The Not Happy Thread

<plays Song of Healing to send the X-Box 360's soul to the Netherregions of Consoles>

 

Resisting the urge to buy Bionicle pieces off ebay.

Resisting the urge to buy Bionicle pieces off ebay.

Resisting the urge to buy Bionicle pieces off ebay.

Resisting the urge to buy Bionicle pieces off ebay.

Resisting the urge to buy Bionicle pieces off ebay.

Resisting the urge to buy Bionicle pieces off ebay.

Muuuuuuuuuuust resiiiiiist the urge to spend on nostalgia and make badass custom buiiiiiiilds...........

 

@Kingtype, you sound just like my nephew, except he'd just go ahead and buy every Bionicle piece he can track down.

 

Got my laptop back from service today. There was a note the techs had left in the box to explain what they had done. It read "HDD replaced".

HDD replaced? HDD replaced!? Are you kidding me? I did that twice before sending it in! And guess what? It. Did. Not. Work!

 

I don't know why I am 'liking' this, because I'm not. I do hope ...no, TRUST ...that somebody will be feeding you for the next two weeks?

 

So, it still doesn't work? Shit.

 

@Komposten You might have had a more productive (and cathartic) experience the top secret tech-savvy hacker way:

 

I haven't been able to try it yet, since it's not at my place. But seeing as the previous two HDD replacements didn't solve the problem, I'm not too optimistic...

 

Oh, I'll not starve. I'll just have to plunder the deep freeze. I've enough in there to feed me for a couple of months.

 

When American directors cast English actors in their films, to play Irish characters.

Do they just presume that because we all come from the same group of islands, an Englishman will automatically be able do a convincing Irish accent?

Sean Bean! He struggles with his own accent, let alone Irish.

 

I struggle with my accent too, if that means anything for consolation.

I can't decide if I'm a New Yorker (born and raised), a Texan, (where I live now), both or neither.

Language is fun, isn't it?

 

Neil Diamond comes to mind:

Well, I'm New York City born and raised
But nowadays, I'm lost between two shores
LA's fine, but it ain't home
New York's home but it ain't mine no more​

 

One of my schoolteachers once asked me if I were born in Louisiana because I have a mild Louisiana accent. I was never born, nor grew up, in Louisiana.

 

My good friend from college turns straight-up Cajun when he's excited. Like, Nawlins style. He's never been to any bayous...

 

I think I can pull off a quasi-British accent. Some phrases like “bloody hell” or “bollocks” I have down, but not quite there yet.

 

Careful, there are angry Brits around. <.< >.> One of them might kill you with tea ...or something.

 

Are they always so angry? >__>

 

How should I know? I'm just an egotistical American who barely knows that other countries exist, let alone the patterns of their feelings.

 

And I'm the American that knows little to nothing about anything history.

 

No that's me.



*starts slapfight*

 

I've never understood the whole 'tea' thing. Must be a southern thing, cos I don't know a single tea drinker.

As a race that thinks London and England are one and the same, I suppose allowances have to be made

Not your own, you don't, cos you don't have one

 

We have history, kinda. It's just not full of castles like yours is!

 

American tourists

 

I find it both interesting and somewhat disturbing that the only history that's mostly talked about are European and American history. The history of the various Asian nations? African nations? Barely talked about. Ever heard of Admiral Yi? The Korean admiral who basically saved all of Korea from complete Japanese takeover in the mid-1500s all by himself? Likely not because history is usually so wrapped up in European and American history.

It's quite telling, isn't it? It's like we're so wrapped up in our own egos that we forget that other cultures not Europe or America exist. And they have stories that they would like to tell the world.

But here's the thing I don't get, there was a YouTube channel I used to watch that would talk about history yet, for all his talk about how the history of the Asian and African peoples were often ignored, he spent most of his time talking about European and American history and bitching about why history's so Euro/Ameri-centric. I kept thinking, “Dude, why didn't you just, I dunno, devote your channel to talking about the histories of the various African and Asian nations instead?”

Honestly, it's like people just want to complain about things rather than be part of the solution they stress for. :/ I mean, yeah, Europe and the US has dominated the historical sphere, and we pretty much act like we were the ones who invented all of humanity. Well, the Europeans mostly, we just carried it over to the New World. Point is, if you think there's not enough talk about the history of cultures not European or American...then why don't you talk about that rather than complain? Would save a lot of time, stem off a lot of trouble and we can learn something new while we're at it. Sitting there whining about it won't let those other cultures' voices be heard.

That's all I have for now.

We white people are crazy sometimes... And yes, I get to make fun of my own race, thank you.

Goddamnit, I just killed this thread again didn't I?

 

I think that may have to do with learning about history as it pertains to your country. And lets face it, the European countries had colonies all over the world and left their mark. I don't think Asian and African countries are studying America in depth unless we were or are really engaged with them at some point in time (i.e. war). I'd say your knowledge depends on if you've taken, lets say, an American history class, a global history class, or something like East Asian studies. I don't know about Yi, but I do know about Zheng He. And how many non-British and non-Indian people know about Ghandi? Plenty.