October 2019 15k SPAM Thread

[RBHeadge PE]

 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.  

wooder?

worder?

watter?

wadder?

whattah?

 

[LyceeFruit PE]

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

I definitely feel like it's taking longer than normal

 

[ChebyshevII PE PMP]

I definitely feel like it's taking longer than normal

It’s prolly that dupe question on the power exam

 

[LyceeFruit PE]

It’s prolly that dupe question on the power exam

perhaps. it was so strange

 

[squaretaper LIT AF PE]

SPAM

 

[txjennah PE]

We won't get snow!  We're supposed to get slush tomorrow, but it's a 30% chance...so it'll just be a little rainy and then taper off.  You'll be fine!  Every person I've talked to said Indy gets cold, but the snow hasn't been an issue too much!

Even if it's slush I'm not driving in it!!!

 

[txjennah 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.  

You sing opera? Waaaat??

And whatever, your accent is awesome!

 

[RBHeadge 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/

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. 

I think they just made up that list, or based it on popular perceptions of the city. No ethnoliguist would touch that nonsense.

I agree, and I say this with all due disrespect, Boston has no business being in the top 25.

Not sure why Maine is so far up either? It's okay, but not great.

The salient Philly accent shouldn't be in the top 10; non-salient absolutely.

It's hilarious that they have Baltimore at 18 and Philly at 8. They're nearly identical accents! The differences are pretty minor (In Maryland 'bury' is pronounced "barry") and B'more has more mergers and Philly has few, but the rest can only be detected by a trained ear.

 

[ChebyshevII PE PMP]

I still maintain that washingtonians don't have accents. At least not to the level of LI or Philly.

 

[RBHeadge PE]

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.

Welcome to the zombie apocalypse.

 

[RBHeadge PE]

It’s prolly that dupe question on the power exam

perhaps. it was so strange

someone ****** up hard there. My guess is they'll give credit to anyone who answered. I have nothing to back that up, dont @ me  

 

[Will.I.Am 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

Did your dad play professionally? If so, that's kind of awesome.

My dad also taught me about the dark underbelly of the postal service. Honestly, the vast majority (like 99.9%+) of things get to where they're shipped within 3-4 days of when they actually hit the mail stream. The somewhat dirty secret is that a lot of places do their best to lie to you about when something's actually shipped. When you get that "Your Order Has Been Shipped!!1!" email, that just means that they sent shipping info to USPS, FedEx, etc., and your item is probably still sitting in a bin in a warehouse in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, waiting for someone to actually take it to the shipping facility.

That being said, I did assume that at least most of the NCEES site reps pulled their head out and got the materials shipped out by Saturday afternoon. That's probably too much to ask, if we're being honest.

 

[Tiger15]

Anything important happen in the last 5 pages of SPAM that I didn't read?

 

[RBHeadge PE]

I still maintain that washingtonians don't have accents. At least not to the level of LI or Philly.

Everyone has an accent.

Trust me, I could hear it quite clearly when I went out there, and it differed between Seattle and Tri-cities

 

[Master slacker]

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[RBHeadge PE]

That being said, I did assume that at least most of the NCEES site reps pulled their head out and got the materials shipped out by Saturday afternoon. That's probably too much to ask, if we're being honest.

I'd be hyper-surprised if they didn't put stuff it in the mail (at the station, barcoded and scanned, within an hour of them closing the exam site.

edit: topps :bananalama:

 

[Master slacker]

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[squaretaper LIT AF PE]

I still maintain that washingtonians don't have accents. At least not to the level of LI or Philly.

No, we Northern Californians have the most neutral/boring accent. It sounds like...nothing at all. Also, I learned English in school (folks are immigrants) so I could be biased.

 

[JayKay PE]

wooder?

worder?

watter?

wadder?

whattah?

wah-deh.  It's like a weird diphthong where only one vowel is spoken and then a hard syllable at the end.  Really hard for me to describe, all I know is that the undergrads made fun of me at grad school since I was researching gravity-fed water treatment systems and my concentration was in waste-water system.   :40oz:

 

[Master slacker]

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