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Lord Ellpus
 
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Reply Thu 4 Jan, 2007 05:38 am
the prince wrote:
Lord Ellpus wrote:


Secretly, we love each other to death, really.


Sometimes we do openly as well :wink:


Now don't go exciting me like that, G.

I've just got my avatar back to normal.
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Thu 4 Jan, 2007 07:48 am
dadpad wrote:

Many Australians have a negetive impression of Americans. I judge on a person to person basis.

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Secretly, we love each other to death, really

Shocked we do? news to me!


I agree with Dadpad's take on this. Its a bit naive to make sweeping statements about loving one another. Many Brits are dismayed to find residual hostility from people who in their view should automatically be 'mates' because of history. Everyone's history is different.

Personally I have no pre conceived views. We are all human beings, living in a shrinking world. Aussie 'Merican Brit Scot German French Iraqi mean nothing to me.
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Lord Ellpus
 
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Reply Thu 4 Jan, 2007 07:55 am
Steve 41oo wrote:
dadpad wrote:

Many Australians have a negetive impression of Americans. I judge on a person to person basis.

Quote:
Secretly, we love each other to death, really

Shocked we do? news to me!


I agree with Dadpad's take on this. Its a bit naive to make sweeping statements about loving one another.


Absolutely!

We should all be gravely serious about what we post at all times.

Well said!
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Thu 4 Jan, 2007 08:00 am
well didnt mean to sound pompous

But people do jump to conclusions...I've been guilty of it myself



once I think. a long time ago.
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Piffka
 
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Reply Thu 4 Jan, 2007 09:18 am
dadpad wrote:
dadpad wrote:
Its rhyming slang tth. are you a "Yank"?

Never mind Mt Rainer Washington state


???

Definitely, Mt. Rainier is not a yank... and Washington state is so far left that we're apparently not completely attached to the North American continent, a little like Vancouver Island. To me, that's a good thing.
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Thu 4 Jan, 2007 09:29 am
Piffka wrote:
dadpad wrote:
dadpad wrote:
Its rhyming slang tth. are you a "Yank"?

Never mind Mt Rainer Washington state


???

Definitely, Mt. Rainier is not a yank... and Washington state is so far left that we're apparently not completely attached to the North American continent, a little like Vancouver Island. To me, that's a good thing.
Washington is a socialist state? Blimey I had no idea. How do you feel about the demise of the USSR?...even more isolated I should think. :wink:
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Dorothy Parker
 
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Reply Thu 4 Jan, 2007 10:25 am
tryingtohelp wrote:
dadpad wrote:
dadpad wrote:
Its rhyming slang tth. are you a "Yank"?

Never mind Mt Rainer Washington state


You say it like it is a bad thing.


Don't fret, the imaginative usage of the rhyming slang (that only silly Cockerney people use btw) no matter how unpleasant, in no way defines or has any relation to the word it is being used to describe.

If you know wot I meeeeeeeeeen.

I, myself prefer actual rhyming slang, for example: -

Whistle and Suit - Suit
Boat Face - Face
Apples and Stairs - Stairs
Tom Jewellery - Jewellrey

This is much simpler.
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Piffka
 
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Reply Thu 4 Jan, 2007 10:28 am
Oh Steve... left is relative! Very Happy

I prefer to think of us as not holding on to the patriarchal leadership of the rest of this country. We're the only state with women in both Senate seats and a woman governor. The minimum wage in Washington is the highest in the country, now at $7.93 an hour (vs. the Fed's $5.15). Our neighbor to the south, Oregon -- also a left-leaner, has the next highest, at $7.80.

Check out http://faculty.washington.edu/gregoryj/laborpress/ if you want to know Washington's radical history... once referred to as the "Soviet of Washington." Mostly, the consensus is that Washington has very strong unions and doesn't put up with a lot of nonsense from the east coast (or Europe or the rest of the world, for that matter)... witness the WTO riots in Seattle. This state is filled with high-minded idealists and kowtows as much to our tribes as to the leadership in D.C. Are we socialists or just unwilling to buy into capitalism run amok?


About the USSR... is the world better now for having not just one large country with nukes, but a whole host of crazed small countries, each with their own small share of the nuclear arsenal? Is Russia, with Putin leading, bribery rampant and gangsters in charge, a good place? Is the stew in the pot better than the soup in the crock? No-goodniks, all.
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Lord Ellpus
 
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Reply Thu 4 Jan, 2007 10:28 am
Dorothy Parker wrote:
tryingtohelp wrote:
dadpad wrote:
dadpad wrote:
Its rhyming slang tth. are you a "Yank"?

Never mind Mt Rainer Washington state


You say it like it is a bad thing.


Don't fret, the imaginative usage of the rhyming slang (that only silly Cockerney people use btw) no matter how unpleasant, in no way defines or has any relation to the word it is being used to describe.

If you know wot I meeeeeeeeeen.

I, myself prefer actual rhyming slang, for example: -

Whistle and Suit - Suit
Boat Face - Face
Apples and Stairs - Stairs
Tom Jewellery - Jewellrey

This is much simpler.


DP.....the above mentioned rhyming slangs (although you've typed several incorrectly) are, actually, "silly" Cockney in origin.

The slang that Dadpad was using is an Australian version.
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Dorothy Parker
 
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Reply Thu 4 Jan, 2007 10:29 am
Shaaaaht aaaaahhhp you silly Cockerney.
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Lord Ellpus
 
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Reply Thu 4 Jan, 2007 10:30 am
Dorothy Parker wrote:
Shaaaaht aaaaahhhp you silly Cockerney.


....and WE never use it....it's SOOOOO yesterday.
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Dorothy Parker
 
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Reply Thu 4 Jan, 2007 10:31 am
Only messin GD.

:wink:

Thank you for pointing out my errors in the fine art of rhyming slang.

xxx
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Dorothy Parker
 
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Reply Thu 4 Jan, 2007 10:32 am
Lord Ellpus wrote:
Dorothy Parker wrote:
Shaaaaht aaaaahhhp you silly Cockerney.


....and WE never use it....it's SOOOOO yesterday.


Well, you know what? I think you should use it more. I find it most amusing.

Very Happy
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Lord Ellpus
 
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Reply Thu 4 Jan, 2007 10:40 am
Dorothy Parker wrote:
Only messin GD.

:wink:
xxx


I know that, GD. I was kidding back.

To be serious, we never hear it anymore....oh, hang on, me dog is attempting to have a Barclays. That means it's time for a ball of chalk, so I'd better put on me daisies and find me titfer.
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Dorothy Parker
 
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Reply Thu 4 Jan, 2007 10:46 am
Dogs can Barclays? ? I never knew that.
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Clary
 
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Reply Thu 4 Jan, 2007 10:47 am
Ellpus's dog put the barc in barclay's.
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Dorothy Parker
 
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Reply Thu 4 Jan, 2007 10:47 am
I know someone who put the turd in Saturday.

Hi Clary x
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Lord Ellpus
 
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Reply Thu 4 Jan, 2007 10:49 am
Dorothy Parker wrote:
I know someone who put the turd in Saturday.

Hi Clary x


I know someone who put the **** in S-c-unthorpe as well.
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Dorothy Parker
 
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Reply Thu 4 Jan, 2007 10:51 am
probably the same person.
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Steve 41oo
 
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Reply Thu 4 Jan, 2007 10:51 am
Hey thats really funny...was going to point out that a Lincolnshire town by the sea beginning Sc..had an unfortunate spelling...but A2K censors would not allow the name.
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