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02-04-2022, 03:54 PM #2251
That's why I asked the question. I can't tell if it's a personal bias or not. I agree that experience is a huge factor. When you're a kid everyone who speaks English who's not from the U.S. sounds British. It takes time to realize English people and Australians sound different. Then you realize someone from London sounds different than someone from Manchester, etc. I feel like I'm pretty good at making those distinctions now, but I'm not so sure I could tell what part of the U.S. a black person was from based on their accent like I could a white person.
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02-04-2022, 03:56 PM #2252
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02-04-2022, 05:04 PM #2253
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02-04-2022, 05:08 PM #2254
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02-04-2022, 06:06 PM #2255
The there's the Hollywood accent from the 40's and 50's--an accent that was taught to studio actors and sounded like no human in the real world. It was supposed to sound classy, I think.
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02-04-2022, 07:36 PM #2256
Prefer zero degrees F with zero wind, or 15 F and 30mph wind at and above treeline?
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02-04-2022, 07:40 PM #2257Registered User
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0 zero
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02-04-2022, 07:46 PM #2258
Definitely the zero.
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02-04-2022, 07:46 PM #2259
Zero zero
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02-04-2022, 07:53 PM #2260
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02-04-2022, 08:14 PM #2261
We live in one of the few racially integrated neighborhoods in the city (one of eight out of 240 that doesn't have a clear racial majority) and I go out of of my way to placate the 10-14 age range boys that roam the alleys. It is disappointing how many times I need have to ask some of those kids to repeat themselves before I can understand what they're saying and I grew up with my dad's side of the family speaking a hard Baltimore accent. More than one of the kids has had to use their 'white voice'.
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02-04-2022, 08:19 PM #2262
I have family from coastal Maine, NH, and MA. About a hundred mile span and three completely different languages. I'm from northern VT and they all say I'M the one with the weird accent.
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02-04-2022, 08:22 PM #2263
That's one accent different than you. There are accents. Jamaican would be an example I bet you would probably hear differently than street talk.
What I want to know is why all those elderly couples from India look alike?Last edited by wooley12; 02-04-2022 at 08:54 PM.
A few people feel the rain. Most people just get wet.
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02-04-2022, 09:48 PM #2264
Fuck the wind. Just fuck it.
However many are in a shit ton.
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02-04-2022, 09:53 PM #2265
Code-switching is a thing boys and girls. You'd be surprised at how kids of all backgrounds can proper up when I tell them to get their shit together or they are going to jail, and pull that shit out of your face, and wear some decent clothes.
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02-04-2022, 10:47 PM #2266
Aluminum foil: Shiny side out, or shiny side toward the food?
Sent from my iPhone using TGR ForumsHowever many are in a shit ton.
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02-04-2022, 10:49 PM #2267
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02-04-2022, 10:53 PM #2268
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02-04-2022, 10:55 PM #2269
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02-04-2022, 10:57 PM #2270
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02-04-2022, 11:01 PM #2271
Negligible difference.
FYI, the shiny/dull thing is just an effect from the manufacturing process: two sheets get fed between rollers at the same time (double the production/set of rollers). The shiny side is the side that was to the outside, touching the rollers, the dull side is where the sheets were face-to-face.
(Also, the guy who does safety training at the plant has no fingers on one hand cause he lost them all in an accident at the plant. Most dangerous fucking plant I’ve ever seen.)
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02-04-2022, 11:03 PM #2272
[QUOTE=J. Barron DeJong;6535223]Negligible difference./QUOTE]
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02-04-2022, 11:09 PM #2273man of ice
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I've always thought the shiny side was more reflective of heat so which way you faced it would depend what you're trying to do, i.e keep heat in or out.
However I bet de jong's right, how much difference could it really make?
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02-04-2022, 11:13 PM #2274
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02-04-2022, 11:17 PM #2275
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