>> No, it's more that I find foreigners intimidating. That being the 
>> case, it's not a good idea to deliberately surround myself with them.
> 
> As I've said before, IME the variation of people within a particular 
> country is far greater than the variation between countries.  IOW there 
> will be plently of like-minded people you will get on fine with in *any* 
> country, you're just as likely to find intimidating people in the UK as 
> you are abroad.

Heh. I go to Switzerland - to the *tourist* parts of Switzerland - and 
in all the years I've been going I've met *one* other person from 
England. (Not counting the people we brought with us.) Granted, I think 
there were quite a few people from other European countries (although 
it's kinda hard to tell). Just not from England.

But then, if you want to travel from France to Germany, you get on a 
road and start driving. Leaving England is a little more complex...

> There are a lot of non-UK people here in this forum, do 
> you find them all intimidating?

I don't have to understand their accents. ;-)

(Although... I think Warp is fairly intimidating, yes.)

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> Heh. I go to Switzerland - to the *tourist* parts of Switzerland - and in 
> all the years I've been going I've met *one* other person from England.

I think you misunderstood what I meant.  I meant that in *every* country 
there are all sorts of people, intimidating, friendly, evil, fun, Haskell 
lovers, bikers etc.  IME the UK doesn't have massively lower numbers of 
intimidating people compared to the rest of the world.  Where would you feel 
more intimidated, a Haskell meet in San Francisco or a Harley Davidson pub 
meet in the UK?

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>> Heh. I go to Switzerland - to the *tourist* parts of Switzerland - and 
>> in all the years I've been going I've met *one* other person from 
>> England.
> 
> I think you misunderstood what I meant.  I meant that in *every* country 
> there are all sorts of people, intimidating, friendly, evil, fun, 
> Haskell lovers, bikers etc.  IME the UK doesn't have massively lower 
> numbers of intimidating people compared to the rest of the world.

Like I said, I think I just find foreign accents intimidating.

Hell, I visited Liverpool and it took me a while to figure out why I 
couldn't understand anybody... I guess I'm not very bright.

> Where 
> would you feel more intimidated, a Haskell meet in San Francisco or a 
> Harley Davidson pub meet in the UK?

Amusingly (or not?), both of those would have approximately the same 
number of beards. o_O

One guy told me that Hell's Angels are "actually really friendly 
people". But I don't know whether that's actually true...

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Invisible wrote:
> 
> No, it's more that I find foreigners intimidating. That being the case, 
> it's not a good idea to deliberately surround myself with them.
> 
In all seriousness, did I intimidate you? I hope not...

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> Like I said, I think I just find foreign accents intimidating.

Everyone finds it hard to understand perfectly different accents until they 
are used to them, I remember two Scottish guys that used to come to our 
office, the number of times I had to ask them to repeat stuff they said, 
also have you ever heard Patrick Moore speak?

Anyway, fact is you get used to accents, and if you're surrounded by people 
all with the same accent you're going to get used to it really quickly and 
then it won't intimidate you.

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none wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>>
>> No, it's more that I find foreigners intimidating. That being the 
>> case, it's not a good idea to deliberately surround myself with them.
>>
> In all seriousness, did I intimidate you? I hope not...
Arrrrgg! stupid Thunderbird (or better: stupid me)! That previous post 
is supposed to come from me...

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none wrote:
> none wrote:
>> Invisible wrote:
>>>
>>> No, it's more that I find foreigners intimidating. That being the 
>>> case, it's not a good idea to deliberately surround myself with them.
>>>
>> In all seriousness, did I intimidate you? I hope not...
> Arrrrgg! stupid Thunderbird (or better: stupid me)! That previous post 
> is supposed to come from me...
Whaaa! It's me, Michael Zier! Why does that "none"-thingy happen to me...

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none wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>>
>> No, it's more that I find foreigners intimidating. That being the 
>> case, it's not a good idea to deliberately surround myself with them.
>>
> In all seriousness, did I intimidate you? I hope not...
Ok, it was me, seems to work now.

Micha

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>>> In all seriousness, did I intimidate you? I hope not...
>> Arrrrgg! stupid Thunderbird (or better: stupid me)! That previous post 
>> is supposed to come from me...
> Whaaa! It's me, Michael Zier! Why does that "none"-thingy happen to me...

You don't exist. Go away.

How many computer systems have told you THAT, eh? ;-)

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>>> No, it's more that I find foreigners intimidating. That being the 
>>> case, it's not a good idea to deliberately surround myself with them.
>>>
>> In all seriousness, did I intimidate you? I hope not...
> Ok, it was me, seems to work now.

Only a little.

(Mostly when you talk about Bahhhhhkk... *wipe*)

;-)

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