Yeah I could tell it wasn’t what it was, even Atlantas midtown and lil 5 were much more wild than cap hill when I rolled in. I still like it but Fremont is still pretty dope thankfully.
Tech bros and VC ruin everything.
It gets easier to pickup the more you hear it but in your position if you just smile and nod you’ll be good. Just don’t drink any clear liquid offered of go to a second location
Sorry I didn’t have time to completely respond to your whole comment earlier, got pinged and had to wrap it up.
I’ve literally had a conversation with a stranger at a bar in Cap Hill when I first moved here, and my accent makes me stick out like a sore thumb here so I get asked where I’m from all the time, after she asked and I told her where, she said “cool I’m from California and that’s why I’m speaking to you right now”. Which was hyperbolic but it does ring true coming from Atlanta to Seattle in that regard.
You my friend are an anomaly as far as my experience with the PNW if you can hang with a midwesterner in idle chit chat, they give us a run for our money in the south. Congratulations on the social skills lol!
You do gotta be careful with southern folks that ain’t from the big city, once we get comfortable we drop the fake accent and start speaking “proper”
Yeah I agree and wasn’t trying to make the guy a saint or anything, just trying to add some nuance to the discussion from the impact he had on my life specifically. Although that said, I would probably put Ted on the ‘less evil’ end of the bell curve of billionaires.
Yeah and it could easily still be a recent development, I’ve only been out here for 5ish years
Being from the Atlanta area makes my opinion of Ted really complicated, obviously he was a billionaire which is inherently unethical, but he also really helped put Atlanta on the map in the 90s. TBS, the Braves, Captain Planet, TNT, the Cartoon Network, and Adult Swim were all things that directly brought my childhood joy and can trace their origins back to Ted Turner. His contributions to the repopulation of American bison shouldn’t be ignored either.
There are no ethical billionaires but I have a difficult time looking at Turner in the same way I do Zuck, Musk, Gates, etc.
Edit: Jesus I forgot WCW, he surely was a man with faults but Ted was the antithesis of Vince McMahon for a period of time. And standing afainst Vince is almost always the morally correct position
Hate to poke hole in your theory, but I don’t even know anyone Gen Z or alphas, these are all millennials and older
‘Like’ is definitely over used out here but not the same as the Cali one, I can usually pick out Californians in Washington… partially because as a southerner they recognize another person who is aggressively talkative to strangers.
I actually do agree with your take that PNW accent a restrained Midwest accent which actually tracks pretty well. And just to be clear I don’t mean “dontcha know” or “don’t ya know” that is Midwestern as hell, what I mean specifically is y’all tend to add “ya know” to the end a lot of sentences”. When I first pointed out to my best friend, who grew up out here, she sent me a text later that night saying, “Fuck you I hear it everywhere now, ya know”
The other big one that comes to mind is “pre-funk” which is apparently just slang for pre-gaming but I’d never heard it in the south or northeast
Naw it’s something I’ve noticed from many native Washington’s ever since I’ve moved here, there is some bleed from the Midwest in my experience so maybe that’s where it comes from originally
Yall have a lot of verbal ticks, so many PNWers end a large proportion of sentences with “ya know”
He has, but in fairness Russia told everyone that when it invaded Ukraine, who had nukes and gave them up! And also Trump told everyone again last year when he first attacked Tehran last year… and when he did the coup d’état in Venezuela.
I’m starting to think the goal is to destroy the overall control the Middle East has over the oil supply. The US has shit loads of oil and if the rest of the world doesn’t shift to renewables they will eventually have to buy from the US or Russia if they can’t from the Saudis, Iran, etc.
It’s not a smart plan globally but in the minds of energy companies it’s good short term business and creates international leverage the administration can use against the rest of the world
He’s not wrong, but he’s still an asshole
That no one has posted either the Oprah gif or the Tommy Boy clip is extraordinarily disappointing
I assure you that the folks in charge in Georgia already have their answer to that, lookup who staffs the governors mansion in Atlanta. It ain’t immigrants, it’s incarcerated black people, and that’s exactly who they’ll use
“You government is run by pedophiles, they ordered you to die for Israel”
I always heard them called granddaddy long legs, which really cuts the sexual tension right out of it
So I’m not trying to defend the other poster but genocide by definition does not have to include mass death. And can include any of the following
That is who I was thinking of lol
Firing squads are too clean, I want gallows, I want gallows run by someone who ain’t any count at running a gallows, so they all die in terrible ways
I bet these idiots fed an AI all his emails to get make it sound more like him