What do members look like?

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Great Argus said:
Nonsense! Only the chaps who use acronyms for spelling everything are that uncultured! When it reaches the point where the acronyms used are so long they're whole sentences in a few letters, that's past the point of no return... we couldn't stand the extra letter so we just dropped it and rewrote English! :p
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I hate to tell you, but what you describe is text-speak, so our unfortunate homeland is already past the point of no return......o_O
 
AmbikaFan said:
I hate to tell you, but what you describe is text-speak, so our unfortunate homeland is already past the point of no return......o_O
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I know... at least among the younger population it's past the point, as you say. Knew what I was aiming for but didn't get there. Not my best comeback. :oops:
 
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Reminder to both of you, "The younger generation" and "the children" will be here long after we're gone, so whatever applies to them is the future. Besides, even I at my advanced age of 58 use text-speak, so I suspect you do as well. It's just as irrevocably a part of the fabric of our culture as bacteria and pathogens are to the normal environment. This is just as permanently set--on both sides of the pond--as the spelling differences of favourite/favorite and realise/realize.
 
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Brum said:
Go on then, what do people think I look like? Any answer that involves the word drunk is disqualified.... :p
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I imagine a blond bloke (see I can speak your language) of average height and average build with blue eyes. And since I'm an American and it's my job to stereotype other countries, bad teeth as well.
 
Hipporex said:
I imagine a blond bloke (see I can speak your language) of average height and average build with blue eyes. And since I'm an American and it's my job to stereotype other countries, bad teeth as well.
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You got the bad teeth right, totally wrong on all other aspects though... :p

EDIT - well done on using the word bloke, you'll go far my young Padawan. :D
 
Hipporex said:
I imagine a blond bloke (see I can speak your language) of average height and average build with blue eyes. And since I'm an American and it's my job to stereotype other countries, bad teeth as well.
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I imagined about the same albeit without the bad teeth, but I think it was just because of the mongoose in your profile picture :D!
 
Hipporex said:
And since I'm an American and it's my job to stereotype other countries, bad teeth as well.
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Ssssshhhhh. You can't say just anything that pops into your head! If you do, then THEY'LL start doing it....:rolleyes:

Do you really want all the stereotypes there are of Americans to come flying at you?!o_O:rolleyes:
 
.....or the rest of us.who struggle mightily to get all foreigners to stop thinking of us as uncultured, savage heathens.....you've set us back decades.....:(o_O:(
 
AmbikaFan said:
Ssssshhhhh. You can't say just anything that pops into your head! If you do, then THEY'LL start doing it....:rolleyes:

Do you really want all the stereotypes there are of Americans to come flying at you?!o_O:rolleyes:
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I was once told by a foreign exchange student from the Netherlands that the only American stereotype there is that we eat peanut and jelly sandwiches a lot.
 
On a serious note, many immigrants silently view us as unwilling to work hard, too consumed by electronics and other recreation, and being too wrapped up in personal pleasure to give to any societal cause.

On a less serious note, despite my age, I'm told I rate high in the all-important equine criteria of great teeth and hair and just pretend not to notice the occasional lameness.
 
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