Gregg R Thomas

How about the movie Fargo?

Oh yah Simon, you betcha they do.

Unseen wrote:
Well, in the States there are only a few distinct city accents.

How about the movie Fargo?  It’s set in Minnesota and it claims that a lot of people in that area speak like Scandinavians.

Opinion piece by David Brooks in the NYT. The deep source of Trump’s appeal.

@ Simon

Well, in the States there are only a few distinct city accents. New York and Boston among them. Elsewhere, the phenomenon of city accents is virtually nonexistent, though regional accents happen though regional accents do exist. But Midwestern is what the vast majority of Americans speak.

Unseen wrote:
One thing I’ve discovered in watching British mysteries is the existence of numerous distinct local accents. A witness will say detect a Yorkshire or Manchester or London or whatever accent.

Apparently it’s because of all the European countries that have invaded Britain in centuries or millennia past.  The Scottish accent is like Sc…[Read more]

One thing I’ve discovered in watching British mysteries is the existence of numerous distinct local accents. A witness will say detect a Yorkshire or Manchester or London or whatever accent. Here in the states, we do have local accents but much fewer. Vast swaths of the country speak the standard Midwest accent you hear ubiquitously on the…[Read more]

Trump, who claims on the one hand that he has “no idea” what Project 2025 is all about or who is behind it is actually lying (and not just because his lips are moving). It was actually largely written by members of his administration. Listen to this dark threat/prediction by the head of the Heritage Foundation, predicting that either it will be…[Read more]

@ Jake

I want some of whatever it is you were on when you wrote that.

Yes, who could forget such a pretty mouth. Nero played the fiddle as Rome burned but MAGA have dueling banjo’s. Bet you are playing that tune in your head now 🙂

I look forward to the right wing militias uniting to bring down the next democratically elected POTUS while the orange man gets fitted for his new orange jumpsuit. I am sure they will trash the 100,000 active U.S. marine corps troops that will turn up that afternoon.

_Robert_ wrote:
LOL, If Trump dies before the election, the MAGATs would still vote for him !

You and I will probably vote for Biden even if he’s in a coma. Strangely, it’s not the progressives who are demanding Biden step down.Bernie Sanders and AOC are backing Biden.

I’m glad you like our detective shows.  I don’t watch anything apart from Judge Judy and real-life cops nicking people.  But I know a lot of people are into these DCI dramas, I’ll try and get some recommendations.