Your first Prom!

[Tank-Ace]

He said 6th grade was the toughest 4 years of his life.

LOL  ! That WOULD explain his terrible pronunciation, especially of German.

When Spikes says PanzerKampfWagen, it comes out as "Panzer-camp-wagin". And Gewehr once came out as "Grew-er" somehow.

[Spikes]

LOL  ! That WOULD explain his terrible pronunciation, especially of German.

When Spikes says PanzerKampfWagen, it comes out as "Panzer-camp-wagin". And Gewehr once came out as "Grew-er" somehow.

I have never pronounced anything like that.

Actually I have once, making fun of someone's name on WOT.

Would you also like to explain my 3.9 GPA and chosen college major of Cybersecurity & Information Assurance?

[kilo2]

My senior prom is in a couple of weeks. If this thread isn't locked by the time it happens, I might post a few pictures

The only way it would get locked is if I called you a noobish toolbag.

[flight17]

Cybersecurity & Information Assurance?

anybody can do that....


Consumer: is my computer safe?
Anyone: let me look
Anyone: well you have these files in your my documents folder, but yup its safe...
Consumer: are you sure its safe?
anyone: i assure you your information is safe...

done and done... 

[xbrit]

In Blighty we don't do prom, we get drunk in pubs far, far away from school

LOL this was the problem I had when it came to my daughter and sons Prom over here.
They asked about what we did in England so I told them I couldn't stand half the people in school
so why should I spend time with them out of school time. Same with school re-unions,my wife is
always going to them and she once asked why I never went, told her I couldn't wait to get out
why should I go back now.

[Lusche]

This was one of the big American cultural mysteries to me when I was a teenager. "Proms", "Dating",  family TV shows with teenagers promising their parents to wait with 'it' and the "Dads with shotguns" stuff. Pretty odd concepts... 

[zack1234]

damn JO you are short

 

We love you Jockym, how do we know its really Jockym?

He could look like John Merrick, come to think of it he does

[JimmyC]

Dam my dyslexia...I thought this was a whole different topic   
shmoooth suits though

[Skuzzy]

This was one of the big American cultural mysteries to me when I was a teenager. "Proms", "Dating",  family TV shows with teenagers promising their parents to wait with 'it' and the "Dads with shotguns" stuff. Pretty odd concepts... 

Just have to remember that within the U.S. there is a wide diversity of cultures.  The "Dads with shotguns" thing is pretty regional.  Proms are fairly consistent with small differences in the actual event from region to region.

In terms of culture, there are very few things that are nationwide in the U.S.

[B4Buster]

LOL  ! That WOULD explain his terrible pronunciation, especially of German.

When Spikes says PanzerKampfWagen, it comes out as "Panzer-camp-wagin". And Gewehr once came out as "Grew-er" somehow.

Heh, you should master your native language before you critique someone else's second. 

[Lusche]

Just have to remember that within the U.S. there is a wide diversity of cultures.  The "Dads with shotguns" thing is pretty regional.  Proms are fairly consistent with small differences in the actual event from region to region.

In terms of culture, there are very few things that are nationwide in the U.S.

Back then (30 years ago) I gathered all my knowledge from US TV shows, which for the large part do present a very... uhm... simplified image indeed  

[Skuzzy]

Back then (30 years ago) I gathered all my knowledge from US TV shows, which for the large part do present a very... uhm... simplified image indeed  

Simplified may not be the best term.  They present more of a microcosm of a local social dynamic.  However, there are many who think it does apply across the whole of the U.S.

Best example I cant think of is "King of the Hill".  That show accurately depicts any small town in Texas, but only the small towns.  Outside of the small towns, life is very different in Texas.  However, most people, even in the U.S. think all of Texas is just like that.  We all own guns.  We all talk funny (ya'll is really not that pervasive in Texas).  We are all rednecks and so on.

Anyway, proms here are pretty much like they are in any other part of the U.S.

[morfiend]

  We didnt have proms either,you just clubbed your woman over the head and dragged her back to the Igloo!!




   

[zack1234]

Big fat cars are nationwide in the US and that is a cultural norm

Who designed the Chrysler 300 its appalling

[Skuzzy]

Big fat cars are nationwide in the US and that is a cultural norm

Who designed the Chrysler 300 its appalling

Not really.  I have a regular group I breakfast with on Saturday mornings.  Three Mini Coopers, two Scion IQ's, one Mercedes SLK320, two AC Ace Cobras, and one motorcycle.

Sure, there are big cars available, but there are also small cars available.

What is probably more normal here, in Texas, are light trucks.

The U.S. really is too culturally diverse to make such general statements about almost anything.


The Chrysler 300 was designed by Mercedes Benz when they owned Chrysler.