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[waltjnr 6,550]

Just very well spoken English ,good grammar, that hints that pater plays polo ,and mater likes embroidery, it's all you need ,soon has the peasants listening ! 

[mC HULL 12,105]

36 minutes ago, DIDO.1 said:

Unfortunately kids are loosing their accent in a lot of places. My youngest probably picks part of his accent up from YouTube

speak like yanks don’t they 

[waltjnr 6,550]

Why in little villages in Hertfordshire do I hear spoilt little white kids talking like some north London drill artist??? If that's what they aspire to ,no wonder we're fukced

[dogmandont 9,736]

The wife speaks very good Irish and my lad is starting to get a really good grasp of it whereas I can barely string a sentence together in English. Lol. 

Have friends and family that are fluent in Irish and a good mate that teaches it in the evening. 

[mackem 26,072]

31 minutes ago, chartpolski said:

On a more successful occasion, I was visiting the Freeman hospital in Newcastle and a Fillipina nurse asked me how I was; I replied " mabuti, kumasta ?" 

You smoothie you,you still have style Charts.

my lady speaks perfect French,learnt it at school and work as Quebec is just over the river and they got lots of Gatineau patients.

[paulus 26]

Whilst in basic training with a room full of blokes from all across the UK, Its amazing how many accents you pick up, to the point when you go home people think your a visitor Lol

[dogmandont 9,736]

9 minutes ago, mC HULL said:

speak like yanks don’t they 

Yip. store instead of shop, trash can, garbage, dollars, highway. 

[jukel123 7,957]

22 minutes ago, waltjnr said:

Just very well spoken English ,good grammar, that hints that pater plays polo ,and mater likes embroidery, it's all you need ,soon has the peasants listening ! 

Whats the quotation? Something like," An Englishman has only to open his mouth to have another Englishman despise him".

Ive met 3 old Etonians in my life and they all spoke with the utmost authority, correctness and moral fortitude. They could dominate a meeting with ease. All 3 were grossly incompetent ( no really, its not twisted and bitter me saying that lol) although one was a decent enough bloke. One thing they can do is play cricket. They can bowl like professionals. Intimidating to say the least.

The one thing state schools lack is the ability to instil confidence in kids. Public school pupils have no lack of confidence. Public school kids  are taught they are important and how to speak in public from day one. But confidence is not the same as ability!

[mackem 26,072]

2 minutes ago, dogmandont said:

Yip. store instead of shop, trash can, garbage, dollars, highway. 

I talk like that all the time.

[jukel123 7,957]

1 minute ago, mackem said:

I talk like that all the time.

It would be daft not to if the locals talk like that.

[eastcoast 4,084]

On 13/11/2023 at 13:02, kanny said:

 

Israel said seeking to appoint UK’s Tony Blair as Gaza humanitarian coordinator

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I can see him now, turning up in full Lawrence of Arabia regalia with his plans of introducing new laws to be enforced by NATO or the British armed forces where all factions are to be restricted to using not more than 2 combatants at a time and can only flush the intended target out to be shot or killed using an European Eagle Owl.

[mackem 26,072]

Just now, jukel123 said:

It would be daft not to if the locals talk like that.

I talk like this in the UK,missus is Canadian,sitting in Tim hortons in Ottawa general hospital drinking coffee at the minute,signage is all bilingual.

[chartpolski 23,027]

5 minutes ago, dogmandont said:

Yip. store instead of shop, trash can, garbage, dollars, highway. 

I was living on an American compound and they had one dumpster marked "trash", and one marked "garbage".

I asked the yanks what was the difference and no one could tell me !

Cheers.

[jukel123 7,957]

9 minutes ago, dogmandont said:

The wife speaks very good Irish and my lad is starting to get a really good grasp of it whereas I can barely string a sentence together in English. Lol. 

Have friends and family that are fluent in Irish and a good mate that teaches it in the evening. 

My mam was Irish. She had a lot of bad memories of the English in Ireland, some handed down to her. She swore like a drunken trooper when she was in a bad mood. One of her favourite curses was : f****n English b*****ds". Gave me a bit of a complex. There I was born in England, collecting the cards for the England football, cricket and rugby teams and following the results on the radio and there was my mam calling me a f****n English b*****d by association.

No wonder 'Im a weird old b*****d.

[kanny 20,404]

1 minute ago, eastcoast said:

I can see him now, turning up in full Lawrence of Arabia regalia with his plans of introducing new laws to be enforced by NATO or the British armed forces where all factions are to be restricted to using not more than 2 combatants at a time and can only flush the intended target out to be shot or killed using an European Eagle Owl.

A single combatant can be entered into the Hamas tunnels to locate a terrorist but the combatant must be removed and the terrorist dispatched humanly by a certificate holder .