Dozzi92

The fun part about when someone tells me they're from a place I've never heard of is that I get to ask them about that place now. I enjoy it. I don't expect everyone to know it, but maybe I do expect them to be interested in conversation.

New York City generally gets folks understanding where I'm from, but I have the benefit of living an hour outside of arguably one of the most recognizable cities in the world.

I get what you're saying, and I kind of use it as a tool to continue conversation. Any time I meet folks from somewhere else, I tend to ask them about it. I've had some long conversations about places I never knew much about with Uber drivers or waiters, and I suppose I project that onto people too, that perhaps they're interested in the minutiae of life in northeast American suburbia. It definitely pales in comparison to people from war-torn African countries, but it is what it is.

"White men's briefs." I assume there's a term for when meaning can be misconstrued for humorous reasons like this. I think you're responding to a joke.

I dunno, maybe it's just me, but anytime abroad I tell people I'm from Jersey. First and foremost I identify as. New Jerseyan. "American" and "Canadian" are so incredibly broad. Are you from Vancouver? Toronto? Are you a Newfie or from Edmonton? Shit, are you Quebecois? The same applies in the US, I don't for a second begin to think of any of the regions as being remotely similar. Northeast, Atlantic, Midwest, West Coast, all very different places with very different people. I didn't include the South because they're the worst.

So yeah, I've kinda always just led with that. Maybe us people from Jersey are just like that though, I dunno. I won't lie, sometimes it leads me to saying things like "I'm an hour outside of New York." I leave off "city" because New York State may as well not even exist, it's essentially a barren wasteland of former mining towns that are in a depressed death spiral of long, gray winters and trips to the finger lakes.

Happy Birthday.

My cat can be 50/50. The times it doesn't work is at the vet. He's the chillest cat in general, but unscruffable at the vet, and they have to purrito him.

Yeah, technology connections did a nice video on it. Toaster ovens with interior fans are the most similar to the air fryer, nearly indistinguishable in some cases, but a convection oven can get a similar product, you just need to wait longer.

I read it as H Twenty until I advanced past the colon. Felt a little dumb.

I appreciate the pun. Worked at a lighting store for three months, learned very little.

MSG-sus saves all.

Capicola is the ultimate NJ shibboleth. I love it .