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Thread: Location, Location. Location
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Francophile
Shipmate
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Suggestion.
I often don't know, and can't guess from cryptic location description, where people are posting from.
This is frustrating and can often lead to basic misunderstanding of language and posts.
I'm not asking for town, county or state, just US, Canada, UK/Ireland, Australasia, elsewhere (eg sub-Saharan Africa, western mainland Europe etc).
This would make it so much easier to understand language used and context without having to guess and get it wrong, and possibly offend.
Some people may not wish to reveal that they are Somewhere in the States, or whatever. Fair enough. But most of us could safely reveal this info.
I'm in the UK.
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Spike
Mostly Harmless
# 36
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It's entirely down to the individual what they put as tenor location. We have no plans to make any official ruling about this.
Spike
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Ariel
Shipmate
# 58
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Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Francophile:
I'm in the UK.
You haven't put that in your location.
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Francophile
Shipmate
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quote:
Originally posted by Ariel:
quote:
Originally posted by Francophile:
I'm in the UK.
You haven't put that in your location.
Should be there now.
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Gee D
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quote:
Originally posted by Spike:
It's entirely down to the individual what they put as tenor location. We have no plans to make any official ruling about this.
Spike
SoF Admin
"Tenor" makes a lot of sense here - think of locums tenens* for example, apart from holding the melody.
*holding the position
[ 21. January 2014, 19:55: Message edited by: Gee D ]
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Spike
Mostly Harmless
# 36
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Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Gee D:
quote:
Originally posted by Spike:
It's entirely down to the individual what they put as tenor location. We have no plans to make any official ruling about this.
Spike
SoF Admin
"Tenor" makes a lot of sense here - think of locums tenens* for example, apart from holding the melody.
*holding the position
Bloody bollocking auto correct. I must learn to check extremely carefully before sending.
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LeRoc
Famous Dutch pirate
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The tenor location is right next to the basses, close to the door that leads to the bar.
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Barnabas62
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quote:
Originally posted by Spike:
Bloody bollocking auto correct. I must learn to check extremely carefully before sending.
![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Been there, done that. iPad? Thing has a mind of its own, and a very peculiar one sometimes.
[My location was just Norfolk for years, then somebody asked me about churches in this Norfolk. Never thought of that ..]
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Piglet
Islander
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Much as I'm interested to see where people come from, there have been some very creative entries in the "From" field, such as "me to you", "as little as £4.99 a month" and "Page 28".
For myself, it didn't occur to me to put anything other than my geographical location, but I can understand that this isn't information that everyone wants to make public.
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alto n a soprano who can read music
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Curiosity killed ...
Ship's Mug
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It was one of these discussions made me make my location more opaque. Lots of very good reasons for not saying where you are exactly on line.
eta s
[ 22. January 2014, 04:15: Message edited by: Curiosity killed ... ]
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Pigwidgeon
Ship's Owl
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Mine is totally accurate. If you can't fly there, just take the train from Platform 9¾.
(If I'm commenting on local weather, our crazy politics, etc., I usually mention that I'm in the Phoenix area of Arizona.)
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Smudgie
Ship's Barnacle
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quote:
Originally posted by Spike:
quote:
Originally posted by Gee D:
quote:
Originally posted by Spike:
It's entirely down to the individual what they put as tenor location. We have no plans to make any official ruling about this.
Spike
SoF Admin
"Tenor" makes a lot of sense here - think of locums tenens* for example, apart from holding the melody.
*holding the position
Bloody bollocking auto correct. I must learn to check extremely carefully before sending.
Preview Post is your friend
[ 22. January 2014, 05:36: Message edited by: Smudgie ]
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Miss you, Erin.
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lilBuddha
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quote:
Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
It was one of these discussions made me make my location more opaque. Lots of very good reasons for not saying where you are exactly on line.
eta s
After the last thread such as this, I noticed some changed their location more for ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif) than ![[Paranoid]](graemlins/paranoid.gif)
Some have good reason to be as anonymous as practical. Don't quite understand why some get worked up about it.
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Hallellou, hallellou
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Barnabas62
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Originally posted by lilBuddha:
Some have good reason to be as anonymous as practical. Don't quite understand why some get worked up about it.
Yup. That was Spike's point, made even before "bloody bollocking autocorrect" had its wicked way with his sentence. [Do like that phrase BTW; added to the "useful" bank]
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The Rogue
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quote:
Originally posted by Spike:
Bloody bollocking auto correct
I guess auto correct doesn't have a mind of its own or it would have changed this to "useful, perfect auto correct"
Back to the OP, in general there could be a danger that interpreting a person's comments in the context of their location (or accent, gender, sexual orientation etc etc) brings the danger of reading more into the text than is actually there.
Besides, what's to prevent someone from saying they are from Mars whereas they are, in fact, from Venus?
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If everyone starts thinking outside the box does outside the box come back inside?
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Sioni Sais
Shipmate
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It isn't just a matter of pretending to be in one place while being in another. We have any number of Shipmates (and hosts) who live in countries (or even continents) other than that of their birth and upbringing. Location isn't helpful when we have, for example, a Dutchman in South America, an Englishman in India and Scots in Canada.
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(Paul Sinha, BBC)
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lilBuddha
Shipmate
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Silly Rogue,
Martians would never do such. Most Martians* are Luddites' this is why we only see stone faces and pyramids.
Venusians are quite possibly represented here, but are more likely too busy selling us shaving aides to post often.
*Our pugnacious example being the exception, of course.
Originally posted by The Rogue
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Back to the OP, in general there could be a danger that interpreting a person's comments in the context of their location (or accent, gender, sexual orientation etc etc) brings the danger of reading more into the text than is actually there.
There are fewer absolutes in behaviour/experience based upon location than we seem to assume. Despite it being illustrated time and again.
[ 22. January 2014, 13:15: Message edited by: lilBuddha ]
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I put on my rockin' shoes in the morning
Hallellou, hallellou
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jbohn
Shipmate
# 8753
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quote:
Originally posted by Pigwidgeon:
Mine is totally accurate. If you can't fly there, just take the train from Platform 9¾.
Mine is accurate as well, if a bit obtuse. I'm indeed west of St. Paul, in Minneapolis. (What's the only thing St. Paul has that Minneapolis hasn't got? A city right next door... ![[Biased]](wink.gif) )
[ 22. January 2014, 13:34: Message edited by: jbohn ]
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Piglet
Islander
# 11803
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quote:
Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
... Location isn't helpful when we have, for example, a Dutchman in South America, an Englishman in India and Scots in Canada.
Or as my Better Half puts it, "Piglet isn't just Scottish, she's Orcadian".
[ 22. January 2014, 15:07: Message edited by: piglet ]
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I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander.
alto n a soprano who can read music
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Lucia
Looking for light
# 15201
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Mine is accurate! You just have to know which continent I am at the most northerly point of.
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Ariston
Insane Unicorn
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quote:
Originally posted by Lucia:
Mine is accurate! You just have to know which continent I am at the most northerly point of.
Note to self: place names of the Antarctic Peninsula are generally horrifying. Deception, Disappointment, Exasperation, Erebus and Terror—and that's before you hit the Antarctic Circle, with a long way to go until Hope and Eternity.
You'd think people really didn't like it there.
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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Surely, o Ariston, you mean the Arctic Circle?
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Even more so than I was before
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Give him a winter in Alert and he'll learn the difference!
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Fancy a break in South India?
Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details
What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Schroedinger's cat
Ship's cool cat
# 64
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Mine too is accurate. I don't say what it is parallel too, of course.
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Lord may all my hard times be healing times
take out this broken heart and renew my mind.
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Wet Kipper
Circus Runaway
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seeing as we moved house this year, I realise I'm going to have to change mine
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orfeo
Ship's Musical Counterpoint
# 13878
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The accuracy of my location has varied. I don't actually look at it much, or the location of others.
But I'm fairly sure the present location was entered before I became a Hellhost, and I now delight in its double meaning.
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Technology has brought us all closer together. Turns out a lot of the people you meet as a result are complete idiots.
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RooK
1 of 6
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My location is simultaneously accurate and meant as an insult to others. Win-win.
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Thyme
Shipmate
# 12360
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Mine is accurate.
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The Church in its own bubble has become, at best the guardian of the value system of the nation’s grandparents, and at worst a den of religious anoraks defined by defensiveness, esoteric logic and discrimination. Bishop of Buckingham's blog
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
# 10424
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As is mine BUT only if there is an east wind at London Heathrow - if it is a westerly it is necessary to turn left.
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Fancy a break in South India?
Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details
What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Barefoot Friar
Ship's Shoeless Brother
# 13100
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I'm the Doctor. I'm a Time Lord. I'm from the planet Gallifrey in the Constellation of Kasterborous. I'm 903 years old and I'm the man who is gonna save your lives and all 6 billion people on the planet below. You got a problem with that?
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Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world. -- Desmond Tutu
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LeRoc
Famous Dutch pirate
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quote:
Barefoot Friar: I'm the Doctor. I'm a Time Lord. I'm from the planet Gallifrey in the Constellation of Kasterborous. I'm 903 years old and I'm the man who is gonna save your lives and all 6 billion people on the planet below. You got a problem with that?
Yes. There are 7 billion people on this world. The order billion is screwed?
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I know why God made the rhinoceros, it's because He couldn't see the rhinoceros, so He made the rhinoceros to be able to see it. (Clarice Lispector)
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no prophet's flag is set so...
Proceed to see sea
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Is this now a circus thread?
I am from where mine says, except that the proposal for this province was vetoed by some Ottawa types in 1905.
But I want to be from the 8th dimension and join the Hong Kong Cavaliers, the rockingist bunch of scientists to ever confront the evil aliens named John.
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comet
Snowball in Hell
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quote:
Originally posted by Ariston:
quote:
Originally posted by Lucia:
Mine is accurate! You just have to know which continent I am at the most northerly point of.
Note to self: place names of the Antarctic Peninsula are generally horrifying. Deception, Disappointment, Exasperation, Erebus and Terror—and that's before you hit the Antarctic Circle, with a long way to go until Hope and Eternity.
You'd think people really didn't like it there.
well, shit. now you said that I really have to change mine.
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Evil Dragon Lady, Breaker of Men's Constitutions
"It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.” -Calvin
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Doublethink.
Ship's Foolwise Unperson
# 1984
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I am existentially correct.
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All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. George Orwell
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Stercus Tauri
Shipmate
# 16668
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That "From" don't make no sense here. You want to know where I's been or where I's at?
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Thay haif said. Quhat say thay, Lat thame say (George Keith, 5th Earl Marischal)
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ken
Ship's Roundhead
# 2460
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Whereever you go you will always be from where you are from.
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Ken
L’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle.
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ken
Ship's Roundhead
# 2460
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Whereever you go you will always be from where you are from.
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Ken
L’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle.
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Deputy Verger
Shipmate
# 15876
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I didn't stay where I was born. I know nobody there. My location says where I am posting from. Except when I'm away, when it's wrong. But if I were to list all my comings and goings to and from this location that got me back here now... frankly, I'd put you to sleep and sink the Ship with the bandwidth burden. It's big enough to be anonymous and small enough to be accurate, and you don't want the backstory. I have a love-hate relationship with the centre of the universe, but it has a Siren Call.
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Ariston
Insane Unicorn
# 10894
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quote:
Originally posted by PeteC:
Surely, o Ariston, you mean the Arctic Circle?
Nope. Mt. Hope and the Eternity Range are at the south end of the Antarctic Peninsula. Hypothermia induced hallucinations or bitterly cold irony, I'm guessing.
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Ann
Curious
# 94
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Mine's accurate if you know the terms of reference.
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orfeo
Ship's Musical Counterpoint
# 13878
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See, now people have got me thinking where I'm 'from'.
True story, I've actually had pointed out to me the window of the bedroom in Belgium where I was most likely conceived. And no, it wasn't my parents who did the pointing out.
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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quote:
Originally posted by orfeo:
And no, it wasn't my parents who did the pointing out.
(Jaw drop.)
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I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Nicolemr
Shipmate
# 28
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The quote "The City Carries On" in my location was the headline of one of the local newspapers after 9/11. I added it at the time because it seemed the right thing to do and I've never removed it.
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
# 2522
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My location is a Joe Jackson line, referring to his hometown of Portsmouth, which reminded me of my hometown.
Which I'd rather not disclose.
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I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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Spike
Mostly Harmless
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Originally posted by no prophet:
Is this now a circus thread?
Good point. The original question hs been answered, albeit with typos. Any further frivolity about your location can continue in Heaven or The Circus
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