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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Snowcone on January 10, 2007, 10:25:13 AM

Title: Where are you from?
Post by: Snowcone on January 10, 2007, 10:25:13 AM
Since we seem to have a very diverse group of people here I was just curious what country/part of the country you are from.

I live in the South Central Texas, US.
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: Predator Ranger on January 10, 2007, 11:57:43 AM
Albany-area of New York, USA
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: wshbrngr on January 10, 2007, 12:49:43 PM
I am just down the road from you in the Hill Country
Pipe Creek, TX - YES, it is an actual place :)
and NO, I am not a redneck.....  well, OK maybe a little :)

Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: Snowcone on January 10, 2007, 12:54:01 PM
whsbrngr, It's ok, we are all a little bit redneck. I mean, I own tools, fix things, and sometimes don't change the channel when NASCAR is on.
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: wshbrngr on January 10, 2007, 12:56:20 PM
whsbrngr, It's ok, we are all a little bit redneck. I mean, I own tools, fix things, and sometimes don't change the channel when NASCAR is on.
Well, I have to use a tractor to mow the grass and I do enjoy the redneck comedy tour guys. (and some of their in-laws sure remind me of my in-laws :) )
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: Brandon on January 10, 2007, 12:57:56 PM
Clio, Michigan
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: Bungleboss on January 10, 2007, 01:12:53 PM
Brighton. East Sussex. UK
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: TheValeman on January 10, 2007, 01:20:40 PM
Auckland, New Zealand ..... which is on the outer rim near the Rishy Maze  ;D
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: FinalFable on January 10, 2007, 02:09:05 PM
I live in Ohio, in an area south of Cleveland. OSU v. Florida was embarassing, incase anyone watched it, too bad Troy Smith isn't injured, instead of Ted Ginn.
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: KaiserWAVE on January 10, 2007, 02:15:37 PM
Hamm, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Yes, I'm a Kraut :)
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: TheValeman on January 10, 2007, 02:29:08 PM
My Grandmother was German. Her mother came out to NZ from Germany in late 1800's I believe.

I've always wanted to visit Germany as I have her Birth certificate number from Brandenburg which I wanted to trace for the family tree.

If I ever get over there at least I'll know one person who speaks English eh  ;D
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: KaiserWAVE on January 10, 2007, 02:43:29 PM
Brandenburg is about a 4 hour drive away from me :)
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: 4tyGames on January 10, 2007, 03:16:44 PM
Permanent Address is in Mesquite, TX (outside of Dallas)

I go to school in Norman, OK (you should be able to guess which school that is  :P)
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: satoshi_matrix on January 10, 2007, 03:20:11 PM
Southern Ontario, Canada. Glad to see so many people from all over are able to come here and contribute to this project!
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: wshbrngr on January 10, 2007, 04:02:26 PM
Southern Ontario, Canada. Glad to see so many people from all over are able to come here and contribute to this project!
OH, you are Canadian, not you are? eh?
 ;D
G'Day, eh?
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: TheValeman on January 10, 2007, 04:26:53 PM
Southern Ontario, Canada. Glad to see so many people from all over are able to come here and contribute to this project!
OH, you are Canadian, not you are? eh?
 ;D
G'Day, eh?


You're not related to Yoda by chance?
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: wshbrngr on January 10, 2007, 04:35:25 PM
Southern Ontario, Canada. Glad to see so many people from all over are able to come here and contribute to this project!
OH, you are Canadian, not you are? eh?
 ;D
G'Day, eh?


You're not related to Yoda by chance?

Obviously you do not speak Canadian.......  :)
Perhaps Yoda is Canadian? hmmmmmm
But seeing as you are right there next to Austria...   ;D

Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: TheValeman on January 10, 2007, 04:59:40 PM
Vaat are you zaying Herr Colonel?

Skippy ..... Skippy ..... Skippy und busch Kangaroo .... la la laaaa. Hmmm .... no go there

Ahhh ...... you must mean Austria-lia ..... home of Kylee ... and funnel web spiders ... and coral snakes ... and redback spiders ... and Huntsmen [size of a dinner plate] spiders  ;D
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: satoshi_matrix on January 10, 2007, 05:06:40 PM
Um....last time I checked, Canadians speak English and French, not Canadian, Valeman. Though I speak some Japanese as well :D
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: TheValeman on January 10, 2007, 05:15:47 PM
Well .... he implied I live in Europe ..... patently untrue I might add  :)

So I got out my Austrian accent as opposed to my Australian accent ..... although I'd take the other one any day in preference to Aussie twang .... hehehe
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: wshbrngr on January 10, 2007, 05:21:07 PM
Um....last time I checked, Canadians speak English and French, not Canadian, Valeman. Though I speak some Japanese as well :D
Yeah, I know.... I was just trying to make a funny (You may not be old enough to know Bob & Doug McKenzie) and playing with TheValeman cause he is from New Zealand and since it is close to Australia, I said Austria, cause I was perpetuating the idea that Americans don't know geography.

With that said, I will retreat back into the hills of Texas with the other rednecks and wait for the government to come get me.
:D
It was all just a sad joke.....
(besides Austria, Australia - whats the difference? )  <--- again, this is just a joke, no offense intended
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: TheValeman on January 10, 2007, 05:50:21 PM
Hahahahahahaha .......

Don't worry you old bugga [Aussie slang] .... I got it loud and clear and was happy to carry it on  ;D

Maybe I need to retreat back to the Piha rock with my Meremere [ a greenstone club ] and wait it out too.

All kidding aside ... it's just a bit of friendly banter between wshbrngr and myself as he's lived in New Zealand too and knows our pacific humor. No offense intended to anyone at all .....
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: KaiserWAVE on January 10, 2007, 06:31:39 PM
...and suddenly Peter Jackson's earlier movies make a lot more sense :D
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: TheValeman on January 10, 2007, 06:38:16 PM
ROFLMAO!!!!!
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: -Lockdown- on January 11, 2007, 03:32:17 PM
I live in Florida. I love it here, especially since I live in a small town. The only downside is that there's no highspeed Internet around here, which I really want for online gaming.
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: TheValeman on January 11, 2007, 03:49:34 PM
At least you can roll out of the door and watch a Shuttle/Delta launch. And maybe catch a piece or two when something falls off .....  :)

I remember seeing a video of a unmanned Delta rocket blowing up just off the pad. Man  .... what a bomb!!!

And no .... I'm not going anywhere near Challenger. I don't get off on seeing/talking about loss of life when people are trying to further science/knowledge for all mankind.
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: tiktektak on January 11, 2007, 04:08:15 PM
I'm from Austria, Lower-Austria!
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: wshbrngr on January 11, 2007, 07:51:17 PM
I live in Florida. I love it here, especially since I live in a small town. The only downside is that there's no highspeed Internet around here, which I really want for online gaming.

Been there, done that.... we moved from the city to the country almost 2 yrs ago. The cable modem was a tough giveup.
We finally got DSL available in our area last week...   ;D
(after 2 yrs of complaining to the phone company)
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: dx1 on January 12, 2007, 05:50:08 AM
I was born in a part of Berlin, Germany which wasn't a part of Berlin in the time of the cold war and now is. Actually (since 2004) I live in Potsdam (land of Brandenburg) and also next to Berlin. By car it's about one hour to Brandenburg city:
(http://www.finanzamt.brandenburg.de/sixcms/media.php/lbm1.a.3726.de/Brandenburg-Zustaendigkeit.jpg)
Maybe this year I move to Dresden with a friend of mine, to run a RPG-shoppe. I look forward to move to Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil in 2008/09 for a couple of years.
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: -Lockdown- on January 17, 2007, 05:11:34 PM
I live in Florida. I love it here, especially since I live in a small town. The only downside is that there's no highspeed Internet around here, which I really want for online gaming.

Been there, done that.... we moved from the city to the country almost 2 yrs ago. The cable modem was a tough giveup.
We finally got DSL available in our area last week...   ;D
(after 2 yrs of complaining to the phone company)
I'm done complaining (along with the rest of the town).

It's their loss. They could have made it into a win-win situation, but I guess telephone companies will always be idiots. >:(
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: wshbrngr on January 17, 2007, 05:37:30 PM
Whenever I deal with the telephone company, I ALWAYS think of Lily Tomlin (As Ernestine).
If you are old enough to remember her, you know what I mean, and if you don't know her you should look her up.   ;D

'We are the phone company, we can do whatever we want'
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: TheValeman on January 17, 2007, 07:02:54 PM
Haha .... Lily Tomlin? .... She's really old now .... about your age I reckon .....  ;D
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: wshbrngr on January 17, 2007, 07:08:19 PM
Haha .... Lily Tomlin? .... She's really old now .... about your age I reckon .....  ;D


 :P
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: Exist2Inspire on January 23, 2007, 10:26:19 PM
I'm from Winnipeg, Manitoba (Canada), eh?
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: wshbrngr on January 23, 2007, 11:19:45 PM
I'm from Winnipeg, Manitoba (Canada), eh?

At last, somebody that gets it.  :)
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: Arseen on April 11, 2007, 02:34:46 AM
Me from Finland am.

According to Google Earth:

61°05'53.78" N, 27°53'43.26" E is our house, altough I live in so country side, that it doesn't actually show our house.
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: Lish on April 11, 2007, 06:49:53 AM
Interesting topic.

We, I'm from Central Queensland, Australia.  It's a little like texas but about 5 times bigger :)  Actually, a lot like texas.  Brahman Bulls everywhere, cattle saleyards every three miles, and enough cowboy hats to make you think wyatt earps gonna be alone to clean up the town any minute....errr, the bulls and hats part are pretty much right, appart from the cows theres billions of tonnes of coal, which we ship to China, who pollutes the planet, and then ships barbie dolls to texas.  Its a viscious cycle.  Our coal, Chinas polution, and barbie dolls.  Its why we and the USA wont sign that environmental thingy that everyone raves about...kyo...or something..

Anyway, I moved to Melbourne where I now spend two hours on the freeways each day traveling 15 miles to and from work.  If anyone from the US wants to know what australia looks like, stand in the middle of the street, hold up a large mirror and there you have it, the cars will be on the opposite side.  do it with a heep of toyota camries, jeep cherokees, and pontiac GTO's in the background for that realistic look. Works for mainland europe aas well with the beamers audi's and mercs...but only to look like Sydneys North Shore :)

Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: revolutionika on April 11, 2007, 08:22:29 PM
near atlanta georgia,i dont know if i'm a redneck,ya'll ;)
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: WiiCollector on April 14, 2007, 02:00:13 AM
Manitoba Canada.

 ::)
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: catchup dude on January 12, 2009, 12:42:12 PM
Ukraine (post ussr space) crimean peninsula
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: nascarbr on January 12, 2009, 12:48:51 PM
São Paulo, Brazil.
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: Beastman1975 on January 12, 2009, 02:29:15 PM
New Jersey US here and yes im old enough to remember bob and doug mckenzie hoser , also i remember Lily as ernestine
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: shenske on January 12, 2009, 03:21:27 PM
I'm 20 years old and currently live in Greeley, Colorado where i attend the University of Northern Colorado.
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: sheep2001 on January 12, 2009, 06:05:45 PM
Farnham (Surrey), UK - and old enough to know better!  ;D
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: Symptoms0fMercy on January 12, 2009, 07:10:02 PM
Rhode Island, USA

no one even knows we exist...   :P
"Rhode Island... That's in New York, right?"  I hear things like this far too often when people call in at work... :-[
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: Yumil1988 on January 12, 2009, 07:47:37 PM
Way to bump, lol.

*waves hands around* Me me me, I know where Rhode Island is....never been there though. :P

DFW, Texas, USA.
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: Hero's Shade on January 12, 2009, 08:45:59 PM
I'm originally from Wisconsin, but I was raised here in California.
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: Lumberjack42 on January 12, 2009, 09:25:21 PM
I am, unfortunately, currently residing in Bartlesville, OK, the former home of Phillips Petroleum.

Lumberjack42
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: Ragnarok2103 on January 12, 2009, 09:37:03 PM
i live in New Jersey. south jersey, to be more exact. about 10 minutes outside of atlantic city, if anyone knows where that is.
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: Yumil1988 on January 12, 2009, 09:38:26 PM
I am, unfortunately, currently residing in Bartlesville, OK, the former home of Phillips Petroleum.

Lumberjack42

 :o Unfortunately!? I love that place! I was a student at Oklahoma Wesleyan University there for two years. Might go back and finish as soon as I get some of that green stuff, they require that to let you stay. >_>
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: Beastman1975 on January 12, 2009, 10:09:53 PM
i live in New Jersey. south jersey, to be more exact. about 10 minutes outside of atlantic city, if anyone knows where that is.


so sounds like your either in EHT pleasantville absecon?
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: Ragnarok2103 on January 12, 2009, 10:26:31 PM
i live in New Jersey. south jersey, to be more exact. about 10 minutes outside of atlantic city, if anyone knows where that is.


so sounds like your either in EHT pleasantville absecon?


Galloway, actually, but thats right in the same area.  i take it you're familiar with south jersey?
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: PDDestro on January 13, 2009, 05:15:44 AM
Born and raised in Miami, FL, but I've been living in Seattle, WA for the past year & half now.
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: Mick Dundee on January 13, 2009, 06:32:45 AM
Been in New England my whole life. Mass for the first 13 years or so, and New Hampshire there on.

Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: Beastman1975 on January 13, 2009, 06:45:50 AM
untill recently i lived in mayslanding all my life lol now im near turnersville
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: dmc1974 on January 13, 2009, 07:48:36 AM
Pittsburgh, Pa---
   
Home of the 2008 Super Bowl Champs!
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: shenske on January 13, 2009, 01:02:55 PM
Pittsburgh, Pa---
   
Home of the 2008 Super Bowl Champs!


2008 was the Giants. I think you mean 2009 superbowl champs. I don't think that's going to happen, steelers need to get through the ravens first. Plus, either the eagles or the cardinals are no walk in the park. Look what the eagles did to the cowboys in week 17, ouch!

I'm just really glad to see the chargers get it handed to them, it was long overdue. :)
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: Lumberjack42 on January 13, 2009, 01:30:30 PM
I am, unfortunately, currently residing in Bartlesville, OK, the former home of Phillips Petroleum.

Lumberjack42

 :o Unfortunately!? I love that place! I was a student at Oklahoma Wesleyan University there for two years. Might go back and finish as soon as I get some of that green stuff, they require that to let you stay. >_>

Really? I graduated there in 2001 with my B.A. in music. I do love OWU, fantastic college for a fairly reasonable price for a private Christian university.

Lumberjack42
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: dmc1974 on January 13, 2009, 01:51:04 PM
Pittsburgh, Pa---
   
Home of the 2008 Super Bowl Champs!


2008 was the Giants. I think you mean 2009 superbowl champs. I don't think that's going to happen, steelers need to get through the ravens first. Plus, either the eagles or the cardinals are no walk in the park. Look what the eagles did to the cowboys in week 17, ouch!

I'm just really glad to see the chargers get it handed to them, it was long overdue. :)

No actually it goes by the year of the season- They won it all on Feb 5, 2006 and they were the 2005 Champs.  SO... even though they play it in 2009 they are still the champs of the 2008 season.   And lets face it the Ravens vs. Steelers is actually the Super Bowl.  Whoever wins that will have any easy time, neither the Eagles or the Cards have a defense thats even close to the Steelers or Ravens.
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: tiktektak on January 13, 2009, 02:47:10 PM
I'm currently living in Vienna, Austria.... Grew up in the countryside though in Bad Pirawarth....

Actually I'm feeling quite exotic now.... ;D
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: Vt102 on January 13, 2009, 05:04:41 PM
Pittsburgh, Pa---
   
Home of the 2008 Super Bowl Champs!


2008 was the Giants. I think you mean 2009 superbowl champs. I don't think that's going to happen, steelers need to get through the ravens first. Plus, either the eagles or the cardinals are no walk in the park. Look what the eagles did to the cowboys in week 17, ouch!


QUIET YOU!!!!..

STEELERS WILL OVERCOME ALL!!!!..

LOL...
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: mazut on January 14, 2009, 01:33:14 AM
I currently live in Durant, OK. Before that, I was in Norman, OK and before that, Bartlesville, OK. :) Lots of close neighbors on here :)

-M
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: Grumbleduke on January 14, 2009, 11:53:40 AM
Born and bred in London  but now living near Great Yarmouth in the county of Norfolk in the United Kingdom.
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: baditrw on January 14, 2009, 12:07:56 PM
South Carolina ,USA

State Motto - "Hey Yall,watch this....."
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: Adan on January 16, 2009, 01:05:06 AM
CHICAGO, IL, US of A
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: Akumu on January 16, 2009, 06:44:58 PM
Norway, little south of Oslo.

Though i lived in both USA and Brazil in my life, i live in Norway again now, for the moment...
Title: Re: Where are you from?
Post by: GioGio on January 22, 2009, 03:36:55 PM
Born in Italy, raised in Toronto Canada