I was talking more or less like teenagers, unless you are a teenager yourself than go get em' tiger! But a guy my age, serious jail time.
I gotta go back to the comment about accents: how in the hell am I supposed to know the difference between all those different accents Pete listed? I'm from America, not England. I bet you can't tell which New York City borough a person is from based on their accent, but I can, and quite frankly I don't expect you to be able to. Guarantee you when you hear a "New York" accent, you're thinking of those Italian clowns from Staten Island when 90% of people from New York City don't sound anything like that and actually find that accent to be very irritating. Just like when I think of an English accent, I think of the London accent.
So I guess I'll add that I find people from England who think I should know the difference between the 20 different types of English accents irritating. I also can't stand grammatical mistakes for the most part. On here, I make them simply because it's sometimes difficult to type out what I'd actually say to you if I were to see you in person without butchering the grammar a bit.
I gotta go back to the comment about accents: how in the hell am I supposed to know the difference between all those different accents Pete listed? I'm from America, not England. I bet you can't tell which New York City borough a person is from based on their accent, but I can, and quite frankly I don't expect you to be able to. Guarantee you when you hear a "New York" accent, you're thinking of those Italian clowns from Staten Island when 90% of people from New York City don't sound anything like that and actually find that accent to be very irritating. Just like when I think of an English accent, I think of the London accent.
So I guess I'll add that I find people from England who think I should know the difference between the 20 different types of English accents irritating. I also can't stand grammatical mistakes for the most part. On here, I make them simply because it's sometimes difficult to type out what I'd actually say to you if I were to see you in person without butchering the grammar a bit.
No, but I wouldn't call a New York accent an "American" accent (although admittedly some people do), because I know it's not the only one.
And isn't the real New York accent something like Seinfeld has? The Staten Island/Guido accent is considered a Joysey accent isn't it?
To boot, I don't expect you to know the difference (although a Brit would - I can only tell some of them apart myself), I was just pointing out that there is no such thing as a "British" accent, just as there is no such thing as an "American" accent.
Re: Girls and guys, I literally had this happen with my female friends.
Them: "OMG I went to the gym, the instructor there is soooo hawt, I'd really like to know him better!"
Me: "If a man was saying he'd like to know a girl based on her being cute, you'd be calling him a pig who only cares about the outside!"
Them: "That's DIFFERENT!"
Double standards FTW.
No, but I wouldn't call a New York accent an "American" accent (although admittedly some people do), because I know it's not the only one.
And isn't the real New York accent something like Seinfeld has? The Staten Island/Guido accent is considered a Joysey accent isn't it?
To boot, I don't expect you to know the difference (although a Brit would - I can only tell some of them apart myself), I was just pointing out that there is no such thing as a "British" accent, just as there is no such thing as an "American" accent.
Re: Girls and guys, I literally had this happen with my female friends.
Them: "OMG I went to the gym, the instructor there is soooo hawt, I'd really like to know him better!"
Me: "If a man was saying he'd like to know a girl based on her being cute, you'd be calling him a pig who only cares about the outside!"
Them: "That's DIFFERENT!"
Double standards FTW.
Yes, a typical New York accent, if you're from New York City is more like the ones you here on Seinfeld. George Costanza's is very New York although it's a bit more like he's from Brooklyn and Jewish, which he is in the show. Unfortunately, due to shows like Jersey shore, that annoying ass Staten Island Italian accent which pisses just about everyone I know off, is associated with New Jersey. A New Jersey (no one from Jersey actually says Joysey) accent is similar to a New York accent in my opinion especially if you live in Central/North Jersey and are close to New York. I feel like most foreigners think a Southern accent is an "American" accent. Like I think a lot of people, based on foreign TV I've seen think a Southern accent is as American as it gets.
And on double standards, how come if a man makes a mistake and cheats it's a huge deal, but if a woman makes a mistake and cheats it's like, "Oh, well her man probably gave her a reason to cheat." What the hell is that? I don't condone cheating, but everyone makes mistakes. Some men cheat on purpose and some women cheat on purpose and then some just make mistakes.