I am short by Wisconsin standards WI people are built really big.... Its probably because most of its settlers where from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Germany.... Me being primarily Irish... with a touch of other things... one ingredient being Spanish... am short compared to all of the rest... but by American standards I am average just not regionally.
@Irishmile you could be the Scottish member of the Barbershop Quartet. (Supposedly Ireland used to be called Scotland until the Scottish stole the name.) He was blond and beefy.
I could be the Voodoo Lady, only I'm lighter skinned, have hair and I'm not as fat. I'm as short as she is though.
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Okay, so I don't really look like the Voodoo lady, but hey. There ain't many short dames in Tales.
I thought that in between that it was known as "Alba"?
Edit: Wait, weren't the Picts a neolithic people? How did the Scots not show up until the "late" Middle Ages? That would mean they migrated in the 1500's which is around the time the "Ulster Scots" migrated to Ireland.
i have middlelong brown hair and brown eyes and a beard which i’m not afraid to shave into funny shapes for one afternoon. but unfortunately it is max. 1cm long and i’m not the athletic type, so i’m not good for playing lechuck.
Haha, a friend actually told me I look like Guybrush a few days ago, when he saw me in a ponytail for the first time. I'll see if I put up a picture. I'd need to shave, though - I'm still bearded since this term's exam period.
I just added my avatar and thought this would be the place to announce it!
That avatar is actually a normal picture of me. Isn't it uncanny? Don't I look exactly like Guybrush in MI2? That's my brown suit I'm wearing. Do you believe it? ... Oh, you don't?... Well, I can assure you that brown suit is my own... Oh, you meant the previous thing... yeah, you're right... I'm not that pixelated...
I do have a pony tail and a beard, though, so I would selfishly cast myself as Guybrush.
(Supposedly Ireland used to be called Scotland until the Scottish stole the name.)
Scotland comes from "Scottii" which is the Latin for the Irish (the inhabitants of "Hibernia"). The Dal riata were genetically pretty-much Irish, and gradually became dominant in Scotland, to the point that "Scottish" became the term used for the inhabitants of what we now call Scotland (just like many Americans refer to Britain as "England" for shorthand). Equally, by the 1100's-1200's, many called the lowlanders a variant of "the French" because all of the nobles were of Norman descent, and French fashion and language had caught on big-time.
And people told me history would never be of any use outside of uni.
Scotland comes from "Scottii" which is the Latin for the Irish (the inhabitants of "Hibernia"). The Dal riata were genetically pretty-much Irish, and gradually became dominant in Scotland, to the point that "Scottish" became the term used for the inhabitants of what we now call Scotland (just like many Americans refer to Britain as "England" for shorthand). Equally, by the 1100's-1200's, many called the lowlanders a variant of "the French" because all of the nobles were of Norman descent, and French fashion and language had caught on big-time.
And people told me history would never be of any use outside of uni.
You sir, are awesome. And history is an incredibly useful subject that people should stop sleeping through. Look what it did for Asimov! Although many Americans refer to Britain as England because they usually are talking just about England. They don't realize Scotland, Wales and Cornwall (and the Isle of Man, I guess?) are actually part of "Britain". They think of them as different countries, and most of the time what they really mean is London, anyhow. And half the time they think you all live in a Wallace and Gromit world.
You could be Guybrush "LeChuck's Revenge" edition.
You're right. Why didn't I think of that? :eek: I dressed up as Guybrush from SMI once; I suppose that stuck in my head somehow. But I think of all the Guybrushes in the series, I'm more similar to the one in Curse. Both require me to shave off the beard on my chin though, I don't think I want to do that.
You sir, are awesome. And history is an incredibly useful subject that people should stop sleeping through. Look what it did for Asimov! Although many Americans refer to Britain as England because they usually are talking just about England. They don't realize Scotland, Wales and Cornwall (and the Isle of Man, I guess?) are actually part of "Britain". They think of them as different countries, and most of the time what they really mean is London, anyhow. And half the time they think you all live in a Wallace and Gromit world.
Northern England is pretty much a Wallace and Gromit world to be honest. Except hardly anyone there is made of plasticine these days. I don't mean to sound racist, but it seems like the place is being taken over by flesh-people.
Northern England is not actually stuck in the 50's. They have modern automobiles and ugly, modern tract housing rising like brick excrescences on former farm land just like the south of England does, and, of course, there's Jorvik history centre which is the anti-thesis of Wallace and Gromit I'd say. (Note to anyone reading, if you ever see an attraction that says, "Experience the Sights, Sounds and Smells of Ancient Times!" avoid it. Avoid it like the plague.)
Jorvik VIKING centre. Honestly, if it used "history" in the name it'd probably be sued... by... someone.
You're right, though. American cultural imperialism is ruining Wallace & Gromit land
P.S. My grandparents lived in a village with a cricket club that played on my grandfather's farm, and they didn't have the internet, just record players. And there wasn't a supermarket for miles... so it really is like Wallace & Gromit if you pick your places.
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Taller than me! I'm 5' 8.5" from a tiny island of inbreds, where I'm considered averagely-heighted for a man and taller than most girls.
Emphasis on did.
I could be the Voodoo Lady, only I'm lighter skinned, have hair and I'm not as fat. I'm as short as she is though.
...
Okay, so I don't really look like the Voodoo lady, but hey. There ain't many short dames in Tales.
Yup...
(to Voodoo Lady about going to Blood Island alone)
The Scots lived in Ireland but so many emigrated to Pictland during the late Middle Ages that Pictland became the new Scotland and the name stuck.
Edit: Wait, weren't the Picts a neolithic people? How did the Scots not show up until the "late" Middle Ages? That would mean they migrated in the 1500's which is around the time the "Ulster Scots" migrated to Ireland.
That avatar is actually a normal picture of me. Isn't it uncanny? Don't I look exactly like Guybrush in MI2? That's my brown suit I'm wearing. Do you believe it? ... Oh, you don't?... Well, I can assure you that brown suit is my own... Oh, you meant the previous thing... yeah, you're right... I'm not that pixelated...
I do have a pony tail and a beard, though, so I would selfishly cast myself as Guybrush.
Scotland comes from "Scottii" which is the Latin for the Irish (the inhabitants of "Hibernia"). The Dal riata were genetically pretty-much Irish, and gradually became dominant in Scotland, to the point that "Scottish" became the term used for the inhabitants of what we now call Scotland (just like many Americans refer to Britain as "England" for shorthand). Equally, by the 1100's-1200's, many called the lowlanders a variant of "the French" because all of the nobles were of Norman descent, and French fashion and language had caught on big-time.
And people told me history would never be of any use outside of uni.
You sir, are awesome.
Oh, but we do
That reminds me - I need to get my porridge gun mended.
You're right. Why didn't I think of that? :eek: I dressed up as Guybrush from SMI once; I suppose that stuck in my head somehow. But I think of all the Guybrushes in the series, I'm more similar to the one in Curse. Both require me to shave off the beard on my chin though, I don't think I want to do that.
Jorvik VIKING centre. Honestly, if it used "history" in the name it'd probably be sued... by... someone.
You're right, though. American cultural imperialism is ruining Wallace & Gromit land
P.S. My grandparents lived in a village with a cricket club that played on my grandfather's farm, and they didn't have the internet, just record players. And there wasn't a supermarket for miles... so it really is like Wallace & Gromit if you pick your places.