And I'm not! 😀
Well, I was for three years, but that was back from 1996 through 1999. Probably the best three years of my life... Not sure why I say that, I just happen to look back on my time there with much nostalgia. Guess the fact that all the best games were coming out then helped.
first they call me fat, then they call me europian. will the insults ever end? *mock cry*
you decided to become english for three years to claim the best games of the time, SH? sounds like a good enough reason. ^^
Ah, I've been to England. Enjoyed it up until the point where someone nearly ran me over with a Mini... xP
they only drive minis in england
No, I became English for three years because my parents became English for three years. Something to do with their job with the government. Pretty sure that their job over in England ALSO pertained to the US government because we got to go onto Air Force bases over there and all. I still remember the stores there - some movie store by the gas station, a grocery store which had all the American food that the British didn't (Fruit-Roll-Ups became something of legal tender with the British kids, dunno why) and another store which was sort of catch-as-catch-can, featuring American magazines, toys, video games (but very, very few Saturn ones, which made me a sad panda), et certera - and other places like the bowling alley, the barber... Fun times.
Oh, but that was the odd time out. The non-Air Force parts of England were great fun, too. Although, to be honest, I was (and still am) surprised to find that you guys call your shopping malls "arcades", when I typically associate that with, well, Street Fighter and its ilk - which was conspicuously absent from said arcades. (Not that it matters, since I only got into Street Fighter my Freshman year of college - at that point, I didn't really like fighting games much.)
But yeah, I lived in Cheltenham. I don't think any MoFoers live there, but I'm not ruling out the chance that some of you've BEEN there before. Quaint town. I quite liked it. I need to get back there sometime, but it's not like I can just up and leave for it. Cursed plane tickets, university schedules, decently-paid job at Staples and overall relatively decent life in America getting in the way of popping by good ol' Cheltenham again! It'll happen, I swear! Not permanently (no you may not have me in exchange for Craig, not now anyway), but at least for a while!
As for the games, it's completely coincidental that that was the era of Super Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, Ocarina of Time, GoldenEye, Final Fantasy VII, Metal Gear Solid, Link's Awakening DX, Half-Life, the announcement of the Dreamcast and Sonic Adventure, and soooo many other awesome games either out during that time period or on the horizon. Most of these games I didn't play until the 21st century, and some of which I still haven't played (I'm lookin' at you, MGS). But yeah, that was a good time to be a gamer.
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EDIT: Oh, and blackcurrant. I was surprised to go into a McDonald's to find them selling some kind of blackcurrant-related product, largely because I'd never heard of it. I think I thought of it as similar to grape products, although I never tried it, nor do I regularly have grape products. Funny how we don't have pretty much ANYTHING blackcurrant over here in America!
Oh, and Maryland cookies seemed to be the most ironic thing ever, coming from the DC Metro Area and all (ie: Maryland, Virginia, DC, that general area).
If you have to play MGS get Twin Snakes it's so much less terrible than the PS1 version
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EDIT: Oh, and blackcurrant. I was surprised to go into a McDonald's to find them selling some kind of blackcurrant-related product, largely because I'd never heard of it. I think I thought of it as similar to grape products, although I never tried it, nor do I regularly have grape products. Funny how we don't have pretty much ANYTHING blackcurrant over here in America!
i was suprised by the same thing when visiting canada. there and in america, you get grape flavoured skittles instead of blackcurrent. any product that comes from over here that's blackcurrent flavoured seems to get replaced with grape on your side of the pond.
you don't even have blackcurrent juice! no ribena with it's amasing more suger content then black current juice, but oh.. so drinkable. ;-;
I guess that's why my hunch came about, then?
i guess so, but they taste nothing alike. o-o; guess it's the nearest purple thing you have over there?
wtf is a currant
A currant is a small red or black berry native to Europe. :3
sounds gross
Actually, there is no such thing as grape soda. All grape soda really uses blackcurrant flavoring.
stealth currents? i like it!
SIGNATURE TESTING 1 2 3
Does it work? If it does not... I will eat my hat and destroy the rest of the universe. (And tooniverse if you play toontown!)
Wait a second, wait a second, wait a second. CHIBIBECCA HATES OREOS!!! YOU ARE A DISCRASE!!!!!
I HAVE PROOF!oeros are fake tasting biscuits. bleh, i say!
i'm talking about what we call cookies in the UK. big fat cookies, with the dough still soft in the center.. and if it's chocolate ships, they're still half-melted inside..
THAT, my freinds, is a cookie. ^.^" Quote Chibibecca.
Oh, ONLY freinds of oreos are freinds of mine... KILL HER!
*picks up socks' hat, gives it a dusting, pours some ketchup on it and presents it to him on a plate* bon appetit! ^^
Hey Becca
*stalk*
...Paul?
dot dot dot
EDIT: Never mind, it's not Paul. He's still MIA I guess. This would've been a weird place to find him anyway.
Oreo's are vastly inferior to Maryland's Cookies.
Hmm... 33p at Sainsbury's... I should stock up. FOR JUSTICE.
jaffa cakes. *drool* ^-^
*flings feta at HPA*
...I had to read the last line twice to make sure it wasn't what I read the first time.
^^?
you think he'd prefer cheddar?
cheez
*lick*
I'm more of a provolone person, meself. ^^
Can me post spam??? Ok,
In the "word" QOTW, Put the W next to the q to make QWOT and add an E at the end it makes a word that sounds like the first word of the abbrieviation, QOTW, which makes Quote.
And if you take QOTW, change the W and the O's place, you get QWTO. Change the T and the Q, and you get TWQO. From there, change the Q and the O, and the T and teh W, and you get WTOQ. That's QOTW backwards.
If you take QOTW and replace move the Q two letters up the alphabet, O one letter up, switch the T for an A and turn the W upside down you get SPAM.
Impressive, ne?
Can spam be refined into cheese?
as some types of spam and cheese are obviously made from flavoured plastic, of course it's possible!
Considering how much all the spam and cheese in my house bounces so much when, *cough* accidentally dropped from various containers on high shelves, I always assumed that it was flavoured rubber. xP
And remind me never to eat American convenience store sushi ever again. Dx
if your food bounces when you drop it, instead of going splat.. i tend not to trust it. oo;
Yeah, that's why I always brought my own lunch during my elementary/middle school days. We used to play wall ball during recess with our hot dogs... the soup always had a layer of, er, something about an inch thick floating on top of the actual soup... and our pizza was just cardboard painted with ketchup, cheese, and enough oil to power a small third-world country for several days...<_<;;
Ok, some of that was hyperbole, I admit. SOME of it. ><
i loved secondary school lunches, as i went there before the likes of jamie oliver appeared.
i could eat literally nothing but chocolate bars for my lunch if i chose to. these days they're practially banned from being sold at school canteens. oo
although a healthy option would've been nice. >>
*gets all nostalgic over the days when she bought 25 kitkat chunkies in one week for only 5. 5 a day!*
i've no idea how i lived on so much sugar. bleh!
Mine had "Queeeestionable piiIIIiiizaaa"
I also never liked the small paper milk cartons, it would make me gag and I always threw mine away without even opening it everyday. Eventually my mother (who routinely worked at the school) would take my milk.
Today I would have slapped my former self for wasting. Well maybe not slapped, as my younger self would probably cry his eyes out and my modern self would be sent to jail, or time travel jail.
Your mother worked at your school, GT? How did that go for you? Was it a happy environment where everytime your mother saw you in the hallway you'd run to her and she'd pick you up, twirl you around and plant kisses all over your face?
"Mooommmmmyyyy!!!!!"
"(GT`s name heeeeeere)"
*They run to eachother and hug*
Yah, the INTERESTING thing here is that for the longest time in elementary school, we didn't have cartons; rather, we used these little plastic pouches of milk. Basically, you take a straw with a pointy end, stab it into the pack and suck out the milk. And afterwards, you could blow up the packet, poke the straw through the other end, and have a cool little top. It was possibly the only good thing about the cafeteria food we had. ^^
And then there were those strange, strange kids who poked two little holes in their packets and sucked them like some sort of milk-vampire... ;
^ A lot like Hi-C's and Capri Suns.
Man, it's been a long time since I've drank a Hi-C.
the bread i bought yesterday is mouldy already, no breakfast for me. *angst, shakes fist at sainsbury's* ;-;
when i was at primary school we were given little glass bottles of milk to drink from. full fat milk as well, BLEH.
in the summer it would be horribly creamy and have holes pecked in it by bluetits, in the winter the ice would rise from the tops of the bottles and force the foil lids off.
*ahh, more nostalgia*
Nostalgia, what would we do without it?
a thriving lot of businesses and freindsreunited.com would be out of business for a start. 😛
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My number beats you all. >:O
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