I think I know what's up with Idol.

[manker]

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.

Yeah, it was in a trade thread.
Arty's done that to me a few times, too. He could actually turn it around and sneakily patronise us and we would never know.

Maybe he already has

[manker]

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.

I use a lot of American slang. Something I'm absolutely sure that chavois hates. I even hate it sometimes.
I think it's from posting on boards, unlike this one, where the overwhelming majority of people are merkins and you just kinda fall in with the herd.

Now I'm here a lot I should really quell it but it just pops out

[Artemis]

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.

Yeah, it was in a trade thread.
Arty's done that to me a few times, too. He could actually turn it around and sneakily patronise us and we would never know.

Maybe he already has

Depends on the subject....you don't often talk on things I can be patronising in, but when you do......

[megabyteme]

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.

I use a lot of American slang. Something I'm absolutely sure that chavois hates. I even hate it sometimes.
I think it's from posting on boards, unlike this one, where the overwhelming majority of people are merkins and you just kinda fall in with the herd.

Now I'm here a lot I should really quell it but it just pops out

In case you haven't noticed, I'm not very pro-American right now. Quite disillusioned, as a matter of fact. The phenomenon, to a certain extent, is a form of McDonaldization which has permeated the entire globe. Canada used to be fun, and interesting when I was a kid- because it was different. Now, I can barely discern the difference when crossing the border. A trip to Edmonton resulted in ABSOLUTE disgust. We might as well have stayed home, and went to the mall. It was all American franchise stores. No charm whatsoever.

Now I see the language oozing across borders. Like I said, it makes it easy for the 'Merkins to get online and over-run forums. However, is this one actually over-run by 'Merkins? I see a lot of non's, but only a certain number of regulars come to mind. :hmm:

What will I see when I get my dream trip to NZ? Gawd I hope it isn't flooded with Americanized shit...

[IdolEyes787]

Canada used to be fun, and interesting when I was a kid- because it was different. Now, I can barely discern the difference when crossing the border. A trip to Edmonton resulted in ABSOLUTE disgust. We might as well have stayed home, and went to the mall. It was all American franchise stores. No charm whatsoever.

Clearly you are doing it wrong and instead of going to a mall you need to go narwhal hunting.

[manker]

Unicorns of the sea

[megabyteme]

They have a very unique call...

[manker]

I use a lot of American slang. Something I'm absolutely sure that chavois hates. I even hate it sometimes.
I think it's from posting on boards, unlike this one, where the overwhelming majority of people are merkins and you just kinda fall in with the herd.

Now I'm here a lot I should really quell it but it just pops out

In case you haven't noticed, I'm not very pro-American right now. Quite disillusioned, as a matter of fact. The phenomenon, to a certain extent, is a form of McDonaldization which has permeated the entire globe. Canada used to be fun, and interesting when I was a kid- because it was different. Now, I can barely discern the difference when crossing the border. A trip to Edmonton resulted in ABSOLUTE disgust. We might as well have stayed home, and went to the mall. It was all American franchise stores. No charm whatsoever.

Now I see the language oozing across borders. Like I said, it makes it easy for the 'Merkins to get online and over-run forums. However, is this one actually over-run by 'Merkins? I see a lot of non's, but only a certain number of regulars come to mind. :hmm:

What will I see when I get my dream trip to NZ? Gawd I hope it isn't flooded with Americanized shit...

I had noticed that you were particularly disenchanted with goings on within your shores

I've always thought of this forum as being fairly evenly split between the continents, with the English speaking members obviously being more vocal. There were some stats published by tesco but I'm fucked if I remember the split properly. I think that the US was at the top of the tree but wasn't dominating, as such.

[Artemis]

What will I see when I get my dream trip to NZ? Gawd I hope it isn't flooded with Americanized shit...

Let's see: McDonalds, Burger King, Pizza Hut, Dominoes and Subway all over the feckin place does that count as Americanised shit?

[manker]

Americanised

Aaaand we're back.