Life hack [stickers!]

[caranmegil (William)]

Day late, but got my free sticker!

[HanonO (Hanon Ondricek)]

[Zed (Zed Lopez)]

@AmandaB

I have seen a bunch of middle-aged teachers go to the mat for a chance to win a Hello Kitty eraser.

Me: how ridiculous.

Also me: I would kill or die for a heat-changing mug that went from happy Aggretsuko to raging Aggretsuko.

[Zed (Zed Lopez)]

@DeusIrae

I’m actually from New York so my accent is not at all Southern

Fun fact: A Pronouncing Dictionary of American English, which renders American English words in the International Phonetic Alphabet, including regional variations, often cites Southern and NYC accents as sharing a variant. This blew my mind at the time, but, yeah, they’ve both got the -er ➜ -uh thing.

The moral of this story is that there’s a lot going on in accents that’s at a level of granularity way beyond what the IPA captures, and also that I’m a ginormous nerd, but y’all knew that. (I’m also from New York (state) and also have worked to excise “guys” as a generic from my speech.)

[johnnywz00 (John Ziegler)]

Are you from St. Louis?

[DeusIrae (Mike Russo)]

@DeusIrae

But I just moved to a different county and they don’t give you the sticker here! I’m outraged and going to be writing a letter to the clerk/recorder. This will not stand!

Update: my wife pointed out that they did send us stickers, it’s just part of the ballot instructions in a way that makes it blend into the header. So good news, no angrygram necessary and I’m now wearing my sticker fashionably late, like a cool kid.