my roommate never stops talking.

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and he has this very loud, rapid-fire manner of speaking. i don't know what he's saying though, because he speaks chinese.

― to let - flats (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 4 June 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

j0dy beth r0sen starring in tuscon, the new film by jim jarmusch

― strng hlkngtn, Saturday, 4 June 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

Do not split him in twain, as that shall double your woes.

― Aimless (Aimless), Saturday, 4 June 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

jody my wife wants to know how you like tucson and what the prices are like there and what there is to do and all that stuff. she's thinking maybe we need to move to a sunny place and she's heard good things. you can expresso2222@gmail.com it to me if you want to, or just let it fly here to distract you from your tourette's-having roommate.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Saturday, 4 June 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

i like it and rent's cheap and if you're good at making your own entertainment (as i am) you'll do fabulously. excellent thrifting, excellent urban decrepitude, awesome mexican food (and other kinds of food), lots of yuppie coffee bars with wifi.

― to let - flats (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 4 June 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

plus it's 60 miles from the mexican border!

― to let - flats (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 4 June 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)

Okay, we are there,
soon as my wife graduates
and I get a job.

― Suggestinym (Haikunym), Saturday, 4 June 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

oh and the crazies on the bus are funny.

― to let - flats (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 4 June 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

and he has this very loud, rapid-fire manner of speaking.

yeah, it's called "chinese"

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 4 June 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)

i know chinese people who don't talk like that!

― to let - flats (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 4 June 2005 23:25 (twenty years ago)

And how, Jody, do you feel about this roommate and his peculiarities?

― Aaron A., Saturday, 4 June 2005 23:47 (twenty years ago)

Too bad he's not speaking English. Otherwise you could just post the things he says to this thread and soon he would become an ILX legend, like Matos's stepdad.

Who's he talking to, his girlfriend? Is he talking on the phone?

― k/l (Ken L), Saturday, 4 June 2005 23:54 (twenty years ago)

I must have missed something. Um, JBR, why'd you move to AZ?

― Je4nne ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Sunday, 5 June 2005 00:07 (twenty years ago)

because i like it there! gah, with all due respect cuz you know i luvz ya, i'm tired of answering this question.

― to let - flats (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 5 June 2005 01:01 (twenty years ago)

well it's not like it isn't a riDICulous thing to do!!

― drivin all the old men craaazy, Sunday, 5 June 2005 01:15 (twenty years ago)

yeah, it's called "chinese"

Some even call it "Mandarin" or "Cantonese"!

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Sunday, 5 June 2005 02:01 (twenty years ago)

Were an English speakers would use the expression "It's Greek to me" a Spanish speaker would describe something as being "chino basico"- "Basic Chinese."

― k/l (Ken L), Sunday, 5 June 2005 02:18 (twenty years ago)

admit it, you went to arizona to get cheap thrift store vinyl!

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Sunday, 5 June 2005 02:21 (twenty years ago)

gah, with all due respect cuz you know i luvz ya, i'm tired of answering this question.

Gotcha. It's just that I literally didn't know anything about it...even though it's probably mentioned on 100 threads.

― Je4nne ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Sunday, 5 June 2005 02:26 (twenty years ago)

Some even call it "Mandarin" or "Cantonese"!

i know that, and i knew someone was going to call me out on that, but i honestly don't know whether he's speaking mandarin or cantonese and i'm not sure how i would tell the difference.

― to let - flats (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 5 June 2005 03:03 (twenty years ago)

Cantonese is more gutteral and meanings vary way more depending on inflection. Mandarin is better and less spaz sounding.

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Sunday, 5 June 2005 03:06 (twenty years ago)

Does ken c speak chinese? I'll swallow crack if he does.

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Sunday, 5 June 2005 03:07 (twenty years ago)

I used to speak Cantonese quite well back in the days when I worked in Hong Kong, though I've forgotten a lot of it now. Having an ordinary everyday pleasant conversation in Cantonese does sound a bit like you're having an angry shouting match.

― C J (C J), Sunday, 5 June 2005 08:09 (twenty years ago)

lecoq yr worth more than that. ken c likes shit, a lot.

― let's not get carried away now., Sunday, 5 June 2005 08:10 (twenty years ago)

Enjoy the crack, LeCoq.

― Markelby (Mark C), Sunday, 5 June 2005 11:26 (twenty years ago)

Just joking guys, I only speak english too.

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Sunday, 5 June 2005 11:27 (twenty years ago)

one of my housemates is cantonese speaking, and says when she has to speak cantonese on the phone to her parents, its tiring, because its like shouting the whole time

― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 6 June 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

Talking in Cantonese on the phone to my parents when my friends are around is fun. Because I talk in a mixture of Cantonese and English, my friends just catch random words. It confuses them a lot.

Strangly one of my friends also speaks Cantonese, but she refuses to talk to me with it. Even when I tried talking to her in Chinese, she would still reply in English.

― jellybean (jellybean), Monday, 6 June 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

Mandarin's closer to sounding like songbirds, plus you've got those cute little oranges.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 6 June 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

what the hell is jody doing in tuscon?

also, i hope your roommate is talking to you in chinese

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 6 June 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

My friend studied Chinese. She was apparently so ace at it, her professor begged her to become an assistant. She said no, she was more interested in bookbinding. I repeat, bookbinding. Gawd, I only wish I had 10 percent of her brain. :-( That said, I just don't like Chinese. Sorry, it's one of the few languages I really dislike (partially because I don't understand it, hence can only judge it on the basis of what it sounds like....)

― nathalie's baby (stevie nixed), Monday, 6 June 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

which chinese though? there are about 20.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 6 June 2005 16:57 (twenty years ago)

what the hell is jody doing in tuscon?

i moved here. i like it here. if my job situation works out i'm gonna be moving into a bomb-ass mountain view apartment for $500 a month.

― to let - flats (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

you should get an apartment in one of those former missile silos!

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:51 (twenty years ago)

do they rent those?

― to let - flats (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 6 June 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

so im home last night and i have the following conversation

Roommate: hey whats that music you've been playing the whole time?
Frankie: i dunno..what kind of music is it?
RM: I dunno but you always play it before you go out
F: Is it modern?
RM: i dont, what do you call modern
F: does it sound like it was made in the last 15 years?
RM: ...
F: last 30 years?
RM: ...
F: ok shall i play the last few things in my itunes?
RM: OK!

on saturday night it appears i only played 4 tracks, so we go through these, and sure enough, up it pops. it is this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MopM9gKwfcU

RM: thats it thats it!
F: ive only had it like 2 weeks! it only came out this year!
RM: NO...youve been playing it for aaages! you were playing it before EASTER!
f: easter was like a week ago
RM: oh yea hahahahahahahahaha

RM: wait, its fromm this year?
F: YEA
RM: weird, it sounds really old

― frankie driscoll, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 12:41 (eighteen years ago)

RM: so lemme tell you about a case my sister is working on
F: oh yea?
RM: yea its this guy, he's being bugged by the CIA!
F: really? weird
RM: yea they put these things in him and then we went to the hospital and got xrays done, and guess what?
F: what?
RM: the xrays didnt show anything!

F: ...
RM: and get this. he went to FRANCE and got xrays done, and guess what?
F: they showed these weird implants in him?
RM: woah! HOW DID YOU KNOW?
F: well...
RM: pretty suspicious eh? what do you think?

F: that hes a crazy and that he never went to france and the xrays are dodgy
RM: really? i hadnt thought of it like that

― frankie driscoll, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 12:59 (eighteen years ago)

its mid february

RM: so this weird thing happened to my sister
FD: oh yea?
RM: on new years day, this guy gave her a banana
FD: thats not that weird really
RM: yea but the next day a different guy gave her a banana!
FD: what?

RM: yea and its been happening every day since, strangers try and give her a banana!
FD: ...

RM: don't you think thats weird, eh?

― frankie driscoll, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 13:01 (eighteen years ago)

sometimes i play along. last month a program was on about sleaze payments to the govt. tv shows a a mockup of a guy writing a check for a million

RM: woah, have you ever had a cheque for that much money
FD: only once. i got a cheque for $675,000
RM: woah, really?

― frankie driscoll, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 13:04 (eighteen years ago)

ok and then the demons

RM: it was pretty bad..he was possessed by demons for a long while
FD: thats no good. i was possessed by a demon once
RM: oh no! really? that doesn't make me feel good at all
FD: oh it was a long time ago, and it wasn't that bad. it was a pretty small demon
RM: that still makes me uneasy. were you depressed?
FD: yea i was pretty down for a while
RM: how did you get rid of it?
FD: i dont remember, it was a long time ago. i dont like to talk about it too much these days

― frankie driscoll, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 13:06 (eighteen years ago)

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