Evangeline Lilly Gives Us A Jeremy Renner Health Update

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“I walked in his house and got chicken skin because I was like, ‘Why are you mobile? Why are you mobile? What’s happening? I expected to sit at his bedside and hold his hand while he moaned and groaned in pain and wasn’t able to move. He was wheeling himself around, laughing with his friends. It’s a

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[marywebgirl]

Side eyeing her use of chicken skin.

[sihaya09]

Asking from genuine ignorance: is there a history behind it? I've always heard it synonymous with goosebumps and I don't wanna use it if there's a problem with it.

[marywebgirl]

Maybe it’s more her using it, but I don’t think white people who only lived in Hawai’i a couple years should throw around pidgin.

[sihaya09]

Huh, I'm on the East Coast, and I've definitely heard it where I am. I always thought it was an Appalachianism. Til

[aprilfunk]

I didn't know it was exclusive to Hawaii until today... I've used it heard to also describe keratosis pilaris, too

[gendrys]

I'm not defending this toe at all, but her long-term partner speaks pidgin so I'm assuming she's picked it up from him.

[steffi_333]

Oh I didn’t know about that usage in Hawaii and pidgin. I sometimes say chicken skin because it’s a literal translation of it from Spanish and I grew up in Spain. So I occasionally throw out weird Spanglishisms

[bluesforgotten]

oh interesting, i didn't know it had that context. i've heard it from appalachian/southern family, to mean something like goosebumps or goose pimples if you're cold or nervous/anxious or taken aback by something.

[eva_hagberg]

I thought she literally spoke about food!