Where are you located
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Where are you located
One thing that has struck me abour SPCR is the relatively high proportion of non-USA folk around, hence the poll for my curiousity. The main aim of the classifications is to pick out the USA, then by geographic continent. The sub-classification thereafter (itemise UK etc) is probably my biased view of the world showing and is not meant to offend. I guess any island like St Kitts & Iceland are 'Other' so please send in those tickets!
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Thats the bit that remains when everything east of the San Andreas fault slides into the Atlantic Probably should have had a separate category for California!Ralf Hutter wrote:Peoples Socialistic Republik of Kalifornia for me.
Well - I collect birth certificates but that is for all my ancestors: my children only have 1. They do have a couple of passports and citizenship of 3 countries if necessary. I can however claim that my grandparents were born in 3 different countries (arguably 4 as the folk in Yorkshire figure they are different to England ), and my children can claim their grandparents were born in 3 different countries (again arguably 4 as the folk in Bavaria think they are different to Germany )Mr_Smartepants wrote:Can anyone top that
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That's why I tried to be non-British and split UK/EC/other. (Actually mainly because I thought there was a large UK contingent here and I didn't want that to mask the other Europeans. However as above, they either voted Canada or more likely in complacency didn't vote )Wrah wrote:I would almost say it's typically british to seperate europe into "the UK" and "the rest".
Now be reasonable How about if we metricate properly (the laws date back over 100 years and the road signs are all still miles, .... ). I figure, based on the commitment to a referendum, we are likely to adopt the Euro right after we metricate, and pigs land at HeathrowMr_Smartepants wrote:As soon as they ditch the Pound and at least start ACCEPTING the Euro, then we'll talk!
Hi Dukla
I grew up in Colorado USA worked and lived in Wyoming for a while then moved back to Colo. I have been to only 16 states in the US and to Mexico twice and once about 50 miles from Canada. No I never never ski nor have I ever met John Denver. Too many people I know have been really really screwed up from getting in to ski wrecks.
I have an old steel case 8088 original IBM computer and a new/used 1.7 2100 XP Athlon. I mainly bug you kind people here and at polycount and do light game art with paint shop pro and game only in Quake3.
I also use my pc to track all my home and auto repairs. I do not consider myself a nerd but I am pretty much a loner and really like how nice you folks all are here.
I grew up in Colorado USA worked and lived in Wyoming for a while then moved back to Colo. I have been to only 16 states in the US and to Mexico twice and once about 50 miles from Canada. No I never never ski nor have I ever met John Denver. Too many people I know have been really really screwed up from getting in to ski wrecks.
I have an old steel case 8088 original IBM computer and a new/used 1.7 2100 XP Athlon. I mainly bug you kind people here and at polycount and do light game art with paint shop pro and game only in Quake3.
I also use my pc to track all my home and auto repairs. I do not consider myself a nerd but I am pretty much a loner and really like how nice you folks all are here.
Southern Cross
Put down American, but I tell you if we keep invading and messing up other countries, I'm moving to Australia!
If you want to know something interesting, I'm Olde Southern from about the late 1600s of French and British heritage (I can trace it back further too!) Oh, and yeah, I think the Civil War was over money not ehh labor practices
If you want to know something interesting, I'm Olde Southern from about the late 1600s of French and British heritage (I can trace it back further too!) Oh, and yeah, I think the Civil War was over money not ehh labor practices
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There's a Month Python episode where they're trying to come up with insluting terms for the Belgians, and one that absolutely makes me howl is "The Sprouts". That's just too funny.GenghiS_KhaN wrote:I'm from the little country in the middle of Europe called Belgium
Probably known to you guys because of the Nato HQ's in Brussels
Hope you guys take that in good fun. I love Europe, cheer for the Dutch in Football, and drink as much Belgian beer as I can get my hands on (although that's tough here in Western Canada ) I do plan to reverse-immigrate as soon as I can get some real education.
Wherever you get people manically fixating on one thing and one
thing only, you get a lot of americans there. Be it cars, guns, religion
or quieting computers, the american is usually the most fanatic
Sorry, that was not meant to be a troll, but that's at least how it
seems
I'm from Finland, which is NOT a part of the Soviet Union, like so
many people still tend to believe Nor is Finland the capital of
Sweden.
My father lives in Bracknell, UK and his wife is originally from the Phi-
lippines. I myself live next to Helsinki and work in private security. My
mother and father are both original Finlanders.`
(Map: Look next to Sweden)
thing only, you get a lot of americans there. Be it cars, guns, religion
or quieting computers, the american is usually the most fanatic
Sorry, that was not meant to be a troll, but that's at least how it
seems
I'm from Finland, which is NOT a part of the Soviet Union, like so
many people still tend to believe Nor is Finland the capital of
Sweden.
My father lives in Bracknell, UK and his wife is originally from the Phi-
lippines. I myself live next to Helsinki and work in private security. My
mother and father are both original Finlanders.`
(Map: Look next to Sweden)
Yep, it's called "obsessing." It's an excellent technique to avoid dealing with what's important.Ana wrote:Wherever you get people manically fixating on one thing and one thing only, you get a lot of americans there.
Courtesy Microsoft Encarta: "Troll, in Scandinavian mythology, a powerful giant that was an enemy of humans. Trolls lived in caves or in castles on hilltops, robbing and eating..." I've never heard of the word "troll" being used in any other way.
And, why does seemingly everyone from Finland have a last name ending with "nen?"
My favorite joke about Americans is the question "What's the capital of Europe?" With the usual answer being London, Germany, Paris or England.