Re: English vs USA phrases

**Takk** · 04-25-2008, 04:58 PM

Originally Posted by jonathanshifty

throw me a rubber.

Well...rubber band wasn't the first thing I would have thrown...but that's just me.

**Specterr** · 04-25-2008, 05:36 PM

Originally Posted by Takk

Well...rubber band wasn't the first thing I would have thrown...but that's just me.

LOL, me either...

**daithi1** · 04-25-2008, 05:39 PM

Football will always be gaelic to me...

**FrankHelicoptr** · 04-25-2008, 05:46 PM

no comment

**SharinganTH1422** · 04-25-2008, 06:00 PM

Yh...thats why I carry a hammer with me...anyone asking me "for a fag" on the street gets smashed in the face.

P.S. Oh yes, another one. We hardly say street. Actually, a lot of the things I say on both the forums and the server are usually more American specific. Since half the TV programmes that come on TV are American, you pick up the normal, everyday language, and I just slip these words in the forums to make it easier to read for you guys across the pond.

**chairlord** · 04-25-2008, 06:13 PM

Originally Posted by SharinganTH1422

Yh...thats why I carry a hammer with me...anyone asking me "for a fag" on the street gets smashed in the face.

Remind me to never smoke with you....

As an aside, I'll be brutally honest, what you've just said I find a little offensive. It's just homophobia, whichever way you look at it, and no matter what your sexual persuasion I don't think that should be tolerated on a mature gaming forum.

**SharinganTH1422** · 04-25-2008, 06:24 PM

Uh oh, guess you misunderstood, I'll explain myself.

Didn't mean it that way, but just imagine this situation. You're standing there with a couple of your friends somewhere, just standing around on the roads. 5 guys, thinking they're "cool" walk up to you and say "ey mate, you got a fag." You gotta start laughing. As for the "hammer" comment, it was a mild exaggeration of how annoyed I am at people who don't know how stupid they look and how they come off the completely wrong way that they wanted to...kinda like I did right there

. Also, that word is just stupid...it's just a stupid word for a cigarette. Imagine if alcohol was nicknamed "heterosexual homosapian". It's just so stupid.

Note: Replace stupid with obscenity.

**chairlord** · 04-25-2008, 06:34 PM

Originally Posted by SharinganTH1422

Uh oh, guess you misunderstood, I'll explain myself.

Didn't mean it that way, but just imagine this situation. You're standing there with a couple of your friends somewhere, just standing around on the roads. 5 guys, thinking they're "cool" walk up to you and say "ey mate, you got a fag." You gotta start laughing. As for the "hammer" comment, it was a mild exaggeration of how annoyed I am at people who don't know how stupid they look and how they come off the completely wrong way that they wanted to...kinda like I did right there

. Also, that word is just stupid...it's just a stupid word for a cigarette. Imagine if alcohol was nicknamed "heterosexual homosapian". It's just so stupid.

Note: Replace stupid with obscenity.

Look, I'm not going to cry over it or anything, but you read it again like you'd never read it before.

It comes across as somewhat homophobic and pretty violent towards homosexuals to boot. I know you don't mean it in that way, I've certainly not seen any evidence from the short time I've spent here to think that you are like that, but someone could misinterpret it and get the wrong idea about TG, that's all I'm saying.

One thing I've learned in my short time is that of all the Internet "communities" I've seen, TG has a pretty good moral compass and standards expected of it's members, and I wouldn't want someone else to call it, or you for that matter, into question.

**SharinganTH1422** · 04-25-2008, 06:37 PM

Sure, I get it, but just thought I'd explain myself.

Actually, after I sent it, I read over it and thought, "well maybe it could be taken that way...but no, I don't think so."

Shows how much I know

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**Lorax74** · 04-25-2008, 07:16 PM

When I was still in the US Air Force I had a few friends stationed over in the UK. Just the mere mention of a cigarette made the giggle. To me, the humor is more in the double entendre itself than in the actual definitions of the word. And you are correct, the word itself has no place here.

**twiddilywink** · 04-25-2008, 08:11 PM

Well, since i think we keep coming up to the whole 3 story vs 3 floor buliding thing, i think a new rule should be added into the TG forums and in game where this should be solved because i bet if an english player is in a squad with an american squad leader and the american says, "go up to the third floor", which would be the UK 2nd floor i think (give me a break i'm still confused) then the english guys will be looking for a ladder while all the US people are like gone... so i think someone should finsih this controversy in rules lol... but thats just me.

**daithi1** · 04-25-2008, 08:34 PM

Originally Posted by twiddilywink

Well, since i think we keep coming up to the whole 3 story vs 3 floor buliding thing, i think a new rule should be added into the TG forums and in game where this should be solved because i bet if an english player is in a squad with an american squad leader and the american says, "go up to the third floor", which would be the UK 2nd floor i think (give me a break i'm still confused) then the english guys will be looking for a ladder while all the US people are like gone... so i think someone should finsih this controversy in rules lol... but thats just me.

Na we won't, we understand your silly language

. You just don't know ours, well you didn't.

The probelm occurs when me and Silver become nonconformists and we leave the squad behind...

**twiddilywink** · 04-25-2008, 09:08 PM

hahaha...

**Towuaway2** · 04-26-2008, 12:40 AM

my ads LOL

Just sounds funny!

**SharinganTH1422** · 04-26-2008, 08:48 AM

To avoid this confusion, I always say "level". The bottom level, the second/middle level, the top/3rd level (there's not usually 4, but you can see where I'm going).

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