dubdisciple
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Have you ever had your mind blown several times in the same day?
I'm in SF doing a shoot and my jaw dropped no less than 5 times today and I am still processing it. Today was a reminder to me that no matter what you think you know, you don't know ****. I am sorry to be vague but I am trying to think of a way to state some of my experience without it turning political. I will say this:
It's sad that a group of people born and raised in another country speak english better than the vast majority of native speakers I know.
I am never going to believe generalities about people from any country I have never been to or sampled a statisitically relevant example of their population personally.
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backwoods
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Re: Have you ever had your mind blown several times in the same day?
2015/05/01 00:51:07
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man, that is vague and I'm totally intrigued! :) was there some kind of skill gap ?
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Re: Have you ever had your mind blown several times in the same day?
2015/05/01 01:06:38
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I once bent over to tie a shoelace and this Korean guy came running out of an elevator and tripped over me quite comically, causing me to laugh involuntarily (sorry, I couldn't help it). The guy was obviously humiliated and he turned around and said "That was most uncitizenly of you." Even though there isn't such a word, I definitely felt like he spoke better English than me and I've used it on occasion since. I just love calling people uncitizenly!
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dubdisciple
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Re: Have you ever had your mind blown several times in the same day?
2015/05/01 02:00:03
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☄ Helpfulby bapu 2015/05/02 10:56:15
Lmao..I have to steal that!!! Uncitizenly!!!
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dubdisciple
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Re: Have you ever had your mind blown several times in the same day?
2015/05/01 02:05:36
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backwoods
man, that is vague and I'm totally intrigued! :) was there some kind of skill gap ?
Oddly enough you could call it that. I was shooting video for a delegation of people from a middle eastern country participating in a leadership development program. For starters, most of the participants were women. Not something you would guess from that region and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
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dubdisciple
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Re: Have you ever had your mind blown several times in the same day?
2015/05/01 02:15:13
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sharke
I once bent over to tie a shoelace and this Korean guy came running out of an elevator and tripped over me quite comically, causing me to laugh involuntarily (sorry, I couldn't help it). The guy was obviously humiliated and he turned around and said "That was most uncitizenly of you." Even though there isn't such a word, I definitely felt like he spoke better English than me and I've used it on occasion since. I just love calling people uncitizenly!
Funny thing is part of my adventure today involved a chinese guy insisting I knew chinese and speaking to me in Cantonese ( not sure how i knew it was that intesd of Mandarin but I did) with sprinkled English.
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Re: Have you ever had your mind blown several times in the same day?
2015/05/01 02:53:37
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Yes I have, oh wait, "mind".. sorry, wrong thread! lol Couldn't resist. But yes, as vague as it is I understand at least as far as miscommunication goes. I get calls about support or simple questions and have to decipher what people need, even when they speak good English and from some place like Boston ... lol I guess maybe my ears have a Texas drawl too. 
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Re: Have you ever had your mind blown several times in the same day?
2015/05/01 06:25:22
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Couple Sundays ago, I went to Michigan State with my youth big band. Trombonist Mike Dease is a LEGEND... I've never heard someone play like that in real-life, in-person, in the real world! The meatspace!
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Re: Have you ever had your mind blown several times in the same day?
2015/05/01 09:00:04
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sylent
Yes I have, oh wait, "mind".. sorry, wrong thread!
lol
Couldn't resist.
But yes, as vague as it is I understand at least as far as miscommunication goes.
I get calls about support or simple questions and have to decipher what people need, even when they speak good English and from some place like Boston ... lol
I guess maybe my ears have a Texas drawl too.
Ha. I left Northern MN when I was 28. I had the perfect, "McKenzie Brothers" accent when I arrived in Texas. If I spoke, the person on the receiving end would almost always break into..."What's up, aye." Over time, 25 years later, people still know that I am not originally from Texas; they often just ask if I am from Kansas, Nebraska, or somewhere in the Mid West. I don't have that Texas twang. Funny enough, my family from MN, now thinks I have some sort of accent and they tell me that I talk slower.
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sylent
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Re: Have you ever had your mind blown several times in the same day?
2015/05/01 13:28:54
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sylent
Yes I have, oh wait, "mind".. sorry, wrong thread!
lol
Couldn't resist.
But yes, as vague as it is I understand at least as far as miscommunication goes.
I get calls about support or simple questions and have to decipher what people need, even when they speak good English and from some place like Boston ... lol
I guess maybe my ears have a Texas drawl too.
Ha.
I left Northern MN when I was 28. I had the perfect, "McKenzie Brothers" accent when I arrived in Texas. If I spoke, the person on the receiving end would almost always break into..."What's up, aye." Over time, 25 years later, people still know that I am not originally from Texas; they often just ask if I am from Kansas, Nebraska, or somewhere in the Mid West. I don't have that Texas twang.
Funny enough, my family from MN, now thinks I have some sort of accent and they tell me that I talk slower.
That's funny..... you've neutralized it down to a mid-western frequency! lol I'm native here, and I'm sure it is recognizable in my voice, but it kills me that anytime I see a Texan on the news, they seem to dig up the most hick sounding, straw-chewing red-neck they can find to be a witness. lol And I know I'm not that bad at least. lol
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Re: Have you ever had your mind blown several times in the same day?
2015/05/01 13:44:01
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☄ Helpfulby dubdisciple 2015/05/01 20:34:02
backwoods
man, that is vague and I'm totally intrigued! :) was there some kind of skill gap ?
Dubdisciple may be trying to avoid offending his subjects. Even the best English speakers can misinterpret the intention of an observation reduced to text. Like if I tell my wife, "I am amazed that a woman could do X so well'" she would likely not take that as a compliment to a member of her sex.
post edited by slartabartfast - 2015/05/01 13:52:30
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Re: Have you ever had your mind blown several times in the same day?
2015/05/01 15:27:58
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I went to get my mind blown, but didn't have enough cash on me...
Time for all of you to head over to Beyond My DAW!
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sharke
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Re: Have you ever had your mind blown several times in the same day?
2015/05/01 15:31:08
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Not long ago I was waiting for someone at Union Square and next to me a Middle Eastern looking guy was being introduced to a group of people. As he shook their hands he said "How dare you....how dare you....how dare you..."
It was like a Two Ronnies sketch.
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Re: Have you ever had your mind blown several times in the same day?
2015/05/01 17:04:34
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Hi,
Easy for me!!!!
In one night, I heard Tangerine Dream (Phaedra), Nektar (Tab in the ocean) and Genesis (Selling England by the Pound) ... this was late in 1972, or 1973, I can't even remember that far now.
And I was having (also) a nice time with the clodful mushyrumps.
After that, many an evening listening to Space Pirate Radio in Santa Barbara, was quite mind blowing and fun, and quite often far superior than anything else in my life. I still have 400 hours of his shows and they are pure radio and so far out and experimental and crazy that some folks simply have no idea what radio could ever do, or have done.
Unfortunately I can not copy/share them because of commercials and other small details. But the music history itself on this show makes dope look/sound/taste/feel totally immature, stupid and un-necessary! But I want some of the Aldous Huxley special on my death bed!!!!!
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Re: Have you ever had your mind blown several times in the same day?
2015/05/01 18:14:58
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Moshkito
Hi,
Easy for me!!!!
In one night, I heard Tangerine Dream (Phaedra), Nektar (Tab in the ocean) and Genesis (Selling England by the Pound) ... this was late in 1972, or 1973, I can't even remember that far now.
And I was having (also) a nice time with the clodful mushyrumps.
After that, many an evening listening to Space Pirate Radio in Santa Barbara, was quite mind blowing and fun, and quite often far superior than anything else in my life. I still have 400 hours of his shows and they are pure radio and so far out and experimental and crazy that some folks simply have no idea what radio could ever do, or have done.
Unfortunately I can not copy/share them because of commercials and other small details. But the music history itself on this show makes dope look/sound/taste/feel totally immature, stupid and un-necessary! But I want some of the Aldous Huxley special on my death bed!!!!!
Whoa, Tangerine Dream .... I had forgot about them! I saw them open for Sting doing a solo show in Dallas around 1980 I think it was. That was some memories, if I could remember them! lol
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