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[Vikinor]

Are you reffering to me being a newb and my registration date? I have been around here since May or April of 2002. But I had some username troubles, and couldn't access my old name.

[Fealiks]

Yeah but you've not been here since 2002, you've been here for no longer than about... 9 months (?)

[Vikinor]

? I originally registerred in 2002. My posts on this name are the combined posts of this and my old name. Kurgan helped me with that.

And here? Meaning the Harbour?

[Joshi]

He probably means the Harbour, you're not exactly a regular here.

[Das Mole]

Originally Posted by Joshi

Only by a couple of months, but there was that one time, a few hours when you we'ren't here, and... things happened.

We don't talk about it.

*raises hand* i know!

holy sh!t. i actually know something. unfortunately, it's not about music or having a life.

whatever happened to remi?

[Joshi]

Haven't spoken to Remi in ages, his last post was over a month ago.

[Fealiks]

Remi? Who the hell's Remi?

Edit:
Oh you mean RemiO... I'm a little tired

[Vikinor]

Originally Posted by Joshi

He probably means the Harbour, you're not exactly a regular here.

That doesn't mean that I don't love you.

[Samnmax221]

He's mine bitch, untill I get tired of spending his checks and verbally abusing him!

[Joshi]

Why do people have a hard time spelling cheques?

[Smon]

Americans are lazy. We've almost completely phased out the letter U because a 25 letter alphabet is easier to remember. We're that lazy.

[Samnmax221]

That has alittle something to do with cultural differences between the UK and the US, why you nit-pick spelling and not my passive agressive additude is beyond me.

[Joshi]

A passive agressive attitude is all down to opinion, spelling is pretty definite. As a moderator, I'm safe (I'm a nit picking spelling jerk... but I'm safe)

[Samnmax221]

I see you took my advice on contraceptives, good for you!

[Joshi]

yeah, now if only people like Das Mole, Fealiks and Dr McCoy would take your advice, lord knows we don't want any more of those around.

[Samnmax221]

Thankfully they naturally repel chicks.

[Joshi]

Yeah, but just to be sure, I think I'm gonna have to go Darwin on their arses.

[Fealiks]

American spelling and pronuctuation sometimes makes more sense than ours, for instance, "can't", correct me if I'm wrong, should have an R in it for us Britons. But that is very rare. Usually American spelling sucks.

[Joshi]

When has can't ever had an R in it? "Can't" is an abbreiviation of "cannot" or "can" and "not". The abbreiviation works simply by taking the "can" adding a "`" and then the T at the end. R was never in there.

[Thrik]

Erm, nope Fealiks? I'm not sure where you picked that up.

And yes Joshi, the Americans do spell it as "check". There's literally hundreds of minor differences between the two languages other than the more commonly known "colour" type ones, so it's best to exert caution when correcting an American's spelling. Vice versa, too.

[Joshi]

Noted, I generally tend to know about these things, "check" caught me slightly off guard.

[Thrik]

I get the impression that the Americans went through their words and changed the spellings just to make a point.

I mean, they spell most of our "ised" words (realised, specialised, etc) with a Z, which seems like a completely unnecessary change. Then there's the obvious "colour" ones, which while may be more convenient to write, once again introduce unnecessary confusion and incompatibility.

[Smon]

Originally Posted by Thrik

I get the impression that the Americans went through their words and changed the spellings just to make a point.

I mean, they spell most of our "ised" words (realised, specialised, etc) with a Z, which seems like a completely unnecessary change. Then there's the obvious "colour" ones, which while may be more convenient to write, once again introduce unnecessary confusion and incompatibility.

Americans have and will always one goal with everything: Make it easier and cooler.

And the only letter cooler than X is Z, so that explains that.

...because we're awezome.

[Fealiks]

Originally Posted by Joshi

When has can't ever had an R in it? "Can't" is an abbreiviation of "cannot" or "can" and "not". The abbreiviation works simply by taking the "can" adding a "`" and then the T at the end. R was never in there.

I didn't say it ever did have an R in it, I said it should, you winkle. "CARn't" is how we pronounce it, although you're right, since it's an abbreviation I am wrong. Even if it had an R in it, that would be tricky for people with rhetoric accents such as Americans to pronounce.

[Thrik]

... I'm pretty sure that's how the Americans pronounce it too. Spelling isn't always dictated by pronunciation, otherwise we'd have no end of ridiculously spelt words. For example, a lot of this country pronounces 'bath' as 'barth', while in places such as where I reside (Nottinghamshire) it is completely not pronounced like that at all.

[Fealiks]

I'm with you. I pronounce "Bath" "Bath" and "Glass" "Glass", although I still pronounce "arse" "arse" (which really isn't a question of pronuctiation as "ass" and "arse" are technically seperate words).

[Joshi]

Originally Posted by Thrik

I get the impression that the Americans went through their words and changed the spellings just to make a point.

I'd assume (although I wouldn't take my assumption as fact) that after the whole independance thing, they wanted to make themselves more independant by spelling words differently... or something.

But yes Fealiks, if we were to spell words as they were pronounced, we'd have no end of oddly spelt words. Whilst it is true that America pronounces words differently (because they have a different accent), if we were to spell names in that way we'd have to have different spellings for the Scottish, Welsh, Irish, hell, different parts of england would spell it differently because of dialects. After living for 2 years in Newcastle I'm pretty sure yes should be spelt "Aye".

[Fealiks]

I didn't mean all words should be spelt as they were pronounced, I was being hypothetical to stress the difference in our accents. Otherwise, the people who invent assign characters for the pronuctiation section in the Oxford Dictionary would be put out of business. What I said was similar to saying "Some parts of America should spell "Mirror" as "Meer" ", not being serious, just a different way of getting my point across.

And, Joshi, would you please take that green pixel out of your avatar?!

[Joshi]

No, it's meant to be there, as explained before... what don't you get about that?

[Fealiks]

When taking photos of the sun, does the lens flare usually have a tiny little picture-hijacking spot that's brighter than the very soul of jesus?

[Samnmax221]

Not if you lock him in a closet

[Fealiks]

His soul is inside him so how is locking him in a closet going to do anything? You want to pin him to a cross. 'Course, he's gonna come back, he's immortal...

"The Bible Vol. II: The Cockroach Messiah"

[Gabez]

I like your avatar, Vikinor. What is the meaning behind it?

I like your avatar, Das Mole? Who is the person? Where was the photo taken?

[Alien426]

Originally Posted by Gabez

I like your avatar, Vikinor. What is the meaning behind it?

He was a skater boy
She said "See'ya later boy"
He wasn't good enough for her

[Joshi]

Originally Posted by Fealiks

When taking photos of the sun, does the lens flare usually have a tiny little picture-hijacking spot that's brighter than the very soul of jesus?

Apparently

[DarthAve]

I'm not saying my avatar is the best. But... Hedi Slimane does look extraordinarily hot in it ~babble and drool~

[Fealiks]

Originally Posted by Joshi

Apparently

I did say while taking a photo, not creating a lens flare in photoshop. Photoshop is flawed!

[Joshi]

Who ever said it was meant to be a picture of the sun? Infact why can't my avatar have that green speck in it?

Plus it tends to be the case that these filters are based on some kind of reality.

[Das Mole]

Originally Posted by Gabez

I like your avatar, Das Mole? Who is the person? Where was the photo taken?

person = myself. hence, sexxxiness.
location = the park down the street.

[Fealiks]

Joshi which looks better? The beautiful one:

Or the toss one with the single pixel of reflection which isn't possible (so there):

Edit:

The first one is supposed to have those artifacts.... honest...