:thumbs up: New York

[Ben Kenobi]

God damn. Yeah your speech was ****ed. Like I said, I couldn't pronounce ch-, sh-, -th, and r which is pretty debilitating as an English speaker but I was only in speech for a school year. They fixed me up pretty quickly.

It's an order of magnitude different, and it's still not as good as it should be, or where I would like it to be. The problem is the dialect. I put stresses on the wrong words. I used to work on it in high school through recitation, and was in debate, and public speaking to help my speaking skills.

I found French and Spanish much more facile? Easy? I guess. The pronounciation is always the same and if you can read the word on the page, you know exactly how the word should be said. But then there was the whole other difficulty of actually being able to understand the sounds in the first place.

My french teacher asked for simulation tapes, and he was an amazing teacher. He managed to get me up to university standard french after about a year of long work. I'm still not sure how he did it. We had a class of about 6 advanced students and I was not the worst of the 6 by the end of the year.

[MrFun]

That pretty much every group in America has experienced a tragedy as bad as the UpStairs Lounge arson attack, and several have suffered far worse. No group has had it "easy" in America, if we follow your logic.

Uh, okay. What's so hard about coming to that conclusion that no group has had it easy in America then?

[Al B. Sure!]

Uh, okay. What's so hard about coming to that conclusion that no group has had it easy in America then?

Pssh... Rich white Anglo-Saxon Protestants have had it easy

[Tupac Shakur]

Rich white Anglo-Saxon Protestants have had it easy

This is true.

[giblets]

Pssh... Rich white Anglo-Saxon Protestants have had it easy

What if they're gay?

[Asher]

WASPs have it easier if you're gay. You're basically ****ed if you're Catholic, though. You end up repressing your sexuality until you end up like Ben.

[Tupac Shakur]

WASPs have it easier if you're gay. You're basically ****ed if you're Catholic, though. You end up repressing your sexuality until you end up like Ben.

This is also true.

[Al B. Sure!]

WASPs have it easier if you're gay. You're basically ****ed if you're Catholic, though. You end up repressing your sexuality until you end up like Ben.

Ben wasn't raised Catholic, though. He was an Anglican. All up in that WASPiness, even with the right faith.

[Asher]

I thought he was a mennonite.

[Al B. Sure!]

I thought he was a mennonite.

He converted to Mennonism later as an adult. Then he converted to Catholicism. He's a religious flip-flopper

[Asher]

What kind of ****** converts to Mennonism?
What kind of ****** then converts to Catholicism? Jesus ****ing christ.

I bet if you looked in Ben's closet, it's a collection of whips, chains, and a pole for autoerotic asphyxiation.

[Asher]

Not that there's anything WRONG with that.

[giblets]

Is it just me or does Al spend a lot of time *****ing about WASPs?

[Al B. Sure!]

Is it just me or does Al spend a lot of time *****ing about WASPs?

I'm not really a big fan of them:

[giblets]

I think docfeelgood hacked his account.