What country are you from?

[Dutchy]

I assume most of you English speaking people are from the US, and some are from England or Australia. Then there are prolly some other countries, too.

Since not everyone has their country in their profile, and a place of origin is sometimes needed to put a post in the right context, I'd like to ask here what country you're from.

I for one am from The Netherlands, Europe. :)

[Morgan Evanar]

http://216.73.105.30/forum/vbstats.php?action=country

Miami, FL, USA.

It blows and steams. Its generally craptastic.

[Dutchy]

590 from The Netherlands? :eek

[Morgan Evanar]

Those be hits, I think.

[Diego Van Derveld]

Tuscaloosa, AL USA

[CMJ]

I reside in Los Angeles, California..in the USA.

Since everyone stated it later had to back and edit...born in Dallas Texas..and grew up in Denton a sort of suburb of the Big 'D'.

[Figrin D'an]

Milwaukee, WI, USA

[imported_Grev Drasen]

Murray, KY, USA

[ReaperFett]

DUTCHY IS DUTCH????? :)



English. From England.

[Dutchy]

Originally posted by ReaperFett
DUTCHY IS DUTCH????? :)

Nope, Dutchy is English. Nederlander is Dutch. :p



English. From England.

You guys invented it, the English language i.e. :) How's your accent? *loves British accents*

[Sorreessa Tarrineezi]

born in La Jolla, California...reside in Oceanside/Vista....

[ReaperFett]

Nope, Dutchy is English. Nederlander is Dutch.
Smarty pants :)


How's your accent? *loves British accents*
I sound like a thick (IE, stupid) Midlander :)

[JMK]

Montreal, Canada born & raised.

[Alpha]

Am currently serving time in Socorro New Mexico. :)

[Dutchy]

Originally posted by ReaperFett
Smarty pants :)

Wijsneus, we call 'em. :)


I sound like a thick (IE, stupid) Midlander :)

Can you give me a celeb with that sound?

[Dutchy]

Originally posted by JMK
Montreal, Canada born & raised.

So tell me, how come Canada succeeds to remain always so silent on a global scale? :)

[ReaperFett]

Can you give me a celeb with that sound?
Not really :)


Im about 20miles from a very strong accent, I sortof have a mild bad one. Gary Lineker? He's from round my parts. I hear someone on Enterprise sounds similar too, but cant confirm that.

[Admiral Lebron]

I was born in Pittsburg, PA, raised in Baltimore/Clinton Maryland and currently reside in Woodbridge, Virginia.

[Princess Sunflower]

Born/Raised and live in NJ..about an hour and 15 minutes northwest of NYC. Unfortunately, I got a NJ/NY accent that I absolutely hate.

[Darth Viscera]

Born in Houston, Texas, currently live in sub-Washington D.C.

And I have no accent, be it texan, southern, eastern or otherwise, which is why I can do such terrific impersonations of other peoples' accents :D

[Marcus Telcontar]

Sydney, Australia, born and bred. Best damn place in the world, except when the temperature is above 45C

[Daiquiri Van-Derveld]

*waves to Grev*

(southern) Illinois, USA

[imported_Eve]

Denver, Colorado - The Mile High City.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Portland, OR, USA, Earth, The Universe.

:)

[Admiral Lebron]

You forgot milky way.

[imported_Eve]

Yeah cause I meant Denver on Mars, don't ya know.

[Taylor Millard]

Born in Boston, MA. Grew up in Dallas, TX. Now in DC

[Lilya Goldberry]

Niagara Falls, Ontario. Canada.

[JediBoricua]

San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Like you did not know it already...

[Jinn Fizz]

Born in Waynesboro, Virginia, raised in the suburbs of Los Angeles, now reside in Santa Maria, California.

Sometimes I sound like I have a western New York accent, because my father was born and raised in Buffalo, and my mother was raised there as well.

I also have an interesting family tree that to me is the best of both worlds. On my father's side of the family, I'm only a third generation American, because both sets of great-grandparents emigrated from Poland. (So this also means I have a very Polish last name.) But on my mother's side of the family, specifically through her father's lineage, the family can be traced back to Colonial America. As a matter of fact, I had a great-great-great-great-something or other who was a captain in the Revolutionary army. So my mother, sister, and I are all members of the Daughters of the American Revolution (although we're not active in the organization anymore). :)

[Evil Hobgoblin]

Born- Alexandria Hospital.

Current residence: Richmond, VA.

I'd like to travel one day, though.

[Admiral Lebron]

Eww.. Richmond.

[Jedi Master Carr]

Born in Attelboro, Mass, now live in Aiken, South Carolina, US

[Sean Piett]

Minnesota =]

[Darth Viscera]

Originally posted by Jinn Fizz
I also have an interesting family tree that to me is the best of both worlds. On my father's side of the family, I'm only a third generation American, because both sets of great-grandparents emigrated from Poland. (So this also means I have a very Polish last name.) But on my mother's side of the family, specifically through her father's lineage, the family can be traced back to Colonial America. As a matter of fact, I had a great-great-great-great-something or other who was a captain in the Revolutionary army. So my mother, sister, and I are all members of the Daughters of the American Revolution (although we're not active in the organization anymore). :)

I'm the same way, sorta. My mom grew up in Tehran, Iran, and lived in Canada in '72, Brighton (a channelside city in England) in '74, tested out New Orleans in '75, went back to Iran and when her green card pulled through, she moved to New Orleans permanently in '78. My cousin's husband's father was General Nematollah Nassiri, childhood friend and classmate of the Shah, head of the Imperial Royal Guard and director of SAVAK (the Iranian KGB under the Shah, organized and run with major help from the CIA and Mossad), a group which killed some 13,000 Iranian dissidents and wounded another 50,000 through brutal torture, and he was executed by a court of the ayatollah February 15, 1979.

My father's side of the family has been in New Orleans since its founding in 1725, perhaps even longer, records are sketchy. My great*8 grandfather, Private Francois LaBiche, was an invaluable member of the Lewis & Clark party, and met personally with President Jefferson many times.

One of my great, great great (continue) grandmothers was Emmeline LaBiche, aka Evangeline. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote an epic poem about her in 1847, entitled Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie.

My distant cousin, Pierre LaBiche, was working for the french resistance in late 1944, and single-handedly thwarted a plan by Colonel von Waldheim to transfer a cargo of 22,000 pieces of art to General von Rundstedt's command. They made a movie about it, starring Burt Lancaster (The Train (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0059825) ).

[Lilaena De'Ville]

My great great uncle was in a movie. :D Sam Elliot is my great great uncle!

http://www.blockbuster.com/bb/movie/details/0,7286,VID-V+++230856,00.html

No joke. :D

[Diego Van Derveld]

My great great (great?) Uncle was Jesse James.

[Threepio]

Mistress LD would like to add that it is Bill Bell, PLAYED by Sam Elliot to whom she is related.

[Oriadin]

Born in Dundee, Scotland and living in Birmingham, England. About 20 miles north of Fett.

The Birmingham accent is pretty shocking though :lol
Ive moved about the UK so much I kind of have a Brittish accent. So far no one has guessed where im from. Most people go with Ireland, which is very strange or somewhere like Devon, or Bristol. That probably wont mean a thing to you folks on the other side of the pond but it'll give the brits here some idea :)

[imported_Taja Loraan]

Born in London, England. Raised in Dhaka, Bangladesh - Hanoi, Vietnam - Bangkok, Thailand - London again. Currently residing in Dhaka.

[Lann Kirauc]

Born in Anaheim California and still residing in California. Famous people in the family lineage would be author James Fenimore Cooper. There is a town in Kansas named after my great grandfather, Stull (on my grandmother's side). And also my great grandmother encountered Quantril's Raiders passing through her land. My grandmother's side of the family has a rich history in Kansas.

[Loki Ahmrah]

Wow! Taja, you really have been around, not so suprising actually, you dirty, little madam! :p

Liverpool, England.

[JMK]

So tell me, how come Canada succeeds to remain always so silent on a global scale?
Because we don't have a real army to defend ourselves so we just make nice with everyone. :)

[Sene Unty]

Born in Bathesda, Maryland...but have lived in Miami Florida all my life....and as Morgan said...its craptastic.

[Darth Viscera]

Bethesda, not Bathesda! :p That city partially rules.

[darth_mcbain]

Born 'n raised in Syosset NY, now living in Colorado Springs, CO...

[Dae Jinn]

Originally posted by JMK
Because we don't have a real army to defend ourselves so we just make nice with everyone. :)


Even though we secretly hate most of the other countries and mock you behind your back :D J/K.

I think it's just how Canada is. We'll help if we can, and if we think it's right. Or the USA bullies us :cry ;)

[Sene Unty]

Originally posted by Darth Viscera
Bethesda, not Bathesda! :p That city partially rules.

ACK! Damn typo's. :D

I really dont remember living there as I was only a baby and moved to Miami when I was 2......

[Jedieb]

Born Weehauwken, NJ
Then moved to;
Union City, NJ
Plano, TX
Hialeah, FL
West New York, NJ
Hialeah, FL
Tampa, FL
Roanoke, VA
Daleville, VA

And I'm freakin' DONE! They're gonna bury me in this house. I'M SICK OF MOVING!

[Oriadin]

Originally posted by Jedieb
And I'm freakin' DONE! They're gonna bury me in this house. I'M SICK OF MOVING!

Amen to that!

[Princess Sunflower]

Originally posted by Jedieb
Born Weehauwken, NJ
Then moved to;
Union City, NJ
Plano, TX
Hialeah, FL
West New York, NJ
Hialeah, FL
Tampa, FL
Roanoke, VA
Daleville, VA

And I'm freakin' DONE! They're gonna bury me in this house. I'M SICK OF MOVING!

Hey Jedieb we're homey's kinda sorta...we were both born in the same county...Hudson County...I was born in Jersey City.

[xsmokingmanx]

Born- Hettinger, North Dakota but never lived there

Raised half my life in Lemmon South Dakota

Then moved to Orient, South Dakota

Currently going to college in Watertown, South Dakota

[Admiral Lebron]

Eww.. Visc is canadian = french = eww

[ReaperFett]

Oh Im sorry Lebron, is that a bit of Xenophobia I sense?

[Admiral Lebron]

lol.. no... visc knows I kid. ..


Edit: But yes, I despise the french.

[Shawn]

Do you mind, in the future, at least adding a ;) or something else to signify that you're joking? While Viscera may know you're joking, other people could have possibly taken offense to that statement.

[Loki Ahmrah]

Despite current events, this French-bashing is going too far. Freedom of speech and all but this is meant to be a public community and it has members who are making comments no longer bordering on racism but are actually racist comments. We have to stop <smallfont color={hovercolor}>-Censored-</smallfont>-footing around comments like these:


But yes, I despise the french.

According to the board statistics, 0.14% of visitors are French whilst although not a great number, French people do visit and I think it's wrong and rank to allow comments like the above to go unnoticed.

What if people started saying "I despise Americans, I despise the English, I despise Jews and Christians" etc. etc. It's unnacceptable. There's dissaproving of a county's actions but ham-handed remarks like that should have no place here.

[Taylor Millard]

And for the record, Lebron, most (if not all) of the Canadians I've talked to are for the war.

So ya know something, shut up.

What Loki has said is right, it's unacceptable. So curb your tongue. Or atleast remember to put the ';)' okay?

[Darth Viscera]

Originally posted by Admiral Lebron
Eww.. Visc is canadian = french = eww

Why do you keep saying that I'm Canadian? Did you read it wrong? You do realize that acadian is not the same thing as canadian, right?

[Neyasha]

Originally posted by Admiral Lebron
Eww.. Visc is canadian = french = eww

I am Canadian! and I have taken offense to this! not everybody in Canada is French! In fact none of us ARE French, we are Canadian! In the province of BC, More people speak Mandrin(sp) than French

[Admiral Lebron]

Technically... I make my anti-canadian statements to the French Canadians... but in the end visc is canadian.

[Shawn]

Just please refrain from making racist comments in the future, please. That goes for everyone.

[Admiral Lebron]

K. Tho all I said was eww...

[Janus Versa]

And that you despised the French. Of course, you're more than entitled to do that whether or not people agree with you but what would help avoid offending anyone is the use of tact when expressing your opinions.

[Darth Viscera]

Originally posted by Admiral Lebron
Technically... I make my anti-canadian statements to the French Canadians... but in the end visc is canadian.

My ancestry and I are as Canadian as you are Palestinian.

[Jedieb]

Sunflower's a Jersey Girl. One of my fav Springsteen tunes. Man, what I'd give to catch one of those Meadowlands shows. :cry

[Solomon Daenal]

Was born - In Georgia

Was bred - In Georgia

Will probably die - In Georgia

But who needs the outside world when you can live in the South.:D

[Sasha Tion]

I'm 100% Canadian and proud of it. Been in Canada since the day I was born and have no desire to move from the beautiful country.

[JMK]

Canada's a big place, what part?

[Sasha Tion]

I'm just gonna say Coast. Not which one though. Just the way I am. But you take me from my salt water and I will whither away and die.

[JMK]

Can't say I blame you, British Columbia especially Victoria is a nice place. ;)

[Dutchy]

Originally posted by JMK
Because we don't have a real army to defend ourselves so we just make nice with everyone. :)

Yeah, Canada's nice. :)

[Ryla Relvinian]

Portland, OR, USA, Earth, The Universe.

Ditto. My mom's dad's family is related to the French poet Alain Chartier. Booya. :) I am exactly 1/4 French, the rest is crazy stubborn German. :p

[Evil Hobgoblin]

Jedieb: Wait a minute. You live in VA? Daleville VA? What part of VA is that in?

I live just outside of Richmond, VA as I posted earlier, hence my sudden interest.

[Morgan Evanar]

Local Time: 08:52:30 PM

You live on the West coast.

Hows the weather?