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Jose posted:Have you ever been to the us? My aunt lives in the us; she says it's quite nice
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Ash Crimson posted:My aunt lives in the us; she says it's quite nice Well she's wrong.
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May 30, 2020 21:54
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Ash Crimson posted:My aunt lives in the us; she says it's quite nice Is she white?
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May 30, 2020 21:54
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Tarnop posted:Is she white? No, she's scottish
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May 30, 2020 21:54
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That probably gets you a long way in the US, they go weird for british accents.
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May 30, 2020 21:57
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I go to America all the time (well, used to), and China exactly once for a couple of weeks. Both are terrible. UK, also terrible, I try to avoid there aswell
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May 30, 2020 21:59
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I remember the guy at starbucks telling me how they were bringing 'culture' to the town as a fish and chip shop was opening up nearby. He seemed to think we'd be genuinely impressed or interested in that 
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May 30, 2020 22:02
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OwlFancier posted:That probably gets you a long way in the US, they go weird for british accents. You can't possibly know how an american would react to a british accent that isn't posh
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May 30, 2020 22:03
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Ash Crimson posted:No, she's scottish So like that translucent fish underbelly colour? (This is a joke, I'm sure your aunt is lovely and I'm paler than most Scottish people)
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May 30, 2020 22:03
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https://twitter.com/BalancePowerUK/status/1266837784817532928?s=20 Lmao get hosed.
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May 30, 2020 22:06
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Tarnop posted:So like that translucent fish underbelly colour? She burns in the winter.
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i missed this lol https://twitter.com/BalancePowerUK/status/1266068870328188935?s=20
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May 30, 2020 22:08
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Ash Crimson posted:You can't possibly know how an american would react to a british accent that isn't posh I think they kind of have a different idea of what is and isn't posh over there and most british accents have a sort of novelty.
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Ash Crimson posted:You can't possibly know how an american would react to a british accent that isn't posh I can, they think it's great.
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May 30, 2020 22:10
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Also there's like a 50% chance they can't tell the difference between Scottish and Irish.
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May 30, 2020 22:10
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XMNN posted:love to jump from a cliff into the sea during a pandemic so I end up having to be air anbulanced to a hospital I dunno how 3 people managed to get seriously injured. Surely after idiot #1 jumps and starts screaming in pain from the bottom it would have been a clue for #2 and #3.
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May 30, 2020 22:12
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My friend has a broad Yorkshire accent and was mistaken for German several times in various US states
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OwlFancier posted:Also there's like a 50% chance they can't tell the difference between Scottish and Irish. from the comments ive seen on youtube videos ft scottish comedians, anything past the mildest of accents they can't even recognise as english
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May 30, 2020 22:13
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zhar posted:from the comments ive seen on youtube videos ft scottish comedians, anything past the mildest of accents they can't even recognise as english That too, which in fairness I sometimes struggle with on this weird island where you go one village over and everyone's speaking loving moon language.
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zhar posted:from the comments ive seen on youtube videos ft scottish comedians, anything past the mildest of accents they can't even recognise as english These people struggle with edinburgh accents, god help them if they ever hear anyone start talking doric
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May 30, 2020 22:15
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May 30, 2020 22:18
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Guavanaut posted:Yeah, if you can make yourself into a perfect hydrodynamic cone like an Olympic diver you can manage a lot higher with a lot less chance of injury than if you belly flop. Yeah the video didn't load for me at first, if he's *lucky* that dude's got some broken bones, but he pretty much landed arse-first.
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May 30, 2020 22:18
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Ash Crimson posted:You can't possibly know how an american would react to a british accent that isn't posh I was accused of being Welsh in Las Vegas.
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May 30, 2020 22:21
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Medics say the dude who jumped may live, but only with his rear end as an internal organ
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May 30, 2020 22:21
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reminder that rosie duffield loving sucks https://twitter.com/itvpeston/status/1204872699316600832?s=20
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I was accused of being Welsh in Las Vegas. When I was in Vegas i was asked where in both Canada and Australia I was from.. blunt fucked around with this message at 23:01 on May 30, 2020 |
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May 30, 2020 22:38
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zhar posted:from the comments ive seen on youtube videos ft scottish comedians, anything past the mildest of accents they can't even recognise as english Friend of mine has a cut glass RP British accent and several times has been asked by Egyptians "please speak English" because they're so used to hearing "Egyptian English" (which I lapse into over there - most Egyptians I speak to - shopkeepers, taxi drivers, workmen etc - who do speak English can't understand a regular British accent and as it happens neither can my Italian friend who speaks fluent Arabic and almost no English). (Ed I should point out I do speak Arabic when I can. Most Egyptians assume I'm German and try to speak German with me then we get stuck in conversations with me speaking pidgen Arabic and them speaking pidgen German - quite hard to get out of a morass it's like the brain has an on/off switch for forin speak.) Also, one of my friends with a string Geordie accent was asked to teach spoken English at her kids' school. She declined. But her kids' friends all speak English with Geordie accents. *Friend's kids are half Egyptian. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 23:04 on May 30, 2020 |
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OwlFancier posted:Also there's like a 50% chance they can't tell the difference between Scottish and Irish. blunt posted:When I was in Vegas i was where in both Canada and Australia I was from.. I'm not sure if that's just Southerners picking up something a bit Northern and going 100 miles too north and Northerners picking up something a bit Southern and going 9,500 miles too south or something else. goddamnedtwisto posted:Yeah the video didn't load for me at first, if he's *lucky* that dude's got some broken bones, but he pretty much landed arse-first. I did some back of an envelope maths and figure he hit the water at a speed of just under 75mph and decelerated in the space of a couple of feet of water. David Purley and some NASA guys have survived worse, but they didn't come out of it in a great way.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Also, one of my friends with a string Geordie accent was asked to teach spoken English at her kids' school. She declined. But her kids' friends all speak English with Geordie accents. What a fun trick to play on god. I used to pick up deliveries from washington and one of the guys there was like, the most geordie bloke on the planet, could barely understand a word he said, so I'm definitely in favour of teaching kids that.
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Guavanaut posted:Yeah if he's lucky his pelvis and femurs will save the rest of him, if he's unlucky it'll be his spine or something. I've been avoiding high voltages and power tools while this pandemic is ongoing so I'm not sure what possesses multiple people to do that. It's over Boris said so and that Cummies guy was out having a jolly so why not?
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"the pandemic is over so I'm gonna go jump off a cliff" is dubious logic even if the premise were true, imo.
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Ms Adequate posted:Honestly it's a mild case, just a bit of ache, so that OTC stuff might be sufficient. If they refuse a scrip for something and tell me to jog on I'll get some of that. The OTC stuff should work fine for a mild case, although it's hella expensive for what it is which is a 2% acetic acid solution. Distilled white vinegar is about 5% acetic acid. You could always dilute it to half-strength with an equal amount of boiled water and drop some in your ear twice a day, tilting your head and allowing it to sit for a minute or two before letting it run out. If you decide to use a home remedy, make sure you use distilled (clear) rather than malt vinegar, and don't use if you have any reason to suspect you have a ruptured eardum (you'd know, your hearing would be very bad out of that ear).
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OwlFancier posted:"the pandemic is over so I'm gonna go jump off a cliff" is dubious logic even if the premise were true, imo. Idiots jump off cliffs for thrills all the time tho? Like, cliff diving is a thing. I don't think I've ever heard of anyone doing it off Durdle Door though.
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Tombstoning is a time honoured tradition of Darwinism. It's been popular at Durdle Door for years
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OwlFancier posted:What a fun trick to play on god. Washington are mackems not geordies
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Party Boat posted:Washington are mackems not geordies Given that he always said hello with a very enthusiastic wayeayeman I'm pretty sure he was geordie. He was the only one that sounded like that so I assume he was an expat from like, a colony inside the tyne bridge or something, with his mam being alan shearer and his dad being a puddle of runoff from the newkie brown factory.
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I know someone with a strong Lancashire accent that taught young children in inner London, so you had all these Brazilian/Malaysian/Pakistani kids with northern accents running around and baffling people.
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The next post-apoc zombie movies/shows/games are definitely going to have tattered 'mission accomplished' banners everywhere, with newspaper headlines about how easy the crisis is, and how well our dear leaders are doing. Everyone trying to make it to the fabled safe zone in the ironically named nation of "new Z-Land". Happy Monday just around the corner. We did it, everyone. Now watch this swan dive off a cliff.
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