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Wasn't even aware that "berum" was a word in German... Never used it myself, and I live next door to them...

I wouldn't be too sure, me knowing what I'm talking about is a big assumption. Let me go look it up.

Wasn't even aware that "berum" was a word in German...

It isn't. Then of course there is Polish, where I think they speak the B like the Germans speak the W. So add some minor vowel shifting and it becomes clear that
a) m10bob has polish ancestors and
b) he really meant "Warum" [:D]

Look. let's stop arguing spelling and stick to the weighty, important matter of making sure I get what I want. (Hmm, that might come over a teensy bit self centred) ... err, pretty please? Look, I have Carriers at War here, and I've not played it since running the demo bit on download day (there will not be a contest to guess why).... now, let's have a modicum of consideration here at the very least - what sort of a message does it give the average browsing possible customer type to hear that Matrix couldn't be bothered to launch AE on my selected choice of day, probably forcing me to play CAW as a stop gap, after I went to the trouble of travelling all that way and buying a PC just to play it?
 
Dave
(...and let us not forget that ox cart).
 

Was there a blizzard that you had to go through as well?[:'(]

I fully support DaveB's emotional blackmail.

Maybe it was "Beruf nicht?" as in job not or perhaps professionally negative[:D][:D]

ORIGINAL: DaveB

(...and let us not forget that ox cart).

Of course it will be uphill both ways...

Up here everywhere is South, barring a small section of the North pole possibly. Okay, so there are a few bits of the world further north, like Norway and Iceland, but they can do their own begging.
 
The land is officially described as 'lumpy' in 'The Rough Guide to all the places I'm glad somebody else lives and not me'.... so although it's not all uphill it certainly is so a lot of the time. We locals quite like the place, but the continual struggle to persuade the oxen to climb the next section can get tiring, and the young folk find it quite hard to 'cruise' in their blinged up carts - those rotating chromed hubs are okay on the flat, but they tend to fall off if you catch a rut wrong.
 
Frankly I can't see how this could fail to move even the hardest of hearts, I'm almost in tears as I type, and I already know the story....
 
 
 
Dave
 
 

" So, I will stop to buy Beer, milk, coffee, beer, cereals, beer, orange juice, bread, beer and beer at Walmart on 7 July."

Your 31 years there have certainly acclimated you to the Scottish way of living. [;)]

ORIGINAL: DaveB

Up here everywhere is South, barring a small section of the North pole possibly. Okay, so there are a few bits of the world further north, like Norway and Iceland, but they can do their own begging.

The land is officially described as 'lumpy' in 'The Rough Guide to all the places I'm glad somebody else lives and not me'.... so although it's not all uphill it certainly is so a lot of the time. We locals quite like the place, but the continual struggle to persuade the oxen to climb the next section can get tiring, and the young folk find it quite hard to 'cruise' in their blinged up carts - those rotating chromed hubs are okay on the flat, but they tend to fall off if you catch a rut wrong.

I do have to admit that I saw (and felt) more "weather" in a one day journey through the Scottish Highlands than in almost any other week of my life. Clear and sunny, overcast, sleet, rain, snow, fog, and a force 7 gale between 8 AM and 8 PM. All that was missing was a tornado. [:'(]

" So, I will stop to buy Beer, milk, coffee, beer, cereals, beer, orange juice, bread, beer and beer at Walmart on 7 July."

Your 31 years there have certainly acclimated you to the Scottish way of living. [;)]

 
I see your point - there is a bit of a tendency to high cholestorol up here...maybe if I cut out the milk?
 
Dave

ORIGINAL: DaveB

Look. let's stop arguing spelling and stick to the weighty, important matter of making sure I get what I want. (Hmm, that might come over a teensy bit self centred) ... err, pretty please? Look, I have Carriers at War here, and I've not played it since running the demo bit on download day (there will not be a contest to guess why).... now, let's have a modicum of consideration here at the very least - what sort of a message does it give the average browsing possible customer type to hear that Matrix couldn't be bothered to launch AE on my selected choice of day, probably forcing me to play CAW as a stop gap, after I went to the trouble of travelling all that way and buying a PC just to play it?

Dave
(...and let us not forget that ox cart).

Wait a second there. You are flying 8 hours then having to drive through Orlando traffic and complaining about an Ox Cart ride?! Um, maybe its just me, but I think I'd pick the Ox Cart over Orlando traffic. [:D]

ORIGINAL: Woos
It isn't. Then of course there is Polish, where I think they speak the B like the Germans speak the W. So add some minor vowel shifting and it becomes clear that
a) m10bob has polish ancestors and
b) he really meant "Warum" [:D]

Eeeee... what? Maybe in Suwahili

We actually speak both B and W like Germans.

Hey Shark -
sometimes we have guests over, I actually drive to Orlando airport and the smaller field to the North (Sanford) quite a lot. At Sanford I like browsing the Crusader display...
 
With Orlando you're out onto the Expressway in no time flat, and when you get to the I-4 overshoot (as in '50% of the time when I want I-4 south I overshoot that double slip turnoff, and I end up crossing under I-4 instead, then doing a 180 half a mile further on'). I've been INTO Orlando in the distant past, I don't go there much frankly - I prefer the smaller places, Winter Haven is local, for example.
 
One of my favourite memories is actually of an airport trip - having dropped off a friend from Dallas I was heading back home, the evening sun was warm and low, and I rolled the windows down to suck in some of that warm, petrol laden air while Reef radio (the point?) belted out some old Beach Boys stuff and I tapped the beat out on the sill of the window, you can't buy that sort of instant nostalgia (you know, nostalgia for a past you didn't actually experience <g>).
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&nbsp;Scotland's really very nice, lovely scenery, a bit short on sunshine - you don't get this green without plenty of rain - the contrast for 5 or 6 weeks a year is beautiful... the contrasts are what make&nbsp;our annual swaps&nbsp;so good, can't wait for retirement when my wife and I are hoping to spend a few months in each country in rotation for as long as we can manage it. I can attest that it is not only possible, but in fact a frequent experience for many, to 'enjoy' a wide range of weather in a single day up here - the local helo SAR service spend most of each summer winching hypothermic people dressed in T-shirts off mountainsides.
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We've got a beautiful planet, I've been lucky enough to have seen quite a lot of it, it's one of the selling points of the military that you'll get to see lots of places you wouldn't normally go to. Call me shallow - I always enjoyed Florida, I'm happy I can keep going back there <g> (Dammit, I even bought some of the Mouse's shirts....)
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Well if you've been to Dallas, you've been near my part of the world. I've traveled a lot of the US though, I think the worst traffic is in Houston. Dallas can be bad at times too.

Really surprised you didn't find Texas too hot coming from Scotland. We usually end up running the Air Conditioning into November around here. [8D]

ORIGINAL: anarchyintheuk

ORIGINAL: m10bob

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Emotional blackmail is not going to work as a tactic. Sorry.[:'(]

Berum nicht?

Its been a long time since i took german, but doesn't that translate to "forest not"? Think you mean "warum nicht?" [;)]

You are correct.. I must fall back on these excuses:

1. I learned colloquial German in Hesse and presumed it was spelled as they speak it.

2. I have not been there to speak that language in 30+ years.
and
3. I may be an ignoramus ![:D]

Nope Shark,
I was in Florida, my friend visited from Dallas... however, I have great hopes of exploring the US a bit more one fine day...I've whizzed through Washington, and spent a total of maybe 2 weeks in Maine, the rest of my time has been split between JAX, Homestead (Miami) and Orlando area. Florida weather is great - it's sunny, and it's warm, occasionally hot. When you come from somewhere cold and (usually) grey these are good points. Air conditioning and pools take care of the extremes.
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Funnily enough many Florida residents initially mistake my wife and I for locals, due to our cracked and brown/leathery appearance - an easy mistake to make, as the fresh coat of creosote we apply each autumn to prevent waterlogging and rot CAN look a bit like a tan at first glance.
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Actually,&nbsp;even stranger - our hire car last year had N Carolina plates, and when they heard our accents people would&nbsp;ask "where'd you come from?"&nbsp; - 'Scotland' we'd reply...despite being English and sounding so. The next question used to throw us - 'So what's the weather like in Carolina at the moment?'.
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It seems your accent, appearance and&nbsp;answers count for nothing against a license plate.
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ORIGINAL: DaveB

I can attest that it is not only possible, but in fact a frequent experience for many, to 'enjoy' a wide range of weather in a single day up here - the local helo SAR service spend most of each summer winching hypothermic people dressed in T-shirts off mountainsides.

Dave

I know that the weather in Scotland can surprise you - happened to me in 2002 when I made a bus tour through the Highlands (mainly). Was mentally and wardrobe-wise prepared for cool, wet weather, but I caught in fact a slight case of sunburn walking around in Braemar. And when we arrived at our hotel in Tomintoul about 3 p.m., the temperature inside my hotel room was beyond 30 degrees Celsius - apparently the hotel staff hadn't trusted the forecast and turned the heating up full bore. (A good thing about Scotland - the hotels have heating that deserves the name - in other places I've found light bulbs inside a metal box posing as heating - and this was still in Britain). Fortunately, the weather held for the trip to Loch Ness, but then it returned to form - Balmoral, Glenfiddich, Blair Castle, and Edinburgh in the rain. Anyway, they told us that the mountain rescue team from Aviemore has about a thousand rescue operations every year, with about twenty fatalities. Makes you think.

I'm sure that you kept warm in Glenfiddich... though that warmth may have come internally. [;)]