[Razzmatazz13]

I think this sort of thing is the coolest part about the internet for me. I've had friends that I've never met who live all around the world. In a given day in my MMORPG I used to log on early and talk with my friend from japan, help him practice his english, then go and play with my american friends, from all over the country, and then spend the early evening with my british friends. We've argued and had to re-explain words and phrases that aren't common to one another, and we all just think it's damn cool that we know someone from so far away. One of my friends used to sit and lecture me about american gov't just because he knew I was american, and he didn't have any other american friends. He was shocked to learn that I don't agree with some policies, and even more shocked to find out which things he thought were true, and which were stereotypes. It was fun for me, showing him another (different) side of americans, just as it was fun for my first australian friend to talk with me on the phone. (He put me on speakerphone while he was at a party once, so that I could talk with his friends...because I have such a funny accent.) Then a few weeks later I let my best friend talk to him online, and she was confused and didn't understand a lot of what he said...which I found suprising. So even without noticing it, I had absorbed enough australian thought pattern/slang/whatever to translate the things he said to her.

Regarding the cellar individually, I joined because I got the feeling it was primarily based out of pennsylvania, from speech and subjects and of course the number of posters who live here, so I would agree that the board probably feels primarily american, with delicious dashes of foreigny-goodness.