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Natter 36: But We Digress...

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.

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brenda m - Jun 20, 2005 5:14:09 pm PDT #3243 of 10001

If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Someone else already said this, I think, but "gyp" is weird in 21st c. America, because it's not like there are gypsies around much. Black people? White people? Jews? Pretty much right there. (OK, not in everyone's neighborhood, but clearly on everyone's tv, at least.)

Gypsies would have to be a wee bit more extinct (like, at all) for me to feel comfortable with the term "gyp."

Yeah. But welsh is one of those where I think the usage has long outlived the stereotype. (eta - at least I think so, but I'm not Welsh so maybe it just doesn't ping?)

My assistant is from Boston, and he calls a convenience store a "pakkie", which skeeves the hell out of me. But he doesn't at all get why it hits me wrong. And in this case, it's coincidental, not something with a negative history that some people don't see - at least I'm pretty sure that's the case. But it makes me cringe every time he says it.

§ ita § - Jun 20, 2005 5:15:35 pm PDT #3244 of 10001

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Don't giggle like a schoolgirl when a boy is undressing in front of you, despite the iliac crest

I might giggle way before we get that far. It's ... sad.

But welsh is one of those where I think the usage has long outlived the stereotype.

Except, I wonder, if you're Welsh.

tiggy - Jun 20, 2005 5:15:48 pm PDT #3245 of 10001

I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore

had to look up what the iliac crest is and i have to say, it never makes me giggle. mmmm...

brenda m - Jun 20, 2005 5:16:07 pm PDT #3246 of 10001

If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Except, I wonder, if you're Welsh.

Heh. X-posted with my edit.

Jesse - Jun 20, 2005 5:16:20 pm PDT #3247 of 10001

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

"Packie" is from package store, brenda.

Scrappy - Jun 20, 2005 5:16:24 pm PDT #3248 of 10001

Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

It's really "packie," short for Package Store, right?

Jesse - Jun 20, 2005 5:17:21 pm PDT #3249 of 10001

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Although, THAT reminds me of the time I said "paddy wagon" to my mother, and she FREAKED OUT. I didn't realize it was an Irish slur.

msbelle - Jun 20, 2005 5:19:24 pm PDT #3250 of 10001

I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

ita=hopeless case.

me for bed. laters.

sad for all you working folk. really.

§ ita § - Jun 20, 2005 5:19:38 pm PDT #3251 of 10001

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

the time I said "paddy wagon" to my mother, and she FREAKED OUT. I didn't realize it was an Irish slur.

See, I had thought it was a wagon driven by Paddies. It took a while for me to get that white people were prejudiced against.

Daisy Jane - Jun 20, 2005 5:19:51 pm PDT #3252 of 10001

"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

Packie" is from package store, brenda.

A friend of mine from back home, and here sort of, was married to a Royal Marine and lived in England for a while. She used the term there, and everyone was pretty horrified.

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