BS: Mudcat nationalities

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities
From: artbrooks
Date: 09 May 06 - 07:49 PM

Green chili? In Colorado? Ha! People from Colorado all wear thick socks and hiking boots...except the ones in Denver who might as well be in Manhattan.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 09 May 06 - 07:29 PM

GROAN!!!    Don, that was aweful. Truely aweful....

Well, despite living in Scotland for some considerable while now, I am very definitly English. The diffrence is important. I even vaugely know G and S's finale to whichever operatta it is all about duty that ends which for 'He's an english man'

But as engineers are excluded, as, presumably, too much of a breed apart, I don't count. And pedants should probably be also, for the general good.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities
From: Amos
Date: 09 May 06 - 07:24 PM

Eb:

The old 'un is why she's in New England!!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities
From: Don Firth
Date: 09 May 06 - 06:45 PM

Well, lemme see, now.

My father's side of the family came from Orkney, so that probably means Celts or whoever the hell was there before the Celts came along (had a penchant for standing big stones on end, for some strange reason—does that have any relationship to tossing the caber?), liberally mixed with the Norsemen who used to use the islands as a staging ground for raids on the rest of the British Isles and points south. My mother was a full-blooded Swede whose parents immigrated to the U. S. from Dalarna. I was born in California and spent the first nine years of my life there, then the family moved to Seattle, which my parents regarded as home.

I took three years of French in high school, but I can't speak it for purple poop because I never had an opportunity to use it. I don't speak Italian, but when I read lines from an opera libretto, I'm told my accent is near perfect, although half the time I have only a foggy idea of what I'm saying. I spent over a year in Denver, where I ate a lot of grits (even though that's hardly The South, and it wasn't by choice), and I never did find a decent chiliburger in the whole city. I love most kinds of seafood, and I love Chinese and Indian food, but basically, I'm an omnivore. I do eat oats from time to time, in cereal and bread and oatmeal cookies (with raisins and—I hope—chocolate chips!). I think it was Samuel Johnson who said that oats are "a grain fit only to be fed to horses and Scotsmen." I like the pipes, and when riled, I can swing a claymore with the best of 'em.

Any national characteristics in that mess?

I've lived most of my life in Seattle, but since I was born in California, does that make me an artificial Seattlite?

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities
From: Ebbie
Date: 09 May 06 - 06:39 PM

hahhaha

By the way, Jacqui- does New England remind you at all of the old 'un?

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities
From: jacqui.c
Date: 09 May 06 - 06:35 PM

OK Ebbie - you rumbled me.

I'd rather have a curry than a cucumber sandwich and mint tea or a glass of wine rather than Earl Grey or Dargeeling.

I have settled so well in Maine (well, it is 'New England') that I don't think that national characteristics usually count for much. Seems to me that people is people the world over.....

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 09 May 06 - 06:07 PM

Cucumber sandwiches bring the word 'regret' to mind. When I was about six years old we went to visit a rich Aunt. My parents lectured my sister and myself, about how to behave, before we left home. We were warned to be on our best behaviour and above all polite.....So when offered a cucumber sandwich by this wonderful old lady...this little six year old said "Oh yes please auntie, they're my favourites"...I had never tried one before and did not particularly enjoy it but it really impressed my rich Aunt.....The next time we went and she had delicious looking cream cakes on the table my lips were watering. She said "Help yourselves" I thought to us all but she added "Not you Michael, I have your favourites here for you" and produced two rounds of cucumber sandwiches. Do you think she knew? Ah well it was a long time ago and I guess I quickly got over it. Think I might have learnt something about 'Honesty' also.
Best wishes, Mike.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities
From: Bert
Date: 09 May 06 - 06:03 PM

Yes it's certainly different Ebbie. But Tree makes award winning green chile and I love the stuff.

When I get a desire for fish paste, which you don't see out here, I just make some. Of course if you're making it yourself then you don't have to skimp on the ingredients. Just take some home smoked salmon (again made by my darlin' Tree) and mash it up with butter until you have a nice spread, add salt and pepper to taste and spread it on crackers just before the guests arrive.

You have to be sure to hide some in the fridge though, because there won't be any left.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities
From: Ebbie
Date: 09 May 06 - 05:53 PM

What a culture- crashing blow, Bert! Of course, your prevous menu would have the same impact on me: 'fish paste? Whelks? I don't even understand the mild, other than as a concept.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities
From: Bert
Date: 09 May 06 - 05:46 PM

Cucumber sandwiches! (Bleedin' posh git, grrr, mutter, mutter). It should be fish paste sandwiches WITH the crusts. Oh! and 'arf a pint o' Whelks to go wiv 'em; not forgetting the Sarson's Vinegar. And if yer lucky a pint o' mild.

Accorse, now I'm a transplant to Colorado, it's a bowl of green chile, a quesadilla and a pint of Laughing Lab.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities
From: Bill D
Date: 09 May 06 - 05:43 PM

ah...we are playing "stereotypes"! Sure, there are some, but it's usually safer not to mention them..*grin*

I find 'differences' in the sense of humor, the use of language, and concepts of 'what is important' in daily life. But most of all, I see difference in various groups awareness OF the differences and how to adjust when they meet folks from other nationalities.

"further, deponent sayeth not"

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities
From: Ebbie
Date: 09 May 06 - 05:33 PM

"Tea at four o'clock without fail, cucumber sandwhiches with the crusts cut orf." Jacqui

lol Pinky and nose in the air and all that but breeding inevitably shows, dunnit!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities
From: Peace
Date: 09 May 06 - 05:28 PM

"I'm an arrogant, overbearing, gun-totin', ultra-conservative, Yankee from Idaho. And iffen ya don't like it, draw!!"

I can't, so this'll have to do . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities
From: Amos
Date: 09 May 06 - 05:01 PM

Hey, dude, nothin' typical here. Life here is Cal is kinda groovy cuz we all think for ourselves, ya know?

A

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities
From: jacqui.c
Date: 09 May 06 - 04:55 PM

Being English I am awfuly polite, particularly to the colonials that I come into contact with these days.

Tea at four o'clock without fail, cucumber sandwhiches with the crusts cut orf.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities
From: number 6
Date: 09 May 06 - 04:40 PM

Right on Beer !! Good one ... The Acadian part of ya sorta takes the gun tottin edge out of the spud rancher.

Gnu ... you have the universal brotherhood of engineer approach ... sorry bud, you cannot particpate in this thread. I should have mentioned engineers, family members and Latvians cannot participate.

Ebbie ... the 'chateristic' was for you guys living up in Alaska .. very cold.

Rapaire ... jeezuz ... calm down pal. Wasn't looking at you! Whew.

Amos ... what can I say ... typical Kalifornian.

MMario ... as I mentioned, think globaly, the Big Picture.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities
From: Beer
Date: 09 May 06 - 04:30 PM

Well I'm an "Acadian" and a "Spud" and proud of both.
Beer

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities
From: MMario
Date: 09 May 06 - 04:03 PM

Ebbie - where I grew up they would figure you were 'just visiting' to see if you liked the place or not. 2nd generation were often considered "newcomers"

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities
From: Ebbie
Date: 09 May 06 - 03:55 PM

I like many dud spuds.

And I like 'chateristic', sIx. I don't often go into the chat rooms but they seem pretty chateristic and seem to have a good time.

I haven't been in Alaska long enough (18 years) to speak knowledgeably about the typical Alaskan, if there is such a thing, but in all likelihood I'm a stereotypical Oregonian. Whatever that is. They too are a little spudlike.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities
From: gnu
Date: 09 May 06 - 03:06 PM

After much in-depth research, I find Canucks tend to be over-analytic.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities
From: number 6
Date: 09 May 06 - 03:01 PM

I know what you mean MMario ... I should add we are talking macro here, not micro.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 May 06 - 02:59 PM

And iffen ya wanna draw, I suggest starting with something easy, like a house or a tree or a stick man. You can work up to more complicated things like dragons and paramecium when you're experienced. A good art teacher can help, too. And use a #4 pencil and a kneaded eraser to start with, too.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities
From: MMario
Date: 09 May 06 - 02:56 PM

Good lord, six - I usually have trouble finding two common characteristics in siblings, let alone people as diverse as an entire nation.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities
From: Amos
Date: 09 May 06 - 02:55 PM

I'm, like, a totally country-loving cool dude, from the groovy beach country of like Southern like California. I, like, like liking, so I'm cool with whatever, you know what I mean? Man, that Rapaire, he's such a character. Totally L-7, but, you know, like, I like him, you know? I'm like, "I can't help liking the guy!", like. Whatever.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 May 06 - 02:55 PM

Or a "spud dud." Or an "Idahoer."

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities
From: MMario
Date: 09 May 06 - 02:54 PM

(I was gonna mention the Idahoans - but decided it was safer not to do so. He gets riled so easily. And whatever you do, don't call him a 'spud')

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities
From: number 6
Date: 09 May 06 - 02:54 PM

OK ... 2 distinct characteristics that I can also detect.

Divis ... I'm Hangin' in there. Thanks. How about yourself these days?

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities
From: Rapparee
Date: 09 May 06 - 02:52 PM

I'm an arrogant, overbearing, gun-totin', ultra-conservative, Yankee from Idaho. And iffen ya don't like it, draw!!

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities
From: number 6
Date: 09 May 06 - 02:48 PM

rephrase ... a unique chateristic of their nationality.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities
From: MMario
Date: 09 May 06 - 02:48 PM

Most of the ones from the UK seem to type in English - except for Sir - whoever he is this week- from Hull.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat nationalities
From: Divis Sweeney
Date: 09 May 06 - 02:48 PM

Hope your well number 6. Yes the Irish argue and are never wrong !

Subject: BS: Mudcat nationalities
From: number 6
Date: 09 May 06 - 02:43 PM

Does anyone notice a common characteristic of Mudcatters that is reflective of their nationalities?

sIx