out of curiousity...

[ishyface]

... is this funny to anyone who has never lived in Newfoundland/met a Newfoundlander/heard anything at all about Newfoundland culture and/or accents? Because I dies of it, b'ys.

(I work with people very much like the ones in that video. They hate me because I speak in sentences.)

In unrelated news, I lost my ChatRoulette-ginity the other night! I saw 44 dicks. But not all at once. I later learned that Michael Cera goes on CR fairly often, which worries me because dudes, what if Michael Cera has seen a dick? I don't know how I would deal with that. It is hard enough to deal with the fact that he has one. Maybe he doesn't. Maybe he has a beautiful daffodil blooming between his thighs that weeps when it sees a sunset, or something.

ETA: I have been informed that the proper term is not "I dies of it" but "I dies at it." Newfoundland slang has rules, yo.

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[uncommon-crow.livejournal.com]

because dudes, what if Michael Cera has seen a dick? I don't know how I would deal with that. It is hard enough to deal with the fact that he has one. Maybe he doesn't. Maybe he has a beautiful daffodil blooming between his thighs that weeps when it sees a sunset, or something.

A+++, would lol again. This is kilometers better than most of what's been on metaquotes lately. FYI.

(Actually, it was more of a delighted 'Aaauuughhh!!!' than an 'lol', but you get the gist. You have just made my day a frillion times better, dude. And I am reading one of your fic recs, which is helping too.)

[ishyface.livejournal.com]

:D

(Ooh, which?)

[uncommon-crow.livejournal.com]

Nightswimming. (This is actually not the first time I've read it. It continues to make me happy, though.)

[ishyface.livejournal.com]

!!!

DEVIN CROW THAT IS MY FAVOURITE STORY

[uncommon-crow.livejournal.com]

:) I am glad I saw you advise someone else to read it because it is pretty awesome- trufax.

[ishyface.livejournal.com]

I could find you more! I mean, if you need sommat to read. :D?

[uncommon-crow.livejournal.com]

YESPLZ.

in conclusion: BONING

[ishyface.livejournal.com]

:D YAY

Pretty much all of sinsense's stuff is great. Some of my favourites of hers are Skin of the Canvas (art school, plus boning!), Thing-Thing (regular school, plus boning!), and A cage went in search of a bird (kind of complicated alternate universe in which slavery was just abolished and interesting things happen and then there is boning again!).

bexless is also one of my favourites. She has written a very long, detailed three-plus-parter about Catholicism and stigmata and demons and things, and they are all pretty great. (And involve boning!) It is all linked in order here.

The Holly Golightly Club is based off of this video...



... and it is awesome and involves everyone hating high school and being vaguely terrible and losery the way everyone always kind of is in high school. And boning!

Re: in conclusion: BONING

[withoutawhy.livejournal.com]

In conclusion:

[opalgirl28.livejournal.com]

That video.

Oh my.

I am totally biased, because my mother's BFF is from St. John's and, ah hell, I'm a Nova Scotian. We're not that much different.

People in said video remind me of my father and his brothers, a bit (although *they* were raised in New Brunswick and PEI).

it gets better

[ishyface.livejournal.com]

[immelmanturn.livejournal.com]

As someone who has never lived in Newfoundland/met a Newfoundlander/heard anything at all about Newfoundland culture and/or accents, it's funny to me in the way that I can tell it's directed at a very specific cultural stereotype? So, amusing, but it would probably have more of an effect if I could relate to or knew what traits were being exaggerated.

[ishyface.livejournal.com]

It is very weird to me that people do not know about Newfoundland stereotypes, tbh! My father is a Newfoundlander (or "Newfie") and I have lived in Newfoundland for the past four years so Newfoundland stereotypes are, like, my life. I always want to tell people about them because DAMN, stereotypes are interesting! In Newfoundland's case, the province has a history of poverty (its economy was traditionally based primarily on the fishing industry which has mostly gone down the crapper in the last little while), isolation (it is an island!), and nationalism (it was the last province to join onto Canada and a lot of people here were vehemently opposed to Confederation; there is still a strong Free Newfoundland ideological strain here, although it mostly only surfaces in the T-shirt industry and the shadier sort of pubs). Newfoundlanders historically have very thick accents that sound kind of like garbled Irish brogues and very distinctive slang, as seen here:



(Newfoundlanders take a lot of cultural cues from Ireland; a lot of people here are descended from Irish immigrants, and it especially shows in Newfoundland music, which is basically one thousand fiddle tunes about the joys of fishing and drinking and havin' a time.)

Because of history and politics and other like things, the rest of Canada has traditionally taken a rather dim view of Newfoundlanders. Non-Newfoundlanders (also known up here as "mainlanders" or people who "come from away") tend to think of Newfoundlanders as dirty, uneducated, ignorant yokels- basically, the mainland image of a Newfoundlander is a fat dude in a wifebeater drinking screech (rum) and spending his rent money on lottery tickets. While eating fishcakes, singing "Patty Murphy," and being illiterate. There are a lot of Newfie jokes about these stereotypes. Newfoundlanders sometimes get angry about these stereotypes; more often they make hilarious YouTube videos about them, which I feel is the correct way to respond to cultural discrimination.

So basically it is like the Canadian version of the southern US, but with less war and more fish.

[withoutawhy.livejournal.com]

...

I showed this to Adam, and he would. not. stop. laughing. And he apparently knows the dude who made the video? And now he won't stop fucking talking like a Newfie. Which he is.

And now we're talking about what would happen if Picnicface did one of their Chatroulette nights and Michael Cera showed up in it.

[ishyface.livejournal.com]

Heeeee. Everyone in NL knows each other!

[private----ryan.livejournal.com]

*I dies at it.

[ishyface.livejournal.com]

Right! I will now go savage at the ETA.