I’ve never been (I need to go), but I hear New Orleans has some odd aspects of a Northeast accent.
Tangent, but when I lived in DC I liked listening to the Sports Junkies because every once in a while they had an interesting sports take, but even if not, they had that distinctive Annapolis / Bowie / Baltimore (?) accent.
I used to need TJ to translate Sam Cassel for me. Sam come out for shoot around all excited and friendly as hell. Yo TJ, F is this dude saying?
Great book on NO for you Confederacy of Dunces
The Junks accent is molllney. Can’t get tilted listening to them while picking craebs and watching the sillys. Unless you’re a rick
+I worked around those guys way too much.
Nothing beats this accent
Oddly, this sent me down a Tough Crowd rabbit hole. That show has aged well and poorly at the same time:
British differences continued:
21 - When one wants to say they look bad or ugly… the word is minging. Ugly girl or guy? “he/she is a minger.” They use the word ugly… but to describe people, it is the root word ming-. It is so weird.
22 - My wife’s friend told me once that there was nothing she liked more than getting together with her girlfriends w/ wine and a good “Natter”. I just stared at her and she just stared back at me… so I sheepishly asked what “Natter” meant and she was gobsmacked I didn’t know it meant a long talking session. Ugh… don’t need to be a part of a “natter” with a bunch of ladies… ever.
23 - @BDragon mentioned “take a piss” earlier which means f’ing with someone… but pissed can mean drunk as well… the Brits know it means mad in American English, but if you say “I’m pissed” it means I’m drunk in British English… my American buddy there used to say to everyone “I’m pissed… mad, not drunk”. There was a local bar near where I lived called P.O.E.T.S. Corner (I think I’ve mentioned it here before)… it stood for Piss Off Early, Tomorrow is Saturday.
24 - “you alright?” - Instead of saying hello… in a lot of instances the Brits will say “you alright?” It’s very disconcerting… how do you respond to that? I end up just mumbling… “yeah… ummmm…sure… hello…” Some of my fellow American friends first thought they looked depressed and sad when the Brits kept asking them this…
25 - Chesty Cough - this isn’t a manly cough… this is a cough where you have a lot of mucus in your cough… the first time someone asked me if I had a Chesty Cough… I told them I thought all coughs came from the chest…
26 - Have you ever been to a Chinese restaurant where you had to pay for your side of white rice? If you have, you’ve been to a Chinese restaurant on the British Isles… I’ve never been to another place in the entire world where the white rice isn’t free and unlimited. The Brits charge you 4 Euro… it’s extortion.
27 - The home team is placed first on the screen when showing the score in all of Europe… in the US it is placed second. I know this is subtle… but it took me a long time to adjust… I was just back in Texas and I had a tough time acclimating to the home team being second while watching sports on TV again.
28 - Essex girl - In the US, we have dumb blonde jokes… in England, replace dumb blonde w/ Essex girl… why? I don’t know… apparently Essex girls are really really dumb. There is a show on British TV called “The Only Way is Essex”… it highlights these types of girls
29 - TV Tax - You may not know this, but you pay a national tax every year to watch TV in your house. It is cheaper if there is a blind person or you only have a black and white TV, but for the standard household it is around 150 pounds. The local councils drive vans around w/ monitors to check houses who are not paying do not have TV signals coming out of them. This includes computer monitors.
30 - Boot - I know a lot of you will know this one as the trunk of a car… but the first time I saw a sign for a Boot Sale, then another one… I was wondering why there were so may shoe sales… it’s a sale where everyone shows up in a big lot, pops their trunks and sells junk out of their car.
Fresh a big fan of passing a stranger and connecting with an “Aright” kinda greeting
My brotha
Funny cause i was paid in boot money at my club team. Boots = rugby cleats.
Boot money = how ruggers were paid in the amateur days. Cash was left in your boots in the changing rooms.
I lived in LIC and Astoria and Bloomfield and Jersey City. And Hell’s Kitchen. Went to school in Newark.
Astoria the longest. Where I’d hear mostly Spanish, Arabic and Greek. Went to Flushing a lot to eat. Mostly Korean and various dialects of Chinese there.
I was in Astoria a couple years, too. Fun/interesting neighborhood.
09-13 here. Steinway R stop.
Nice! I was there 09-11. Astoria Blvd stop N/R/W. Think the line name has changed. The elevated one
N/W. R is underground, right?
Astorias cool. Lotta Greek as well I think and is a lot of Brasilians first stop off the proverbial boat. Lotta cool things places to with the not so underground economy in areas like Astoria
St Benedicts HS or college? I know Newark real well
It’s near criminal at how little i know new york.
Doesn’t Flushing have a big Indian community as well? I used to have a coworker who played cricket there on weekends but it was late 90s.
You better off for it ha
Ha i don’t regret it. Every time I’ve been I’m ready to leave as soon as my feet hit the ground
That is every big city for me…
Positives.
Melting Pot of people and culture
Great Food and a million things to do
Negatives.
Smelly alleys
Dirty
Too many people everywhere
Too many tourists taking pictures and looking lost like me