Xenophobia: Pride & Prejudice - Chapter Twenty-four
Hooligan:
OH THANK GOD I CAN COMMENT AGAIN. XDDDDD I srsly didn't want to be the only other person talking here, that would make me feel like a stalker. Lawl.
I woke up tonight thinking about Joanne. She was a friend I made at uni; she was from Manchester. I remember telling her about how I played Sims 2, and she said that she had gotten really into the Sims, so I "lent" her my game disks. One of the first things that she said to me after she had played it for a while was, "Wow, that game was so obviously made in the States." She was referring to the way that the lots are set up, you know. Big yards...large, unconnected houses. One of the things she told me once when we were walking back and forth (I think we were going to Wal*Mart or something) was, "I used to think that when I saw movies that were made in the States, that they had to find somewhere specific to shoot all those scenes with the disconnected houses."
Me: "No, no, it mostly looks like this."
steelguy:
Sadie: Ah yes, the problems of balancing Real Life and creativity. (sighs) And when the pesky characters start bugging you when you're trying to do Work... (grumbles) Still, it's better than staring at a blank page with no idea of what to write...
Hooligan: Just out of interest, it's pretty much like that here in New Zealand, too. Unconnected houses, private yards, etc. I visited relatives in England and was like - what? You're all joined together???
Sam the T-man:
Hehe, yeah - that's what gets a little frustrating with the rest of my stories as they're set in England (since I live here, after all). Replacement uniforms, decorative postboxes, and there's still the conundrum of terraced houses - although thankfully they're starting to pop up on MTS2. In the meantime I still have British-set sims living in American style housing... -_-
Terraced housing is a bind though, especially with the older ones. The house I left behind to study at Uni is a working-class Victorian terrace, with paper thin walls and no way to put in cavity insulation. You can hear plug sockets being used, even the guy next door blowing his nose! :oogle:
@steelguy: Yeah, tell me about it.. It's not just Johnny either; all three of those boys kept me up all last night. They're proving to be a real handful lately :lol:
Hooligan:
Starting to feel a bit like a single parent are we, Sadie? XD
You know, I'm actually starting to think that it's not a matter of terraced housing being a locational thing as more of a time frame thing? Like, in New York and other towns that are older than the rest of the established country here, there's a ton of it, but in places that were started up after some point in history (maybe after 1800?) it becomes more spaced out. Please do correct me if I'm wrong. I was looking it up on Wiki, and it all started in the 1700s, so that might be some of it. Pilgrims brought it over, with like, you know, religious intolerance and smallpox. (Wow, biased much?? Don't mind me, I'm just really bitter this morning.) Places where you can find a lot of townhouses are like NYC (of course), Boston, Philly, Baltimore, Washington D.C. and San Francisco. There are a TON in SF (which is where I grew up, at least as a very small child.), and you can see them all marching down the sides of hills, it's pretty cool. (Oh wow, "townhouse". I just let y'all know where I'm from. XD)
Going back to something I said earlier, about leaving the States? People keep mentioning Australia, but I have ruled that out on the basis of RAINS OF SPIDERS. It's about tops on my list of Things That Should Not Be....OK, I'll stop being off topic nao.
ANYWAYS. I was wandering about on the net, cause I do that a lot, and I found something about brain gender. This would not pertain to the thread at all except for one reason: it had jarred me quite a lot to see big ol' Tank being all emotive, crying and telling people what he really thinks and stuff. And then I found out that in respect to the gender of the brain, a lot of writers and artists have a female-gendered brain, regardless of their physical sex or perceived gender. And then it made so much sense. So, uh, good on me, I figured it out? You, uh, may not want to let him know that though. Not sure how he'd take that, lol.
GingerGal08:
Quote from: Sadie79
@Ginger: Well, technically we don't have "free" healthcare, but it's a damn sight cheaper than the States. Got such a shock on reading people have been made bankrupt by greedy hospitals :shock:
Unfortunetely,my parents STILL won't tell me about money.All they say is that clothes are getting cheaper and food is getting more expensive and blah,blah,blah!That,and I've never been a hospital patient since I was a baby,so I don't know squat about hospital fees.Besides,I want to be a clinical scientist and they work in the labs,not the wards.
Quote from: Sadie79
Hehe, yeah - that's what gets a little frustrating with the rest of my stories as they're set in England (since I live here, after all). Replacement uniforms, decorative postboxes, and there's still the conundrum of terraced houses - although thankfully they're starting to pop up on MTS2. In the meantime I still have British-set sims living in American style housing...
I agree.Totally annoying,but i think things are better in America.They also produce most the music I listen to.But us British let our orchestras do music for films and TV shows they produce!So it isn't all bad!I prefer America...even if they have capital punishment...:chainsaw:
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