OP hasn’t been to New Jersey.
The Jersey Shore accent is fake. Don’t believe the MTV lies.
Hung out with one of these MTV reality TV stars. She got drunk and the accent was gone. She sounded like a normal person. It’s entirely forced.
They’re also not from Jersey. Or at least, I think most of them were from Long Island. I’m honestly not committed to remembering what few things I did at one point know about that show.
Traveling across the US is like switching to an alternate dimension where everything is pretty much the same, but a few things are off. Like, Congress is the same, but suddenly there are dunkin’ donuts everywhere and the land is weirdly flat
People say ‘whenever’ instead of ‘when’ and I want to clock them for it.
eta: I’m specifically disparaging the southern US states here. They just flat-out use words wrong, and I can say that now that I’m too far away for them to kick my ass.
Except the guy you’re responding said ‘everywhere’
Thanks for sharing though.
I think the commenter might have been talking about Americans in general.
So they take the opportunity whenever they can?
I just like to make stupid posts, sorry.
I’m right with you haha.
I thought about it and I say “whenever” pretty often.
It’s a weird thing to bother someone so much.
Whenever I think about the silly little things that bother people, I’m all, “Whatever could there reason be?”
But four a real problem, like one that should bug someone! I used to could go through a day without pain. I reckon I’m done got old.
Wander how the commenter wood fill about that. To much little stuff bothers folks. Shood worry about big thangs.
It’s a minor niggle I was joking about with hyperbole, but it does bother me a bit because ‘when’ means a specific time and ‘whenever’ means any of multiple times. Their meaning isn’t interchangeable.
Like: ‘I talked to my dad when he was in town’ means I talked with him that last time he was in town, but ‘I talked to my dad whenever he was in town’ means any or all the times he was in town – it might have been a hundred times or two, I can’t tell, but not the one time like the other more accurate sentence.
It doesn’t make me mad, but it very briefly ruffles my feathers. (e: and then I move right on)
I honestly get why it bugs you, there are things like that that bug me too. I can’t think of any at the moment (fairly intoxicated), but I definitely know of some words (not specifically at the moment, again, intoxicated) that irk me when misused. Not as much now that I’m older and I’ve met incredibly intelligent people who can’t even spell their own name. Well, that and my own ego has shrank by at least three quarters.
When I believed that I was some hyper intelligent alien, every misuse of a word made me cringe to my core.
At 38 years old (recently gained a year because for some reason I thought I was 39), I realize that I’m not shit and younger me just needed to feel superior for whatever reason.
I don’t know. I’m drunk. Sorry if I made no sense or was insulting in some way.
Hope you’re having a good night.
I can see why you’ve read it that way, but I’m quite sure they’re saying that some people say a word slightly differently in another part of the USA and they’re joking that it makes them angry.
Oh I get it. The way it was written makes it a strange non sequitur.
Indeed!
Yes, this, thank you. Sorry, my jokes sometimes come off too aggressive online. I’m trying to work on that.
I can drive 8 hours and still be in the same state. It’s weird, man.
(e: I mean no cities, avg 60mph the whole way. So weird.
You can drive 13 hours (no stops) and only get from one end of Texas to the other.
You can drive 15 hours and get from Imperial Beach, California, to Crescent City, California. Again, no stops.
I’ll bet someone could figure out a 36 hour trip across Alaska
The trouble with Alaska is that driving is often impossible. Ketchikan to Anchorage is a 36 hour drive that goes through two Canadian provinces and that’s only halfway across.
only twice?
Yeah, the accent will change in the time it takes to get to the next village.
deleted by creator
I watch a lot of British panel shows and am slowly starting to differentiate the accents. I can recognize some of them, but I couldn’t tell you where any of them are from.
If I’m not paying attention, they all just sound “generic British” to me.
Jimmy Carr’s laugh should have its own accent because wtf is that!
Remember how old 8-bit games would try to synthesize sounds because they couldn’t just use recordings?
That’s about how natural his laugh sounds.
And we Americans can’t comprehend how every little metro area has its own distinct accent.
I just watched a similar segment on Taskmaster doing some regional American accents, everyone kind of defaulted to Texas
If you’re in Los Angeles, you may not have left your county yet
In Australia, you can FLY for 4 hours and still be in the same state.
Slow your roll 'muricans. I got off a plane in Massachusetts and now I have to order my breakfast sandwich on whatever the fuck a bulkie is instead.
I drive further to work and back, in one day, then most British people drive all week. No I’m not bragging, yes it’s stupid.
What a braindead take, everything in the second panel 100% also applies to the first. In fact, the us is more diverse like are you fucking kidding me???
Pff in Australia I can travel over 2000km in a straight line and never leave my state, and it’s not even the biggest.
Now we need somebody from Siberia to tell us how they can drive for 5000km and never leave their federal subject (I had to look that up, it’s what the different regions of Russia are called)
I’m not Siberian, but from what I’ve gathered from the talks of people who lived there, is that people in far east Russia have a weird sense of time and distance. You might be in in the middle of fuck nowhere with the closest living person being like a 100km away from you, but when you call them with some any dumb questions like “Hey do you happen to have a bottle opener?” they respond with “Sure, I’ll be there shortly” and then they do indeed arrive… in 4 hours. It’s as if they don’t have places to be, and it’s totally okay for them to spend an entire day driving to a shop or to friend to lend them a screwdriver. It’s especially baffling to people who lived their entire lives within ~40km Moscow’s ring road and they hear stuff like “Minsk? Sure, that’s like a hand’s reach away - only 720 kilometers. I’ll drop by on the weekend”.
deleted by creator
That’s been banned now, right?
deleted by creator
Yeah, quite a few attempts made during the pandemic is what I heard
The wild thing is that the pandemic record will likely stand for a VERY LONG time, if it is ever beaten.
deleted by creator
Even then if it’s like a zombie pandemic it’s still not gonna happen with all those roaming corpses everywhere
It’s always been banned. Just like pot.
It’s always been illegal.
There is still a sign at the Portofino hotel in LA with the current record and it is definitely up to date.
deleted by creator
Things were better back when you could sail around the world for years and never leave the Kingdom.
4 hours in Canada means you left Toronto and you’re still in Toronto.
4 hours gets you almost to Sudbury, what are you smoking?
Sounds like you’ve never been to Toronto. You’ll be lucky to get onto the highway in 4 hours.
You can drive from Buffalo to Toronto in less than 4 hours, and that includes the time it takes to cross the border. I’ve made the drive, and can confirm that it takes less than 4 hours.
