I'm curious....do any of you get offended when non US-UK couples post in this forum?

Nope. We don't own it, it isn't an exclusive club!

Um.... nope...

Not at all.

Who likes my new siggy?!

Yes.

There's no way anyone that isn't involved with someone from the UK could possibly understand the intricacies of our relationships...

....or why UK men are so freakin' HAWT

Amen sister!

Maybe it has to do with so many of them being named David!!

Not offence to those of you who are not, however!!

They're so HAWT I couldn't stop at one...I had to have another!!!

I plan to give mine an allowance!

...cos he's a mindless hottie with brains...

Yes, it's an exclusive club of UK-US couples!

Interlopers beware!

It's the ACCENT!!!!!!!



but Lisa, yes, I do a teeny bit!

lol love that smiley...

You really do? May I ask why?

Nope i don't at all.

Its the US men (my man) that are HAWT and oh my god, he has an accent to die for! *swoon*

Back in topic, I dont mind who posts here, as long they are named Tommy and have an accent to die for!

I don't care at all free forum, lovely people, we share so many things in common with everyone going through this visa crap. I just hope we can all help and learn from each other. And I hope our forum never turns out to be like the Russian one!

Nope it's an internet forum and here for everyone to use. Actually sometimes it's real funny when peeps don't know what the hell us brits are talking about and we ave to explain

I demand a sub-forum in the UK forum for Scotland.... and no interlopers allowed


Kez

Oh I think somebody is trying to make a point here about some of the other forums.

No I don't care who comes in here. Unless they're here to try and impose their cultures values on me, or judge me because I've chosen a UK partner, or some other silliness like that.

Right on! lol FREEDOM! haha *hides*

Oh, looky, I'm the only one, yet again.

I figure this is my place to come & chat about UK things, with my UK peeps. Someone else butts in & inevitably has no idea what we're on about, or won't bother to read a whole post, etc, etc. But they still offer opinions.

Oh well. To each his own. I never visit other regional forums, why would I? I figured they're on about ME/NA bickering or Canadian maple syrup or mail order brides, or other stuff I have no interest in.

*throws a chair*

Sorry. I got a little carried away when I saw the smiley.

It's ok....can we do jello wrestling now? Pleeeeeeeeeease?

Of course. Who has an empty kid's pool we can use?

My neighbour just put one in his back garden! It's not a kids pool but it's not full sized either. We could charge admission and make a killing! Any preference on flavour? hehe Screw Springer we'll start the WJWC (not to be confused with WWJD) Women's Jello Wrestling Championships!

Jello = Jelly do we throw ice cream into it as well might as well make it a Trifle

I was thinking whipped cream bikinis as our wrestling uniforms

How about being naked OMG talk about me being thick lmfao whipped cream

http://www.jellowrestle.com/

Sounds like a plan! In regards to flavour, I've always been partial to cherry. Of course, if we use that we would run the risk of me stopping in mid-match to start eating it. Especially if we throw some bananas in beforehand.

I'm a lurker here.
I tend to just follow the food and TV shows related threads though.
I dunno, I grew up watching BBC shows and stuff, I guess.
::switches back to lurking mode::

Wow, that thread.





Does it make you feel like a bigger person to judge others???

You talkin to me?


Swirly, stop lurking and post more!

...I may have posted in the UK forum once or twice, does this mean I violated the rules?

Well, I have been to England and Scotland many times, and I had a good Irish friend. I don't know if that counts?

Its both a blessing and a curse we have to bear.

I had to laugh when I looked to the bottom of this page and YOU were the last poster on the New Philippines Regional Forum Thread this evening!

No, the curse is you stop hearing the accent after a bit I want the accent HAWTness back!!!

My thought is feel free to post if it makes sense and you aren't being close minded

I wouldn't mind to celebrate Interloper Day. It's the day where we could interlope on any forums here on VJ. Sporadically . Lisa, your sig rocks lol

-Gemvita

I finally got my wife to admit that she finds my accent "hot" the other day after 6 years. She's so stubborn.

We brits are so damn interesting that everybody wants to come on the uk forum and be our friends. FACT!!

Seriously though, I never visit other regional forums. OT and the rest of VJ is for everybody but the regional forums are for specific issues relating to that region. What insight could i possibly offer to somebody from thailand going for a K1 interview in bangkok? Or the differences in culture between Pakistan and Wyoming? I'm sure i could make a few comments but they would be far from constructive.

Don't underestimate yourself...Liverpool fans are always insitful...

We didn't used to have Regional Forums on VJ. I sort of liked it.

Off-Topic discussions would sometimes turn to 'cultural differences'. If there was debate, it was usually spirited and friendly. Generally things were quite amicable - we made friends from around the world and it was a lot easier to pick up interesting tidbits about other cultures without feeling like an 'interloper'.

I'm one of the people who uses the "View New Posts" thing. I hate going into each forum and looking for new posts. Ergo, I ended up in that little "incident" as well, although I didn't get a chance to post.

Those people freak me out. What is their issue with other people being in "their" forum? Of course, considering who the loudest whiner was, it isn't really surprising. Dude has some serious issues, and has for some time.

I won't worry about any of "them" coming over and reading this, since this is the UK forum and it's all password protected, has invisible fonts, and all that......right?

I took a sneaky peek last night in the Sub-Forum That Thinks It's a Club, and my reaction was . What I found amazing is that they all closed ranks so quickly, and took the line that whatever they're going through is so unlike what anyone else is going through that other VJers could NEVER understand. Sounds like me when I was a teenager!

I tried to put aside some of the really quite borderline-misogynistic statements and think: would this happen in the UK sub-forum? Well, I like to think that we don't take ourselves seriously enough here that that would ever happen. All of us, and I mean ALL of VJ, are going down a tough road and its a bit silly and embarrassing that a few fruitcakes in that sub-forum are throwing up roadblocks to some genuine discourse and attempts at cross-cultural understanding.

Actually, that was just so sickly-sweet I think I may throw up myself now.

YEAH BABY!

On the other hand regional forums do a good job of keeping the flame fest posts on the "ME/NA" forum nicely compartmentalised.

Most message boards solve that problem by getting rid of the flamers.