• Xabbit🐰@lemmy.zip
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      you used two descriptors there (American and generic) can you tell us which of these is the bigger deal-breaker for you?

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        American, certainly. They porn is so standardized and hegemonic, even a simple euro accent is refreshingly titillating

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          I think you mean “their porn” and you realize there are 350 million Americans right? There are a lot of different accents

          Sorry I’m not too familiar with “American porn” lol but maybe your bias is based in ignorance rather than experience? It’s a big country and I’m sure there are actors out there you’ll like.

          Well, that’s all for now. Have a day.

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    I guy I know picked up an aussie chick at the bar. Later, she apparently told him “I’m on a bleeder mate. You’ll have to chuck it up me dumper.”

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        We Americans have to put up with a lot of justifiable criticism about a lot of American things, but my English dudes, THIS? Even Americans know better.

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          Ok so this is a shit photo, but seriously, go make it. Beans on toast is easy and brilliant.

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              heinz beans? what? just make some godsdamn bbq beans. go look up a recipe. hell, just go look up pioneer woman’s doctored canned beans if you need lazy beans, those are pretty damn good too just full of sugar.

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                I certainly would encourage anyone to cook it they have the time but the point of beans on toast, is it’s quick and easy. And Heinz is the best choice though an own brand is usually fine.

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                  no, your tastes differ from mine so we must fight on the internet i prefer bush’s beans. i don’t think i’ve given heinz beans a fair shake though so like my opinion is pretty uninformed,

                  i usually just throw my own recipe on the smoker. if i’m not doing straight up chili, i’ll cook some beans up most of the way smooth but not entirely smooth (the smoothest hummus of your life is 45 minutes in the electric pressure cooker. i do 20 with bbq beans), make some quick gravy (mix my favorite BBQ sauces with a few spices but not too many as the meat’s rub contributes a lot, come to think of it i usually just use extra rub and bbq sauce and a can of tomato sauce) then throw it all on the smoker in a disposable foil tin with some sauteed onions and peppers underneath the meat to catch all the drippin’s and the rub that comes off the meat with it. after 2-3 hours the beans are done, stir it once an hour maybe if you want, put another foil pan underneath to protect from burning, and let it sit in with the meat until it’s done. top it up with tomato sauce, water, broth, wine, beer, rum, whiskey, or bbq sauce (whatever floats your fancy) if the liquid runs low, taste it before serving and adjust the spices. it’ll take a few attempts to get your recipe to where you want it and to figure out which sauces and rubs and spices you want to use, but it’s worth the experimentation and you get to eat the results. also they keep forever in the fridge/freezer

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        England has shown itself completely incapable of self-governance.

        For its own good, it should be occupied by Ireland (for historic reasons) and Mexico (to stop their ongoing abuse of beans).

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          England has shown itself completely incapable of self-governance.

          I think even England would agree

          should be occupied by Ireland (for historic reasons)

          As a Scot and fellow Celt I say have at it.

          and Mexico (to stop their ongoing abuse of beans).

          I wasn’t aware Mexico were considered the authority on beans. But yeah fine. As long as I can still enjoy beans on toast I dont have a problem.

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            Mijo, they will teach you that you don’t have to live like that - you can have beans so good they don’t need bread on them, or served in a tortilla with cheese and salsa.

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      Somewhere, many years back, I read that an alternative to British beans on toast is spaghetti-os on toast. I have no idea if this is true, but I have to say: it has always sounded delicious, but I’ve never bothered to try and make it.

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        The bread and pasta is redundant. That’s fucking gross, and you should know that.

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          Redundant carbs is the cornerstone of British working class food culture. The pinnacle of this practice is the legendary glaswegian macaroni pie on a roll.

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              Yes in a way, but so much more! A macaroni pie is macaroni cheese filling in a pastry case (usually a single serving size that fits comfortably in a hand). Pie and roll is a delightfully Scottish way of eating a pie. You get a pie, and a buttered bread roll, and you put the pie in the roll, maybe with a bit of sauce (we enjoy red sauce and brown sauce in Scotland), and let nature take it’s course.

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    Me voa tragar un par de pepas sin receta
    para durar toda la noche dandote por las guaretas!
    Yo se que tu quiere que yo coseche
    frijoles en salsa de leche.

    “Uiyi Guaye” – Calle 13

    Whomever can translate that slang riddle verse will appreciate the last sentence and how it relates to spunking deep in a bean loving arse.

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      Oh I completely get the last two lines. not sure what pepas and guaretas are, but I can assume from context what the pepas are for innuendo. Also, I assume voa is something mumbled into an unrecognisable form.

      Also, you’re a man of many talents Jo, didn’t know you spoke spanish.

      spoiler

      I’m going to take some boner pills with no prescription
      So I can last all night giving it to you up to your guaretas
      I know that you want me to plant
      Beans in milk sauce (partially digested beans in cum)

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        Close.

        Tap for spoiler

        “Guaretas” is slang for buttcheeks and “pepas” is slang for pills, normally uppers but not necessarily. In this context, he does probably mean boner pills. “Cosechar” means harvest. So he’s going to pull beans out…in cum sauce.

        EDIT: I spent my tweens and teens in the carribean, between the USVI and PR. I understand it and can write it, but my speaking is very broken.

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          Yeah, makes sense. I messed it up.

          in the carribean, between the USVI and PR. I understand it and can write it, but my speaking is very broken.

          Now… the broken speaking, is this because you don’t use it much, or because you’re speaking in a carribean accent? (says mr river plate with the pile of sh sounds and voseo)

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            Now… the broken speaking, is this because you don’t use it much, or because you’re speaking in a carribean accent?

            Both. I rarely speak in Spanish, but also, the “Spanish” I know is from the north east coast of Puerto Rico and mostly slang and heavily laden with african and taino words. For context, think Tego Calderon.

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFPSmdbI_TM

            EDIT: I guess I should clarify that it’s the way I speak it. My reading comprehension is higher because I did read a lot in spanish and I still can.

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        We (I) prefer ‘neutral’, but yes.

        Just don’t lump us in with Californians, or we (I) will just start talking to you in the valley girl / infuencer accent, derisively.

        Also don’t mind the royal we, its just normal for us to all be this immensely conceited.

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          Ok, just checking as a fellow PNWesterner who feels like we sound bland or sure “neutral” if you wish while all other US accents sound pretty interesting and unique. I can’t think of a single thing genuinely unique to PNW accent, personally. I lived in the South for a while, so I’m very familiar with the wide variety of accents down there, and we just don’t have any real depth of variety of that sort I feel. Maybe I’m wrong, I haven’t hung out everywhere in the PNW.

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            No, you’re right, we are essentially the… linguistic evolution end point of American English… the type O- blood of American accents, if you will.

            Basically everyone can understand us, but we will have trouble accepting meaning transfusions from non type O- speakers.

            As far as ‘unique’ things… well basically, my vote for most unique thing would be for the intonation patterns we use, or more accurately, basically the lack of them.

            We tend to just stress all words in a sentence very close to the same, monotone.

            We tend to have (at least what others call) falling intonation at the end of a sentence, that can make it so people don’t recognize questions… as questions.

            Because they’re often expecting a tonal shift at the end of a sentence, or some other tonal pattern, as a cue that indicates a question is being asked.

            Which is the opposite from a Californian, who do rising intonation on even non questions, which acts as the easiest giveaway that a transplant is in fact a transplant, beyond them having no clue how to pronounce most local place names, or referring to ‘I5’ as ‘the 5’.

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              Yall have a lot of verbal ticks, so many PNWers end a large proportion of sentences with “ya know”

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                Yeah, I’m with trackball_fetish, that’s not really a PNW thing as much as it is a Midwest thing.

                Now, in many ways, the PNW accent is a kind of… less exciting version of the Midwest accent, watered down Midwest.

                The only time I can remember PNW people using ‘ya know’, its either because they just actually are from the Midwest, or they are intentionally trying to sound folksy.

                A good portion of the PNW was originally settled (cough colonized) by… basically originally Germans and Nordics who moved from the East Coast to approximately Minnesota, but then moved even further east to basically either Portland or Seattle.

                … maybe you could say ‘ya know’ is part of the rural/eastern PNW accent, as the sparser areas of the PNW today tend to be more affordable for a Midwesterner to move to, just by way of economics, relative cost of living.

                All that being said, I would be interested in other verbal tics you’ve observed PNWers to have.

                One tic I know I have is saying ‘like’ far too often when I’m basically exasperated, like, what am I even doing?

                But, because I’m not Californian, I intone ‘like’ with much less emphasis, in a monotone way.

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                  ‘Like’ is definitely over used out here but not the same as the Cali one, I can usually pick out Californians in Washington… partially because as a southerner they recognize another person who is aggressively talkative to strangers.

                  I actually do agree with your take that PNW accent a restrained Midwest accent which actually tracks pretty well. And just to be clear I don’t mean “dontcha know” or “don’t ya know” that is Midwestern as hell, what I mean specifically is y’all tend to add “ya know” to the end a lot of sentences”. When I first pointed out to my best friend, who grew up out here, she sent me a text later that night saying, “Fuck you I hear it everywhere now, ya know”

                  The other big one that comes to mind is “pre-funk” which is apparently just slang for pre-gaming but I’d never heard it in the south or northeast