How to pronounce “downer” in English

Oh yeah, yes, yeah.Downers Grove is where he's from.Isn't that a hell of a name?

Don't bring people down.Debbie Downer, we catch people's bad or whatever the case is.But it is actually verifiable.

do well um I realize I can't sort of quite leave it like this uh first rule of speechmaking I guess is thou shal notend on a downer um so let me try to sort of just turn things around here just abit um as we saw with the plastic bags uh we do have the tools at our disposal

We miss it so much.Sorry to be a downer.

Hell of a name.I'm from Downers Grove.But our show is extremely-- I mean, I've got even my hilarious patter that looks like it's off the top of my head, I've scripted within

Cynics versus Pollyannas-- which comes up a lot when we talk about the concept of Hieroglyph, by the way.Happy endings versus downers.Sympathetic characters versus unsympathetic.

To your point, though, I just want...Even though this tends to be a downer conversation, it's true.

Is this just today with the person?Or is this person a chronic downer?And if it's a chronic downer, then you need to develop some limits and boundaries with them.

Or is this person a chronic downer?And if it's a chronic downer, then you need to develop some limits and boundaries with them.And is this person a drama queen?

And it's just been so wonderful to see people just be able to interact outside of being represented in this two-dimensional profile that is so easy to just swipeNobody wants to date a Debbie Downer.

Being happy and also looking happy to everybody else.And don't be a downer and everything.And I think in the UK, maybe people are a little bit more jaded.

bombarded with an apparent array of choices are we notum it's getting too Downer I'm going but that's thir Z feels that transition from Youngadulthood into sort of mid adult middle age by the time you get to middle age you sort of know who you are you sort of

designed to elevate the pelvis during lovemaking whether that's effective or not ithe unhappy hour i guess alcohol is downer but signage is not always as well

So our earliest experiences build that.But I don't want that to be this kind of downer that if we've had really bad experiences when we're little that we're incapable of change.That's the beauty of the human brain-- is it is experience-dependent.

But I do think you have to have a backup plan.bit negative or is a little bit of a downer, and keep on moving on, I think that's how you get to it, because every person who I've spoken to who

You're up. Thanks for being here, Patton.Hi. This is a downer question too so I'm sorry.

Can I just tag on maybe as a Debbie Downer for a second, just on the crowd funding?

Cows too sick or injured to stand are called downers, and are often left to slowly suffer and die from their injuries.

there's Seattle and there's the uppers and the downers and the fact that the sun doesn't shine much there in the winter and somebody actually said to me

Wow. Jake's a real Debbie Downer today.

But there's so many other that can push you deeper and push you downer.

I don't know, not to be a downer, but I think the context of disability is not a geographic location or a specific culture.

I'm going to try really hard not to end on a downer today.

Aw. They decided I wasn't a Debbie Downer when it started, and so one of the chairs came up with Morose Mark.

Gravity sucks. Gravity is the biggest downer on planet Earth.

There was no room there for this negative, downer conversation about what potentially might be happening-- least alone the possibility that they and people like themselves

Yeah. Male Presenter:Just puts a downer on the whole thing. So, how many people are feeling inspired by Jamie's presence here today? Yay.

socialism. Wow. Jake's a real Debbie Downer today.

Right. Well, that was a downer.

I should say, I'm famous in my academic circles for always ending on a downer.

Or if you're in a work environment and somebody has very negative energy and is a downer, it can spread to the rest of the people like a virus.

So just last question here, could be an upper or downer, I guess.

I was not able to persuade my fellow cinema club members to put that on here.That was a good move, fellow cinema cult members because that movie's a downer and it'll be very hard to kind of leap back into workafter watching that one.

Bear: Yeah, I know. Two downers in a row.

You got to get out of your comfort zone.And again, that's not just, as you said, not just the downer version of that.There can be the positive version of that.

So spoiler alert for those who haven't read the book yet, there's a bit of a downer in the end, as the book

Yeah, you know, it's interesting that you describe it as a downer.

That's it. Now, that's where the bleakness-- Yes, that's the downer part, yeah.

And sometimes, when she finally needed to sleep, she had to take a downer because they kind of make you so wired as you can

In 2012 just 56% of eligible AAPI voters were registered to vote." Now, the president wasn't just saying that to be a downer.

My son Henry said to me, man, that's a real downer.

You would find that what I'm trying to say, really, is-- I guess the way to put this, and I don't want be a downer here,

And people were saying, you know what, that's a bit of a downer.

You're either a character person, where you make up new characters, like the Target Lady or Debbie Downer, all that.

Night Live. And it is -- there's nothing more satisfying. There was a sketch when I was there called Debbie Downer.

than we should, we don't have incredible powers and so on. Boy, what a downer this guy is.

That may help the exports to grow. So that's the one thing that we can seize upon. The other big downer, unfortunately, is the

You've got uppers during the day because you're so tired when you wake up, and then you've got downers at night because you're just so wired

And there's this feeling like, oh, these kinds of books are such downers.