Re: How can you distinguish a local from a non-local?

Locals can pick stuff up with their toes. It comes from spending their childhoods in slippers so the feet have room to spread.

Re: How can you distinguish a local from a non-local?

And there's that thing that you do when you meet somebody and can't or don't want to take the time to stop and say howzit. Raise the eyebrows, pop the chin up and back down fast, flash a real brief smile. Sort of like making shaka except with your head. You know what I mean? Is there a word or a phrase for that?

Re: How can you distinguish a local from a non-local?

Most of the Mama's, Aunties wear Papale's (hats) with adornments, flowers,fresh or plastic on the rim.

Auntie Lynn

Re: How can you distinguish a local from a non-local?

Miulang,

I think It`s the way we we`re brought up and the way only us locals can just feel da ma`na. No need be Hawaiian fo no one person orginally from the 50th state.

Just da way they use their body language or that, feeing you get in your puuwa`i, you know as one local.

I went to Laguna Hills for my job and Tita, talk about how rude these people are. They think I one Mexican cause I brown skin....

From San Francisco to Los Angeles, unreal the way they act. But as okay cause we locals have moa class den dem......OGGBOY

Re: How can you distinguish a local from a non-local?

Dey stay like da kine!

We can mix up english and pidgin and still understand each other.

And we atleast read pidgin to the max twice.

Re: How can you distinguish a local from a non-local?

One true local when meeting another local will ask that initial and inevitable question: Eh what school you wen grad?

One local can tell you where the best ox tail soup is (Kam Bowl hands down)

But one local braddah walks like taran taran (big body) with a pidgin toe'd walk dragging da slippahs. He gives the shaka sign pointing down and shaking his hand like he's flicking off a booger saying, "wassup braddah"

He knows when the Ulua is running

He knows where to get the 6/5 papers and always bet nickle upside or opposite.

She can crack her chewing gum while smoking at the same time

All locals know one phone number to call if they like make one guy disappear: Eh braddah no ack...I goin make one phone call and you history braddah!"

Locals are always spending big bucks on New Years eve thinking they going impress their friends at midnight, instead their friends mooch off of him because they know he's going to buy $1000 worth of fire crackers but forgot the punks so everybody uses their smokes to light the cherry bombs then hold them just before they explode to make you know...taran taran, then the friggin fire cracker blow up in there hand. They shake it off but inside they crying like one baby. Outside they say: Das Nuttin bra nevah even hurt! And you wonder why he stay clenching onto that ice cold Budweiser beer bottle to numb the pain in his fingers.

Das right! One good local know how foa act cool despite looking like an idiot when...you know he act taran taran.



Oh and the non local wears sneakers with socks and has that tell tale sun burn on their necks and faces.

Non locals will eat McDonalds because their too afraid to eat what locals dive into especially that Filipino stuff we call Blood!

Re: How can you distinguish a local from a non-local?

Re: How can you distinguish a local from a non-local?

Wheneva one local brings food to one potluck, garans going be someting s/he used to eat small kid time and most of da time, not going have one single piece of pineapple insai!

How can dey call one pizza Hawaiian just because get pineapple on top??? Eh, I going try make one laulau pizza. You tink going be ono?

No get any beeg ideas about da laulau pizza, Lurkah. I kapu da idea already!

Miulang

Re: How can you distinguish a local from a non-local?

That phrase get said a lot verbally from locals.

Re: How can you distinguish a local from a non-local?

da confahmashun.

Re: How can you distinguish a local from a non-local?

ho man, small keed time we nevah even weah sleephah. barefoot alla time. to school, den all ovah da hills back behind da hale, trundle up da hillside keola hills... lava rock, dirt, keawe trees steekah. no baddah. we grew tougher soles den sleepah. better protection.

barefoot mo bettah fo ride sketboard too.

Re: How can you distinguish a local from a non-local?

Re: How can you distinguish a local from a non-local?

well dass all we knew. to ride sketboard in da 60's anything but barefoot.... well, would a been unheard of.
Planny huli makakuli anyway. nothing so bad as dat toe scrape tho. Ho. dass ruff.

Re: How can you distinguish a local from a non-local?

Oni good dat!!! My haole husband laffs like crazy wen he sees me do dat!