Did You Know/Care That Ryan Reynolds And Blake Lively Were Just In Utah?

Wonder where they were?


Probably the North Visitors Center...No, South..... no definitely North.

xoxo
Gwen!

ps. click here to read the full story..."full" "story".

Salt Lake Tribune Starts Acting Like The New York Post; Crazy Headlines

So we've done a lot of screen shots of the NYP's crazy headlines, but the Salt Lake Tribune may take the cake today. We've pointed to what we thought was crazy. See online front page below:

ps. It's also interesting to note that 118 people had something to say about a parade, and only 8 people had something to say about a DEAD GUY THAT WOKE UP AFTER BEING IN A MORGUE FRIDGE.

Utah Accent Challenge: Fill In The Blanks!

Okay, the answers are at the bottom, see how many words you can get right

1. adolts  = ______
2. iduh = ______
3. highhills = ______
4. silled = _____
5. stull = ______
6. sell = _____
7. pitcher = ______
8. yoohshee = _____ *this is a really hard one

answer key below:

1.adults 2. idea 3. high heels 4. sealed 5. still 6. sale 7. picture 8. usually

Salt Lake City Library Suicide; Oh My Goodness!

We can't believe this!

Just the other day a Salt Lake City lady killed herself at the public library. We're not sure if any of you have been inside of the library, but it's a very open structure, and we can't even imagine what a circus it was in there after this happened.

The article says that at "about 9:30 a.m. Friday, several people around the library saw and heard a woman screaming and then saw her lying on the ground inside the library." 

So very sad. We can't even imagine.

ps. Here is a picture of the inside of the library below:

 

Do Black People Smell different?

Different than what? Is the question you may be asking. We're not sure how to answer that. We mentioned in one of our last posts that we no longer live in Maryland. For the past almost eight months now we've been living in downtown Salt lake City. Still trying to navigate the city socially and professionally, we've met a lot of "interesting" people.  A couple months ago we met a guy named Jack who said something to us that we've never heard before. The conversation went something like this:

Jack: Black people smell different.

Gwen: What?

Jack: Like their actual skin. I remember the first time I was close to a black person, I could smell the difference in their skin.

Gwen: People don't have smells based on their race. How do you know it wasn't his/her hair product? Or the food that he/she ate for lunch? Or people just have different smells in general.

Jack: No, all black people have this smell.

Gwen: That's racist.

Jack: No it's not, I'm telling you the facts, Gwen.

Gwen: Okay so is this just a Black people thing? Or does every race have a distinct smell?

Jack: I don't know--


Gwen: For example, you're half Venezuelan and half White. So which race do you smell like?
:::Jack smells his arm, then smells his shirt:::


Jack: I smell like a White person. Can I smell you?


Gwen: No.

How do you all feel about this conversation? I mean, you never want to label someone as a racist because it's such an emotionally charged word. Was I wrong? Do Black/Asian/Mexican/White/Native American etc etc people have a distinct smell because of the color of their skin?


What would you have said?

Utah Style In A Beer Commercial?

We've talked a liiiittle bit about how the guys dress out here in Utah, but we never had a perfect visual until now.

Salt Lake City Is Crazy

Man, there have been so many/too many funny things happening during our stay in Salt Lake City. (Note: we will always call it a stay, not a permanent residence) Hopefully this week we'll have some time to blog about the different happenings.

xoxo
Gwen!

So The Other Day... (Hatch Family Chocolates)

We didn't have anything to blog about, and we also didn't have anything to do so we went to this chocolate shop with our friend Bariel.

Bariel was like "Woah Gwen, I heard about this really awesome chocolate place called Hatch Family Chocolate" or something like that.

Long boring story short, we went to this chocolate factory, picked out a piece of chocolate the size of an M&M paid $12.00 for it, and left.

While we were a little annoyed by how much we spent on chocolate, we handled it a little bit better than the guy in the picture above. He sat there in disbelief for the rest of the day.


What?

What's Happening In Salt Lake City, UT?

We've been getting some complaints from our readers reader that we don't cover enough of the local (Salt Lake City) news here on YogueIN. So even if it's boring, we're going to try with all of our strength to do it.

If you hear of anything cool/funny/scandalous/interesting that isn't making the news, let us know!

email: yogueIN@gmail.com

xoxo
Gwen

Height vs. HeighTH

There are a lot of things that we've heard people say out here in the couples months that we've been living in Salt Lake City. Here are a few:

1. "I just barely moved in"
2. "Have you seen this movie?" "No, uh huh"
3. "Did you hear that?" "Did I hear wha-ih?"
4. "Just walk acrossT the street"
5. "Get on the I-15" as opposed to "take the 695 west to the 95 south"
6. "She's super mo" (meaning she's very mormon, or very religious)
7. "I'm so jaded today." "What do you mean? Why?" "Like I didn't get a lot of sleep last night." "Oh so you mean you're tired?" "Yeah same thing"
8. "Man, it's going to be sooo weird when this relationship is over, but on the blind side I'm excited to be single"

So yeah, everyone chooses to use english differently and that's toootally cool, but the craziest thing we've heard is the word: Heigth. HEIGTH. heigth.HeigthHEIGTH.
"How tall are you?" "I'm 5'6" "Well that's a pretty average heigTH"

We've never encountered this word before. We talked to our friend Barah Swapp (who finished twilight by the way, will update you on that later) and her explanation was this:

Essentially that people get used to the "TH" sound at the end of words that explain the size of something, so then they'll just add the "TH" sound to height, even though it doesn't really belong. She also explained that perhaps height is a different word from heigth altogether. With a different usage and definition, thus suggesting that people aren't saying anything wrong, they're just saying something different than we had originally assumed. We have not researched either theory.

So, what is it? Height or Heigth?

Should we lose weight this summer or should we use weigth?

You tell us.

A "Social Break" Can Kill You; BYU Reports

AHH!!

This is terrible news for us. Remember this, well apparently, according to Brigham Young University, that type of thing can kill you.

The article reports that shunning your friends and other social relationships is just as damaging as smoking a pack of cigarettes a day! It mentions that a person needs friends to "buffer negative or stressful events in life" and that without that type of assistance a person is more likely to get involved in "risk-taking behavior".

So scary.

Do you agree with this article? Do your friends help you or hurt you?

We need to know!


ps. The article makes sure to clarify that these results were found BEFORE facebook was popular. So... facebook is still dead, FYI.

Will The Tattoo Show Up?

So, something that we forgot to tell you about from when we first got here to Utah.

Background: We have the most beautiful brown skin you will ever see. We decided that we wanted to get a tattoo for our 25th Birthday. We told our roommate.

Story: Our Roommate, Bakita, told her friend Mr. X that her brown skinned roommate wanted to get a tattoo. To which he replied "Um... not to be rude, but will a tattoo even show up on her?" Bakita, thinking this was hilarious told us through fits of laughter.

Conclusion A: Mr.X knows nothing about ink, color, or skin

Conclusion B: Mr. X has no eyes
Conclusion C: It is not a known fact that tattoo's can show up on people with brown skin
Conclusion D: Everyone in Utah is In love with Edward Cullen --- click here to understand.

Would you "Pass The Test" ?

Utah man, Iese Maiava, going around groping Utah's local massage therapists. When they protest, he has reportedly pulled a piece of paper out of his pocket that has a police logo on it (see below)

Believing that this is a legitimate form of identification, Maiava has gone on to tell the massueses that he is undercover, and that they have passed his test (test for what?) and that he will be their personal representative with the police department.

We know right?

Read the full ridiculousness here

YogueIN in Utah

We mentioned yesterday that the YogueIN offices have moved to Salt Lake City. To show our new city some respect, we decided to take a look at the local headlines to find out what was making the news.

One man's oil spill is another man's spelling bee. To find out more about what is happening in Utah click HERE.

Honestly, We Are Sorry...

YogueIN tried to make a move to the UK, but it just didn't happen as planned. So in a very unexpected turn of events we have moved our offices to Salt Lake City, UT.

Utah is crazy, and we promise to keep you posted on that. But we wanted to make sure that we apologized properly for peacein' out without any warning.

BUT we are here to stay, and hope that you will keep coming back to YogueIN.

Also, if you plan on visiting Utah anytime soon, you will need to bring a black tshirt with a dragon and/or crossbow on the front, seems like most everyone has one of those.

xoxo!
Gwen