> I guess that's probably because so many Rinkies are old and have jobs. Me, on summer vacation, I post whenever I can drag myself out of bed, or whatever time late at night I have kept myself up to. Today I happen to have been dragged out of bed kicking and screaming at 7 o'clock, so I'm right with the Brits. My last post was late at night because I was bored and Rinkchat was slow, so I was with the Aussies. I must admit though, I usually check the Forum at about noon, after I get my sister from summer school. So you've got me there.

The same sort of situation arises with me. Since I am between jobs, I sometimes post as late as 4 am my time, and I sometimes get up as early as 6 am (though when I do, it is usually to do something and I don't start posting until 9 am or so) but really, that means that my posts generally come from 19 hours of the day.

> I don't think I've ever chatted with anyone from Africa or South America. There's still a lot of European and Asian countries I have not chatted with either. I was told by friends who chat in more rooms than me that Chinese people really hate Americans. Does anyone know if that is true? Just curious.

I have no experience in this area. I do see a lot of racism in other areas, though, like the Diablo 2 realms--a lot of slander gets tossed about regarding Koreans for reasons I think are stupid, and I won't get into now.

> Mel"Hadn't chatted with Australians, Scandinavians, New Zealanders or heck ever English before Rinkchat and RinkForum. This place rules!"anie

Don "Had some experience chatting with Australians before and thought that was amazingly exotic" Monkey