1. Christine McVie's voice — isolated — from "Songbird."
2. If you know this story about the lady in waiting, Lady Susan Husse, you'll understand this brilliant turnabout.
3. One reason I don't want a dog is that it can't be guaranteed that I won't turn into a person like this.
4. The Chinese immigrant explains what's happening in China.
5. A trippy street view.
6. It's not easy dressing green.7. In case you wonder how to speak when they tell you to act your age.
8. This funny little hedgehog.
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2. European-Americans often discuss their ethnic heritage and identify themselves as Italian, Irish, German etc. I don't think most of my friends would have any trouble saying something like, "I was born in Chicago, but my family was originally from Italy."
If you care, I was born in New York. My accent reflects my private school WASP background. My parents were from the Midwest. My ancestry is very mixed, but more English than anything else.
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Peace out.
Songbird, hands down.
"European-Americans often discuss their ethnic heritage and identify themselves as Italian, Irish, German etc. I don't think most of my friends would have any trouble saying something like, "I was born in Chicago, but my family was originally from Italy.""
Sure, fine, if you choose. But if *someone else* asks you and continues to press you to say where you're "from" when you're from here, it's not good. Really, you need to read about what Lady Susan Husse did. It's hard to believe that someone who isn't an ignoramus can go that wrong in this day and age.
Great stuff; except 6, I just couldn't.
Who can compete with a hungry hedgehog?
Thank you for these - I've been waiting for you to get back to these TikToks.
The trippy street view was my favorite with the dog lady a close second.
Conversation with "Sean":
Where are you from?
--I was born here in New York.
You don't sound like you're from New York. Where are you from originally? [I actually get this a lot.]
--I grew up in a WASP family and I went to private school. You don't know very many New Yorkers with that sort of background.
So you were born here? Where is your family from originally?
--My parents were both from the Midwest. Going further back, my ancestry is very mixed, but mostly English.
Where in England?
--I think mostly East Anglia, but also from other areas.
In short, a harmless, not very interesting conversation, like most party conversation. For most people, New York-born, Yale-educated, reasonably successful WASPs are "the other," so I often get asked questions about various aspects of my background, like my accent.
If you refuse to participate in such aimless chit-chat, repeating obdurately "I'm from here" instead of giving information that would advance the conversation, you aren't much fun at parties.
Sean, you don't seem to have learned how to talk with Black women either at Yale. Too much hanging out at St. Anthony's?
Songbird is beautiful. Slightly ahead of speaking your age.
Christine McVie's voice isolated out in 'Songbird' is hauntingly beautiful. Everything else was TikTokish.
Runners up were the Chinese immigrant. I loved what she had to say. And the Trippy Street View which may have won for me had Christine not showed up.
I got half-way through the woman accessorizing her green. That was as much as I could take.
One reason I don't want a dog is that it can't be guaranteed that I won't turn into a person like this.
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Althouse: "Cruel neutrality. Cruel! Cruel! Cruel neutrality."
Dog: "Woof!"
Althouse: "Awwwwww..."
As opposed to what? "Recklessly curated"? "Sloppily curated"? "Notionally curated"? What does this curation process look like?
No one asks me where I'm from and I don't ask other people, but a lot of them tell me anyway.
Christine McVie was my favorite but the woman in no. 4 was a close second. Also really liked the trippy street view.
Darwin Update
Survival of the Friendliest
a familiar face
on youtube
oh fuck it's funny
I’m Shining.
Yes, yes you are- my sister.
I liked #7, about acting your age.
The three older ladies skit was well done. And I learned to never hand feed a hedgehog, even if it looks sweet and harmless.
#4
I like stories and I often ask members of my tribe where there're from when we first meet. ( My name's Mark. My dad's folks both immigrated from Sweden.They moved to the NW, logged a bunch of trees, and made a ton of money, in case you're curious)
That Chinese woman scares me.
Have to ask because I have read about it. Apologies to do so but I do want to know. Before I do, I must admit enjoyed many of these TikTok shares and now look for YouTube's on Broadway Barbara and mouth actress, Mary Kelly. Had I not watched the shared TikToks,I wouldn't have heard of either one of them, both gems! However, have read some about TikTok being a Chinese compilation of gathering information on citizens. Is this just crazy stuff? Or as a recent article had a company not allowing TikTok at all because of privacy issues? Just wanted to hear reader's thoughts. Thanks!
You think that's brilliant? I think it's dishonest and bitchy. There is nothing that ethnically ambiguous people of a certain class love more than pretending to be oppressed because someone asks them in casual conversation about where their people descended from. They get just as pissy if you don't care.
It's the old version of gender pronouns. Look at me how dare you look at me.
That poor old British woman was in attendance in the role of her national service at a charity event for African women's health. Where black women were from was the frigging focus of the event. She was making polite conversation, ffs. Screw that tic toc hag. You have clearly never been mau maued by elitist bitches like this. It's all about power.
I bet she picks her servants by race or caste, and treats them accordingly.
--I liked the Chinese woman who likes to "talk shit" and appreciates that she can do that, here in the US.
--"trippy street view" seemed more like, fractal street view to me.
--Althouse becoming that kind of dog person is about as remote as Biden suddenly becoming a competant president.
--Cute/Greedy little hedgehog.
https://youtu.be/n9AbjxbpVlk
Althouse, thank you for that.
I have never heard of the Incredible String Band before.
Amazing.
Here's The Half-Remarkable Question.
Could you comment on the construction , "I've got..."?
I have.
I have gotten.
I got.
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Some people just don't know how to make polite conversation with strangers.
Why is that person so sensitive about where her family is from? Is she ashamed of it? What weird connotations is she putting on this information and assuming that the questioner is also putting the same weird connotation on it?
One might just guess that she was seeking a grievance. What an unpleasant person.
Some people just don't know how to make polite conversation with strangers.
Why is that person so sensitive about where her family is from? Is she ashamed of it? What weird connotations is she putting on this information and assuming that the questioner is also putting the same weird connotation on it?
One might just guess that she was seeking a grievance. What an unpleasant person.
Previously saw on a different site:
https://twitter.com/rakibehsan/status/1598602244936572929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1598602244936572929%7Ctwgr%5E639ed5f0bb7e5f8010ea906d131cb69172bc09c2%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.unz.com%2Fisteve%2Fngozi-fulani-is-actually-marlene-headley%2F
"So it appears that Ngozi Fulani's real name is Marlene Headley.
Do wonder whether much of this is about an individual who is being rather defensive over the fact that she took on and adopted a cultural identity she wasn't necessarily born into.
Is this a form of appropriation?"
If true this changes the story for me, and reaffirms my presumption of assuming that most news reports are somewhere between incomplete and wrong.
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