if I say I weigh 65 kilograms. Screw that jazz. But oddly enough, pounds is all we used... you'll ever hear someone say ounces or pints, but pounds outs kilos every time.

[whysperingwynd.livejournal.com]

I really, really hope we don't get the new $5. Seriously. I mean, I'm all for saving trees and the environment, but my purse weighs eighty pounds as-is. If they keep making more coins, they'll have to raise taxes to pay for all the women having chronic back spasms. OI.

[dukesnorre.livejournal.com]

At least you're not using "stone" like those mad brits. I know a pound is roughly half a kilo, but stone? They might as well measure using hogsheads and rods.

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

We still do in some places and for certain things, like beer.

Really though, we only do it to piss off the Europeans, who insist on imposing their autocratic metric system on us by dictatorial decree from Brussels.

[dukesnorre.livejournal.com]

Pff. You do it because you cannot comprehend standards. Soon you'll be measuring hard drive sizes in jaunts and hops in stead of bytes and gigabytes.

Actually, I'm under the impression that at least your scientists use SI, except for a few using CGS. Then they convert the units to British to make them understandable to plebs.

[loosechanj.livejournal.com]

We're actually coming up on our *third* attempt at a dollar bill coin.

The first was was for our bicentennial in 1976.

No, no no NO. We've had dollar coins since the 1790's. The one you're thinking of as "bicentennial" is the Susan B. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_B._Anthony_dollar), which was made in 79-81 and again in '99.

[brothersterno.livejournal.com]

no no no best weed is seattle, according to several cafe owners in amsterdam.

See "Botany Of Desire" by Michael Pollan.


Mose of the BC bud we get is second rate because it's grown by gangsters for export from the Vancouver area.