tally ho!
i thought it might be jolly nice to have a thread that dispels the myths about each others cultures.
so from little britain i hope y'all respond and we can turn this into a nice chat.
"Erm @ Zombie dub. - British English or American English? this offends me lol. how about English English? - This is always the correct form of English by default. anything else is a deviation."
I didn't write all that post, but since this forum doesn't work properly on a mac it wasn't clear I was quoting, the first half was a quote from a swedish guy, I'm english love :-p
tally ho!
i thought it might be jolly nice to have a thread that dispels the myths about each others cultures.
so from little britain i hope y'all respond and we can turn this into a nice chat.
mrsjones - that's exactly the point, that chart shows that saying "i could care less" means " i DO care somewhat", but people in the US say "i COULD care less" meaning "i do NOT care at all in any way" - this is plain wrong!!! In the UK we say "i could NOT care less" which makes perfect sense, ahhh!!!
as some of you might know by now, i am not a jehovah's witness, and never have been.
and, never will be, thanks to you and other people like you who have opened my eyes to what the society really is.
as someone who never crossed the fence, quite often i feel that i can't contribute with anything to the people who left, or who are at the fence, or who are very deep into the society and seem unreachable.
lovely post man :)
tally ho!
i thought it might be jolly nice to have a thread that dispels the myths about each others cultures.
so from little britain i hope y'all respond and we can turn this into a nice chat.
we do say further afield, yup
one thing that drives me mad is, we say (correctly) "I couldn't care less" if we could not care less about something. Americans say "I could care less" when they could not care less about something. Just is completely grammatically wrong and makes no sense! Why is this?
tally ho!
i thought it might be jolly nice to have a thread that dispels the myths about each others cultures.
so from little britain i hope y'all respond and we can turn this into a nice chat.
grrrr double post (crappy forum software didn't show the other one until I posted this too, and the reply editor doesn't work on a mac!!)
tally ho!
i thought it might be jolly nice to have a thread that dispels the myths about each others cultures.
so from little britain i hope y'all respond and we can turn this into a nice chat.
I'm neither Brit or American but what annoys me is that you insist to spell the same word differently and I never know if it's british english or american english
lose with 1 or 2 O's?
choose 1 or 2 O's? etc
maybe it's not that important but can be confusing for a Swede
new born - they aren't the same words:
lose (one o) is the opposite of win, i.e. to lose a game loose (2 o's) is the opposite of tight, i.e. loose fitting clothes choose (2 o's) is present/future tense, i.e. I will choose a dish from the menu chose (1 o) is past tense, I chose that dish from the menu
i am not a christain, but i do read the bible and believe myself to be a reasonabily moral person.
i have homosexual friends and relatives and would like to see just one bible passage where jesus himself says "men should not lay with men".... perhaps i may have missed it- or perhaps you practice paulianity instead of christianity?????
?.
I have been thought of as gay before so no big deal. I have no idea why
could be the foundation, eye shadow, lipstick and "I'm a queen" look?
help me out here i am confused.
- of course the internet is free for all and everyone has a right to their say, i appreciate that, and i am also aware that there are a lot of people who dont believe particulatly but do not want to rock the boat of their life - its easier to just take a backseat (though in my experience that made me ill in the end).
but i have noticed as i read, that there are some advocates for the organization who are active, practicing and believe it fully.. i was a jw for 25 years and in that time, bad association was mentioned constantly and then especially in the last ten years, the dangers of the internet and the warnings to witnesses not to surf or interact with websites that had an affiliation with jws unless it was the official watchtower.borg site.. now, correct me if i am wrong, but if people are active, practicing and believe it fully, then why would they associate with dfd and dad people on these forums?
the problem here is, you are trying to use logic to understand it.
zombie
Simon writes his own programming. It is a work in progress. Few programs can handle the load this forum needs hence the need to build from scratch. Each upgrade makes things better.
I know its programmed from scratch - my point is there is no point to doing this.
You said "Few programs can handle the load this forum needs" - this is completely false. In fact the opposite is true, this forum can't handle the load and frequently comes up with errors, prewritten solutions like PHPBB and IPS handle large loads much better, there are many forums out there literally 1000 times busier than this that run fine under prewritten forum software.
There are so many features lacking in this forum and bugs it would take years of development to sort them all out. Simon - can't you just switch to a standard forum?
you can't add avatars on this forum creativhoney - no such facility, silly eh..
