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finn17

New member
Not you....

Dopey...:D

I said there was a possibility of a \'great mind\'....

We know you\'re the other one already:D
 

Rab

Member
Originally posted by finn17
Dopey...:D

I said there was a possibility of a \'great mind\'....

We know you\'re the other one already:D

You can\'t possibly mean me. I had a great mind once, but I swapped it for a shiny badge, a cowboy hat and a toy train. Now all I\'ve got is a hamster in a wheel and a head full of fluff.

Rab.
 
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spike_92

Guest
Originally posted by Rab
Originally posted by finn17
The English language is infuriating. I say this as an English teacher....

It propagates however, by being open ended...

New word..? Fine... just add it to the English vocabulary...

Other languages are much easier to learn/teach but most of them seemed to have closed their doors some years ago. \'Computer\' is \'computer\' in most languages.....

The biggest problem with English is that words don\'t always mean what they say....There is a lot of emphasis on the non verbal content, inflection, tone etc which is easily missed by the non-native speaker.

eg \"I like your dress\" Can mean the opposite of, \"I like your dress\". It depends upon the context and how you say it.....

The fact that English has Latin grammar rules applied to it doesn\'t help either. How daft is that? Ooh, we\'ve got a language based on Old Saxon (Germanic) with large a Norman (French) vocabulary, but we\'ll use Latin grammar.

Don\'t split infinitives, never end a sentence in a preposition as Churchill said \"This is the type of English, up with which I will not put\".

Still don\'t see the need for gender in language though, I can never remember which object is \"le\" and which is \"la\".

Rab.

Ya....Im\'a seeing wat ur sayin\'but of course, not everyboddy follows them\' rules;):D;)
 

finn17

New member
Christ..you were lucky...

Originally posted by Rab
I had a great mind once, but I swapped it for a shiny badge, a cowboy hat and a toy train. Now all I\'ve got is a hamster in a wheel and a head full of fluff.

Rab.
All I got were three dodgy beans...

Mind you, they are getting quite tall....:wow:
 
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Warworks

Guest
English is the language of lunatics.

Three (or more) languages crammed together by convenience and ignorance, ruled by the grammar of a dead language, with a dictionary that encompasses so many words that people who speak different dialects only understand enough to confuse and insult each other.

Of course, I wouldn\'t speak anything else...but that\'s only because everything else is so simple by comparison that I couldn\'t...:D
 

vincegamer

Active member
Originally posted by finn17
Avon \'Skin so Soft\'...I kid you not....:D
I suppose that\'s better than what the Mohawk Indians used to do back in European Colonial days:
Rub pig fat over your body.
 

vincegamer

Active member
This bit reminds me of a role playing game I once played involving time travel.
One guy played someone from the \"Cyberpunk\" future and liked to use the slang from the books.
I played a guy from 1924 usa who liked to use all of the \"gangster\" slang of his day. He and I had enormous conversations in which neither understood a word the other was saying lol


Originally posted by Rab
Originally posted by ipaintminis
yeah i guess it does tend to suck when your new at the language...or when you just get old...

cuz u git da slizang all up in the hizzle, y\'all just cant brush yer sholdas off.

Aye, yer right enough wee yin. Aw this modern slang\'s fair got ma heid burlin so it hus, a dinnae ken whit the wurlds cumin tae. Tell ye whit though a\'m gled it\'s no sae dreich noo is it wis, peltin doon so it wis.

How\'s that for slang? One of the benefits of being Scottish, making yourself unintelligble to non-scots (and sometimes other Scots too) :)

Rab.
 

supervike

Super Moderator
skin so soft...

we have been using that skin so soft stuff for years, but to ward away mosquitos....never occured to me to use it against bees/wasps/ilk.....

My work takes me to alot of wasp and hornet nests, sometimes while I am strapped to a ladder 25 feet above the ground. I think I will give that a go....
 
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Warworks

Guest
Originally posted by supervike
we have been using that skin so soft stuff for years, but to ward away mosquitos....never occured to me to use it against bees/wasps/ilk.....

My work takes me to alot of wasp and hornet nests, sometimes while I am strapped to a ladder 25 feet above the ground. I think I will give that a go....

what on Earth do you do for a living?
 

vincegamer

Active member
Originally posted by Greymane
always had a thing about hornets after seeing this film as a kid


mysteriousisland4.jpg


:eek:
and for bonus points which film is it ?

If I\'m not mistaken, that is \"The Mysterious Island\" based on the Jules Verne book sitting on the shelf above my computer. My wife plays a character from that book on a MUD.
 

supervike

Super Moderator
Originally posted by Warworks

what on Earth do you do for a living?

i am a mongoose milker...lol

Actually, I work on telephone lines, installing t1\'s and special circuits. Some of the areas I work in have all aerial telephone cable, so up I go. The terminals sometimes have all kinds of nasty surprises, the aerial ones have wasps or birds nests, the ones on the ground have mice and sometimes snakes....sometimes they just have phone wires, which is preferable!!lol
 

LouisCypher

New member
just killed 3 enormous hornets in my room: it was dark and i was falling asleep when i heard
BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

no piety for those killers! lol

Luca
 

DennisMech

New member
Originally posted by LouisCypher
no piety for those killers! lol
Luca

For some strange reason I don\'t think you meant that the hornets where lacking in reverence for god. I think pity was what you meant, unless you\'re in a witch-hunter mood and want to get rid of those damned heretic hornets lol

Yesterday, I was talking to a hobo with a friend of mine when a wasp landed on my arm. After reading through this thread I froze, fearing it would sting my neck and fly up into my shirt. The moment it lifted slightly away I leaped back, surprising the man i was talking to. The wasp was angered though, and I was forced to cavort around trying to avoid it\'s wrath as my friend and the bum tried to continue their conversation...

Damn I hate wasps...
 

Fizl

Secret Crocodile
I\'m sure you\'ve all read my wasp story on here somewhere already, but for those who haven\'t :

When I was about 10 or 11 I had a wasp flyonto my head and crawl into my left ear. I freaked out like a lunatic running round and round the park screaming with a horrible buzz running through my head. I was eventually caught and held down, but no-one could get the wasp out (It had crawled down to my ear drum more or less). 20 hellish minutes later it backed out by itself.

I would just like to mention I don\'t like wasps anymore, and anything buzzing round my head freaks me out.

I now buy this stuff called wasp away which you spray on your self before you go out. Seems to work ok but you have to top itup every few hours.

Shaz
 

ipaintminis

Active member
that happened to a friend of mine once

they put this flashlight up to her ear, and the waspy was attracted to the light, and just flew out.
 

finn17

New member
If only....

Originally posted by Fizl
I now buy this stuff called \'wasp away\'.....
...some one could market an effective \'idiot away\' product. Now that would be worth re-applying every few hours:flip:
 

Fizl

Secret Crocodile
I could really do with some of that! I think I could market idiot attraction pheromones :D

Shaz
 
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col kurtz

Guest
I had a bad wasp experience. Must have been 6 or 7, and was watching Playschool on TV one late summer (Brian Cant probably). A wasp crawled up my shorts to my behind................you can imagine the rest:eek::eek::(

Needless to say could never watch Playschool again
 
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