October 2019 15k SPAM Thread

[LyceeFruit PE]

It's going to be a no from me, dawg, if it's $40. I'd pay $15 for the shirt or $20 with S&H.

Yeah same. But it's all gotta be a tri-blend cotton. I can't stand the heavy, stiff, unbreathable cotton shirts. I don't wear cotton that often tbh 

 

[RBHeadge PE]

...also, as an aside, I think I stopped drinking coffee is because my accent comes out really strong on that word and I feel awkward when I say it.  Ruins my office persona of not having a Long Islander accent.

Sometimes you gotta embrace your heritage.

I don't hide my Philly accent but I also have very few salient tells. I take a lot of pride in it but the parts that I naturally accentuate tend to be the non-salient aspects of the dialect.

 

[RBHeadge PE]

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That's about right.

BTW, are you in Northern Virginia?

 

[JayKay PE]

On the bright side, NCEES will probably have all the answers sheets by the end of the day, today.

You have a lot of faith in the USPS/UPS/Fedex/mail carriers of the world.

 

[JayKay PE]

Sometimes you gotta embrace your heritage.

I don't hide my Philly accent but I also have very few salient tells. I take a lot of pride in it but the parts that I naturally accentuate tend to be the non-salient aspects of the dialect.

I've been told the Long Island accent is the most hated accent and it's been baked up my pseudo-science: https://bigseventravel.com/2019/05/50-sexiest-accents-usa-ranked/

I've trained it out from a ton of singing and vocal exercises when opera career was a serious option, but it comes out when I talk to my mom (who has a really heavy LI accent) or when I start getting drunk or when I'm comfortable/with friends that I know won't tease me.  But there are two words that I can't change, it's almost as if my tongue/throat/whatever can't do it: coffee and water.  

 

[JayKay PE]

OH NO.  DOUBLE POST.  GOT TO POST THAT TRIPLE.

 

[Will.I.Am PE]

You have a lot of faith in the USPS/UPS/Fedex/mail carriers of the world.

My dad was one of them, so yes, within certain limitations, I do.

 

[Orchid PE]

I'm a little disappointed FL stopped mailing out the certificates. Now they just allow you to download a PDF and print it. I was looking forward to the nice certificate they printed for my EI license.

 

[LyceeFruit PE]

I've been told the Long Island accent is the most hated accent and it's been baked up my pseudo-science: https://bigseventravel.com/2019/05/50-sexiest-accents-usa-ranked/

I've trained it out from a ton of singing and vocal exercises when opera career was a serious option, but it comes out when I talk to my mom (who has a really heavy LI accent) or when I start getting drunk or when I'm comfortable/with friends that I know won't tease me.  But there are two words that I can't change, it's almost as if my tongue/throat/whatever can't do it: coffee and water.  

As a life long New Englander, who has a mash of the Boston & Maine accents (especially when drunk or wicked pissed), I don't get how those 2 accents ended up in the Top 5. 

 

[LyceeFruit PE]

I'm a little disappointed FL stopped mailing out the certificates. Now they just allow you to download a PDF and print it. I was looking forward to the nice certificate they printed for my EI license.

So VT sends out the license, or at least they used to. They mailed my EIT to my college address. Which was a tiny on-campus mailbox. The mailroom put a package slip in my mailbox but when I went to pick it up, they said that they almost folded it up to fit into the mailbox. I was about to be so pissed if they did that. 

 

[JayKay PE]

My dad was one of them, so yes, within certain limitations, I do.

My dad is a saxophone player.  Doesn't mean I'd trust him with a *****-tonk.  I think you trust your dad more than you trust the mail system *squinty eyes*

@LyceeFruit BOSTON IS SUPPOSEDLY SEXY BECAUSE OF THE KENNEDY'S BUT OTHERWISE IT'S A TRASH FIRE.  THERE.  I SAID IT.

Yes!  NYer hate rant again Boston is the tops!!!

 

[RBHeadge PE]

And the buildings have sooooooo muuuuuuuch spaaaaaace in-between them.

Are you feeling agoraphobic yet?

 

[Will.I.Am PE]

Top.?

Edit: Dang. Whammy! 

 

[LyceeFruit PE]

My dad is a saxophone player.  Doesn't mean I'd trust him with a *****-tonk.  I think you trust your dad more than you trust the mail system *squinty eyes*

@LyceeFruit BOSTON IS SUPPOSEDLY SEXY BECAUSE OF THE KENNEDY'S BUT OTHERWISE IT'S A TRASH FIRE.  THERE.  I SAID IT.

Yes!  NYer hate rant again Boston is the tops!!!

I think it's also the Afflecks and the Wahlbergs 

 

[ChebyshevII PE PMP]

I've been told the Long Island accent is the most hated accent and it's been baked up my pseudo-science: https://bigseventravel.com/2019/05/50-sexiest-accents-usa-ranked/

I've trained it out from a ton of singing and vocal exercises when opera career was a serious option, but it comes out when I talk to my mom (who has a really heavy LI accent) or when I start getting drunk or when I'm comfortable/with friends that I know won't tease me.  But there are two words that I can't change, it's almost as if my tongue/throat/whatever can't do it: coffee and water.  

Don’t mind me, just eating my “ayyyyyyggggs.”

 

[JayKay PE]

Are you feeling agoraphobic yet?

I do feel twitchy at the lack of people around me.  Like, it makes me more nervous when I walk home at 3am because there is literally NOBODY around.  Not even cars!  Def makes me feel like it's the start of a horror film or something.

Also, like 3 guys almost had an aneurysm this morning because I got on the hospital shuttle and there were no seats so I had to stand and I refused to sit in any of the seats they offered.  I mean, it was literally like to subway.  nbd.

 

[ChebyshevII PE PMP]

*****-tonk

I love this phrase as it relates to saxophones.

 

[JayKay PE]

I think it's also the Afflecks and the Wahlbergs 

*shakes fist angrily in their direction*  Those damn movie stars!  Making those atrocious beings up in Boston palatable! How dare they!!!!!

@ChebyshevII PE My dad is a very skilled musician.  He still cracks up when I say things like, "Play that *****-tonk for me!" or "That is sounding so fine, add some more gratuitous grace notes for me!"

 

[RBHeadge PE]

On the bright side, NCEES will probably have all the answers sheets by the end of the day, today.

I'd expect that to be true. We'll know they got them when the surveys go out

 

[RBHeadge PE]

 but it comes out when I talk to my mom (who has a really heavy LI accent) or when I start getting drunk or when I'm comfortable/with friends that I know won't tease me. 

The technical term for that is called "code switching" everyone does it.

I occasionally start slipping some salient Philadelphia-English when I go home, or get very stressed.