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Geek Culture / I am going to america!

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Hobgoblin Lord
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Posted: 10th Jul 2006 21:31
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Quote: "florida has a different kind of heat - a 'dry' heat if you know what i mean lol, not like over in UK where your 'sticky' most of the time haha"


where is this mysterious dry heat part of florida? I went in May last time, should be cooler right, and my shirt would just soak up the humidity and feel like I was wearing a wet towel.

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Jeku
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Posted: 11th Jul 2006 22:43
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Quote: "Nope. Unless you are a kid and have been magically transported from 1971. Soda is generally called soft drinks here. "


Hehehe, well that is what *everyone* calls it here. Nobody, absolutely nobody calls it soda here. To me that sounds weird--- like Archie comics dialogue weird.

"Hey Pops, can I get a soda?"

Heheh-- just sounds so strange.


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Three Score
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Posted: 11th Jul 2006 23:13
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I always say either pop or sody pop(just because its funny)

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Megaton Cat
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Posted: 11th Jul 2006 23:17
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Yeah, not a single person calls it "soda" here. It's all pop.


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Tinkergirl
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Posted: 12th Jul 2006 00:09
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Personally, I call it "juk" - but that's because I'm strange. No-one else I know calls it that. Generally, though - juice. Of course, in Glasgow it's called "Ginger" - even if it's cola.

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SageTech
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Posted: 12th Jul 2006 00:15
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Whats truly intresting is how different the cultures are. Accent is different, terminoligy is different, what we see as weird people across the pond see as normal, and vice versa. Amazing how much social evolution can chane things in just a couple of hundred years, and as most americans have roots in england, this is especialy true.

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Oddmind
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Posted: 12th Jul 2006 06:23
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indeed it is.

american culture is basically like a bunch of different contries crashed into each other and made this big mess all over north america that they have yet to clean up hahaha.

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Dazzag
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Posted: 12th Jul 2006 10:32
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Quote: "Hey Pops, can I get a soda?"
Yeah, tis funny. We never call it soda either. Totally american and it never took off over here. Cream soda on the other hand is tops

Quote: "bunch of different contries crashed into each other "
Same here. Go to the middle of London and find anyone who can speak English. Not many sometimes. Essentially we invaded everyone then let them all come here years later. Created Indian restaurants though.

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Zaibatsu
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Posted: 12th Jul 2006 20:13
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you should of gone to San Diego Calafornia. I could have gotten you as much beer as you could hold for free at my friends bar...

Read my profile to learn about all my wierd fanaticacies...

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Gil Galvanti
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Posted: 12th Jul 2006 20:24
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I call all soft drinks products a "coke", if I'm just being general, but if I'm being specific, then I'll say exactly which one.

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SageTech
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Posted: 12th Jul 2006 23:08
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Quote: "you should of gone to San Diego Calafornia. I could have gotten you as much beer as you could hold for free at my friends bar..."


I can take a few days off

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Oddmind
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Posted: 13th Jul 2006 09:27
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Quote: ""you should of gone to San Diego Calafornia. I could have gotten you as much beer as you could hold for free at my friends bar...""


ah yess... i believe i can pencil you in...

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Saikoro
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Posted: 19th Jul 2006 08:03
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Quote: "you should of gone to San Diego Calafornia. I could have gotten you as much beer as you could hold for free at my friends bar..."

I'm in the area...


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AlexI
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Posted: 22nd Jul 2006 01:18
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I am back!!!!


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Oddmind
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Posted: 22nd Jul 2006 01:27
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how was it?

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AlexI
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Posted: 22nd Jul 2006 10:41
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Very good!! Seen and done loads of stuff. Saw aligators, gulffer turtles, mantess in the wild. Went to nasa and did astronaught tranning! Lots of fun stuff! I was even went on BBC TV http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/breakfast/5180114.stm
The reason i went to america is because i won this competition
http://www.edgeintospace.com/

Alex


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Dazzag
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Posted: 23rd Jul 2006 14:02
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Ah right you were one of them. More importantly though is that BBC reporter bird as fit in real life?

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