American things

VAC-cine

I keep hearing the two different pronunciations on the news today.

VAC-cine

I'm begging of you please don't take my man

No, that's vac-CINE surely?

Now I'm getting confused, I need to listen to a British version of "Jolene".

sleeping compartments on semi-trucks (or lorries as I would call them) that look like this https://www.core77.com/posts/59146/What-Do-Luxury-Sleeper-Cabs-for-Long-Haul-Truck-Drivers-Look-Like

sem-eye trucks?

yes, sem-eye truck vs semmy-trailer seems like an American thing?

Stressing the second syllable seems like it could be an American thing - not only in words like 'vaccine' but in names like Bernard and Gerard. It's almost as if there's an attempt to make the words more interesting to say and hear because the British pronunciations of the same words sound so dull and flat, but I suspect it's more about a French influence on or origin of certain words which the British have been careful to expunge but which persists in American pronunciation.

like Bernard and Gerard.

was already thinking "this just sounds French tbh" at this point

I don't know if Americans do generally say Ber-NArd, but it definitely does sound fun when Killer Mike says "Senator Buh-NAHD Sanders"

Double down the bunless chicken burger.
Have seen the image over the last decade or whatever and thought it a sign of American excess.
Never seen it available this side of the Atlantic. So was surprised to see it on the menu in the local KFC recently. Which I don't remember having seen before not that I am in there much.
KFC itself wasn't around in a lot of places here for years. I remember one being in a prominent spot in Dublin when I was first there but disappearing after a couple of years and wondering why a well known brand elsewhere was no longer visibly around.
So now wondering if it was a short term offer and if irish customers aren't as pro cholesterol and type 2 diabetes etc as US ones. Or if it is a thing that has been around since they returned.
I think the one I was in is about the only branch in town and is right on the outskirts.

ga-RARge

Jamie Roberts, better known by his stage name Blawan, is an English DJ and record producer from South Yorkshire.

sampled from the Fugees though

the uk emphasis on the first syllable of words is why they are incapable of producing plausible rap music

I want you to park that big Mack truck
Right in this little garridge

“Plant manager Tom Hart organized a cash-buy-in, winner-take-all, betting pool for supervisors and managers to wager how many plant employees would test positive for COVID-19.” https://t.co/Nyra56dNJ5

— Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) November 19, 2020

i think they think yorkshire pudding is like chocolate pudding.. pic.twitter.com/w1pj9vIsGO

— my sexuality is dan levy's spooky eyebrows (@SaimaFerdows) November 19, 2020

Pepperidge Farm

fuckin milanos.... we should do a poll

lol of course it's been done
FAVORITE PEPPERIDGE FARM COOKIE

and the cookies themselves have their own dedicated thread:
Pepperidge Farm® Milano® Cookies

and there's a search and destroy, created pre-poll:
Pepperidge Farm: S/D

i was given milano 'slices' with fuckin...... pretzel crumbs in the dark chocolate and it broke my brain with delight

heckling "freebird" at bands

I've said this before, but it's not heckling. We really want to hear them play Freebird!

The joke is that there’s no such song as “Freebird”, right? Or has someone written a song based on the joke?

more than one way to skynard that bird

Has "Freebird" reasserted itself after it was seemingly replaced with "More Cowbell"?

I think there's a bit of difficulty disentangling the Pogues from all the horseshit Irish pride mook shit like Dropkick Murphys

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, April 17, 2021 9:36 AM (forty-nine minutes ago)

I'm an American thing posting from downtown Sydney, quarantine day 12 of 14 and it looks like there was a miscalculation and I'm actually released a day early, wednesday not thursday, so... which hopeful people are in Sydney? Where do I drink?

This place belongs in this thread, and is in Sydney

https://shadypinessaloon.com/

Just like every Outback restaurant is true-to-life with its framed stock photography of kangaroos, I think your Shady Pines hits the US on the head here with its authentic reproduction of

https://i.imgur.com/iMokqEG.jpg

albums by the band America on prominent display. Can't hardly walk into a Denny's without seeing one of those things.

SHADY PINES, MA!

Where is the lanai in that photo?

Grackles

otm

Pronouncing Leslie as Lesslie and Les as Less... at least they did so in the episode of King of Queens I saw this morning.

I. . . don’t know how else it would be pronounced?

/American

Les pronounced lez, as in lesbian.

I had no idea!

I've never thought about it, but I pronounce it lez-LEE.

But Les is Less.

So then, are we to conclude that the 'Lez' said, the better?

https://networkonair.com/3939-large_default/sez-les-volume-4.jpg

I assume that Les in the US is more commonly short for Lester, in which case pronouncing it Less would make sense?

Actually I've just watched a YouTube of Howard Stern talking about Lez-lie West.

In Acadia, they pronounce Leslie, "Lay-Lay".

Or not.

Sir Lay Patterson

i pronounce it lezlie. for les i'm kind of halfway between s and z tbh

lez for everything

except for
wkrp’s les nessman ie buckeye newshawk
and leslie knope
the only “less”es that i recognize

Knope is a lezlie in my headcanon tbh. Like I think I have autoreplaced it on hearing, in the moment, on the fly