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WCDT 6-10 June 2011 (1941-1945) [World War II Edition]
iduguphergrave:
It was a bit unclear to me at first, but I'm gussing mostly uppity college kids use the term "townie" and that's why Marten doesn't like being called that. I'm not saying Padma's uppity; she's not, but if I heard the term come mostly from over-privileged university douchebags I'd object whenever anyone else said it too.
Is this even close to being correct, Carl? Like I was saying earlier (in the stream, not here), I'm from a (kinda) big city and I've almost never heard the term before tonight.
VonKleist:
Good thing urbandictionary offers 32 pages of definitions on "townie".
I was a townie in the town where I grew up, because it had a private art-college. But the joke was more on the students because they payed to go to college in the hinterlands rather than a place with any kind of culture or "night life".
Also it had more of the british kind of "townies"..
Tova:
--- Quote from: VonKleist on 07 Jun 2011, 01:53 ---Good thing urbandictionary offers 32 pages of definitions on "townie".
--- End quote ---
It's also a good thing that wikipedia offers a definition of Segal's law.
If a man with two watches is never sure, then a man with 32 pages of definitions has no chance.
VonKleist:
Yeah, then again
a person living in an urban environment where the concept in question doesn't apply shouldn't really bother with it :roll:
Platypodes:
It was a new word for me too, but googling townie stereotype brought me a number of articles from college papers about college students' perceptions of "townies" (and college-town residents' correspondingly negative perceptions of students).
The description that seemed to me to most fit the comic was from a University of Virginia student who wrote, "the term 'townie' comes with a stigma that often refers to a person who should be looked down upon, a person who is either uneducated or just too flat-out unmotivated to get their shit together, get out of town and go someplace 'real,'" and illustrates it with the image of "the freelancing unemployed 'poet' who hangs out on the mall all day thinking deep thoughts." -- http://www.thedeclaration.org/article/gownie-townie
Using this stereotype, the the phrase "townie drama" does fit a guy hanging around in a coffee shop being angsty about how his romantic woes are keeping him away from the other coffee shop where he used to spend copious amounts of time hanging around.
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