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17 October 2013
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Sorry Zig……First rule in writing, ‘remember the reader……’ I’d forgotten that all the Harry Potter books were translated into American English..Two nations separated by the same language and all that. So not surprising that a bunch of cricket scores is just meaningless babble. I get very confused by ‘loaded bases’ and other elementary stuff in baseball.
Thankfully Nasty nicely summed it up…….But add to that the historical sporting rivalry between England and Australia…….Add to that….It’s often been England under the cosh…….That the trophy they play this series for is a small urn of Ashes…..said to be the remains of the wooden bails that lay across the stumps, the target the bowler aims for… and the batsman must protect. These ashes were symbolically burned on a similar crushing day 100 odd years ago when on that occasion Australia destroyed an England team.
To show the importance of bragging rights, when I lived in England I would always save the newspapers reporting an Australia loss…..especially one as ignominious as this…. and keep them safe…….And then wrap any Christmas presents I was giving to the Aussies I worked with in these newspapers.
What can I say……? It was exciting! Look at the bowler’s face after Ben Stokes diving for a ball that has passed him…..Even he’s excited.
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17 October 2013
Offline Ahhh Girl said
Ahhh Mom and I are about to have dinner with @Expert Textpert and his lovely wife.
My ears were burning at about then……5555
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18 April 2013
Offline Ahhh Girl said
Ahhh Mom and I are about to have dinner with @Expert Textpert and his lovely wife.
And what a nice dinner it was. I enjoyed hearing about Ahhh Mom’s neighborhood cat restaurant.
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Is that the one where they serve neighbourhood cat and tell you it tastes just like chicken, even though it’s much more like squirrel?
Still, serving the neighbourhood cats does save money at the butcher’s.
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18 April 2013
Offline Ron Nasty said
Is that the one where they serve neighbourhood cat and tell you it tastes just like chicken, even though it’s much more like squirrel?
Still, serving the neighbourhood cats does save money at the butcher’s.
That’s very silly. She feeds the cats. She doesn’t cook them!
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17 December 2012
Offline "I only said we were bigger than Rod... and now there's all this!" Ron Nasty
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Page 200 of this thread!
What’s happening in my life?…
Right then. Earlier my folks went out and I was spinning Beatles For Sale while doing some housework, and I had the time of my life. (Yes, I am able to truthfully put ‘doing housework’ and ‘having the time of my life’ into the same sentence… so long as there is an ‘I was listening to the Beatles’ as a go-between. 
)
So yeah, I was sort of doing this:
only without the car, belting along to every song, taking the higher harmonies when possible, and I worked up a fine rasp by the time I got to Kansas City /Hey-Hey-Hey. (I stopped there and pretended I had to ‘flip the record over’– it enhances the experience so much 
). Then when Eight Days A Week came on, I must confess I did something like this:
That song always has a 
effect on me. (Once I was listening to it and I did that, as seen above, and my dad went, ‘Sometimes I wonder about her.’ Anyway, I digress.)
So I flipped out, did a little of this
and then started singing along, very loudly and enthusiastically.
I continued this sort of behaviour until Every Little Thing , when my folks pulled into the drive, I turned off the music, and went back to being a normal human being, just as if I hadn’t been shouting ‘Ev’ry LITtle THIing she does, she does for MEe, YEah!!! And’ju KNOW the THIing she does, she does for MEe, OOoh!!!’ moments before. 
^^ I honestly have no idea why I typed that all out like that. Gosh, I sound like a teenage Beatlemaniac… which I am. And sorry for the gif-fest.
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18 April 2013
Offline Ron Nasty said
That’s a classic. I’d forgotten about it.
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8 February 2014
Offline Silly Girl said
^^ I honestly have no idea why I typed that all out like that. Gosh, I sound like a teenage Beatlemaniac… which I am. And sorry for the gif-fest.
I think we should take a page from Sportscenter (well, from David Letterman if not someone earlier) a top 10 posts of the week topic. I nominate this one. You’re such a silly girl!
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Offline I left my ipod on a train last Sunday and details were posted on facebook that day saying it had been found. My sister and one of her friends has left messages on the persons page saying they know who it belongs to but havent gotten any response. Anyone have any idea what i can do? I’m not on facebook nor have a clue how to use it.
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15 May 2014
Offline Wigwam said
I’d forgotten that all the Harry Potter books were translated into American English.
They did that, really?! And what about exposing children to a different culture, a different way of calling things?
“Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit” (“Perhaps one day it will be a pleasure to look back on even this”; Virgil, The Aeneid, Book 1, line 203, where Aeneas says this to his men after the shipwreck that put them on the shores of Africa)
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17 October 2013
Offline Oudis said
Wigwam said
I’d forgotten that all the Harry Potter books were translated into American English.They did that, really?! And what about exposing children to a different culture, a different way of calling things?
Possibly they were sensitive to the fact that the Harry Potter series are the most banned books of the century in the US and didn’t need further complications.
There’s a lot of differences between British English and American….( you’ll know that from your spell-check)……We meet at the week end, they meet on the week end….We were at university they were in college……..I’ve got to go now….. I have to go now….Burned,burnt…….smelt, smelled….dived, dove.
And words ……pants/underwear……bumbag/ fanny pack……rubber…. eraser….. ‘keep your pecker up’ would not be construed as polite encouragement in the US.
It’s natural that the dominant culture will lead…… look how we have to bend regarding football on this board or suffer endless misunderstandings.
….And to be fair we ask for it by aping Americans whenever we can…….Even the Beatles sang mostly in American.
Here’s an unnecessary but great example……I thought Keith was American for years……..
If you haven’t seen him and John Meyer at the Crossroads festival doing ‘Don’t Let Me Down ‘ check it out the more recent Beatle Ed Sullivan tribute falls a little flat.
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8 February 2014
Offline meanmistermustard said
I left my ipod on a train last Sunday and details were posted on facebook that day saying it had been found. My sister and one of her friends has left messages on the persons page saying they know who it belongs to but havent gotten any response. Anyone have any idea what i can do? I’m not on facebook nor have a clue how to use it.
There’s probably not much you can do. Why someone would post that they had found it without the intent of actually returning it I don’t know – if you had good evidence it was stolen maybe they could trace the account, but for something that’s really not very expensive i doubt you’d get any police response (not in the states anyway). I would just hope they respond eventually, but I wouldn’t hold out much hope after a week goes by. sMaybe if your sister offered a reward?
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Offline meanmistermustard said
I left my ipod on a train last Sunday and details were posted on facebook that day saying it had been found. My sister and one of her friends has left messages on the persons page saying they know who it belongs to but havent gotten any response. Anyone have any idea what i can do? I’m not on facebook nor have a clue how to use it.
Maybe they haven’t been on – I would imagine they wouldn’t have posted if they didn’t want to find the owner. They can send them a message (like a PM here) – some people get alerts for those.
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8 February 2014
Offline Wigwam said
Possibly they were sensitive to the fact that the Harry Potter series are the most banned books of the century in the US and didn’t need further complications.
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….And to be fair we ask for it by aping Americans whenever we can…….Even the Beatles sang mostly in American.
Here’s an unnecessary but great example……I thought Keith was American for years……..
“In some parts of the United States and United Kingdom, the Potter books have been banned from being read in school, taken out of libraries, and even burned in public.” – http://www.infoplease.com/spot…..harry.html . I also saw where it had been banned in the UAE. So don’t blame it all on us ‘mericans!
You may recall Paul’s answer to “Why do you sing in American?” [or something equivalent] and he looks surprised,, shrugs his shoulders, and says “We don’t sing differently.” [or something equivalent]. A lot of Britiish singers lose their “Queen’s English” accent when singing. Not sure about the little word details you listed like “I’ve got to go” vs. “I have to go” (I suspect writers use poetic license and use whichever fits best), but the Beatles for example did let their accent through occasionally, the most noticeable times probably being singing “saw” as “sar” (this happens twice I think, but damned if I can remember where off the top of my head). Robert Plant, Roger Daltrey, and Mick Jagger are 3 famous Brits who sing “American” as far as I’ve ever heard. Pete Towsend & Keith Moon, notably, sang with a strong accent. Amy Winehouse is a more contemporary example – I don’t recall her accent coming through in her singing. I think in general, something about the careful enunciation that goes with trained singing takes the accent out of it. Of course, I’ve only heard the British artists who made it big enough to jump across the pond – I’m sure your average pub band sings with an accent.
As far as Keith Urban, I have to put in a plug for his axe work – he’s one of the best guitarists in pop (pop country) music today. He definitely drops the Aussie accent when he sings, but he doesn’t really add a southern (country) American accent to his singing. Let’s face it, at least part of his popularity is his sex appeal. He’s a hottie and he knows it. He’s a great artist too, but his looks don’t hurt.
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^^ I honestly have no idea why I typed that all out like that. Gosh, I sound like a teenage Beatlemaniac… which I am. And sorry for the gif-fest.
I think we should take a page from Sportscenter (well, from David Letterman if not someone earlier) a top 10 posts of the week topic. I nominate this one. You’re such a silly girl!
I feel loved. 
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Sorry Zig……First rule in writing, ‘remember the reader……’
No worries, friend. I just like that scene from Finding Nemo and took the opportunity to bust it out.
I get very confused by ‘loaded bases’ and other elementary stuff in baseball.
So, a pitcher fanning a batter by pulling the string on a 3 and 2 change up after the batter fouled off three straight heaters means nothing to you? 
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21 November 2012
Offline HELLO.
I’ve been back since Monday, but haven’t really found the time until now to get on the forum. Budapest was great! I had a wonderful time and have seen and done so much. Our appartment was in a very good spot, right in the center but it was so crappy. We expected 3 rooms, but there was only one bedroom for the 7 of us. 6 beds of which 5 beds for one and one bed for two. Luckily 2 of our group are a couple, so they could take the big bed, and fell through the bed after a few days! We checked our beds and saw our slatted bases of the beds were just taped together. Cheap stuff. We also couldn’t cook or do the laundry because there was fungus in the machines. We laughed it off by saying ”oh well, 5 euros”, which kind of became our catchphrase every time something bad happened or something broke, even outside the hotel. Despite that, I still had a great time, and everything went very smooth. I love how everything is very cheap in Hungary, and for the first time I felt very rich. Of course this meant we could go to pretty good restaurants too, which was great!
My liver must hate me though. I’ve never had so much alcohol in such a short period in my life. We had investigated beforehand and found out the water is drinkable, but soon learned it tasts like chlorine, so we bought bottles of water. Unfortunately we ran out of them one morning and I had to drink fecking apple cider with my breakfast. Felt like a downright alcoholic. Oh well.
I will try to upload a few pictures soon! We went to the citadel, which is a point on a mountain from which you have a lovely view over the whole city. It was beautiful at night, and I later returned during the day as well, which was still beautiful.
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Just came back from my grandmothers this morning. It was fun, my brother and I started playing Elvis Presley on a record player. I also just woke up from a 2 hour nap, and I’m still really tired
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Offline Welcome back, @Linde and @natureaker!
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