Become a trickster. I just want to play well-meaning tricks on people. I keep a list of stupid pranks to play. Not even pranks, just cultivate eccentric tendencies. One includes training two dogs to show a person out of my house, complete with them closing the door behind the person.
I used to think doing things like this would be funny and charming, but I think the large majority of people would just think it was creepy and weird. My desire to do this is not lessened, however.
Become a trickster. I just want to play well-meaning tricks on people. I keep a list of stupid pranks to play. Not even pranks, just cultivate eccentric tendencies. One includes training two dogs to show a person out of my house, complete with them closing the door behind the person.
I used to think doing things like this would be funny and charming, but I think the large majority of people would just think it was creepy and weird. My desire to do this is not lessened, however.
But I am female. And tiny (less than five feet and a hundred pounds). I'm super adorable. I have that advantage.
Become a trickster. I just want to play well-meaning tricks on people. I keep a list of stupid pranks to play. Not even pranks, just cultivate eccentric tendencies. One includes training two dogs to show a person out of my house, complete with them closing the door behind the person.
I used to think doing things like this would be funny and charming, but I think the large majority of people would just think it was creepy and weird. My desire to do this is not lessened, however.
But I am female. And tiny (less than five feet and a hundred pounds). I'm super adorable. I have that advantage.
You do have that going for you--things like this are considerably less charming on a grown man. I tend to stick to subtler eccentricities, such as in the workplace. Sometimes, when talking with a new person at work that I know I won't have to be around for an extended period of time, I'll simply mirror their personality and vocal inflections to see if they catch on. Most don't, and I've found it is an oddly easy way to make friends. Another was to casually say "fuck" every other word when talking with my extremely straight-laced Morman boss, simply to see if he'd tell me not to (it was against the rules of Safeway). I got a lot of other employees to do the same thing, and while I could tell he wanted to tell me not to, he never did. This was the same man who forced an employee to shave in the bathroom because he had a slight bit of stubble. I could never figure him out.
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edited February 2010
Scrum, you can make the world an odder place with the little things. You are doing well.
I want to dress up like I am from a different era, get a friend with a vintage car. Run up to someone and ask for the year, run back yelling, "It worked!"
Among my friends and people I want to impress I've tried to cultivate a fairly neutral inflection and hide my Southern accent, but when I'm back home and I need to go the hardware store or go get something done to my car I find myself slipping back into a little more of that drawl to try to blend or accommodate the locals or something
I'm not entirely sure why it happens but I find it makes it easier to get along in different settings
Among my friends and people I want to impress I've tried to cultivate a fairly neutral inflection and hide my Southern accent, but when I'm back home and I need to go the hardware store or go get something done to my car I find myself slipping back into a little more of that drawl to try to blend or accommodate the locals or something
Oh god it annoys me when I catch myself doing this, to either extreme
I am going to come out of college with some crazy regional accent
I also once convinced a co-worker that my favorite band was The Spice Girls, and that a lot of their music is based off of Shakespeare's sonnets. This really wasn't a remarkable feat, he was not very bright. His favorite band was Creed, he recommended me a Kirk Cameron movie as "a good date movie", and he was a vocal Creationist.
Among my friends and people I want to impress I've tried to cultivate a fairly neutral inflection and hide my Southern accent, but when I'm back home and I need to go the hardware store or go get something done to my car I find myself slipping back into a little more of that drawl to try to blend or accommodate the locals or something
Oh god it annoys me when I catch myself doing this, to either extreme
I am going to come out of college with some crazy regional accent
Thing is, most other people from the South have told me they can't really hear an accent in my voice; but my friends from up north claim that it is in fact noticeable; so I guess it's all relative, really
Among my friends and people I want to impress I've tried to cultivate a fairly neutral inflection and hide my Southern accent, but when I'm back home and I need to go the hardware store or go get something done to my car I find myself slipping back into a little more of that drawl to try to blend or accommodate the locals or something
Oh god it annoys me when I catch myself doing this, to either extreme
I am going to come out of college with some crazy regional accent
Thing is, most other people from the South have told me they can't really hear an accent in my voice; but my friends from up north claim that it is in fact noticeable; so I guess it's all relative, really
people with the same accent as you don't hear their own accent
more on this breaking development at 11
seriously how do so many people not understand how accents work?
Among my friends and people I want to impress I've tried to cultivate a fairly neutral inflection and hide my Southern accent, but when I'm back home and I need to go the hardware store or go get something done to my car I find myself slipping back into a little more of that drawl to try to blend or accommodate the locals or something
Oh god it annoys me when I catch myself doing this, to either extreme
I am going to come out of college with some crazy regional accent
Thing is, most other people from the South have told me they can't really hear an accent in my voice; but my friends from up north claim that it is in fact noticeable; so I guess it's all relative, really
people with the same accent as you don't hear their own accent
more on this breaking development at 11
seriously how do so many people not understand how accents work?
Among my friends and people I want to impress I've tried to cultivate a fairly neutral inflection and hide my Southern accent, but when I'm back home and I need to go the hardware store or go get something done to my car I find myself slipping back into a little more of that drawl to try to blend or accommodate the locals or something
Oh god it annoys me when I catch myself doing this, to either extreme
I am going to come out of college with some crazy regional accent
Thing is, most other people from the South have told me they can't really hear an accent in my voice; but my friends from up north claim that it is in fact noticeable; so I guess it's all relative, really
people with the same accent as you don't hear their own accent
more on this breaking development at 11
seriously how do so many people not understand how accents work?
no no
you sound funny
I sound normal
BUT EVERYONE BACK HOME SAYS I DON'T HAVE AN ACCENT is pretty much identical to MY MOM THINKS I'M COOL
saying "people from where I grew up don't hear my accent" is silly goosery of the highest order, of course it's all relative. They wouldn't be accents if it weren't.
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"Maybe my friend George Washington can help you come to a decision?"
I'll be wearing sunglasses and be super serious.
Also I can pass for so much younger so that opens to door to all sorts of possibilities.
It is incredible
Washington is kid money, it's all about the Hamiltons, baby
I used to think doing things like this would be funny and charming, but I think the large majority of people would just think it was creepy and weird. My desire to do this is not lessened, however.
May I call you
Aaron Burr
I feel like hitting something and crying like a girl.
Dammit am I on my period
But I am female. And tiny (less than five feet and a hundred pounds). I'm super adorable. I have that advantage.
You do have that going for you--things like this are considerably less charming on a grown man. I tend to stick to subtler eccentricities, such as in the workplace. Sometimes, when talking with a new person at work that I know I won't have to be around for an extended period of time, I'll simply mirror their personality and vocal inflections to see if they catch on. Most don't, and I've found it is an oddly easy way to make friends. Another was to casually say "fuck" every other word when talking with my extremely straight-laced Morman boss, simply to see if he'd tell me not to (it was against the rules of Safeway). I got a lot of other employees to do the same thing, and while I could tell he wanted to tell me not to, he never did. This was the same man who forced an employee to shave in the bathroom because he had a slight bit of stubble. I could never figure him out.
I want to dress up like I am from a different era, get a friend with a vintage car. Run up to someone and ask for the year, run back yelling, "It worked!"
Among my friends and people I want to impress I've tried to cultivate a fairly neutral inflection and hide my Southern accent, but when I'm back home and I need to go the hardware store or go get something done to my car I find myself slipping back into a little more of that drawl to try to blend or accommodate the locals or something
I'm not entirely sure why it happens but I find it makes it easier to get along in different settings
Oh god it annoys me when I catch myself doing this, to either extreme
I am going to come out of college with some crazy regional accent
Thing is, most other people from the South have told me they can't really hear an accent in my voice; but my friends from up north claim that it is in fact noticeable; so I guess it's all relative, really
Like, devote a whole bunch of time to it and everything.
I just don't know what yet.
HG: 5285 4128 5154
you should eat something
best case scenario it turns out you were grumpy because you were hungry, problem solved
but if not, you'll be sitting there sobbing and stuffing your face with ice cream which is every sad person's secret desire anyway
It's because you don't know how to pump your own gas.
11pm
the fuck
The world is a wasteland.
Only the damned were left behind.
HG: 5285 4128 5154
man I know, right? Terrible time to lose the new webcomics thread: new supermegas abound, HB fucking eats egg's head off, awesome music
people with the same accent as you don't hear their own accent
more on this breaking development at 11
seriously how do so many people not understand how accents work?
kpop appreciation station i also like to tweet some
no no
you sound funny
I sound normal
BUT EVERYONE BACK HOME SAYS I DON'T HAVE AN ACCENT is pretty much identical to MY MOM THINKS I'M COOL
kpop appreciation station i also like to tweet some
2012, 2012, 2012
I am really looking foward to 2012
HG: 5285 4128 5154
saying "people from where I grew up don't hear my accent" is silly goosery of the highest order, of course it's all relative. They wouldn't be accents if it weren't.
hearing myself on a recording is bad enough, knowing the accent on top of that would just be awful
kpop appreciation station i also like to tweet some
Explain that, Mr. Wizard
Jesus Christ, do not even get me started on this
Not even in jest
you are a freak among freaks with accents
wow
florida
Oh man this is awesome
North Carolina is spot on