What about living in your city is nothing like what the TV or movies would have us believe?
I used to live in Los Angeles many years ago. It's not all galmorous. There are a lot of homeless and crappy neighborhoods to be had. And you don't run into celebs unless you happen to live near one lives, but odds are, you can't afford it anyway.
We live in Iowa and we do not have corn or pigs in our front yard :D
Rednecktopia, TX. Our football team sucks. Always have, always will. But we got a new stadium anyway.
ROFLMAO! Live a few miles north of Old Tucson Studios. Looks the same now as when John Wayne rode through. ;D
Well first off, Fargo is in North Dakota- not Minnesota- and we don't all speak "like that" (though to be fair, many of my relatives DO) and we don't really have that many murderers using wood chippers to get rid of the bodies...
Neither we nor my neighbors have oilwells or cattle. The last family ranch was sold off about 5 years ago for a developer to build ranchettes for Yankees.
We do wear shoes in Arkansas, and I took down the still 3 years ago.
Quote from: DonaCatalina on April 04, 2013, 04:53:45 AM
Neither we nor my neighbors have oilwells or cattle. The last family ranch was sold off about 5 years ago for a developer to build ranchettes for Yankees.
Do you guys really say "y'all" all the time though?
Flint really isn't as bad as it's portrayed.
Quote from: Valiss on April 04, 2013, 09:40:05 AM
Quote from: DonaCatalina on April 04, 2013, 04:53:45 AM
Neither we nor my neighbors have oilwells or cattle. The last family ranch was sold off about 5 years ago for a developer to build ranchettes for Yankees.
Do you guys really say "y'all" all the time though?
Valiss, I'm noticing that "Y'all" is becoming more common all around the country. I heard a national newscaster use it just yesterday. Having lived in the South for most of my life, I really struggle not to use the colloquialisms of the area, but y'all, et's harder that ketchin' a greased pig!
Quote from: Merlin the Elder on April 04, 2013, 09:59:46 AM
Quote from: Valiss on April 04, 2013, 09:40:05 AM
Quote from: DonaCatalina on April 04, 2013, 04:53:45 AM
Neither we nor my neighbors have oilwells or cattle. The last family ranch was sold off about 5 years ago for a developer to build ranchettes for Yankees.
Do you guys really say "y'all" all the time though?
Valiss, I'm noticing that "Y'all" is becoming more common all around the country. I heard a national newscaster use it just yesterday. Having lived in the South for most of my life, I really struggle not to use the colloquialisms of the area, but y'all, et's harder that ketchin' a greased pig!
Well I can tell you it isn't used in California that I've ever heard. I assume it is a Texas / southern accent thing. But that's jsut what the movies would have me belive. So you guys DO say it! Hahaha. While I do say 'dude' a lot, I dont know anyone who has a valley girl accent.
If I had seen deliverance first I would never have moved to Ga/Al. I refuse to mash buttons, I mash potatoes. I am never fixin to do anything, there are many things I am thinking/preparing to do. I shudder at y'all and y'alls is even worse. Here everything in the bible is to be taken literally no matter how stupid, nonsensical, or rediculous it may be , yet no one has been able to tell me where Cains wife came from. Nothing is to be eaten without grits, yet they frown on cream of wheat, the only difference is the source material, the consistency of each is identical. The sheep, goats, and other cattle are kept locked up lest they be violated by the neighbors. They all complain about the Yankees, but if it were not for Yankees they would not know what shoes were. Not one of them knows that the civil war(not the war of northern aggression) is over and THEY surrendered. It has been 158 years since the event and they still won't get over it. There was a bypass route built over 18 years ago with a frontage road and in all that time they still don't know that people coming off of the highway onto the frontage road have the right of way, even though it is clearly marked. Reading here is not a required subject. When the old high school was abandoned and a new one was built, the first spade of dirt lifted out of the ground was for the football stadium not the school.. Why do I stay. I hate snow and high taxes.
Quote from: Gauwyn of Bracknell on April 03, 2013, 11:11:41 AM
We live in Iowa and we do not have corn or pigs in our front yard :D
I live in NW Illinois but work across the Mississippi River in Iowa in a customer service call center. So many times people ask where I am located, and I'll tell them Iowa, and they reply, "Oh, the place with the potatoes."
Sorry, that's Idaho.
So many people think the only place in Illinois is Chicago, but here in rural NW Illinois, we have more cows than people. Almost no pollution, and at night, you can look out and see the stars.
Misconceptions can be interesting. Went I went to college, in the Arkansas border town of Memphis, TN, I had someone make a crack about not knowing we wore shoes. This particular person was from the thriving metropolis of Sapulpa, Oklahoma, and spoke with an British accent. What a dork.
I HAVE run into girls with the "Valley Girl" affectation. I'm sure it was as put on as the British accent from Oklahoma. In all fairness, almost every area of the country has their own idiosyncrasies. Youse guys shouldn't make fun of y'all. ;D
In New York City most residents think anywhere above White Plains is Indian country. I was asked once, after the person heard I was from NY, Oh do you know so and so. Like there are only 25 million residents in the state I should know this one person. JEEEEEZZ............
Quote from: BLAKDUKE on April 04, 2013, 06:39:04 PM
In New York City most residents think anywhere above White Plains is Indian country. I was asked once, after the person heard I was from NY, Oh do you know so and so. Like there are only 25 million residents in the state I should know this one person. JEEEEEZZ............
LOL! Yeah... My son teaches in Brooklyn. Someone asked me, "Does he know...?" Funny thing, though. We were walking near St Pat's, and my son ran into a friend from back home in Little Rock. Go figure.
When I was in NY City years ago, someone in a shop asked since they knew by our 'accent' knew we were not from there asked where. When i said Iowa, she leaned in and said "oh, honey, out here we pronounce that O-hi-o. I figured, yep, they probably did.
Quote from: Gauwyn of Bracknell on April 04, 2013, 08:23:28 PM
When I was in NY City years ago, someone in a shop asked since they knew by our 'accent' knew we were not from there asked where. When i said Iowa, she leaned in and said "oh, honey, out here we pronounce that O-hi-o. I figured, yep, they probably did.
LOL
Unlike what you see on Little House on the Prairie and Picket Fences- around here the grass is not always green with leaves on the trees up until Christmas. Not every time it snows is it a blizzard.
Northern New Jersey. And most of us don't spend our days working on our abs, tans, or hair, and the rest of us aren't connected with the mob.
Quote from: Bob of the Lake on April 05, 2013, 12:57:50 PM
Northern New Jersey. And most of us don't spend our days working on our abs, tans, or hair, and the rest of us aren't connected with the mob.
About that favour you asked me for....
Quote from: Gauwyn of Bracknell on April 04, 2013, 08:23:28 PM
When I was in NY City years ago, someone in a shop asked since they knew by our 'accent' knew we were not from there asked where. When i said Iowa, she leaned in and said "oh, honey, out here we pronounce that O-hi-o. I figured, yep, they probably did.
NO WAY!
Quote from: Bob of the Lake on April 05, 2013, 12:57:50 PM
Northern New Jersey. And most of us don't spend our days working on our abs, tans, or hair, and the rest of us aren't connected with the mob.
I'm originally from NJ but for the past 17 years have lived in the Midwest. People hear my accent and ask where I'm from. When I say NJ, they inevitably say "New Joy-see." Really, people from NJ don't pronounce it like that!!!!
I think that's more an affectation from areas of NYC, isn't it, Lady Renee? ...I can't tell you which one. I'd need to confer with my son...
Merlin:
yes "youze guys" and "toity toid" st are mainly NYC accents.
It's like "pahk the cah" in Boston.
The Blakduke
I did go to college with a guy from Paramus and his did refer to it as joisey - maybe he was being facetious, but that is how he said it.
We do say y'all but I hear a lot of people trying to do a Southern accent trip up on that word. It's just "y'all", not "y'aaalllll". It takes about the same length of time to say as 'you'.
Quote from: Valiss on April 04, 2013, 09:40:05 AM
Quote from: DonaCatalina on April 04, 2013, 04:53:45 AM
Neither we nor my neighbors have oilwells or cattle. The last family ranch was sold off about 5 years ago for a developer to build ranchettes for Yankees.
Do you guys really say "y'all" all the time though?
yep.
and I am fixin' to tell ya'll about it.
Something I find funny. I never say y'all, and I am not fixin' to do anything. I do not speak with a heavy southern/Texas accent at all, but I DO live across the street from a cattle ranch and there is a gas well behind our property.
Pittsburgh PA
Steelers/Penguins/Pirates fans are way more rabid than shown on TV or Movies. We BLEED black and gold. Do not come to our town and diss on the Black and Gold...do not wear another teams jersey. Do not deface the Terrible Towel....EVER...Oh and we hate Cleveland Ohio, not sure why, but we just have to. It is never totally sunny here. If we get a day that is completely clear without a cloud in the sky, we go NUTS.
We say "yinz" instead of y'all.
"Yinz goin' dan dat Stillers game an at?"
I could go on, but I think everyone here who has met a true yinzer gets the point.
Gina
Quote from: DonaCatalina on April 04, 2013, 04:53:45 AM
Neither we nor my neighbors have oilwells or cattle. The last family ranch was sold off about 5 years ago for a developer to build ranchettes for Yankees.
It's ok. We all have successful acting careers on the TV show, "Dallas", now. Let the damn yankees do all the hard work on the ranches. Suckers!
Lol Dallas is nothing like the Tv show. I wish life were that glamorous. Dallas is full of crime and homless people, then you cross the street and your in the art district with the million dollar lofts and apartments, its an interesting combination.
I live about 30 miles outside of dallas and my family still has the farm and they grow cotton and hay, and we have black angus cows(yummy steak). And yes we do say ya'll and we drop the g's from -ing.
So I do a lot of cookin, cleanin, and sewin because i'm fixin to get ready to go to the Ren Faire.
Every movie that's set in Charleston seems to be a period piece, but, even as a historian, I can confirm that it is no longer 1859 in most of the city. (Some of the Old Charlestonians, though, may not agree.)