Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCDT 2-6 May 2011 (1916-1920)
Kal:
The rain thing is ridiculously exaggerated. I live a bit south of Portland and this is what the weather is like:
Winter - It rains about 66% of the time, 75% at most. The rest of the time it's just cold, with a very bland white sky (due to the sunlight bouncing around in the cloud cover).
Spring - There's at least as much sunshine as there is rain. Between those there's some white sky days. This time of year offers a lot of lovely breezes. The flowers and new leaves look startlingly vivid after rain, and somewhat less so but still beautiful the rest of the time. Overall, the spring weather alternates frequently and doesn't let you get bored.
Summer - No rain. None. Low humidity. We do hit 99 degrees Fahrenheit occasionally; the usual temperature in summer is between 70-75 and 85-90.
Autumn - Kinda like spring, but different color palette. Also, the weather is generally uninteresting, with more white sky days than spring and less rain than winter.
ysth:
--- Quote from: The Duke on 05 May 2011, 14:21 ---This is where I learned its pronunciation.
--- End quote ---
Funnier if you know that Coos Bay is in Redneck-Oregon, not Hipster-Oregon.
butternutsquashed:
--- Quote from: The Duke on 05 May 2011, 14:21 ---This is where I learned its pronunciation.
--- End quote ---
I literally just made an account for the sole purpose of posting that link. Congratulations, sir, for beating me to the punch.
As someone who grew up in Portland, I want to say that this notion of the city as a mecca of suffocating hipster smugness didn't get so dangerously close to being true until all sorts of national publications developed this weird fixation on talking about it all the time. First you get the New York Times writing about our food carts, and then Portlandia comes out, and now even QC is cracking jokes. Golly.
I mean, sure, there are a lot of indie-music-listening, flannel-wearing, outdoorsy, fair-trade-espresso-drinking, sustainably-minded people here, but you've also got plenty of raging conservative property-rights activists, SUV drivers, soccer moms, obese mall-shoppers, and homeless people, just like you'd see in every other city in America.
It used to be only Californians we'd worry about, but jeez, now that the hipsters are even flooding in from Massachusetts... please! There still aren't any jobs here, and you guys are not helping.
It's crazy, though... before I came to Boston for college, I really didn't think most people on the other side of the country would even know where Portland was on a map, let alone have stereotypes. The world's a funny place.
calmcalamity:
100% agree with Kal
i often feel blessed to have been raised in a land of such natural beauty and relative stability
Akima:
--- Quote from: butternutsquashed on 05 May 2011, 18:08 ---It's crazy, though... before I came to Boston for college, I really didn't think most people on the other side of the country would even know where Portland was on a map, let alone have stereotypes.
--- End quote ---
Hey, I live on the other side of the planet, and I have stereotypes about Portland. It's a global village.
--- Quote from: Elysiana on 05 May 2011, 11:12 ---After living the first 20 years of my life in Illinois, there isn't much that grates on me more than hearing someone say "ell-ih-noy" or, even worse, "ill-ih-noiz". I do remember there was some local TV personality who combined the two into "ell-ih-noiz" and it made me want to punch him.
--- End quote ---
I feel the same way about people who pronounce Beijing as Beige-ing instead of Bay-jing, but perhaps I should be more patient if there are those who can't pronounce their own home state correctly. Sydney is easy to pronounce (rhymes with kidney), but if you want to sound like a local, it is "Sinny", which someone from Melbourne (Melb'n not Mel-born, and a resident is a Mel-BURN-ian) would say was completely appropriate.
--- Quote from: The Duke on 05 May 2011, 14:21 ---This is where I learned its pronunciation.
--- End quote ---
I say OR-a-g'n, with a "short" O as at the beginning of "office" or "on", so I guess I'm close. The comic strip's advice to pronounce it "Or a gun" would lead an Australian to say "Aw-a-gun". I do approve of the strip's advice that "the people who live there determine how a place name is pronounced", but I wonder how the artist pronounces Beijing...
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version