Where are you located?

[Ug]

Where in the world are you located? I'm just interested to know where the people on this forum are from.

I'm from a rural corner of England called Suffolk. Officially described as "rurally deprived", which means that we don't have broadband and have to survive on 56K.

Damn.

[ewdi]

I'm in texas :p where the weather is not so nice to me :p

[Ug]

Are you originally from England then?

[ewdi]

no, i was from singapore :)

[Ug]

Of British or Chinese origin?

[mhelios]

The land of Oz. Where it 'tis always sunny and usually quite hot!

[ewdi]

i'm chinese :p

[Ug]

I kinda guessed that :P

[bsm2004]

I'm in lousy southern Cal. The weather sucks!!!!!!!

[Ug]

Your complaining about weather in Southern California??

You ought to try living here.

[bsm2004]

Yes maybe I should.

I hate the constant clouds and/or sun.

I personally think if it's cloudy it should atleast make an attempt at raining.

normal rainfall for san diego is 9"
last year we got 3"
this year so far 1.5"

and the resivors are a going dry.

[Ug]

It's cold, it's wet, it's windy, the sun dosen't come out and it's dark.

What isn't to hate about it?

9 inches in a year? We can do that in way less than a month.

[ewdi]

today it snows here in texas :)

[mhelios]

Here in QLD, our average temperature has been around 31C (don't know the F equiv..). It's safe to say it's been a scorching summer thus fair. And the humidity makes it twice as bad. :eek:

[Ug]

Originally posted by tux
today it snows here in texas :) Damn you.
Originally posted by mhelios
Here in QLD, our average temperature has been around 31C (don't know the F equiv..). It's safe to say it's been a scorching summer thus fair. And the humidity makes it twice as bad. :eek: Damn you too.

[mhelios]

ug_the_caveman,

As much as I prefer summer and the QLD climate in general, right now at about 33C, I'd be more happy with the rainy coolness of your part of the world!


And on another topic, I really pity your lack of broadband...aghhh, I could never go back! And considering I haven't used dial-up in about 3 years, it's more a prehistoric memory -> do people still use that old hardware?:p

[Ug]

Mind you, I wouldn't leave England to live abroad for anything. So I don't really know why I'm moaning!

I used to have a 2mbps connection believe it or not. And the pain of going back to dial up was immense.

[F4steddie]

Pa parappapappa pappappa pappappa papà .. tzum tzum tzum... Fratelli d'Italia l'Italia s'è desta.. dell'elmo di Scipio s'è cinta la testa...

Spaghetti, pizza, mandolino and MAFIA :(

opss.. i forgot, Fedora! :D

Nice to know you guys.

[Bana]

Tux at least you didn't have to play tennis in the snow like me here in Austin, that was fun. When it first started falling I couldn't figure out what it was (I thought they were ashes) until someone told me.

[Ug]

I've noticed a common factor here, no matter where you live, you can still manage to moan about the weather.

[ladyg]

Yeah, the weather is shitty here in Denver too. It'll be all nice one day then the next we get a blizzard.. grr.

[MadRedHatter]

I am in my own little world
no, actually a state of insanity
no, actually in Denver Colorado

[egurski]

Just remember when comparing one place to another it's like comparing apples to oranges. Here in DC, we always complain about the weather, but if you wait a day, it will change --- the few things we can be certain of .----

[Ug]

True.

[john]

I'm from a little country ,where you can find 'manneken pis'... greetings from Belgium.

John

[Ug]

Just across the brown puddle that is the north sea from me then. :p

[rcu316]

From Tennessee here.


Roy

[Ug]

Too many yanks. :p

[jdl]

I'm not so very far from you Ug. North Herts here.

For our colonial cousins, that is about 40 miles North of London :)

[mhelios]

Originally posted by ug_the_caveman
Too many yanks. :p
And not enough aussies. :p

[Ug]

Originally posted by jdl
I'm not so very far from you Ug. North Herts here.

For our colonial cousins, that is about 40 miles North of London :)
Finally another Englishman. Welcome to the forums!

[Never_Born]

I'm from a little country in Europe, known as Switzerland :)

[micha]

Well, a Frenchie is in the place :)

Le Creusot, Burgundy (Bourgogne), where the best wine of the world is made (with Bordeaux obviously)
:p

Micha

[mars_hall]

I'm just north of Atlanta, Ga. USA

[mike]

I live in Salt Lake City, Utah. About 3 miles miles from SCOboy Darll McBride's house :mad:.

[Ug]

Americans obviously have too much time on their hands, and spend most of it online :P

I remember when surfing the internet was something you did, whilst you were certain the Americans were in bed so that pages would load faster. :p

[genci]

Go New Zealand :D

.... and no, it is not a suburb of Australia :rolleyes:
I remember when surfing the internet was something you did, whilst you were certain the Americans were in bed so that pages would load faster.
That theory still works just fine for those down under - get on the servers while the masses sleep :p

[Ug]

Damn you :p

[cmoore18]

I'm in St Petersburg, Florida about 2 miles from the beach. Been here 22 years, got tired of the snow and cold up north.

[Ug]

I went on Holiday near you once, to Clearwater Beach Island. Very nice. :p

[MiNoS]

Being from Belgium and living in Brussels... it was sunny today and it's freezing.

Alex

[Ug]

It snowed here last night. :D

[coyote]

Don't know what part of Queensland mhelios is from, but we got over 45degC on the weekend in Brisbane.

The outlook for snow is not good.

[Ug]

Well you are in the height of summer, and me winter...

[Lindy]

I'm in Michigan's upper peninsula so you'll have to explain to me what summer is. We've had a bit of a thaw here, the temp. is up to -2 deg. c . Is it summer yet?

[DaDevil]

I am from India currently residing in Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. Till now cannot find anything to complain about the weather. Bloody marvelous weather a constant 30-34 C or 91-94 F I think.

[mhelios]

Originally posted by coyote
Don't know what part of Queensland mhelios is from, but we got over 45degC on the weekend in Brisbane.

The outlook for snow is not good.
Brisbane as well. :) Boy was last weekend a stinker! :eek: Although it was *only* 41C here....(~104 for you Fahrenheit folk).

[Ug]

It snowed today. :D

Looks like i'll be going sledging later. Fingers crossed.

[frannack]

I leave in Paris, FRANCE not Texas ;) so here one more vote for europe. It's damn cold today, I hope it won't snow because I won't be able to go back home with my motorcycle tonight

greetings

Franck

[coyote]

Originally posted by ug_the_caveman
Looks like i'll be going sledging later.

We only do that when the English cricket team is in town.

[Ug]

It's just a shame that Great Britain is in Europe.

We get all their crap weather first, and buffer a large chunk of Europe from a lot of it.

[Melio]

I'm in charleston, south carolina - it's 60 degrees out today :)

What's snow? Oh yeah I remember that stuff when I lived in detroit .. BLEH!. lindsay - sorry!

[svizi]

Athens,Greece.

Nice weather for a week now.
We did have snow for the past week, so we came back in normal life over here:cool:

[Ug]

I didn't think it snowed in greece. :eek:

[mhelios]

/me thinks...snow in sunny QLD....ROFL!!

[Ug]

All the snow has gone now. :(

[Lindy]

>All the snow has gone now.

I could send ya' some If ya' want... I just finished shoveling off the roof, it was close to a meter deep!

[Ug]

!!!

We got 3cm of snow at the most. I didn't get to go sledging either. :(

[Jman]

Minnesota, USA.

Since the pattern seems be to complain about the weather, I'll join right in. :D

Minnesota winters aren't nearly as bad as you would think from our northern location. We do have some snow this year, making up for the last few weak winters.

Now we have a mess of mud. One minute there's snow coming down, the next rain. Yuck.

[Ug]

*rolls eyes*

[Lindy]

Originally posted by Jman
Minnesota, USA.
Now we have a mess of mud.

Den' it mus' be summertime dere eh? No blackflys? Cause if ya' had blackflys den' I would know dat it's summer... ahhh, summer in da' uuupee, mud and blackflys, nutin' like it eh.

[Ug]

what the?

[SuperNu]

Originally posted by Lindy
Den' it mus' be summertime dere eh? No blackflys? Cause if ya' had blackflys den' I would know dat it's summer... ahhh, summer in da' uuupee, mud and blackflys, nutin' like it eh.
Ug, he's from the UP (upper peninsula) of Michigan. It is a different world up there. Not quite Canada, not quite the USA. :D
BTW, I am living in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. And since it seems to also be the theme to talk about the weather, it is quite pleasant here today. Haven't had a bad winter here for a while now.

--SN

[Ug]

I couldn't even tell you where Michigan is. So its not gonna mean much to me!

[Lindy]

>I couldn't even tell you where Michigan is. So its not gonna mean much to me!

Michigan's the state that looks like a mitten surrounded by water. SuperNu's right , the U.P. is a place unto itself!

>It is a different world up there. Not quite Canada, not quite the USA

The major difference? Canada paints chevrons on the roads.

SuperNu, does your avatar indicate being an MSU alumni?

[Ug]

I didn't even know there was a state that looks like a "Mitten"!

[Prometheus]

Look on a map of the US, u cant miss it, its right above the mittin. The "uper dialict" as we callit is actually mostly a finnish accent and words mixed with English. There was a big article about it in the newspaper a couple weeks ago where i live (im a troll, i live under the Mackinac Bridge which links the Upper and Lower penninsulas in case u were wonder in Ug). It was quite funny actualy ey'.

THe weather is freakin great here too, it was 50 last week, then this thursday and friday it dropped to 10 degrees and we got 6 inches of show, frickin awesom e (insert sarcasm at will). I would take Chicago any day compared to this. GO STATE!!!, in case of an U of M fans out there sry.

[Lindy]

O.K. ug, pull out your map. I'm at approx. 46deg. N., 86deg. W.

>The "uper dialict"

pronounced "yooper" dere eh.

[SuperNu]

Originally posted by Lindy
>SuperNu, does your avatar indicate being an MSU alumni?
Yup. Been out now for about 3 years in the real world and I wish I could go back. :D I made the icon for a cd for a class project and just kept it around. Now I use it for all of my avitars on message boards. BTW, the weather was beautiful in Illinois again today.

--SN

[Ug]

This is too much I can't cope :p

First bus of American tourists of the year, turned up here yesterday. :(

[mhelios]

First bus of American tourists of the year, turned up here yesterday.

So when will the Aussies arrive?! Are you as pleased when they turn up as you are with the yanks? Hang on, don't answer that one..:D

[Prometheus]

Ok Ug, heres Michigan

http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?multipleCityState=ALPENA%2C+MI&Get%C2%A0Map=Get+Map&csz=ALPENA%2C+MI&country=us

ehhh crap, well zoom out to like number 8 or so and you can see everything

It up is the funny looking penninsula on top. The little red star is where i live by the way. 200 Mi (so like 350 km) from a city with a pop of more than 10000 people. Middle of frickin nowhere, o yea, and about 50% of our population is over 65, real paradise

[mhelios]

yea, and about 50% of our population is over 65, real paradise

I could say the same about my city here...:(

[Ug]

Ah right I see, why didn't you lot say its near Lake Superior?

And don't get me wrong I'm a really big Transatlantacist but some of you american tourists are just really really dumb. And ask really fecking stupid questions - normally about our accents, such as "Do you always speak like that?".

[Prometheus]

There are a lot of stupid tourists here too, but the sad thing is a lot of them actually LIVE HERE. You know the stereotypical california blond ditz? Yeah, well weve got quite a few of those, more than i care to admit.

[Ug]

Well at least you lot basically share the same culture and speak virtually the same language. (Remembers a very funny conversation with a yank about a boot.)

We also have a lot of American servicemen round here. With RAF Mildenhall and Lakenheath not so far away, Lakenheath had the Stealth Bombers which were used in Iraq. We would see and hear them leave the base, add 8 hours and turn on the news to see Baghdad being pummeled. It was weird, like we knew when things where gonna happen but only non specifically.

[Prometheus]

lol, thats awesome. I do know what boot is though, one of my friends lived in England till he was in like 6th grade, he had a accent for like the first 2 years. I still cant decide which one i like better, his Brit accent or my other friends Aussie.

[Ug]

Southern American accents grate on me a bit, especially that Texas "twang" (waves at Bana and Tux).

[Prometheus]

i really gotta strain to understand the whole scottsman accent. After listening to a Scottish guy for an hour i was literally exhausted from trying to understand it, but i can get spanish no problem. figure that one out

[Ug]

You have a problem with Scottish? ROFL, I'm half-geordie (From Newcastle area in the far north east of England) by blood - you'd have a lot of fun cracking that one.

[Prometheus]

prolly, the people with a really strong scottish accent is the kind i have problems with. Maybe it was just cause the guy was a friend of my grandpas and was half drunk when i was talking to him. Maybe thats why i couldnt understand him. I can get all other english dialects ok, just scottish is the kicker sometime.

[illuminatus]

ya dude's i'm from germany :D

[Lindy]

Originally posted by Ug
Well at least you lot basically share the same culture and speak virtually the same language. (Remembers a very funny conversation with a yank about a boot.)


Hehehe... I had a MGB after I got out of the navy, and quickly learned the difference between boot and bonnet.

Of course GBShaw was correct... We are a people sepererated by a common language.

[Ug]

MGB? You mean MG?

[Lindy]

>MGB? You mean MG?

Model B, as in MG-TD, MGA,MGB, ect... :-)

[linuxmad]

I am from Portugal.... :D

[PeTzZz]

I am a lucky man who lives in Estonia :D

[Ug]

Are you joining in the EU soon?

[PeTzZz]

Originally posted by Ug
Are you joining in the EU soon?
yes and in NATO too
:)

[foolish]

I like the irish accent, I can't understand a word, but I like the sound of it. I really like how old irish men seem to be able to move their lower lip 70% more than other human beeings too. And irish breakfast.

[Ug]

Originally posted by PeTzZz
yes and in NATO too
:) Nothing good about joining the EU, other than meddlesome directives and a wasteful common agricultural policy. Better out than in.

But NATO, now there's a good one. ;)

[PeTzZz]

Originally posted by Ug
Nothing good about joining the EU
Actually I don't like it very much too, but there is nothing to do. Estonia is too small to exist sepparatly, but who knows, I am not informed of EU very well. But I wrote YES to the paper of voting.

But joining NATO is good, yes.
:rolleyes:

[grommer]

Germany here.

[Varkk]

Originally posted by foolish
I like the irish accent, I can't understand a word, but I like the sound of it.

hehe same, funny thing is after a few too many drinks I can understand Irish accents perfectly clearly. *not that I would imply anything about the irish they are lovely people*

Anyway I am from Christchurch, the best city in New Zealand.

[hugo]

I live in downriver Detroit, Michigan. I spend most of my time at Wayne State which is a University in the city.
Seems to be a lot of Michiganders on this board.
I used to go to MSU, so I guess we have two Spartans on this board as well!

[Lindy]

Originally posted by hugo
Seems to be a lot of Michiganders on this board.

Yooper here dere eh:)

[SuperNu]

I just went to school at MSU. Back living in my home state of Illinois.

--SN

[Prometheus]

i did notice there are a lot of michiganders here too... maybe the long winter gives us more time to play with linux or something... I dont know, maybe were just openminded enough to like linux. Who knows... Hows Wayne state by the way? My dad is a wayne alumn... dont think ill be going there though... spose i could though. Oh well, Detroit is cool though... Greek town is prolly my favorite, that and the "soul train" as dad calls the people mover, lol.

[aditrus]

in a very humid and warm place, Manila Philippines. :D Summer Time :D

[hugo]

"the "soul train" as dad calls the people mover, lol."

We call it the "Mugger Mover". Going to school in Detroit is like going like going to school in any other big city only without any of the benefits.
My favorite quote:
"Detroit is like Cleveland without all the glitter."

[Lindy]

Originally posted by hugo
"Detroit is like Cleveland without all the glitter."


I spent a week there one day... Cleveland that is:D

[Prometheus]

cleveland has glitter? coulda fooled me. The thing that i always found interestering was if the people of detroit are so poor and impoverished, why are they the most obese city in the US? Figure that one out

[PorkChop]

San Marcos, TEXAS -

"The city of Mediocrity"

A beautiful town on the edge of the Texas HIll Country.

But NO **nice** restaraunts, and only one decent pub.

PorkChop

[Nikola]

Novi Sad, ex-Yugoslavia, now Serbia&Montenegro, soon Serbia only. In fact, it's funny, name of my country changed 3 times.....for now :-)

[sailor]

Lots of Texans...hey porkchop your my closest neighbor so far...
greetings from San Antonio...
Hey I thought we were the most obese in the Nation...I guess we rolled off the list :)

sailor

[Ug]

Originally posted by Nikola
Novi Sad, ex-Yugoslavia, now Serbia&Montenegro, soon Serbia only. In fact, it's funny, name of my country changed 3 times.....for now :-) Oh how confusing for you. But then you lot have had a pretty horrendous time the past decade or so.

Which reminds me, I've got a friend who's just come back from peacekeeping in Kosevo.

[PorkChop]

I noticed that too Sailor...

are you a member of the SA LUG?

PorkChop -

[Nikola]

Originally posted by Ug
Oh how confusing for you. But then you lot have had a pretty horrendous time the past decade or so.

Like in that curse we have here: I wish you live in interesting times :)

[sailor]

I have signed up at the Satlug website...www.satlug.org
but I have not attended any meetings or events...if something interests me I may just show up...they meet at San Antonio College once a month...
now you know where I stole the avatar from...:)

[Ug]

Originally posted by Nikola
Like in that curse we have here: I wish you live in interesting times :) An old chinese one i do believe.

[PorkChop]

That avatar is awesome...!!!

I thought about signing up for SA or Austin LUG, but I doubt I would have enough time to go to meetings that far away...

Maybe someone in San Marcos will start one..

PorkChop -

[ilja]

I live in Germany, direct on the boarder to Belgium and Netherlands. It rains here allways and it's the only place in Germany, where earthquakes happen.

[Paul_Vandenberg]

I live in Canada, which has the best mix of weather. I love having 4 distinct seasons, though summer can get kind a hot for me! Many Americans think we have 11 months of winter and one month of bad snowmobiling, but summer routinely exceeds 30 degrees Celsius in the Toronto area. Maybe the fact that we report temps in Celsius confuses them as 30 degrees Fahrenheit is pretty chilly!

[ilja]

Originally posted by Paul_Vandenberg
Maybe the fact that we report temps in Celsius confuses them as 30 degrees Fahrenheit is pretty chilly!

When I read through this thread it was also a problem, to convert the unit, till I installed : http://converter.mozdev.org/ that. Very nice in handling :)

[Ug]

Celsius also makes sense to me. :p

[Prometheus]

Toronto, im farther north than that. Right on the 45th parallel. The four seasons thing is cool, but i dont think global warming has it alpena yet. This winter the averate high was about 0 F for about two months. What happened to global warming?

Celsius makes sense to me, but being raised with the farenheit system i need a little time to convert between the two and make the connection. Stupid government, cant finally make up their minds to switch. Isnt the US and like 2 other countries the only ones that use the English system anymore? That cracks me up, called the english system but the english dont even use it, what a wacky world we live in

[Drenon]

Hi everyone :) - England (North) - haven't really seen much if any sun yet this year - seriously - and it's now May :(

[Ug]

Its currently sunny here in Suffolk. ;)

[Finalzone]

Vancouver, Canada. Last winter, It snowed in the valley for one week which is very rare. At least, there is mountain not too far and a beach thus providing a diversity for different activities.

I used to live in Quebec City which has one of extreme weather compared to Toronto. FYI, Quebec City is the oldest european city in North America as the download really looks like a small French City.

I also use Celsius as measure and found that using imperial system is really a pain (remember Mars Orbiter probe crash due to the wrong measure).

[Die_Lah]

Here in Finland we had a week of beautiful +20 Celciius weather, then Sunday started "taka-talvi", winter came back. This morning we have -2 and the max is going to be 7. :(

[Ug]

Do people live very close to the sea? I live about a 40 min cycle ride from it...

[Igoraus]

Am from Ičići Litle town in croatia...

In old time ther whas Church, the people from my town sey, **** Church let's demolish that bilding and bild home for us :D :D

I's nice play's, water is clear, beyb's are on beach ;) ;)

And beer is cold :D :D

From see 200 m

[Prometheus]

Sea, no. Lake Huron (one of great lakes) is about a 10 min walk from my house. Pretty nice to ride your bike along in summer, get a nice 50km breeze blowing when its 90F out, feels good. Water never gets warmer than about 55 degrees F though. Stupid city keeps selling lake front property though, lets individuals buy it. Then the cement plant takes up the entire north half of the town's beach. Largest cement plant in North America i do belive, but still. The largest man made hole in the world is about 45 min north too, another interstering landmark. Im told you can see the hole from space. Oh well, i guess progress doesnt stop for anyone.

[Ug]

I feel sorry for people who live in the heart of America and never see it. ;)

[harlekin]

i used 2 live on the baltci sea (germany) ...
that was once upon a time... :(

now it's a hard 300 km walk 2 the beach.
but nevertheless the sun is shining :)

[Ug]

The sun is shining here too. Its a perfect spring morning, very stereotypical English countryside round here too.

[David]

yeah, lots of lovely beaches around here. Northumbrian costline is the best in the country (bar the fact that you'll die of hypothermia if you choose to take a dip in the north sea).

[harlekin]

thats what i liked bout the baltci sea. u could even swim in it (btw u dont get disturbed by any fishes, they all died cos of the chemicals pumped into it by poland [1 of the new members of the EU] )
and after the years i dont mind bout my second nose anymore :D

[cathal]

Ireland, Co. Tipperary

and yes its a long way to tipperary :)

[Ug]

Originally posted by David
yeah, lots of lovely beaches around here. Northumbrian costline is the best in the country (bar the fact that you'll die of hypothermia if you choose to take a dip in the north sea). The north sea is no warmer or cleaner here. ;) One of the beaches near here (Lowestoft - which is also the most easterly point in the British Isles) was named best beach in the UK last year. So :p

[Avon]

From Merrie England originally, living in Chicago currently. Yes, the weather is poo here as well (no spring or autumn, just summer or winter) -- and Illinois, being flat as a pancake, is an excruciatingly dull state to live in. There are plenty of good things about nestling in the bosom of Uncle Sam though -- like cheap broadband for instance (FC2 download took around an hour last night, from Red Hat's site) :)

[melgrim]

Portugal, Lisbon here...

[ilja]

One question, are Lissabon and Lisbon two different cities?

[melgrim]

I've looked around and it seems that Lissabon is the same as Lisbon...
In portuguese we call it "Lisboa"...
But it's all the same city...

[Thoreau]

Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA. No, i'm not joking. Lived here my whole life. I go to university at Western Michigan. I love it here. You gotta like different weather though. For instace, few weeks back, in the morning it was snowing pretty good, by 4 o'clock it was sunny and 70F :)

[Ug]

Kalamazoo is such an odd name.

[Thoreau]

Yup, i'm sure the song is on the internet "i've got a gal in kalamazoo" it was kinda popular back in the day, if i am correct.

[Avon]

A lot of places in the US have retained or are derived from the names given them by the Indian tribes -- hence their unusual nature (to us).

The ever-useful Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalamazoo,_Michigan) has some info on Kalamazoo.

[Ug]

lol, but then i've seen a lot of places given English names in the US.

[Prometheus]

True, but in Michigan we got lots of wierd citys. I live in Alpena, but we got Presque Isle (prounounced pres-k-eel), Sault Ste Marie (prounounced soo saint marie), and Pontiac, and Sterling Heights, and Tawas, Au Sable, Gaylord, Adrian (i always find that funny because thats my name), and then there's Iron Mountain, Livonia, Big Rapids and Grand Rapids, Muskegon, heck we got all kinds of wierd city names. KAlamazoo is just the tip of the iceberg. Its funny though, you can tell everyone who is from out of state because they always pronounce the city names wrong.

[kf6kmx]

Am herein Central Calif... About 45 miles south of Fresno.. find I-5 on a map, go to Hwy 198, turn east.. first you come to NAS Lemoore (where I work) then 20 miles later, Hanford (where I live).

[Thoreau]

Also in Michigan you can be in Hell on Monday and Paradise on Wednesday... long drive, but you could do it. (going from the LP to the UP)

Also can't forget Mackinac (mac-in-aw), Beaver Island(my family has a place up there), Bath and Cadillac, just to add to the list :)

[Prometheus]

Ahhh, dang, i knew i was forgetting Hell. Shoot, should have remembered that one. Should have remembered Cadillac too. Dang, O, heres another Ypsilanti (pronounced ip-sil-anty), you could always end up in Brooklyn Mi too. Gotta love the way our cities are named.

[imdeemvp]

i am in LOS ANGELES, California.......GO LAKERS.....GO LAKERS!!!

AND FIGHT ON TROJANS!!!

[crackers]

Originally posted by Prometheus
you can tell everyone who is from out of state because they always pronounce the city names wrong.

Then I have a goody for you! Sailor can back me up on this: there's a little town in South Texas named "Refugio." If anyone not from Texas (especially South Texas) can pronounce the name of this town, I'd be very surprised.

Then there's Buda, Poth, Waxahachie, Mexia (that one makes sense, though), Bexar county, Salado creek and Salado the town ... Every place has those "interesting" pronunciation rules.

[MrWh1t3]

i am from omaha, ne

[Nefarious]

I am from a Small Town in Ontario. It may be 4000 people large, but there's nothing to it but houses! lol

Oh yeah, for the record, I have stayed at a cottage where the pipes freeze in the winter... so asking if there's running water isn't entirely a stupid question. ;-)

[jcstille]

Raleigh, NC for me. Home of Redhat and a lot of other technology. Kinda boring here though.

[sailor]

Then I have a goody for you! Sailor can back me up on this: there's a little town in South Texas named "Refugio." If anyone not from Texas (especially South Texas) can pronounce the name of this town, I'd be very surprised.

You got that right...I even have problems with some of the pronuciations...sometimes you use the spanish pronuciation ...and sometimes the
english...Refugio ...is long u and g=h...rey-few-he-o

what about Llano, Blanco...Texans pronounce them "lan-o" (not yawn-o) and "blank-o" (not blan-co)...many others... sometimes the correct pronouciation depends more on the residents mispronounciation than its actual lauguage or ethnic origins...

sailor

[crackers]

Originally posted by sailorsgh
You got that right...I even have problems with some of the pronuciations...sometimes you use the spanish pronuciation ...and sometimes the
english...Refugio ...is long u and g=h...rey-few-he-o

Yup - and it's actually pronounced "re-fur-io." Anglicized Spanish because the soft "g" isn't lazy enough.

[sailor]

Yup - and it's actually pronounced "re-fur-io." Anglicized Spanish because the soft "g" isn't lazy enough

see I can't even get it right...actually the way I was pronouncing is the spanish...it is still technically correct...:)

[mandlnet]

I am from England too, a nice sea side town called Redcar.

[folio]

I'm from Huddersfield in England. :)

-folio

[shtik]

i'm from germany, living in a student town near the netherlands ...

[pigpen]

I'm from Bavaria in Southern Germany, living and studying in the lovely city of Regensburg.
pictures here (http://www.faszination-altstadt.de/altstadtbilder/)

[savudin]

I'm from Split in Croatia (Hrvatska).

You better come to Adriatic sea this summer, it's the best place in Europe this time of year.

[micha]

Originally posted by savudin
You better come to Adriatic sea this summer, it's the best place in Europe this time of year. Well there are so many other beautiful places in Europe that you might not be aware of....

[savudin]

well i'm aware of this one :) you don't have to be insulted i like france too ;)

[Ug]

It's also incredibly pretty here today. It's a glorious summer day (about 22C) with the sun shining on a stereotypical english country village.

Think old buildings, thatched roofs, old church, quiet people milling around.

Bliss.

[Thoreau]

Those pictures are cool. I bet some of those buildings have up standing longer than the USA has been around. That's the only thing i don't like about the US, we don't have any good history seeings how we're only 200+ years old.

[micha]

Originally posted by savudin
well i'm aware of this one :) you don't have to be insulted i like france too ;) Don't worry, I wasn't specifically refering to France...

[Ug]

Originally posted by Thoreau
Those pictures are cool. I bet some of those buildings have up standing longer than the USA has been around. That's the only thing i don't like about the US, we don't have any good history seeings how we're only 200+ years old. My house is a Tudor house from the 1500s if you're interested. ;)

If i had a digi camera i'd take a photo. But I don't.

[Thoreau]

That is excatly what i am talking about!!

your house is older than my country

[Ug]

:p

[savudin]

Originally posted by Ug
My house is a Tudor house from the 1500s if you're interested. ;)

If i had a digi camera i'd take a photo. But I don't.

It was some war between two families (York and Tudor) called War of roses? Correct me if i'm wrong.

Anyway, there are Tudors in Croatia too, have you ever heard aboute football player Igor Tudor (plays for Juventus, Italy)

[Ug]

I'll correct you. ;) I've just spent the last two years intensively studying this period of English history.

There was an English civil war known as the War of the Roses, which was between the houses of York and Lancaster. During which 8 different monarchs took the throne, and 8 different monarchs died a bloody death! Henry Tudor was a pretender to the throne, who only had a distant connection to the throne (through his grandmother).

Henry Tudor defeated King Richard III on the 22nd August 1485, and became King of England as Henry VII. He then married Elizabeth of York (who was rightfully Queen) and united the two houses. The following dynasty was to be known as the Tudors.

Henry VII (1485 - 1509, In my opinion the best monarch we've ever had, he was a very shrewd man)
Henry VIII (1509 - 1547, the one who had seven wives, and liked to go to war in france)
Edward VI (1547 - 1553, a boy king who had two Lord Protectors who ruled for him, the earls of Somerset and Northumberland)
Mary I (1553 - 58, the catholic queen who sent 300 protestants to their deaths on fires, and whom married the king of Spain Phillip II)
Elizabeth I (1558 - 1603, a very famous queen who never married, and led the country in a war against Spain which saw the sinking of a great Spanish Armada which had come to invade in 1588)

When Elizabeth died she left the throne to James I, who was the Scottish King - which united Scotland, Wales and England. James I was the son of Margaret, who was Henry VII's daughter.

And incidently the Battle of Bosworth was the last time an English king lost a Battle over the succession of the crown.

Any questions? Just ask. ;)

[Ug]

Btw, I'm still amazed that absolutely no one from Africa or the Middle East has found this forum.

Obviously says a lot about World Development and culture.

[savudin]

Well, afther this detailed explanation who could have some questions. I always say you have to know at least a bit aboute your history and your ancesters ( wrong spelling, eh ? :) ). I realy care aboute tradition, thus i say: Long live the queen ! :)

[mark]

Another Yank checking in here - from Santa Monica, CA. And, Gareth, I'm about a 15 minute walk from the Pacific Ocean.

[Ug]

Well I get the lovely north sea, with a nuclear power plant. ;)

[Prometheus]

For some reason, the song Henry the Eighth I am keeps playing on rerun in my mind... King Henry the Eighth i am i am...

huh, just noticed, the clock is WAY off under the post names for me... Says its like 7:40 AM when its 6:40 PM... Whats up with that?

[mark]

Originally posted by Ug
Well I get the lovely north sea, with a nuclear power plant. ;) Yeah, there's one of those here, too - about 35-40km north of here. And people used to wonder why the seals glow in the dark...

[dnar]

Perth, Australia here. One of the most remote cities in the world.

Glad to be here, enjoying the Fedora experience and the community here. :)

I must say, the transition from long-timed RH releases to bleeding edge Fedora suits me just fine!

[mandlnet]

I am not far from a nuclear power plant myself. Hartlepool power station which was evacuated last week due to a leak of nuclear waste..... ah well at least we will not be needing lights in the dark, we can illuminate the way with our radioactive skin. :)

[Ug]

Nice.

[dnar]

Yikes!

[hugo]

I work at a Nuclear Power Plant. We almost made SE Michigan glow in the dark in 1985.

[flibblesan]

I'm from Nottingham, England

[LackeyLad]

hugo must be talking about Davis Bessie, i live just south of that place.

[LackeyLad]

So I just read the first two pages or so of this thread.

I live in Bowling Green, Oh, Bowling Green State University. Born in Willingboro, New Jersey. From the east coast to a lost farmland.

[Ug]

Originally posted by flibblesan
I'm from Nottingham, England I'm off to University there, in September

[flibblesan]

fantastic. You should try and come along to some NLUG meetings

http://www.nottingham.lug.org.uk

[hugo]

hugo must be talking about Davis Bessie

Actually I work at Fermi2. In 85 an operator was moving control rods in the wrong sequence. A day later a reactor engineer (my department) calculated that the reactor went critical for 114 seconds. Not many people know about it, though a book was written about it.

[ukdelinquent]

English living in Melbourne, Australia - It rules!

[tamilian]

I am in bathroom

[ilja]

I am in bathroom
the whole time? :D

[ghenry]

Aberdeen, Scotland.

[Viro]

Oxford, UK.

[Hietu]

Helsinki, Finland

[inha]

same as above

[sayeeth]

Singapore...

[earobinson111]

-->canada<--

[Ug]

fantastic. You should try and come along to some NLUG meetings

http://www.nottingham.lug.org.uk
I'll certainly try.

[seabass55]

The Republic of Texas

[crackers]

The Republic of Texas
Howdy, dammit! ;)

[sayonara]

I'm originally from Ireland, working in good old germany at the moment but back in Ireland in 2 months....

[bamboo_spider]

Village Sarmoli,
Munsiari, District Pithoragarh, Uttaranchal Himalaya, India

[ghaefb]

Village Sarmoli,
Munsiari, District Pithoragarh, Uttaranchal Himalaya, India

wow :eek: that's interresting....

[Ug]

Next stop: Village Sarmoli,
Munsiari, District Pithoragarh, Uttaranchal Himalaya, India

obviously

[sailor]

Yehaa! another Texan!! Welcome!

[Tupitep]

Originally from Ecuador, working in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

[bamboo_spider]

wow that's interresting....
__________________
_ghaefb

Next stop: Village Sarmoli,
Munsiari, District Pithoragarh, Uttaranchal Himalaya, India

obviously
__________________
gareth@fedoraforum.org

All are welcome Munsiari is a remote but very very beautiful tourist stop, with lots of trekking for very kind of person and sitting around for those who don't want to trek

My normal work is with community managed natural resources and the community aspect is very akin to the belief of the open source initiative hence the conversion to Linux

Anybody interested in visting a peaceful beautiful part of the Himalaya an get in touch

Thanks

[commogeek]

Yongsan Army Garrison Seoul, South Korea!!!

[Salyavin]

18miles outside Belfast, Ireland.

[carlwill]

I am in Orlando FL and just got power back after 2 days - The hurricane Charley hit us pretty hard and was super crazy around here...very sad to see all the people that lost their homes and hard earned stuff.

[ewdi]

is the wind movement still strong around there?

[carlwill]

nope - its now dead air :(

[Bill Case]

I'm in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Where we don't complain about the weather.
We enjoy having distinct seasons.

Winter from December to March
Spring from April to June
Summer from July to August
Autumn from September to October
and November -- a season all its own; rainy, cold, overcast, windy and hostile.

You shouldn't complain

[SuperNu]

I'm in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Where we don't complain about the weather.
We enjoy having distinct seasons.

Winter from December to March
Spring from April to June
Summer from July to August
Autumn from September to October
and November -- a season all its own; rainy, cold, overcast, windy and hostile.

You shouldn't complain
You're lucky you have distinct seasons. In Illinois, the only seasons we have are winter and road construction. :D

[Rubinas]

Vilnius,Lithuania

[WebWind]

Banska Bystrica, Slovakia, Europe :)

[dickinsd]

Where in the world are you located? I'm just interested to know where the people on this forum are from.

I'm from a rural corner of England called Suffolk. Officially described as "rurally deprived", which means that we don't have broadband and have to survive on 56K.

Damn. :D :D :D

lol

Currently in Bristol - not a bad place to live and YES we have broadband - thank god!

Dave :p

PS: Just in case: Bristol, UK

[madrugada]

Hi everyone..
I'm from Italy.....but i love Brasil! :-)
CiaUX

[ieuuk]

From south east england... little village out in the country (do believe that was a song actually)

all of you moaning about the weather in the uk i understand... its pants

even tho i can get broadband :D woo!!! but ive only got a 256k connection but its good enough... need a bit more tho for all these linux dowloads and xbox live.

[MikeyMike]

washington dc

[hollenjj]

Earth --> North America --> USA --> Pennsylvania --> Moosic

[Uhlix]

nashville, TN :cool:

[Scoob_E]

I'm from Port St. Lucie, Florida - USA... a pretty boring place (if you ignore the last two hurricanes, thats excitement I can live without - nothing is worse that watching reports onthe hurricane when you relize the weather person is reporting live from two streets over... ah well...)

Scoob

[radu5er]

Now living in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Originally from Louisville, Kentucky...it's a long story :rolleyes:

[yr2alex]

Originally From the Bay, Massachusetts Bay (Boston) now residing in the Bay, Tampa Bay Area that is. :D

[ieuuk]

noooo us europeans are slipping behind

[Zyqwux]

Stockholm, Sweden and we will beat you in FIFA World Cup next year!

[Truthfatal]

I believe I put my location in my Profile...

{edit]
Yes siree I sure did!
It's over there somewhere
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[/edit]

[nlkrio]

Athens-Greece,the Football & Basketball European Champions!

[Zigzagcom]

Yeah, it is overcast and chilly here in So. Cal at the moment, but that's not so bad. Besides, I'm having fun trying to figure out SELinux. Funny, I ssh'd into a server and invoked system-config-securitylevel and promptly ruined my Webmin generated iptables. That was a new one...finally learned how to insert a firewall rule from the command line. Who needs sun when little victories like this come around.

[LinuxHippy]

I'm in Philadelphia, PA-USA using an AMD 64 and FC4 x86_64 with Verizon DSL.

[MaegRil]

I'm a Kiwi living in Norway. Next year I'm moving back home - it's too cold here.

[MadYan]

From France ... near Paris ! Frog eater !!! :p

[sailor]

Currently in San Antonio, Texas...but very likely that I will move to Chicago, Il early next year...brrrr
frogs is good eatin'...:p

[nlkrio]

From France ... near Paris ! Frog eater !!! :p

In Greece we eat frog legs :)

[ThijsH]

Currently I'm living in The Netherlands, but I hope I can study in Denmark when I've finished my school!

[codergeek42]

export HOME=/World/United_States/California/Southern/Counties/Orange:)

[JN4OldSchool]

Lady Lake, Florida here. About 30 miles north of Orlando, but we's mostly hicks y'all. We do the frog legs too, but mostly famous for our BBQ possum!

[nlkrio]

Lady Lake, Florida here. About 30 miles north of Orlando, but we's mostly hicks y'all. We do the frog legs too, but mostly famous for our BBQ possum!

We also eat snails,do you? :D

[tresslyn]

Tejas.

ZZ Top, and Stevie Ray Vaughn.

[EliteXR]

Hi!!

I live in middle east in my lovely small country ----> Bahrain

:) :) :cool:

[nlkrio]

Hi!!

I live in middle east in my lovely small country ----> Bahrain

:) :) :cool:

yes and too wealthy! :)

[sailor]

Tejas.

ZZ Top, and Stevie Ray Vaughn.

ain't nothing finer...

[tresslyn]

And list could on and on.

I have family in Hollywood hills. And was staying Downtown when the SPURS won the title. Couldn't have planned it better if I tried. :D

[bob]

My new home is Colton, NY ( I think it's short for "Cold Town") up by the Canadian border. If you think Chicago's going to be harsh, Sailor, come visit me when it's a brisk -20 F. Got to say though, that it would be hard to match the natural beauty and warmth of the people up here. After 60 years of living 'elsewhere', I'm finally home.

[Theradoor]

Europe, Sweden

[linelinx]

Norway :-)

[linmix]

<srikeout>sunny </strikeout> freezing Spain

[RedFedora]

I'm from eastern Canada. If you don't like our weather, wait five minutes.

[weinerdogus]

Original post by mhelios
Here in QLD, our average temperature has been around 31C (don't know the F equiv..). It's safe to say it's been a scorching summer thus fair. And the humidity makes it twice as bad.
Similar weather in Canada, west of Toronto. Up to 35C and humid in summer and down to -20C in winter. Spring and Fall are just right for golfing!

[Hotmamma]

Texas - moved here because they told me everything was bigger!

[bub]

Texas; been here since birth.

[omega*]

New York, just outside the city in Westchester County.

[axelseap]

wisconsin. where else can u go broke overpaying for gas?

[vlejo]

Belgium, Europe