Yes min a tar is very common.

i think tar is most common. second syllable is a mix of ah and uh

3-4. Dreadfully unhealthy (and expensive)

MINN ah Tar

Sorry man, what do you have going on that you're trying to quit? What kind of symptoms do you have?

None except I need more caffeine every day becoming addicted. Feels great though

I know that feeling

hope you manage to quit the habit

JUST STOP.

it's that easy.

Wifey and I took our kids bowling with a bunch of our friends and their kids. Another Dad is a Bills fan, while I am a Jets fan. The Jets and Bills play week 1 of the NFL season. So, he and I made a bet. Whoever loses bowling wears the other team's jersey during that game (whether we watch at home or make the trek to Buffalo).

I was down early, clawed back, and fell behind again. He left the 9th frame open and I made a big spare (all but clinching victory). In the 10th, he made a spare plus 7. I was down 28 going into my 10th frame. With my first ball, I got 8, which put me 2 back. Sadly, it was the 6 and the 7 pins. Long story long, I used the bumper to pick up the spare to tie it. With my 3rd ball, I had his daughter knock down the winning pins.

Moral of the story: I don't have to wear a Bills jersey during week 1 of the NFL season.

At least if you were wearing a Bills jersey, you would have the excuse that you lost the bet.

Follow up story (of which I'm quite proud): I'm in the rest room with my son (he took the left urinal, I took the right). He finished before me and was standing next to the sink (not washing his hands). Seeing this, I say, "Make sure you wash your hands after using someone else's balls."

A guy come out of the stall and says, "You're a good dad," in a totally serious way. My son says, "That's just wrong, dad."

My son may be more mature than I am, and he's 9.

I hate you for hating yourself for understanding that reference.

I had someone in the men's room tell me I was a good dad today, too.

& I don't even have kids.

J/k I totally have kids & one of them was even there. I didn't think I had done anything that special, but then we got out of the bathroom & this woman was getting mad & calling her 6-year-old an idiot because she didn't want the blue one of some clothing item & I realized the bar was awfully low.

I enjoyed that bowling story

Granted it's hard for me to not enjoy a story about bowling. I bowl nationals tomorrow and Monday.

*shudders*

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kokiri, and other brits, when you watch shows on itv or whatever and they have brit actors talking in american accent, can you tell that they sound awful?

its not so much that the accent is inaccurate, but their speech is so unnatural that it's jarring to listen to.

How do you say Minotaur?

My-no-tore, min-o-tore are both fine, but the 'o-tore' is non negotiable.

I'm not sure I can think of any recent examples. Dick van dyke in Mary poppins is legendary.

References to the uk that make no sense do jar a bit. I remember the Thomas Crown Affair referring to a character 'from the back streets of Glasgow on a boxing scholarship to Cambridge uni' or something which is just gibberish. But it's Hollywood, whatcha gonna expect?

What about brits doing us accents? In the uk I think we recognise at most like 3 American accents: generic, south, maybe New Yorker.

well you watched downton abbey, home fires, crimson field etc, right? do you remember being jarred by any of the accents? one of the american servants in downton abbey is a guy i remember off the top of my head. oh, and in land girls, the american business man too. pretty much anyone who plays an american in any of those shows. i think downton abbey cast two actual americans. i think all the others are brits with bad accents.

i'd guess a huge number of americans, maybe even majority, think there is just one accent in all of the UK, an "english accent".... ok MAYBE not the UK, maybe just england. but most americans don't know the difference between england and the UK anyway. americans are vaguely aware of irish and scottish accents, but can't tell the difference between them.

there is a very strange, and not all that well known, accent around lake michigan. it mostly sounds like generic US, but for some reason they stick a y in front of a lot of their a's. so they'll say "thyat" instead of "that.

There are places along the east coast where it would be min-o-TAW

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