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You reminded me how infuriating it was when I first moved here ages ago. In California we just called all soft drinks "soda" so then I moved out to Texas and it was like...

"May I take your order?"
"A number 6 with a coke please."
"What kind of coke?"
"What you mean what kind of coke?"
"You know, like Dr. Pepper, Root Beer, whatever."
"Just a coke."
"Oh a coke, why didn't you say so."


Used to it now, but every once in awhile you always get that place where you say you want a coke and they give you some other random soda because they thought you wanted them to surprise you.
 
You reminded me how infuriating it was when I first moved here ages ago. In California we just called all soft drinks "soda" so then I moved out to Texas and it was like...

"May I take your order?"
"A number 6 with a coke please."
"What kind of coke?"
"What you mean what kind of coke?"
"You know, like Dr. Pepper, Root Beer, whatever."
"Just a coke."
"Oh a coke, why didn't you say so."


Used to it now, but every once in awhile you always get that place where you say you want a coke and they give you some other random soda because they thought you wanted them to surprise you.
And here in Canada, we refer to it as "pop." When I lived in the states for a year, I got so many confused looks when ordering.
 

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Having spent my early childhood in Maryland, and later moved to New Mexico and Colorado, obviously I'm one of the "soda" jerks. I'd like to think that growing red cloud in central Texas is something I am contributing to.
 
I live in a strongly "pop" area but call it soda. Its like the one language quirk I've picked up from my NYC-raised dad.
I was an adamant "pop" for years, but it goes either way where I live now, so I swap between the two. (Calling it Coke is not real)
 
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Having spent my early childhood in Maryland, and later moved to New Mexico and Colorado, obviously I'm one of the "soda" jerks. I'd like to think that growing red cloud in central Texas is something I am contributing to.
We always called it "coke" when I was a kid in Texas. But that's because we actually drank Coca Cola. When I switched, I started calling it "soda" to differentiate what I was asking for from "coke"
 
That thread gets worst.


The tweet is gone now, of course, but I remember when it actually popped up during this exchange thanks to the guys at Reddit who linked to the original twitter thread right after it popped on trends (the post is a month old now) Of course, much like Trump, this matter of fact seeming statement is "clearly joking" to her conservative followers, and not at all how she actually feels. DUH!
 
It's like what I say to people who say "We're wasting money sending helicopters to the moon while there are homeless people dying on the street!"

To which I often respond something like "That's not an issue with money. It's an issue with capitalism." We could have PLENTY of money to fix societal problems AND still do space missions. The problem is greedy corporations and greedier politicians.
 
See, I actually agree that that's a serious problem. Thinking you can stave it off by having enough white kids is stupid, though. Get the black kids interested in white culture - and not just California media drizzle.
 
Why is it that saying "the disappearance of traditional Maori ways is a problem" is A-OK, but saying "the disappearance of Gaelic ways is a problem" its something only a horrible racist world ever consider uttering?
Look, not every tradition deserves to be remembered - some deserve infamy or oblivion rather than praise. But, yes, whether it's flag throwing or clog dancing or whatever, many smaller western traditions and cultural elements are dying off, and I think that's a shame.
 
Why is it that saying "the disappearance of traditional Maori ways is a problem" is A-OK, but saying "the disappearance of Gaelic ways is a problem" its something only a horrible racist world ever consider uttering?
Look, not every tradition deserves to be remembered - some deserve infamy or oblivion rather than praise. But, yes, whether it's flag throwing or clog dancing or whatever, many smaller western traditions and cultural elements are dying off, and I think that's a shame.
Because it's all a white supremacist dog whistle, the belief that "white" culture is going to be tainted by the blacks. It's why people thought they were morally in the right to forbid interracial marriage, why anyone copulating outside their race was a race traitor. It's "the great replacement" and it's used as a fear mongering tactic to whip people into a frenzy and get them to hate immigrants, or people of color, or anyone viewed as an outsider.

Besides, Gaelic culture is already dead, and it wasn't killed by the fact that *gasp* there's a class with more black students in it than white. It was killed by the same systematic oppression that's perpetrating these same ideas.

And I don't think you're a racist, Bubs. But I do think you have some casually racist ideas. And that's not to say I don't, I grew up and live in the southern United States, which just like many startlingly Aryan European countries, comes with a lot of ingrained baggage to work through.
 
See, I actually agree that that's a serious problem.
If you mean Gaelic culture in Ireland dying, yeah, sure.

Thinking you can stave it off by having enough white kids is stupid, though.
Yeah, that's what makes it funny... the idea that that's what's going to do it after 800+ years of active suppression by the english.

But teh real kicker is that the language actually declined more after they got free, probably because most no longer felt the need to hang on to it as a sign of defiance.

Get the black kids interested in white culture - and not just California media drizzle.
I... what?

You really think they all be gansta' all up in the green field of Athenry?
 
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