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Title: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Kees on November 05, 2003, 04:04:15 PM
Yes .. there are to many British people in #Amiga.org ...

So .. if your not british .. and you like to chat ... please click here (http://amiga.org/livechat.php) and join us.

Thank you   :-D
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: lempkee on November 05, 2003, 04:05:56 PM
bleh, i would if it supported IBROWSE .

until then....BLEH!


long live the brits!

cheers
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Kees on November 05, 2003, 04:07:15 PM
Get yourself AmIRC ...

When loaded typ /server webmaster.webchat.org

and /join #amiga.org

and your there ....
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Vincent on November 05, 2003, 04:07:25 PM
There aren't too many Brits on #A.o ;-)

There's only 6 of us there just now out of 13 users :-P
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Kees on November 05, 2003, 04:10:23 PM
thats almost 50% !!!    :-D
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Vincent on November 05, 2003, 04:12:16 PM
I didn't include Boudicca because she's not talking just now, so technically it's over 50% ;-)

But at least Slackbladder and zudobug aren't there yet :-D

--EDIT--

This just in from Kees:

[15:40:44] slack and zudo are also brits ??
[15:40:48] yup :)
[15:40:51] aye
[15:40:56] heh ... my god ..

:lol:
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Calen on November 05, 2003, 04:14:34 PM
Make it 5 if your including me tq  ;-)
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Ryu on November 05, 2003, 04:15:09 PM
Bah, we need more britts, you know, those that drive on the proper side of the road, drink proper beer, and use proper money :-D

@Lempkee, I think it does support IBrowse, at least it worked here when I tried....
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Vincent on November 05, 2003, 04:17:06 PM
Quote

Ryu wrote:
Bah, we need more britts, you know, those that drive on the proper side of the road, drink proper beer, and use proper money :-D


Don't forget that we use proper weight here aswell - pounds and stones :-P
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Ryu on November 05, 2003, 04:23:53 PM
oh yes, cant forget that :-)
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: mikeymike on November 05, 2003, 04:45:00 PM
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Bah, we need more britts, you know, those that drive on the proper side of the road, drink proper beer, and use proper money

Although the new paper notes look a bit toy-ish with the way the numbers are written in the corner...
I wonder whether the last revision will be made to look really stupid so that people will actually WANT to have the Euro currency :-)
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: the_leander on November 05, 2003, 05:07:34 PM
Hahaha,

We're taking over, so ner :-P

the kingdom of mercia rules #amiga.org
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Bobsonsirjonny on November 05, 2003, 05:15:59 PM
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By 600, about half of Britain was ruled by Anglo-Saxon kings. Most of those in the south accepted Ethelbert, King of Kent, as their overlord. During the seventh century, the rulers of the kingdom of Mercia (the borders of which reached from the Welsh border across the Midlands to the North Sea), grew in power. Authority was won over most of the kingdoms of central and south England, including Essex and the London area.

They also claimed to be overlords of the Kings of Wessex and Northumbria, during the reign of Ethelbald, (716-757), and Offa, (757-796). Offa's reign was exemplified by a rampart-barrier or dyke, which ran along seventy miles of his western border to assist its defence against Welsh in-roads. He also set up mint that issued the first coinage, including the gold 'dinar', the first coin to be commonly used throughout southern Britain since Roman times..

-------------------------------------------From BBCI

So being a Welsh man - should I be invading you lot :-P ;-)
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: lempkee on November 05, 2003, 05:22:47 PM
kees: i cant be bothered to connect thread, i am allready on galaxynet and on arcnet.... 1 is more than enough 2 is a crowd and 3 is a pain in the arse :=)
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: mantisspider on November 05, 2003, 05:40:34 PM
ive got a british passport does that count?
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: L8-X on November 05, 2003, 05:49:51 PM
Rule Brittania!  ;-)

(http://www.dlcphotography.net/England/British%20Flag.jpg)
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: mikey2001 on November 05, 2003, 05:51:25 PM
Hear, hear!  :-)
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Cyberus on November 05, 2003, 06:10:15 PM
Quote

Vincent wrote:
Quote

Ryu wrote:
Bah, we need more britts, you know, those that drive on the proper side of the road, drink proper beer, and use proper money :-D


Don't forget that we use proper weight here aswell - pounds and stones :-P


Well Vincent - perhaps you ought to add some British inventions:
The television
Football
Rugby
Cricket
Golf
The steam engine
The computer
Tennis (although it can be argued that is French)
Morse code
Radar
The jet engine
The hovercraft
The worldwide web
Vertical take off and landing
etc etc etc

There are ####loads more, but I canne remember any offhand

at this point, Kenny chips in with:
Imperialism
The concentration camp
etc etc :-P
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Marky_D_Sahd on November 05, 2003, 06:13:55 PM
Oh, right then, yes, too many Brits.  Here they are, vacuous gits, sloughing AOrg. with their silly walks and their "What's all this, then?" and every day at four it's off-line for tea and crumpets, is it?  It's all Monte Python and Dr. Who and Manchester United losing the world cup?  it's all "Cuppa' tea, cuppa' tea, almost got shagged, cuppa' tea," and Basil bloody Fawlty, and "Look at the Queen, she's sooo regal, isn't she?,"and "We don't need your bloody Euro, thanks, we've got the Pound Sterling,"  then?  And how 'bout that 007, he's a right doer, then, isn't he? and WHAT ARE YOU ALL ON ABOUT?  Right!  I'm off!  You bloody Yanks can have at it.  Happy bloody Guy Fawlks Day to you all.

Signed
Marky D Sahd.
(Bloody Yank) :-D
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: mikeymike on November 05, 2003, 06:28:19 PM
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Rule Brittania!

Please!  Anyone!  Tony Blair is crap! :-)
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: the_leander on November 05, 2003, 06:55:21 PM
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Bobsonsirjonny Wrote: So being a Welsh man - should I be invading you lot


Given that you've moved to Newcastle, it looks like you've already started :-D
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Radfoo on November 05, 2003, 08:08:39 PM
Great Britain!

nuf said :-)
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Desolator on November 05, 2003, 08:48:31 PM
*expects a Norse invasion any time now*

 :-D

Just to put you guys into a state of confusion.. :-P
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: GadgetMaster on November 05, 2003, 08:53:16 PM
OK!

If were not allowed on the channel then we deny you the right to speak in the language of our Queen  :roll:

Try getting a discussion going where the majority of the people on the channel can communicate and understand each other without having to resort to English. :-P  :-D Its a challenge. :lol:  

Sheesh!! I need another cup of tea :angry:

:python:   :lol:  :lol:  :lol:
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Cyberus on November 05, 2003, 08:54:54 PM
Hmm, I reckon a fair few users on here could have some kind of a conversation using German.....
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Cyberus on November 05, 2003, 08:56:03 PM
I've wondered in the past actually, why there are not more Germans on AO. I guess one reason may be that there are already lots of good German Amiga sites (???)
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: bhoggett on November 05, 2003, 08:59:10 PM
Heh! Good job I'm staying away from IRC as much as possible, or else there'd be one more...  :-P
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: bloodline on November 05, 2003, 09:02:29 PM
I be happy to converse in another language, except I don't know any. :-P
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: GadgetMaster on November 05, 2003, 09:06:22 PM
Quote

bloodline wrote:
I be happy to converse in another language, except I don't know any. :-P


But your a Brit so you don't have access remember ;-)
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: mikeymike on November 05, 2003, 09:19:34 PM
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I be happy to converse in another language, except I don't know any

I'm supposed to be good at French and German, but I think people would be better off trying to communicate with me in smoke signals rather than either of those languages :-)
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: that_punk_guy on November 05, 2003, 09:29:00 PM
Ich heiβe Chris. Ich habe in der rienhouse.

Or... something ;-)
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: uncharted on November 05, 2003, 09:31:04 PM

Bah! Bloody Foreigners!

God Save the Queen

God bless the Colonies!!!

Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: GadgetMaster on November 05, 2003, 09:32:58 PM
Quote

that_punk_guy wrote:
Ich heiβe Chris. Ich habe in der rienhouse.

Or... something ;-)


Was ist das ? :-?  :-o  

:lol:
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: that_punk_guy on November 05, 2003, 09:34:43 PM
:lol:

So, I'm hoping that said "I'm Chris and I live in a terraced house," and I haven't just insulted the entire German nation's mothers :-)

Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Kees on November 05, 2003, 09:51:37 PM
well .. i must say that this thread didn't really got me what i was hoping for ...

Instead of getting more 'normal' people in the chatroom ... it got me .. MORE BRITS !!!  

 :-x   :-D  :-D
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Blomberg on November 05, 2003, 09:55:20 PM
*NEWSFLASH*
The empire is dead, ffs, get over it!



 :-D
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Cyberus on November 05, 2003, 09:59:13 PM
What has an Amiga filesystem got to do with the British Empire - anyway, you're just jealous because the Danish empire is no more  :-P
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Blomberg on November 05, 2003, 10:03:59 PM
Filesystenm? Didn't read that far into the thread, just saw some of the usual "we own you all" attitude and had to say summat.  :-D
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: mikeymike on November 05, 2003, 10:05:49 PM
doesn't house = haus in german?
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: virgola on November 05, 2003, 10:05:55 PM
Let's create an amiga.org in esperanto (but I can't help in that...)!

Oppure un'altro tutto in italiano e magari con qualche dialetto strano!

Ou un toute nouveax site avec la langue la plus belle du monde (pour moi c'est le français!)!
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Cyberus on November 05, 2003, 10:09:37 PM
Quote

mikeymike wrote:
doesn't house = haus in german?


Yes
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: that_punk_guy on November 05, 2003, 10:10:25 PM
Quote

mikeymike wrote:
doesn't house = haus in german?


Yeaaa probably ;-) I "learnt" this about 7 years ago :-)
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Kees on November 05, 2003, 10:11:47 PM
I think its 'hause' ....
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Cyberus on November 05, 2003, 10:17:45 PM
I'm sure its haus....;-)

You see, that's why we need more Germans here!  
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: that_punk_guy on November 05, 2003, 10:19:08 PM
http://dict.leo.org/?search=house&searchLoc=0&relink=on&spellToler=standard§Hdr=on&tableBorder=1&cmpType=relaxed&lang=en (http://dict.leo.org/?search=house&searchLoc=0&relink=on&spellToler=standard§Hdr=on&tableBorder=1&cmpType=relaxed&lang=en)
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Cyberus on November 05, 2003, 10:20:47 PM
I'll have to remember this one...

"das Plumpsklo"

:lol:
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: that_punk_guy on November 05, 2003, 10:21:36 PM
We just call it 't privvy ;-)
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: jeffimix on November 05, 2003, 11:06:12 PM
I'm on #a.org a lot, I even got like #5 in linchpin's ratings. So :P .

/me waves a red white and blue flag around, oh wait ;)
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Cyberus on November 05, 2003, 11:22:28 PM
@ Chris

Nah, that's far too polite - I prefer 'shitter'  :-D
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: odin on November 05, 2003, 11:53:47 PM
Quote

jeffimix wrote:

/me waves a red white and blue flag around, oh wait ;)


You mean like this?:
(http://www.echos.org/Images/Vlag%20Nederland.jpg)

;-)
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Cyberus on November 05, 2003, 11:59:02 PM
@ Odin
 :lol:
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Kees on November 06, 2003, 12:00:24 AM
Thats a nice flag ... !!   :-D
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Cyberus on November 06, 2003, 12:30:23 AM
How about this one:
(http://www.immigration-usa.com/flags/new7/friesland.gif)
 :-D
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Doobrey on November 06, 2003, 12:43:39 AM
Q.How can you tell if a jumbo jet at an airport is full of Brits ??

A. Cos when the engines stop, the whining noise continues .
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: odin on November 06, 2003, 12:45:09 AM
Pah! Death to the Frisians!

(http://flagspot.net/images/n/nl-gr.gif)

Van Lauwerszee tot Dollard tou,
Van Drenthe tot aan 't Wad,
Daor gruit, daor bluit ain wonder Laand,
Rondom ain wondre stad:

Ain Pronkjewail in gaolden raand
is Grönnen, Stad en Ommelaand.
Ain Pronkjewail in gaolden raand
Is Stad en Ommelaand.




;-)
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Cyberus on November 06, 2003, 12:58:28 AM
I thought that might get a reaction  :-D

edit: Hey, that flag has got green in it!
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: amigamad on November 06, 2003, 12:58:48 AM
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Please! Anyone! Tony Blair is crap!


Thats an under statement he is the only person in this country i hate,  he is a 2 faced liar thats ruined our country. :-o
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Cyberus on November 06, 2003, 01:00:11 AM
That's true amigamad
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: odin on November 06, 2003, 01:03:37 AM
Quote

Cyberus wrote:
I thought that might get a reaction  :-D
edit: Hey, that flag has got green in it!

Yup, white/green/white is actually the flag of the city of Groningen, the blue/red fields symbolise the 'ommelaand'; surrounding land->i.e. the province of Groningen.
(although the green in that pic is too bright, it should darker really).

;-)
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Methuselas on November 06, 2003, 04:33:54 AM
Humph! All you brits think you're *SOOOOOOOOOOOO* special. At least I can translate the chinese from the posts on Alan's trip to MAI. *sticks out tongue*

I know you're all jealous!!! :-D

Hey, since I'm a Yankee, does that make me a 'wannabe-brit' by default??

[EDIT]

Hey! I've even got a red coat!!!

:roflmao:


Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: minator on November 06, 2003, 12:37:32 PM
Quote


Quote
Please! Anyone! Tony Blair is crap!


Thats an under statement he is the only person in this country i hate,  he is a 2 faced liar thats ruined our country.  


So, doing the normal job of a PM then.

--

Hmm
I live in france however I have a British passport - but it was issued in Amsterdam - though my parents are English and I grew up in Northern Ireland but was born in the far east...


So do I get to go on IRC or not?
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Blomberg on November 06, 2003, 01:05:12 PM
Quote
*NEWSFLASH*
The empire is dead, ffs, get over it!

Quote

What has an Amiga filesystem got to do with the British Empire - anyway, you're just jealous because the Danish empire is no more  :-P

Quote
Filesystenm? ...

*sound of penny dropping*

DOH!
/me slaps his forehead

Oh well, can't catch them all, eh? I blame alcohol  :-D
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Vincent on November 06, 2003, 01:11:55 PM
/me logs back in to see there's been 60 replies to Kees' Brits thread.....

Kees, what have you started? :-P

Looks like I missed a lot of fun last night :-(

Quote

Blomberg wrote:
Oh well, can't catch them all, eh? I blame alcohol  :-D


Same as usual then? :-P

/me hands Blomberg a White Russian :-D
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: that_punk_guy on November 07, 2003, 02:20:41 AM
(http://flag.blackened.net/anarpics/blfl1.gif)
I fly the black flag of Anarcho-Pacifist-Socialism!

:lol:
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Marky_D_Sahd on November 07, 2003, 07:43:59 AM
Hey, everybody, I feel a song coming on:

"Oh the Brits are twits
and the Yanks are wanks
and the Germans "Little Leaguers"
The best thing be
about all three:
They all love their Amigers
(Except for those MOS/Peg types, who....
Come on, you lot, sing along!   :pint:  :pint: )

P.S.  While we're on the subject of language, I would like the next Amiga model to be called the "Corazon"! :-D
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: aardvark on November 07, 2003, 08:21:53 AM
As far as waving the red, white, and blue you have
(http://www.theodora.com/flags/new9/norway-t.gif)    (http://www.theodora.com/flags/as-t.gif)    (http://www.theodora.com/flags/thmb-gif/cl-t.gif)    (http://www.theodora.com/flags/new/cu-t.gif)    (http://www.theodora.com/flags/new12/czech_republic-t.gif)    (http://www.theodora.com/flags/new/fo-t.gif)    (http://www.theodora.com/flags/fr-t.gif)    (http://www.theodora.com/gif4/ic-t.gif)    (http://www.theodora.com/flags/new4/nepal-t.gif)    (http://www.theodora.com/flags/new4/panama-t.gif)    (http://www.theodora.com/wfb/russia/rs-t.gif)    (http://www.theodora.com/flags/yu-t.gif)  or  (http://www.theodora.com/flags/new12/alberta-t.gif) ? :-D
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: iamaboringperson on November 07, 2003, 08:27:22 AM
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To many Brits in #Amiga.org
What I want to know is, why are you addressing to 'many brits'

What's wrong with Australians for example?


;)
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Methuselas on November 07, 2003, 08:30:53 AM
@iamaboringperson

It's 'cos you guys were originally criminals, just like us Americans.  :-D We've all had our share of embarassing moments.

For example, us Americans had things like New Kids on the Block, OJ Simpson and N'Sync. You Aussies had the nerve to give us Crocodile Dundee....

:roflmao:

[EDIT] And look at the Brits. They had the nerve to kill the Red Dwarf movie. I'll NEVER forgive you for that one, Mates.  :-D
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Bobsonsirjonny on November 07, 2003, 10:51:10 AM
Quote

Marky  wrote:
Manchester United losing the world cup?


Dude... Manchester United will never win the world cup - I'll put £50 down to say it will never happen ;-)

Besides, Rugby is the real mans game.
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Vincent on November 07, 2003, 02:16:44 PM
Quote

Methuselas wrote:
[EDIT] And look at the Brits. They had the nerve to kill the Red Dwarf movie. I'll NEVER forgive you for that one, Mates.  :-D


The Red Dwarf movie is still going ahead.  You can lay part of the blame on the BBC for causing problems with the money, and another part on Chris Barrie for being in a trite film called Tomb Raider 2 :-P

Speaking of Red Dwarf, I just got Season III on DVD yesterday - I know what we're watching this weekend :-D

--Edit--

Dang, I'm getting even more forgetful...

Official Red Dwarf (http://www.reddwarf.co.uk/) - all the news :-)
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: mikeymike on November 07, 2003, 03:13:52 PM
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What's wrong with Australians for example?

Don't get us started.  :-D
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: vortexau on November 07, 2003, 05:15:42 PM
Ah mikeymike, your just sore 'cuz you had-
(http://homepages.enterprise.net/cavan/ysac/pics/australia/c64rolf.gif)
Rolf Harris

(http://teachit.acreekps.vic.edu.au/cyberfair2001/images/barryh1c.jpg)(http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/dayart/20010427/edna27.jpg)
Barry Humphries

(http://www.dacre.org/flash/www/gbq00030.jpg)
and Barry MacKenzie inflicted on you!

Oh!  You do get to see Kylie, sometimes-
(http://www.networkingtheinternet.com/images/kylie-cover.jpg)  
 ;-)
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: mikeymike on November 07, 2003, 05:21:01 PM
Quote
Ah mikeymike, your just sore 'cuz you had-

Some people don't like Australians.  I was just playing on that :-)  Personally I couldn't give a castlemain xxxx :-)

Mmm, Kylie.
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: vortexau on November 07, 2003, 05:24:42 PM
@mikeymike, you should put in an AVATAR in which you're smiling!  Otherwise, the impression is stern!  :-?
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Speelgoedmannetje on November 07, 2003, 05:32:38 PM
Those welshmen have the coolest flag in the world!
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Speelgoedmannetje on November 07, 2003, 05:36:07 PM
@Odin
I am half frisian half Groninger
ahem..
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Rodney on November 07, 2003, 05:37:33 PM
The world wide web? Are you refering to the internet or HTML pages accessed via the HTTP protocole...

i thought the US government/army invented the internet for communication. But im not sure who made the first web page :}

But you can say anyone invented the world wide web, because it only become the www when it was used by many countries... that is... world wide :) if there was only one country in on it at the time, its not world wide :)

Hey, and dont forget us Aussies... we've evented

the meat pie?
the ute!
Aussie rules footy (which was mostly just a rip off of gaelic football and other codes)
fosters :)
and the kangaroo


Of course im kinda joking on some of those! But i wouldnt be surprised if AUstralia per head had more inventors than anyone in the world...

lawn mower
cloths line (hills houst?) i cant spell! - we clearly didnt event the dictionary!
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Speelgoedmannetje on November 07, 2003, 05:42:28 PM
Oh, by the way, we Frisians and Groningers (and the Danes too) conquered britannia in the early middleages
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: mikeymike on November 07, 2003, 05:51:33 PM
@ vortexau
Quote
mikeymike, you should put in an AVATAR in which you're smiling! Otherwise, the impression is stern!

I can't see yours smiling! :-)
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Speelgoedmannetje on November 07, 2003, 06:22:20 PM
Quote

mikeymike wrote:
@ vortexau
Quote
mikeymike, you should put in an AVATAR in which you're smiling! Otherwise, the impression is stern!

I can't see yours smiling! :-)


But mine are very happy together  :lol:
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Speelgoedmannetje on November 07, 2003, 06:30:21 PM
Quote

mikeymike wrote:
Quote
Rule Brittania!

Please!  Anyone!  Tony Blair is crap! :-)


Well, we are ruled by this person:

(http://www.trouw.nl/images/BALKEN~1,0.jpg)

cough cough
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Speelgoedmannetje on November 07, 2003, 06:40:23 PM
@odin

Let's start a Groninger Amiga.org!
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Methuselas on November 07, 2003, 06:54:12 PM
@ Vincent

Season III???

Man, we JUST got Season I on DVD and I can't even find it here. I had to special order it.

Man, I used to waste HOURS, getting drunk and watching Red Dwarf on Public Access. Red Dwarf was the best thing to come out of England, besides Lush and Altoids!  :-P

Okay, if you say it's coming, it's coming, but sadly, I'm not holding my breath...We don't even have it showing here anymore.  :cry:
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: mikeymike on November 07, 2003, 08:02:38 PM
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Well, we are ruled by this person:

If that guy was english, his first name would either be Malcolm or Norman.

And if any people here have that name, either you deserve it, or your parents played a cruel trick on you :-D
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: The_Editor on November 07, 2003, 08:31:25 PM
Norman ??

That reminds me..

I wuz minding me bizznizz out in the street.
There wuzza nice hells angel I wuz hoping to meet
I wuz leaning ona lampost have a nice dream
he wuz in the milk bar buying an Ice cream..

Along came a Lurr in a hot FJ
He leaned out the window and said

G'day

He said ..

"My names Normie, Duyya wanna ride?"
Then me hells angel hero came out from inside..

HE said...

RAK ORF Normie,  
You & yur mates..
I know wot yur after but
I'll put yur straight
I'll smash yur back winder with a big lump of rock
So RAK ORF now
Before I do me block.

( And they did)     :-o

 :-D
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Speelgoedmannetje on November 07, 2003, 10:40:12 PM
@The_Editor

it is not at all alike our great president what you are writing...
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: odin on November 07, 2003, 10:44:33 PM
gramiga.org eh? With (count em) two and a half member(s)? ;-)
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Speelgoedmannetje on November 07, 2003, 11:02:13 PM
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odin wrote:
gramiga.org eh? With (count em) two and a half member(s)? ;-)


I expect THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS of blokes who are members
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: iamaboringperson on November 08, 2003, 04:45:51 AM
(http://www.prodos.org/graphics/AdventureAndRomanceAcrossTheSevenSeas.jpg)
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Cyberus on November 08, 2003, 05:53:08 AM
@ Rodney

Correct me if I'm wrong, but AFAIK, the WWW was invented by Tim Berners-Lee, a British physicist working at CERN.
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Rodney on November 08, 2003, 06:14:49 AM
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Methuselas wrote:
@iamaboringperson

It's 'cos you guys were originally criminals, just like us Americans.  :-D We've all had our share of embarassing moments.

For example, us Americans had things like New Kids on the Block, OJ Simpson and N'Sync. You Aussies had the nerve to give us Crocodile Dundee....

:roflmao:

[EDIT] And look at the Brits. They had the nerve to kill the Red Dwarf movie. I'll NEVER forgive you for that one, Mates.  :-D


Dont forget the crock hunter... Hrmmm we need some originality in our attack against you guys!
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Cyberus on November 08, 2003, 06:26:03 AM
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Dont forget the crock hunter...


Ah but he's cool.

Now what you don't want to do, is poke the fella with a stick....

 :-D

Anyway, you forgot Neighbours, and making us look stupid at cricket...
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Methuselas on November 08, 2003, 08:02:17 AM
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Anyway, you forgot Neighbours, and making us look stupid at cricket...



:roflmao:

:roflmao:

Ah, the Croc Hunter isn't so bad....granted, I KNEW better than to see his movie..... :-o

He's funny to watch sometimes.

'Crikey that's the last time I try and finger a dingo's @$$. He nearly tore me nuts off!.' (Croc Hunter Voice) :-P
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: The_Editor on November 08, 2003, 02:15:28 PM
Priceless.

The croc hunter is .."You little beauty" - Steve Irwin

(http://movieweb.com/movie/crocodilehunt/co2.jpg)

Ouch ... Thats gonna hurt in the morning !!     :-o

 :-D
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Cyberus on July 27, 2004, 01:36:39 AM
:bump:

I happened upon this thread again, and I looked back fondly on how we conducted a conversation and it remained good-natured throughout, even though there was a bit of [friendly] stereotyping and international banter. Ahh, the good old days...
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Vincent on July 27, 2004, 12:30:02 PM
Maybe I'm not on irc at the right times just now, but there's not as much banter on there as there used to be.  Still fun though :-)

Come back Slackbladder and Rudei!!! :-D
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Dandy on July 27, 2004, 01:24:11 PM
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that_punk_guy wrote:
Ich heiβe Chris. Ich habe in der rienhouse.

Or... something ;-)

Was soll das heißen?
Wolltest Du schreiben: "Ich habe ein Reihenhaus."?
Oder was?
 :-?
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: elendil on July 27, 2004, 01:55:19 PM
You should also keep in mind that sometimes the original inventors of things don't get due credit, because other people (brits) steal them and patent them first :-)

Sincerely,

-Kenneth Straarup.
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Cyberus on July 27, 2004, 02:02:11 PM
Tim Berners-Lee (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee)
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: amigamad on July 27, 2004, 02:40:35 PM
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You should also keep in mind that sometimes the original inventors of things don't get due credit, because other people (brits) steal them and patent them first :-)


And why not its something bill gates taught us to do. :-D
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: X-ray on September 03, 2005, 11:33:04 PM
@ Cyberus

"...Anyway, you forgot Neighbours, and making us look stupid at cricket..."
--------------------------------------------------

Well, ahem...times are a-changing
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Tomas on September 04, 2005, 12:00:03 AM
Is it not about time that amiga.org gets its own irc server? :)
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: NoFastMem on September 04, 2005, 01:05:26 AM
Hahaha, old-school. :-)
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: zudobug on September 04, 2005, 07:06:26 PM
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Vincent wrote:
Maybe I'm not on irc at the right times just now


No, you're not. I haven't seen you for ages :-(

I was wondering if we need to advertise the channel more? Seems many potential #amiga.orgers are blissfully unaware that there even is an IRC channel (it's only been around for 3 years.) Any suggestions?

Anyway, it's a great channel - come check it out. It's the source of much amusement at times. There has been a bit of a lull of late, but I put that down to it being summer - it's been way too nice to stay indoors (even I've been away from the channel a bit more than normal recently.) But autumn approaches and I predict things will soon improve.

I look forward to seeing you there. See Information and the optional Web Interface in the "Join Us for Live Chats!" section of the site menu to the left <---

 :-D

-zudo
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: odin on May 05, 2006, 04:33:05 AM
:bump:
The original post still holds truth..
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Cyberus on May 05, 2006, 08:27:17 AM
Well us Brits can't help it if we have good taste! :-)
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Methuselas on May 05, 2006, 08:32:07 AM
Pssh.

Sure you do. :roll: Especially you, huh, Cyberus?  ;-)
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Agafaster on May 05, 2006, 12:06:57 PM
@cyberus

at this juncture its worth pointing out that Cricket also could be argued to be initially a french invention.

dunno if anyone else already has, but I cant be ar5ed to read the thread through first :-)
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Agafaster on May 05, 2006, 12:09:09 PM
'Thlingan Hol ? ;-)
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Ferry on May 05, 2006, 12:15:33 PM
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Cyberus wrote:
Well us Brits can't help it if we have good taste! :-)


...as long as you are not talking about food, that's it  :-D:-D:-D:-D:-D:-D:-D:-D:-D:-D:-D:-D

Saluditos,

Ferrán.
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: ashbyuk on May 05, 2006, 03:02:42 PM
do you have a problem with British people?
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Cyberus on May 05, 2006, 06:28:57 PM
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Ferry wrote:
Quote

Cyberus wrote:
Well us Brits can't help it if we have good taste! :-)


...as long as you are not talking about food, that's it  :-D:-D:-D:-D:-D:-D:-D:-D:-D:-D:-D:-D

Saluditos,

Ferrán.


Actually, we have great food here in Britain. Because we have traditionally been a country of immigrants, you can find some of the best food in the world here :-)

In my town you can eat Indian, Thai, Chinese, Polish, Belgian, Greek, Turkish, Mexican, French, Spanish food, to name a few. I think that means we have pretty good food here, don't you :-)

Oh, and our beer is amazing, unlike that fizzy piss most of the rest of the world drinks

(Belgians and Germans excepted)
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Vincent on May 05, 2006, 10:40:59 PM
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Cyberus wrote:
Oh, and our beer is amazing, unlike that fizzy piss most of the rest of the world drinks

Don't forget about the whiskey!!!
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Cyberus on May 05, 2006, 11:59:53 PM
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Vincent wrote:
Quote

Cyberus wrote:
Oh, and our beer is amazing, unlike that fizzy piss most of the rest of the world drinks

Don't forget about the whiskey!!!


:-o

Don't forget to 'drop the e'!!

;-)

 
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: odin on May 06, 2006, 12:57:26 AM
Yes...the Irish make very good whisky  :-P.
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: on May 06, 2006, 01:28:46 AM
There are lots of Brits here because we gave you the English language. It is "Too many Brits" not "To many Brits".   :-D

Come back again when you have mastered the English language. LOL

 :-D
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Ferry on May 06, 2006, 02:37:44 AM
@Cyberus

Well, I can't talk for other countries' food, but most of the times what you have there as "Spanish food" is what you Brits think a "Spanish food" should be, but many times it has little to do with it. Anyway, I guess that happens in most countries. Even in Spain, most restaurants, mainly in the coast, give to tourists what they want, what they think is "typical Spanish", doing sometimes such kind of mixtures that a native would hardly consider it as "typical". I guess same happens all around the world with Chinese food, heavily "occidentalized" and different from what Chinese people is really used to.

Same happens with other things as well: for example, do you now what's the best seller souvenir in Barcelona? MEXICAN hats!!! When asked, Brits, German and even Italian tourists said they bought it because they thought it is a "very representative Spanish symbol"... a MEXICAN hat?!?!?!?!  I can understand it when told by tourists from the States, but Europeans? Well, that's the way things are...

Saluditos,

Ferrán.
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Cyberus on May 06, 2006, 02:49:16 AM
100 posts :pint:

True, and it does happen wherever you go.

We have 'Indian' dishes that have been created in England, similarly I believe there are 'Chinese' dishes that have been created outside of China, e.g San Francisco.

We have a lot of influences in our cooking because of our multicultural environment, perhaps it would have been better to say that.

Anyway, I don't think any country has 'typical' food, just the food that people stereotype for that country e.g. fish and chips here, frogslegs or snails in France, sausages in Germany whatever, just silly national stereotypes - traditional food in the north will probably be different from that in the south, or sometimes the traditional food is just a memory, and no-one eats it anymore.
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: uncharted on May 06, 2006, 11:43:02 AM
There were dozens of people wandering about Canterbury yesterday wearing novelty huge union-jack hats.  Tourists are the same wherever...very stupid. ;-)
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Plaz on May 06, 2006, 04:54:32 PM
Wow, you guys are really kicking the dust off an old thread. Since I'm not a Brit I'll have a look. But I personally love the Brit's sence of humor.


Plaz
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Hyperspeed on May 07, 2006, 02:14:33 AM
If ever the BBC sell the comedy series 'Little Britain' to the US you should watch it - it's about as accurate a depiction of British life as it gets: chavs, freaks, minstrels, tarts and numbskulls.

:-D
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: weirdami on May 07, 2006, 02:16:01 AM
@Hyperspeed

BBC America shows that. My condolences on your rash of naked fat ladies.
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: Hyperspeed on May 07, 2006, 02:25:37 AM


Those are the men!
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: basquemac on June 19, 2006, 03:50:21 PM
Yup, the British idea of foreign cultures is basically:

You're all foreign and we're the best. I say that because I'm a Brit who's married to someone from Spain, or to be precise, the Basque country and have seen the attitude towards her. I lived in San Sebastian, Northern Spain, for 5 years and was never once treated like a foreigner. I learnt to speak Spanish there, and a bit of Euskari, and will go back to live there very shortly. It's not that I'm not proud to be English, as I am, but apart from Good Beer & TV, what else have we got here? (Mind you, better than being in the US, at least we have HISTORY...lol, and any country that has a "World Series", and "World Champions" yet only includes...um.....itself.....insular comes to mind!!).
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: jkirk on June 19, 2006, 04:43:10 PM
AND STILL NO RED DWARF MOVIE!!!!!!

 :cry: and i was looking forward to it.
Title: Re: To many Brits in #Amiga.org
Post by: neuroflip on June 19, 2006, 06:08:04 PM
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basquemac wrote:
... the Basque country and have seen the attitude towards her. I lived in San Sebastian, Northern Spain, for 5 years and was never once treated like a foreigner. I learnt to speak Spanish there, and a bit of Euskari ...


What about Aste Nagusia? katxis plenty of kalimotxo!!

lol  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D  :-D