Ok. I'm a bit late at this (not really, but it was sent to one of my gmail accounts I don't often check), but really... "Charlie; Illinois; joviality; is from the midwest; is really from the South"?
Firstly, I'm from the midwest. Or the Midlands. Not really the south. I lived in NC for 4 years, but I lived in Illinois (about 45 from where I now live) for 5 and Iowa (that good ol' caucus) for 3. And I lived in Leicester (or a small village) for 6 years. The South. That's just got my vote (technically, I'm still registered in NC).
Anyway, I don't really have anything to say, exceptin' for the fact that my picture that I really like and use for my MSN and my blog has disappeared from the tinternets. It's quite distressing. I've lost my okapi. Fortunately, it's on my computer. Crisis averted.
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Write me a new location/strength/weakness/shameful secret line! Are you living in Illinois now? I assumed so because of references to O'Hare airport. It sounds like it was named after an Irish-American gangster, so I assumed it was Chicago's airport.
In retrospect, putting someone's geographical origin as "a weakness" is, eeeeeeeh, insensitive. I mean, Pete would have been cool with it, but that;s because he exists in a state of perpetual contempt for everyone he sees.
Um, how about?
"Charlie; Illinois; good-natured; endangered due to loss of natural habitats; is a squib."
It isn't my fault that some people are born in Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Idaho, Mississippi, Alabama, etc. and are therefore cursed. Each birthplace provides certain regional feats and weaknesses. The South gives you 1) Manners but also 2) Racism, while the Midwest gives you 1) Ability to Not Commit Suicide Despite Being Bored to Tears By Your Natural Environment and All of the People in It, but also 2) Racism.
Are they racial bonuses like darkvision, or are they just access to feats to take in the normal slot?
I suggest that Britian provides 1) Sardonic humour but 2) Lingering sense of post-imperial malaise. But now we're into Baker's ISP territory.
Oh, no, I couldn't have another. That sums me up quite well, aside from the south, which is what I was actually complaining about. But it's succint and not bad, so let's keep it.
And, Peter, don't say Midwesterners are racist. We hate everything else - not just race. My grandmother thinks if you're not from the same German originating family as her, you're naturally inferior (those Germans and their ethnic policies!). And when my mom was dating my dad and they went to a wedding, my grandmother pointed out to her the shame of the town - a "mixed marriage", according to my grandmother - in which a Catholic married a Luthern. They were shunned by both communities for years.
Absolutely it's a bonus like darkvision. As far as racism goes, I think that we Americans should focus our hatred on a group that actually deserves it: people from Minisconsin. You know what I'm talking about - those accents make my head explode. My people just sound like mental infants; Minisconsin folk sound like a stereo in Hell that blasts nothing but Avenged Sevenfold.
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