tyrannosaurus-trainwreck:

bayoread:

lilislovesongs:

enjoralls:

i was talking to my american friend today and something occurred to me 

out of sociolinguistic interest, 1) where are you from? and 2) if someone from the same country as you started talking about ‘the war’ (without any context as to which), which war would you assume they meant?

Belgium

Either WWI or WWII, they fucked us up

England.

People are usually referring to WWII.

Rural South

The War of Northern Aggression

…or, as my father heard it called in Richmond in the 60s, the “recent unpleasantness.”

as for me: Northern VA, and since i have military friends i’d usually default to somewhere in the Middle East.