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Upset stomach, upsetting Americans
Oct. 30th, 2007 01:42 pmA while ago, I joined a community for people in and around Boston (sensibly titled ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
b0st0n) in the hope that it would let me know more about the city in which I have somehow come to live (and to provide more to read on my Friends page when nobody updates). Unfortunately, all it's taught me so far is that everyone here is very loud, very stupid and/or very rude. I've been meaning to take it off for a while, but when it occasionally throws up gems like this it's difficult not to want to see the reaction.
You can get a pretty good idea of the attitudes of most of its members by just looking at the rules: "Snark is okay! This is b0st0n. We are cynical and sarcastic. Deal." Translated out of the bizarrely abbreviated way in which most Americans speak, this seems to say "We're a shower of insufferable bastards and if you don't like it, that's your problem." A take on life that many people may also say applies to the entire country.
As you can probably tell I'm not in a particularly good mood at the moment, because I'm lying in bed off sick from work due to a touch of some sort of stomach flu. In fact "a touch" is something of an understatement - I thought I had had stomachache before, but it had never previously felt like being stabbed in the stomach from both directions while the fattest xenomorph in the world forced its way out of my navel sideways. I hope it's not something that I ate that caused it, because I only had a filled bagel last night, and scrambled-egging myself to death would be one of the most embarrassing ways to go ever.
b0st0n) in the hope that it would let me know more about the city in which I have somehow come to live (and to provide more to read on my Friends page when nobody updates). Unfortunately, all it's taught me so far is that everyone here is very loud, very stupid and/or very rude. I've been meaning to take it off for a while, but when it occasionally throws up gems like this it's difficult not to want to see the reaction.You can get a pretty good idea of the attitudes of most of its members by just looking at the rules: "Snark is okay! This is b0st0n. We are cynical and sarcastic. Deal." Translated out of the bizarrely abbreviated way in which most Americans speak, this seems to say "We're a shower of insufferable bastards and if you don't like it, that's your problem." A take on life that many people may also say applies to the entire country.
As you can probably tell I'm not in a particularly good mood at the moment, because I'm lying in bed off sick from work due to a touch of some sort of stomach flu. In fact "a touch" is something of an understatement - I thought I had had stomachache before, but it had never previously felt like being stabbed in the stomach from both directions while the fattest xenomorph in the world forced its way out of my navel sideways. I hope it's not something that I ate that caused it, because I only had a filled bagel last night, and scrambled-egging myself to death would be one of the most embarrassing ways to go ever.
