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My Uni's  It has a neat evaporative cooling system going on in those towers, but they really do look like watchtowers in person.
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jammyozzy posted:My Uni's I keep looking for the optical illusion to break down.
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prefect posted:Does the queen have a distinctly different accent than "normal" UK people? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBRP-o6Q85s 'Mai famili orften gather round to watch te-le-vision...'
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prefect posted:Does the queen have a distinctly different accent than "normal" UK people? This is an incredibly silly question if you have heard the queen speak, or heard anyone British that isn't a 1950s bbc presenter speak. So, no. There are hundreds of British dialects and accents. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_accents_of_English#Great_Britain
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I feel relieved that researchers think there is such a thing as the Standard Southern British accent, I thought it was just me that could only differentiate between south-eastern people's accents if they were either from London or an aristocrat. Everyone else sounds exactly the same.
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The Queen doesn't sound too strange to me, and as my accent is clearly the normal and correct one I'll answer prefect's question with a no.
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She sounds like someone who's spent a lot of time with public-speaking voice coaches. Which she probably has.
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From the If... archives The Press arrives on HMS Indomitable. Mr Kipling continues to be awkward.     The SBS is of course led by Norman Tebbit, who had some famous advice for the unemployed. Not sure who it's supposed to be in the last panel of the week, though. Is it Keith Joseph? It looks disturbingly like Oiky Gove does today...
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prefect posted:Does the queen have a distinctly different accent than "normal" UK people? Insofar as it's an accent mostly associated with inbred toffs and old money. It's called "Received Pronunciation". Her accent has softened somewhat over the years though. Getting into UK accents and dialects is a hole you don't want to be digging. Or should that be, "Gitting into UK ack-senTs hand dialects, is a whill you den't whant to bey degging."
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Pesky Splinter posted:Getting into UK accents and dialects is a hole you don't want to be digging. Or should that be, "Gitting into UK ack-senTs hand dialects, is a whill you den't whant to bey degging." I can't help it; I find them fascinating. 
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Hasn't ARE KATE been coached to speak all royal-like too? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjTT1uBRG0M&t=113s I can't really remember what she sounded like before, but I don't remember that rigid clenched-teeth 'air hair lair there' affectation
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prefect posted:I can't help it; I find them fascinating. I actually misread what you put as "normal UK accent", so ignore me.  BastardySkull's link pretty much covers all the differing accent stuff. baka kaba posted:Hasn't ARE KATE been coached to speak all royal-like too? I think so. She still sounded fairly posh before, though (assuming she's not putting that on): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYVrJLoM0Ac
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Yeah this is was on one of your related videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PNpcQ95XZs&t=54s She sounds completely normal there, I guess her handlers have been working on moulding her into a true aristocrat and all the pretentious accent that goes with it. Can't have the royal family sounding like the commoners now can we? This is the best Wikipedia page by the way https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhotic_and_non-rhotic_accents Check out the phoneme mergers (where accents lose the differentiation between certain sounds, so some words end up being pronounced identically) - see where you fall!
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Weldon Pemberton posted:I feel relieved that researchers think there is such a thing as the Standard Southern British accent, I thought it was just me that could only differentiate between south-eastern people's accents if they were either from London or an aristocrat. Everyone else sounds exactly the same. What about Kent, Essex, East Sussex/Eastbourne etc? They're all pretty distinct accents.
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Guardian: Martin Rowson on Obama and Syria. US says it will provide military aid to rebels after confirming for first time that it has evidence of nerve gas use. Telegraph:  Indy:  All on the subject of Obama and Syria. Syria: what is on the other side of Barack Obama's red line? It is still unclear whether the use of chemical weapons by Bashar al-Assad's regime will lead to a significant shift in policy. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/14/syria-barack-obama-chemical-weapons Obama's half-hearted push into Syria. You can't please all the people all the time. But sometimes you can disappoint most of them. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22900710 Barack Obama is leading from behind in Syria - and can't see where he is going. Some wars you choose, but some wars choose you. Was there ever better illustration of this oft-repeated wisdom than Syria's slow sucking in of President Barack Obama? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...e-is-going.html How Obama crossed his own line on Syria after months of debate. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/15/us-usa-syria-obama-idUSBRE95E02G20130615 Obama's Serious Syrian Straddle Threatens His Own Strategy. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-bradley/obama-syria-weapons_b_3442818.html Take your pick! No Stephen Collins uploaded yet but it will be soon. 
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That telegraph is so good, especially with one guy literally saying "TANKS I NEED TANKS AND ANTI-TANK WEAPONS OBAMA"
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Fluo posted:Indy: The Indy art parody's pretty wide of the mark this time. Also: 
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That one rebel's the cutest thing ever. He REALLY wants that tank, dammit! :3
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Observer: "Boudica rides out - Chris Riddell on the party leadership ambitions of the Home Secretary" Sunday Telegraph:  Syria's on the agenda at the next G8 meeting; Tony Robinson has been knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours list. Independent on Sunday:  Obama and Syria.
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Trin Tragula posted:
The final panel is Rhodes Boyson, I think, a Conservative Education minister from 1979-1983 who fought to allow schools to keep using the cane. He was always on the news afterwards whenever an "exams have gotten easier" story was running. So quite similar to Govey then.
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Ichabod Sexbeast posted:That one rebel's the cutest thing ever. He REALLY wants that tank, dammit! :3 I was going to say this It's like the most disappointing Christmas ever!
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Guardian: Telegraph:  Indy:  Express:  Putin looks like some kind of goblin elf hybrid.  All of them a part from the Indy seem to be about the 8G summit. G8 Northern Ireland summit: Syria set to top agenda. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22930266 Syria crisis set to dominate G8 summit. • Putin chastises the west over arming Syrian rebels. • Large explosion at a military airport in Damascus. • Jihadists secure anti-aircraft guns. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/middle-east-live/2013/jun/17/syria-crisis-to-dominate-g81 G8 summit begins: Vladimir Putin accuses David Cameron of betraying humanitarian values by supporting Syrian rebels. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...ls-8661048.html The Independent cartoon today seems to be about Iran's election. Hassan Rouhani wins Iran presidential election. Reformist-backed cleric Hassan Rouhani has won Iran's presidential election, securing just over 50% of the vote and so avoiding the need for a run-off. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22916174 Also have a funny news video about Putin (was posted today). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmSalkUxvKE Fluo fucked around with this message at 13:35 on Jun 17, 2013 |
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Jun 17, 2013 13:08
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Ah, yes, David Cameron there with his trademark ginger hair. E: also, goddamn the bird is huge this week, you can just barely see the edges of its wings at the bottom of the frame.
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That is a god-awful Putin. If it wasn't titled, I would honestly struggle to identify the two men.
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Putin looks like Thomas has recoloured Prince Charles and put him in a suit.
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Whybird posted:E: also, goddamn the bird is huge this week, you can just barely see the edges of its wings at the bottom of the frame. And the fox is on the flower pot.
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Pretty sure he was joking about the bird. Its actually the two owls carved into the fire place.
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Guardian: The G8 summit continues. Telegraph:  The G8 summit continues. Independent:  The G8 summit continues. Express: 
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How can anyone like the Royal family as much as the Express cartoonist? The Royal family are a bunch of charisma black holes that leach off the state and provide nothing of value but this guy acts as if their day to day activities are hilarious and in any way endearing.
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Cloud Potato posted:Telegraph: "Hmm, I'm not sure my readers will know who these two are. I know, I'll put their countries' emblems on their shirts like they're footballers or something, that'll do."
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Stottie Kyek posted:"Hmm, I'm not sure my readers will know who these two are. I know, I'll put their countries' emblems on their shirts like they're footballers or something, that'll do." Nice to see Dave wearing an EU shirt though!
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Stottie Kyek posted:"Hmm, I'm not sure my readers will know who these two are. I know, I'll put their countries' emblems on their shirts like they're footballers or something, that'll do." How the gently caress are we supposed to know what the Italian PM looks like if we're back to the olden days of them having a new one every year?
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Koesj posted:How the gently caress are we supposed to know what the Italian PM looks like if we're back to the olden days of them having a new one every year? Italians have Prime Ministers? But in school we learnt 
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Doesn't Italy use a king?
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quote:Doesn't Italy use a king? Italians should use a king - the 1946 referendum which abolished the monarchy was blatantly and shamelessly cooked and a last bitter Fascist parting shot to the Allies, and it only passed because Umberto was too honourable for his own good. That's a topic for another thread, though. In any case, having a monarchy doesn't stop a country from having a Prime Minister - see, for example, the UK itself! quote:Independent: Is there, I dunno, a topic to this, or in the absence of anything to talk about regarding the conference is it just falling back on old killalltories.jpg audience comforters? If the summit was being held in Paris would we see Putin gnawing on Hollande's pancreas? I'm no fan of Rowson but at least his Guardian cartoon posted above is trying to insinuate something about the UK's relationships. This Indy cartoon seems completely pointless. kapparomeo fucked around with this message at 15:49 on Jun 18, 2013 |
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Putin made a crack at the Syrian rebels being cannibal organ eaters because of a video showing a rebel licking a human heart.
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That's still very vague and confused and hardly relevant, though. Now that the cartoon shows Putin as a cannibal organ-eater, has he done a volte-face and declared support for the FSA? If it's suggesting Putin's powerful and dominating the UK, it's the wrong image to use when the cannibal organ-eaters have been on the backfoot in Syria after a recent string of defeats. Why are the other leaders even there? Why are none of them chowing down? Regardless of who's spread like Prometheus on the summit there (and considering that Prometheus was spitefully crucified by the gods for advancing mankind, it's suggesting that Cameron is an unjustly and nobly suffering hero and I doubt the Indy's readership would like that), it's a bad cartoon. kapparomeo fucked around with this message at 16:04 on Jun 18, 2013 |
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Cloud Potato posted:Telegraph: This guy's opinions vary from banal to lovely but he's not bad as a cartoonist, he's often able to amuse me somewhat which is a rare talent in a political cartoonist. I'm not sure what the intended message is but I like the image of Abe sitting at the side rolling his eyes at the wacky antics of his fellow world leaders.
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Gonzo McFee posted:How can anyone like the Royal family as much as the Express cartoonist? The Royal family are a bunch of charisma black holes that leach off the state and provide nothing of value but this guy acts as if their day to day activities are hilarious and in any way endearing. Not everyone is a Scottish nationalist. Me, I dislike the Express cartoons because they're terrible.
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Ah yes if you hate the Royal Family you must be a Scottish nationalist. Not just a.. you know. Republican.
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