Comments on: 64 Worst: Uptalkers vs. No Twizzlers/Jujyfruits at concessions

By: chimatli

chimatli — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:33:01 +0000

You can always tell if someone’s from the East Coast ’cause they have this weird thing for Twizzlers. That crap tastes like soap! It’s all about the Red Vines.

By: chimichanga

chimichanga — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:07:41 +0000

this is a terribly weenie match-up. the others i could get behind. though i think both fry’s and american appparel have enough of an upside that i wouldn’t vote against them i could at least understand their inclusion. this one’s like you didn’t even try. uptalking, though annoying, isn’t exclusive to l.a. and certainly didn’t originate here. we’ve started enough annoying trends of our own worthy of this field of 64. maybe it’s just cuz i haven’t been exposed to this one much. then again i don’t frequent the west sfv either. and twizzlers!?!? what’re you from the east coast or something? jujyfruits are mediocre at best but twizzlers are just gawd awful. they may as well start stocking up on necco wafers and pixie stix at local theaters. now eat your mike ‘n’ ike’s and red vines, or better yet get something chocolate, and get to the real problems. the clippers, staples center, parks with fences around them and that close at night (i.e. macarthur and exposition), the fact that the green line doesn’t run to lax thanks to the taxi cab lobby, the stinky hyperion water treatment plant, ralph lawler, the inland empire, the grove, a shortage of coffee shops that stay open past 11 pm, the 5/10 interchanges, the fact that disney concert hall is surrounded by 5 of the ugliest buildings in the city, dodger ownership over the last 15 years, the string of what looks like christmas lights that were added to the vincent thomas bridge rather than some cool uplighting, ugg boots, giant fly-eye glasses on women/girls, etc.

*jumps down off soapbox*

By: David Markland

David Markland — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:30:19 +0000

Eecue: The theme is stuff that sucks about LA. The lack of Twizzlers at LA theatres, and the trend in uptalking around LA, both suck.

By: Dave Bullock / eecue

Dave Bullock / eecue — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:14:26 +0000

how are these related to LA?

By: Mack Reed

Mack Reed — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:45:05 +0000

My daughter is a veteran uptalker (no matter how much we coach her otherwise), as are all her classmates. We don’t even live in the west valley, the epicenter of SoCal uptalking. They’re six. I think it’s something in the water …

By: ataki

ataki — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:54:02 +0000

I concur with pcloadletter on the Twizzlers. Blecch.

By: David Markland

David Markland — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:40:39 +0000

pcloadletter, I’m deleting your metblogs account for such heresy!

By: pcloadletter

pcloadletter — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:06:15 +0000

Sorry, Twizzlers are a vile, loathsome, bastardized imitation of real licorice. FAIL.

By: frazgo

frazgo — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:55:38 +0000

It’s a Canadian and extreme upper midwest thing. They quit the “eh” at the end of every sentence but forgot to drop the uptalking. Try Minneapolis sometimes. Friends and relatives there that stopped the “eh” still uptalk. It gets even worse when you hit the iron range.

By: Will Campbell

Will Campbell — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:13:59 +0000

When I was a volunteer Big Brother one of my longterm goals was to break my eight-year-old Little Brother of that horrible habit. Often when he’d finish a sentence on an upnote I’d interrupt him with “are you asking me or telling me?” The first few times he was confused by what I was doing so I pointed out that he should be aware how his voice rises every time like he’s asking a question. We went our separate ways by the time he was 12 and by then (45,235 “are you asking me or telling me’s?” later) he spoke without that climb at every period.

I consider it one of my greatest achievements.