What just happened? lol
Nah, it never killed nobody.I’m thinking of taking legal action against an unlawful and anti constitutional conspiracy with the despicable goal of putting me on ignore.![]()
Looks like it is all under control now. @Oncefallen can be a fungi. Voice of treason too.
Fungi are fabulous! I watched a documentary that said so: Fantastic Fungi (<= link) .I fixed it for you @tourist
I fixed it for you @tourist
I’ve just found a new cheerleader for my team![]()
Fungi are fabulous! I watched a documentary that said so: Fantastic Fungi
It was actually quite fascinating as well... the first few minutes so packed with info I felt I should be taking notes heh.
Thank you, Steve. I don't think I am that smart, but smart things interest me, and also people with a higher level of intelligence and/or awareness do, also. Plus, I think you may have confused "heh" with "eh." I use "heh" to express amusement. "Eh" is definitely considered to be a Canadian thing. I am also of the opinion that it is very much more an eastern Canadian thing than western, because when I first arrived in the west in 1977, I noticed that I said it a whole heck of a lot more than anybody else I knew! Because of that I worked at weeding it out of my diction, to the point where Americans, when I met them, would ask me, "Where is your 'eh'?" LOL. Although Americans can be funny, you know, like saying yella instead of yellow or fella instead of fellow, that sort of thing. Cwoffee. Eh? Cwoffee??? Like coif-ee. LOL. And also having the chef in a restaurant sending your server back to your table, to ask you, what are you going to do with the vinegar? Eh??? It's for my French fries. LOLOLOLOLOLOL Speaking of diction and how we pronounce words, it also rarely fails to amuse/amaze me how different I sound from all my siblings who stayed in the east (which is most of them, really). They say things like malk instead of milk, something that sounds much more like budado than potato, and turn rate here instead of turn right here. George Bernard Shaw was really onto something with his Pygmalion! Do you have an accent that you are aware of, or words you know you cannot consistently pronounce properly?
Do you have an accent that you are aware of, or words you know you cannot consistently pronounce properly?
I still don't know what to call that bubbly stuff LOL! I have never been much of a pop drinker. There. I said pop. That must be it. Come to think of it, soda sounds kind of funny unless you are ordering a drink with club soda, whatever that is... I understand some confuse it with tonic water, although tonic water contains quinine, which became somewhat popular with the covid craziness. I was never big on mixed drinks, or cocktails as they are called, which is a very strange word, indeed. Or anything carbonated, come to think of it...Oh, your reply was so great. I learned a lot from you, as usual. I hate the way I sound, especially on a digital recording. I am originally from Portland, Oregon, and New Yorkers often lament how we all sound as if we're stoned most of the time.
We speak very slowly, and it sounds almost like a California surfer accent, but not quite.
I now live in the US desert southwest, where a lot of people ask me, "Where are you from?"
When I was a kid, I would say "pop," but now that I've lived in the Southwest so long, I say "soda."![]()
Even though our mother insisted that no such word existed!.And we always said wape!
Even though our mother insisted that no such word existed!
New Yorkers often lament how we all sound as if we're stoned most of the time.
We speak very slowly
It's nice to see Magenta has come around to the Dark Side.
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Crack yourself open a nice cold can of pop, and have yourself a cookie.
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Ah, THAT'S why people get uptight about calling soft drinks different things!YES! when my parents moved us from Michigan to NY in the 60s, people would offer us a soda, and then, disappointingly, give us a pop. soda has ice cream in it!![]()
Ah, THAT'S why people get uptight about calling soft drinks different things!
If I had that disappointment in my life I'd start urging people to call it the right thing too.
Were you ever tempted to throw the ice-cream-less thing in their faces? I ain't gonna ask if you DID, but were you tempted to?