Thought I'd try again (one last time)

[secretmeat]

I can very much agree with your last statement and can see how one could assume such; however, its just been my experience for most places that the few control the majority. I could sit here for all time and speak of books, poetry, writing, music it any other of my interests as well but can only speak concerning the reality of past experiences and whore my innermost dreams and hopes on an erotic forum list expecting to find at least one other person who yearns the way I do. I am also sure that there are many beautiful and intelligent women on here but in truth have met only snobbish souls who do.nothing in the end but tease just ad I have in the past.

 

[secretmeat]

Spell correction is not my friend today

 

[Jemgirl01]

You Could have..

just said hi.

Talk to him about the subject he put up.

You didn't have to say what you did (which was kinda about me) to him since he was so upbeat about talking to someone.

If he was bitching too, then join in, but he wasn't and if you had read the past posts, you would have seen that it wasn't such a dead tread.

If you really think that you can't find anyone here, what caused you to be here in the first place?

 

[Jemgirl01]

Spell correction is not my friend today

That is why you Firefox and read over what you write.

Well, I think Safari does spell check also. I can't really say anything Opera. I haven't looked at it lately.

As for IE, I don't use it at all.

 

[Cinner]

Interesting people here. I'm from Jamaica and the only shows being mentioned here that I've seen are the Highlander series and movies. That said, I appreciated the discussion about African dance and Kendo even if I couldn't contribute to them. Keeping you current. I relieve my boredom by reading through threads like this one.

 

[Jemgirl01]

Thanks

But the real thanks should come from Brave Maximus. I'm sure you brightened his day since the thread is his.

I was trying to sound smart, and it sounds like he really is. He should be back tomorrow and you may get a thank you from him.

So what are you looking for? Or are you just reading your way through?

 

[Brave Maximus]

Interesting people here. I'm from Jamaica and the only shows being mentioned here that I've seen are the Highlander series and movies. That said, I appreciated the discussion about African dance and Kendo even if I couldn't contribute to them. Keeping you current. I relieve my boredom by reading through threads like this one.

Well, it's nice that you find it interesting
I think that's how I learn about stuff. Listening to it, finding it facinating and learning from it.

And, that's how I stop boredom as well... well, one of the ways anyway

 

[Cinner]

But the real thanks should come from Brave Maximus. I'm sure you brightened his day since the thread is his.

I was trying to sound smart, and it sounds like he really is. He should be back tomorrow and you may get a thank you from him.

So what are you looking for? Or are you just reading your way through?

Aaahhhh! You're both up! I think you said that you're from the Caribbean Jem? Where did you call home originally? Have you ever been to any of the islands Maximus? You sound as if you're a film-maker. I find that I don't like the way in which the Caribbean is portrayed in North American films. They are seen as being beach locations only. The worst thing for me is the use of North American actors to play Caribbean people... the accents and mannerisms are all wrong; though I suppose that the majority of the audience wouldn't know or care if they did.

 

[Jemgirl01]

I'm Planing on being up for a while...

a bedding issue.

Either way, I'm from St. Kitts. You may or may not know it. I currently live in NYC. Brooklyn actually.

Besides Nevis, I've only been to Barbados to finish up my paper work to get my green card.

The accent there threw me. One person who was driving the bus I didn't understand at all. I was very unpleasant not understanding someone.

As for my accent, I never sounded like I was from St.Kitts. Most people don't believe me. People back home call me British because I sounded so different from them.

 

[Cinner]

I have many friends from St. Kitts. If you went to UWI you have many friends from many of the islands... I can understand about your accent sounding British to some people. Indeed, even here in Jamaica I'm sometimes mistaken as a foreigner... not because of a twang but because I do not speak patois well and because the Jamaican accent from metropolitan St. Andrew tends to sound a bit... Welch? It's certainly musical... and the grammar patterns tend to be an amalgamation of US and UK English.

I remember being on SecondLife one evening and not understanding why a young man kept commenting on my English. It turned out that he thought that patois was our national language and he was stunned that I spoke English. You know, I was struck by the fact that even though we're both from the Caribbean you weren't sure that I'd heard of St. Kitts. Jamaica may not be a big place but it didn't occur to me that there was anyone, certainly in this hemisphere, who didn't know that Jamaicans speak English.

I've never had a problem with the Barbadian accent myself and I would think that with their history if anyone sounded British it would be them...They don't though, do they?

 

[Brave Maximus]

Aaahhhh! You're both up! I think you said that you're from the Caribbean Jem? Where did you call home originally? Have you ever been to any of the islands Maximus? You sound as if you're a film-maker. I find that I don't like the way in which the Caribbean is portrayed in North American films. They are seen as being beach locations only. The worst thing for me is the use of North American actors to play Caribbean people... the accents and mannerisms are all wrong; though I suppose that the majority of the audience wouldn't know or care if they did.

Well up, sort of, got caught up in some writing.
Saddly, I haven't been to the Caribbean - one of the things on a long list of things to do.
My father's family is from Bermuda though (though my grandfather moved to England in '39, and my Dad's a brit) - I know it's not the Caribbean, but it's as close as I get. I do tend to go a few times a year, if I can.

As for how it's portrayed in North Am films - you have to look at what North Americans (and particularly Americans) are exposed to when they head down there, especially white/jewish. They visit the resorts. All they see are perfect beaches, lots of rich white people and the only Islanders they're exposed to are the staff (in one form or another) who play up on the stereotypical North Am view of what they should be like. This is because it gets them better tips.
Most people who make movies have probably never set foot outside of Sandles or Beaches resorts.

And you're 100% right about the audience not knowing the difference, and more than that not caring. If an Islander was protrayed correctly - the audiences might balk at it: "That's not how they really are, look at the other movies!!!"
Thinking you know how Islanders are from Hollywood films is about as accurate as knowing Indian Culture from Bollywood or Japan from Anime (well, they do get the occasional Godzilla attack... )

Hope everyones having fun tonight

 

[Jemgirl01]

the island thing...

I remember when I was way younger and asked my mom why people wanted to come to our island for. I said it was dirty, but she said that it was better than what they had or something, plus they all went to the rice side of the island that was all big houses with grass all over the place.

Unless they really stay put on that part of the island they would see how the place really is. It's a small island.

I've never really seen this clean image that most people have the islands until I went to Barbados. There was this one beach that I went by that was so different to what I was use to seeing. St. Kitts is a volcanic island so our sands are dark and black in some places. There in Barbados they white sand and their sea was a funny colour. I say funny, but it's what all the tourist expect to see.

The whole thing looked unreal to me. I don't think sand should be white.

 

[Cinner]

I remember when I was way younger and asked my mom why people wanted to come to our island for. I said it was dirty, but she said that it was better than what they had or something, plus they all went to the rice side of the island that was all big houses with grass all over the place.

Unless they really stay put on that part of the island they would see how the place really is. It's a small island.

I've never really seen this clean image that most people have the islands until I went to Barbados. There was this one beach that I went by that was so different to what I was use to seeing. St. Kitts is a volcanic island so our sands are dark and black in some places. There in Barbados they white sand and their sea was a funny colour. I say funny, but it's what all the tourist expect to see.

The whole thing looked unreal to me. I don't think sand should be white.

I'll respond to this more fully later but suffice to say that if you want to see white sand beaches - COME TO NEGRIL!!!!! Whoot, whoot!!!

 

[Brave Maximus]

I think two ladies have hijacked my thread

Not that I'm complaining... at all..... lol

I will say, I am quite facinated, as there's a lot of stuff I don't know about the area. I have some friends from the Caribbean, but they don't talk about it really....

 

[Jemgirl01]

Me?

You are accusing me of hijacking your thread?

I'm almost hurt. You know that I'm just here to talk to you.

I have nothing to do with beaches. I hate getting burned and I don't know how to swim. It's common for people back home not to know how to swim. So I'm not that odd.

 

[Brave Maximus]

I'm just playing around of course
And as I said, I don't mind at all...


And I have to say, I find it very weird that some people can't swim. I've been swimming since I was... well before I can remember. I love it.
I can sympathize about the burning though... I generally burn during the summer, though I've avoided it this year *YAY*

 

[galaxybounce]

Sorry, just want to point out its pretty much the same in hollywood for every country outside of the USA, Britain and Canada. Now that there are several big irish stars out there its a bit better than it used to be for irish characters and locations but there was a time when ireland was consistently portrayed as a nation stuck in a time warp. Also, the accents in the old 50s and 60s films were positively atrocious

 

[Brave Maximus]

Oh, most deffinatly

and, really, Even Canada and the UK suffer from the "Glossed over" effect of hollywood. Really, I've never actually seen an igloo.... (Well, except the MS kind... but that's another conversation entirely)

And, 40's-60's hollywood... well, lets just... ignore some of that, shall we? Gave us great classics and a white guys playing chinese....

 

[Jemgirl01]

ah Ha!

*a surprised laugh*

I watch old movies. Black and white movies too and I couldn't believe that they expected us to believe who they had playing anybody but a white or black person.

*shaking head* At one point, I think I saw Hepburn playing an Asian lady in black and white with something done to her eyes.

But I'm very aware that they didn't have such people in Hollywood way back then. Now I'm thinking of some of the said Native Americans they had, and then Jacob from Twilight popped up into my head.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not a real fan of the movies. I like vampires so I didn't think that Edward them were vampires and I ranted and cursed out the movie until I heard that whatever I saw on the screen was from a book. I just got more questions after that.

When I saw that it had a teenage girl following something clicked into place. I still hate the movies. But since I knew that the books were better then their movies, I got the set and I still fumed over the sparkles, but I got past it now that I had lived with the shock for about two years. The books were better and I see the movies as getting worst. Right now I'm just watching the train wreck. I'm half betting that the last one will be a complete rewrite. I want to say that it won't get done at all, but I think they are all on contract to do it already.

 

[Cinner]

I must apologise for leaving like that last evening... I fell asleep! Yay!!! I was about to sell my soul to do that...

In any event, I can't stick around right now but I wanted to post this for anyone curious about the fight that so excited our host...

http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/news?slug=ki-ufclive080710

 

[Jemgirl01]

You weren't the only one

Everyone bailed on me.

Well hope you had fun and maybe I'll see ya around.

 

[naughtyjo]

hi! new here i'm from canada and i've never seen an igloo either lol

 

[Brave Maximus]

Hi
Yeah, but a lot of people think they're rather popular up here

What part of the country are you from, if I may ask?

 

[Jemgirl01]

I was going to ask why

hi! new here i'm from canada and i've never seen an igloo either lol

... but then I realized that you must be trying to debunk something about people from canada knowing about igloos. Which is just odd. They are much, much further north.

 

[Brave Maximus]

They are much, much further north.

Well, being in Southern Ontario, we don't exactly get enough snow and Ice to really make them anyway (not that there's much use in a major city...)

But I've actually been north in the great plains and past the artic circle, and still haven't seen any. I know some tribes still use them, but most use more modern inventions.

That still doesn't stop the rest of the world in thinking that there are Perminant Igloos in the middle of downtown Toronto...

(of course, this year the montreal ice scuplting festival and ice castle did have an igloo... so that ruins it a bit...)