Yebra's Thread

[Yebra]

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[Jebus]

Yebra is a wholly under-appreciated Pwebber and I support this thread.

He's also a slimey limey.

[eriador]

that sounds like an amazing trip, and I envy you.

I agree, Yebra is under-appreciated.

[Jayelle]

This makes me nostalgic for my *waves* thread...

Good on ya, Yebra. Hope your thread is a self-esteem booster.

[Virlomi]

You're just saying that because he's the only other Pwebber in the UK. Although I agree that I am a fan.

And this is going to spur a whole flood of poster threads. I always secretly wanted one on the old board, but I never had the chutzpah to make one.

[Gravity Defier]

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[Jayelle]

Alea, I've been meaning to say... I see your avatar as an x. It makes me miss it.

[Mahatma]

Oooh, Iceland, Sigur Ros? I'm jealous... I <3 Scandinavian cultures

[powerfulcheese04]

Yay, Yebra!


I too always wanted my own thread but lacked the guts to make it. I never felt like I really had anything worth talking about.

[Luet]

I've actually never wanted my own thread. So, what does THAT say about me?

[Yebra]

My new perverse thrill is making picky picky typo comments utterly lost.

I'm fairly sure that's Jebsy's in the Republic bit of Ireland, but I've been wrong before. To be honest I can't remember which side it's more insulting to mistake for the other. It's a bit like mistaking someone from the North to the South or vica versa. The Republic has the Euro which makes Scandinavia look like the dong of Europe (it's missing Norway).

Want to know a bizarre Icelandic fact? It's a rule that you must shower naked before using swimming pools. And they have people checking. Is this just bizarre to us inhibited brits?

Cheesy, you don't need to have anything to say, you just need to have lots of ways of saying you don't have anything to say. One of them is explaining that there are lots of ways of saying you don't have anything to say.

Another way to get around it is links like this FAKE MOON LANDING.

OMGZ.

[Jebus]

Yebra is quite right about me living in the Republic.

Time for a quick lesson for all those who don't know the difference:

The majority of the island of Ireland is part of the Republic of Ireland. The Republic is a sovereign state which gained independance from the United Kingdom about 80 years ago after centuries of opression. A small part of the island which underwent a social and religious change while Britain controlled Ireland chose to remain within the U.K and is known as the North of Ireland or Northern Ireland or simply "The North", but not North Ireland. Northern Ireland, along with England, Wales and Scotland make up the U.K.

I live in Dublin, which is the capital of the Republic, and due to our little inferiority complex, saying we're part of the U.K. usually generates hostility from Irish people.

[Virlomi]

My apologies. I'd make a snide remark at this point, but I get just as prickly when someone has the ignorant audacity to say that Virginia is not part of the South.

[Fris]

My apologies. I'd make a snide remark at this point, but I get just as prickly when someone has the ignorant audacity to say that Virginia is not part of the South.

Of course you're part of the South. Anything below Minnesota is part of the south.

[Jayelle]

Anything below Canada is part of the south.

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[jotabe]

I guess that mistaking Ireland for the UK is about as insulting as mistaking USA with Canada... who would be more insulted?

I know how you feel about that Jebus... in Galicia we feel the same, when someone thinks we are part of Spain...
wait...
*checks map*
oh, shucks...

[Yebra]

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[Jebus]

Glad to be right on that one. My powers of rememory are truly great. Centuries of oppression eh? I certainly didn't have any ancestors who were Irish landlords oh no...

Bah, imperialists.

[Jayelle]

*sits back at watches the fun*

[Yebra]

It's funny how little we're taught about the Empire period. It's a shame because it's interesting and brings it far closer to home. Sure, learning about Nazi Germany gets the message across, but teaching that the British pioneered the Concentration Camp system in South Africa would bring the message home.

Ireland is one of the few places in the world where the population is less now than during the time of Napoleon.

I think as a nation we've unconsciously swept it all under the mat.

[jotabe]

Being "The Empire" is always a nasty job. Mostly because human nature. "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupt absolutely" is way too true. But i think that humankind has been learning, and that shows in how Empires have been evolving. Morally speaking, Spain was a better Empire than Rome or Bizance (for example, the way conquered people were treated, the way wars were fought, birth of concepts of racial equality), England was better than Spain (fight against slavery, individual rights). The USA is better than Britain... we are really improving a lot.

Still we are all ashamed of our wrongs, and it's just human to try to cover them up. National pride and national shame. Collectively, it's hard to go against that... but it's important individuals do, even if only individually.

[Yebra]

The USA is better than Britain.

Personally I'm sticking with my welfare state, pro-gay rights, gun controlled little island for the moment.

Of course, if we're talking about empire, I think a lot of people would argue the US doesn't have one.

[jotabe]

I know they say they don't But still: the USA is the current militar hegemonic force in the world, and is kind of referee for international affairs and disputes (because of the UN inoperance). That's what i need to consider a country to be the Empire.

And i am not comparing nowadays USA to nowadays UK (i would rather live in UK, of course)... but i am comparing the job they are doing as Empire to the job England did as Empire in the XIX century.

[zeroguy]

My apologies. I'd make a snide remark at this point, but I get just as prickly when someone has the ignorant audacity to say that Virginia is not part of the South.

Most of it is. I just say I'm from around DC.

Edit: Yay, Yebra is proud of me!

[Virlomi]

No offense, but northern VA doesn't really count as being part of the state, I don't think. It's such it's own entity.

On a side note, I had no idea you lived in Virginia! I thought I was all by myself. Well, Noah lived in DC when he used to be around, and of course at one time there was the infamous Han Tzu in Richmond, but currently at least I thought I was all by my lonesome in our lovely state. ...Not that I'm there currently, but well, you know.

[Luet]

I remember being so disappointed when I found out in elementary school that NY was not part of New England. I still consider it an unofficial part, tho, so there!

[Eddie Pinz]

How dare you try to get out of the mid-atlantic states!!!

*shakes an angry fist*

[zeroguy]

I remember being so disappointed when I found out in elementary school that NY was not part of New England. I still consider it an unofficial part, tho, so there!

Wait, what? I thought it was right in the middle of New England. What direction does it need to go in to be part of it?

And Virlomi, no offense taken at all. We try and distinguish ourselves as much as possible from the rest of the state. (And I'm from there; I'm not actually living there right now.)

I liked seeing one of the election results from a few years ago (for governor, I think, or something), and you see pretty much all of Virginia is red. Except for Fairfax County, which was blue.

[Nova]

I remember being so disappointed when I found out in elementary school that NY was not part of New England. I still consider it an unofficial part, tho, so there!

i love New England! i was born there but now i live in Kentucky...sorry that was really random

[powerfulcheese04]

Ed! You're back!

[Young Val]

nope, New England is only Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. doesn't include New York. but that's ok, i think. Boston has an inferiority complex. it deserves to be the only "big city" in New England.

[Yebra]

So naturally this thread because the state thread. I've only been to New York and Ohio, driven through a few more. They don't all seem that different, but I guess I've been staying mostly to the eastern states-ish.

*rerails to whatever topic I feel like talking about*

Who watches Veronica Mars? I came in last season and am HOOKED. For a weekly whodunnit there's none better.

[hive_king]

Yeah, a brit like you wouldn't know the difference, would you *glare*

[Jebus]

There's a huge difference between the states. For example, Starbuck's White Chocolate Mocha is famous for being slightly sweeter in Ohio than it is in Indiana.

Just one of the many differences that make up the extremely culturally diverse nation.