"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.
May 13, 2008 @ 10:03am
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.
posted by PJH
May 13, 2008 11:08AM
I really love Erin O'Conner! And like that's exactly what American girls sound like. I forget how much I say like until I meet a British person. Get over it gues tat 10:39AM.
posted by kenya
May 13, 2008 11:15AM
all american girls sound like that? thats like saying all british women have bad teeth. or all british women have beer for lunch. its just not true.
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.
posted by guest
May 13, 2008 11:29AM
PLUS I have many friends and relatives from the UK and they have their own speaking quirks, don't they?
(see what I did there, with the pointlessly making the statement into a question?)
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.
posted by guest
May 13, 2008 11:45AM
Her critique would have been more forceful if it had been subtler.
posted by guest
May 13, 2008 11:57AM
It's more boring then offensive. She couldn't even bother to make it funny? The only thing she did was use lame old stereotypes. Saying everyone in America is a dumbass is like saying everyone in Jamaica smokes weed.
And guest at 11:02AM: where's your proof?
posted by guest
May 13, 2008 11:57AM
This was not a critique or a major international incident! As an American living in the UK, I get it all the time and make fun of their accents right back and its all in good fun. Right-o, cheerio!
posted by guest
May 13, 2008 2:05PM
wow.
that wasn't even funny.
i'm not so much offended at the fact that she's making assumptions like this, as i am that she's just not that funny.
LIKE, at all.
posted by guest
May 13, 2008 2:10PM
hilarious, even more so considering this is coming from a model
people who get offended by this: pleaseee get over yourselves.
posted by guest
May 13, 2008 3:23PM
now i love her even more.
there's no getting around the fact that saying like after every word makes one sound like a moron.
posted by hipstersdontlie
May 13, 2008 3:36PM
Little Erin O'Connor! I just re-watched the episode with her on AbFab last night!
posted by guest
May 13, 2008 4:38PM
>>Lighten up and get a sense of humour people.
HAHAHA! Good one! Oh wait... I can't tell if you're mocking the English or are actually serious
posted by sam alex
May 13, 2008 8:22PM
omg that like totes hurt! what a stupid betchh! i'm going to kick her ass like yesterday
posted by guest
May 14, 2008 3:33AM
I like to hear her do a valley girl one, although I'm sure it would be equally lame.
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
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.
;)