I don’t generally drink soda but when i do, birch beer is my favorite; second favorites are Dr. Pepper, cream soda, and cranberry ginger ale.

Country music. That twangy sound is super grating to me, I hate the way certain vowels get stretched out, plus I have no cultural touchpoints with it on either a lyrical or musical level. The stuff that seems most popular is the most obnoxious to me. I’m told this is “the Nashville sound”. Different strokes for different folks, but I sincerely don’t get the appeal of it.

But there’s some country-adjacent music that can be alright. E.g., my husband got really into Sturgill Simpson and I ended up more or less liking his Sound and Fury album, even if some of the vocals do have that irritating twang. I guess I’d consider that more like country-infused rock.

And I guess some older country can be OK once in a while - e.g., Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton.

Interesting! I think central, north, and south Jersey all have some distinctions in accent. Plus I think a lot of people have a pretty stereotyped idea of what New Jerseyans are “supposed” to sound like haha

Merry is like “meh” + “ree”

Edit: https://youtube.com/shorts/S3EaMZUXQYs

Mary rhymes with fairy

Interesting!

No thank you! That one really bothers me for some reason.

Same as “eltse” for else, “foe-ward” for forward, “warsh” for wash, and “ayggs” for eggs.

And some people say “heighth” for height and I swear it’s just to fuck with me.

You from NJ?

I’m from NJ and Murray, merry, marry, and Mary are all distinct.

Berry is like merry and bury is like Murray.

I’ve lived in Philly and then the suburbs for a couple of decades now and have never noticed the berry-bury thing - I’m guessing it’s a South Philly thing? So do you eat straw’bury’s or do you ‘berry’ your dead pets?

I hate it. I don’t personally want any eye contact, so I don’t know how much eye contact is the right amount, and I end up making brief eye contact because I know I should, then looking away because it’s uncomfortable and I don’t want it to be too much. And I lose my train of thought in the process. It’s so much easier to talk to people if I can look in their general direction but not in their eyes.

Seer-shuh I think

Glaw-stuh-shur, correct?

Cat Stevens - Wild World

Honestly Mr Slater can get it. I always thought he was hot but then came Mr. Robot and I was like ‘yes please’!

Sounds like the enclosure needed an airlock or something

Holy shit I hate this song so much

• T t t t
• Y y y y

Dude too soon

Don’t forget pork roll and scrapple

(Actually let’s forget scrapple, it’s disgusting)

I wouldn’t call it hardcore necessarily. I’m on lemmy because I walked away from reddit when they shut down api access to third party apps. I haven’t had any other social media since I got rid of facebook in 2013 when Edward Snowden dropped his info. I just don’t want it, to be honest. Facebook was a little hard to give up because it was the only way I stayed in touch with some folks, but honestly the important relationships survived. And all the rest - instagram, tiktok, twitter, snapchat, et al - don’t really appeal to me. Especially short-form content, which I find extra annoying.