So you're saying you're shriveled?But if to be old is to be shrivelled then to be older is to be more shrivelled
). They may not always be correct with their answers but they are happy to help none the less. is the same. We are just a bunch of entitled fucking wankers when we form groups on line!
That's pretty funny. I always wondered why the few Aussies on the Anthrax forum pretty much ignored me skipped right over any post and talked to each other lol. By the way. I do appreciate your conversions. Because yes. I am a lazy bastard.This doesn't actually belong anywhere on metal forums but I gotta say talking to Americans on a forum is way better than talking to Aussies. The big difference between Aussies and American's on forums is that Aussie's are nearly all fucking elitist prats. You Americans talk to just about anyone, on most Aussie forums the forum regs (high post counters) form clicky little groups and only talk to themselves.
I joined two bike forums a while ago, one Aussie, one US, because I was having a few issues with my bike. The Yanks not only answer questions from newbies they chit chat with all sorts topics and they convert metric to imperial to save me doing it, (which is fair since I have to do it for you lazy lot!
The fucking Aussies have their own little groups, they ignore as many questions as they can and they never respond when new users try to join the chit chat. But the really funny one is when someone does eventually answer a newbie question, every response that follows from the elite fuckwits, quote the long time user not the newbie who asked the question. Newbies also can't be right, or shed a new light on topics because they are always wrong.
It's not just the bike forum either, the two Aussie nerd forums (computers, networking, enterprise servers type stuff) I've been a part of for nearly 20 years do the same. The Aussie music forum I'm no longer a part of did the same. The 4wd forum I'm banned from
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These days many are probably afraid to use it in case it has some historical context that hurts someone's feelings. On the upside, if we use rhyming slang Yank becomes Septic Tank
Actually that Anthrax forum is a prime example, it's appears to be mostly Aussies and they really hate intruders.
Just don't ask me to convert something like AU dollars per litre of fuel to US dollars per gallon of gas, that's two separate calculations and too much pressure
Yeah Yanks is a bit of a lazy term for us. We probably all know the NY Yankies and Yankee doodle dandy, and we've probably heard it used in other contexts but not really known where it came from. The poms apparently stole it from the Dutch name Janke and aimed it as a put down at the Dutch settlers, it later got aimed at New Englanders. But we didn't get that memo
It could be worse you could be named after a dog. It's news to me, but apparently Aussie comes from the term Australian Sheep dog and apparently we used it defensively at each other. I always thought we used it in a friendly manner. I know when I grew up there was iffy terms for many countries, Poms, Yanks and Aussies were the tame ones. Some of the names that got used were very defensive, but I don't really think too much offence was meant by Pom, Yank or Aussie.
Now you've got me edumakatin myself!
Yankee Doodle is an interesting one. I don't think we ever knew it as anything more than a 4 line poem but apparently it has 15 versus and a chorus, that puts today's songs to shame
In it's current form it was written in the mid 1700's long before it became a nursery rhyme and long long before it became a US state anthem. However some of the words and tune apparently date back to Dutch farmers in the 1400's, which confirms the 'yankee' connection to the Dutch language. The term doodle wasn't used in English until the mid 1600's, it was to play piece of music badly, kind of like it can be today. Dandies were men who placed importance on their looks and macaroni was a wig like fashion accessory.
Kind of makes one wonder what sort of state would want a song about a bad musician with a fancy wig as their state song.
But then the Brits got hold of it, because they know all about being upper class toffs, and they appropriated it as an unsophisticated person trying to be part of the upper class by only changing his hat. Something most Brits of the time wouldn's have accepted. Some experts claim this was the British saying the colonist American men were all womanly. Big call from a bunch of toffs which their nose in the air!!
The song was then used in the French - Indian War (1754) by British Officers to mock the American "Yankies" because they were dishevelled and disorganised. The Brits had the opinion of most American soldiers were Yankee simpletons who thought they could dress above their status. At the same time the American troops started to sing it as a song of defiance and they added words that mocked the British and hailed Washington as the Commander of the Continental Army and by 1781 they'd turned the song into a song of national American pride with 15 versus.
See I'm so uneducated, I always thought the song was about some American cartoon character that road a pony to town, found a feather and for some reason thought it was a piece of pasta. I had no idea it was about insults and pride.
Haha yeah. I have a lot of southern friends on the playstation and my brother in law is from Atlanta. But they are all really nice and cool. But there is for sure still parts of the south that is still fighting the civil war in their heads. I've been through there plenty of times. It's really like a different planet. Kind of shocking when you encounter it in real life, and sometimes a little scary. Everyone knew growing up that if you're going to be driving through certain parts of the south you don't want to have Connecticut plates on your car!
Yeah on this one. I wouldn't say it's hostile. But I have definitely gotten the cold shoulder and kinda just stopped going there. You get the impression they'd rather you not be there lol.
