I think I know what's up with Idol.

[manker]

It should have but I still couldn't quite see what it was you were on about

[megabyteme]

That is to use the new post button and read everything until the software tells me that are no more posts to view.

When there is no interesting threads to post in you make the best of what presents itself.
Btw I think I was being serious when I told you that the last "decent" member to join was 2 years ago.

And, I appeared on your birthday...

[megabyteme]

Indeed but can you imagine my surprise while having a wee chat with a fellow Brit, I was told to Americanise my parlance.

I can tell you what I did. I put down my black coffee, went straight to the kitchen and made myself a nice cup of tea - which I then drank while holding my little finger askew.

I know the shame of it all, I went and banged my head in the door, It really does actually get confusing without being facile at all. When I was at school we suddenly went from imperial to metric, so there you are, everything you learned you can unlearn and start again, and while your at it, we've changed the currency too... We used to have pounds and pence just like the U.K. but then changed (I've still got some old sixpence pieces).
The same very much has happened to the language here, it very much was proper British with the Oxford dictionary as the standard, and in the 70's and 80's the proper accent for a radio or television announcer was a British one. But times have very much changed. I find myself cutting the u from common words like for instance colour to become color because that is how the print media spells it now, the evil peril is everywhere American english is derigeur and I corrected my grumpy welsh invisible sharpie wielding frustrated english teacher with an americanism, a faux pas for which I am sure I will burn in hell's eternal flames....mea culpa....mea culpa.....mea culpa......

I actually read all of that.

As for forum speak, when I first started here, I was quite surprised at how 'Merkinized the interwebs really is- especially seeing how many Brits and former colonized areas have posters here. Even the Indians write in an Americanized English. Fuk it is cool not having to learn anything new.

[mjmacky]

You never can tell with the inscrutable obfuscator, I thought the inquiry sincere, If not I'll kick him in the bawls later.

Maybe she was just saying that the bittards use the word buffer a lot and they have no idea what it meant originally.
I say maybe but I'm fairly sure as that was exactly what she said

I haven't gotten to that timeline of the board yet, but that is exactly what I meant. I might have skipped over it, was it in a trade thread?

Anyways, it wouldn't be the first time Miss Arte has explained to me something that I already know, and in each instance seemed fairly obvious I was well informed. In the beginning times, I would evaluate it as a form of extreme sarcastic condescension, but now that a pattern has been established, I use light dismissals.

[mjmacky]

That is to use the new post button and read everything until the software tells me that are no more posts to view.

When there is no interesting threads to post in you make the best of what presents itself.
Btw I think I was being serious when I told you that the last "decent" member to join was 2 years ago.

You know that one smiley that's kind of reddish and has these fluttering hearts? Well, I'm not going to post one of those at you. You're going to have to learn to just deal with it.

[mjmacky]

The moral of this post is that it's a good thing Mary doesn't have feelings like the rest of us.

I can emulate all the ones that seem necessary given the situation.

[megabyteme]

When there is no interesting threads to post in you make the best of what presents itself.
Btw I think I was being serious when I told you that the last "decent" member to join was 2 years ago.

You know that one smiley that's kind of reddish and has these fluttering hearts? Well, I'm not going to post one of those at you. You're going to have to learn to just deal with it.

Just realized I've been here 3 years.

Welcome, N00b...

[Artemis]

The moral of this post is that it's a good thing Mary doesn't have feelings like the rest of us.

I can emulate all the ones that seem necessary given the situation.

Well, sort of, the emulation still comes across as that, an echo of the real thing, like a thin Santa Claus at a cheap outlet store with a cotton ball beard.

[IdolEyes787]

The moral of this post is that it's a good thing Mary doesn't have feelings like the rest of us.

I can emulate all the ones that seem necessary given the situation.

Oh please do bathos.Would you?Would you?th_Smiley-Begging.gif

[manker]

I can emulate all the ones that seem necessary given the situation.

like a thin Santa Claus at a cheap outlet store with a cotton ball beard.

What a fantastically apt simile