Refugee thread!

[Aliza]

Newbies, please remember to rep up your new friends here, not just other refugees.  They have been very welcoming of our migration en masse.  Let's show some appreciation to all of these people who've taken our hands and helped us navigate through these new waters.

You mean I'm expected to make new friends?



New people scare me.

[I_am_not_mafia]

Friends?

[MissEmma]

Everyone is my already friend!

Except Jared. Fuck you, Jared. You know why... -_-

[Dancefortwo]

Mine is a Carolina girl twang.  As soon as people hear the grits flying, in their minds my IQ drops several dozen points.  I was born in South Carolina, raised in North Carolina, have a B.A. from a respected (and expensive) private college and have a respectable IQ.  Graduated cum laude and was a member of Phi Theta Kappa, Kappa Nu Sigma, Psi Chi and Delta Psi Omega.  I was the department's official tutor for one of the two most difficult psychology courses.  But the accent is never going away, so I suspect I will always be viewed as "less than."  

Of course all that pales by comparison to how much my value as a human being (in the bible-belt) dropped in the minds of the people in Tinytown upon revealing my atheism.

  

My husband is from South Carolina.  He was raised in Columbia SC and his family still lives there.  He's an actor so he had to lose his accent.  It helped that  he went to  University of Southern California and came out talking like a Californian. But when he travels back to see his family and if he's there for more than a week he comes back with a full-on South Carolina accent.  

Kinda reminds me of the actress Ava Gardner who was from Grabtown,  North Carolina.  When she did her screen test at the age of 17 in New York city  her accent was so heavy the director had no idea at all what she was saying. It may as well been a different language.  So he did a silent screen test.  When he saw the results of the film he was dumb struck because the camera just  loved her. She was stunningly beautiful. He sent a wire back to MGM "She can't sing, she can't act. She's terrific!"   Here's a little  gif of her screen test.  Annnnnnnnnd I went off in a totally direction with this thread. Sorry! 

[outtathereligioncloset]

Yay! I'm not a "newbie" anymore! I'm a "junior member" with two stars! Yay! I feel so welcome between that and so many generous rep points in the short time I've been here! THANKS!

So just a nudge reminder----how 'bout that purple name upgrade, please?

[The Valkyrie]

Newbies, please remember to rep up your new friends here, not just other refugees.  They have been very welcoming of our migration en masse.  Let's show some appreciation to all of these people who've taken our hands and helped us navigate through these new waters.

You mean I'm expected to make new friends?



New people scare me.

Technically none of us are new people.

Some are even older people.

If that helps...

[Aliza]

Mine is a Carolina girl twang.  As soon as people hear the grits flying, in their minds my IQ drops several dozen points.  I was born in South Carolina, raised in North Carolina, have a B.A. from a respected (and expensive) private college and have a respectable IQ.  Graduated cum laude and was a member of Phi Theta Kappa, Kappa Nu Sigma, Psi Chi and Delta Psi Omega.  I was the department's official tutor for one of the two most difficult psychology courses.  But the accent is never going away, so I suspect I will always be viewed as "less than."  

Of course all that pales by comparison to how much my value as a human being (in the bible-belt) dropped in the minds of the people in Tinytown upon revealing my atheism.

  

My husband is from South Carolina.  He was raised in Columbia SC and his family still lives there.  He's an actor so he had to lose his accent.  It helped that  he went to  University of Southern California and came out talking like a Californian. But when he travels back to see his family and if he's there for more than a week he comes back with a full-on South Carolina accent.  

Kinda reminds me of the actress Ava Gardner who was from Grabtown,  North Carolina.  When she did her screen test at the age of 17 in New York city  her accent was so heavy the director had no idea at all what she was saying. It may as well been a different language.  So he did a silent screen test.  When he saw the results of the film he was dumb struck because the camera just  loved her. She was stunningly beautiful. He sent a wire back to MGM "She can't sing, she can't act. She's terrific!"   Here's a little  gif of her screen test.  Annnnnnnnnd I went off in a totally direction with this thread. Sorry! 

I have a standard American accent, but I mix in southern words and phrases. If you put me around a bunch of southerners, that southern flair can come out a little more.

[Dancefortwo]

Yay!  I'm not a "newbie" anymore!  I'm a "junior member" with two stars!  Yay!  I feel so welcome between that and so many generous rep points in the short time I've been here!  THANKS!

So just a nudge reminder----how 'bout that purple name upgrade, please?

I don't care if I'm still new because as long as I'm the Naked Poster, all is right with the world.      By the way, for Valkyrie  and others, I was given that name because I  frequently posted naked people photos.  Silly me, I didn't realize that nudity was that big a deal on the forum.  I posted an amazing ballet dancer with a beautiful body dancing on a cross and just after I hit the post button I realized she was topless.  Not long after that I posted photos of Portland, Oregon's naked bike ride which is a fun event here.  Then I posted photos of a lamp shade that had a paper mache naked women on the base.  I then received a fun 20% warning which I'm really sorry to lose with the shutdown.   Fun times though.

[MissEmma]

Yay!  I'm not a "newbie" anymore!  I'm a "junior member" with two stars!  Yay!  I feel so welcome between that and so many generous rep points in the short time I've been here!  THANKS!

So just a nudge reminder----how 'bout that purple name upgrade, please?

I don't care if I'm still new because as long as I'm the Naked Poster, all is right with the world.      By the way, for Valkyrie  and others, I was given that name because I  frequently posted naked people photos.  Silly me, I didn't realize that nudity was that big a deal on the forum.  I posted an amazing ballet dancer with a beautiful body dancing on a cross and just after I hit the post button I realized she was topless.  Not long after that I posted photos of Portland, Oregon's naked bike ride which is a fun event here.  Then I posted photos of a lamp shade that had a paper mache naked women on the base.  I then received a fun 20% warning which I'm really sorry to lose with the shutdown.   Fun times though.

I didn't know that at all! lol. I love that!

[Fidel_Castronaut]

Yay!  I'm not a "newbie" anymore!  I'm a "junior member" with two stars!  Yay!  I feel so welcome between that and so many generous rep points in the short time I've been here!  THANKS!

So just a nudge reminder----how 'bout that purple name upgrade, please?

I don't care if I'm still new because as long as I'm the Naked Poster, all is right with the world.      By the way, for Valkyrie  and others, I was given that name because I  frequently posted naked people photos.  Silly me, I didn't realize that nudity was that big a deal on the forum.  I posted an amazing ballet dancer with a beautiful body dancing on a cross and just after I hit the post button I realized she was topless.  Not long after that I posted photos of Portland, Oregon's naked bike ride which is a fun event here.  Then I posted photos of a lamp shade that had a paper mache naked women on the base.  I then received a fun 20% warning which I'm really sorry to lose with the shutdown.   Fun times though.

Just to be a Debbie downer, we do actually have some rules on the posting of nudity here as well. Sorry to be ‘that guy’, but, you know, it’s my job