The Return of Testing Chat Thread

[Zod]

I don't really care about ground zero, so have at it?

[Agent Bert Macklin]

I don't really care about ground zero, so have at it?

Have you visited it since you've been in NY?

[Zod]

I don't really care about ground zero, so have at it?

Have you visited it since you've been in NY?

I've been too busy finding a job to do much in the way of sightseeing. The closest I've come is passing by it on the way to somewhere else.

Even then I've got about a hundred other things on my list I'd rather get to before it.

[Losonti Tokash]

wtf

[RyanThunder]

I think they're talking about where the world trade centres used to be.

I thought they were building a (lol) "Freedom tower" there now though.

[Zod]

i just threw it in because hey easy reference to a disaster site

then nubs got a boner or something

[Flagg]

I live an hour from ground zero. Before that I had NORAD in Colorado. Yay me?

I'd like to go to ground zero and have a Crohn's shit on it.

[Bakustra]

BACK ON TOPIC

I live thirty minutes away from Detroit on the edge of farmland, so I'm actually fucked before the strontium starts raining down

[RyanThunder]

Why would anybody nuke Detroit in this day and age?

[Bakustra]

Why would anybody nuke Detroit in this day and age?

sadism

[Oxymoron]

Bah, it's not as if they would see a difference anyway.


Aaron, I live in Grenoble, France. The so-called "Capital of the Alps" (lol).

[Infinity Biscuit]

Hopefully this question doesn't betray my Americanness, but do you know anyone who can speak Arpitan?

[Oxymoron]

I don't think I know any french who can speak local dialects - they're pretty much dead languages these days, except in some regions like Brittany and the Basque Country where the autonomist try to keep the local gaellic dialects culturally alive.

The only regions I know where the local dialects are relatively widespread in day to day use are Alsace-Lorraine, Corsica and the Oversea.

[RyanThunder]

As a Frenchman, what's your opinion of those two little specks of land you claimed off our (Canada's) Atlantic coast?

[Aaron]

Which ones are those?

[Kryten]

Saint Pierre and Miquelon.

[Aaron]

Never heard of them.

[Oxymoron]

They've been ours for a few hundred years, AFAIK before Canada even existed as a country, and still AFAIK the people living there don't want to become Canadian.


See : Falkland Islands.

[Oxymoron]

Aaron, for your information : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Pierre_and_Miquelon

[RyanThunder]

[...] still AFAIK the people living there don't want to become Canadian.

Well, they should, but that's not even slightly what I was getting at.

I mean they're just a very tiny, rather distant province for you, right? Just seems odd is all.

[Oxymoron]

They are also a strategically placed harbor for our fishing fleets to have access to the Western North Atlantic without having to station in Canadian harbors and submit to Canadian fishing regulations.

[RyanThunder]

Oh, yeah, okay, that I might have a problem with.

Ah well.

[Oxymoron]

And France has oversea territories on every continents except Asia and the Middle-East, which makes France the 2nd country in the world with the largest Exclusive Economic Zone in the world by its overall area.

If you want one of the most ridiculous examples, here is Clipperton.

[Oxymoron]

Though if we don't have oversea territories in the Middle-East, we still have a VERY privileged relationship with Djibouti, which gives us the keys to the entrance of the Red Sea.

[RogueIce]

why isn't there an S on the back of his cape?

why

why

why

I liked the S on the back of his cape. And I think the movie costume looks pretty dumb.

What of it?

I live thirty minutes away from Detroit so I'm fucked

I just wanted to make a "Detroit sucks" joke with this, move along.