ZOMG, Southern people travel places! Places that aren't the South!
Pfui on her, Susan.
Poor Buffy. Your life resists all things average.
Willow ,'First Date'
Natter 74: Ready or Not
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Dana - Mar 17, 2016 4:19:49 pm PDT #17821 of 30003
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
sarameg - Mar 17, 2016 4:23:17 pm PDT #17822 of 30003
Ah, ringworm. Staple of my childhood.
Aaand I'm doing an emergency school run in the morning. I feel like being a good neighbor friend and the kids' education is more important than the 45 minutes I'll lose at work, especially under this contract.
Oh, I haven't mentioned today's employment adrenaline rush. When I get new email, I set up my notifications so that just the subject flashes in notification ghosty thing so I can decide whether to ignore or not. Today, "Sara's interview" flashed across! Except, it was for a different Sarah about ANOTHER Sara, but my CSWTFE's boss's mailtool accidentally picked the wrong Sara(h) alias in the address book. Which was clear reading the email, but I did have to tease the boss about it. (She'll also be applying for her own damn job as a branch mgr.)
Susan W. - Mar 17, 2016 4:26:07 pm PDT #17823 of 30003
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Pfui on her, Susan.
Yeah, really. Especially since IME insofar as Europeans notice American regional accents, they just think they're interesting-sounding. I'd pretty much guarantee you that as long as the Southerner in question was a polite tourist, not a single Parisian was thinking, "Ew, why did they give that hick a passport?"
Burrell - Mar 17, 2016 4:35:28 pm PDT #17824 of 30003
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Ugh Susan, I know a lot of people who are prejudiced against Southern accents. Having called some of them out on it I can add that the explanations/justifications for the prejudice are... not helping.
sarameg - Mar 17, 2016 4:49:54 pm PDT #17825 of 30003
Data point: from my years in NC and yes, MD, I tend to go southern drawl (indeterminate) when tired or angry. Combined both in Australia on multiple occasions, got several " I loooove your accent" from Australians and Belgians who had no idea the source.
Susan W. - Mar 17, 2016 5:15:49 pm PDT #17826 of 30003
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I tend to go southern drawl (indeterminate) when tired or angry.
Me too. Tired, angry, or watching football.
-t - Mar 17, 2016 5:24:34 pm PDT #17827 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Yeah, it's not uncommon to get ringworm from an animal.
Yeah, I was meaning to riff on their single-ness.
Vortex - Mar 17, 2016 5:28:15 pm PDT #17828 of 30003
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
prefaced with "no offense,
Whenever someone says that to me, I just say, very pointedly "we'll see".
And this one jackhole once said, when he was done with his offensiveness, said "were you offended" and I replied "I don't know why you're pretending that you care; if you did, you wouldn't have said it in the first place."
Steph L. - Mar 17, 2016 5:43:53 pm PDT #17829 of 30003
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Yeah, it's not uncommon to get ringworm from an animal.
Yeah, I was meaning to riff on their single-ness.
D'oh. That flew totally over my head. (Obviously.)
-t - Mar 17, 2016 5:45:11 pm PDT #17830 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
But you are so agile!
I couldn't resist.