The Everthere Part 6b/? hbomb90May 18 2011, 01:52:00 UTC
When John (three cups of tea, but no biscuits, he couldn’t face them, later) decides to head back up the stairs to his own flat, he somehow manages to time it so that Daniel is coming down. John waits at the bottom until Daniel reaches the coat rack in front of the front door. He smiles at John
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Re: The Everthere Part 6b/? shoedogMay 20 2011, 02:20:29 UTC
Since I was the anon that wanted to know what the term meant and received such prompt, informative answers, I figure I owe it to you to answer your question!
We have H&M in mostly large US cities on either coast.
On the west coast, the furthest ones toward the east looks like Las Vegas, Nevada and Tucson, Arizona. The east coast seems to have many more than the west. The furthest east heading west stores are located in Minneapolis, Minnesota and St. Louis, Missouri. I'm now living in Southern Illinois, so the St. Louis one would be closest to me.
There appear to be none at all in what snobs deem 'The Fly-Over States.'
Re: It's not <i>all</i> snobbery...shoedogMay 22 2011, 04:03:32 UTC
Sorry for the delay in my reply. It took me forever to type up because I don't know when to shush it.
Not journal pimping, cross my heart. but my reaction to that silly woman and an 'if you peer hard really hard' experience of my own are at my lj journal if you're interested.
Re: The Everthere Part 6b/? hbomb90May 21 2011, 01:17:01 UTC
Ah thanks! Wow..somany Hennes... how many people across the world own the same yellow submarine Beatles t shirt as me? I was basically trying to get across that our precious BAMF Johnny is not a label whore, I sometimes forget that I use colloquilasms. If you spot any more please feel free to ask! Pick at my Brit, I love it :D
Off topic ramblings or 'author likes random chats'hbomb90May 23 2011, 00:27:16 UTC
H&M is pretty fab.I'm a student so I can't spend a lot ofmoney on stuff like clothes... (replace 'can't with 'shouldn't but somehow still manage to')...so it's cheap and pretty stylish. And oh my God Lush! I got a bath bomb for my birthday from my friend and I didn't read the label...and itwas Full.Of. Glitter. The day before I had an important tutor meeting with my head of department. I went sparkly.Like lame vampire sparkly. Fortunately my winning personality and general awesomeness won out,but theguy was totally like 'Why is this girl refracting everywhere?'.
SoI'm guessing in the U.S it's kind of like you have to drive a long way to get decent shops if you live out in the sticks?I live in the countryside when I'm not at uni and my nearest town is fifteen miles away and my nearest city is like twenty miles away, but I always foget that the states is freaking huge and the whole of England fits into Texas about 70 times (slight exaggeration there...probably)And yay for small businesses!I work for one too!
Re: Off topic ramblings or 'author likes random chats'hbomb90May 23 2011, 03:02:50 UTC
Depends on what part of the States you're in. The Midwest tends to be VERY open country. A common joke among my Midwestern friends is that "There's corn and corn and... OH! some cows!" in the Midwest. (No offense to anyone from that area meant. I swear I'm repeating what they've said. And they come from Kansas, Oklahoma, and Chicago, Ill., so I tend to believe them with a little room for possible exaggeration
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Re: Off topic ramblings or 'author likes random chats'travels_in_timeMay 23 2011, 04:13:44 UTC
I just moved here recently from Louisiana, and your comment made me laugh out loud because my mom came to visit, and I overheard her describing it to my grandmother. "Oh, yes, it's very nice. Lots of...space. They have lots of cornfields, and, oh, some soybeans, and...more cornfields..." So pretty much word for word, there. :D
Re: Off topic ramblings or 'author likes random chats'shoedogMay 23 2011, 22:03:24 UTC
Lucky for me, Southern Illinois or 'Little Egypt, as it is known, is at the edge of the Shawnee National Forest, surrounded on three sides by the three of the most sizable rivers in the states, the Wabash, the Mississippi, and the Ohio.
The last two form a valley w/fertile land like the Egypt’s Nile delta. Hence the profusion of badly pronounced Egyptian town names, my favorite being 'Cairo.' ('said like Karo syrup')
Southern Illinois is truly geographically different from the rest of the flat, flat midwest. Since this are was only slightly covered by a continental ice sheet back in time, we are way more more hilly, humid, green and rocky. Closer to the geography of the Ozarks than the rest of Illinois.
Granted St Louis, the largest metropolis is an hour and a half to two hour drive but the Makanda and the Shawnnee National Forest (Depicted below) is a 15 to 20 minute drive. So I don't mind the trade off.
Re: Off topic ramblings or 'author likes random chats'shoedogMay 23 2011, 22:22:13 UTC
Small businesses rock!
I want to make it to an H&M just to see it and go to an ~~~~~~~so embarrassed~~~~~~~~Ikea, the closet in the Chicagoland area, a 5 and a half hour drive away. Ikea has really strigent shipping rules. I don't understand why the refuse to ship this medicine cabinet:
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We have H&M in mostly large US cities on either coast.
http://www.hm.com/us/store-locator
On the west coast, the furthest ones toward the east looks like Las Vegas, Nevada and Tucson, Arizona. The east coast seems to have many more than the west. The furthest east heading west stores are located in Minneapolis, Minnesota and St. Louis, Missouri. I'm now living in Southern Illinois, so the St. Louis one would be closest to me.
There appear to be none at all in what snobs deem 'The Fly-Over States.'
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I was the only non-white person I encountered most days and had a woman ask if I were from Africa at work one day. (I'm of Asian descent.)
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Not journal pimping, cross my heart. but my reaction to that silly woman and an 'if you peer hard really hard' experience of my own are at my lj journal if you're interested.
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SoI'm guessing in the U.S it's kind of like you have to drive a long way to get decent shops if you live out in the sticks?I live in the countryside when I'm not at uni and my nearest town is fifteen miles away and my nearest city is like twenty miles away, but I always foget that the states is freaking huge and the whole of England fits into Texas about 70 times (slight exaggeration there...probably)And yay for small businesses!I work for one too!
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Hey! We have soybeans too!
/Midwest representation
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The last two form a valley w/fertile land like the Egypt’s Nile delta. Hence the profusion of badly pronounced Egyptian town names, my favorite being 'Cairo.' ('said like Karo syrup')
Southern Illinois is truly geographically different from the rest of the flat, flat midwest. Since this are was only slightly covered by a continental ice sheet back in time, we are way more more hilly, humid, green and rocky. Closer to the geography of the Ozarks than the rest of Illinois.
Granted St Louis, the largest metropolis is an hour and a half to two hour drive but the Makanda and the Shawnnee National Forest (Depicted below) is a 15 to 20 minute drive. So I don't mind the trade off.
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I want to make it to an H&M just to see it and go to an ~~~~~~~so embarrassed~~~~~~~~Ikea, the closet in the Chicagoland area, a 5 and a half hour drive away. Ikea has really strigent shipping rules. I don't understand why the refuse to ship this medicine cabinet:
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