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Title: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: waterloosunset on 02 May 2008, 15:27
Well? Perhaps there should be a big meet up one day?

Any thoughts?
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Ozymandias on 02 May 2008, 15:39
No.

No one is from the UK.

Usually the website is actually blocking all UK ips, so I don't know how you got here.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Siert on 02 May 2008, 15:46
No.

No one is from the UK.

Usually the website is actually blocking all UK ips, so I don't know how you got here.

Yarr, yeh missed Scotland!

Although there is a movie called "Doomsday" coming out where it walls of the entire of Scotland, I think I should feel offended...but im more intrigued and complimented.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: waterloosunset on 02 May 2008, 15:47
unfortunately your fist wasn't quite grasped tightly enough. I slipped between your forefigner and middlefinger  8-)

and Ozymandias..weren't you on weirdears a few years ago?




Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Dimmukane on 02 May 2008, 16:19
      No, nobody with a funny accent posts on these boards.
    /
 :-D
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Peet on 02 May 2008, 16:23
What the fuck is the UK?
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: ruyi on 02 May 2008, 16:23
yes, what's an uk?

anyways, i think there are no foreigners here
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: RedLion on 02 May 2008, 16:26
EVERYONE HERE IS FROM NEW JERSEY
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Sox on 02 May 2008, 16:29
That's not true, three of us are posting from Antartica, sharing a computer at a research post. Then again, we're all originally form New Jersey, I guess that doesn't count.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: pwhodges on 02 May 2008, 16:37
I was given a nice New Jersey for Christmas - does that count?

Paul
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: october1983 on 02 May 2008, 18:06
I heard the UK was in Portland, Oregon?
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Aminal on 02 May 2008, 19:20
Har har, Paul.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: clockworkjames on 02 May 2008, 19:55
Hey guys I did some research and apparantly there is this place somewhere between America and Russia called the United Kingdom and I am from there.

Apparantly.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: ledhendrix on 02 May 2008, 20:00
u;ukuk uk uk uk uk u k onl uk eashhh
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Blue Kitty on 02 May 2008, 20:03
Wait, are we talking about that magical land that Scary GO Round is set in?
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: ledhendrix on 02 May 2008, 20:11
Scotland, the country if people from Scotland.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: imapiratearg on 02 May 2008, 20:44
Wait, are we talking about that magical land that Scary GO Round is set in?

Yes.  It's a totally fictional place.  Kind of like Middle-Earth.

I'm posting from Hawaii right now, but I grew up in New Jersey.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Barmymoo on 03 May 2008, 04:13
I'm originally from Halifax. Obviously that's Halifax, Nova Scotia since the Uck doesn't exist.

I'm secretly proud to be Ucky.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: ampersandwitch on 03 May 2008, 04:32
Nobody here is from the UK, and even if they were, ask yourself- why on earth would you want to meet up with them?  The UK is full of British people,and also British Sympathizers.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Barmymoo on 03 May 2008, 04:36
If there were any Uck-dwellers here, however, I'm sure they would be glad to meet other members of the fantasy race of Uck. I for one would enjoy such an experience, if I was Ucky and not really from New Jersey.

What we're trying to say is The UK is a Lie.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: öde on 03 May 2008, 05:07
We have always been at war with the UK.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: StaedlerMars on 03 May 2008, 05:15
There's other parts of New Jersey than the Newark airport?

I also understand there's an IKEA around there.

EDIT: But seriously, OP have a look at this (http://www.frappr.com/?a=constellation_map&mapid=137440510876)
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Barmymoo on 03 May 2008, 06:49
I grew up in one of New Jersey's oversea colonies, it's this weird little island to the west of France. I hear that in the olden days they liked to play with boats here and sometimes people from real countries like America would come and visit with guns.

OK seriously, a UK meet would be fun! But it shouldn't be in London because that place scares me. Also it's miles away from all the real places like Scotland and Wales. Let's all meet up bang in the middle of Britain on Midsummers Day and do a fertility dance.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: KickThatBathProf on 03 May 2008, 07:30
Wow, you think I would've seen in my history book the great and terrible Americo-New Jersey War of 1774
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: valley_parade on 03 May 2008, 07:52
The mafia erased it from the history books.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: jhocking on 03 May 2008, 07:53
UK = Underwear Kingdom
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Cernunnos on 03 May 2008, 09:14
Joe, where is this strange and magical place
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Lines on 03 May 2008, 10:03
In my pants! Hurr.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: clockworkjames on 03 May 2008, 10:06
There has been a Glasgow meetubp before AND IT WAS AWESOME.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Sox on 03 May 2008, 10:38
There's been a few hasn't there? The problem is that your favourite Brits are never available at the same time, so it's much easier to meet them all independently of each other.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Siert on 03 May 2008, 14:00
There has been a Glasgow meetubp before AND IT WAS AWESOME.

Wait a tick there are enough Scots to have a meetup? I thought there was only six of us...
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Sox on 03 May 2008, 14:13
the one he is referring to only had 2 scots from the forums, as far as I am aware. The other two stopped by from the Americas. There's at least 6 people from the forum currently residing in Scotland though.

Halve that 16,000, as most of those guys probably aren't active regulars. Now divide that by three, as two thirds probably reside in the general forums. If the number really was so much higher, our meet-ups would have a much bigger turn out than three to four people from the entire UK.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: StaedlerMars on 03 May 2008, 15:50
Not everyone can show up at the same time in the same places guys. I would've come to the Glasgow meet up if I had known about it before hand and it hadn't been on a weekend I had major assignments due.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: öde on 03 May 2008, 16:06
on a weekend I had major assignments due.

Yeah. Fortunately my teachers don't really tell me these things in advance so I can waste money on plane tickets.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Siert on 03 May 2008, 16:37
Yes teachers/lecturers can be very very inconsiderate in the sense that they don't cater around our needs.

Altohugh I was actually guessing about the number of Scot's seems I was fairly accurate, well I'm in Glasgow on a weekly basis and hoping to move there come next year.

Back on topic, have we actually got a rough number of how many, "uck", forum lurkers there are?
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: SilentJ on 04 May 2008, 16:48
There's other parts of New Jersey than the Newark airport?

I also understand there's an IKEA around there.

There's the Turnpike, too.

oh wait the jersey turnpike IS new jersey
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: sean on 04 May 2008, 16:49
Back on topic, have we actually got a rough number of how many, "uck", forum lurkers there are?

Just look at how many guests are online.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: clockworkjames on 04 May 2008, 18:26
Four people is all you need unless you want a 5v5 scrim or something :/

seriously though, Oli, Pickle, Calenlass and myself know how to party.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: ledhendrix on 05 May 2008, 01:39
I shall try and make an effort to come down and party next time there is a glasgow meet. (if you guys don't secretly think I'm an asshole).
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Barmymoo on 05 May 2008, 04:09
[img width= height=]http://www.barmymoo.co.uk/pitcairn.jpg[/img]?
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: valley_parade on 05 May 2008, 05:19
oh wait the jersey turnpike IS new jersey

The one time I ever went to Jersey they made us take some weird-ass, unsigned detour around the turnpike, just to get back onto the NYS Thruway. It was recockulous.

(well that and Diego Forlan missed an empty net, with a four goal lead)
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: StaedlerMars on 05 May 2008, 05:45
recockulous.

word I will now incorporate into my daily vocabulary.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Dimmukane on 05 May 2008, 06:09
Say recuntulous, cock is a bad word.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Barmymoo on 05 May 2008, 06:11
I know people who would beat you to death for using that word.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: amok on 05 May 2008, 09:18
my aunty lives in scotland, she says it's quite nice
well she's wrong
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Oli on 05 May 2008, 11:37
You joke but Scotch Mist is a real problem around here.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: KickThatBathProf on 05 May 2008, 12:03
Wait, you were talking about Darkplace, right?

Ridonkulous show
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: waterloosunset on 05 May 2008, 12:44
my aunty lives in scotland, she says it's quite nice
well she's wrong

no no, scotlands nice, its just the people that ruin it
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Ozymandias on 05 May 2008, 13:28
Pitcairn Island


V-Chubbied.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Barmymoo on 05 May 2008, 13:32
?
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: amok on 05 May 2008, 13:41
no no, scotlands nice, its just the people that ruin it

you are a true highlander*

*(scotch person)
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Laithia on 05 May 2008, 13:58
Umm...

I'm from the UK, but I'm not a real person yet because my postcount = 1.
I needed to see the weekly comic thread, because I was befuddled by the moustaches.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: ledhendrix on 05 May 2008, 15:29
Scotlands not all bad, at least we don't have tropical diseases.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: muffy on 05 May 2008, 15:42
The concept of not really existing until you've dedicated a certain number of hours and posts to the QC forums is kinda cool. And worryingly believable.

I think I need to get out more.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Oli on 05 May 2008, 15:45
The paradoxes are breaking my mind.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: calenlass on 05 May 2008, 17:28
FUCK YOU SCHOOL I KICKED YOUR ASS

YEAH SUMMER WOO


ALSO I WILL PROLLY BE IN GLASGAE AGAIN SOMETOME ROUND THE 12 OR 13 OF THIS MONTH




WE SHOULD PARTAY



(IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING I WILL ALSO BE HITTING UP BRIGHTON AND LONDON AND THEN MEETING MY MUM AND DAD IN PARIS)

(IF THAT WOULD WORK BETTR)


(FOR HANGOUTS)
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: RedLion on 05 May 2008, 17:30
no no, scotlands nice, its just the people that ruin it

you are a true highlander*

*(scotch person)

(http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t133/BloodRedLIon/scotch2-1.jpg)

Is not the same as

(http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t133/BloodRedLIon/20517551ScottishPiper-1.jpg)
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Siert on 05 May 2008, 17:55
In the words of old harry's game.

Andy Hamilton / Devil

"Heaven is just like Scotland...just without all the Scots... Actually is there nay Scots in heaven Scumspawn?"
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: pwhodges on 06 May 2008, 01:02
That picture's wrong: real Scots don't put ice in whisky.

Paul
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Leonidas on 06 May 2008, 03:14
There has been a Glasgow meetubp before AND IT WAS AWESOME.

And I couldn't make it. Next time you have to ask my express permission, as if I can't make it and have fun then nobody can.  :police:
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Oli on 06 May 2008, 05:54
you are a true highlander*

*(scotch person)

Is not the same as

Watch Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. Seriously, it is hilarious.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: amok on 06 May 2008, 11:21
damn right

man I've been sober for a week and that's a nice picture of some scotch though
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: waterloosunset on 06 May 2008, 13:30
no no, scotlands nice, its just the people that ruin it

you are a true highlander*

*(scotch person)

nae, im a southerner.. from london...scots hate me
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: öde on 06 May 2008, 14:41
How did you incite the fury of a rather large, loosely connected, group of people?
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: RedLion on 06 May 2008, 14:43
Scots in general kind of resent the English. Or so I've been told.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: öde on 06 May 2008, 14:56
Is that why my mum doesn't love me and my dad anymore?
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: ledhendrix on 06 May 2008, 14:59
I'd say now there is a group of Scots that hate the English. There is also the largely better informed, more intelligent group of people that resents the image these "Scots" give to us by going around hating everything that fucking moves. Granted there is a history of Scots and English fighting, the key word there though is history.

I just get really fucking pissed off when people randomly say they hate the English, it seems that its excusable to be racist when its towards the English. Same goes for any racist comment really.

I think I'm ranting mildly but i don't care.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Storm Rider on 06 May 2008, 15:04
Scotch and English are different races?

Fuckin' British all look the same to me.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: a pack of wolves on 06 May 2008, 15:13
I'd say now there is a group of Scots that hate the English. There is also the largely better informed, more intelligent group of people that resents the image these "Scots" give to us by going around hating everything that fucking moves. Granted there is a history of Scots and English fighting, the key word there though is history.

I just get really fucking pissed off when people randomly say they hate the English, it seems that its excusable to be racist when its towards the English. Same goes for any racist comment really.

I think I'm ranting mildly but i don't care.

Nah, that's fair enough. A lot of English people really don't realise how xenophobic Scottish culture can get sometimes. My Grandma used to get a Scottish paper sent down (I forget which one) but she had to stop because she couldn't take their constant assaults on anything English using the slightest of excuses. And if you're a Londoner then you're doubly fucked since that's the base of political and economic power, so the worst possible place you could be from. Hell, a fair chunk of the rest of England has a problem with anyone from below the Midlands and west of Cornwall.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: öde on 06 May 2008, 15:19
All up on the road to Glencoe/Fort William was graffiti saying 'go home' etc. Although I kinda agree with that, tourists are terrible things (I don't think I count as a tourist as I was there to hike up mountains, ski, and drink real ale, not just stop along the road and take photos of the landscape).
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: a pack of wolves on 06 May 2008, 15:24
Drinking and skiing? That sounds like really typical tourist behaviour.

The nastiest anti-tourist sentiment I ever came across was in Cornwall though. Someone had fallen off the pier at low tide and tied. The reaction of some passing locals was to laugh and say "plenty more where that came from".
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Sox on 06 May 2008, 15:32
I think it might be tied to the accent. The 'proper' English accent does come across itself as charming and inoffensive. In other parts of England, the accent might sound angry, naive, obnoxious or any number of undesirable traits. Less to do with the fact you're English, more to do with how they perceive you because of the way you speak?
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: a pack of wolves on 06 May 2008, 15:34
It's all about the connotations the accent has for people really. Like most prejudices it will tend to come out the most in the places where people are poorest and therefore angriest, or where there are for example historical reasons for the animosity that still resonate. For example, I have an accent that doesn't fit with the area I grew up in, I'm routinely mistaken for being either very middle class or Southern. In a lot of areas this doesn't matter, but if I'm on a council estate then it can cause problems. The reason is that my voice has associations for some people with wealth and therefore power, and the same goes for my English accent in certain areas of Scotland. If you encounter people who feel powerless then prejudices will come out, covering up what's really going on: "I feel I have no power and I resent the fact that, in my perception, you do."
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: öde on 06 May 2008, 15:37
Drinking and skiing? That sounds like really typical tourist behaviour.

Skiing is always necessary and I was sampling the local real ale that was on tap (this is more exciting when you consider what's served around here).

Scottish people have always been really nice to me, even in the less pleasant parts of Glasgow.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Tom on 06 May 2008, 15:39
Tommy, did you ever stop tyo think they're only l;ooking after you so they can happily sacrifice a happy/content Dski to their evil or just operating-under-a different-moral-code pagan god?
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Storm Rider on 06 May 2008, 15:40
They're probably fattening him up so that they can eat him.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: jhocking on 06 May 2008, 15:45
Like, you come home and they've collected your mail, returned your bin and also left a crate of fresh vegetables they have grown for you.

how wha  :-D
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: a pack of wolves on 06 May 2008, 15:47
Skiing is always necessary and I was sampling the local real ale that was on tap (this is more exciting when you consider what's served around here).

Scottish people have always been really nice to me, even in the less pleasant parts of Glasgow.

Glasgow's a nice city, I frequently toy with the idea of moving up there. It has a bit of a bad rep, what with being the murder capital of Europe for ages (I think Limerick now has the title), but it's a pretty nice place.

I wasn't saying you were up to anything wrong, skiing and real ale are good things! Just that it is being a tourist. There's nothing wrong with that either though, at least not in principle.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Sox on 06 May 2008, 15:48
They're probably fattening him up so that they can eat him.

They already succeeded. Fattydski.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: pwhodges on 06 May 2008, 16:20
I'm routinely mistaken for being either very middle class or Southern. In a lot of areas this doesn't matter, but if I'm on a council estate then it can cause problems. The reason is that my voice has associations for some people with wealth and therefore power

In my case, I am middle class and southern; sorry, but I can't help it.  Either I have been lucky, or perhaps I have by chance successfully avoided the possibility of conflict, but speaking perfect RP* has caused no problems in my life; but neither does it represent my having either wealth or power - I have neither, and it shows.  Rather, it has led to the occasional friendship, e.g. from people (OK, Americans :-P) coming up to me in an aeroplane simply to listen to me speak. To round off the stereotype, I even worked at the BBC for a time!

Paul

* RP = Received Pronounciation, aka BBC English or Oxford English**.

** There is another place*** near the Fens that might object to this, of course.

*** There really are some Oxford academics who will refer to "The Other Place" rather than using its name; maybe that happens in the other place, too.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: 20 jazz funk greats on 06 May 2008, 17:01
I was born in England and I have that BBC/'proper' English accent.

i pictured you as having a mark e smith-type english accent.

way to shatter the illusion tommy.
<3

Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: sean on 06 May 2008, 17:06
In case your illusion was not shattered enough... (http://www.box.net/shared/1o2y3mbshj)
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Liz on 06 May 2008, 17:21
I think he should do voice overs for things.

I also think that you need to post in the voices thread, Jens. Get to it.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: öde on 06 May 2008, 17:23
I was surprised at Tommy's voice, and I've had long conversations with him.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: 20 jazz funk greats on 06 May 2008, 17:43
well i did not know what part of england you are from until now, tommy. 
i just thought hey, he is british and actually listens to the fall, so that's where the association formed.

nevertheless, british accents are awesome and such.  er, i was going to say something else here but then decided against it because would make it sound like i have some sort of creepy internet crush on you
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Dimmukane on 06 May 2008, 17:46
I always heard him in my mind as being a little bit more nasal, but with pretty much the same dialect.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Ozymandias on 06 May 2008, 18:17
I would like to say that Tommy's reading voice sounds less foppish than his conversation voice, from what I remember listening to Tania's radio show.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: jhocking on 06 May 2008, 18:53
foppish

You have hit upon the ultimate term for describing tommy.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Gemmwah on 07 May 2008, 04:22
I was just talking about this phenomena. I've spent the last few days in the north of England and it reminded me of something remarkable about the UK. You can travel about 30 miles in any direction and the place you have arrived in will have people who speak completely differently to how they spoke where you were when you started. Like, a whole other accent and sometimes a new lexicon to consider. I know this is true of other countries but I don't think it's confined to such a small area anywhere else. City to city, people have seriously bizarre accents. Especially up North.

I was thinking about this the other day, and it really is something. I went to Bristol a few weeks back and having never been there before, I spent a good while chuckling at the farmer accent that the friends of my friend had, while they in turn were mocking me and the southern/london hybrid that i've developed over the last year. My own accent tends to fluctuate a bit depending on where I am and who I'm socialising with. When I was very young I had a strong Scottish accent from my Mother and Grandparents, when I went to school it then developed into a more 'BBC English' accent like most of the children at school. As I got older it dropped to a rougher, more London twang and then in Secondary school it switched back to the posher sound, from going to school and being friends with a lot of well spoken kids. It got lazier again as I grew up, and then became more posh again when I went to university, and now has got very London from only really spending time with the people that live on my estate.

Also I've never had any Scottish person be rude to me in any sense, except for my family taking the piss out of the way I speak when I go and visit them, but everyone is just so pleasant and aside of a few jibs and general joking around, I've never encountered hostility either. It might be because my mother is Scottish, I don't know. My Dad's a fully fledged Londoner, so I think that "Scottish people double-hate Londoners" is completely ridiculous. Again, only personal experience but that has to count for something.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: a pack of wolves on 07 May 2008, 05:06
When I said London was the worst place from England to be in regard to Scottish xenophobia against the English I didn't mean all Scottish people hate Londoners. My Grandmother married a Londoner. However, the fact he was a Londoner was also the reason they only lived in Scotland for a few years after getting married before they moved back down again. It's also the reason people from both countries would call my mother a 'half-breed'. And although they would never have said anything about it, the family my sister is marrying into were very relieved when they found out she wasn't 'really English'. They also liked the idea of her being from Yorkshire much better than her being from the south, since Yorkshire is poor, not southern but also not northern enough for attacks against Scotland to have been mounted from it.

Obviously, vast amount of the population of Scotland hold no xenophobic feelings towards the English whatsoever, just like not everyone from Leeds will break your legs for supporting Manchester United or try to kick your head in because they think you're from below the Midlands. But those sentiments do exist and can sometimes be unpleasantly common in certain areas.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Barmymoo on 07 May 2008, 05:14
I always talked "posh" according to people at school when I lived in Halifax (that's about ten miles from where tommy is from so we probably sound fairly similar?) but when I moved to the Welsh borders I suddenly had a very strong Yorkshire accent. I think to be fair I do exaggerate it a bit but also since most people sound Welsh round here, anyone else sounds Yorkshire in comparison.

Well, not anyone. But still.

My gran is Scottish and she is very determined that that makes me Scottish too. She doesn't exactly hate English people but she's very, very patriotic.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Sox on 07 May 2008, 05:32
I was born and raised in Halifax, still live really close. I have the 'posh' Halifax accent too, but Tommy and I sound nothing alike. Tommy actually stole his accent from another location. Cheater. I'm thinking if I get him drunk enough, his other accent might come through.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: valley_parade on 07 May 2008, 06:34
The Buzzcocks = Manchester

Just going to prove that Manchester is better than Leeds at EVERYTHING.

(Is okay, though. I see United are in the League 1 playoffs!)
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: a pack of wolves on 07 May 2008, 06:52
It'd be automatic promotion if it wasn't for the 15 point deduction, a good points 9 clear of Forest. I reckon we can do it.

Manchester was only better than Leeds at music 25 years ago. Sucks now, whereas we win. It's also wetter. It ruins us for arthouse cinemas and art galleries though.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Jimmy the Squid on 07 May 2008, 08:07
Man, I have no sense of where the hell my accent (http://achewood.com/index.php?date=10032006) comes from (and neither, apparently, does anyone else) because it sure as hell doesn't sound that Australian. Also all this talk of animosity between the Scottish and the English makes me think of that scene in Romper Stomper where two of the skinheads are fighting each other and one of their mates is trying to break it up saying "Come on boys! Stop it! We're all White! We're all White!"
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Barmymoo on 07 May 2008, 11:27
Man, masses of people are/were from where I used to live. If I was taking Philosophy I may be inclined to consider whether that has influenced our foruming habits, but since I'm not I'll just say: Yorkshirecon?

That was actually a flip suggestion but thinking about it, it's less North than Scotland so southerny people don't have to buy an aeroplane to get there, and less South than London, so Scotlandy people don't have to wear bulletproof clothing. If you guys decide on actually having a UK meet let's have it in Yorkshire, there's lot of excellent beer I'm told and I know there are lots of large fields for frisbee, frippery and frolic. Also cheap hotels.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: a pack of wolves on 07 May 2008, 11:29
I am thoroughly in favour of Yorkshirecon, since I can meet strange people with minimum effort.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Barmymoo on 07 May 2008, 11:46
I was about to protest that being from Yorkshire did not make you strange.

Then I realised that a) that probably wasn't what you meant and b) it wasn't true anyway.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: valley_parade on 07 May 2008, 11:48
Also, I'd be embarrassed if I supported Manchester United right now. Think of the money they have spent and yet there's a possibility that they might finish the season with fuck all? That's fucking disgraceful.

I don't even want to think about it. I think we can take Wigan, though.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: waterloosunset on 07 May 2008, 12:11
I'm not entirely sure what my accent should be called. It's not Estuary English or Cockney, but it's not RP either. Is there such thing as "common" RP?
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Barmymoo on 07 May 2008, 13:12
If by "later in May" you mean "between the 23rd and 29th", and "keep everyone posted" you mean "organise a QC party" then I am there.

On the other hand, if by "passing through" you mean "being intimidating" then I'm definitely not there.

Are you intimidating? I'm a little scared of Katie.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Barmymoo on 07 May 2008, 13:16
You realise that's unutterably useless? I'll be mouldering in an exam room in the Welsh borders for most of that time.

Also

[img width= height=]http://legolas.mdh.se/~frv95pen/pic/ewok6.jpg[/img]
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: waterloosunset on 07 May 2008, 13:38
personally i think a Londoncon would be best, as being our nation's capital and largest city, it has the most to offer, with all the sights to see and things to do. plus anyone who whinges about how expensive life is getting up north can experience REAL rip offs!! you will feel like everything oop norf is so cheap and wonderul compared to waht we put up with. I mean £4 a pint, wheres the justice in that?




although speaking of yorkshire, I am moving up there later this year for uni
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: StaedlerMars on 07 May 2008, 13:45
Wouldn't London being really expensive be less incentive to go there?
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Barmymoo on 07 May 2008, 13:50
Waterloosunset I can't work out whether you're being sarcastic or not.

And London is hardly the only place to do things and see things. Yorkshire is full of exciting and bizarre places like Hebden Bridge.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: pwhodges on 07 May 2008, 15:30
Hebden Bridge...  original home of Calrec, and where the original SoundField mics were made.

Here for your amusement is a photo of the inventors of the SoundField (Peter Craven and Michael Gerzon) looking at Calrec's first prototype:

(http://cassland.org/album/paul-old-photos/Paul/OUTRS/slides/Michael&Peter-1976.jpg)

Paul
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: a pack of wolves on 07 May 2008, 15:57
It also has more lesbians per head of population than anywhere else in the UK, it's close to Sylvia Plath's grave and it's a good place for walking. Hebden Bridge is an interesting place, definitely a better candidate than London. Besides, I'm kind of scared to go to London now Boris runs it.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Dissy on 07 May 2008, 16:07
It also has more lesbians per head of population than anywhere else in the UK, it's close to Sylvia Plath's grave and it's a good place for walking. Hebden Bridge is an interesting place, definitely a better candidate than London. Besides, I'm kind of scared to go to London now Boris runs it.

The question is, are they attractive lesbians?
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: a pack of wolves on 07 May 2008, 16:20
There is only one way to find out. To Hebden Bridge!
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Gemmwah on 07 May 2008, 16:36
     Lesbians!
     /
 :-D


This plan has captured my attention.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: David_Dovey on 07 May 2008, 17:31
Besides, I'm kind of scared to go to London now Boris runs it.

Every time I read a news story about the new mayor of London I get a little excited because I think that

(http://www.smother.net/bom/images/boris-photo.jpg)

will be making sure the Tube runs on time from now on
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: a pack of wolves on 07 May 2008, 18:05
The Olympics would be more interesting under their reign, all events would assess ability to rock the fuck out. I think I'd enter the 100 minute drone.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Fenriswolf on 08 May 2008, 03:11
Well, I'm a NZer so I'm nowhere bloody near the UK but I have to say last time I was in London it was so fucking good... I'd just been in Austria for 2 weeks visiting family, which was great, then Rome for a few days which I wasn't so enraptured with but it was gorgeous, but after that being in London was like being back home. The accents were similar, everyone spoke English, they drive on the left and have lots (OK, too many) roundabouts and everyone avoids your eyes! Not all good things but relaxing for the similarities.

I don't try and put on an accent but I do try and eliminate the NZ twang. I can't stand it. And I've had a few immigrants ask me what country I was born in so obviously I've succeeded on some level.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Tom on 08 May 2008, 03:18
I have a kiwi in my year at school, he's been here, in Australia for about 3 years now. The accent is almost gone.

Yay assimilation!
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Fenriswolf on 08 May 2008, 03:33
lol Well, y'know, depending where you're from the accent's not that different. I met a friend of a friend who was from Melbourne and I honestly hadn't realised he wasn't a NZer until he pointed it out! I tend to pick up accents ridiculously quickly, but only if I like them  :|
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Tom on 08 May 2008, 03:42
Accents are a funny thing. Half way through my holiday in the states my own accent seemed so... alien.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Fenriswolf on 08 May 2008, 03:51
Oo, that too! When your own voice sounds alien but you don't want to deliberately imitate people around you. Surrealness
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Oli on 08 May 2008, 04:24
The best accent in the world is quite clearly a north-eastern-coast-of-the-Scottish-Highlands accent.  My gran came from up there and had a wonderous accent, unfortunately my mother grew up in Glasgae, moved to London to train as a nurse and then years later moved back to scotland and married an englishmanpigdog so my accent is kind of English-with-some-Glaswegian-slang-plus-a-little-bit-of-Edinburgh-slang-with-more-swearing one.


My dad is class despite his national handicap.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Liz on 08 May 2008, 05:22
You must post something in the thread for sharing voices.

Now.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Barmymoo on 08 May 2008, 07:27
Quote from: Everyone
lesbians

That is not Hebden Bridge's sole charm! There are also many pleasant craft shops and a canal with boats...

OK that is Hebden Bridge's only charm. But we should still meet there, it is the kind of place that does not look askance at the Internet meeting within its vicinity. Actually when I was there last I felt uncomfortable because I was oddly dressed for the area; I was wearing jeans and a t shirt and no feathers.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: ledhendrix on 08 May 2008, 09:20
Yeah my accents a little bit weird as well (well not really its just a mixed up Scottish accent). My parents are from the east coast around Dundee so I rarely ever pronounce my "Tees", whilst this is prominent on the west coast as well its not quite as extreme. Oban where i come from has a ridiculously mashed up accent with proper teuchter coming through, Glasgae accent and a lot of English people come up here as well and it dilutes the Scottish accent slightly.

Anyway don't go to Hebden bridge, come to Oban. We have a mock Colosseum built to alleviate unemployment. Top that?
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: öde on 09 May 2008, 14:45
Things I have done in Oban: eaten delicious snowballs from Farm Foods, watched James and the Giant Peach with some of my cousins, felt uncomfortable around my horrible alcoholic uncle-in-law.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: ledhendrix on 09 May 2008, 15:13
Farm foods is the best place to go in Oban if you want cheap as hell ice cream. Other things to do in Oban include drinking, drinking and maybe getting drunk because there really isn't much to do at all.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Dissy on 09 May 2008, 15:25
Anyway don't go to Hebden bridge, come to Oban. We have a mock Colosseum built to alleviate unemployment. Top that?

Didn't you hear?  Hebden has Lesbians.  You can't top that.  :-P
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: clockworkjames on 10 May 2008, 01:04
I heard the UK has dragons.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: calenlass on 10 May 2008, 14:07
Oh good, I need a new one. My last one got too big and flew away. Good thing I will be there on Wednesday!
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Sox on 10 May 2008, 14:08
You should make Tommy record an album with you in less than 24 hours.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: amok on 11 May 2008, 02:20
I heard the UK has dragons.

you're not wrong

(http://img374.imageshack.us/img374/7549/welshflagxh2.jpg)
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: waterloosunset on 11 May 2008, 05:59
speaking of dragons, there is a welsh company that makes sausages called "dragon sausages" . to avoid confusion and getting sued however, they have to put a disclaimer saying there are no dragons in the sausages
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: clockworkjames on 11 May 2008, 19:12
in my 19 years of standing/lying/sitting in scotland I have not seen a single dragon. Or a live haggis.

I must be looking in the wrong places.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: pwhodges on 12 May 2008, 00:32
You have to remember that haggis fly upsidedown to confuse the hunters.

Paul
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Tom on 12 May 2008, 02:41
I am confused by this, therefore I am hunter?
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: pwhodges on 12 May 2008, 04:12
It's a song performed by Peter Sellers (written by Jeremy Lloyd, set to music by Jim Parker):

Quote
The haggis season has begun
All over Scotland every gun
Is taken down with loving care
Though some prefer the haggis snare
For haggis are a wily lot
That's why they are so seldom shot
"We're the haggis, aye, hooray;
We'll live until next Hogmanay"

Its flying upside down and low
The guns all fire, but they're too slow
And though it's rather old and fat
It's awfully hard to hit like that
And as it flies off in the mist
Great hairy clansmen shake their fists
And scream their curses to the crags
And stamp on empty haggis bags
And so the haggis gets away
To live until next Hogmanay

"We're the haggis, aye, hooray;
We'll live until next Hogmanay"

It's on the "Captain Beaky" record (listen (http://www.btinternet.com/~poetspage/beaky/haggis.mp3)), with longer lyrics here (http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~kmr/lyrics/album1/haggis.htm).

Paul
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Luke C on 12 May 2008, 16:08
Yorkshirecon ftw!

It is by far the greatest county of them all!
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: StaedlerMars on 13 May 2008, 01:48
Yeah, Luke, If I ever meet you, and you don't look like Mitchell, I'm going to be dissapointed.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Luke C on 13 May 2008, 02:36
I dont know but I can see with some inveitability I will look like him one day. Or at least have a similarly depressing life to Mark on Peep Show.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Barmymoo on 18 May 2008, 03:11
I'm going to meet him and be all "You're not Mitchell at all" and be really confused.

If anyone else wants to join me, Sox and Luke C in our Leeds-rampaging, we're going to be there on the 24th (or at least, that's the plan (http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,20097.0.html)).
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Slick on 18 May 2008, 07:41
If I recall correctly, Luke C used to have an avatar of a metal head with black hair and a top hat? I remember being disappointed when he posted a picture and he was not a metal head with black hair and a top hat?
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Slick on 18 May 2008, 07:49
I figured it was one of those people. I just hoped because it'd be really cool.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Luke C on 18 May 2008, 07:55
If I recall correctly, Luke C used to have an avatar of a metal head with black hair and a top hat? I remember being disappointed when he posted a picture and he was not a metal head with black hair and a top hat?

Yeah that was me. The picture was, as tommy points out, of Slash. I do wish I looked like Slash but alas no, you are right Slick it would be pretty cool if I was Slash. I wish I had about 1% of his musical ability but there ya go. Im not a metal head but I do love my metal though.

For reference this is the most 'metal' photo of me. (Me on the left, not the drunken idiot on the right, thats my friend Brian)
(http://photos-020.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-sf2p/v135/10/33/505725020/n505725020_570773_3645.jpg)
See not very metal at all.
Title: Re: Anyone here from the UK?
Post by: Luke C on 18 May 2008, 09:23
I might just switch my avatar back to a picture of me so people stop mistaking me for people who are ultimately far more awesome than I.

I wonder if anyone thought I looked like Bill Hicks when he was my avatar? *Ponders*