5-year-old british kid passes LSD exam
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I hate people who do that. Say where you're from, then just say what it's near.
"I'm from Gloucester, which you've never heard of, but it's 20 miles or so north of Boston. Aren't you glad I gave you these details you don't care about because you're never going to look up Gloucester on a map?"
Approximately nobody, and here I count you as nobody, who is not from the area cares about that level of specificity.
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I don't know where Boston is either. Or even whether it's a state or a city
Oh well. I probably don't know where any cities in your country are located, either, so fair is fair. (Except I have a rough idea for some of the major cities in a bunch of European countries.)
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I'd say a better US analogy is that you probably think of yourself as a Massachusetts-ian.
Hah. Well, that's not a word, and people from Massachusetts are generally referred to as Massholes by outsiders, and Bostonians generally think of themselves that way, not as residents of Massachusetts, except for the snooty people from Cambridge, who style themselves Cantabridgians.
So if I consider you guys to all be 'American', I can't reasonably insist you shouldn't think of me as 'British'.
Fair enough, although I generally am willing to delve down into "English,", "Welsh" or whatever if that's what people prefer.
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"I'm from Gloucester, which you've never heard of, but it's 20 miles or so north of Boston. Aren't you glad I gave you these details you don't care about because you're never going to look up Gloucester on a map?"
Yes, actually, because it shows you're willing to convey relevant details without having to be prompted.
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Yes, actually, because it shows you're willing to convey relevant details without having to be prompted.
Well, I can tell you I arrived at the way I do it now by noting the reactions of other people who clearly didn't care about the supposedly-relevant detail.
Now, I actually lived in Salem for years, and most people, historically, at least in the US, have at least heard of the witch trials, so I can normally get away with saying Salem, but in my experience approximately nobody else who's not from eastern MA knows or cares where Weymouth is.
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Now, I actually lived in Salem for years, and most people, historically, at least in the US, have at least heard of the witch trials, so I can normally get away with saying Salem, but in my experience approximately nobody else who's not from eastern MA knows or cares where Weymouth is.
Which Salem? (I know someone from Salem, OR…)
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Yeah, no, not ours. Notice, they're talking about MA.
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Which Salem? (I know someone from Salem, OR…)
First off, this is another reason I normally say the major metro city, and not Salem.
But to answer your question, since I was talking about Massachusetts, I mean the Salem near Boston.
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"I'm from Gloucester"
That's another fun one. The Brits (or whatever they want to be called :) ) gave the exact same names to the New World as the Old! I have a friend in Gloucester, England, so that's the one I think of first.
Of course there's multiple Gloucesters in England, America, Canada and Australia!
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First off, this is another reason I normally say the major metro city, and not Salem
You mean to provider better clarity; like Kansas City, or Washington?I've got it weirder. For people from the area, I say was born in Niagara Falls, and they know what I mean. If you are from at least a few hundred miles away, but still in the US, I say I'm from Buffalo because that's better known. But, if you're from another continent, there's a better chance you know Niagara Falls than Buffalo, so I say Niagara Falls.
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I hate people who do that. Say where you're from, then just say what it's near. It works just as well, and you're not being an idiot.
I'm from Westboro. You don't know where that is, so it's near Tarkio. You don't know where that is either, so it's also near Northboro, Rock Port, Fairfax, Elmo, Clearmont, and Burlington Junction. Nobody here knows where any of those are, so I'll say it's near St. Joseph. And by "near" I mean you can drive there in under two hours. If that doesn't help, it's near Kansas City, but we're getting really lose with the meaning of "near".
I've met plenty of people who lived within 50 miles of all of these cities and still have never heard of them. Well, except for St. Joe and KC.
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How do you pronounce the American one? Cause I've never met an American who knows how to pronounce Gloucester.
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It sounds British to me, so I'd expect 'glowster'.
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I've heard locals say things like, "Gloster." But they can't say anything right.
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But, I am! Still, the fact that I read it that way probably has to do with the fact that I find 'wustushu' a funny word (each 'u' should be a schwa, and you have a well known dumb British word that isn't spelled anything like its pronunciation), and the fact that I lived in NZ for a time, where they have such wonderful words as Gisbourne (pronounced 'Guzzbun').
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Alright then, you want a challenge? Cirencester.
@Boomzilla it's 'gloster' in England. I am most surprised to hear that you Yanks say it the same way.
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I am most surprised to hear that you Yanks say it the same way.
I'm just saying that accents in Massachusetts are abominable.
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Forgive them for they know not what they do.
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The Brits gave the exact same names to the New World as the Old!
In New England, maybe we did. But then that's the bit we settled, and it was ours, and therefore we could name the places anything we damn well wanted to. Until you damn Yanks decided to take it all for yourself, and declare independence!
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And a good thing we did, or all our place names would be things like Gwddyllywr and Shirechesterchestershirechestershire.
Besides, Brits probably pronounce 'Willamette' as 'willa met'
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Score 689 today! Dump is valid in british!!!
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You mean to provider better clarity; like Kansas City, or Washington?
I already said, repeatedly, but didn't want to point that out. At this point, it occurs to me that perhaps I whooshed.
You can look up a list of towns named Salem and cross-reference it by state with lists of other towns with names I mentioned and should be able to uniquely identify the nearest major city.
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Until you damn
YanksIrish decided to takeit allmost of it for yourself, and declare independence!
;)
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It sounds British to me, so I'd expect 'glowster'.
That's how you pronounce the American one, yes. Ditto Worcester ("worster"). Dorchester, though, has that h, so you pronounce it like it's spelled, door-chest-er.
All of these are modulo the Boston accent, so you'll hear something closer to glowstah or doa-chest-ah if a local says it. (And then as I have mentioned before, there's also Wooster ("wooster/wuhstuh").
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I've heard locals say things like, "Gloster." But they can't say anything right.
You didn't hear locals say Gloster.
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Yes, but you don't hear the British pronounce that bit either. Though someone in NZ was trying to explain that they do pronounce 'r's and that 're' at the end of words was more correct than 'er' because that's how it's pronounced.
I have a hard time taking linguistic pointers from a place where they pronounce 'barbecue' as 'barbie'. You end up with all these grizzled old guys in short shorts talking about how they cant wait for the barbie. What a place...
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You didn't hear locals say Gloster.
You're right, of course. I was so focused on the first syllable I fuhgaht about the aaaah at the end.
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Now, I actually lived in Salem for years,
If you just said "Salem", I'd assume the one in Oregon. You know, the one on the coast that doesn't suck ass.
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Oregon. You know, the one on the coast that doesn't suck ass.
You're contradicting yourself again.
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I'm from Westboro. You don't know where that is,
Oh, I do know where it is.
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People in the Seattle area used to watch Frasier just to see how he's mispronouncing easy-to-say place names like Spokane or Chelan.
... also his Seattle radio station somehow had callers in Spokane? What was it, like a 7-billion watt station? Sheesh.
If you're going to set your lame sitcom in a specific area, maybe have at least ONE person on the production who lived there.
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People in the Seattle area used to watch Frasier just to see how he's mispronounce easy-to-say place names like Spokane or Chelan.
It must get really boring up there.
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Well, it's not so much fun to go outside there, since it's raining.
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That's not it. And that's not a town named Westboro either.
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If you're going to set your lame sitcom in a specific area, maybe have at least ONE person on the production who lived there.
I finally watched Skyfall and really wanted to strangle Q through the entire movie. Between saying idiotic things like "I'm tracing the encryption signal", plugging in software from a known hacker directly into MI6's inner network, and all the hex code scrolling on the screen with characters > F, and of course his arrogant Mac hipster douche appearance.
I guess there is no such thing as IT consultants for movie plots.
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I stopped reading comic books because comic writers never even bother to even slightly ATTEMPT to make their computer dialog sound realistic. You think movies are bad, sheesh.
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@FrostCat, did you hear about the Gloucester in Rhode Island?
"No school, Faw-stuh Glaw-stuh"
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If you just said "Salem", I'd assume the one in Oregon.
Once again, bringing me back to my point WHY I SAY BOSTON.
You know, the one on the coast that doesn't suck ass.
I don't live there any more.
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> Blakey: the coast that doesn't suck ass.
I disagree with that assertion, too. The Left Coast sucks too, but in different ways.
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Once again, bringing me back to my point WHY I SAY BOSTON.
Isn't that where COSTCO started?
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Isn't that where COSTCO started?
I shopped at Costco back in the late 90s, but I assumed from that other thread where Blakeyrat was being unreasonable[1] that it started out west.
[1] Yes, I know, not enough data to narrow it down.
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First store in Kirkland, WA, although the oldest store that is now a Costco is in San Diego.
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Is this like a Möbius strip of idiot? Jesus.
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Is this like a Möbius strip of idiot? Jesus.
Well, you're here, so that's one side of it...
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Are you still confused about the history of the company?
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All of these are modulo the Boston accent, so you'll hear something closer to glowstah or doa-chest-ah if a local says it. (And then as I have mentioned before, there's also Wooster ("wooster/wuhstuh").
I was in Boston for work a few months ago and the most startling thing, right after their lack of "R's" in that state, is that there are billboards for major brands written in the Bostonian accent. They are completely unreadable unless you are from the area. More than once I got preoccupied by trying to decipher them to the point of not paying attention to my driving.
Next on the list was the stupid high taxes on booze. I needed a bottle of Jack Daniel's so I went to the liquor store closest to my hotel. No prices on anything, I go to the counter with a fifth of JD and it was $47. I told the clerk I could buy a 1750ml for that much back home. His reply: "Welcome to Taxachusetts son."