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| The more I read the American forum, the gladder I am that I live here!
Posted: 1/25/2008 10:03:45 AM | Their sense of humour is deranged and the way they stare blankly at us when we tell them a joke or are sarcastic is disconcerting. They also have some very disconcerting views and opinions and get rattled over the slightest of things
Wow! pot calling the kettle.^^^^^25
I have lived in both Canada and the USA, and I have never found either to be like some think on here. They are just people like us and maybe have different lifestyles, but it does not make them idiots or bad people. The language they use is developed over years of many nationalities living together. Ever thought that maybe some British sound like pratts to other nationalities? The sense of humour is usually based around the peoples lifstyle of their countries so once again maybe the British humour is not the same for them either. Then take a close look at the old English language and see how we have **stardised it, and still do.
Take Hoodies today, we dont call them Bonnetts do we? (Wow! look at that Chavs bonnett lol. Not advisable) It all translates and makes sense if you give it a chance. The Boot on the car, derives from the Boot box used to be strapped on the back of the car Trunk, comes from the cabin trunk used to be strapped on the back of the car.Is not hard really.
Live and let live comes to mind. If you can't do that then maybe you should stop and think what the person you are talking to is thinking about yourself!(scarey or what? )
I worked for a man who made a living rewriting the scripts of poular British TV shows in the USA, just so that it remained humourus, that does not make anyone deranged. | |
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| The more I read the American forum, the gladder I am that I live here!
Posted: 1/25/2008 10:22:08 AM | I have lived in both Canada and the USA, and I have never found either to be like some think on here. They are just people like us and maybe have different lifestyles, but it does not make them idiots or bad people. The language they use is developed over years of many nationalities living together. Ever thought that maybe some British sound like pratts to other nationalities? The sense of humour is usually based around the peoples lifstyle of their countries so once again maybe the British humour is not the same for them either. Then take a close look at the old English language and see how we have **stardised it, and still do.
Take Hoodies today, we dont call them Bonnetts do we? (Wow! look at that Chavs bonnett lol. Not advisable) It all translates and makes sense if you give it a chance. The Boot on the car, derives from the Boot box used to be strapped on the back of the car Trunk, comes from the cabin trunk used to be strapped on the back of the car.Is not hard really.
The fact remains, some from the UK post exclusively in the Global Forums, and the local state and province forums of the US and Canada, and the Australia forum; are off-limits to those outside of those local forum regions anyway.
The Global Forums at one point were the only option for those from the UK to post. Like any of the other locals, there are some local forum participants who never venture out into the non-inclusive areas of the Global Forums
Some will always be insular because of perceived language or cultural barriers, though it's a good thing many are not so limited, otherwise this forum itself would not have needed to exist. The Global Forums work best when they are represented by the vibrant diversity of world view, it's a shame to let them be under-represented by UK members, as they are one of the fastest growing memberships on the site.
Some Global Forums worth looking into:
(some with FAQs to stay out of trouble)
Poems & Quotes
Science/Philosophy
Health/Fitness
Technology/Computers
Art/Music
FAQ - Art/Music Forum
Religion/Supernatural
FAQ - RELIGION FORUM
Politics
News/Current Events
FAQ - CURRENT EVENTS/POLITICS
The rest are hit and miss due to needing a lot of clean up and mod presence, unfortunately we are often busy elsewhere.
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Posted: 1/25/2008 1:19:49 PM | Over the last week I have been involved in a very steep learning curve and wish I had the time to digest and reason some of the preceding comments and observations within all the threads!
I would say though that I once knew (he is now deceased) an ex WW2 Spitfire pilot who stayed in Australia after the war and became employed by Quantas.
He spent 5 years of fire and brimstone re-writing the Boeing 747 Operations manual for the Australian Airline because of the many miss-interpretations of meanings,explaination of operational proceedures and technical data......This between two English speaking nations!
I feel that Local/Regional and Global interpretations vary so much because of Dialect,Tradition and local pride which in turn create so much antagonism in direct conversation that on ocassion,dispute must occur as a matter of form.
So it is on these forum threads.....what may be one persons amusement is another's ire and so on.
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Posted: 1/25/2008 1:20:19 PM | I range around the site now and then and to be honest it's surprised me how similar the forums in the USA, Canada and Australia are, same topics, same issues, more so than I would have expected.
The difference I personally perceive from their style of posting is that American and Canadian men are more emotionally open and aware than British men. Another generalisation I would make, from personal observation, is that American and Canadian men put more effort into writing their profiles and explaining who they are and what they're about and what they're looking for.
I think it would be fair to say that most women pay as much attention to what a man writes about himself as they do to his photo. | |
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Posted: 1/27/2008 6:53:14 AM |
I range around the site now and then and to be honest it's surprised me how similar the forums in the USA, Canada and Australia are, same topics, same issues, more so than I would have expected.
+Actually, most of the other locals are where this one was a year ago. Where the UK was a forum where mods used to have to come in and delete pages of chat threads, ...it has now evolved to the point that it stands out as one of the better locals in regards to overall thread "quality".
Mind you, it's the second highest traffic local and will probably surpass Ontario by the end of this year so the crack-down on "chat" will never be gone. UK will never have the same leeway as the lower traffic locals because there's no need to "boost" traffic.
One hopes that the users of this forum have grown to enjoy discussion over chat, it may mean more typing and less posts, but it is at least something to take pride in.
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Posted: 1/27/2008 7:24:47 AM | The american forums are much more obnoxious and self serving, they seem to want to type to only hear the sound of their own voice (so to speak) not to genuinely help when someone is confused.
The American forums (don't post in them) U.S.A. Forums are mostly chat, this is allowed because most have little traffic, the Canadian forums (don't post in them) Canada Forums very, some are much the same as this one, the Australian Local (don't post here) Australia is much like this one was last year, still "teething".
The GLOBAL forums have participants from all regions, so spread the blame evenly.
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Posted: 1/27/2008 7:32:15 AM | | Chat is not really allowed anywhere, but the more relaxed discussion threads and game threads are allowed on locals that need to build traffic. With traffic, the need for leeway dimishes and at the same time, causes things to stagnate, ...it's really a "tipping point" thing. | |
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Posted: 1/27/2008 7:39:22 AM | ^^ Don't veer off topic you two 
I rarely venture into the 'Global' forums as I get to see topics such as gun ownership which makes my heckles rise and, instead of ending up with a ban due to the strength of my feelings on the subject, I'd much rather ignore the debate as it doesn't affect me personally as I live in the UK. | |
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Posted: 1/27/2008 3:39:31 PM | I've heard that dating in New York can be pretty hardcore! No, I don't mean with small animals and a camera I mean, you turn up for a date and the chick decides whether or not she's interested in like twenty seconds and tells you that she's not interested, basically lol
I gave her a huge snog even though she tried to pull away lol and I was like cheers darling, that saved drinks bill will come in handy next week when I meet your sister lol (only joking)
As for dating a genius, I'd definitely do Carol Vorderman so I wouldn't rule it out lol (But she hasn't got an ear missing so does she qualify?) hehe | |
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Posted: 1/28/2008 1:18:17 PM | If you really want to find out how incredibly paranoid the Yanks are just read some of this forum http://www.------------------.com/default.asp
I know that Bird Flu is potentially serious but................ these guys talk about shooting their neighbours over it!! | |
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Posted: 1/28/2008 1:53:37 PM | US and Canada are great places with great people however I have to agree with the op. Maybe its just the ones logged onto this site that are the nutters!! If they aren't telling each other to carry a firearm its a restraint order or protection - everything is just overdone!!
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Posted: 1/28/2008 2:03:40 PM | After reading this thread, I had a look in the global forums, Ok I only looked at 3 or 4 threads but I felt a bit out of my depth so I didn't post anything. I'm off back to see if I feel any better about it.
Oh one thing, in the travel there was a thread about good roads or drives, most were in the US and I don't know if folk would be interested in the run from Skipton to the M6 but I bet we could manage a similar local thread. | |
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Posted: 1/28/2008 3:44:53 PM | All of this stuff about the stiff upper lip british is not true anymore in my opinion.
Whenever i read the american forum i always feel that they are so much more conservative than us!
Of course this is a sweeping generalisation, so its bound to be true of all british and americans  | |
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Posted: 1/28/2008 7:18:00 PM | And, as has been pointed out, the "American Forums" are not what's being referred to here, the Global Forums are. The actual USA forums are local forums such as this, sub-divided by state.
And the global forums has contributions from the UK as well as Canada, Australia, US, and to a lesser extent Europe and Carribean/South America.
Just because the bulk of this local forum is insular, does not mean that there are not many from the UK posting in the forums being discussed. | |
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| The more I read the American forum, the gladder I am that I live here!
Posted: 1/29/2008 2:55:45 AM | Lol
When i first joined the site, it took a while to go into the forums. When i did, i accidentally went into the American forum! I was ripped to shreds on my opinion. Never did that again. I found the whole experience demeaning and bullying.
But, as someone else said, us British can also be the same sometimes. Although, apart from the odd person wanting the 'limelight' perhaps and picking an argument for the sake of it. I haven't had one problem with this forum. | |
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Posted: 1/30/2008 7:44:06 AM | I, just like 'nergal' & 'oqqers', regularly venture into American forums. When I started on here, the UK forums were made of the same posters and I hardly found any  topic, on the contrary bickering seemed to take the lead.
The overseas debates do have gradation incl funny sides. Who doesn't like to LOL?
Plus, I don't take everything I read on here seriously. | |
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Posted: 1/30/2008 10:54:42 AM | Wow... some funny views and whiney little rants in this thread!
While its true that IN GENERAL our U.S. brethren are less understanding of biting humour, and tend to take things much more literally... in my experience there are many many great guys and girls among them. I find it highly hypocritical of some posters here digging into Americans so much KNOWING full well that half of the UK is full of some of the foulest, chavviest, most cretinous/miserable excuses for human beings in the world today. Our binge drinking culture is a disgrace, our town centres are often no-go zones on a weekend night, and our youth are often out of control... the worst behaved in Europe I believe a recent survey said.
So yeah... while we may have the most advanced sense of humour in the world (I genuinely believe that), and less of a penchant for nutty melodrama and complete oddball behaviour than others like the U.S... we are far from problem free socially, and I personally know some bloody scary people in real-life here in the UK that more than resemble those that some of you are making blanket assumptions about in the U.S.
However, reading this thread, it's easy to tell those with a genuinely balanced perspective form those ignorant souls that take the opportunity for a ****y anti-U.S. rant whenever they can get a shot.
And as for the Canucks, I have found them the closest to British wit and character out of ll the other countries that i've seen... they're a great laugh and can have a very dark sense of humour. | |
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| The more I read the American forum, the gladder I am that I live here!
Posted: 1/30/2008 1:42:43 PM |
The more I read the American forum, the gladder I am that I live here!
I had the same feeling till I started to read some forums of my own nation... and now I do not know anymore where I would like to live...
It seems that it is a bit dangerous to make stereotypes according a nationality; there are always those more open-minded and those pretty narrow-minded. (The topics I have in my mind when writing this are, for instance, gender politics, the West versus other cultures,... uh, just name one!) | |
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Posted: 1/30/2008 2:05:27 PM | I visit the 'Global' forums occasionally, and I find that there is a mixed bag of opinions there. There certainly ARE some weirdo's, but there's a fair dose of good humour too. Some of the weirdly odd and extreme posts make hilarious reading (and I'm sure they'd say the same about the posters on THIS forum too!)
There's no doubt that I feel like a 'foreigner' over there, though.
Late: I know that they are, by name, global forums, but the vast majority of posters there are either American or Canadian. | |
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