Typo in the FAQ
What if I sneak them in using other e-mail addresses?
First up, don't. This is against the rules, and other people will be annoyed with you when they find out. It's a low, underhand thing to do. And the chances of getting caught are pretty high: the game uses four different methods to detect cheaters.
Nations that rort the UN in this way will be expelled and prevented from re-joining. If you do it with multiple nations, they'll all be deleted, including your main nation. If you're especially annoying, you'll be banned from making any new nations, too. But don't make me do that.
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Dunno why I never saw this before...
I've no idea what 'rort' is supposed to mean and it's not a word that even exists as far as I know. And that highlighted comma is grammatically incorrect!
HC Eredivisie
05-10-2003, 16:22
Perhaps it's Australian.
Rapid Dr3am
05-10-2003, 16:24
Yeah, I wouldn't hold your breath for things to get fixed.
It's the principle of the matter! :wink:
Qaaolchoura
05-10-2003, 16:44
Siro, Siro, Siro, doncha know that these things never get fixed? :twisted: :wink:
Goobergunchia
05-10-2003, 17:05
Maybe it's Klaatu's robot's brother....
Well I did point out two spelling errors in issues that got fixed. (It's in the NS history) :wink:
*has not the foggiest what Goober's going on about*
Goobergunchia
05-10-2003, 17:17
Well I did point out two spelling errors in issues that got fixed. (It's in the NS history) :wink:
*has not the foggiest what Goober's going on about*
It's from The Day the Earth Stood Still. Klaatu (the alien)'s robot is named Gort.
;-)
Qaaolchoura
05-10-2003, 17:20
It still makes not a wit(sp?) of sense. :?
Footy rort revealed
By Russell Robinson
September 18, 2003
TWO of Australia's most powerful sport administrators disguised payments to an AFL superstar to beat the salary cap, Federal Court documents reveal.
It's an Australian word. Still dunno what it means, though? :?
It's not a typO.
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Qaaolchoura
05-10-2003, 17:37
Ahh. . as Max is an Aussie he won't know that we don't know what it means anymore than we Americans usually know that color is spelled out side of the US as "colour", center as "centre", etc.
Goobergunchia
05-10-2003, 17:41
*engages Google*
A fraudulent or dishonest act or practice (a tax rort). Also used as a verb (to rort the system). Rort comes from standard English rorty meaning ‘boisterous, jolly’, and, in the late nineteenth century, ‘coarse, of dubious propriety’. The second sense of rorty disappeared, but has been retained in the Australian rort. First recorded 1919.
http://www.anu.edu.au/ANDC/Austwords/rort.html
OK... doesn't excuse the comma though! *takes out pitchfork* :twisted:
Ahh. . as Max is an Aussie he won't know that we don't know what it means anymore than we Americans usually know that color is spelled out side of the US as "colour", center as "centre", etc.
Hmm, we usually do know our Aussie words aren't exactly universal English. Hence we usually spare you cobbers our fair dinkum know-how, lest we leave you all feeling like ding-bats. But I never knew rort was an Aussie word. Blimey, you learn a new thing every day under the sun.
Toodleoo.
Qaaolchoura
05-10-2003, 17:53
Hmm, we usually do know our Aussie words aren't exactly universal English. Hence we usually spare you cobbers our fair dinkum know-how, lest we leave you all feeling like ding-bats. But I never knew rort was an Aussie word. Blimey, you learn a new thing every day under the sun.
Toodleoo.
'K, point taken. :D
rort
hmm
I like it :)
Time for another puppet? :lol:
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rort
hmm
I like it :)
Time for another puppet? :lol:
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nah I can't keep track of too many nations,4 is plenty for me!
*Never knew that rort wasn't a more universal term than it is*
Qaaolchoura
06-10-2003, 00:10
nah I can't keep track of too many nations,4 is plenty for me!
I know what you mean.
I have to keep most of my puppets in private regions in order to keep track of them all.
lol
Actually I'm considering creating nations called "thrashmetal" "speedmetal" and "deathmetal" but it would just be for the novelty of it so I'm not sure,if I do I'll probably create some kind of haunted scary type region for them,and have death metal found it
:idea:
Actually I will do that,and I'll keep it passworded and only open it on halloweens :twisted:
*goes to do it*
Edit: Done! The River Styx (http://www.nationstates.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi/page=display_region/region=the_river_styx)
Qaaolchoura
06-10-2003, 00:48
There was already a nation called "DeathMetal"!?!
yes DeathMetal and Death_Metal were reserved by former nations,but speedmetal and thrashmetal were not,if you want to put a nation there I'll let you since its the day of founding,even though its not halloween :D
Goobergunchia
06-10-2003, 02:07
In addition to Goobergunchia, I have 11 puppets. Two of them (Terminated California and -The Prophet-) are strategically deployed in large regions for monitoring purposes, and the other 9 I keep track of in a Notepad document. I'm not going to say how I use them....:twisted:
Qaaolchoura
06-10-2003, 02:55
yes DeathMetal and Death_Metal were reserved by former nations,but speedmetal and thrashmetal were not,if you want to put a nation there I'll let you since its the day of founding,even though its not halloween :D
Well Acrophilia, Alta Californian Coast, and Katroo are now fred up, now that the founders of the regions I had them in ceased to exist, but none of them are really approprariate, still, just a couple minutes, while I see what what is availible namewise.
Qaaolchoura
06-10-2003, 03:03
Here we are The Rogue Nation of Samian (http://www.nationstates.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi/target=display_nation/nation=samian)
Can you beleive that it was not taken yet? :P