Discussion » 21:26 03 July 2001

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Posted by cal, 21:26, 3rd July 2001:
 
There's a weblogs panel at the 2001 NetMedia conference in London, so which prolific uk blogger to they invite to sit on the panel? Err, Jason...
Posted by tom, 16:38, 4th July 2001:
 
HEY! YEAH! I just realised that! THOSE FUCKS!
Posted by mattjacob, 06:36, 5th July 2001:
 
with myself being an American, and today being our Independence Day, you wouldn't believe how hard i just laughed...
Posted by cal, 16:48, 5th July 2001:
 
testing...
Posted by Suzie, 19:01, 5th July 2001:
 
I was being a symbolic brit yesterday.. I wore a t-shirt with the Union Jack on it and everything..

Damn Americans..
Posted by ell, 23:13, 5th July 2001:
 
Woo! Agreed 100% You go girl! ;)
Posted by Suzie, 19:03, 6th July 2001:
 
ty Ell
Posted by ell, 20:38, 6th July 2001:
 
*Burns stars & stripes, humming "God save the Queen"* ;)
*sautes*
Posted by mattjacob, 22:56, 6th July 2001:
 
yeah, well, we saved your asses in ww2!
Posted by ell, 16:15, 7th July 2001:
 
WHEN you finally joined! :D

Hehehe, has anyone seen "Shriek if you know what I did last Friday the 13th"? It gets the award for LEAST politically correct quote:
"God, a student was killed last night.."
"This is America, kids get killed all time time in highschool!"
"No, this kid was white, AND she was popular."
Posted by Suzie, 16:53, 7th July 2001:
 
MJ, I just stopped responding to someone's emails for a few days for a comment similar to that, you have NO idea how tiresome it gets.. For some reason whenever it comes to proving the greatness of an american over a brit, the phrase "We kicked your asses in x war" seems to come up a lot.. Surprising, specially considering that most of the people I know weren't even alive in whatever war they're referring to.. I wasn't aware that the american belief in reincarnation was so widespread :p

Ell.. lol
Posted by rodney, 23:16, 7th July 2001:
 
Hmmm .... well, if you want to be historically accurate about it, it was the Russians who saved everyone's asses in WW2...
Posted by mattjacob, 06:43, 8th July 2001:
 
hehehe. i think that americans just don't like you because you have accents. accents that make you sound snobby...
Posted by sal, 10:34, 8th July 2001:
 
haha, that has to be the funniest comment I've heard all week. Americans don't have accents....pfft
"ahh gee! look at that! aint that quaint! let's go get some more cheeseburgers!"
*starts running*
and I wouldn't say someone from Birmingham for example sounded snobby ;)
Posted by Suzie, 16:09, 8th July 2001:
 
I hardly have an accent at all anymore, lost it on purpose because so many people said "Hey, I looove your accent".. Gets really tiresome after a while.. As in, seriously, every person I met would comment on my accent.. Now it's only about one in 10.. which is at least somewhat improved..

And everyone has an accent.. You just don't think you do.. But to a brit, you have an american accent, to an australian you would too..
Posted by mattjacob, 01:53, 9th July 2001:
 
sal, i have never said "quaint". never. but seriously, i don't see what the big deal is. we're all really the same people, 'cept that americans split off and bettered themselves for about 200 years...
Posted by ell, 16:12, 9th July 2001:
 
WHAAAT!? Split off, to form a dogmatic, slave-trading culture that glorified a brutal civil war that killed thousands. 'Twas nothing but an extension of the dark ages... the much-touted declaration of independance was a hypocratic joke that ignored women and african settlers, and "freedom of speech and religion" basicaly amounted to getting persecuted if you didn't conform to the beliefs, or spoke out against the leaders. Oh yeah, and there was that teeny little genocidal thing going when the native American peoples were wiped out to make room for the settlers...

Britain may have a shady past (yes, there was that Elizabethan global-domination thing we had going), but America has NOTHING to be proud of in its entire history. And what have 200 years of betterment and enlightenment led to? 3 Words: George Bush Jr.


...


:O WHOAH! Sorry, kinda went overboard there. Don't mean to offend anyone; I was having this argument with someone the other day too....

*takes more ritalin*
Posted by ell, 16:13, 9th July 2001:
 
If you have access to nuclear weapons, feel free to use them on central Europe by the way. :D The EMU must be destroyed!!
Posted by cal, 16:16, 9th July 2001:
 
Rod Hull wouldn't be happy. Oh, THAT emu ;)
Posted by Suzie, 22:12, 9th July 2001:
 
LOL.. I saw Rod Hull live when I was a kid.. in Yarmouth no less..
Posted by ell, 00:45, 10th July 2001:
 
Hehe, ditto Suz. :D

THAT Emu rocked... a huge evil bird that attacked his owner? What kid wouldn't love?!!
Posted by ell, 00:47, 10th July 2001:
 
...and Emu was as British as you can get. :P ;)
Posted by Suzie, 17:17, 10th July 2001:
 
Yeah, no kidding..

I saw Orville too, and the monkey.. whatever his name was..
Posted by ell, 21:19, 10th July 2001:
 
Orville the green baby bird scared the living daylights out of me! Hmm, the monkey... "Chuckles" or something, right?

Cal, when you gonna update? :P *shakes fist*
Posted by phil, 21:32, 10th July 2001:
 
The monkey was Cuddles... aw, heck. Why do I profess to knowing that? :)
Posted by phil, 21:33, 10th July 2001:
 
The monkey was Cuddles... aw, heck. Why do I profess to knowing that? :)
Posted by phil, 21:37, 10th July 2001:
 
(oops, so that's what "Unable to refresh without resending information means...)
Posted by Suzie, 02:55, 11th July 2001:
 
lol Phil..

I had a toy orville, when you pulled a string he said all his catch phrases like, "I didn't have a mummy or daddy"

and "Where's me prize?"

"I didn't, Noooo, I didn't."..

He had a nappy with a plastic saftey pin too, it always fell off..

Come to think of it, he was kinda scary..

Yeah, cuddles, that was it.. :)
Posted by cal, 07:20, 11th July 2001:
 
i'll update today i think. just been really busy and stuff.
Posted by sal, 12:43, 11th July 2001:
 
did anyone else watch Rainbow?
Posted by mo, 13:37, 11th July 2001:
 
Paint... The... Whole... World... With... A... GRAYBO!

Graybo is Jeffery. Jeffery is Graybo. It is as yet undecided as to whether I am Rod, Jane, or Freddy.
Posted by cal, 13:39, 11th July 2001:
 
i'm zippy
Posted by Suzie, 15:48, 11th July 2001:
 
I'm George, the sexual identity challenged pink hippo...
Posted by cal, 16:13, 11th July 2001:
 
we know
Posted by ell, 18:05, 11th July 2001:
 
/me is defintaely a zippy...
Posted by sal, 19:10, 11th July 2001:
 
zippy 0wned
Bungle was just scary...
Posted by mattpollard, 19:52, 11th July 2001:
 
George blatantly had a sex change. It was either male to female or female to male. Not sure which. Don't want to know which.

Okay, I'll shut up. :)
Posted by henry, 23:10, 11th July 2001:
 
"It was either male to female or female to male."
The other choices being...?
Posted by mo, 00:53, 12th July 2001:
 
The other choices being wholly inappropriate for primetime children's entertainment.
Posted by Suzie, 03:00, 12th July 2001:
 
And a pink hippo who'd had a sex change being *appropriate*?

George was cool, zippy was just a brat..

Bungle was too blatantly a sweaty guy in a bear suit, who, come to think of it, also had his own sexual identity problems.. I seem to remember him wearing an apron frequently.. and generally being a bit of a wuss..
Posted by cal, 06:50, 12th July 2001:
 
i think rainbow is an interesting reflection on modern society. or something like that.
Posted by Suzie, 14:45, 12th July 2001:
 
Write a 1000 word dissertation on the subject then
Posted by ell, 16:07, 14th July 2001:
 
And have it on my desk by Monday morning.
Posted by ell, 01:44, 16th July 2001:
 
It's 1:48, Monday morning, and I don't see your essay, Mr Henderson. You'd better have a blog update for us instead then! :P
Posted by sal, 09:21, 16th July 2001:
 
Ell, it aint happening ;)
right, someone find the detention slips