# Non American members - who's renewing? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 20, 2005, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-american-members-whos-renewing/295412 "2005-03-20T11:36:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![joazito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@joazito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joazito)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-american-members-whos-renewing/295412/21 "2005-03-20T22:03:15Z")
I will. I hardly post but the enjoyment I get from this message board deserves a lot more than what they ask for, I won’t hesitate for a second when the time comes to renew. Long live the SDMB! ---
**Author:** ![Hugh\_Jass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4da419/32.png) [@Hugh\_Jass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hugh_Jass)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-american-members-whos-renewing/295412/22 "2005-03-21T00:23:45Z")
I know this is for non-Americans, and I’m a 'merkin, but I for those of you on the fence: I can only speak for myself but I put a great deal of value on reading the thoughts, opinions and perspectives of non-Americans. Sites like this are the only source for many Americans to get non-American-centric thoughts and opinions. The international flavor of this board is one of the prime reasons I read and pay to post. ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-american-members-whos-renewing/295412/23 "2005-03-21T00:46:11Z")
I already have, thanks to your pathetically weak and plummeting currency, I think I actually paid LESS this year than last :D. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-american-members-whos-renewing/295412/24 "2005-03-21T01:25:36Z")
Hey, good point, **Shalmanese**. I probably will, too. ---
**Author:** ![WaryEri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ea666f/32.png) [@WaryEri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WaryEri)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-american-members-whos-renewing/295412/25 "2005-03-21T02:08:09Z")
Recently transplanted Canadian here. I’ll be renewing. I may not post much, but it’s worth it for searches alone. ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-american-members-whos-renewing/295412/26 "2005-03-21T02:19:46Z")
I will continue to fight the ignorance of my cousins in the New World until “handgun” is a word a kid hears and says to its Mom and Pop, “Hey, Mom, hey, Pop, ain’t that what folks used to use when things was really uncivilised?” ---
**Author:** ![Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bites_when_provoked/32/18073_2.png) [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bites_When_Provoked)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-american-members-whos-renewing/295412/27 "2005-03-21T04:13:29Z")
I renewed already - a month or so ago. I think I’m covered somewhere up to 2007, what with the additional time left on my original subscription, so unless this board goes to hell I’ll be around a while. ---
**Author:** ![Catalyst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@Catalyst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catalyst)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-american-members-whos-renewing/295412/28 "2005-03-21T05:11:56Z")
> [@roger thornhill](#): > > I will continue to fight the ignorance of my cousins in the New World until “handgun” is a word a kid hears and says to its Mom and Pop, “Hey, Mom, hey, Pop, ain’t that what folks used to use when things was really uncivilised?” Yes, please save us uncivilized louts with your enlightened ways! :rolleyes: Look, the international nature of the board is one of its main attractions for me, but I could really do without the condescending tone. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-american-members-whos-renewing/295412/29 "2005-03-21T05:37:50Z")
American hair, British teeth, handguns, English hooliganism. They’re all fair game on the SDMB. ---
**Author:** ![Catalyst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@Catalyst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catalyst)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-american-members-whos-renewing/295412/30 "2005-03-21T05:52:43Z")
> [@roger thornhill](#): > > American hair, British teeth, handguns, English hooliganism. They’re all fair game on the SDMB. Heh, fair enough. Of course, the list isn’t complete without mention of British cooking, German humorlessness, and whoever we’re making sheep-fucking jokes about this week (whose turn is it, anyway?) (Also: American hair?) ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-american-members-whos-renewing/295412/31 "2005-03-21T06:10:20Z")
> [@Catalyst](#): > > …whoever we’re making sheep-fucking jokes about this week My favourite sheep joke is actually a clean one: New Zealand - a land of 60 million sheep, three million of whom think they’re human beings. Just ahead of my other favourite antipodean joke: Australians - the best balanced people in the world: a chip on both shoulders. > [@](#): > > (Also: American hair?) **Owl** ’s the one who’s got a fixation about that. I’m the one with the fixation aout guns. That’s how to tell us apart. We both love football, although he actually coughs up ridiculous amounts of money to follow his team around Europe. I just watch it on the telly, with a prawn sandwich in one hand and a glass of Robert Mondavi Pinot Noir 2001 (thanks, **silenus** ) in the other. Shouting abuse at the ref, of course. ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-american-members-whos-renewing/295412/32 "2005-03-21T08:59:53Z")
I’m sticking around. Whether I count as an American member or a non-American member is left as an exercise for the reader. ---
**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-american-members-whos-renewing/295412/33 "2005-03-21T09:11:26Z")
I have just renewed mine , otherwise how can I engage in such deep debates with **Owl** about such things as what is and what isn’t a current ? ---
**Author:** ![Jervoise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@Jervoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jervoise)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-american-members-whos-renewing/295412/34 "2005-03-21T09:36:51Z")
I’ll be sticking around. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-american-members-whos-renewing/295412/35 "2005-03-21T09:44:53Z")
Probably, even though the political madness that rocked the boards this past year drove me insane, and that my current posting rate is at about 2 a week. ---
**Author:** ![Walker\_in\_Eternity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/46a35a/32.png) [@Walker\_in\_Eternity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walker_in_Eternity)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-american-members-whos-renewing/295412/36 "2005-03-21T09:58:03Z")
I’ve got a while to go yet, but I will be renewing, even though I do not have a high post rate, it’s`worth a few quid to be able to get involved in the debates I have a view on. I get a bit annoyed with some on the USA centred threads even when they don’t start out that way they seem to end up being about America. In one thread recently a question about British law suddenly got overwhelmed by statements on the US Constitution. I will stick around, if only to assist in educating our transatlantic cousins that the world does not revolve around them. ---
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-american-members-whos-renewing/295412/37 "2005-03-21T11:59:27Z")
> [@Rayne Man](#): > > I have just renewed mine , otherwise how can I engage in such deep debates with **Owl** about such things as what is and what isn’t a current ? It’s a little berry that grows on bushes. We sorted that out ages ago. ---
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-american-members-whos-renewing/295412/38 "2005-03-21T12:01:34Z")
> [@roger thornhill](#): > > **Owl** ’s the one who’s got a fixation about that. I’m the one with the fixation aout guns. That’s how to tell us apart. We both love football, although he actually coughs up ridiculous amounts of money to follow his team around Europe. I just watch it on the telly, with a prawn sandwich in one hand and a glass of Robert Mondavi Pinot Noir 2001 (thanks, **silenus** ) in the other. Shouting abuse at the ref, of course. Manchester and Newcastle may be many things (Northern, grim, full of povs and kestrel stranglers) but they don’t qualify as “continental” - maybe next year with any luck (to watch us get dumped out by part time latvian roadsweepers) ---
**Author:** ![calm\_kiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@calm\_kiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/calm_kiwi)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-american-members-whos-renewing/295412/39 "2005-03-21T12:19:31Z")
> [@owlstretchingtime](#): > > This is really just for the non-yanks here. > > They are interested in those strange pass-times that they have over > there (netball, rounders etc) and the antics of apparently famous people > who I’ve never heard of (although I take it as read that they will have > “American Hair”). > > So who among us non Americans is renewing or not? **Owl** I believe when you say netball you mean basketball. Unless you actually mean netball…the sport that NZ and Aus juggle first in and you Poms just were just left very sorry looking after touring here 😃 I shall be renewing (hopefully, not a credit card owner but I have designs on my mother’s card number) I like the dope. Lots. For all it’s good and bad. If I don’t renew I won’t stop reading. Remember: Basketball, Poms don’t play. Netball, Poms are just hopeless at. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-american-members-whos-renewing/295412/40 "2005-03-21T12:48:32Z")
> [@calm kiwi](#): > > **Owl** I believe when you say netball you mean basketball. Unless you actually mean netball…the sport that NZ and Aus juggle first in and you Poms just were just left very sorry looking after touring here 😃 > > Remember: Basketball, Poms don’t play. Netball, Poms are just hopeless at. 😃 I’m supposed to give a monkey’s about a bint’s game? Does not compute. You’re probably better at knitting than us - what with having all them sheep. But its nothing to boast about. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-american-members-whos-renewing/295412.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-american-members-whos-renewing/295412.md?page=3)