Out of Pod Experience

CSB, but the OOPE forum is that way --->

The same country that uses "LOL" in the place of "humorous"

I feel sorry for your country. Surprised the OP didn't go for a corp name like TF141

and yet nonconstructive a**holes live in all nations.





Just trying to break the ice of this needless "I must constantly troll these forums all day long" syndrome that has developed over the past year.. And people wonder why only fecal matter posts here now? Any attempt at reasonable conversation regarding the game is no longer possible. Thx, forum mods.



Now someone tell us how this thread is somehow a goon hate thread.

Hooray for a lack of international understandings in an international game!

Note to self: I can use british insults at the OP and he'd just sit there with a vacant look on his face.

OP is such a bell end.

PS: do =/= due

This one reminds me of this one time working in a restaurant, when someone left a religious pamphlet and it floated around for a little bit... it was in the form of a letter: "Dear Jesus, thank you for blah blah and blah blah blah." I handed it to one of my Spanish cooks named Jesus (hey-suse) saying "someone left this for you." He read it. Looked confused. Read it again. Looked around a still confused. Read it a third time, lightbulb came on he looked and me and went "aaahhhh!"

That's a good one. I think we have a winner.

Yeah, and the 1st floor is the ground floor. *** is a regional thing though.

It's kind of funny when Americans call hoighty toighty tippy typers "keyboards".

I live in Panama, I'm a Venezuelan, we both speak spanish, yet for some strange reason, every time I speak informally Panamanians look at me oddly and are offended/confused/wide eyed. When I speak with other Venezuelans they just reply back normally.

There's nothing wrong with the Panamanians or the Venezuelans, they just have such wildly differing customs regarding joking and manner of speaking.

Venezuelans use "MARISCO" a lot , without the S (which literally means Homosexual instead of shellfish with the s, but that's another game I'm not going into detail here) and you can use it as a battery name for ANYONE without implying said person is indeed homosexual, just common day addressing between friends, informal tone, yet using the same word in front of a non venezuelan , non central/western venezuelan to be exact is downright insulting >:(

Same with asking for someone to give you a ride home or to an specific address.

Venezuelans ask for the COLA when asking for rides (TAIL literally yet it means to us something diff by the context, either a ride, a long queue line ,a traffic jam, a literal tail , the buttocks and also glue, yeah I know, Venezuelans) So if you ask for someone their TAIL it's interpreted as asking them their behinds which can be implied as you asking them for anal sex here in Panama.

Also when you invite people over to drink (as a Venezuelan) you invite them to "echarse los palos" wich is to throw sticks on you (literally that, don't ask me why, it's just what we use) yet in the context here it sounds like you asking people for their "sticks" if you know what I mean. Meh

To top it off this is also a conservative country so all the Gay Innuendo and asking for Tails makes some of us here look ... well.. you know.

So I just resorted to be silent in front of Panamanians (don't want to re enact a single faux d' pass here again) with the added bonus of looking mysterious, using the traditional Neutral Venezuelan tone without any jargon/slang and I end up sounding like a Documentary guy and people actually look at me in a positive guy as I sound "enlightened" (Venezuelan Neutral is a widely recognized accent in LatinAmerica as serious or scholarly since it's a flat spanish with strong emphasis on sentence structure).

It also helps telling them I'm a Psychologist (instant hit with the girls here).

Thanks goodness there's almost 200k Venezuelan expats in this beautiful 3.5 Million people country so sometimes I just enjoy chatting with some of my expat brethren in the street, and simply be me and tell them about my experiences with asking for Colas and calling people Marico or asking them to drink some beers.

I don't talk to anyone in EVE anyway, so all my experiences must relate to outside sources.

I have a lot of Panamanian friends and enjoy their cultural quirks too btw, sometimes it's not about a diff language but the same language within a diff country. I guess Brits/Gringos might have some funny stories as well besides the smoking ones

Also much love to Panama, a country that embraced me with open arms and gave me a new standard of living, when I had to flee the madness of my own country.

o7

Thanks for reading.