Originally Posted by mapuc (Post 2877047)

LOL

To be honest up to 2005 and the meeting in the Netherland I did not know that the American had a 'name' for the Swedish blonde girl.

It was Neal and the others who asked me how many Inga I knew.

Inga !? I replied

Yes the common name for your beautiful blonde girls is Inga.

Markus

Originally Posted by Catfish (Post 2877044)

You should'nt :03:

Originally Posted by August (Post 2876928)

I think he's actually going on about Dowly.
:hmmm:

Originally Posted by Onkel Neal (Post 2876973)

Ok, you need to be a lot less tasteless. :nope:

Originally Posted by Commander Wallace (Post 2877012)

I agree. :sign_yeah:
I have no Idea what precipitated this thread in the first place. Thankfully, I'm sure most American's don't buy into this drivel anyhow. Threads and posts like this goes against the very foundation and guiding principals of what Subsim is all about, primarily of which is respect for our world wide members.

In my time here, I have found that our our national identities are Important only because we get to see how other countries and their various people / citizens deal with various Issues and problems. Through our Interactions, I see that we are basically the same with much the same interests. Aside from all things aircraft and nautical related, Auto and Motorcycle themes and everything in between, I see that we all care about and cherish our respective families. This extends from Germany and the U.K and U.S and Australia, Denmark and Spain to Russia, Ukraine and Argentina and everywhere in between.

The last thing I want to see and I'm sure everyone else in Subsim is this forum be diminished into this senseless drivel as this thread was predicated on. Subsim has too great a reputation based on it's membership. My thoughts are, please leave the stupid bias's and prejudices at home, If you must have them at all. Either way, please don't bring them here.

Originally Posted by GoldenRivet (Post 2876998)

You know... i used to post a lot more often here than i do these days, but its not for lack of visiting, because i do visit, but more so because my online life and my real life have shifted my energies in other directions BUT

i'll tell you this - what i always loved about SUBSIM (and still do) is that while our members come from Australia, Finland, Germany, New Zealand, Norway, the United States and many other places around the globe... I always got the feeling in interacting with all of my SUBSIM brethren - that while we are here on this forum, to some degree, we were less identified by our individual nationalities and more identified by our place in this world as Subsimmers!

When discussing one thing or another here with a member from Norway for example, i never thought of myself as an American and i never thought of them as Norwegian - i thought of us as subsimmers.

When i came here today, to visit the forums and lurk, I saw this thread title thinking there would be some neat thing that applies to the referenced member, or perhaps some sort of birthday or congratulatory message... instead, what i found was this drivel. Motivated by what i cant say.

Its posts like this that contribute nothing remotely constructive to the forum and certainly do not promote any degree of comradery in the group.

I'll have to agree with Neal... tasteless is what it is.

Originally Posted by August (Post 2877745)