State of the Game

[Boomtrooper]

But surely that's the fun isn't it?

If this drives you crazy, you’re not the first person. Just look at the section of a poem (below) by Gerard Nolst Trenité, a Dutch writer who wrote a book in the 1900s called How to Lose Your Foreign Accent, which helped students to get used to the strange ways English words are pronounced.

He called the poem “The Chaos” and when you read the first few verses, you quickly realise why he was so frustrated!

Pray, console your loving poet,

Make my coat look new, dear, sew it!

Just compare heart, hear and heard,

Dies and diet, lord and word.

Now I surely will not plague you

With such words as vague and ague,

But be careful how you speak,

Say: gush, bush, steak, streak, break, bleak…

Liberty, library, heave and heaven,

Rachel, loch, moustache, eleven.

We say hallowed, but allowed,

People, leopard, towed but vowed.




<Stolen from t'internetz but summs it up!>

 

[Just]

Awesome! I like the upgraded G5 avatar too!

Thanks, I came to conclusion that pumping my bad first impression has served it's purpose.
So I switched to an average guy, but per contrast to my previous signals, it will be received as something surprisingly positive.
You know, the usual manipulations of new environment, I found this "fall down to bounce up higher" technique more efficient then trying to build the final image from the beginning.

I'm obviously kidding, and have no idea what it even should mean...

 

[Rubbernuke]

Not sure the Ex colonies have gotten the hang of kettles

I never can get my head around this- electric kettles are rare in the US apparently and water is boiled on a hob.

 

[Just]

Do you have to rub a magic lamp to get served there?

Gin
and Tonic.

 

[Raliel]

Gin
and Tonic.

oh gosh I need gin right now

 

[Fishy]

Spoken like a person who's never enjoyed a bag of Hunky Dorys cheddar and spring onion.

Right brand, wrong colour. Blue Hunky Dorys is where it's at.

 

[ubermick]

Not sure there's a problem with leaving the country. It's getting into the country you want to go to that's the issue.

I'd hate for you to leave, though. We're famously hospitable, and if we aren't, it's because we're not Texans

I'll buy you a beer and a steak any day of the week and twice on Sundays (after church, of course). Come on down, pull up a chair!

Sorry, Misha - not to poop on America, there's loads of great stuff about it, but it's never felt like home to me. Ever since our daughter was born, the pull kicked in, and I'd move back in a shot. The notion of healthcare and education not being ludicrously expensive, and the ability to hop on a plane and be in places like Rome, Madrid, Naples, Munich, Lisbon, Amsterdam within an hour or two... Alas, wife has an elderly mother and we're staying here for her. (Not that I'm bitter, grrrrr...)

 

[MishaTX]

isn't there like a thousand miles of at least one side of that state that a good portion of the people of that state keep trying to build a wall on? hospitable .... pushing the definition there.

Nah. We don't mind visitors. We just have this old-fashioned notion that it's polite to at least push the doorbell first.

 

[Raliel]

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT25sej3XyI&list=RDMM&start_radio=1&rv=93xlarTrtiE

 

[ubermick]

Right brand, wrong colour. Blue Hunky Dorys is where it's at.

this close to being besties, Fishy. this close.

War it is.

 

[Erei]

Nah. We don't mind visitors. We just have this old-fashioned notion that it's polite to at least push the doorbell first.

To be fair, you never built a doorbell there. Just a wall and not even a door.

 

[MishaTX]

Not sure the Ex colonies have gotten the hang of kettles

What do you use those for again? If you need hot water, you just put it in the microwave for a few minutes.

 

[Fishy]

this close to being besties, Fishy. this close.

War it is.

Fine then. I'm taking off the gloves, and I call it:

King >>>> Tayto

 

[Rubbernuke]

Pickled Onion Monster Munch is the undisputed world king of snacks.

 

[Darth Ender]

I never can get my head around this- electric kettles are rare in the US apparently and water is boiled on a hob.

We boil water in a pot to cook things in it. or microwave it.

this kettle thing sounds a bit redundant in function.

 

[Amy Pendergast]

To be fair, you never built a doorbell there. Just a wall and not even a door.

Not at launch.

 

[ubermick]

Fine then. I'm taking off the gloves, and I call it:

King >>>> Tayto

Ah, see now I know you're not malicious, you're just a simpleton.

FAIR. PLAY. TO. YOU. FOR. KNOWING. HOW. TO. USE. THE. COMPUTER!

 

[Rubbernuke]

We boil water in a pot to cook things in it. or microwave it.

this kettle thing sounds a bit redundant in function.

Electric kettles are amazing.

 

[Darth Ender]

Nah. We don't mind visitors. We just have this old-fashioned notion that it's polite to at least push the doorbell first.

but aren't they also trying to make the doorbell really really high and hidden from anyone they dont have a more comfortable feeling of kinship with ...perhaps due to where they are coming from and how those people look and speak?

 

[Raliel]

What do you use those for again? If you need hot water, you just put it in the microwave for a few minutes.

so wrong