General Forum Chat Thread (III) • Page 218

I hear cart, but occasionally buggie

 

On the regional word topic, does anyone else say sweeper instead of vacuum? Idk if it's a regional thing or not but my friend from a different state had no idea what I was talking about when I said I needed to run the sweeper and he is convinced it's just my family that says that.

 

Idk anyone who says sweeper tbh!

 

What the damn hell

 

I’m hoping it’s an Ohio thing but my family is prob just weird. I wonder how many people I’ve confused over the years lol

 

There are sweepers and then there are vaccums

 

We say sweeper instead of “broom”, but we still say vacuum.

 

Random but when I moved to Oregon I was so confused cause I'd never heard the term barf. Only puke. Like where I grew up people didn't dramatically go "Barf!" so I was confused af for a while around here. Crick instead of creek also got me. And rig. And people here say pop instead of soda which always got under my skin lol

 

I think barf is something I knew well from cartoons and books but not something people actually said

 

I work at an elementary school and we say “throw up”.

 

I usually say puke but sometimes I’ll say barf or ralph.

 

I say puke or throw up. It was just a dramatic regional expression here I think cause classmates would say variations of "ugh that makes me wanna barf!" Or "barf!" to things they didn't like, but I had never heard that before and I was too shy and insecure to ask what barf meant so I'm pretty sure I just laughed and nodded along even tho I had no idea

 

Barf sounds like a loser kid’s name from a 90’s sitcom

 

Ralph is the weirdest one

 

I knew someone was gonna say it was weird lol My dog growing up was named Rowdy and when my grandma would come over she’d feed him stuff off her plate and he’d end up puking so we started calling him Ralphy lol Another weird word from my family.

 

NE Ohio here and I've never heard sweeper but maybe we're the weird ones! Who could possibly know

 

what's rig?

 

Like when people call a truck a rig? Altho my grandpa is from Ohio and calls cars rigs so that might be more widespread but I think it usually refers to trucks idk I don't say it but when I mock the people of this area because I'm a douchebag I tend to say something like "let's pop in the rig and go fer a ride to the Crick and drink a pop."

 

barf, puke, yak

 

James eats it as a snack

 

I work from 3 pm to midnight and when I get home I can’t usually sleep until like 1 am.

It sucks when I have classes on Tuesday/Thursday’s because I wake up at 6:30 am and I am basically dead tired since I have school at 8 am.

I fell asleep in class today and it was super gross

 

I’m trying to make a list of like 10 things to do during my next 2 days off from work so let’s see if I actually manage to go through them all.

 

some teenage-20ish year old girl just walked into my home, asked "is this allie's house", and when i replied no she ran out

 

Some guy named Ralph must’ve had a really rough go if it back in the day

 

Ugh bless u for that schedule I could never. I could do stuff like that in college but I can't now. I'm in bed at like 8:30pm and it still doesn't feel like enough (mostly cause I have issues waking up a zillion times a night)