MrCaptainMan

if you read the whole thread uou'll see that i have retracted my original statement. i quite like the lounge now.

Eco

What is this? I have no idea what this is lol. SHe's the bad Slayer from Buffy isn't she?

Eco.

Lol this looks amusing from its description in the AE; I'll give it a try.

I've been meaning to get around to your arcs for ages. i'll add those two to the list - if i get another submission from someone else, I'll shunt one of yours down a space to give them a go first, if you don't mind

Eco.

LMAO that wasn't lost on me either

Eco.

Then it looks like some form of cultural difference. I'm not sure its particularly US/EU, tbh, since I live in Poland and most of my friends are English. Birmigham, Barrow, South London, Somerset and also one from South Wales, to be more exact.

I just texted my friends to make sure. 'joking, flirting, sarcasm, depending on context' was the reply that summed most responses up best for the winking smiley, so that seems to cover all bases.

The tongue-poking one had 'insulting', 'F-Off', 'don't care if u disagree', 'drunk', and 'don't know from my fellow Welshman lol.

Eco.

Why is this a problem? I always assumed that was the case anyway...

Do they state anywhere that they do, or don't, or are or are not allowed to read our private messages? I assumed that 'private' meant private from other forumgoers, not from the admins.

I'm not saying it's good or bad, i just didnt realise there was a privacy issue here.

Eco.

Thank you for clarifying the issue a little

I'm happy to hear that it's not as bad as some sites are making out.

Eco.

hm...you make a very good point. I think i and the poles ive heard complain about Enigma have not paid enough attentiin to it. i admit i didnt think of the whistleblowing in these terms, and im sure poles are swayed as much by the inevitable 'wah give us our due!' knee-jerk media reactions to such things as any other nationality.

I stand corrected by your well-put and civilly put argument.

Eco

There are two of us in this to date unique conversation. You dont seem to be having difficulty understanding the things I'm trying to convey. Maybe it's you.

Eco

You don't need to claim it, I refer you back to what caused this in the first place, which is you assuming that your smileys convey to anyone what you think they do. They don't.

Or at least they didn't, until I asked you to clarify.

Now everyone knows for example that if you send them a wink, you're not flirting with them.



Eco.

I beg your pardon, I didn't mean to take your quote out of context. I see you feel strongly on the matter, and I've no wish to denigrate you for that. My apologies. I obviously personally am fairly happy with the US film industry, but, well, different strokes and all that.

Regards

Eco.

Your definitions of what smileys are intended to convey are NOT universal. I'm not saying that mine are, II'm not even saying that yours are in a minority. But don't just assume you speak for the world.

I, for example, use a pokey-out-tongue smiley exactly as i would in reality, ie to indicate mild dismissal of the person i'm directing it at. Stricking your tongue out at someone as far as I know is a childish mild insult. At best it's mischeiviously implying a false dismissal, a kind of 'well, thrrp to you, but-i-don't-really-mean-it. This is why you'll rarely find one in any of my posts. I use the normal smiley to indicate I'm smiling as i type, and the grinning smiley to indicate I'm laughing.

Incidentally, I and everyone I know uses the winking smiley to indicate a suggestive or flirting smile.

You can of course use your own definitions, but to assume yours are the norms is dangerous, and as we see if you compound it with smug evasion of explanation misunderstandings can develop.

I say I'm British? I've taken your word for it that you are. You think I'm lying? Lovely.
I'm well aware of the absolutely hackneyed trope that is 'the germans stealing all the sunbeds'. It's lame IMO and not particularly backed up by reality in the last decade in my experience. You say that you get up at 6am when on holiday; From what I have seen of British tourists abroad, you are decidedly an exception. I have no sympathy for your average british package-holiday tourist who crawls out of bed at 10am expecting a full english and a free sunbed.

As ever, the truth is somewhere between my stereotype and your 6am example. But I'd rather stay in a Greek hotel full of Germans than one full of Brits, to be frank.

If the only thing you dislike about the Germans is their government, stop perpetrating the 70s image of aryan sour-faced clock-watchers annexing the pool sunbeds.

I think that its too soon to jump to any conclusions based on a google translation and reprts from 3 readers of one website. If the German ban leads to CoH being prohibited from being hosted in Germany (which might not be the case anyway - it might just mean thatt the GErman CoH is shut down) then I'm sure NCSoft will think of something.

The sky isn't falling, Chicken Little.

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You assume that everyone applies the exact same meaning to a smiley as you, do you? you come across to me (others might see different of course) as quite arrogant, sometimes, you know.

I'm not trying to start an argument, FFM. But some people might assume that the poking tongue was directed at the Germans.

Thanks for finally clarifying, anyway.

Eco.

Lol yeah, some books too. I had an amazing conversation with someone who'd read the Da Vinci Code (Brilliant, terrible book IMO) who sincerely believed that it was all true. What really tickled me was that he said he didn't like Angels & Demons (even betteer than TDVC i think) because it was "unlikely to be true" - not 'impossible', just 'unlikely'! LMAO anti-matter in the bowels of the Vatican - unlikely! Awesome.

Eco.

Charming. Why you feel the need to avoid answering a simple question and insult me as well, I've no idea.

I don't know you well enough to know if the smileys appended to your comments were intended to note that you were joking or that you found the thought of throwing other peoples towels into the pool funny.

Which is why I asked for clarification.

Eco.

Please tell me you're joking.

Eco.

Aha! Fantastic! Thanks v much!

Eco.