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Yowie wrote in news:iuqqu3$6m2$2@dont-
email.me: Australian slang is full of rhyming slang, perhaps because Australian slang is mostly a descendant of the working class dialects of the UK & Ireland. Yowie also the aussies dont take themsleves too serioulyG |
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Ever since reading this thread I've been having the earworms "I Have a
Luv-er-ly Bunch of Coconuts" and "Get Me To The Church On Time". ; -- Hugs, CatNipped See all our masters at: http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped See the RPCA FAQ site, created by "Yowie", maintained by Mark Edwards, at: http://www.professional-geek.net/rpcablog/ Email: L(dot)T(dot)Crews(at)comcast(dot)net "Lesley" wrote in message ... On Jul 2, 11:01 am, hopitus wrote: K". You and I would get along fine in RL. I understand East Ender. I had one laugh yesterday sort of...I'd stopped in the "Bells" and 2 American ladies came in first of all they weren't too happy as they thought Bow Church was the one that you had to be born within hearing of to be considered Cockney- it's actually St Mary Le Bow in the city so I directed them then they started asking us all if were cockney what did it mean to be cockney? Aaron said he was born in Bow but we didn't all use rhythming slang and as I walked past for a laugh I said "Aaron! Go up the Apples!" so the next thing I;ve got these 2 ladies assuming I am an authetic cockney and no amount of explaning that I was born in Romford worked then they said there's no history around here... I took them outside.... the "Bells" is about 200 feet from the first act of violence by a suffragette just standing out there I can see that and am near the site of a convent mentioned in Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales"- the infamous red handed Gladstone statue is in sight but the real story is on the other side of the road and the memorial plaque is there. Cross the road and the turning on your left is Fairfield Road where they used to have fair but it was stopped for licentious behavour (possibly to the modern Mayfair) and about half way down now relabelled "Bow Quarter" is the old Bryant and Mays' match factory where the famous match girls strike took place ....I could have shown them the meeting place of the first London Co- Operative food store but it;s currently under scaffolding In the end they almost wanted to come back and hire me as a tour guide.... but after all the things I told them when I mentioned the Minnie Lansbury clock they asked "Is she related to Angela Lansbury" (Sort of Minnie was her grandfathers first wife when the clock needed work done she put £5K or so into the fund) and shot off to take photos Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furball |
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Joy typed: "Yowie" wrote in message ... On 3/07/2011 10:04 AM, wrote: hopitus wrote: On Jul 2, 4:18 pm, wrote: *snippity* But when people confuse American *policy* with American *people*, and start critisizing or making fun of us as individuals, I really bristle at that. How is that different from any other prejudice? We aren't all alike, any more than members of any ethnic or national or racial group are all alike. You are right, Joyce, blaming individuals for the actions that their country undertook is a form of racism, although its darn hard not to, sometimes. The USA is a democratic country. The people who make the decisions about what *America* does was elected by *Americans*. Therefore, the actions of America cannot be entirely decoupled from 'the will of the people' (even if you personally disagree with those actions). I'd love to chat with you some time about it all, but not in a public forum. Its too sensitive a subject, and we'd be relying a lot on the fact that we're friends and wouldn't say things with the intent to hurt or to troll. This sort of stuff could easily be taken *way* out of context. Feel free to e-mail me, though. Yowie Theoretically you're right about the actions of the government reflecting 'the will of the people'. However, politicians often promise one thing to get elected, then do another. Also, lately, elected 'representatives' of both our major parties seem much more interested in defeating anything the other party proposes than they are in serving the people they were elected to serve. Its not a problem that is unique to the USA :-) Whilst I do actually know some politicians are truly trying to do the best for the people they represent, the 'major players' seem to be most interested in either staying in, or getting in, to power, and therefore will say or do things that they believe will get them there. I really get annoyed at oppositiion simply for the sake of opposing - and it takes a brave person to go against the "party line" and stand for what their electorate believes. I have great admiration for politicians who stick to their guns, knowing that by doing so, they'll lose their seat in the next election. I think that seperates genuine people who are trying to make a difference for their country/state/shire and career politicians. In this computerised age, I wonder whether the whole idea of *representative* democracy isn't outdated, and we should go with *direct* democracy - with all citizens allowed to have 1 vote per tabled item. That could prove... interesting. It certianly would eleminate the oddity that the majority of people voted for political party X, but due to the way in which the country is divided into electorates, party Y got to form government! I do agree that political arguments can get out of hand. My first, and once favourite, newsgroup was ruined by just that. Certainly don't want to do that here. RPCA is the last active NG I have. All other NGs I used to read have either been abandoned to the spam, trolls and ranters or simply now archives of what was once a thriving and active community. That Usenet is beign carried by less and less ISPs really suggests that Usenet on the whole will become something akin to steam trains - enthusiasts will continue to enjoy the hobby of 'Usenet' and keep a small but significant part maintained, but it certainly won't be the dominating technology ever again. At the moment, that is Facebook, IMHO, and I know a lot of you are already there (as well as here) but Facebook will go the way of Myspace and whatever there was before that... and it will be left to amateur enthusiasts to keep its remnants alive. Yowie (ah, thread drift, thats something you don't get on Facebook!) |
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hopitus typed: On Jul 3, 4:33 pm, Yowie wrote: On 4/07/2011 1:03 AM, CatNipped wrote: wrote in message ... On 3/07/2011 8:47 AM, CatNipped wrote: I can't imagine what it must be like to live in a place of such history - any longer than a couple of centuries' worth. You, like I, live in a country with many thousands of years of human history. Its just not Western history. Yowie Got me there! ; And it's more an oral history than a written one. And seeing that I'm part native American I shouldn't have made that gaff to being with!shame faced You are a smart chickadee - how about finding out more about that NA part of yourself? Yowie I can see that neither Lori nor Evelyn have clubbed in any raves lately. There are some up-to-the-minute stuff you just can't google up the right answer to, LOL. Did you get rid of your lurge, Yowie? Mostly gone. Still have a nose that gets blocked a lot and my right ear still doesn't feel right. But I no longer feel like the walking dead - thanks for asking. As for clubbing in raves... no thanks. Much prefer going out to see live bands these days, especially since many bands of my 'youf' have reached the commerically advantageous conclusion that there are a whole heap of 'old geezers' like me who are quite prepared to pay to go relive their 'youf' again, regardless of whether said band would be viable in today's music industry or not. Ok, so the dreamboats of mine from 'the day' have lost their hair and developed a paunch. And they can't hit the really high notes they once used to. And they have gold bands on their left ring finger and just want to go back their hotel room to sleep rather than 'indulge' the gropies[1], but I don't care. I'm finally seeing the live bands that I was either too young or too poor (or both) to see when I was younger, and am loving every moment of it. I am also going to a "Grease Sing-A-Long", where the crowd dresses up in 50's gear, they play Grease the movie, and we sing to all the songs. I reckon its going to be an *awesome* night of fun. And how can anyone of my age *not* know hte words from Grease???? Yowie [1] That was a typo for 'groupies' but thought it was a perfect freudian slip so left it :-) |
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"john sumner" wrote in message
0... Yowie wrote in news:iuqqu3$6m2$2@dont- email.me: Australian slang is full of rhyming slang, perhaps because Australian slang is mostly a descendant of the working class dialects of the UK & Ireland. Yowie also the aussies dont take themsleves too serioulyG Right. That's one of the things I love about them. Joy |
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On 2011-07-03, EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote:
... "Roman Candles" are hand held, and shoot out colored balls of flame. Beware the dreaded roman candle backfire that burns a hole in your new bluejeans and raises the rath of Mother. Bud |
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Jack Campin wrote: From the description on that plaque, the buildings you're looking at behind the tourists in that picture, including Bobby's Bar, are exactly on the spot where the prisoners were held. I wonder if people pose for their pictures like that in front of Auschwitz? Given the crass and tasteless nature of much of the human race, these days, I wouldn't be a bit surprised! (Especially when you consider that there are some who claim the Holocaust never happened.) |
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"Yowie" wrote in message
... Yowie (ah, thread drift, thats something you don't get on Facebook!) And it can be *SO* interesting. I just can't get "into" Facebook. It's just too "public" for "private" conversation. And yes, I know that Usenet is too, but there is at least the illusion of privacy and genuine friendship here - I've "known" so many people here for so many years that I feel I know them better than some people I know in RL. -- Hugs, CatNipped See all our masters at: http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped See the RPCA FAQ site, created by "Yowie", maintained by Mark Edwards, at: http://www.professional-geek.net/rpcablog/ Email: L(dot)T(dot)Crews(at)comcast(dot)net |
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"Yowie" wrote in message
... gropies[1], Yowie [1] That was a typo for 'groupies' but thought it was a perfect freudian slip so left it :-) Classic! -- Hugs, CatNipped See all our masters at: http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped See the RPCA FAQ site, created by "Yowie", maintained by Mark Edwards, at: http://www.professional-geek.net/rpcablog/ Email: L(dot)T(dot)Crews(at)comcast(dot)net |
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