I'm from Pennsylvania. Agreed that New Yorkers as a whole are ruder and pushier than your average Northerner. To be clear, I'm talking about people from in and around the NYC area, though. They don't represent the general demeanor of people from the rest of the state.
Same. The word Yankee means the following to me, in order of most to least relevant:
A member of the New York Yankees.
A derogatory term that people from the Bible Belt who still haven't accepted the result of the American Civil War use for people who live north of the Mason-Dixon Line.
A more neutral (maybe slightly derogatory?) term that people from the UK use for all Americans, regardless of where they live in the US.
I have never heard someone refer to a New Englander as a Yankee.
In this case, "proposed by Donald Trump" is like saying that a ventriloquist dummy with a hand up its ass and someone else mouthing the words has proposed something.
Hang on just a minute... Eyekaytee@aussie.zone is extolling the virtues of capitalism! Surely, education and scientific research have nothing to do with significantly improving the average human lifespan over the past 100 years or so!
I'm from Pennsylvania. Agreed that New Yorkers as a whole are ruder and pushier than your average Northerner. To be clear, I'm talking about people from in and around the NYC area, though. They don't represent the general demeanor of people from the rest of the state.
Same. The word Yankee means the following to me, in order of most to least relevant:
I have never heard someone refer to a New Englander as a Yankee.
At home? Sure. On my company-owned, locked down, and corporate IT monitored work laptop? Not an option.
What's the problem? I loved her in Escape from L.A.
In this case, "proposed by Donald Trump" is like saying that a ventriloquist dummy with a hand up its ass and someone else mouthing the words has proposed something.
So the receipts for basically everything I've bought for the past year or so? Got it.
Casio gang!
Hang on just a minute... Eyekaytee@aussie.zone is extolling the virtues of capitalism! Surely, education and scientific research have nothing to do with significantly improving the average human lifespan over the past 100 years or so!
...until one of the warring countries runs out of robots anyway. That's when the real fun starts!
And the stores lowered their prices, right?
My 50 year old knees: "Fuck you!"