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It probably says something about me that I want an antique or antique-styled pocket watch as much as I want a pair of mirrored sunglasses (think Morpheus, but with earpieces). Unfortunately, I largely can't afford the first, and have yet to track down mirrored lenses in anything other than Bono-style wrap-arounds. Someday!
...I have no idea what era I wish I was living in, but it's obviously not this one.
...I have no idea what era I wish I was living in, but it's obviously not this one.
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Date: 2006-12-21 10:37 am (UTC)From:shoesboots* (Not that finding out what's what is a bad thing, by any means X3)Yep--but then there are those instances where something's so... out there that it's attractive. I find myself shaking my head and staring XD;
(And I wonder if the html works correctly D: It didn't before in comments & posts... *kicks new posty thing*)
~i'mstupid¬sleepingblah
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Date: 2006-12-21 10:52 am (UTC)From:Well, with caucasians, I think most of us tend to be mixed enough that you have to go by names - there are certain features that are Italian versus British versus Scandinavian verus Eastern European, but it's hard to tell. I've got a really British last name, though, and to draw examples from various people I know, there's Zukic (Bosnian), Kriese (German), Romano (Italian), Duffy (Irish), Sliwoski (Polish), and Johannessen (Swedish). Half the people don't look really specificly one thing or another, but the names are telling.
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Date: 2006-12-21 11:09 am (UTC)From:I sort of noticed that to be truthful, but I find that some are more obvious than others. Going by names, it's easier for me to tell, though I'm far from able to tell many, so thanks for the tip :3 (I could pick out Kriese, Romano, and debated a bit on Sliwoski as particular kinds of caucasian ethnicities *looked down, put hand over (nationality)*)
I guess it comes from who you know, hang around, and are surrounded by. Me? Family is ASIAN. Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Filippino, you name it.
XD; Friends? Mixed, but caucasian for the most part, and while I could pick out 'Tetz' as German, 'Jones'... Yeah. To me it sounds common, and thus I can't really put a peg on where it originated from exactly. (A. Jones is my best friend since K. grade. She's the Euromutt I'm talking about--mixed of damn near everything + native American Indian (Cherokee, and something else I believe). I think she said it might have come from England...)
~applejuicywokemeup
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Date: 2006-12-21 11:28 am (UTC)From:My friends out here are mostly many kinds of European, but living in Vancouver means I've got a lot more asian friends now, too - mostly Chinese, although I think Augustine is Korean. I don't actually know any of their last names, strangely.
Jones is somewhere in the British Isles - I know it's a particularly common Welsh surname (ah, Torchwood - the things you teach me).
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Date: 2006-12-21 11:40 am (UTC)From:Ahh... I see. That's cool. My friend ratio is something of, if I count people I knew in high school (*twitch*), 6:4 (Caucasian to Asian.) Now it's somethin' of 2 to 2. XD; (ugh, HS, how you slay me.) *blink* My middle name's Wong. /random
AH! That's it! I knew it was something or other there! I think. ... Ok, so I suck at remember just exactly what she is. HAHA! =3