What country do people think you're from?

[lurkingdirk]

People think I'm Canadian. It might be because I always wear a touque and lumberjack jacket. Or it might be because I travel exclusively by dog sled.

 

[xfire]

I'm a mixed bag, as most Americans. My paternal roots are predominately Scot and French, my maternal roots predominately Manx and Cherokee, with plenty of other spices thrown in on both sides.

No one hasn't actually asked me where I'm from.

Dude, where are you from?

 

[Harley Spencer]

Why?
You should talk to my wife; what she'll tell you will put you off English men for life.

So... what if I'm just fat, freshly washed, wearing smart clothes, sitting on my sofa (we say sofa not couch over here in the UK, although sadly americanisms are spreading and I percieve our youth as losing their heritage to american media), enjoy the gym, no slobber and don't like farts, could I take you out?


Ya see, I don't get why people wear contacts or glases; the eyes are the window to the soul and they can be just so beautiful (any woman who doesn't have pretty eyes has an incredible disadvantage in my book), so why would you wish to obscure your eyes with glasses or contacts?

Why? Because I like the accent.

We call it a sofa in America from time to time as well.

I wear both glasses and contacts, but usually my contacts. I need them because I need to see. If I didn't wear them, I wouldn't be able to see jack shit. I can be 2 feet away from something without my contacts or glasses and still not be able to read it. Even right now if I didn't have my contacts in and I was trying to type/read on here, I wouldn't be able to, I'd have to have my face practically an inch from the screen. It's terrible. But I like colored contacts because I just like to play around with my eye color. Brown is boring to me and that's my eye color naturally is.

 

[vodkazvictim]

Yeah..... I had a week in France a couple of weeks ago and there were only two of us (out of six) that were genuine football fans, but when we were having a conversation about the shameful behaviour of "Britain abroad" and I happily agreed that I abhor people that wear their football kits abroad on holiday, wearing their "colours" in some tribal display as though it were a coat of arms. It's pathetic, like people in other countries give a shit, or other fans will see you "representing" in a foreign country. I really think lads who were football shirts when they are neither watching nor playing the game are wankers. Incidentally the whole week I only spotted one typical yobbo wearing his football top at the bar.... a Liverpool fan. Say no more.



In my house we still say settee. :uohs:

And yes, the spreading of Americanisms is terrible. I have one friend that says "my bad" which I cannot stand, and anybody born in this country that says "season" in place of "series" makes me want to slap them.

Settee is fine, but only when pronounced with a scouse accent.




Yeah I'm serious.






:tongue:
What are you, a Manc?

I'm a mixed bag, as most Americans. My paternal roots are predominately Scot and French, my maternal roots predominately Manx and Cherokee, with plenty of other spices thrown in on both sides.



Dude, where are you from?

He's Swedish.

Why? Because I like the accent.

We call it a sofa in America from time to time as well.

I wear both glasses and contacts, but usually my contacts. I need them because I need to see. If I didn't wear them, I wouldn't be able to see jack shit. I can be 2 feet away from something without my contacts or glasses and still not be able to read it. Even right now if I didn't have my contacts in and I was trying to type/read on here, I wouldn't be able to, I'd have to have my face practically an inch from the screen. It's terrible. But I like colored contacts because I just like to play around with my eye color. Brown is boring to me and that's my eye color naturally is.

Hmm...
Interesting. Personally, when I see coloured contacts I always think "What? Why!?"
It's worst with Asian girls locally (by which I mean ladies of Indian/Pakistani/Middle-Eastern origin - over here we call them Asians and what you call Asians we call Orientals); rarely they can have green or blue eyes, but frequently you'll pass them in the street wearing contacts and when you think just how beautiful the eyes naturally (And Asian ladies can have very beautifull dark eyes IMHO) are it just irks me that they would go with something so obviously fake. Even a bad boobjob wold be better. But that's just my opinion, you enjoy playing with your appearance; I used to play with mine; weird hair colours and outfits going clubbing (eg hair half neon pink and half neon green, or black and red camoflage body paint and not much else. But then I was a raver boy).

 

[Harley Spencer]

And yes, the spreading of Americanisms is terrible. I have one friend that says "my bad" which I cannot stand, and anybody born in this country that says "season" in place of "series" makes me want to slap them.

Speaking of seasons. I love how English people say "holidays" for what we call simply a "vacation." At the very first job I ever had waiting tables at a diner, a guy from Scotland came in and talked to me for a while at the bar. It was Summer. He asked, "So are you enjoying the holidays?" I had to stop and think for a second, I was so confused... I'm just thinking, holidays? What holiday is it? But then it registered to me what he meant.

Hmm...
Interesting. Personally, when I see coloured contacts I always think "What? Why!?"
It's worst with Asian girls locally (by which I mean ladies of Indian/Pakistani/Middle-Eastern origin - over here we call them Asians and what you call Asians we call Orientals); rarely they can have green or blue eyes, but frequently you'll pass them in the street wearing contacts and when you think just how beautiful the eyes naturally (And Asian ladies can have very beautifull dark eyes IMHO) are it just irks me that they would go with something so obviously fake. Even a bad boobjob wold be better. But that's just my opinion, you enjoy playing with your appearance; I used to play with mine; weird hair colours and outfits going clubbing (eg hair half neon pink and half neon green, or black and red camoflage body paint and not much else. But then I was a raver boy).

I understand what you're saying. But I think for the asian girls, it's mostly because they want to be different. It'd be like a black girl wearing blue contacts, it's just something different, something you don't see. I've actually always wanted to try purple contacts, but because my eyes are naturally brown, with the purple contacts it just looks like sort of a gray color. Personally, I just really love light or bright colored eyes.

You sound like you must've been a fun guy growing up.

 

[Death-Proof-69]

Slavic? You must be fugly then.

you'd have to ask someone who knows me.

 

[Briana Lee]

Ya know, I've got a thing for girls from the Midwest, St. Louis specifically. Especially if they're a quarter Chinese, have pugs named Lola, and like to post pictures of their boobs on the interwebz. Know of anyone you could hook me up with? :shy:

You Might be in luck....

Yes, you should hook us up.

I would never be that mean to Harley!

Anyway, you said our relationship was exclusive now!! :dunno:

 

[vodkazvictim]

Speaking of seasons. I love how English people say "holidays" for what we call simply a "vacation." At the very first job I ever had waiting tables at a diner, a guy from Scotland came in and talked to me for a while at the bar. It was Summer. He asked, "So are you enjoying the holidays?" I had to stop and think for a second, I was so confused... I'm just thinking, holidays? What holiday is it? But then it registered to me what he meant.



I understand what you're saying. But I think for the asian girls, it's mostly because they want to be different. It'd be like a black girl wearing blue contacts, it's just something different, something you don't see. I've actually always wanted to try purple contacts, but because my eyes are naturally brown, with the purple contacts it just looks like sort of a gray color. Personally, I just really love light or bright colored eyes.

You sound like you must've been a fun guy growing up.

:nono:
Men never grow up.

you'd have to ask someone who knows me.

You Might be in luck....



I would never be that mean to Harley!

Anyway, you said our relationship was exclusive now!! :dunno:

Ouch!
I only said that so that, in the name of love, you'd be gentler with the strap-on.

 

[D-rock]

I have a pretty mixed heritage and don't look like any particular one. At least I don't think so. If forced to pick I would say Eastern European would be the closest I could come up with if the US wasn't a valid answer.



After reading this I do suppose I have to go and improve my fake British accent. :1orglaugh

 

[L3ggy]

Dude, where are you from?

Where does it look like?

 

[PlasmaTwa2]

South Africa. Apparently my perceived accent makes up for my lack of blackness.

 

[xfire]

Where does it look like?

Somewhere snowy.

 

[Chopper3000]

Yeah..... I had a week in France a couple of weeks ago and there were only two of us (out of six) that were genuine football fans, but when we were having a conversation about the shameful behaviour of "Britain abroad" and I happily agreed that I abhor people that wear their football kits abroad on holiday, wearing their "colours" in some tribal display as though it were a coat of arms. It's pathetic, like people in other countries give a shit, or other fans will see you "representing" in a foreign country. I really think lads who were football shirts when they are neither watching nor playing the game are wankers. Incidentally the whole week I only spotted one typical yobbo wearing his football top at the bar.... a Liverpool fan. Say no more.



In my house we still say settee. :uohs:

And yes, the spreading of Americanisms is terrible. I have one friend that says "my bad" which I cannot stand, and anybody born in this country that says "season" in place of "series" makes me want to slap them.

I have a United shirt which I only wear when I'm at the match. I never wear a footy shirt outside of the game or on holiday. You just look like a ne'er-do-well or gutter snipe in my opinion.

 

[L3ggy]

Somewhere snowy.

You'd be right.

 

[Harley Spencer]

You'd be right.

Alaska?
Greenland?

Just some guesses.

 

[L3ggy]

Further east.

 

[Harley Spencer]

Further east.

Hm... Iceland, Finland, Norway, Estonia, Svalbard, Russia?

If it's none of those, I give up.

 

[L3ggy]

Why not.

 

[Briana Lee]

Ouch!
I only said that so that, in the name of love, you'd be gentler with the strap-on.

Wow, well you'd better believe I'm using that 18 inch one next time! You know, the one I said I'll only use on 'special' occasions!!

Where does it look like?

Antarctica?! :dunno:

 

[Harley Spencer]

Why not.

Why not what? Now I'm confused.