Money, you cunt…if you had any, you’d know.
Don’t they ask for Zeitgiest sometimes?
Heh, thanks for making my morning!
Perhaps psychotherapy? My therapist speaks like this. I don’t know if she’s fake or not (I guess I have a hard time picking up on that), but she didn’t sounds like what you guy’s are talking about.
I don’t think that’s the counselor accent, but rather the inflection of someone like this.
I am so turned on right now.
What?
Somehow, this seems relevant in this thread. There are these bracelets that are all-the-rage-among-the-liberal/progressive-set, that I’ve seen quite a few of my co-workers get. They are made of paper, and look kind of like spitwads that are painted and shellacked, and strung together with thread. They are purportedly made by Nigerian women, who may have been reduced to such circumstance because their husbands can’t get their million of dollars out of the country without the help of email and foreigners like us.
Anyway these seem to be the current trend of things you buy to show that you care about the world’s downtrodden.
My soon to be sister-in-law talks like that, trust me, it’s not limited to older hippie chicks.
I feel like she thinks I’m 5. And mentally challenged.
I had a chick like that in college last summer. Same accent, but not a hippie as far as I could tell. She had this long drawn out “hhhmmmmm” and “oooooooooooooooooooookkkkaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyy” that sounded like she thought I was a retard.
I almost asked her out but it was just too off putting so I didn’t.
Some of our more prominent reactionaries have tied the irritating accent to hippie/new age stuff. But others do use it.
Let’s call it two out of fifteen, or around 13%. An unimpressive score by almost any measure, but for Carol nothing short of a triumph.
It did me.
What is this Moratorium of which you speak?
Sure, it’s more feminine, but it also seems to be involuntary in some instances - for example, I knew a few guys in high school who spoke in the “gay voice” who were definitely in the closet and would not have risked being beaten up (or worse) by consciously speaking in a manner that made them stick out. Anyway, don’t mean to hijack; maybe that’s a topic for a new thread.
And there was great rejoicing, throughout the land.
A simple “fine” never suffices, either:
No, how aaaaare yooooou reeeeeally?
I’m contemplating stapling your lips to a truck bumper, now you ask.
How did you ALL meet my mother-in-law?
I call it the Empathy Face.
The Moratorium was a 1969 Vietnam war protest movement. If the post was not just invoking the Moratorium but quoting a movie or something, then it went over my head too.
“Oh, you’re such an oooooooooold soul!”
Fuck. You.
Get off my lawn!
Oh wow, man. Oh wow.
Considering that someone else in this thread mentioned that someone could havelearned this speech pattern from a therapist, I’ll say it has its roots in the mental health and “wellness” fields. The affection does seem to say “I caaaaaaare”, even if it’s insincere.