That's what she said!Whee driving to Houston for the wife's interview. >.<I should have 'interviewed' my wife better... ;P
In Thomas More's Utopia prospective marriage partners were allowed to inspect each other naked before getting hitched.
Of course, these days, that's not terribly uncommon, but back then it was a bit risque.
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Morning, all. What did I miss?
Well, Scott's wait at the DMV took a turn for the maddening when the only clerk at the desk put up a sign that read "Back in 6 hours". Meanwhile, Gary and Jason's trip to the Grand Canyon went horribly wrong when they got lost and wandered into an area frequented by modern-day cattle rustlers. And, across town, Max's attempt to convince everyone that a new.....No, wait! That's my soap opera.
Apparently, "I'll call you tomorrow at 1:30 PM" actually means "I'll call you whenever I f*!@ing feel like it." Again with the job interview b!@$@&$~.
The majority of HR Generalists I've encountered has been jackholes with regard to follow up phone calls. Sometimes, I feel like a nag trying to be persistent to see if a decision has been made, but I try to make sure I do it w/o being annoying while expressing interest in the job.
I honestly believe that my current case of chronic unemployment is becoming a discrimination unto itself. I understand the need to feel cynical at times as it weighs down my psyche too. It's been going on twenty-seven months.
I may be kicked down, but I'm not staying there, damn them.
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um, well, to tell the truth, I did not even know that there are american accents beside "southern"
to my defence, films and tv shows are usually dubbed here. I do watch films on DVD in english but never noticed a accent pattern (beside ambigious south)
i can at least distinguish American, English, Scottish and Irsh
You need to watch Fargo.
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You need to watch Fargo.um, well, to tell the truth, I did not even know that there are american accents beside "southern"
to my defence, films and tv shows are usually dubbed here. I do watch films on DVD in english but never noticed a accent pattern (beside ambigious south)
i can at least distinguish American, English, Scottish and Irsh
Oh my goodness, yes.
You need to watch Fargo.um, well, to tell the truth, I did not even know that there are american accents beside "southern"
to my defence, films and tv shows are usually dubbed here. I do watch films on DVD in english but never noticed a accent pattern (beside ambigious south)
i can at least distinguish American, English, Scottish and Irsh
Ja.
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Sorry, have to get ready to run my own game tomorrow. :(Whee driving to Houston for the wife's interview. >.<Emergency game tonight? :D
A LIKELY EXCUSE!
The sad (?) thing is I know exactly which post you're referencing. Heh.
One hour to Friday/Saturday midnight. Tea or whisky?
Tea or whisky?Yes.
+1.
For a movie with a plot that's so predictable it's like you've watched it before, Whip It is incredibly good. 7/10 longships.
Have a good weekend everyone!
Greedo shot first that is all.
Greedo shot first that is all.
LIES!
Seriously?
Well, I certainly hope I read that wrong...
:-/
Huh?
Now that I have blitzed the Hell out of my loved one's FB walls with Meme's, I can sleep. I hope you guys have a great weekend! <3
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Not really, we get a lot of American TV-shows and movies (including independent ones) on TV in Sweden, and these days our news cover the American presidential elections almost as closely as our own. (Plus, SAAB, which used to be the main employer in my town, used to be owned by GM - so I've even had American neighbours for a bit. That said, I remember someone with a really broad "southern" accent being interviewed once and being surprised someone actually spoke like that in the real world.
Edit: Strangely enough (or not so strangely when you sit down and think about it), the version of English that sounds most natural to me, are the dialects spoken in Scotland and northern England.
Not that I've noticed so far - although I recall a feature Swedish Radio did about the Fugees, back in the day, where one of their roadies spoke in some half-creole, half-cajun accent - that was bleeding impossible to understand.
Not that many more, although listening to podcasts has certainly widened the range. I'm still better at differentiating British accents, though - a side effect of growing up in a home where the two main forms of cultural discussions were about soccer and pop-music. ;)
Well you will be happy to know, I have a midwestern accent and only sometimes slip into the cajun one if I get real upset or occasionally it just randomly pops out.
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Yeah, he might think poorly of it.
Now you have me wondering about accents. Do people dream accented? I guess I always "think" in English, my French being so poor, I have to think hard to remember words.
Do American accents sound weird to you? Just regional ones? Are some of them hard to understand? Have you heard many other than the two or three used in Hollywood movies?
um, well, to tell the truth, I did not even know that there are american accents beside "southern"
to my defence, films and tv shows are usually dubbed here. I do watch films on DVD in english but never noticed a accent pattern (beside ambigious south)
i can at least distinguish American, English, Scottish and Irsh
There are several, but except for some specific regions they are slowly bleeding away.
Just here in Kansas I can think of about four that if out and about I could possibly hear. Standard Midwestern, which is what most Hollywood films sound like anymore. Rural Kansan. Mennonite from some small communities north west of here. Some local ethnic variations, be it Mexican immigrants or the ton of Vietnamese immigrants. Most of them are fairly easy to understand, at least for me. I get more tripped up by some friends from Kenya, who have what I think of as fairly standard British accents.
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I have been asked if I was Australian when I lived in California. I have a relatively thick Boston accent (which I actually think is quite moderate compared to some I have heard.)
This recent commercial is a pretty good rendition of many of my compatriots' accents
I loved living in Texas, where folks would come up to me and say, "Yew shure dew tawk funneh."
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Greetings and salutations FAWTLY Folk! Today I find out if I received valid information yesterday that will help me continue my job here in VA without any more delays. Hopefully all will go well.
If it does go well, I will report so here by posting the code phrase "Ze pearl is in ze river!"
If it does not go well, I will report so with the other code phrase "Aaaarrrrgggghhhh".
I have been asked if I was Australian when I lived in California. I have a relatively thick Boston accent (which I actually think is quite moderate compared to some I have heard.)
This recent commercial is a pretty good rendition of many of my compatriots' accents
I have met Patrick Curtin irl and I didn't even notice an accent. Compared to my co-workers from Southie and Chalestown, he speaks the Queen's English.
More examples of Boston accents. NSFW!
Apparently, "I'll call you tomorrow at 1:30 PM" actually means "I'll call you whenever I f#!$ing feel like it." Again with the job interview b@!$@&$#.
I, of course, only have one answer to job-seekers.
I forget if you're still in school, but, if so, some buildings have an Earn & Learn program in which they'll give you $1500/semester up to a lifetime cap of $15,000.
Best part: All you have to get is a D- to get your money back!
dialects here in germany are slowly fading away, too.
the local tv stations use one form of a dialect 50 years now and slowly the hundreds of variants in that state start to sound more like this, maybe people beeing more mobil does it's part, too.
We have lost a lot of unique and great words and phrases through that :-(
but still, there are hundreds of dialects, some completly incomprehensibly even for us germans.
Kölsch, spoken in Cologne, i don't understand a word of.
done some spring cleaning today.
cleaning and sorting the larder and some other stuff.
halted only for a Bratwurst from the snack stall, mmmm Bratwurst, Thüringer to be precise.
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I have been asked if I was Australian when I lived in California. I have a relatively thick Boston accent (which I actually think is quite moderate compared to some I have heard.)
This recent commercial is a pretty good rendition of many of my compatriots' accents
I loved living in Texas, where folks would come up to me and say, "Yew shure dew tawk funneh."
That was funny, I kept thinking they were trying to say Harbor, as in the name of the show and it was sounding like Harper. Turns out it was Hopper.
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What about Australian actors doing American accents? Does it sound as painful to you guys as American actors doing Australian accents usually does to us?
Not all that bad, it sounds funny the other way around though. Listening to an American, almost get it similar is kind of funny. Most Australians seem off, on maybe their first film or two then it just bleeds into midwestern to me.
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I have been asked if I was Australian when I lived in California. I have a relatively thick Boston accent (which I actually think is quite moderate compared to some I have heard.)
This recent commercial is a pretty good rendition of many of my compatriots' accents
I loved living in Texas, where folks would come up to me and say, "Yew shure dew tawk funneh."
Ah tawk funneh evynown then.
dialects here in germany are slowly fading away, too.
the local tv stations use one form of a dialect 50 years now and slowly the hundreds of variants in that state start to sound more like this, maybe people beeing more mobil does it's part, too.We have lost a lot of unique and great words and phrases through that :-(
but still, there are hundreds of dialects, some completly incomprehensibly even for us germans.
Kölsch, spoken in Cologne, i don't understand a word of.
What about Swiss German?