I think the building I am in is on fire...

[irenicObserver]

Chainsaw and fires, sounds exotic!

Flaming chainsaws!

[Flickerdart]

Chaining flamesaws!

[dehro]

Haha

Anyway when I saw the name of this thread I laughed. A guy's building is on fire and the first thing he does is post it on the internet

this..my first thought was "just how much of a geek is this girl?"

[Zar Peter]

a post about a fire in the building and it takes 28 posts before the IT crowd was mentioned...

And still no you tube vid...

For shame playgrounders. If i wasn't on a train i'd find & post it myself!

Is it that? It's the first about fire I found:

It Crowd

Oh, and thanks for prodding me to IT Crowd, I'm intrigued.

[Traab]

I believe she lives in Sydney.

Isnt that in the country where everything is either poisonous, dangerous, or sheep? Im just saying, that in that case, a small matter of flaming chainsaws isnt that big a deal. Grab a Fosters, and enjoy the show, I say. (Is that even a big brand in australia? Or is it pure mick dundee style stupidity?)

[Occasional Sage]

Do you think maybe it's time to move? Fire, midnight chainsaws... I'm just throwing it out there.

[Flickerdart]

Do you think maybe it's time to move? Fire, midnight chainsaws... I'm just throwing it out there.

Due to all the chainsaws and fires, it's probably tricky to leave the building. Maybe she's just grinding levels until she's powerful enough.

[Elemental]

Isnt that in the country where everything is either poisonous, dangerous, or sheep? Im just saying, that in that case, a small matter of flaming chainsaws isnt that big a deal. Grab a Fosters, and enjoy the show, I say. (Is that even a big brand in australia? Or is it pure mick dundee style stupidity?)

I think I'll just stop trying to deny the stereotypes for a moment...
I live on a farm and have to ride a horse to get to the front gate in order to collect the mail. When I'm not doing other things, I'm engaged in cattle herding and sheep shearing.
Due to the likelihood of encountering deadly snakes, I regularly carry around a case full of anti-venoms. Fortunately, due to long term exposure, I'm mostly immune to the bites of most snakes.

The truth is, most Australians live in urban and suburban environments, and cannot ride horses or shear sheep. Very few Australians have actually encountered the death snakes people seem to think infest every corner of this country. They exist, but I've only seen them at reptile parks.
Fosters is not at all a popular brand of beer here, I for one don't even drink.
And New Zealand is the one with the sheep. Not saying we don't have them, but the stereotype applies to New Zealand.

Sorry for going on about it, but it just annoys me.

[Traab]

I think I'll just stop trying to deny the stereotypes for a moment...
I live on a farm and have to ride a horse to get to the front gate in order to collect the mail. When I'm not doing other things, I'm engaged in cattle herding and sheep shearing.
Due to the likelihood of encountering deadly snakes, I regularly carry around a case full of anti-venoms. Fortunately, due to long term exposure, I'm mostly immune to the bites of most snakes.

The truth is, most Australians live in urban and suburban environments, and cannot ride horses or shear sheep. Very few Australians have actually encountered the death snakes people seem to think infest every corner of this country. They exist, but I've only seen them at reptile parks.
Fosters is not at all a popular brand of beer here, I for one don't even drink.
And New Zealand is the one with the sheep. Not saying we don't have them, but the stereotype applies to New Zealand.

Sorry for going on about it, but it just annoys me.

Heh, I know, I was just teasing. Well, not about the beer, ive never had the chance to even ask about that till now. It just always struck me as funny that that was their motto. "Fosters, Australian for beer." Also, that poisonous, dangerous, or sheep line is something that I read in a story once and I found it amusing so its stuck with me. And having read up a bit on the various creatures found within your borders, I cant really disagree with the first two parts.

[Zar Peter]

I think I'll just stop trying to deny the stereotypes for a moment...
I live on a farm and have to ride a horse to get to the front gate in order to collect the mail. When I'm not doing other things, I'm engaged in cattle herding and sheep shearing.
Due to the likelihood of encountering deadly snakes, I regularly carry around a case full of anti-venoms. Fortunately, due to long term exposure, I'm mostly immune to the bites of most snakes.

The truth is, most Australians live in urban and suburban environments, and cannot ride horses or shear sheep. Very few Australians have actually encountered the death snakes people seem to think infest every corner of this country. They exist, but I've only seen them at reptile parks.
Fosters is not at all a popular brand of beer here, I for one don't even drink.
And New Zealand is the one with the sheep. Not saying we don't have them, but the stereotype applies to New Zealand.

Sorry for going on about it, but it just annoys me.

Well, I would be happy if most people refer my land to Mozart, Alps and *shiver* the Trapp family but we have actually these T-Shirts here to define us:

[Elemental]

Strange... I can't think of a single European stereotype...

And to tell the truth, you don't really want kangaroos over in Austria. If they survive the relative cold, they'd overrun everything.

[Soylent Dave]

New Zealand is the one with the sheep. Not saying we don't have them, but the stereotype applies to New Zealand.

Sorry for going on about it, but it just annoys me.

It's pretty much a Commonwealth thing that the ones with the sheep are "not us, but someone pretty close who we want to mildly put down"

e.g. Wales, Leeds, Australia, New Zealand, Rhodesia (probably not so much now that it doesn't really exist), Sheppey, France, Belgium...

I think Canada gets away with it because the Canadians are too NICE to take the mick out of (and there's only 7 of them anyway).

Strange... I can't think of a single European stereotype...

Reminds me of an anecdote involving a group of Belgians talking to a Brit, laughing at the British stereotypes (of which there are many), and being all self-assured that there are no stereotypes about Belgians.

And then the Brit having to explain that the biggest stereotype about Belgians is that they are deathly boring.

Rather a quiet car journey after that revelation, apparently.

[dehro]

Reminds me of an anecdote involving a group of Belgians talking to a Brit, laughing at the British stereotypes (of which there are many), and being all self-assured that there are no stereotypes about Belgians.

And then the Brit having to explain that the biggest stereotype about Belgians is that they are deathly boring.

Rather a quiet car journey after that revelation, apparently.

things must have changed a lot since I lived in Holland then.. they used to take the mickey out of Belgians regularily

[Mono Vertigo]

And Belgians are also a favourite among the French (who entertain the stereotype of the dumb-as-a-brick guy with a thick, silly accent).
Us Belgians mostly joke about the French and... err... ourselves. Except that we portray instead ourselves as kafkaesque and ridiculously complicated.

[Traab]

Meh, and im an american. Oh sure, its mostly all awe and the uttermost levels of respect, due to us being the essence of awesome distilled into a human form, but I think there might even be a joke or two floating around out there about us as well!

Oh, and at least australia doesnt have ALL the deadly stuff. Hell, in my home state alone we have two deadly breeds of snake and I think 2 nasty spiders as well. Though the black widow is the most pathetic excuse for a deadly spider around. Im pretty sure its only barely hanging onto its deadly title and avoiding a downgrade to painful but less deadly than crossing the street. But anyways, yeah, 4 dangerous/deadly creatures, in an area that you could probably squeeze into australia 10 times over without letting the borders brush against each other.

[Asta Kask]

There's a long tradition of Norwegians and Swedes telling stories in which the other nationality are idiots. But we don't do that about the Danes. That would be cruel.

[Augmental]

This thread reminds me of an XKCD comic about earthquakes and twitter. Specifically, the people tweeting about the earthquake that are near the center of it; due to fiber signals traveling a lot faster than seismic waves, the earthquake is quickly overtaken by the twitter posts about the earthquake. This means that other people on twitter could learn about the earthquake before it actually hits them, and possibly find shelter - but instead, they choose to respond to the first people who posted about the earthquake.

[Soylent Dave]

we portray instead ourselves as kafkaesque and ridiculously complicated

"This is not a forum post" ?

Oh, and at least australia doesnt have ALL the deadly stuff. Hell, in my home state alone we have two deadly breeds of snake and I think 2 nasty spiders as well. Though the black widow is the most pathetic excuse for a deadly spider around. Im pretty sure its only barely hanging onto its deadly title and avoiding a downgrade to painful but less deadly than crossing the street. But anyways, yeah, 4 dangerous/deadly creatures, in an area that you could probably squeeze into australia 10 times over without letting the borders brush against each other.

There's an Al Murray routine where he points out that Britain is sensible and proper because everything here just so much more down to earth, and certainly not just a bit rubbish and small.

"Our wild animals aren't particularly wild, are they? You're not going to get mauled to death by a squirrel.

Our mountains aren't particularly large or hazardous - they're large enough for us to practice on, so we can go and conquer other peoples' mountains..."

[Hazzardevil]

"This is not a forum post" ?



There's an Al Murray routine where he points out that Britain is sensible and proper because everything here just so much more down to earth, and certainly not just a bit rubbish and small.

"Our wild animals aren't particularly wild, are they? You're not going to get mauled to death by a squirrel.

Our mountains aren't particularly large or hazardous - they're large enough for us to practice on, so we can go and conquer other peoples' mountains..."

To be fair, if all of Earth was an MMO, Britain would be the tutorial area. The most dangerous thing in Britain is either a train or a car, either get decapitated while sticking your head out the train or ran over by a car.

So Britain is not that dangerous or interesting.

We often stereotype other countries of them stereotyping us. We believe the French believe we believe they eat nothing but baguettes and snails.

[dehro]

haven't you forgotten the frogs legs? and no, I don't mean the derogatory term for french people

[Dr.Epic]

Another good test is to offer the older man accompanying him some badly made green tea. If he proclaims it "hot leaf juice", you have a positive ID.

I don't he'd be into petty arson like that.

[Katana_Geldar]

To be fair, if all of Earth was an MMO, Britain would be the tutorial area. The most dangerous thing in Britain is either a train or a car, either get decapitated while sticking your head out the train or ran over by a car.

I like this! Australia would be some sort of dangerous area you only go to on large raids with heaps of people.

[Traab]

I like this! Australia would be some sort of dangerous area you only go to on large raids with heaps of people.

Im thinking it would be the mmo equivalent of Tomb of Horrors.

[Katana_Geldar]

I'm tinking more underdark, ToH is rather small...

[AshesOfOld]

This thread brings back memories of ye goode ol' bash.org. Every second post had to be about someone catching on fire, but writing his friends on irc instead of reacting to it.

I remember actually learning about national stereotypes in school via some book. I think we were supposed to learn to reflect on stereotypes (i.e. they're wrong), but since most of us hadn't heard them before, it was a whole new revelation of negativity .

I like this! Australia would be some sort of dangerous area you only go to on large raids with heaps of people.

Then Denmark would be that annoying secondary area you go to. You know, after the tutorial, when you feel you're ready, you go to the secondary area that's supposed to get challenging, but for some reason is absurdly boring and repetitive? After that, you can continue to Norway or eastern europe, to get brutally murdered.

[Trazoi]

Is it that? It's the first about fire I found:

It Crowd

It's a bit earlier in the episode: Subject: Fire

I haven't had to evacuate because of a fire in the building I was in, but I have had to leave because of a lab in the one next to me exploding. I've also had the reverse happen and been put in lockdown due to an anthrax scare. The emergency response crew spent half the day setting up their HazMat showers and suits while us vectors had to watch waiting to potentially horribly die. Fun times.

[Rawhide]

(and if that wasn't an IT Crowd reference, it should have been)

Oh, it definitely was.

a post about a fire in the building and it takes 28 posts before the IT crowd was mentioned...

And still no you tube vid...

For shame playgrounders. If i wasn't on a train i'd find & post it myself!

24, thank you very much.

Well, I would be happy if most people refer my land to Mozart, Alps and *shiver* the Trapp family but we have actually these T-Shirts here to define us:

Yeah, uhm, .