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Old 21-07-2005, 08:32 PM   #1
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Default This is an Australian forum - so why use American words like 'newbie'?

Am I alone in thinking that we are being overrun by American culture?

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Old 21-07-2005, 08:41 PM   #2
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what rock did u crawl out of... its been shoved in my face for a long as i can remember.
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Old 21-07-2005, 08:50 PM   #3
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yes and we use color to change the font colour. That annoys me.

What is soo american about newbie ?
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Old 21-07-2005, 08:54 PM   #4
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Pffft get out newbie.

Newbie is hardly American, it's internet slang.
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Old 21-07-2005, 09:16 PM   #5
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Its always the NEWBIES that start threads like this have you noticed
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Old 21-07-2005, 09:34 PM   #6
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n00bz0R.... LOL.
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Old 21-07-2005, 09:36 PM   #7
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hahah thats a cracker of a picture there mate...sweet as!

/rolls eyes

Does that sound better?
Newbie has no origin that I know of...its when people start using y'all is when you should worry.
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Old 21-07-2005, 09:39 PM   #8
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Ohh Look

Mr Poll man struck again!
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Old 21-07-2005, 10:58 PM   #9
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Its a funny question to ask on a Forum dedicated to an American brand (Ford) using an American invented technology (internet)

Although l agree the world is being overun by American culture, or rather commercialisim, l dont think of newbie as being an American word as such.
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Old 21-07-2005, 11:07 PM   #10
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Its a funny question to ask on a Forum dedicated to an American brand (Ford) using an American invented technology (internet).
Also funny that this is an Australian site run by and mostly used by Australians that drive Australian Fords and were taught English in Australian schools.




I blame Casper, Period....or is that full stop.

Edit: Falcon freak, give Laminge his old avatar back please, i keep thinking he is posting without looking at the name.

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Old 21-07-2005, 11:53 PM   #11
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I'd never noticed....

On one 4wd forum i subscribe to (australian) everyone refers to their 4wd wagons/utes as 'trucks'. Now THAT ****es me off...

Don't think there are many/any problems on this site though!
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Pffft get out newbie.

Newbie is hardly American, it's internet slang.
spot on Chook...
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Old 22-07-2005, 02:52 PM   #13
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Got nothing to bring to this discussion so...

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N00b!
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Old 22-07-2005, 02:56 PM   #14
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I blame Casper, Period....or is that full stop.
So you should too.


Falcon Freak:

WAZZZZUUUUPPPP NEWBIE!!!! (American enough for you?)

Now excuse me while I eat my McDonalds and drink my Coke wearing my Levis and Reeboks. :nutsycuck
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hey i'm offended i'm half american :P

I will SUE you all! hehe (americanism)
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So you should too.


Falcon Freak:

WAZZZZUUUUPPPP NEWBIE!!!! (American enough for you?)

Now excuse me while I eat my McDonalds and drink my Coke wearing my Levis and Reeboks. :nutsycuck

lol @ caspers reeboks....

(sorry couldn't help myself...)
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Old 22-07-2005, 05:15 PM   #17
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This thread is really dumb.

You can't go anywhere without some other country's influence somewhere. Just get over it.
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Falcon Freak..... are you a communist?
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America, F**K YEAH!
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Or one of dem home-owner-sexuals with the tight gaitors?
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Or one of dem home-owner-sexuals with the tight gaitors?
newbies and tires unite and take over all man kind

i love that home-owner-sexuals that is sh1thot and i will use it as often as i can


NOW WHERE WERE WE <IALSO HATE PEOPLE THAT TYPE IN CAPITOLS ITS LIKE THEY ARE SHOUTING



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combining these 2 photos make what 2 words :




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combining these 2 photos make what 2 words :

My translation is : angry little Kiwi ??? py:
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combining these 2 photos make what 2 words :
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HAHAHA falcon freak

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Falcon Freak..... are you a communist?
Why do people always make the same accusations when anti-American statements are made?? I have always voted right of center in Australian Federal and State elections. I can't be a commie.

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Old 28-07-2005, 04:48 AM   #28
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Old 28-07-2005, 09:10 AM   #29
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Am I alone in thinking that we are being overrun by American culture?

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Nope - you are not alone - anyone with an IQ higher than a gnat can see what is happening...

And if you start complaining about it and then actually get up and "DO SOMETHING" about it, you'll join a select group of people who feel obliged to attempt to maintain the status quo (not the rock band - look it up).

You've probably seen some of this group most recently at Malaney trying to stop Woolworths building a supermarket.
Then there were the ones who wanted to stop the Kuranda Skyrail being built because it would "destroy the mountain range".

The fact of the matter is that we are living in an ever-changing town/city/state/country/world and when it comes right down to it, railing against change will, in the vast majority of cases, do nothing other than raise the blood pressure of the railers and cause a minor inconvenience to those causing the change.

The main problem is that humans have a natural resistance to change - the only human who REALLY likes a change is a wet/dirty baby...

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to embrace change and use it to your advantage - how you do that is entirely up to you.

Or you could run for Parliament, become the Prime Minister and then pass a law to ban all the stuff you don't like - that WILL work because Prohibition has been proven time and again to be spectacularly successful at stopping the population from doing stuff the powers-that-be deem unsuitable...
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Damnit. I was thinking Falcon Peadophile....
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