Can we Have a WIP Thread? - Page 6

Tiny Turtle · 12-01-2004, 01:50 AM

I wonder if it's some U.K. specialty with the "2th" as written in #8. How do I pronounce that?

Surferminn · 12-01-2004, 02:09 AM

ROLF!!

!!

!! Just the chuckle I needed at this hour. Thanks, Tiny.

cjmaddy · 12-01-2004, 04:01 AM

Ah! ... you mean No. 8, .......... you need a sense of humour.

Tiny Turtle · 12-01-2004, 04:34 AM

Actually I mean nr. 8. I'm Scandinavian – I dont need a sense of humour...

/Tiny Svede

Jav400 · 12-01-2004, 07:39 AM

Tiny,

Anyone that lives where it is only daylight ~6 hours a day and freezing cold to boot part of the time definately needs a sense of humor.

Tiny Turtle · 12-01-2004, 07:54 AM

No you don't. You just smile a lot just before it freezes and then your face gets stuck like that for four months...

Up where I did my military service someone said they only have two seasons – winter and August. Immediately someone else corrected him and said it was winter and August 15th (guess that's August 15st to Cliff

)

Tiny Temps

Michael Babin · 12-01-2004, 11:26 AM

Originally posted by jleslie
...your mileage may vary (as the Americans tend to say).

What a great way to win friends and influence people. Almost as bad as that idiotic letter-writing campaign to try to tell voters in an Ohio county how they should vote.

- Michael

feldon34 · 12-01-2004, 01:06 PM

I thought it was hilarious when I saw it shortly after America went through Indecision 2000.

jleslie · 12-02-2004, 03:26 AM

I thought it was funny, but also a pocket guide to some of the differences between English and American.

I certainly didn't imagine anyone would really be offended, so if anyone doesn't have their tongue in their cheek please do remember it's a joke!

...and why is everyone ignoring the Pulsing Xenia comment - this is an aquarium forum after all! I'll try to shoot some video to explain what I'm on about.

Jim Sachs · 12-02-2004, 10:59 AM

Sure, it's funny - and we do love you Brits for sticking by us even when we're wrong - but this one cuts pretty close to the Forum's "no political comments" rule. With this country more deeply divided than it's been since the Civil War, nerves are raw and tempers are short.

Surferminn · 12-02-2004, 11:59 AM

Hi Leslie -- Thank you for your link. I am also of this country and I do not feel divided and my nerves are not raw nor my temper short nor are those of many with whom I associate. I did very much appreciate the humor contained in the paper and had to sit on myself not to retort (humourously of course) to the comments contained therein (thank you Tiny and Jav for your short but succinct responses). I have passed your paper on to a few others who also got a chuckle. I hope you continue to post in our forum on this and many of our other threads as poor Cliff is almost singlehanded representing your small isle. And, I also liked seeing the "minor" differences between our 2 cultures laid out so funnily which was the first flag that went up when I read this.

Minn

cjmaddy · 12-02-2004, 01:38 PM

Hear hear!

... and thanks!

Tiny Turtle · 12-03-2004, 02:28 AM

"Small isle"? I thought it was "Great Britain"

jleslie · 12-03-2004, 03:10 AM

That probably refers to population density. We have about 20.5% of the US population in 2.5% the area. I wonder if someone lost a decimal point somewhere when they planned all this?
(60M vs 293M in 244K vs 9.6M, or "slightly smaller than oregon" as a U.S. source says, but hey, we like it - except the commuting, of course!)

cjmaddy · 12-03-2004, 03:38 AM

Just think, 'Planet of the Apes', - that brings them back down to size!

Tiny Turtle · 12-03-2004, 04:19 AM

Population densities in a readable form:

The Netherlands: 385.3 people/km²
Great Britain: 245.1 people/km²
Denmark: 125.3 people/km²
The United States of America: 29.5 people/km²
Sweden: 19.8 people/km²
New Zeeland: 14.4 people/km²
Canada 3.1 people/km²
Australia: 2.5 people/km²

/Tiny Statistics

cjmaddy · 12-03-2004, 04:38 AM

That makes us very dense doesn't it!.

................. (Before anyone else says it!)

Jav400 · 12-03-2004, 06:29 AM

Jav looks away and bites his tongue, erm, clasps his hand together so he can't type anymore?

Surferminn · 12-03-2004, 06:44 AM

Oh dear, oh dear, Surferminn begins to type (.... even China recognized population control issues notwithstanding their greater land mass, but then again, they didn't have Henry the VIII as a role model... ) but decides instead to take her hands off the keyboard and step away from the machine.

Tiny Turtle · 12-03-2004, 07:32 AM

China have a population density of 133.5 people/km² in a country roughly the size of the U.S. (9.6 million km² vs 9.1 million km²). Slightly more people over there...

Other interesting countries:
Japan has 336 people/km² That's about half the population of the U.S. in a country slightly smaller than California. (Compare it to Sweden which is slightly larger and just passed 9 million...)

India has 313.9 people/km², but since it's roughly a third the size of the U.S. the population has reached 1.015 billion!

/Tiny Three's a Crowd

12-01-2004, 01:50 AM	#101
Tiny Turtle is pleased Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 7,365	I wonder if it's some U.K. specialty with the "2th" as written in #8. How do I pronounce that? Thanks to Morgan, Tiny Snapshots is up and running again with "Tiny Järvafält" as the latest addition – Go have a look and tell me what you think. "We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another." /Robert Oppenheimer on witnessing the first thermonuclear detonation in history.

12-01-2004, 02:09 AM	#102
Surferminn Senior Puddle Jumper Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: California Posts: 6,017	ROLF!! !! !! !! Just the chuckle I needed at this hour. Thanks, Tiny.

12-01-2004, 04:34 AM	#104
Tiny Turtle is pleased Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 7,365	Actually I mean nr. 8. I'm Scandinavian – I dont need a sense of humour... /Tiny Svede Thanks to Morgan, Tiny Snapshots is up and running again with "Tiny Järvafält" as the latest addition – Go have a look and tell me what you think. "We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another." /Robert Oppenheimer on witnessing the first thermonuclear detonation in history.

12-01-2004, 07:39 AM	#105
Jav400 Administrator Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Tennessee Posts: 9,725	Tiny, Anyone that lives where it is only daylight ~6 hours a day and freezing cold to boot part of the time definately needs a sense of humor. Michael Administrator of Inside:SereneScreen Aquarium Forum, Chatroom, Fan Site & *Gallery* DVD Collection

12-01-2004, 07:54 AM	#106
Tiny Turtle is pleased Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 7,365	No you don't. You just smile a lot just before it freezes and then your face gets stuck like that for four months... Up where I did my military service someone said they only have two seasons – winter and August. Immediately someone else corrected him and said it was winter and August 15th (guess that's August 15st to Cliff ) Tiny Temps Thanks to Morgan, Tiny Snapshots is up and running again with "Tiny Järvafält" as the latest addition – Go have a look and tell me what you think. "We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another." /Robert Oppenheimer on witnessing the first thermonuclear detonation in history.

12-01-2004, 04:01 AM	#103
cjmaddy Registered Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Lancashire, UK Posts: 7,854	Ah! ... you mean No. 8, .......... you need a sense of humour.

12-01-2004, 11:26 AM	#107
Michael Babin Mac Development Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Rowlett, Texas Posts: 199	Originally posted by jleslie ...your mileage may vary (as the Americans tend to say). What a great way to win friends and influence people. Almost as bad as that idiotic letter-writing campaign to try to tell voters in an Ohio county how they should vote. - Michael

12-01-2004, 01:06 PM	#108
feldon34 Forum Administrator Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Rock Hill, SC Posts: 10,939	I thought it was hilarious when I saw it shortly after America went through Indecision 2000. "Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations." - George Orwell "If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal." - Emma Goldman

12-02-2004, 03:26 AM	#109
jleslie Engineer Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: London, UK Posts: 1,279	I thought it was funny, but also a pocket guide to some of the differences between English and American. I certainly didn't imagine anyone would really be offended, so if anyone doesn't have their tongue in their cheek please do remember it's a joke! ...and why is everyone ignoring the Pulsing Xenia comment - this is an aquarium forum after all! I'll try to shoot some video to explain what I'm on about.

12-02-2004, 10:59 AM	#110
Jim Sachs Developer Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Southern Oregon Posts: 9,791	Sure, it's funny - and we do love you Brits for sticking by us even when we're wrong - but this one cuts pretty close to the Forum's "no political comments" rule. With this country more deeply divided than it's been since the Civil War, nerves are raw and tempers are short. Jim Sachs Creator of SereneScreen Aquarium

12-02-2004, 11:59 AM	#111
Surferminn Senior Puddle Jumper Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: California Posts: 6,017	Hi Leslie -- Thank you for your link. I am also of this country and I do not feel divided and my nerves are not raw nor my temper short nor are those of many with whom I associate. I did very much appreciate the humor contained in the paper and had to sit on myself not to retort (humourously of course) to the comments contained therein (thank you Tiny and Jav for your short but succinct responses). I have passed your paper on to a few others who also got a chuckle. I hope you continue to post in our forum on this and many of our other threads as poor Cliff is almost singlehanded representing your small isle. And, I also liked seeing the "minor" differences between our 2 cultures laid out so funnily which was the first flag that went up when I read this. Minn Nothing Changes if Nothing Changes.

12-02-2004, 01:38 PM	#112
cjmaddy Registered Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Lancashire, UK Posts: 7,854	Hear hear! ... and thanks!

12-03-2004, 02:28 AM	#113
Tiny Turtle is pleased Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 7,365	"Small isle"? I thought it was "Great Britain" Thanks to Morgan, Tiny Snapshots is up and running again with "Tiny Järvafält" as the latest addition – Go have a look and tell me what you think. "We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another." /Robert Oppenheimer on witnessing the first thermonuclear detonation in history.

12-03-2004, 03:10 AM	#114
jleslie Engineer Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: London, UK Posts: 1,279	That probably refers to population density. We have about 20.5% of the US population in 2.5% the area. I wonder if someone lost a decimal point somewhere when they planned all this? (60M vs 293M in 244K vs 9.6M, or "slightly smaller than oregon" as a U.S. source says, but hey, we like it - except the commuting, of course!)

12-03-2004, 03:38 AM	#115
cjmaddy Registered Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Lancashire, UK Posts: 7,854	Just think, 'Planet of the Apes', - that brings them back down to size!

12-03-2004, 04:19 AM	#116
Tiny Turtle is pleased Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 7,365	Population densities in a readable form: The Netherlands: 385.3 people/km² Great Britain: 245.1 people/km² Denmark: 125.3 people/km² The United States of America: 29.5 people/km² Sweden: 19.8 people/km² New Zeeland: 14.4 people/km² Canada 3.1 people/km² Australia: 2.5 people/km² /Tiny Statistics Thanks to Morgan, Tiny Snapshots is up and running again with "Tiny Järvafält" as the latest addition – Go have a look and tell me what you think. "We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another." /Robert Oppenheimer on witnessing the first thermonuclear detonation in history.

12-03-2004, 04:38 AM	#117
cjmaddy Registered Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Lancashire, UK Posts: 7,854	That makes us very dense doesn't it!. ................. (Before anyone else says it!)

12-03-2004, 06:29 AM	#118
Jav400 Administrator Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Tennessee Posts: 9,725	Jav looks away and bites his tongue, erm, clasps his hand together so he can't type anymore? Michael Administrator of Inside:SereneScreen Aquarium Forum, Chatroom, Fan Site & *Gallery* DVD Collection

12-03-2004, 06:44 AM	#119
Surferminn Senior Puddle Jumper Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: California Posts: 6,017	Oh dear, oh dear, Surferminn begins to type (.... even China recognized population control issues notwithstanding their greater land mass, but then again, they didn't have Henry the VIII as a role model... ) but decides instead to take her hands off the keyboard and step away from the machine.

12-03-2004, 07:32 AM	#120
Tiny Turtle is pleased Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 7,365	China have a population density of 133.5 people/km² in a country roughly the size of the U.S. (9.6 million km² vs 9.1 million km²). Slightly more people over there... Other interesting countries: Japan has 336 people/km² That's about half the population of the U.S. in a country slightly smaller than California. (Compare it to Sweden which is slightly larger and just passed 9 million...) India has 313.9 people/km², but since it's roughly a third the size of the U.S. the population has reached 1.015 billion! /Tiny Three's a Crowd Thanks to Morgan, Tiny Snapshots is up and running again with "Tiny Järvafält" as the latest addition – Go have a look and tell me what you think. "We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another." /Robert Oppenheimer on witnessing the first thermonuclear detonation in history.