Scented candles and flyover states!

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Anonymous wrote:Wasted 11 minutes of my life I'll never get back. Please tell me she's not real.

I know, Im suddenly embarrassed to be American.

I don't think I can watch this thing in its entirety.

It's hilarious how at the beginning she says 'Turn your CAMERAS off'. Cameras!

That's just one of the highlights--you should watch the whole thing to where she yelling " I'm up here dealing with fucking bitches!". It's comedy gold.

I want to know how many times she says "Oshkosh." I still just can't get over the accent. I'm from the south and know no Midwesterners so it's just so jarring to me.

And southern accents are repulsive to us Midwesterners. All of this country's problems can be traced to the south.

I didn't say repulsive. I said jarring... Because I never hear real Midwest accents like that. Nice work disproving that old saying that all Midwesterners are nice!

And nice work keeping up the stereotype of the passive aggressive southerner!

I didn't see anything passive aggressive about her post. I have a very southern (Mississippi Delta) accent. I have a good friend with an accent very similar to the lady in the video. I hear it all the time and it still sounds "jarring" to me. Not bad, just very different. I'm sure women in D.C. make immediate judgements about me based on my slow, southern accent. But guys LOVE it for some reason.

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Anonymous wrote:Wasted 11 minutes of my life I'll never get back. Please tell me she's not real.

I know, Im suddenly embarrassed to be American.

I don't think I can watch this thing in its entirety.

It's hilarious how at the beginning she says 'Turn your CAMERAS off'. Cameras!

That's just one of the highlights--you should watch the whole thing to where she yelling " I'm up here dealing with fucking bitches!". It's comedy gold.

I want to know how many times she says "Oshkosh." I still just can't get over the accent. I'm from the south and know no Midwesterners so it's just so jarring to me.

Guys love my WI accent too. And my tight fitting Packers shirts. The woman in the video does not even have a strong accent.

And southern accents are repulsive to us Midwesterners. All of this country's problems can be traced to the south.

I didn't say repulsive. I said jarring... Because I never hear real Midwest accents like that. Nice work disproving that old saying that all Midwesterners are nice!

And nice work keeping up the stereotype of the passive aggressive southerner!

I didn't see anything passive aggressive about her post. I have a very southern (Mississippi Delta) accent. I have a good friend with an accent very similar to the lady in the video. I hear it all the time and it still sounds "jarring" to me. Not bad, just very different. I'm sure women in D.C. make immediate judgements about me based on my slow, southern accent. But guys LOVE it for some reason.

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I have to say. I like her. She obviously loves her candles and her hobby makes her happy. Good for her.

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Anonymous wrote:I have to say. I like her. She obviously loves her candles and her hobby makes her happy. Good for her.

Me too! And I'll admit to loving Yankee Candles.

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Guys do not love the WI accent unless they are from WI and can't hear it. Not saying it matters what accent men prefer, it doesn't, but don't kid yourself... That accent is not good!

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I want to fucking punch her. It's osh Kosh, not osh Gosh! Bitch

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Anonymous wrote:Guys do not love the WI accent unless they are from WI and can't hear it. Not saying it matters what accent men prefer, it doesn't, but don't kid yourself... That accent is not good!

Who said they did? Pretty sure the poster said guys love southern accents.

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Anonymous wrote:Guys do not love the WI accent unless they are from WI and can't hear it. Not saying it matters what accent men prefer, it doesn't, but don't kid yourself... That accent is not good!

Who said they did? Pretty sure the poster said guys love southern accents.

You missed it because the quote function messed up and her comment went to the middle but the PP claimed guys love her Wisconsin accent and her right Packers jersey lol.

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I thought you guys were keen on diversit-ah LOL

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Anonymous wrote:Pure comedy gold, people! I'm not sure what I love most -- the flat accent, the gum chewing, the inexplicable obsession with scented candles, or the air quotes. Or, when she takes a sniff of the Peach Bellini candle lid to calm herself down. LOL. However, I really wish she would've somehow managed to work "pop" into the rant a few times!

As funny (and true to life) as a lot this is, I have to come to the defense of my fellow Midwesterners!! Obviously, not everyone in the Midwest acts or sounds like the person on this video. And they are hands down the nicest people anywhere in the country[i].

No, they really are not. I've lived both on the East Coast and in the Midwest, and I personally think this is often said, but not really borne out in personal experience.

Not PP, but I grew up in the Midwest. I think it really depends on where you are in the Midwest v. East Coast. I think most Midwesterners are always more polite than most East Coasters, but not always "nicer." They can be stand-offish and provincial and in their own world. If you move to a lot of Midwestern cities from elsewhere, you will have a hard time making friends.[i][b] Minneapolis, especially, is a place that is socially cold. On the other hand, Chicago gets a big influx of new blood and is both polite and warm.

Most East Coasters strike me as less polite, but warmer and more social and less reserved. A New Yorker is perfectly happy to talk to you and give you an opinion. They might be really blunt about it, but it's meant with honest intentions. Folks in Boston and Philadelphia struck me the same way.

Yes, this has been exactly my experience. See part above where I have bolded. [b] If I was not from the Midwest, they didn't really quite know what to do with me, and so, ignored me. And chose to hang out with other Midwestern people.

This is true even if you move cities within the Midwest.

I have found this even in Chicago. Once there ("the capital of the Midwest," as I like to call it), Wisconsin people love to meet other Wisconsin people, Michigan people love to meet other Michigan people, Ohio people love to meet other Ohio people. "You went to Northern Eastern Southern Western Illinois State? Wow, so did I! And so did Katie, and Sarah, and Melissa, and Jen!! Oh, you? You are from Virginia? Where is that? Did you grow up on a cotton plantation? Ha ha, I am hilarious [everyone from the Midwest, none of whom have been to VA, laugh] Oh, Jen! I wanted to tell you a funny story about someone from our hometown! Bye, VA person!"

Not the PPs, but how is that different from any other area of the country? I have heard those same conversations in California, Boston, you name it. Don't most people like it when they meet others who went to their same school, or are from the same area? I don't see why you think this is specific to the Midwest.

The difference is that in many places in the Midwest, people are hostile to making new friends. If you haven't known them forever, you aren't going to make friends with them. They've lived in the same place forever. They have hung out with the same people forever. They are not social with people who are new to the area. They aren't really friendly people. If you move to a mid-size city like Indianapolis or Minneapolis of St. Louis, you will have a hell of a time meeting people or making connections because they are so hostile to outsiders.

I kind of wonder what sort of attitude you brought to the table, whether it was intentional or not. I am from Minnesota originally, and have lots of friends still there (including Minneapolis), and they're not particularly snobbish or exclusive (and in the case of several very close friends, they're maybe too warm initially). They're like most everyone else: sometimes looking for new friends, sometimes preoccupied with other things.

Nah. It wasn't just me. In fact, while I was there, the Star-Tribune ran a lengthy article about how hard it is for out of state people to move to the Twin Cities, because the Twin Cities is so stand-offish. It was met with huge amounts of outrage from their readers.

You can claim "Minnesota Nice" all you want, but "God's Frozen People" is more like it.

I vaguely remember that article. I disagreed with it then, and I disagree with it now.

You can find articles to support any position.

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Living in michigan, I have to say this is a brand of human over this way.

Chubby. Entitled. Obsessed with random with bath and body works, scentsy, Mary Kay etc... And gets waaaaay to worked up about ridiculous things such as items being In stock and their wait times at the local mcdonalds

I WISH I had time to worry about what kind of candle sents were available to me.

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Anonymous wrote:The best part is the HORRIBLE scents she's so desperate to find. Not even something that could be theoretically good smelling.... No no no. She's going apeshit on "Jen" over ICED GINGERBREAD CANDLE.

The best part - IMHO - is her mannerisms.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0e-he_dU58&feature=youtu.be&app=desktop

You can't make this shit up. If she were an actress, she'd deserve an Oscar.

Yes, her mannerisms ARE the best. You are right.

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Anonymous wrote:The accent isn't Midwest per se, it's a northern, boarding Canada thing - Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota.

+1 I would not call this a mid western accent. I've lived in both Ann Arbor, Michigan and Dayton, Ohio and no one sounded like that.

I have family from Dayton and you are right, they do not speak like this. Neither do many from Ann Arbor, b/c I have family from there too. Maybe b/c there are folks from all over who live in Ann Arbor? I don't know. And my brother-in-law from Dayton doesn't speak like this either, I admit.

BUT, they DO speak like this in Wisconsin (have college friends from there), some parts of Illinois (again, college folks), some parts of Indiana (in-laws, and college friends). I do not know where or how they get it, but they *do* speak like this. And so does my MIL from Indiana. Can you tell I went to college in the Midwest and married someone from the Midwest? Luckily, we live here now. (And I am not from there either.)