#ooc

Honestly, you go a hundred miles or so into appalachia from here... you get to hear folks use the phrase "Don't care to" to mean "I wouldn't mind"// as in "Could you water the plants for me?" "Don't care to" "oh, sorry I just thought since you were next to them... "I said I would"

That would drive me NUTS.

Well, I can't cast too many stones- I enjoy using the word "irregardless" just to make English lovers twitch

"Not Regard Not"

sic em

See, I grew up in appalachia too, but DIFRUNT

I have lost a chunk of it, but not all of it.

*Chuckle * My housemates would agree I deserve to be 'sicced' 🙂

I have to be careful about my mid-Atlantic accent but it's not too bad.

Just remember, if you're in the area that speaks that way, it's not an accent, it's just right talk 🙂

Bingo.

70 pages left. At least I'm past the half-way mark.

YAY!

Huh. I just mentioned the Bradbury play above? The next chapter in the book mentions her adaptations of Bradbury stories into a readers-theater production. Funny coincidence.

1 salad made! Going to be a take on beef pho/Thai; peanut beef, cashews, coconut, and a lil red onion on a bed of romaine and cabbage with a lime/rice wine/sesame oil dressing.

Oh, it has carrot ribbons too.

Oooh, yummy!

Probably do a Mediterranean and a Cobb type as well. Yeah, that'll be easy. And I'm going to do two snack boxes for the days I'm at the gym.

"I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and three or more become a CONGRESS!"

I love angry John Adams. He's like a tea kettle steaming over with patriotic fury!

1776 is the best!

I have to say I feel more ambivalent this year than I ever have.

Hugs Rough patch the last four years plus patriotically speaking.

Yeah.

Five more pages down. Now time to get ready for this party.

Yeah, Shady...right now it's a LOT easier to believe in Santa Claus than in America.

But...we keep workin' towards it.

Yep.

Work in progress

Catnik, I'm afraid to ask, did someone tell you Egypt didn't counnt as Africa or what?

I noticed the sarcasm, I'm just cuious

didn't tell me directly, it came up on reddit

Egyptians are "really" Arabs

and not "really' African

with the implication, of course, that they can then make blanket statements about Africa

Read: Egyptians aren't dark enough to get the worst of my racism.

And of course, trying to dodge around "Egyptians aren't black, and I have racist ideas about black people"

Oy

Also: Jesus lived in Egypt, so they're not like those OTHER African places. :face_with_rolling_eyes:

Now, if the Bible had mentioned Nigeria, I'm betting our history would be a wee bit different.

oy

You mean like the Empire of Mali, which in the 17th Century was one of the great economic powes with academic learning that dwarfed much of Europe at the time? Or further back, the Nubian Empire of Kush that sometimes went north and kicked Egypt's ass? IIRC

Now I am trying to think

there's Sheba and Cush...

so, Sudan & Ethiopia

And I can't believe he's disrespecting Wakanda like that

woo sparkles