Regarding Location
Wed, 2013-01-30 14:48
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Regarding Location
Hello, everyone. I can't help but notice that the site's time is always the same as the UK's time, and cannot be changed. It confused me at first, but then I realized that the UK is only five hours ahead of where I am.
But this leads me to ask, are most of the ABCtales members from the UK? I myself am from Cincinnati, Ohio, over in the States. Or is it just because the site's server is based in the UK?
Anyone have an answer for this most perplexing location?
Highhat
Yeps it's all gone UK haywire..
alex_tomlin
I think most of us are from the UK. I know I am. There was a thread a while ago asking where everyone was from and members were spread out over the globe as far as I recall.
Insertponceyfre...
Well ... this is a UK site firstly, although It's open to anyone anywhere, so long as they post in English. I think the majority of users are from the UK, although certainly not all.
Big Stinky Man.
Ah! Thanks for clearing up my confusion, guys!
-Craig
hudsonmoon
I'm from New York and have been posting stuff here for over a year. But my family tells me I've since taking on a faux British accent much like Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins. Go figure.
To bring up something somewhat related, I work at a club here in New that has a restaurant and overnight accommodations. Of the ten bedrooms, only one has a bath tub. We also have about 200 members from the UK. And it seems it's only the British who request this room, and who are terribly disappointed when I tell them it's taken. Discuss.
Rich
PS. I'm a shower man myself. And I'm certain if I decide to install a bath tub my family will throw me and my Dick Van Dyke phony British accent out the window.
Insertponceyfre...
Hud do you really not have a bath in your house? Seriously? Well, that's my summer holiday plans all messed up now. Bugger!
alex_tomlin
At the risk of being shot down as a sexist man-pig, is it more usually women who like baths? Not sure why this would be but it's just my impression. I'm happy to be proved wrong though!
Lem
Yeah, apparently women like to light candles and read and relax in the tub. Personally I'm not a fan, though, and I'm a woman. I find the heat a bit overwhelming and I just get bored. As a kid I used to love melting all sorts of bath pearls and powders and soaps until I was sitting in a multicoloured pool, drawing on the mirror tiles... but anyway. I digress. :P
Big Stinky Man.
I don't see the attraction to relaxing in bath tubs. I fear that I would most likely fall asleep and drown.
Not to mention every horror movie involves something happening to someone in a bathtub.
They're just a bad omen, really.
-Craig
sid
Have us British really got a reputation in the U.S for having bad teeth? I learnt this from family guy
hudsonmoon
I don't know about that, Sid. I haven't seen the show. But I do know - if my wife's movie watching habits are any indication. Pride and Prejudiced, Sense and Sensibility, etc. - you men all run around in dashing capes charming the pants off obstinate and wordy women who are beneath your class. But back to your original question, Sid. They all seem to have remarkable white teeth. Maybe their talking about all those horses you guys ride off on in those foggy mists. If I come to the UK do I need to learn how to ride a horse? Or have you all adapted to the new fangled horseless carriages I've heard so much about?
Ever yours,
Rich of Cold Spring
sid
I don't know if I have ever met a dashing man, I think they went out of circulation along with the old shillings and pence. Plenty of obstinate and wordy women about though.
Highhat
Nothing like a wordy woman Sid- she just has to choose them carefully.
Highhat
Well I am from Denmark Craig- if you want to know.
;)Pia
hudsonmoon
Dash it all, Sid. You're a funny man.
Cheers,
Rich
Highhat
I think Sid's a lady Rich- ahem...
hudsonmoon
lol. The name always throws me off. Sorry, Sid. And thank you, Pia.
Rich
Highhat
I wonder then if you ever thought of me as a hat Rich? That's what's on my head not in it I believe. ha ha
tcook
I alternate between baths and showers - but my wife is definitely into baths.
As for the site, it is UK based but we love the internationalism of its membership and we welcome our members from all over the globe.
I was aiming to get over for the New Orleans Blues Festival this year but re-building my house has taken all my money - along with two of the children deciding to get married - so it'll be a bit yet until I make it. We'll have to have an ABCtales US night somewhere at some time - are there enough of you in one city to make it happen?
hudsonmoon
I'm not sure there are enough, Tony. I live in Cold Spring, NY which is about 50 miles north of New York City. I make that commute everyday. It would be great having an event like that in the big city. Maybe I'll put an APB out for all New Yawkers to come forward.
Cheers to you, Tony.
Ricn
alex_tomlin
You surely can't commute 50 miles every day?! Cool name for your town though. Not many UK places sound that cool. "Hi, I'm from Cold Spring, NY." "Hi, I'm from Nether Wollop."
hudsonmoon
lol, Alex. Nether Wollop sounds kinda fun, actually. I can't complain too much about my commute, though. It's a long day. I travel by train 1 hour 10 minutes each way. But I can sleep, write or read. That's the upside. The downside? For an 8 hour job I'm gone for 12.
I like that Cold Spring has a nice artsy vibe to it. One of our artsy claims to fame is that Don McLean wrote American Pie here. It's something anyway. lol.
Happy weekend,
Rich