Globalization

[Issele]

Question: What is the truest definition of Globalization?

Answer: Princess Diana's death.

Question: How come?

Answer: An English princess

with an Egyptian boyfriend

crashes in a French tunnel,

driving a German car

with a Dutch engine,

driven by a Belgian who was drunk

on Scottish whisky, (check the bottle before you change the spelling)

followed closely by Italian Paparazzi,

on Japanese motorcycles;

treated by an American doctor,

using Brazilian medicines.

This is sent to you by an Assyrian,

using Bill Gates's technology,

and you're probably reading this on your computer,

that uses Taiwanese chips,

and a Korean monitor,

assembled by Bangladeshi workers

in a Singapore plant,

transported by Indian lorry-drivers,

hijacked by Indonesians,

unloaded by Sicilian longshoremen,

and trucked to you by Mexicans.

That, my friends, is Globalization

[schild]

Question: What is the truest definition of Globalization?

Answer: Princess Diana's death.

Question: How come?

Answer: An English princess

with an Egyptian boyfriend

crashes in a French tunnel,

driving a German car

with a Dutch engine,

driven by a Belgian who was drunk

on Scottish whisky, (check the bottle before you change the spelling)

followed closely by Italian Paparazzi,

on Japanese motorcycles;

treated by an American doctor,

using Brazilian medicines.

This is sent to you by an Assyrian,

using Bill Gates's technology,

and you're probably reading this on your computer,

that uses Taiwanese chips,

and a Korean monitor,

assembled by Bangladeshi workers

in a Singapore plant,

transported by Indian lorry-drivers,

hijacked by Indonesians,

unloaded by Sicilian longshoremen,

and trucked to you by Mexicans.

That, my friends, is Globalization

I'd say this is spam, but you're from stratics. What the fuck are you doing?

Edit: Quoted for safekeeping.

[Rodent]

For a second there I thought it was going to be a post discussing the pros and cons of globalization, then I realised this was ze internet and dismissed the thought.

[schild]

I expected a link to gameamp.

[Issele]

I like your site.

[schild]

You are free to choose one of the following 3 cupcakes:



You can not share them with the people at stratics.

[Hanzii]

Globalization  is me travelling on a British airplane to an US stripclub, exchanging my Danish currency given to me by my German boss in a Swedish owned company, and then proceeding to stuff it inside the panties of a Hungarian stripper pretending to be from Guatamala (don't ask med why she did that)

[Issele]

You are free to choose one of the following 3 cupcakes:



You can not share them with the people at stratics.

Thank you.   

[schild]

Globalization  is me travelling on a British airplane to an US stripclub, exchanging my Danish currency given to me by my German boss in a Swedish owned company, and then proceeding to stuff it inside the panties of a Hungarian stripper pretending to be from Guatamala (don't ask med why she did that)

Don't be ontopic. This thread's topic is stupid. This thread has no feelings. The old one was much better.

[Rodent]

You are free to choose one of the following 3 cupcakes:



You can not share them with the people at stratics.

What the hell man!? New guy gets a cupcake almost instantly, where's MY cupcake huh, HUH?


... Oh to have a cupcake.

[schild]

 Psssssst. Rodent, it's only a picture of cupcakes. They do taste good though. It is, indeed, cupcake porn. Maybe this is what Shockeye was talking about.

[Issele]

Psssssst. Rodent, it's only a picture of cupcakes. They do taste good though. It is, indeed, cupcake porn. Maybe this is what Shockeye was talking about.

Cupcakes make the world go 'round:

http://www.cupcakeplanet.com/

[Rodent]

Could I change my order to a danish instead?



Yum yum

[Paelos]

No, stick with cupcakes. Danishes make you melancholy.

[Rodent]

No, stick with cupcakes. Danishes make you melancholy.

Quite clearly you are a very insane man. Danishes are yummy.

[Signe]

Could I change my order to a danish instead?



Yum yum

They look like pee danish peed on by the Easter Bunny.  Way too much yellow in that picture for it to be appetising. 

This is better:

[Rodent]

Hrmm no. Fail, stand in the corner with Paelos and be ashamed.

[Paelos]

Hrmm no. Fail, stand in the corner with Paelos and be ashamed.

Relax dingus, I was making a melancholy Dane joke. I know it was subtle.

[Hanzii]

The Swedes are the melancholy ones - probably because their cakes suck.

Anyway, stop posting pictures of non-Danish Danish. Stick with donuts and stuff you know how to make right, because your country sucks at making Danish.

[Tale]

Princess Diana's death.

News of which I heard on a British ferry leaving France for Dover, after 30 hours by bus from Poland with an Australian woman, following four months of bicycle travel starting in the Netherlands, through Belgium, France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Hungary again, Slovakia again, to Warsaw. After attending my grandmother's 90th birthday in London, I caught the return bus to Warsaw and a train to Moscow, then trans-Siberian and trans-Mongolian trains to Beijing. After a while in southern China, I headed for Hong Kong where a doctor thought I might have malaria and I hopped the first flight home to Sydney. Diana's death is for noobs.

Now, to get on-topic again, Portugese custard tarts:

[Issele]

Where would be a proper place/thread/forum for me to introduce myself?

[schild]

Ok, we definately need a faq.

There's no such place to introduce yourself. I think someone did...successfully....once. That might have been me though. And given my "position" I definately wouldn't call it successful. Anyway, just start talking. Introductions end up being painful.

[WayAbvPar]

The best way to do it is to start a new thread pimping your own website. That goes over extremely well here.

[Issele]

Ok and I promise to remember my netiquette.  As for my website *gulps and whispers*  I am the ME of SWG Stratics. 

I am/was an old UO player, started playing UO when it went live...on Atlantic... 8 years ago? Ouch... A gamer/female... trying to do what I can to bring facts to the gaming community through Stratics and pump info out of Thunderheart and DEV team for the poor SWG Community... guess that is the basic...  in UO I was a Smurff for 3 years on centeral and I have a degree in Creative writing and focus on the Gaming Industry.

[schild]

Well, I've found your problem. There are no facts about the gaming industry, just misinformation.

[Issele]

Well, I've found your problem. There are no facts about the gaming industry, just misinformation.

So true...  I have been watching the war going on in the industry and followed Raph when he went to the Conference oversea's to promote RMT concept... rather interesting conference to monitor. 

[Wolf]

On introductions - just use an avvy with a cute Asian chick and throw an off comment in a random thread. Works wonders, you get instantly accepted! I know one dude that did that, he's a legend around here... ummm... yeah :)

On cupcakes - great. I want a cupcake now. And it's 1 AM and I'm CRAVING a cupcake.

On globalisation - Who-what now? I need no fancy-shmancy globalisation...

[Paelos]

What the hell is Stratics and why do we hate it again?

[Raph]

What is the ME of Stratics? Is that like the I of Stratics? Is there a YOU of Stratics?

[Evangolis]

You know, I find myself enjoying this thread, for no appearant reason.  I must be short on sleep.

[Murgos]

What is the ME of Stratics? Is that like the I of Stratics? Is there a YOU of Stratics?

I think it's something like Locutus of Borg but with more ghey.

[Tebonas]

We have to introduce around here? Maybe in another ten years, I don't trust you shifty-eyed people yet. Maybe I'll get an Avatar next year, as a test.

All those cakes look so foreign. In the spirit of globalization have some Apfelstrudel

[Ironwood]

More Ghey ?  Surely you jest.

[HaemishM]

Where would be a proper place/thread/forum for me to introduce myself?

You could start with saying fuck a lot more, then making up your own words involving genitalia and animals. It's worked wonders for me.

[Strazos]

We already have a Haemish and an Ironwood. Having another person spews expletives and vulgarities would just be too much.