I get testy with Southerners who make blanket statements about New Yorkers,
Hey! Ginger's met my dad!
Oh my god. What can it be? We're all doomed! Who's flying this thing!? Oh right, that would be me. Back to work.
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Natter 31 But Looks 29
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Glamcookie - Jan 12, 2005 2:05:54 pm PST #5384 of 10002
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
JenP - Jan 12, 2005 2:23:03 pm PST #5385 of 10002
Heh, I was just in Pensacola with the southern branch of the family, and the inevitable (no, really, it is inevitable in this group) blanket statement about yankees came up, but a firm, "Hey, now..." from yankee me cut 'em all off at the pass. Sometimes, they forget. I remind them.
Jesse - Jan 12, 2005 2:25:40 pm PST #5386 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Sometimes, they forget. I remind them.
Valuable for everyone, sometimes.
Hil R. - Jan 12, 2005 2:26:41 pm PST #5387 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
For that matter, I get testy with Southerners who make blanket statements about New Yorkers, when I have probably been helped by more nice strangers in New York than any other city.
One of my friends in college had wanted to apply to Bryn Mawr, but her parents wouldn't let her, because they said the North was evil. (I never quite figured out what definition of "evil" would include suburban Pennsylvania but not New Orleans.) Also, a bunch of people who told me that they'd never live in New York, because it was too dangerous. (But again, willing to live in New Orleans? I like New Orleans, but within the four years I was there, several students at my university were murdered.) But on the other hand, there were plenty of comments about the South from my friends back home.
P.M. Marc - Jan 12, 2005 2:48:13 pm PST #5388 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Having admitted this, I feel that my assertion that, e.g., Alex Rodriguez occasionally reaches for the funyuns and chows down baby brains instead, will be taken as a reasoned opinion, rather that as a stupid criticism.
Dude, A-Rod totally eats baby brains for breakfast when he's not munching on freshly minted millions. He's eeeeeeeeeeeeeevil.
sarameg - Jan 12, 2005 2:56:12 pm PST #5389 of 10002
I'm going to keep making fun of tourists anywhere, though. Not the good tourists. The bad ones. That travel in mobs.
There is someone in the nearby apartments who sleeps in the early evenings. How do I know? I can hear snores. Loud loud LOUD snores. They almost echo. It is hilarious.
JenP - Jan 12, 2005 3:19:55 pm PST #5390 of 10002
Well, tourists sure. Hey, you know what? Since moving to Delaware from DC? Not so much dealing with tourists. Kind of nice, that.
Poor tourists. It's not easy.
sarameg - Jan 12, 2005 3:22:06 pm PST #5391 of 10002
I haven't had any good tourist mocking since Prague in spring. My my my, there was so much material there.
Strix - Jan 12, 2005 3:23:32 pm PST #5392 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
No tourist-mocking in Kansas City. We think furriners are cool.
Does anyone know if I can watch Alias on my computer? I have NO TV reception at all -- and no cable.
Stupid fiscal responsibility.
Jesse - Jan 12, 2005 3:26:18 pm PST #5393 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I am the worst grandchild ever: I just now packaged up my grandmother's Christmas gift. Honestly.