Apropos of nothing...

[jennythereader]

I really hate the phrase "fly over country" in reference to all of the US that's more than 200 miles from one of the coasts.

Comments

[inaurolillium.livejournal.com]

It's a horrible, dismissive, rude term.

[jennythe-reader.livejournal.com]

Isn't it? Somebody used it in one of the podcasts I listened to today. If I could remember which show it was I'd write in and complain.

[inaurolillium.livejournal.com]

How many podcasts did you listen to today?

[jennythe-reader.livejournal.com]

Um... 24, I think. One or two episodes each of 13 different shows. I listen all day at my mind-numbingly dull data entry job.

[purpura.livejournal.com]

I've never even heard of it before.

[jennythe-reader.livejournal.com]

Really? I don't hear it all the time, but often enough to irritate me.

[cos]

I usually hear it used in a consciously ironic way. But I supposed that in order for it to be used that way, there has to be a base of sincere use of the term for the irony to lie on top of.

[jennythe-reader.livejournal.com]

Well, if it is being used ironically, the irony usually too subtle for me.

Luckily it's not a phrase I hear very often.