DamageRocket

Had a Summer job as a young teen. We had to clear underbrush from a newly built park and playground. We had mowers, machetes and a chain saw. The oldest kid poured the mower gasoline down the slide and lit it on fire so he could ski through it on his sneakers. Other fools joined in, amazingly no one was hurt.

That’s not an age related bias, that’s wisdom from being in touch with reality. The one advantage of our generation is we still know what irl means because we are not buying into the myth of infallible technology.

What would be sad is if you were the age you are now still dressing like a slacker or a cast out from failing punk band sitting in a coffee shop still kidding yourself you were cool. Sounds like you’re aging with dignity. That’s not weird, that’s cool.

Bea Arthur from ‘79s series Maude and ‘80s series The Golden Girls.

Jokes are no fun when you have to explain them. The Woolite bit was from Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex but Were Afraid to Ask (Woody Allen). Gene Wilder plays a psychiatrist whose life is ruined after falling in love with a sheep who is the lover of his sheep herder patient. After his career is tatters he is reduced to being a wino on the street drinking Woolite in the scene I described. I assume you were born in the ‘80s or later and didn’t recognize the reference. It shoulda killed, tough crowd.

Yeah, heard his life turned to shit when all the initial dot com money dried up and their platform lost all market share to facebook. He was last seen bedraggled, unshaven, sitting on the sidewalk propped up against a building guzzling a bottle of Woolite as its contents spilled out the sides of his mouth down onto his filthy clothes.

Should be more than “o”. There a number of things we pronounce differently that you may not be conscious of. The one that makes me laugh is a soft “u”. When Americans say a word like “skull” it sounds like “skoal” to Canadian ears. I have nephews who are American so I have delved into this with them. They can’t really wrap their ears around how we say it. Imagine other soft “u” containing words “cup” or “s’up”. Now add the “sk” in front and the “ll” at the end. That’s how we say it, the Aussies, Kiwis and Brits probably do to. “Orange” is another, when I hear Americans it sounds like “are-inge”. We say it with a British sounding “o”, like “ohringe” all together not broken like “oh-ringe”. Conversely we say “pasta” like “canasta” whereas Americans pronounce it with a soft “a” that sounds like the “o” in “lost”, but that varies from state to state. We similarly fuck up names like Mazda and Nirvanna in a similar way, haha.