When I think of "white culture," I think "Celine Dion."
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
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.
And also, kids are NEVER gonna run out of "spaz" style insults.
Yeah.
I was shocked when I first heard teenagers using the word "gay" to mean "lame." So the following bit o' Simpsons cracked me up: "You kissed a girl? That is so gay."
I was shocked when I first heard teenagers using the word "gay" to mean "lame."
Of course, lame used to mean crippled -- I mean, physically disabled in the legs...
Do the rest of you people not "bang a u-ey"?
Ha ha! I encountered this last year in Boston, and my Boston friends were similarly bemused that I had no idea what they were talking about. You know what I do? MAKE A U-TURN.
During my more militant phase, it pissed me off, too. But then I decided that was kinda...lame.
You know what I do? MAKE A U-TURN.
You'd think, since you can do this practically anywhere you want in California (and that still freaks me out), you'd have a more creative expression for it.
ChiKat loves to mock my regional word usage, specifically my tendency to overuse the word "there," as in (while pointing out something on the computer) "I love that picture there, it's a great one of my sister." She responded with "Where's that picture, Kathy?" It's a reflexive verbal hiccup that is apparently common in those of us from the southwest side/suburbs of Chicago.
My mother has "hung a U-ey" but maybe she picked it up from her Okie dad...we have a few things like that in our family that flummox linguistics quizzes.
The one linguistic remnant of my four years in Milwaukee is my use of "soda" instead of "pop," which throws off any linguistic quizzes I take.
"I love that picture there, it's a great one of my sister."
But do you say it "dere"? Because that is what the movies and tv have led me to believe....