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There oughta be a law!
Barmymoo:
My friend speaks with an accent that most people assume is American. She's Scottish, part Irish, lives in England and occasionally Germany. No Americans in sight.
TOBAL against people using toilet paper to dry their hands - we keep running out by Sunday lunchtime.
TOBAL also against leaving pubic hairs on the toilet seat.
Redball:
--- Quote from: jwhouk on 20 Oct 2012, 14:38 ---TOBAL about people who derail threads with Maths! ;)
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Would lack of intent be exculpatory? I was making what I thought was a joke about an extra letter added to "math."
And after a couple of years overseas in the 60s, I now ask visitors, "Where is your native place?" Seems more polite than "Where're you from?" Place and accent became a little confusing when talking to Barmymoo, though 'enry 'iggins would have sorted it in a second.
Carl-E:
I have that problem - I'm not really "from" anywhere. I never spent more than 4 years in any one state, except Indiana (15 years of college) and now central PA, where I moved in '95. But my accent was pretty well set by college. A mish-mash of Jersey, Ohio, upstate NY, and MD.
So yeah, pretty unidentifiable.
TOBAL against time limits on tutoring sessions when you're trying to teach trig substitution...
Omega Entity:
I like to try and guess the accents, when I encounter them. I live in a city, but it's not a large city by any means, so I guess it seems a bit more interesting when we get people into the store that have a different accent. One family that comes in, the mother is from Scotland, and she was tickled pink that I could distinguish it - apparently it was often confused for Irish.
LTK:
--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 20 Oct 2012, 15:16 ---TOBAL also against leaving pubic hairs on the toilet seat.
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I wouldn't make a law against that specifically because there are a LOT of worse things you can leave on a toilet seat, and almost all of them are worse than little strands of lifeless keratin.
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