Society & Culture Things in life you just don't understand - Part 3

[Cruyff14]

I enjoyed reading “Ice man - confessions of a mafia hit man”

Richard Galaniski wasn’t a serial killer but he certainly enjoyed killing and I always have a chuckle when someone says “oh they were such a family man, They adored their wife and kids, I would never have suspected” -yer so did this guy

Fantastic book. One of the best I've ever read.

I highly recommend Ann Rule - A Stranger Beside Me.

It's about Ted Bundy. She literally worked with him and was friends with him.

 

[Shell]

Fantastic book. One of the best I've ever read.

I highly recommend Ann Rule - A Stranger Beside Me.

It's about Ted Bundy. She literally worked with him and was friends with him.

God damn, I gotta get that. Will place it on request at the library.

 

[BACCS]

When I worked in Moscow I worked mainly with American teachers. When I came home people kept asking me where in the States I was from.

Lived in SA my whole life and got asked in LA a couple of years ago if I was from Texas

 

[PT Bar None]

Lived in SA my whole life and got asked in LA a couple of years ago if I was from Texas

I got Irish a few times when in Virginia. You could describe my accent as pure ocker, so ???

 

[Gough]

I got Irish a few times when in Virginia. You could describe my accent as pure ocker, so ???

I was asked how long I'd lived in Australia by the bar wench at the Earl of Leicester on Tuesday.

 

[Cuzz09]

I understand but find it funny/sad that people earn in 1 day what I earn in a year.



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[Gough]

I understand but find it funny/sad that people earn in 1 day what I earn in a year.



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Every billionaire is a policy failure, no one person needs all that money.

 

[FRUMPY]

I understand dodgy ****ers calling you to get your details etc. But what are the ones who call and hang up or don't say anything after? Been getting heaps of them lately, from Tunisia according to my phone

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[Billy ray]

Every billionaire is a policy failure, no one person needs all that money.

What if I invented something that sold for $5 and costs me $4 and i make $1 per unit and sell a billion of them?

 

[edgie]

Bomberboy, Scotland, stop fighting!

The main thing is you both agree new Star Wars sucks, so just hold hands and get along and stand up to bad movies and unconditional fanbois!


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[Plugger35]

I got Irish a few times when in Virginia. You could describe my accent as pure ocker, so ???

I lived in Virginia for a few months and a lot of people there thought I was English, they think Australians all speak like the Crocodile Hunter or Crocodile Dundee so when you don't fit that stereotype and speak with a more moderate, less ocker Australian accent they get confused.

 

[Perth gal]

Lol not necessarily. I sound very Aussie, got asked yesterday by my African student where I was from. Lol.

 

[Run n Spread]

Every billionaire is a policy failure, no one person needs all that money.

What if I invented something that sold for $5 and costs me $4 and i make $1 per unit and sell a billion of them?

You could be taxed more but that's about it. It is actually like a lot of things that on the surface make no sense but impossible to police. (And yes I do realise that some absolutely game the system).

 

[Bomberboyokay]

I lived in Virginia for a few months and a lot of people there thought I was English, they think Australians all speak like the Crocodile Hunter or Crocodile Dundee so when you don't fit that stereotype and speak with a more moderate, less ocker Australian accent they get confused.

Fewer English people in America than Australia. Americans' go to mock English accent in posh campaigner Hollywood accent.

That's why when you watch Game of Thrones, The Lord of the Rings, and other stuff set in bullshit worlds they've got British accents. Sounds foreign to Janice from Wisconsin.

 

[Plugger35]

Fewer English people in America than Australia. Americans' go to mock English accent in posh campaigner Hollywood accent.

That's why when you watch Game of Thrones, The Lord of the Rings, and other stuff set in bullshit worlds they've got British accents. Sounds foreign to Janice from Wisconsin.

Americans are better at doing British accents, not just the posh ones, they can also nail the povo English rock accents like this.




Americans really struggle to do a good Australian accent, even the best accent mimics on SNL can't nail it, apart from Fred Armisen who is the GOAT.

 

[edgie]

Fewer English people in America than Australia. Americans' go to mock English accent in posh campaigner Hollywood accent.

That's why when you watch Game of Thrones, The Lord of the Rings, and other stuff set in bullshit worlds they've got British accents. Sounds foreign to Janice from Wisconsin.

Are you sure it's not because those places were created by English writers taking inspiration from medieval times of kings and castles?


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[Hawk Dork]

A friend married a French Girl he met in Australia and they lived together in Kalgoorlie were she learnt to speak Oshtrayan
I first heard her speak "English" in France it was a big surprise

 

[Scotland]

Are you sure it's not because those places were created by English writers taking inspiration from medieval times of kings and castles?

Yep, it's just applying a 'ye olde' filter to the setting. A medieval show like GoT full of 'murican accents would be like Kevin Costner's Robin Hood.

Ned Stark might sound the same as Jaime Lannister to an American but they have different accents for a reason. Same as the Dohtraki, Melisandre, the Martells etc. all sound different. But everyone of course speaks English because it's a show aimed at English speaking audiences.

 

[PT Bar None]

There's an old movie called The MacKintosh Man where Paul Newman plays an Australian.

He obviously worked with someone, because he used a few Orstrayan phrases, in context - like "I was a bit pissed" and he delivered those phrases with a passable accent. But everything else he spoke in his pretty usual style.

I actually thought his character was an American pretending to be an Australian and him getting caught out was going to be a twist for a fair way through the film.

 

[Macpotata]

Rainbows.



I much rather prefer Crossbows.

 

[Macpotata]

far more appealing

 

[Bomberboyokay]

Are you sure it's not because those places were created by English writers taking inspiration from medieval times of kings and castles?


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Game of Thrones was adapted from American books.

 

[Bomberboyokay]

Yep, it's just applying a 'ye olde' filter to the setting. A medieval show like GoT full of 'murican accents would be like Kevin Costner's Robin Hood.

Ned Stark might sound the same as Jaime Lannister to an American but they have different accents for a reason. Same as the Dohtraki, Melisandre, the Martells etc. all sound different. But everyone of course speaks English because it's a show aimed at English speaking audiences.

Thought season 1 Jaime Lannister was an American doing a lazy English accent. Turned out he was a Dane doing a lazy English accent. Got more consistent.

 

[Plugger35]

There's an old movie called The MacKintosh Man where Paul Newman plays an Australian.

He obviously worked with someone, because he used a few Orstrayan phrases, in context - like "I was a bit pissed" and he delivered those phrases with a passable accent. But everything else he spoke in his pretty usual style.

I actually thought his character was an American pretending to be an Australian and him getting caught out was going to be a twist for a fair way through the film.

That's why Fred Armisen is so good at doing an Australian accent, he doesn't just throw in lazy catchphrases, he studies the metre and the sound.

 

[Cruyff14]

God damn, I gotta get that. Will place it on request at the library.

Just buy it online, it's $14.