ironchimp
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Post by ironchimp on Jun 16, 2014 12:28:48 GMT -5
haha i just realised there are West Indian, English, South African, and Australian accents in those clips. It will do you good to hear how English is supposed to be spoken.
ok ok - Cricket is a commonthwealth game but everyone would love to play rugby and cricket against the USA. It's just one of life's frustrations that USA sport developed in its own tangent to the rest of us.
here's a nice little documentary about the USA's most remarkable victory over England in sport.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2014 12:30:40 GMT -5
haha i just realised there are West Indian, English, South African, and Australian accents in those clips. It will do you good to hear how English is supposed to be spoken. I ain't never gawn need no advice from y'all 'bout how to tawk. |
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Post by ironchimp on Jun 16, 2014 12:46:13 GMT -5
I thought the south was the place where every southern beauty was conspiring to murder her husband, the fat sheriff of the local town. damn you made for tv erotic thrillers
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2014 12:50:56 GMT -5
I thought the south was the place where every southern beauty was conspiring to murder her husband, the fat sheriff of the local town. damn you made for tv erotic thrillers Spot-on, pretty much, except of course that her husband is also her brother &/or father. I suppose that goes without saying, though. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 16, 2014 12:56:58 GMT -5
ahhh...Swamp Noir. What a great literary sub-genre.
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Post by ironchimp on Jun 16, 2014 13:00:33 GMT -5
urgh i need to go to USA again. it's one of the easiest most relaxed places to go as an english person. the perfect place for a chill out.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2014 13:00:38 GMT -5
ahhh...Swamp Noir. What a great literary sub-genre. 'Round here, we call it "gossip." |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2014 13:01:44 GMT -5
Speaking of which, Slam, have you seen True Detective? Swamp Noir to a T, or I guess I should say an S & an N.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 16, 2014 13:03:59 GMT -5
Speaking of which, Slam, have you seen True Detective? Swamp Noir to a T, or I guess I should say an S & an N. I haven't. I don't have HBO. And I honestly don't have time to watch all the tv and movies I'd like to watch that I have easy access too. So I don't get it through surreptitious means. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2014 13:08:29 GMT -5
urgh i need to go to USA again. it's one of the easiest most relaxed places to go as an english person. the perfect place for a chill out. I ain't sure we want your kind around here. Actually, when I was growing up, an older lady in town, Mrs. Martin (or maybe I should say "Miz," since I don't know if she'd ever been married), used to own a spider monkey. When she would drive around town, the monkey -- Paddy (or maybe Patty) -- would ride perched on the outside, holding onto the passenger's side window. She lived in a small, beat-up, unpainted old house near one of the yards I used to mow in my teens for pocket money. She seemed odd enough anyway for the time, since she always wore what appeared to be men's pants, which was pretty unusual back in the '60s. Hadn't heard about it till last month when I joined a Facebook group devoted to memories of the town & caught up on about 3 years of back posts, but apparently the monkey nearly bit off some neighbor lady's finger one day. The monkey was friends with a goat who lived nearby, & apparently its head got caught in a fence. When the woman tried to extract its head, the monkey thought she was attacking its friend & took violent exception. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2014 13:09:48 GMT -5
Speaking of which, Slam, have you seen True Detective? Swamp Noir to a T, or I guess I should say an S & an N. I haven't. I don't have HBO. And I honestly don't have time to watch all the tv and movies I'd like to watch that I have easy access too. So I don't get it through surreptitious means. The 8 episodes just came out on 3 discs, & I got through watching them Saturday via Netflix. I don't have cable, period, much less HBO. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 16, 2014 13:13:29 GMT -5
I haven't. I don't have HBO. And I honestly don't have time to watch all the tv and movies I'd like to watch that I have easy access too. So I don't get it through surreptitious means. The 8 episodes just came out on 3 discs, & I got through watching them Saturday via Netflix. I don't have cable, period, much less HBO. Gotcha. My Netflix disc watching is taken up mostly by movies the fam wants to watch. If I were a spinster like you I may well have seen it by now. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2014 13:20:51 GMT -5
Now, now -- "spinster" connotes someone who's never married, whereas I can point to 2 women whom I managed to finagle into marriage before they came to their senses. (Though wife No. 2 is now on husband No. 5, which tells me I was part of a pattern of behavior ... No. 1 has had only 3 husbands.)
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Post by Action Ace on Jun 16, 2014 13:22:15 GMT -5
I thought the south was the place where every southern beauty was conspiring to murder her husband, the fat sheriff of the local town. damn you made for tv erotic thrillers It's also the area of the country that has the most people of British ancestry. You and Dan could be cousins eight generations back. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2014 13:29:41 GMT -5
I'm Irish* via 3 of my 4 grandparents, FWIW. (The 4th was Jewish by way of, I guess, Germany, though I have no idea when his forebears came over & settled in the Philadelphia area.)
*Scotch-Irish, I gather, as I know of no Catholics in my lineage, though I guess that's also in keeping with standard Southern geneaology or whatever.
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