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Post by Mister Buch on Aug 10, 2012 0:14:51 GMT 1
I totally always imagined you as looking like your avatar. I do that with a lot of people, actually. Either the current one or the one I remember best. Linders looks like the Witcher, Glow looks like Alan Wake, Clint looks like a cowboy. Before I got to know Tillian I was convinced that she was a redhead.
The only exception to this is Rascarin, who flat out DOES look like her avatar.
Anyway, I've been pointed at a few times. One time I went on Chat Roulette and some girl compared me to the Numa Numa guy. Genuinely, I was a little bit hurt!
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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on Aug 10, 2012 0:19:20 GMT 1
Aw, but the pics I've seen of you are cute... so I don't see the problem...
I only wish I looked like my avatar... or like Kaylee... I'm actually nothing like either of them...
On the other hand, Linders seems to not think I am ugly, so... maybe I should really just ignore the insults from random idiots... and the disapproval of my mother who thinks I should look different...
Then again, Linders may be biased... :S
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Post by Mister Buch on Aug 10, 2012 0:24:48 GMT 1
Yeah, I like to think I look half-decent. Honestly, that's not an issue for me. I look fine.
DAMN fine.
By which I mean - thanks.
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Anyway, there will always be random idiots, no matter what you look like. So please don't go around listening to their opinions.
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Post by CAPT Issac R. Madden on Aug 10, 2012 0:39:18 GMT 1
I'm kinda partial to Summer Glau myself, though I liked her better as Cameron in The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Then again, her pulling off that Cockney impression with Badger was pretty awesome.
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Post by Mister Buch on Aug 10, 2012 0:40:59 GMT 1
See I actually found it quite off-putting --
because it is VERY inaccurate. Almost as bad as Badger's voice, actually. Almost as bad as Spike the vampire's. Or that English guy from Angel.
What IS it with Joss Whedon.
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Post by CAPT Issac R. Madden on Aug 10, 2012 1:13:04 GMT 1
See I actually found it quite off-putting -- because it is VERY inaccurate. Almost as bad as Badger's voice, actually. Almost as bad as Spike the vampire's. Or that English guy from Angel. What IS it with Joss Whedon. That's the problem with us Yanks. Most of us can't even tell the difference between a Scotts accent and an Irish accent. Considering I haven't heard much of the Cockney accent, then it's probably not surprising I didn't know any better.
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Post by Mister Buch on Aug 10, 2012 1:27:17 GMT 1
Evidently Whedon is just as bad. It's like... well I can't think of an analogy that exists, but imagine if in a British movie there was this one character wearing a stars and stripes t-shirt and speaking with a comically exaggerated drawl and eating a hamburger or something all the time. That's what Badger, Giles and Spike are.
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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on Aug 10, 2012 1:57:43 GMT 1
Oh, I don't know, Mister Buch... I talk to people all day from all over the UK... Scotland, Ireland, Wales, all over... and their accents are all so varying... and I actually spoke to a few who sound almost exactly like the Whedon Brits (Spike, Giles, Wesley). As for Badger, I kind of figured his accent was more of a street slang thing and not a real Cockney... almost like the super-irritating street-mumble that punk-asses do around here, like the whole "eh'man, whut'up" *grunt* shite. *sigh* I pity the English language sometimes for being treated so horridly... *weeps*
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Post by Mister Buch on Aug 10, 2012 2:02:03 GMT 1
There are loads of unique and handsome accents in the UK. West Country to geordie, Northern Irish to cockney, Glasweigan to Manc, Welsh to upper-class, brummie to Oxford. And absolutely none of these people sound anything like Badger, Giles, or Spike.
Lily, I am outraged.
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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on Aug 10, 2012 2:09:21 GMT 1
Be outraged all you want, darlin'... I'm just stating what I hear all day every day... I even heard one guy today who sounded like the big blond dude from "Brave" who talked in such a thick (I assumed fake) brogue that even the other two suitors were all like "I have no idea...".
And to be fair, dear Buch, I did say that I assumed Badger's accent was a poorly executed street slang and not a legitimate accent... and that Giles and Spike and Wesley sounded more legit. Also, isn't Tony Head (Giles' actor) a British man anyway? He was born in Camden Town, London... so... Giles is a real Brit, and therefore his accent is real. *raises one eyebrow*
Your turn, dear Buch... ;D
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Post by Mister Buch on Aug 10, 2012 2:14:23 GMT 1
Anthony head is weird, yeah - he's a genuine English man who sounds like an American doing a bad impression. I... may be being too hard on him.
As for Spike - dare I suggest that you're not as familiar with these voices as I am. Spike's English voice really is the most horrible fake accent ever recorded. Badger is a close second, followed by Summer Glau's scene.
Honestly. These are really, really bad impressions of the accents.
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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on Aug 10, 2012 2:22:01 GMT 1
Ok, I will acknowledge that you are more of an expert than I am, seeing as how you have been a British man as long as I have been a Canadian woman... ;D But, I do have a good ear for accents, and I do hear accents from all over the UK all day every day at work... there are also quite a few British people in my office location who moved here from England to work in our Canadian office, and I talk to them and hear their voices and accents all the time as well...
Though I will admit it has been a long time since I've watched any Buffy or Angel, so I may have lost my ear for Giles and Spike and Wesley (though I will also say that I pretty near fell in love with Giles' voice and accent... oh, my...) so we may have to agree to disagree here... ;D
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Post by Clint Johnston on Aug 10, 2012 6:12:38 GMT 1
I can top this. Bert (Dick Van Dyke) in Mary Poppins.
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Aug 10, 2012 7:23:32 GMT 1
Thing is, the guy who played Giles does sound like that in the BBC show of Merlin where he played Uther.
As for good looking, well i think im pretty damn good looking but hot? Neah.... Bet you all three to one you all think im a dinosaur hybrid. I do think Summer Glau is fine though, hooobooooy!
and i cant believe I just derailed an entire topic by quoting Firefly. It just doesnt die, does it? Also i checkd out Nathan Fillion in Castle, he is the show's major actor in there. i mean he is the only reason im watching it. Because he was Captain Reynolds and also one dude in the Halo games.
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Post by jklinders on Aug 10, 2012 10:00:00 GMT 1
Thing is, the guy who played Giles does sound like that in the BBC show of Merlin where he played Uther. As for good looking, well i think im pretty damn good looking but hot? Neah.... Bet you all three to one you all think im a dinosaur hybrid. I do think Summer Glau is fine though, hooobooooy! and i cant believe I just derailed an entire topic by quoting Firefly. It just doesnt die, does it? Also i checkd out Nathan Fillion in Castle, he is the show's major actor in there. i mean he is the only reason im watching it. Because he was Captain Reynolds and also one dude in the Halo games. And don't forget Gao the Lesser
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