Me.......or not just me.....
Monday, March 3, 2003 by DarkMist | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
it seems much of the community here is American or in the surrounding areas.......who else here is...like me in the UK? 
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Jafo
Reply #44 Monday, March 3, 2003 9:08 PM
Reply #44 Monday, March 3, 2003 9:08 PM
'Tis the Queen's English only when she's three sheets to the wind...
Ecky-thump...
Ecky-thump...
paxx
Reply #45 Monday, March 3, 2003 9:38 PM
Reply #45 Monday, March 3, 2003 9:38 PM
Last poll about this question went like this:
Question: Total votes: 1257
Answer 1: United States 577
Answer 2: Canada 113
Answer 3: Japan 20
Answer 4: UK 105
Answer 5: Europe (including Russia) 301
Answer 6: Somewhere else (like Brazil) 141
So, there really is less than half the people here who are actually from the US of A.
Question: Total votes: 1257
Answer 1: United States 577
Answer 2: Canada 113
Answer 3: Japan 20
Answer 4: UK 105
Answer 5: Europe (including Russia) 301
Answer 6: Somewhere else (like Brazil) 141
So, there really is less than half the people here who are actually from the US of A.
DavidK
Reply #48 Monday, March 3, 2003 9:45 PM
Reply #48 Monday, March 3, 2003 9:45 PM
did we ever decide if Australia was somwhere else like Brazil?
paxx
Reply #49 Monday, March 3, 2003 9:53 PM
Reply #49 Monday, March 3, 2003 9:53 PM
Yeah, Australia falls in the "Somewhere else like Brazil" category. 
David: come on now. No human being could remember those figures by heart all that time. I just remembered we had a poll about it, so I went into the Poll Manager (top left, admin links, David)
David: come on now. No human being could remember those figures by heart all that time. I just remembered we had a poll about it, so I went into the Poll Manager (top left, admin links, David)
Old_Crab
Reply #52 Tuesday, March 4, 2003 3:57 AM
Reply #52 Tuesday, March 4, 2003 3:57 AM
Old Crabs family comes from England. Suffolk. East Grinstead. About half the family still lives over yonder. I've visited alot and I do love the pubs. Friendly, good cheese sandwichs, and chat. Not like in the U.S. I could go for a Guinness about now, Ah me...... 
HuronJoe
Reply #53 Tuesday, March 4, 2003 5:55 AM
Reply #53 Tuesday, March 4, 2003 5:55 AM
I used to have a buddy from long ago who came over to the US from England and it took a long time for me to understand a LOT of what he would say when he was a bit high (drunk). Do you people still say things like: "I went up the apple and pear's to see me troublesome strife"? and to this day I'm still not sure what the hell that means. My best guess would be "I went up stairs to see my wife". How close am I?
HuronJoe ponders why Americans have to learn English all over again..
HuronJoe ponders why Americans have to learn English all over again..
Fuzzy Logic
Reply #55 Tuesday, March 4, 2003 6:53 AM
Reply #55 Tuesday, March 4, 2003 6:53 AM
Nice one Jafo
HuronJoe: Do you people still say things like: "I went up the apple and pear's to see me troublesome strife"? and to this day I'm still not sure what the hell that means. My best guess would be "I went up stairs to see my wife". How close am I?
That kind of English is only used by Dick van Dyke
HuronJoe: Do you people still say things like: "I went up the apple and pear's to see me troublesome strife"? and to this day I'm still not sure what the hell that means. My best guess would be "I went up stairs to see my wife". How close am I?
That kind of English is only used by Dick van Dyke
HuronJoe
Reply #57 Tuesday, March 4, 2003 9:00 AM
Reply #57 Tuesday, March 4, 2003 9:00 AM
OK Jafo and Madam Fuzzy Logic... I now know more then I did before 
pjpowell
Reply #58 Tuesday, March 4, 2003 10:53 AM
Reply #58 Tuesday, March 4, 2003 10:53 AM
OldCrab: Are there two East Grinsteads? The only one I've heard of is in West Sussex. My Mum comes from near there so we drive through it every time we visit people down South.
HuronJoe: It's cockney rhyming slang.
Trouble and Strife rhymes with wife - Never heard this used by anyone except on TV
Apples and pears rhymes with stairs - Never heard this used by anyone except on TV
China plate rhymes with mate -- This I have heard people use. Commonly: Alright me old china!
Dog and bone rhymes with phone -- Never heard this used by anyone except on TV
And if you want to see some interesting words from close to where I live take a look at :
http://www.virtualbrum.co.uk/slang.htm
also http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/default_m.htm
Read the poem entitled Stitherum
Although I am from Coventry not Brummyland (Birmingham)
Also TheGreenReaper is from the UK too just to add to the list.
HuronJoe: It's cockney rhyming slang.
Trouble and Strife rhymes with wife - Never heard this used by anyone except on TV
Apples and pears rhymes with stairs - Never heard this used by anyone except on TV
China plate rhymes with mate -- This I have heard people use. Commonly: Alright me old china!
Dog and bone rhymes with phone -- Never heard this used by anyone except on TV
And if you want to see some interesting words from close to where I live take a look at :
http://www.virtualbrum.co.uk/slang.htm
also http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/default_m.htm
Read the poem entitled Stitherum
Although I am from Coventry not Brummyland (Birmingham)
Also TheGreenReaper is from the UK too just to add to the list.
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Reply #41 Monday, March 3, 2003 8:34 PM