“So I’m like totally going to like NYC like yesterday but like most probably just soon for like a totally hot fashion shoot, so um I’m totally gonna freak out and like return and like tell you how psyched I am about like using the words trash and like cell and my apartment like next time we hang out and um blog and LIKE totally talk fashion!!!” - Erin O’Connor doing her best American accent on her Vogue UK blog.
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posted by adoreaudrey
May 13, 2008 10:39AM
Wow, that is really offensive. Just because I am an American doesn't mean I am an idiot.
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posted by guest
May 13, 2008 11:23AM
I usually don't care about these sort of comments, but, British accent or no, there is, LIKE, a negative-zero percent chance that Erin O'Connor is smarter than me...and I know her bio and everything so don't try and fill me in on her accomplishments. Blindly assuming Europeans are intelligent is pretty much the dumb-American-est thing that a dumb American can do...there is also something vulgar about it that makes me feel icky.
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posted by zapatosnuevos
May 13, 2008 11:34AM
I thought that was pretty lame actually when I read that. Impressions of Americans over-using "like" are so tired and obviously untrue.
I wasn't offended, I just rolled my eyes at it. And WE get blamed for being ignorant? Ha.
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posted by hipstersdontlie
May 13, 2008 3:36PM
Little Erin O'Connor! I just re-watched the episode with her on AbFab last night!
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posted by dumbbrunette5
May 14, 2008 6:02AM
i think i'd be much more tolerant of that if it were actually funny...except...it's quite boring. plus, i have had british friends who use the word 'like' a million times more than some of my american friends so its not even true
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posted by LeMagnifique
May 14, 2008 7:12AM
I have met Erin in London...
She is deluded by her 'iconic status'.
The lights are on but there is nobody home.
Bless her.:-)))
posted by syako
May 13, 2008 10:35AM
that's like, not at all, like offensive.
;)