i am going on holiday to portugal tomarrow the 19 of july (now that schools out!!! :D )
so i will not be on exilian for a week, just to let you know!!
DD, Penty, and Myself are saying goodbye from 2nd-10th of August! We'll be doing watersports in France w/ school (I've never sailed before either! w00t!).You mean you people are real and know eachother outside of the internets?!!!?!?! :zegun:
yeah do have a good tripk ;)
but have you never watched QI?
But the vast majority of Canadian "Eskimos" actually are Inuit (that word is a plural; the singular is Inuk); the small proportion who identify as Inuvialuit see themselves as a subset of the Inuit, so don't mind being referred to as Inuit.
In Alaska they don't mind the E-word. Most Alaskan Eskimos are Yup'ik (of whom the Alutiiq are a subset; Alutiiq was the language Stephen spoke on the show although it was misidentified as Aleutian). There are some Inuit, and also the Unangan or Aleuts. That last group are strictly speaking not Eskimos - they prefer the term "the Eskimo/Aleut people".
The indigenous people of Greenland are Inuit, although they prefer the term Kalaallit. They don't object too much to "Greenlanders", but like their Canadian cousins they don't like the E-word.
So while they are all Eskimos, they dont like being called it. They are defiantly not all Inuit
from the QI forums
In Lincolnshire for the weekend.O rly?
Now if only my tent zip would work properly, I may not drown.It's always a good thing to not drown. Especially while in a tent.
I have an operation tomorrow ... I'll be away for 2 days at leastIs it serious?
Last disappearance, until Tuesday on D of E. Bye all!Lame. I didn't do D of E, thankfully.
How did I know that was going to happen? :P
We can't carry on while miss Hawk is lost in the wild! :(
Can't, school trip.
Excellente! :)
Hello there!
I know of your existence! :P
You have posted 200 times on this site. I have read some of said posts. Evidently you exist in some way shape or form :PAha.
Good, don't come back soon :)Fixed that typo for you bro.
Geez, Glaury, you sure do get around. :POne tries. Angband, Anfauglith, Tumhalad, Nargothrond, Brethil - and now Germany. :)
You might be surprised. :)This sounds like the voice of experience. Tell us more, please :)
Macht Spass!Danke schön! Yes, I will.
I'm not sure under what circumstances one would want to check in at a hotel in Thanet nowadays, I must admit...I have done it: I stayed in a B&B in Ramsgate when returning from Belgium on an inconveniently timed ferry. I've no desire to repeat the experience!
Welcome back :)Many thanks.
How was the land of Germans?It was good. It contained nice scenery, interesting towns, trains, beer, schnitzel, wurst, sauerkraut, and pastries, all of which I enjoyed. It also contained rain, which I did not enjoy.
Oh, and if you could just give me some of your vacation time...It'sss mine, my preciousss, all mine. :gollum:
A moderators (I think I am one anyway) note to Glaurung: Start a travelling thread then.Now done - here (http://www.exilian.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=3382.0) it is, a shiny new thread all of my very own.
Also good to hear you enjoyed being away.Many thanks.
Dear goodness. Pentagathus just gave a sensible, helpful, on-topic piece of moderation advice which he was actually supposed to give as part of his job. I think I might need to lie down.Oh dear. I hope I'm not a corrupting influence.
Also, I'll be away Friday-Monday in Shrewsbury :)Enjoy Shrewsbury. I think you'll like it: it has an interesting (and highly defensible) natural setting in a big meander of the Severn, and lots of well-preserved medieval buildings.
I'm going to be in Greece for nine days from Sunday onwards.Wow. Have fun! Where are you going?
The Exilian has regained +1 Jubals.Yay! Welcome back. I would ask how it went and whether you enjoyed it, but somehow I already know...
I'm leaving for the UK again in 24 hours. :)Have a safe journey, and a wonderful time while you're over here. For London, the forecast temperatures look to be between 50F and 63F, with brisk winds, so maybe 5F windchill. Nothing compared to an Ohio winter, of course! But you will need the waterproofs if you're going outside at all - there's intermittent rain all weekend :(
I have returned!Welcome back! I hope you had a good time.
Tuits?Ah, sorry, this is a Britishism (if you can have Americanisms, I can have Britishisms). It started from "I'll do it when I get around to it", which must at some point have been converted to "I'll do it when I get a round tuit". I remember seeing a small ceramic plate, labelled as a "round tuit", in a shop window about 30 years ago. So now "tuits" are the thing that one must have in order to get something done. I don't know whether it's only the round ones that are still effective, or whether square or triangular ones now work as well.
booking planes, trains and ...
Is it bad that I had to look up what that was?No, it's not bad. Belgian beer is a somewhat obscure field of knowledge (albeit one I've rather enjoyed exploring over the last 20 years) - I wouldn't expect you to know it, any more than I'm familiar with most late Byzantine history.
What part of scotland?
First trip to Merica?
Say hello to whatever lives in Orkney for me :) (I have no idea what exists that far north beyond that it votes Lib Dem :P )Boars or pigs, apparently: that's what the Celtic 'ork' or 'arc' element means. The Vikings heard the name and decided it referred to seals instead (their word 'orkn') and added 'eyjar' (islands) for good measure. Centuries of English usage have worn off the final syllable.
thank you for telling us enjoy your vacation dont worry there will be internet
Don't defile the beer. :'(Defiled beer doesn't sound very palatable - why would I do that?
thank you for telling us enjoy your vacation dont worry there will be internet
I would like to let you all know I will be going on vacation next week. I'll be back a week Monday.Have a great time!
thank you for telling us enjoy your vacation dont worry there will be internet
Also, I've realised, I've increased my "Womble world tour" score by one, i.e. I've visited another place after which a Womble is named - Bulgaria in this case. Previous such locations have included Wellington and Adelaide. Unfortunately, there are still a lot to do: Tobermory, Orinoco, Bungo and Tomsk as obvious ones.Hm, Orinoco may be a challenge! Bungo at least you have options for - Indonesia, Japan, Angola, and curiously a suburb of Edinburgh. I wonder which one the name was done for...! Apparently there's a Tobermory on either side of the Atlantic too so there's options there.
Also no train journey could be annoyingly long for G methinks.So far my limit seems to be about 30 hours on a single train: Cairns to Brisbane, in Australia, or Chicago to western Arizona. I'm about willing to tolerate one night on a train, but two in succession feels like too much. A week on a single train (e.g. the Trans-Siberian railway) is almost certainly too much - I'd want to have breaks along the way.
Further Edit: Toledo is wonderful, and you should all visit it.Toledo, Ohio? It's kinda armadillo. :P
Toledo, Ohio? It's kinda armadillo. :PI’ve travelled through there a couple of times, but didn’t have a chance to stop and form an opinion. No, this was another Toledo, east of the Atlantic, older and probably smaller. I very much enjoyed what I had time to see in 2-3 hours; 2-3 days would be a more reasonable length of stay, or even longer if you’re into El Greco and various other artists of the same period.
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Going away?
Well you shouldn't be! Stay home!
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I'm in Konstanz and then Liechtenstein this week, though I should still be able to post a bit in the evenings.Have fun!
Also, it really doesn't make much sense for Going To Be Away to still live in Announcements, we should maybe think about moving it to the Boozer?Agreed.