Where is everyone from??

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Given the summer weather we AREN'T having, I would say all the COLD people are in Europe....

I think someone forgot to tell nature that it's JULY!!! Its cold and wet in NY as well. Raining AGAIN. It poured all night... and yesterday. And nearly every day (I'm not exaggerating) since school let out. I think we've had ONE day that the temperature reached above 80*. So much for global warming. And for those of you who complained about snow on April Fools'... I seem to remember seeing snow in MAY here.

I live in a tiny little hamlet that nobody's ever heard of, that ceased to be a villiage proper when the post office closed down because the postmistress retired! My hometown's main attractions are the two bars. Get kicked out of one? Walk 15 seconds up the street and you're covered for another few hours. Actually, we do sadly have another attraction that clogs the streets with tourists twice each summer: antiques. The number of antique shops in my general area (I mean within about 5 minutes drive of my house) should be illegal. As for the idiotic tourists who park in front of my driveway to go INTO the bars after they've spent all day walking through the middle of a state route in front of traffic... they should be arrested or something. Just for annoying the locals.

Fea

[Elennar Starfire]

It's time to smash Fea's illusion about me...sorry Fea, but it was too amusing to spoil right away. I do not live in England. I live in America. I just know British slang from a book I picked up called the British Phrasebook...

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Ooh, harsh, Elennar. Very harsh. My happy little bubble just burst on me and its all your fault. Whereabouts in America are you from? We've got a big country, if you hadn't noticed.

[Elennar Starfire]

Utah. And I actually didn't know most of the American slang you sent me...

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Haha... hilarious. I guess I was right in that it's localized slang. Common use in my neck of the woods. I assume you were familiar with y'all?

[Elennar Starfire]

That and wazzup.

[Legolas]

I'm from Fayetteville, North Carolina, about two hours from the ocean.

[Amanaduial the archer]

Originally Posted by Elennar Starfire

It's time to smash Fea's illusion about me...sorry Fea, but it was too amusing to spoil right away. I do not live in England. I live in America. I just know British slang from a book I picked up called the British Phrasebook...

That sort of book amuses me so, so much. It's like the Cockney Phrase Book, or The Little Book of British Cool, the latter of which is written by an American. On one level, they're amusing, on another they're...painful.

[Mithalwen]

Originally Posted by Amanaduial the archer

The Little Book of British Cool

Can't help feeling that that would be a VERY little book ...... unlike the Bumper book of British social awkwardness and sartorial inadequacy.....

[Fordim Hedgethistle]

Go Yankees!

...and play some golf -- ha HA hahahahahahaha haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

Go Sox!

[Mithalwen]

The book of transatlantic mutual incomprehension might be quite a tome too....

[Lalwendë]

The Little Book of British Cool

Can't help feeling that that would be a VERY little book ...... unlike the Bumper book of British social awkwardness and sartorial inadequacy.....

Now, that would depend on what you think is cool! It would have to be a bumper book for me, but I don't think most people would find it so very cool. Basically, anything which is meant to be cool generally is not, in my opinion - for example, pavement cafes, in Britain, in this weather? A nice cosy old pub with a dartboard and a resident labrador, now that's cool. Or rather, lovely and warm...

[Mithalwen]

Oh don't get me wrong, I love this strange little island and despite the weather, I am not sure I could leave it for ever ... but it was just that "cool" brittannia thing was so embarrassing..... when we try too hard we fail miserabley .... It is the crazy anachronsms I love - the fact that something called "Swan upping" goes on quite legally each year on the Thames, that the entire railway system is brought to a halt by those leaves falling so unexpectedly from the trees each autumn.....

[Encaitare]

Originally Posted by my fellow New Yorker Fea

That means screaming winds and hellish fury power-outages.

Oh, but I love the power-outages. We had a huge one over the summer, and a good part of the city nearby -- NYC, that is -- was out too. All the streetlights were out, there was none of that irritating glare from the lovely metropolis, and it was a clear night. I went outside and laid on the driveway and looked at the stars -- I'm not used to seeing very many because there is always so much electric light to hide them. But so many were visible; it was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen.

Originally Posted by Fordim Hedgethistle

...and play some golf -- ha HA hahahahahahaha haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

Go Sox!

Why, Yankees? Why did you have to go from a 3-0 game lead to a brutal and humiliating massacre at the hands of Boston? A better question: how?

Woe is me.

Grumble grumble.

[The Saucepan Man]

Can't help feeling that that would be a VERY little book ...... unlike the Bumper book of British social awkwardness and sartorial inadequacy.....

Ah, but it takes real cool to make an art form of social awkwardness.

but it was just that "cool" brittannia thing was so embarrassing

I don't disagree, but that's mainly attributable to its adoption for political purposes in my opinion (Oasis at No 10 and all that). For my money, though, the UK tops the world in music and comedy. Of course, I may be biased.

that the entire railway system is brought to a halt by those leaves falling so unexpectedly from the trees each autumn.....

Yes, as a daily commuter to London, I must say that I really love that.

[Thorongil]

I think someone forgot to tell nature that it's JULY!!! Its cold and wet in NY as well. Raining AGAIN. It poured all night... and yesterday. And nearly every day (I'm not exaggerating) since school let out.

Heh. No one beats Bergen in rain. The normal amount of sun in july around here is seven days! We'we had two, maybe three. And instead of snow in the winter, we have rain. Maybe, if we're lucky, we have one day of snow. But the morning after, it's gone again. A few days ago it rained so bad that our satellite dish went out for about an hour. It's not fair!! (Yes, I am complaining a lot, but this is a topic that needs complaining.)

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

I won't complain too much, since I rather like my climate. For a sneak peek at the weather in Fea's life: June to September is summer. The weather is normally hot, sunny, and all around summery, with late night thunderstorms and the occasional late afternoon downpour. September to say... the end of October is the most beautiful autumn in the world, if I do say so myself. All scarlet and golden,with gentle breezes or wild gusts, depending on the hour. Its rather common for us to get icestorms on Halloween, and then winter lasts until April. Now I'm hearing Americans complain about rainy winters, well let me tell you: I'm a New Yorker. Central New York. That means lake effect snowstorms dropping multiple feet at a time. That means screaming winds and hellish fury power-outages. And mixed in between, we get ice and rain storms to leave nice invisible layers of ice under the snow. And that's the winter I love. We've got some two monthes of spring after that. But winter is the longest season here, starting with light snow in early October, progressing to blizzards and fun snow, teasing us with an early January thaw, and then freezing us back indoors until midApril. And we get the occasional May snowstorm. I LOOOOOVE New York. (Except for right now, when it's late July and I'm wearing heavy sleep-pants, a longsleeve shirt with a shortsleeved over top, and SOCKS to keep warm. And I'm still chilled.)

Fea