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'Objects In Space'


All Ogle, No Cash -- It's Not Just Annoying, It's Un-American

Discussion of episodes currently airing in Un-American locations (anything that's aired in Australia is fair game), as well as anything else the Un-Americans feel like talking about or we feel like asking them. Please use the show discussion threads for any current-season discussion.

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Jim - Feb 02, 2003 9:30:58 am PST #1385 of 9843
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!

Nilly, if you didn't point out capitalization, you wouldn't be Nilly. Which would be tragic.


Nilly - Feb 02, 2003 9:34:06 am PST #1386 of 9843
Swouncing

Awww, thanks, Jim.

It's worth mentioning that there's no capitalization in Hebrew, so I can only spend my nit-picking (about this) in English. In Hebrew I nit-pick about things that don't exist in English (like gender in adjectives and stuff like that).


Zoe Finch - Feb 02, 2003 11:13:08 am PST #1387 of 9843
Gradh tu fhein

With the help of context and explanation and longterm familiarity with Buffistadom it's fine, really, but for new people interested in the site it is unwelcoming. Might as well say: poor, perverted, annoying people you're not one of us! I was hoping for a more friendly title, maybe for the next thread?

Buffy and Angel are huge in the UK, Australia and Europe (birthplace of vampires) there could be many more people on this thread. IJS.


§ ita § - Feb 02, 2003 11:16:40 am PST #1388 of 9843
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

There's no way to calculate how many people came, looked, and left because they were turned off by the title. So far, though, this board (and sometimes this thread) has one of the most international mixes of a board grown out of a US concern that I've ever seen.

I don't know where new users come from (for those who came outside of the Firefly Influx of 2002). I have no idea how an unAmerican finds this place, and how clear it is (title notwithstanding) that there's potential for ME discussion that's not timed to the N American schedule.


Am-Chau Yarkona - Feb 02, 2003 11:34:08 am PST #1389 of 9843
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty

I was hoping for a more friendly title, maybe for the next thread?

Propose it when the time comes.

I don't know where new users come from (for those who came outside of the Firefly Influx of 2002). I have no idea how an unAmerican finds this place, and how clear it is (title notwithstanding) that there's potential for ME discussion that's not timed to the N American schedule.

A few "in my case" answers, just in case you're intrested: I came here by accident, from various links in the internet fandom at large. I hit the page- links page first, I think- several times before I actually realised it might be of intrest to me. I'm guessing that most unAmericans find this place roughly the same way Americans do. I didn't have the (American) background to the thread, but it was clear that- unlike the other boards I've visited- people who weren't part of the American cliche were a bit more accomodated than the occassional 'spoiler free thread'.

Just so you know.


Zoe Finch - Feb 02, 2003 11:38:25 am PST #1390 of 9843
Gradh tu fhein

International mix is good. For a vampire based story I'd love to hear the central European take on it all. Perhaps I came across to harshly when I said "offensive" I think maybe the word I needed was "ambiguous" non-native English speakers and people like me who are native, native English speakers but don't have access to all the cultural references won't necessarily read the same. Anya was being snarky when she said it after all.

I'm worried about rumours that Angel is going to end after this season cos I don't know how I'll live without my weekly dose. The more popular the boards are the more support there is for the show, and the safer S5 is.

Edit: for the record I've checked out a few places and this board is far and away the best -although Angelus is being tortured in a padded cell over at theWB which is kinda fun.


§ ita § - Feb 02, 2003 11:39:57 am PST #1391 of 9843
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

The more popular the boards are the more support there is for the show, and the safer S5 is.

I have yet to see any evidence that this is the case.

Not that I have any idea about Angel being in jeopardy or not.


Am-Chau Yarkona - Feb 02, 2003 11:44:28 am PST #1392 of 9843
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty

Zoe- where are you? I have yet to get a geographical fix on you. (I want to know where you live....)

Angelus is being tortured in a padded cell over at theWB which is kinda fun.

Ooo- kinky with the Angel love, huh?


Zoe Finch - Feb 02, 2003 11:47:32 am PST #1393 of 9843
Gradh tu fhein

The more popular the boards are the more support there is for the show, and the safer S5 is.

I have yet to see any evidence that this is the case.

Not that I have any idea about Angel being in jeopardy or not.

I keep hearing this, I'm working on the assumption that the more people love for the show the better.

I'm in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.


Am-Chau Yarkona - Feb 02, 2003 11:50:26 am PST #1394 of 9843
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty

I'm in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

In that case, I'm closer to central Europe than you. (Watford, Hertfordshire, too near London for comfort, UK.)

edges south in chair, puts in plastic vampire teeth

Buffy from European view? Yes. Very good, very good.