In Paris?

[dhampyresa]

For the past couple days or so, my Parisian/French friends and I have been playing "tag yourself: which Paris cliché are you?" and other things on the same "could this GET any more cliché" vein about the "Emily In Paris" trailer. And gritting our teeth at the sheer US-ness of it all

And we're not the only ones.

It got dragged by fucking Netflix france!

Si Emily était venue dans ta ville et non pas "in Paris", ce serait quoi les gros clichés de la série ?

— Netflix France (@NetflixFR) October 7, 2020

(If Emily had come to your city and not "in Paris", what would be the big clichés of the show?)

Anyway, I am very interested in knowing how "Emily in [your location/subculture/etc]" would be like. Pleas entertain me.

Comments

[kore]

Oh right the game! GUESS WHERE EMILY IS, I bet it will be a mystery.

- Space Needle
- Space Needle in a completely incongruous location that IRL would put it either in Puget Sound or the middle of I-5
- Geeky guy wearing Birkenstocks, cargo shorts, and a Hawaiian shirt (dated)
- Snottiest record store clerks in the world
- Double short decaf half-pump skinny white mocha free trade with non-GMO soy and a drizzle of salted caramel
- Grunge
- Plaid flannel shirts
- Ferries
- Pouring torrents of rain with thunderstorms
- No sun, never any sun, just pouring rain, moss on everything, including the cat
- A big 2BR condo that would cost you millions of dollars, inhabited by
- Baristas
- Everyone is a Bernie supporter
- Everyone is vaping everywhere (well, this one's true, or it was before the plague hit)
- Just off the ocean (what is a Sound? What is a Bay?)
- In which you can go swimming
- Hippies
- Hipsters
- Thirty-year-old millionaires
- Everyone has a car
- And that car is a Subaru
- Except for the everyone who has a mountain bike that costs thousands of dollars
- Everyone works for Bill Gates
- Or Jeff Bezos
- Or Google
- Or is a barista

[dhampyresa]

- Everyone works for Bill Gates
- Or Jeff Bezos
- Or Google
- Or is a barista

What, no Boeing?

[kore]

OMFG, Seattle has been acting like Dido in the ruins of Carthage because Boeing -- after not paying taxes and getting the biggest billion-with-a-B-dollar tax break in the country -- started moving to South Carolina (no pesky labour unions there!) 5-7 years ago or so and has capped it off by saying they will move the original 787 Dreamliner assembly line to SC and there has been much wailing and gnashing of teeth and blaming of Libruls, particularly those violent antifa youths.

-- Altho I think in terms of the cliche, Boeing tends to be seen as more blue-collar? and the factories are places like Everett, so it doesn't fit the cliche, altho it's still the largest employer in the state (Renton and Everett are the big plants) and I think in Seattle too, altho I just tried googling and the results were atrocious ("Top 10 Big Employers To Work For in Seattle!").

[kore]

(Sorry, probably more than you ever wanted to know about the anti-union shitty practices of Boeing)

[dhampyresa]

Never apologise for letting me learn stuff! <3