Should D&D be more American?

[Tonguez]

On a somewhat funny but yet sad note had an English friend come over to the states one time and he got the crap kicked out of him in NY for saying out loud that he was gonna go and smoke a fag.

Thats a somewhat disturbing story that is - sort of reflective of all the Yank soldiers who got beaten up over here when they talked about pinching fanny (which is not the rear end)

I always laughed at Scooby Doo because of Shaggy and would sit there eagerly waiting for Thelma to call out :
"Scooby shag Daphne!" - eeew disgusting!

and I love the fact that I can go to America and say "Bugger y'all ya pack of Wankers you all need a good Shag anyway"

(they sell Wanker Beer in the US (invented by a New Zealannder too)

oh and Soda = Soft Drink, Soda Water and Creaming Soda are distinct types of Soft Drink not to be confused with Baking Soda

Actually everyone should speak New Zealand English since we can use both EE and AE and not have any problems with it

and just how many dialects of English are spoken in Britain - my grandfathers from Preston, Lancashire and he sounds nothing like an Eastender...

 

[Tsyr]

No, they're pops. Faygo pop, dammit.

I dunno what he means by fried sandwiches though. Everyone knows grinders are the baked ones, like at Mancinos. Mmmm, Mancinos.

Subway serves subs, the poor man's grinder.

Around here, it can be either... Mancino's bakes them, Gurney's fries them, the college caffeteria ruins them, etc.

I know people who call all pops "faygos"... sick people, they are.

Re: Subs being the poor mans grinder... yeah, kinda, but I can get a sub in 1 minute on a good day... on a good day, a grinder still takes 10 minutes. Cheaper, too.

Mancino's Steak and Cheese Grinder, hold the green peppers, extra onions... mmmm...

Man, now I'm hungry...

Re: What part of michigan I'm from... Petoskey. Uhhh... It's up near Macinaw City, by the bridge... about a half-hour drive south of it, or a 70 minute drive north-ish from Traverse City...

Us seen from space:

http://www.picturemichigan.net/space/petosky.jpg

 

[Henry]

That is one subject that has always fascinated me - why, for instance, in England you have multiple dialects of the language all withing relative close proximity to one another, yet in the U.S., you have different dialects, but they cover much wider areas. Most southeastern U.S. citizens will sound close to the same, yet the area in question is much broader than, say, the U.K.

Perhaps the geography in the U.K. promotes isolation between different groups more than I ever realized?

 

[Tsyr]

and I love the fact that I can go to America and say "Bugger y'all ya pack of Wankers you all need a good Shag anyway"

Just curious... are you under the impression that we don't know what these words mean?

 

[Tonguez]

Just curious... are you under the impression that we don't know what these words mean?

well the better informed, more aware RPG community excluded

oh and do you really know what a Wanker is?

 

[Tsyr]

well the better informed, more aware RPG community excluded

oh and do you really know what a Wanker is?

Fairly certain, yes.

Can't exactly explain it to prove it... Eric's Granny and all...

Around here, it's generaly considered fairly childish... middle school, early highschool, that level.

See, Americans have actualy come to adopt a lot of the british words like that... but we don't treat them quite as harshly as we do our own equivilant... And I suspect a lot of people don't actualy know what they mean... but enough people do.

 

[RSKennan]

yup

 

[Tom Cashel]

oh and do you really know what a Wanker is?

General rule for the use of public urinals:

"More than three shakes is a wank."

Now where's my wacky backy, you bar stewards?

 

[kenjib]

The fact that American's were to ignorant to tell the difference between a chip and a french fry, could be why they are so overweight, or it could be due to their invention of another famous potato product, the couch potato.

Two words for you: fry up

Yeah, our weight problem have nothing to do with British cultural roots! Also, Britain is very close to the US in terms of weight problems (as are several other countries).

At this moment you're posting on the internet with American browser software, off a web site probably running on hardware and software developed in the US, using a personal computer (likely imported as well and running Windows, MacOS, or Linux), reading by the light of a light bulb, at a location that you got to driving an automobile. Oh, by the way, did you need that electricity? We've got your old stuff. You've got our new stuff.

P.S. Airplane -- Leonardo DaVinci

P.S.S. Printing Press -- China and Paper -- Egypt

P.S.S.S. We DO have a rich history of medieval artifacts -- haven't you ever heard of Medieval Times Dinner and Tournament? DUH!

P.S.S.S.S. Africans invented language. Let's all speak a reconstructed paleolithic language.

 

[Tsyr]

P.S. Airplane -- Leonardo DaVinci

P.S.S. Printing Press -- China and Paper -- Egypt

P.S.S.S. We DO have a rich history of medieval artifacts -- haven't you ever heard of Medieval Times Dinner and Tournament? DUH!

P.S.S.S.S. Africans invented language. Let's all speak a reconstructed paleolithic language.

Actualy, the correct format here is, if anything, P.P.S, etc... at least, I would think... P.S. stands for Post Script, so... "post script script" doesn't make much sense... "post post script" doesn't make a ton either, but I think it sounds a little better.