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Thread ID: 84109	2007-10-24 21:33:00	Linux Guru Wanted	pctek (84)	PC World Chat

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604972	2007-10-26 06:02:00	From your point of view maybe. From my current point of view (and I am unanimous in this) South is to the left, North is to the right where it belongs, and the refrigerator is to the South/East as is only fit and proper. Down is central and up is by far the longest. When I go to bed, South and North will stay in their appointed places, West will be down and East will be up. (Relative to me, and Einstein says that is what counts.) The fridge will be to the South, but since I will be in bed it will not only be a fridge but a red herring as well. There are a lot of them around here. If you think I am going for a spin in bed just to suit your post, sorry. And as for maps, I can only say that anyone needing a map in bed is in need of some life enhancement potions. Who said my life lacked direction? I am surrounded by them. I am looking into finding someone to look at your problems, a shrink perhaps.!	Cicero (40)
604973	2007-10-26 09:15:00	Shrinking is good, after all "De minimis non curat lex". Safety first. :thumbs:	R2x1 (4628)
604974	2007-10-26 17:00:00	When a van arrives,don't panic.:rolleyes:	Cicero (40)
604975	2007-10-26 18:31:00	I don't have an accent. You do.Give the accent time, it afflicts everyone south of Dunedin sooner or later :p (I think I still have mine on certain words, and it's been 20 years since I left the deep south)	Myth (110)
604976	2007-10-27 15:58:00	I don't have an accent . You do . That's interesting . . I never think of myself as having an accent . . . . . mine is just natural to where I live I think . . . Do youse guys hear or notice an American accent? . . Hmmm . . . interesting . . . . Anyway . . . do you think a US accent is easier to understand by English-speaking people in other countries? I hear Cockney, and although it's supposed to be English, it is a little hard to follow . Aussie is a little strange to the American ear . . but if we listen real hard, we can kinda figger out what's being said . Which English accent do you think is more universally understood by other English-speakers? My question here is on the "UNIVERSAL" English tongue, not just what you may think is easier in your locale .	SurferJoe46 (51)
604977	2007-10-27 16:25:00	That's interesting . . I never think of myself as having an accent . . . . . mine is just natural to where I live I think . . . Do youse guys hear or notice an American accent? . . Hmmm . . . interesting . . . . Anyway . . . do you think a US accent is easier to understand by English-speaking people in other countries? I hear Cockney, and although it's supposed to be English, it is a little hard to follow . Aussie is a little strange to the American ear . . but if we listen real hard, we can kinda figger out what's being said . Which English accent do you think is more universally understood by other English-speakers? My question here is on the "UNIVERSAL" English tongue, not just what you may think is easier in your locale . What I would like to know is,do you notice a different attitude to things on the kiwi front,than you would from a similar forum in USA?	Cicero (40)
604978	2007-10-27 17:56:00	What I would like to know is,do you notice a different attitude to things on the kiwi front,than you would from a similar forum in USA? Yeah . . . I do . . . . I find a depth of, and inquisitiveness for things in the Down Under folks that I don't seem to get in the US sites . . . . that and the fact that there seems to be a broad difference in the education of Upsidedowners too . . . in a positive way . Social advancement in the grades is much more important than a real education in the US . . as they don't want to mentally scar a youth here by not letting him stay in the same group as his peers . "Students" and I use that term very loosely here in the US, have a running knowledge of the name of Angelina Jolie's baby and it's birth weight . . . but haven't a clue on electron flow or how to create a complete a sentence with a noun and a verb . I have been amazed and pleasantly surprised by the insight and intelligence of most, if not currently all, the posters on F1 . What I don't find in the US sites is a sense of humor . . . and I feel that is a true measure of intelligence and indicative of well-read people . Not shy to do some tail twisting of youse guys . . . it makes me feel really accepted on most fronts here . I just have this strange parallax view of things and yet most NZrs seem to see it and accept it for what it is . Another thing I like here is the depth of field in things worldly that NZers have . Most Americans have NO CLUE about anything going on outside of it's borders . I find the NZ penchant for atheism and agnosticism somewhat disturbing, but not totally misunderstood either . Perhaps I am only seeing a slice of NZ . . but I feel that I have a pretty good view of a cultural cross section here . Remember that I live in a country that considers itself christian (small "c") and doesn't have much clue what it really DOES believe or believes anything that their parents believed without a real afterthought . Ultimately, I suppose that I think of NZ as a staunch defender of civil and moral rights, and a rather powerful sense of individualism . We have a few Kiwis here in Hemet/San Jacinto, but I think they are either watered-down versions of youse guys or they are inferiors of what I find interesting in people who really live where you are . They seem to be opinionated OK, but without a real reason to be so . Maybe they were deported . :D	SurferJoe46 (51)
604979	2007-10-27 20:02:00	Give the accent time, it afflicts everyone south of Dunedin sooner or later : The only people who do the r thing grew up here. As I spent my first xx years elsewhere it won't happen. My friend moved to Ngapara 7 years ago, her son was young enough to have learnt the r's, her daughter was old enough that she still doesn't and probably never will.	pctek (84)
604980	2007-10-27 20:56:00	Yeah . . . I do . . . . I find a depth of, and inquisitiveness for things in the Down Under folks that I don't seem to get in the US sites . . . . that and the fact that there seems to be a broad difference in the education of Upsidedowners too . . . in a positive way . Social advancement in the grades is much more important than a real education in the US . . as they don't want to mentally scar a youth here by not letting him stay in the same group as his peers . "Students" and I use that term very loosely here in the US, have a running knowledge of the name of Angelina Jolie's baby and it's birth weight . . . but haven't a clue on electron flow or how to create a complete a sentence with a noun and a verb . I have been amazed and pleasantly surprised by the insight and intelligence of most, if not currently all, the posters on F1 . What I don't find in the US sites is a sense of humor . . . and I feel that is a true measure of intelligence and indicative of well-read people . Not shy to do some tail twisting of youse guys . . . it makes me feel really accepted on most fronts here . I just have this strange parallax view of things and yet most NZrs seem to see it and accept it for what it is . Another thing I like here is the depth of field in things worldly that NZers have . Most Americans have NO CLUE about anything going on outside of it's borders . I find the NZ penchant for atheism and agnosticism somewhat disturbing, but not totally misunderstood either . Perhaps I am only seeing a slice of NZ . . but I feel that I have a pretty good view of a cultural cross section here . Remember that I live in a country that considers itself christian (small "c") and doesn't have much clue what it really DOES believe or believes anything that their parents believed without a real afterthought . Ultimately, I suppose that I think of NZ as a staunch defender of civil and moral rights, and a rather powerful sense of individualism . We have a few Kiwis here in Hemet/San Jacinto, but I think they are either watered-down versions of youse guys or they are inferiors of what I find interesting in people who really live where you are . They seem to be opinionated OK, but without a real reason to be so . Maybe they were deported . :D I am a pom,a limey to you and I find I love the a good keen man kind as written about by Barry Crump,you should read him to get the picture . Met is nearly one,so you get the picture .	Cicero (40)
604981	2007-10-27 21:02:00	Barry's books are framed around characters in the upper south Island (My dad being one of them), Not lower south.	beama (111)
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