NationStates Jolt Archive

Alright, here is the point: Tell us the one thing that pisses people off where you live to no end that people from outside of that area think of your community?

For example:

Coming from Minnesota, the one bloody thing that pisses me off to no end is when people, from anywhere(Even from one state over) start talking to me, and ask:

"Where's your accent?"

At first, I was a bit confused at this... until I realized they thought that every Minnesotan talks with the heaviest Norwegian accent in the world. I have traced the source of this to the movie "Fargo"(May it burn in Hell), which horribly depicts people from my region as Norwegian hicks, who live in the backwoods.

So, what is the one misconception of your areathat pisses people off in your area the most?

That I'm somehow susspose to be in the Klan, living in a trailer, with a Rebel Flag painted on my car, and I should've slept with my cousin, sister, and mother.

That I'm somehow susspose to be in the Klan, living in a trailer, with a Rebel Flag painted on my car, and I should've slept with my cousin, sister, and mother.

Hey, the fact that it is all true makes no difference, you just don't have to. You do it for the fun.

KIDDING! :D

However, I would rather have that then what we Minnesotans have(If I ever hear another person ask me where my accent is, I will snap, and kill everyone within a 100 mile radius).

That I'm a bigot with multiple wives. And various other things attatched to it by some folks.

People assume that my suburb is full of gang wars and drug dealers, when it's actually quite nice. Footscray and Sunshine are much worse.

People assume that my suburb is full of gang wars and drug dealers, when it's actually quite nice. Footscray and Sunshine are much worse.

Sunshine is such a good name. I think whoever named it was drunk and/or high.

I live in Essex, UK, so people assume I'm a Chav with 14 children by different women (who I don't support) and spend my free time enjoying a mixture of Stella Artois, STDs and beating up grannies.

from New Jersey - both that my state is dirty and that I like Bon Jovi. Oh, and the accent thing as well.

Arizona - I am immune to heat.

I live in Essex, UK, so people assume I'm a Chav with 14 children by different women (who I don't support) and spend my free time enjoying a mixture of Stella Artois, STDs and beating up grannies.

What do you do in your free time?

I'm supposed to be stuck up, elitist and unforgiving, constantly deriding everything that doesn't meet my fancy, which is most things.

I think I succeed pretty well, as a matter of fact...

1. All New Yorkers are rude.
2. New York is a crime ridden cesspool
3. All New York Cops are corrupt
4. ALL subways are dangerous after 4pm
5. New Yorkers hate their tourists
6. New Jersey: Full of big haired, Bon Jovi listening, uneducated blue collar losers
7. All Taxi drivers are named Ahmed or Mahmoud and are terrorists
8. the Bronx / Brooklyn is SOOOOO dangerous
9. street kebabs are made of pigeon, rat, or stray cats
10. You wil be killed in Central Park after 5pm

All of these things being FALSE of course....

So, what is the one misconception of your areathat pisses people off in your area the most?

I hate when we Italians get from foreigners the stereotypical "catholic mafioso spaghetti mandolino with moustaches"... and I hate when other Italians tell that we Milanese speak a guttural, cavemen-like dialect.

*'Eh?'

Next time I hear a tourist ask why we rarely, if ever, say 'eh?' at the end of non-question sentences (or something like that, because tourists really aren't that articulate), they're gonna get Bertuzzi'ed.

I live in Essex, UK, so people assume I'm a Chav with 14 children by different women (who I don't support) and spend my free time enjoying a mixture of Stella Artois, STDs and beating up grannies.
You forgot the joy-riding in pimped out Vauxhall Novas (Novae? :p).

I don't really know what other peoples' opinions of Leicester are, so I can't answer. I do know that it's probably the least likely place in the UK to let the BNP into power.

You forgot the joy-riding in pimped out Vauxhall Novas (Novae? :p).

I don't really know what other peoples' opinions of Leicester are, so I can't answer. I do know that it's probably the least likely place in the UK to let the BNP into power.

At least it's not Leeds.

I'm supposed to be stuck up, elitist and unforgiving, constantly deriding everything that doesn't meet my fancy, which is most things.

I think I succeed pretty well, as a matter of fact...

You're a blonde pornstar who eats herring, shops at ikea and will commit suicide next winter.


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That we're always being invaded by Germany. :p

Home country:

Hitler
That we're all about discipline and order and have no humour.
And that the whole country is basically one big Oktoberfest, with everybody wearing Lederhosen and drinking beer all day long.
That our language sounds like somebody suffocating from a fish bone.


Region where I grew up:

Everybody is conservative.
Everybody is wealthy upper middle class.
Everybody is quaint and boring
Everybody is only concerned with cleaning and being neat and hoarding money and driving their Mercedeses and, especially, building and owning their own homes.

That we're always being invaded by Germany. :p

That we're always said to invade someone. :p

That we're always said to invade someone. :p

So now I finally see it from the other side... ;)

You forgot the joy-riding in pimped out Vauxhall Novas (Novae? :p).

I don't really know what other peoples' opinions of Leicester are, so I can't answer. I do know that it's probably the least likely place in the UK to let the BNP into power.


Ummm you eat a lot of cheese?

That we're a bunch of cockney-speaking, khaki-wearing, kangaroo riding croc-wrestlers.

That we're a bunch of cockney-speaking, khaki-wearing, kangaroo riding croc-wrestlers.

Agreed. Could go on for a long time listing similar stereotypes of Aussies. But I have to say that some are accurate, for where I live at least. "Mate" for instance is used very frequently, but I hear/read a lot of Australians trying to dismiss this.

Ummm you eat a lot of cheese?
Erm, I do...but I don't particularly like Red Leicester.

And that the whole country is basically one big Oktoberfest, with everybody wearing Lederhosen and drinking beer all day long.
You mean you don't?!

Agreed. Could go on for a long time listing similar stereotypes of Aussies. But I have to say that some are accurate, for where I live at least. "Mate" for instance is used very frequently, but I hear/read a lot of Australians trying to dismiss this.

I'd use it, but it doesn't sound right when I say it.

So now I finally see it from the other side... ;) Ahhh,I made you see the light! ;) *invades* :p

You mean you don't?! Well, I do, but I object to the notion that the rest of the country could possibly look as hot in them as I do.

When people ask me, while in a conversation with two others who aren't from here, where I'm from despite that I have the same local crappy Southern Ontario accent...

Just because I live in Toronto, it doesn't make me an immigrant, just because Toronto is the only city in Canada other than Vancouver that knows what an immigrant looks like.

i don't think there are many connotations for living in southampton or hampshire... the worst is probably for being a "southern pansie" but that's not very annoying a) because its true, and b) i don't care.


connotations for living in england would be that i'm posh, stuck-up, do-it-by-the-book, and have bad teeth.... meh.

Alright, here is the point: Tell us the one thing that pisses people off where you live to no end that people from outside of that area think of your community?

For example:

Coming from Minnesota, the one bloody thing that pisses me off to no end is when people, from anywhere(Even from one state over) start talking to me, and ask:

"Where's your accent?"

At first, I was a bit confused at this... until I realized they thought that every Minnesotan talks with the heaviest Norwegian accent in the world. I have traced the source of this to the movie "Fargo"(May it burn in Hell), which horribly depicts people from my region as Norwegian hicks, who live in the backwoods.

So, what is the one misconception of your areathat pisses people off in your area the most?

So exactly how far from Lake Woebegone do you live?

Apparently, I'm an obese, intolerant, beer-drinking fundie with five kids who spends all day watching football and a stuck-up, Ivy-educated, faux-aristocratic elderly couple living in a huge mansion and pretending to be British aristocracy (country and state stereotypes respectively). Going by the city, as I ride a bicycle and am under 18 I'm a member of a youth gang of wannabe chavs. And because I don't have a girlfriend, I'm gay (although that's pretty universal in American high schools).

... Someone, reconcile those for me please.

Sunshine is such a good name. I think whoever named it was drunk and/or high.

Heheh. And Springvale, too... :p


Well, I do, but I object to the notion that the rest of the country could possibly look as hot in them as I do.

pics plz.

People assume I'm some kind of cowboy and drive a pickup with a rebel flag for a back window.

Meh, I usually just let people like that wallow in thier own stupidity.

P.S. and the redneck jokes were funny for about five minutes, and that was about ten years ago.

People assume where I came from is really a nice place, while it is full of criminals and retards. The selective viewing which says what a nice place it is to raise children there and ignores the incidents in the so called 'city'.

Thankfully nobody has any stereotypes concerning Northern Ireland.


We're normal, you're the freaks.

Let's see...

My home country: I am a warmonger who worships the President, believes every word of the Bible, weighs 500 pounds, drives a Hummer with a gun rack, hates gay people, and considers all Hispanics to be here illegally, all black people to be criminals, and all people with unusual names and beards to be terrorists. The truth is, I only weigh 288 and I know I need to lose weight.

OK, now for my home state: All that happens in my state is football games and poverty, and all of my state's football teams are a joke, even the one that's playing tonight in the BCS title game and is favored by a few points. We also all hate Michigan and West Virginia, and all our politicians are nerdy, backward criminals who are in bed with coin dealers.

Now for my home city: Everyone has cows, and cows outnumber people. Beyond that, we're probably the largest city in the nation in which nothing entertaining or important has ever happened in the history of mankind. D-1 college football doesn't count, since we're all a bunch of drunken morons who burn couches and tip over cars and call for the coach's head on a stick even after we win.

I volunteer my state for nuclear testing right after the southeast corner of it is cut out and formed into the People's Republic of Whatthefuck. That said, it's pretty obvious where I am from even if I never stated it.

1. All New Yorkers are rude.
False.. New Yorkers are so lonely they are wonderfully friendly!!
2. New York is a crime ridden cesspool
False.
3. All New York Cops are corrupt
No experience - but I liked the ones I met so far...
4. ALL subways are dangerous after 4pm
Subways are dangerous at any time of the day.
5. New Yorkers hate their tourists
True! I'm not a native New Yorkers, and I hate the tourists here. It should be noted that out of state tourists are the worst!
6. New Jersey: Full of big haired, Bon Jovi listening, uneducated blue collar losers
True!
7. All Taxi drivers are named Ahmed or Mahmoud and are terrorists
Certainly a larger percentage are called that. Are they all terrorists? I doubt it. Their driving, however, is terror-inducing, so I suppose by definition... And what's with them being on the phone all the time??
8. the Bronx / Brooklyn is SOOOOO dangerous
Brooklyn is a teddybear.. The Bronx is just a bear. And bare..
9. street kebabs are made of pigeon, rat, or stray cats
Sure tastes like it...
10. You wil be killed in Central Park after 5pm
False! Raped - probably. Killed, no. That would throttle supply.

That somehow, there is only one person on the Internet in Washington, D.C.

1. All New Yorkers are rude.
Only the sexually frustrated ones. Ie false.
2. New York is a crime ridden cesspool Not more so than most other American cities.
3. All New York Cops are corruptAlso false.
4. ALL subways are dangerous after 4pm[False. It's 3pm. That's when the high school students get out.
5. New Yorkers hate their touristsTrue.
6. New Jersey: Full of big haired, Bon Jovi listening, uneducated blue collar losersNah, wrong stereotype... New Jersey is full of nuclear waste dumps and is the most uninteresting state in the union with no redeeming features. Which is true.
7. All Taxi drivers are named Ahmed or Mahmoud and are terroristsNot true, there are some named Hassan, Singh, or Mohammed, too.
8. the Bronx / Brooklyn is SOOOOO dangerousNot more so than Queens or Manhattan.
9. street kebabs are made of pigeon, rat, or stray catsActually, they're made of cockroaches. Really, really big ones. <.<
10. You wil be killed in Central Park after 5pm
Not really. That's when you get raped or mugged. You don't get to be killed until after 9.

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That we're a bunch of cockney-speaking, khaki-wearing, kangaroo riding croc-wrestlers.

I met two australian girls and I asked them how much time since they started surfing.

THey said they never did, and I told them I thought every australian knew how to surf.

Anyway, I´m brazilian, so people think I´m extremely good at soccer, I must be black, there are monkeys sharing our houses and there is no electricity around.

Compared to other brazilians, my state is the most southern one. And people from other states think we all like to fight, everyone carries knifes around and know how to ride a horse, we all know how to do great barbecues and we all drink chimarão (a drink with cafeine made of green herbs).

people seem to think that we all live on farms or in trailers, ride horses, have no indoor plumbing, and aren't very intelligent. either that or they think we are Falwell types..........which actually there are a lot of them around here :(


When I moved to Arizona I did get a few questions often that annoyed me

"how's life in the big city?" (when the city I moved from was larger than the one I moved to.........:confused:)

"do you have any trouble adjusting to driving?" (because apparently I didn't have access to one of those horseless carriages in Oklahoma?!)

oh, and people would hear my accent and start talking to me really loud and really slow.......like I was stupid.

:mad:

oh, and people would hear my accent and start talking to me really loud and really slow.......like I was stupid.

Those people are idiots. My father, for instance, is blind. Half of the time when people try to help him with something they speak to him in a very loud, slow voice -- as though he were incapable of hearing as well as sight. Once when I was with him someone did this, and I gave him a quick lesson on the difference between deafness and blindness. The guy looked at me blackeningly and wandered off muttering to himself about how he would have helped if it hadn't been for that damned youth, bloody parents not knowing how to raise their kids these days and so on. :p

I met two australian girls and I asked them how much time since they started surfing.

THey said they never did, and I told them I thought every australian knew how to surf.

Anyway, I´m brazilian, so people think I´m extremely good at soccer, I must be black, there are monkeys sharing our houses and there is no electricity around.

Compared to other brazilians, my state is the most southern one. And people from other states think we all like to fight, everyone carries knifes around and know how to ride a horse, we all know how to do great barbecues and we all drink chimarão (a drink with cafeine made of green herbs).

i don't surf as i hate the beach and i don't think those inland do too as there no sea

annoying thing i hate are bad memorys

Everybody is only concerned with cleaning and being neat and hoarding money and driving their Mercedeses and, especially, building and owning their own homes.
Schaffe, schaffe, Häusle baue? That's where you come from?! Eek. *distances self from any earlier misguided attempts at socialising with Witt-Witt*

[QUOTE]Region where I grew up:

Everybody is conservative.
Why, yes.
Everybody is wealthy upper middle class.
Maybe not, but those who aren't are trying and/or pretending as hard as they can ;P
Everybody is quaint and boring.
And an obnoxious nuisance. ;P

No, of course I'm not geographically prejudiced, why asking?

My regional heritage makes me stuck-up, idisyncratic, refusing any other point of view than my own and..uh.. dunno.