The “Location” entry is being abused by far to many of you, darnit! I want to know where you are, not that you are in the state “of denial”. There are many threads where this makes a difference, and your silliness ads only confusion and chaos.
For shame.
waits for the immediate editing of hundreds of profiles
Because “Dislocated” is a funny and obscure Terry Pratchett reference. But I must say changing my location would aid (hopefully; I don’t know how many people read the location before posting) in getting people to stop assuming I’m American.
OK, so roughly 75% of the board’s population is American. But damn it, I write “colour” and “grey” and “labour” and “defence”. I say “pavement” and “fellow” and “motorway” and “autumn”. Can’t you at least assume I’m British? Is that too much to ask?
When I moved overseas I changed my location from something silly to the current, truthful description. I figured it might occasionally be relevant. Unfortunately, in threads actually dealing with Japan no one ever seems to notice. I remember one where someone explained to me that there are a lot of animated movies made in Japan. Gosh, thanks for that amazing cultural insight!
I used to have “Olive Branch MS” for my location. You don’t know where that is, do you? AFAIK only one Doper does, because he has a cousin down the road in Byhalia. I’m guessing that most people think “Memphis” when they see “stuck inside a mobile” (I’m not stuck inside of Mobile, but I wanted to pay tribute to Memphis and to Bob Dylan and his fine song). Olive Branch MS is a suburb of Memphis.
My location description reveals my political bias–which is surely more useful to know in a thread than my physical whereabouts–but it also indicates my literal location if you make the not-too-difficult leap to “left coast.”