When Asked: Where Are You From?

Soooo, tell them the truth then?

<.<

 

Almost had a layover in New York but went through Atlanta instead

 

Pretty much, yeah


Hotwater

 

Sorry Double Post

 

Then I'd get

"My old man fought in WW2 as well"

perhaps we'd become best buds. Like, iunno, the father is dead and the son makes peace with the enemies younger daughter. it's a fuckin top selling box office movie right there.

 

- Where are you from?
- Croatia.
- Oh I once knew a guy from Serbia/Albania/insertwhateverBalkancountrythatisnotCroatia.
- Ummm ok.

 

They always start talking about Amsterdam to me after I mentioned my country.

 

Are clogs very uncomfortable?

 

it isn't that atoms appear and disappear. its the parts of them, that we can only detect by what they do, and that mostly by messing with them, and then it becomes how much of what we're seeing is them and how much our messing with them. unimaginably tiny forces within unimaginably tiny things, but because there are so many of them, that they compose everything, these tiny forces are huge forces, that make and unmake every physical thing we can see and experience physically. but there are other things we can experience also. and it is our own force in numbers, that make so much else of how we experience how it is.

a thought, does not itself, contain matter nor energy. it is a pattern, that matter and energy can store, transmit, build upon. where is the program in a computer? it isn't the bits and where they're stored. its the pattern of them.
that's the thing with us. are we the chemicals and electrons, or are we the PATTERN of them? the completely non-physical pattern of them, that is not itself physical at all, but rather expressed by those things that are.

can a pattern exist without there being something for it to be a pattern OF? a lot of people, possibly most people, seem to tend to think not. but i'm not so convinced of that.

memories seem to have that characteristic. but what about preferences?

people claim we are born a blank slate, but i have very certain knowledge of myself that i was not.
this isn't some matter of faith. nor illusions created by the volatility of the memory process.

 

are these americans? i assume they are.

you should tell them you once knew a mexican.

 

Haha yeah that question. But I answer anyway: Wooden clogs, I think so. You just need and want to get used to them, a lot of guys in the countryside still like them. Personally I rather walk in the ones called swedish clogs, very comfy:



I found some for you too!

 

Well, I don't meet many Americans irl, but the ones that I did meet weren't ignorant.
It's mostly Austrians, Germans, the Swiss...I suppose it's all the same for them, and we're all still yugos to them :-D

 

I am from....Ugh, can we talk about something else? umm... "Anyone DTF?"...lol

 

This thread has reminded me how long its been since I've travelled to somewhere where being from England would be a surprise to anyone. I need a holiday.

 

Asking "Where are you from?" constitutes a microagression, beware

 

well you know how i sort of tend to over analyze everything (i don't consider it over, i consider it being honest, which i must admit causes me at times to over look potentials for humor), the thing that stumps me, is there are rather a number of possible meanings of 'being from'. so you know, where am i from in what sense? are they asking where i was born? where i currently reside? my perspective (as in where am i 'coming from')? what nationality(s) were my parents? at which bus stop did i get on? which bus did i just get off of? and of course, as i've already mentioned, this can be extended to previous lives. on what world in what part of which galaxy, or possibly parallel universe, was i born the first time? you see what i mean. the list of possible questions they might be asking, the diversity of the possible ways in which the might mean by from, how the hell should i know, which it is that they're actually asking?

i've also, you know, moved around several times in THIS life. (hasn't everybody?) so where was i living even at which point in THIS life? the question is just to general to be able to formulate a single answer likely to pertain to the questioners actual intent.

 

SC BARRIO SET! VATOS LOCOS X3!

 

Haha me too, I think people knowing I'm from NZ on HF is enough.

 

the whole thing is just a social ritual, like how are you and all that. does anyone really want to know about each other, especially like if its you've never seen each other before and probably never will again, or not likely remember doing so if you do. occasionally there might be something like real curiousity. but even then its mostly like just for the moment. at least that's how it seems to me.

which makes answering the phone "city zoo", as good an answer as any.
except of course, we do need to consider each other's feelings and try not to make people feel like you don't think they're worth your time of day or something.
but so many of these things, people make sounds like they're asking questions, because its something they've come to expect to be expected to do,
which makes it just a kind of social ritual.

what do you do (for a living) is another one of those kinds of things.
i like the idea of a perfunctory bow, instead of all the social bs.

its not that i don't like people either. i love affection if people actually care.
but all the going through the motions like that, there are just things i enjoy more thinking about.

all the fantasy ways i could answer where i'm from, i find those interesting to think about.
more so at my leasure, then having to come up with them in real time on the spur of the moment though.