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Meadowoak

(5,545 posts) Tue Sep 4, 2018, 02:32 PM Sep 2018

What kind of accent does grassley have?

Everything is, sAyshun. For session
MAYsure is measure
PrAYsure is pressure......who talks like that? Never heard anybody talk like that before. His voice irritates me..

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What kind of accent does grassley have? (Original Post) Meadowoak Sep 2018 OP

Ignorant? marybourg Sep 2018 #1

He is like the teaparty dipshits that came in when certain folks decided to stay home Eliot Rosewater Sep 2018 #2

He's not ignorant, he just sounds that way. SharonClark Sep 2018 #6

Very common Wellstone ruled Sep 2018 #3

Thanks Meadowoak Sep 2018 #4

Nah, he has a lazy mouth and sounds like a bumpkin chewing his cud SharonClark Sep 2018 #5

Well the next time you have a chance Wellstone ruled Sep 2018 #7

I don't deny there may be a few others that talk like he does SharonClark Sep 2018 #13

Though I would offer you a adventure Wellstone ruled Sep 2018 #15

Idiots Out Walking Around underpants Sep 2018 #14

Some towns are worse than others. Wellstone ruled Sep 2018 #17

I'm born and raised in Northeastern Iowa, less than 40 miles from New Hartford where Grassley rsdsharp Sep 2018 #16

Russian maybe? n/t KatyMan Sep 2018 #8

Corn Goblin RockRaven Sep 2018 #9

He sounds like Mr. Haney from green acres. Meadowoak Sep 2018 #10

Fuckface-ese. Lucky Luciano Sep 2018 #11

Yokelese. n/t moondust Sep 2018 #12

Asshole? we can do it Sep 2018 #18

ignorant bullshitter bigtree Sep 2018 #19

marybourg

(12,618 posts)

1. Ignorant?

Reply to Meadowoak (Original post)

Tue Sep 4, 2018, 02:33 PM

Sep 2018

Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts)

2. He is like the teaparty dipshits that came in when certain folks decided to stay home

Reply to marybourg (Reply #1)

Tue Sep 4, 2018, 02:34 PM

Sep 2018

a few years ago and not vote.

SharonClark

(10,014 posts)

6. He's not ignorant, he just sounds that way.

Reply to marybourg (Reply #1)

Tue Sep 4, 2018, 02:42 PM

Sep 2018

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)

3. Very common

Reply to Meadowoak (Original post)

Tue Sep 4, 2018, 02:35 PM

Sep 2018

accent from his area of Iowa. Influenced by the Germanic Culture of his area with some Swede and Norwegian thrown in for good measure.

Meadowoak

(5,545 posts)

4. Thanks

Reply to Wellstone ruled (Reply #3)

Tue Sep 4, 2018, 02:40 PM

Sep 2018

SharonClark

(10,014 posts)

5. Nah, he has a lazy mouth and sounds like a bumpkin chewing his cud

Reply to Wellstone ruled (Reply #3)

Tue Sep 4, 2018, 02:41 PM

Sep 2018

when he speaks. I've never heard anyone in Iowa actually talk like that.

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)

7. Well the next time you have a chance

Reply to SharonClark (Reply #5)

Tue Sep 4, 2018, 02:44 PM

Sep 2018

to visit Northeastern Iowa of along the Minnesota Border in that region,take along a local interpreter. Got way to many Rellies in that region,and yes,they all speak the same way.

SharonClark

(10,014 posts)

13. I don't deny there may be a few others that talk like he does

Reply to Wellstone ruled (Reply #7)

Tue Sep 4, 2018, 03:05 PM

Sep 2018

but I'm not going to hang out in NE Iowa near the MN border to figure out why.

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)

15. Though I would offer you a adventure

Reply to SharonClark (Reply #13)

Tue Sep 4, 2018, 03:20 PM

Sep 2018

in Backwardsville in the Heartland.

underpants

(182,765 posts)

14. Idiots Out Walking Around

Reply to Wellstone ruled (Reply #3)

Tue Sep 4, 2018, 03:09 PM

Sep 2018

as an Iowan once told me when I was in the Army

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)

17. Some towns are worse than others.

Reply to underpants (Reply #14)

Tue Sep 4, 2018, 03:50 PM

Sep 2018

Called on the area for eighteen years. Yup,you got to be kidding,not.

rsdsharp

(9,165 posts)

16. I'm born and raised in Northeastern Iowa, less than 40 miles from New Hartford where Grassley

Reply to Wellstone ruled (Reply #3)

Tue Sep 4, 2018, 03:27 PM

Sep 2018

lives. I went to school and worked in Cedar Falls and Waterloo, for 12 years. They are less than 15 miles from New Hartford. I've lived my entire 64 years in Iowa.

I have never, EVER, heard anyone else talk like Chuck Grassley.

KatyMan

(4,190 posts)

8. Russian maybe? n/t

Reply to Meadowoak (Original post)

Tue Sep 4, 2018, 02:45 PM

Sep 2018

RockRaven

(14,958 posts)

9. Corn Goblin

Reply to Meadowoak (Original post)

Tue Sep 4, 2018, 02:53 PM

Sep 2018

Everything about him irritates me.

Meadowoak

(5,545 posts)

10. He sounds like Mr. Haney from green acres.

Reply to Meadowoak (Original post)

Tue Sep 4, 2018, 03:00 PM

Sep 2018

Lucky Luciano

(11,253 posts)

11. Fuckface-ese.

Reply to Meadowoak (Original post)

Tue Sep 4, 2018, 03:01 PM

Sep 2018

moondust

(19,972 posts)

12. Yokelese. n/t

Reply to Meadowoak (Original post)

Tue Sep 4, 2018, 03:04 PM

Sep 2018

we can do it

(12,180 posts)

18. Asshole?

Reply to Meadowoak (Original post)

Tue Sep 4, 2018, 05:21 PM

Sep 2018

bigtree

(85,986 posts)

19. ignorant bullshitter

Reply to Meadowoak (Original post)

Tue Sep 4, 2018, 05:36 PM

Sep 2018

...a language of republicans' own.

And yes, he is fucking ignorant. The only way his bullshit prevails is through their majority rule. Remove that and he's functionally incoherent.

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