local flavor

[MagicParakeet]

We all live in radically differant places, so let's talk about where  we live. As I have said several times, I leave near the 'burgh. It's November so it's cold as balls. I specifically live in a nice suburban area with nothing to do. This is why I join a bunch of forums and play games. We have an accent that is part New York, part Southern. Key word to know ,"yinz". Baseball team blows, hockey is alright, football rocks.  Cleavland blows. That should be good.

[Silfedac]

I live in, not the 'burgh, but the 'burbs. I live in a pretty decent neighborhood, excepting a few small cases of vandalism and minor theft.
The reason I go on the forums here is that, while I make friends easily, I'm kind of antisocial, and rarely associate with them out of school. As far as I can tell, we have no accent. We ennunciate our words correctly.

[MagicParakeet]

Do you happen to live near Cleaveland? 'Cause I meant no offense by the Cleavland comment. You know the Pittsburgh vs. Cleavland rivalries.

[Orangey]

What kind of balls? Balls of ICE? Or is it just a shortening of the phrase 'cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey' (derived from when the racks they stored cannon-balls on (called 'brass monkeys') would contract in the cold weather so that they were too small to hold the cannon-balls and the balls fell off the brass monkey)?

Well, I live in Oregon. It's november here, so it's damp. Pretty soon though, it'll be spring-time, so it'll be damp. Of course, that's pretty radically different from Summer, when it's damp. Then it gets to fall and WOO, you'll never believe it! It totally gets damp! Man, how crazy, right? I live in a little no-where agricultural town that's just starting to sprawl; that means that we get all the benefit of over-crowded schools and constant construction, with-out the bother of good food and entertainment. Sweet, no? The people around here like to think they have an accent, but they don't. They don't.We really don't even have much of a local dialect, but they say 'pop' instead of soda... ^{I h}at_{e i}t s^{o m}uc_h.... We have no professional sports; we make up for it with craptastical school sports.

Yup. That's it.

[Shy]

I have two places of residence: I live with my parents in Des Moines, Iowa where it is pretty interesting, but at the same time dull. Seriously....corn everywhere. Oh, and pigs. There's more pigs then people in Iowa.

Yet, most of the year I'm here in Hannibal, Missouri. And if you're part of the population that has no idea where that is, it's right on the Mississippi River, where Mark Twain aka Samuel Clemens, grew up. It's a small quaint down, yet also dull. I find myself keeping entertained by my school's theatre and by visiting my boyfriend in his apartment to visit my new kitten. (Not allowed to have pets on campus)

[the Scarf]

Hey, Orangey! I'm in Oregon too! I'm in the well developed, artsy area of Portland though...We get lots of rain...LOTS OF RAIN. I am not kidding, these past few days, its been pissing down like Noah's flood!

Where I am, we have a lot of local run coffee houses and shops. Lots of little places all up and down the nearest busy road, and some pretty wacky places not to far off...I live in a pretty nice part of town, actually...not the 'burbs, all the houses are different designs...I didn't realize how well off I was until my 6th grade year, when I went to one persons house and it was all small...isn't it funny how that happens? when you're little, you just assume everyone has the same as you, except for those who are filthy rich, and those people who hold up signs on street corners...strange how views change, eh?

[Orangey]

Yeah, I live near Portland; frankly, I don't understand the attraction. People go on all the time about how great and accepting and diverse it is; they put on 'Keep Portland Weird' bumper stickers; they tell me it's a great center of culture. But then, I used to live next to San Antonio, Texas, and it was basically the same, but larger, hotter, and dryer. Ahh well. What-ever makes you happy, right? Every-where's gotta have some-where to be proud of.

[the Scarf]

Yeah, but you see, Texas is in the south, and we're in the northwest!

[Orangey]

I know; that was my point: they're similar except for geographically determined climatic traits

[the Scarf]

Ah yes, but my point was that there must me several of these places all spread around...otherwise, they get too crowded!

[Orangey]

Ahh. Well then. I guess it would wouldn't it? And that would be un-fortunate, especially if some despicable and evil person wanted to, say, eradicate the entire hippie breed in one fell swoop...

*Strokes missile*

*Whispering*
Don't worry, sweetie, we'll get them eventually...

[the Scarf]

How Dare you call us hippies!
er...well..I'm sure there is a greater percentage of hippies..but most of us are just art snobs!

[Amanda]

Chris and I live in the vast, wonderful and sometimes annoying suburbs of Chicago. Vast and wonderful because between the burbs and the city you can find pretty much anything. Sometimes annoying because of the traffic. I grew up in a town somewhere between suburban and rural in Michigan and don't think I could handle living in the city... but our close proximity is great! Shows, touristy stuff, Bifftastic restaurants, museums.. they are only a short drive or trip on the train. We live on a winding little street with lots of huge trees - not cookie cutter house type suburbia. So it really is the best of both worlds.

[MagicParakeet]

What kind of balls? Balls of ICE? Or is it just a shortening of the phrase 'cold enough to freeze the balls of the brass monkey' (derived from when the racks they stored cannon-balls on (called 'brass monkeys') would contract in the cold weather so that they were too small to hold the cannon-balls and the balls fell off the brass monkey)?

Don't know. It's either cold as balls or hot as balls here. I have no idea what they mean either.

[Mystery Fish]

I'm in Japan

Okay, I lied, I'm in England. A pretty rubbish place called West Bromwich. It's full of chavs, and there are so many stabbings, thefts and cases of vandalism that I would rather live underground
There's so much litter, too. Not to mention the noise and air pollution, what with all the cars, motorbikes and chavmobiles. Also, there a quite a few racists around.

[Orangey]

What on Earth is a 'chav'? Or a 'chavmobile'?

[Silfedac]

Racists=bad.

Do you happen to live near Cleaveland? 'Cause I meant no offense by the Cleavland comment. You know the Pittsburgh vs. Cleavland rivalries.

And no. But my aunt and uncle do. Not particularly a big fan, though. I find it crowded, smelly, and dirty. But you know the Cincinnati vs. Cleveland rivalries.

[SpriteMeister]

How Dare you call us hippies!

You know, you're talking to a guy whose hair is longer than even mine is (barely). You don't get much more hippy than us anti-social small-town-west-of-Portland-ers.
That said, I live in the same town as Orangey. Correction: I live in a rural town "seperate" from his, and even then, I'm past what's considered the "outskirts" (granted, the "outskirts" is anything more than a block from the elementary school, but who's counting).
In short: I live where Orangey does, but with fewer neighbors.

[Orangey]

For the last time, LONG HAIR DOES NOT A HIPPIE MAKE! Any-one who dis-agrees can meet me in the action thread!

[the Scarf]

sooo...Biff attracts Oregonians?

and the guy with the hippie hair is the one saying 'damn hippies'

nice.

(I know that long hair doesn't make a hippie....)


(so don't kill me)

[Orangey]

I don't have to. My friend Cory will be doing that.

Corynebacterium diphtheria! And his buddy, lysogenic activation by bacteriophage!

[MagicParakeet]

I think I'm a hippie. Long hair, laid back and chillax, always giving the peace sign. Yep, I'm a hippie that loves heavy metal....AWESOME!!!

[Silfedac]

I'm laid back and I do like to chillax, but I don't have long hair so much as shaggy hair.

[the Scarf]

I was born a generation behind my time...I prefer listening to vinyl, I love oldschool games, and modern music is annoying.

[Mystery Fish]

What on Earth is a 'chav'? Or a 'chavmobile'?

Clicky.
In most parts of the UK, Chavs are synonymous with under-aged drinking, young teenage pregnancies, drug abuse, stabbings, muggings, theft, vandalism and just general antisocial behaviour.

My hair grows out. Like an afro, but straight. I really wish it would grow down, but then again, if I let it grow out really far, I could dye it white with red spots and act like Toad from the Mario games

[Silfedac]

So chavs are just juvenile delinquents?

[Mystery Fish]

Pretty much. Only, a huge emphasis on the 'delinquent' part.

[the Scarf]

heh...I wasn't too far off in my guess.....

[Silfedac]

I believe that you've mentioned chavs before, but that time, it was me asking about them.

[Mystery Fish]

They make me feel uncomfortable, but then again, so do most people. Because I'm mixed race (English-Irish/Indian) people immediately assume my name is something like 'Jagjeet' or 'Mandeep', or that I always hang around with people of Indian origin. Te reason this unnerves me is because there's been an outbreak of 'Pink Black Mafia' at my school, and most of the people involved are chavs. They attack random people that aren't white or black
Racism bites.