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bleargh said:
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i often have trouble pronouncing things in english (seriously)
 
dingyibvs said:
lol, do you have an accent or something?



ummm idk, they allow you to smoke in bars, that's about all I know.
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i didnt even know smoking in bars was legal until like this year, when i went outside of the civilized part of the country
 
dingyibvs said:
lol, do you have an accent or something?
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not really...it's weird, when i'm around people with accents, i tend to pick up some of their speech and sound patterns. i tend to unintentionally mimic sounds. like when i'm with my roommate (whose first language was chinese), i tend to forget plurals and stuff because she doesn't use them either. most of my time at harvard i'm around someone with some kind of accent (american or otherwise) haha.

come to think of it, i also tend to match people's humor...so like with you i tend to be crass, but with my roommates i'm goofy. and when i'm around people who have no sense of humor, i tend to have a hard time :laugh:
 
she is like some Christian/Muslim hybrid from Michigan (raised in Queens, of course) who won like a stripper contest back in the day and wants to go to law school. typical
 
brooklynblunder said:
she is like some Christian/Muslim hybrid from Michigan (raised in Queens, of course) who won like a stripper contest back in the day and wants to go to law school. typical
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i like her already

pageants are dumb. sorry gals who may be/en queens
 
During the question-and-answer part of the competition in Las Vegas, Fakih said she believed health insurance should cover birth control because it's expensive. "I believe that birth control is just like every other medication, even though it's a controlled substance," she said.

Woolard was asked about Arizona's tough new immigration law, which she defended.

"I'm a huge believer in states' rights," Woolard explained. "So I think it's perfectly fine for Arizona to create that law."


hahahahaha, i dont know if its because i'm reading them on paper, but it just sounds funny
 
brooklynblunder said:
does st louis have some southern qualities?
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It's southern enough where the rest of the Midwest categorizes them as the south.
brooklynblunder said:
i didnt even know smoking in bars was legal until like this year, when i went outside of the civilized part of the country
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:laugh: Michigan just put a smoking in bars ban in effect this month.
 
Critics and supporters compared Wollard's comment to the most memorable moment of last year's pageant, when Miss California USA Carrie Prejean said she opposed gay marriage. Prejean finished second but became a hero to many social conservatives.

The harshest attack on Fakih so far has come from conservative blogger and talk show host Debbie Schlussel. She claimed that Miss USA has "many relatives" who are terrorists and that a Hezbollah supporter helped bankroll her pageant run. In contrast, Schlussel described Woolard as "classy" and said she gave a "good and somewhat educated answer" about the Arizona law.

"It's a sad day in America but a very predictable one, given the politically correct, Islamo-pandering climate in which we're mired," Schlussel complained on her blog.

Conservative author Daniel Pipes listed five other Muslim women who've won beauty contests in the West in recent years and said he suspects it's the result of "an odd form of affirmative action."

"Fakih's cheerleaders are too busy tooting the identity politics horn to care what comes out of her mouth," charged Michelle Malkin, who ridiculed the winner's "controlled substance" remark. Malkin also wrote on her blog that the question about the Arizona law doomed Miss Oklahoma because pageant officials "didn't want to risk the wrath of the open-borders mob."

Fox News host Gretchen Carlson also cited political correctness in discussing Fakih's victory during Monday morning's "Fox & Friends" show.

"A lot of people are going to parse this today and ask did she lose -- was she first runner-up -- because she supported the Arizona immigration law, and did the Muslim-American win because of the whole PC society that we find ourselves in," said Carlson, who was Miss America in 1989.

A media figure on the other side of the political spectrum who also competed in the Miss America pageant had a much different view.

"Malkin and Schlussel are upset about one thing, that Miss USA is an Arab-American," author and radio talk show host Taylor Marsh wrote on her blog.

"Today, everything is political, especially when an Arab-American wins an American pageant, with her runner-up being the poster girl for the right's anti-immigrant jihad," Marsh charged.

Fakih came from Lebanon to the U.S. as a baby and attended Catholic school in New York before moving to Michigan in 2003. She said her family celebrates both Muslim and Christian faiths.

As for Schlussel's claim of ties to terrorists, George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley wasn't buying it.

"If Hezbollah planned to gain some advantage by winning the Miss USA competition, they are more desperate than I thought. Next they will be targeting the USA Spelling Bee," he blogged.

"As with the Prejean controversy, it continues to amaze me that people inject politics (and frankly substance) in this beauty contest," Turley added.

It's also worth remembering that politics isn't what ultimately damaged Prejean's reputation. It was the disclosure of racy pictures and a solo sex tape. And just like last year, there's a salacious element to Fakih's story too. Hours after she was crowned, TMZ.com published a 2007 photo of Fakih's winning performance at a Detroit radio station's stripper-pole dancing competition.


i love this article
 
i dont think media takes the idea of being impartial serious anymore, they just say the most offensive things to draw attention, kinda getting ridiculous
 
brooklynblunder said:
i dont think media takes the idea of being impartial serious anymore, they just say the most offensive things to draw attention, kinda getting ridiculous
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yea, it's pretty sad... but it makes them money, so really it's the entire country that's doing itself in
 
jla314 said:
sonny's? 👎
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whoa whoa whaaaat???

jla314 said:
not really...it's weird, when i'm around people with accents, i tend to pick up some of their speech and sound patterns. i tend to unintentionally mimic sounds. like when i'm with my roommate (whose first language was chinese), i tend to forget plurals and stuff because she doesn't use them either. most of my time at harvard i'm around someone with some kind of accent (american or otherwise) haha.

come to think of it, i also tend to match people's humor...so like with you i tend to be crass, but with my roommates i'm goofy. and when i'm around people who have no sense of humor, i tend to have a hard time :laugh:
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lol me too, i sometimes feel like a social chameleon so to speak. i talk gangsta when i'm around the local gangstas, talk pretty white when i'm with the med students, drawl out my words when talking to the southerners. i don't drop plurals and stuff when i'm speaking to chinese ppl tho, mostly because i just speak chinese to them :laugh:

brooklynblunder said:
i didnt even know smoking in bars was legal until like this year, when i went outside of the civilized part of the country
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lol, in China, smoking everywhere is legal. in the clinic i shadowed at, the doctor would be giving shots to little babies while smoking at the same time :laugh:

brooklynblunder said:
what u guys think of Ms. USA winner
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well, she's hot, but i don't know much other than that.

ksmi117 said:
None of the top 5 were very eloquent speakers. I wasn't impressed. Our pageant girl would do much better!
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Quoted for truth 👍
 
lstone13 said:
Be careful there bleargh. Those are fightin' words.
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yea, my HS valedictorian was a huge pageant girl, she was in like the top 5 in miss teen florida every year. really smart girl, close to finishing law school at UF now. and then of course, there's this smart pageant girl who's going to med school next year too 😀
 
have you guys heard of the toddlers in tiaras show on TLC? i've never seen it, but every time i see an ad for it, a little piece of me dies.
 
jla314 said:
have you guys heard of the toddlers in tiaras show on TLC? i've never seen it, but every time i see an ad for it, a little piece of me dies.
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yea, i think if lil kids wanna do pageants that's fine, but the parents....meh
 
lstone13 said:
That wasn't how I interpreted what you said, and they are still fightin' words.
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in that case madamoiselle my gauntlet lies before you

dingyibvs said:
yea, i think if lil kids wanna do pageants that's fine, but the parents....meh
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yep

they should make a reality show for crazy parents driving kids into medicine. or True Life - I'm a premed
 
it would only be entertaining if it were about cutthroat gunning premeds
 
ksmi117 said:
None of the top 5 were very eloquent speakers. I wasn't impressed. Our pageant girl would do much better!
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🙂 I didn't watch the Miss USA pageant, but I heard that they weren't very good speakers.

For what it's worth, the Miss USA system doesn't really emphasize interview/academics like the Miss America system does. I mean, the Miss America Organization actually is a non-profit scholarship program, whereby the money earned necessarily goes on to fund your education. The Miss USA system operates much differently than that.

dingyibvs said:
yea, my HS valedictorian was a huge pageant girl, she was in like the top 5 in miss teen florida every year. really smart girl, close to finishing law school at UF now. and then of course, there's this smart pageant girl who's going to med school next year too 😀
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🙂

jla314 said:
have you guys heard of the toddlers in tiaras show on TLC? i've never seen it, but every time i see an ad for it, a little piece of me dies.
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I can't say that I support children's pageants. I didn't even begin participating in them until a couple years ago, and I did so as a means to help pay for college.
 
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