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My accent must be fucked up; an Australian -- a queenslander -- couldn't pick it. I have been told that I should like i'm from somewhere in the Southern Hemisphere where they speak English but no more specific than that. And also, the internet tells me:

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Northeast Judging by how you talk you are probably from north Jersey, New York City, Connecticut or Rhode Island. Chances are, if you are from New York City (and not those other places) people would probably be able to tell if they actually heard you speak.
Philadelphia
The Inland North
The Midland
The South
Boston
The West
North Central
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I had a long post mostly talking about zombies and st patrick's day (rainy) but it was eaten by the internets. I'll resurrect some of it, possibly, maybe, have to go play on flickr first.

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The questions just don't suit the Australian accent. I answered every one "sounds different".

Queenslanders don't know anything except killing cane toads and social conservatism.

Speaking of which, check out Conservapedia (http://www.conservapedia.com/Main_Page). Some Christian fundies determined that "Wikipedia is six times more liberal than the American public", so they set up an alternative that "give(s) full credit to Christianity and America".

A friend of mine swears he found a page related to evolution that featured a picture of Jesus riding a brontosaurus.

ooh conservapedia just seemed too much like somewhere to waste millions of hours and i first heard about it when i had to pay for internet by the minute.
maybe i'll give it another go...after all, my blood pressure is technically kinda low, last time it was checked.

Hahahaha!

I've found that while the obvious topics (abortion, gun control, that kind of thing) are entertaining, the real gold is hidden in among obscure stuff. For example, they hate CE and BCE (http://www.conservapedia.com/CE) dating systems because it's part of a conspiracy to erode belief in Jesus.

well, there's a cause and effect error there, but it is used because less people who write stuff need to prove they believe in jesus.
i think my problem is not that they are occasionally so almost nearly half-right, but that they pick the crazy logic to get there.

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