This is basically from a very old joke — my mother was telling it back in the 80s, so it predates that.

Her version had nothing to do with antisemitism, it was just the way a young, coarsely-raised girl, sent to finishing school, “corrected” her behavior. The girl said, “How nice” all the time. And of course, that was “code” for “Eph You.”

And THAT one mirrors a joke I learned in the early 1970s:

A midwest Senator was out stumping for re-election, and visited a local Indian Reservation to make a speech.

While he was making his speech, someone shouted, “Ug Mum Waga!!”. He continued speaking, and soon there was another shout of “Ug Mum Waga!!”. The speech went on and more and more, people were responding with “Ug Mum Waga!!”, until finally, as he was finishing up, the entire crowd began chanting it.

Feeling pretty good about the reception, he is talking with the local Chief, and they start talking about cattle. He spots the tribe has a decent herd in a field a short distance away, and asks the Chief if he can go take a closer look at them.

The Chief assents, but, looking down at his feet, suggests, “Those are nice shoes… Be sure to watch your step. You don’t want to step into any Ug Mum Waga!”

My own bet is someone made that antisemitic version up far more recently.

Solution: Music on your phone plus a decent pair of headphones.

You don’t hear their garbage.

Also useful at stores where you don’t want to be bothered by sales people… Just ignore them completely (even if you hear them) — they will assume you can’t hear them, and walk away. It would be “rude” without the headphones, but if they think you can’t hear them, well, they aren’t going to assume you’re being rude.

Knowing how much you like dance…

Are you familiar with an (apparently, AFAICS) movement called “Electroswing”?

It seems to have arisen in the last 10y or so, and generally involves some very very impressively energetic dance using mostly shufflesteps, but the better ones seem to more than just that…

The big one seems to be a German guy named Sven Otten, who also goes by “JustSomeMotion” or JSM.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdLa-vJjGnQmXy8KgBIqq8w

Here’s one that’s a good example, I think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtJct8nKjcc

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Another one who has impressed me in what little I’ve seen so far is Gabby David:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmLVlhkAuNoMvZepfAqzFJw
This video in particular is a pretty good example of her skills:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxM01o7G6kM

I wish I was 25, that I could try this stuff. Hell, I’d try it if I was just 40. 😀

The BBC versus Chat.

R2L

Sure. Unless Chat is making stuff up … again.

I have caught Chat a few times, though not on a question as straightforward as this. So I think we’re safe.

I kept journals from my 20s-50s. Eight years ago I read through them all. Comparing what I read to the way I remembered, I realized I had made a lot of stuff up.

See. My problem with Chat isn’t that I think it’s human; it’s that I’m not sure I am human either and not just a meat version of Chat.

So, yeah! Uptalk is, like, absolutely what we do! And, you know? Not only do we jack our sentences with this, like, verbal tic? But we also coat them with a thick layer of — [do the horrible sound here] vocal fry!

If we do it right, you are on the floor in a fetal position weeping in pain at this acoustic and semantic assault, and whatever we say stands unopposed.

What bothers me, to the extent this whole thing rates ‘bother”, is the internal glottal stop. Used to be sixth graders. Heard a professor in the bioogical sciences using it.
It’s “Mar” glop, beat, “In”. “Threat” glop beat “en”.

Vowels are, in my experience, an individual thing. There seems to be no subculture which pronounces “fast” and “have” as “fahst” and “hahve”. And onward through other uses of the short “a”.

Did some business with a woman who wanted us to sit at her dusk, and, yuss, the paperwork was complete.