Hypno's "no more boom or bust" diary

Nargleblast

By eck as like! What a scattered lot we are, and yet the wonders of the Internet mean we can talk to each other in nearly real time......

savingholmes

north west for me -and it is cold today!

Really well done urg on getting £50!

hypno - hope your family do well in the sking!

Shaun really well done on the sale!

benbenandme

True southener reporting for duty, 100m from the south coast here

InaPickle

shaun40400 wrote: »

HM DUBLIN ACCENTS....like
malahide or dublin 4,,,so awfully posh here daaaarrrrling,,,,,very english!!
or do you mean the real accents,,,,like clondalkin or fingals or sheriff street :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:


i brought 24 mixed eastern Europeans,over to Ireland 9yrs ago,,,most of them studied English at university,,PHD'S masters,,,,eth

after 24 hrs we had a meeting in their house to sort out any problems they had,,,
so armed with the relevant information ,,taxes,workers rights,gas and electric,eth

what was the first point that was raised,,,

what language do they speak in ireland,,,,,as we cant understand anyone,,,,,
:rotfl::rotfl:

Lol! No, that's a problem a lot of non-native English speakers have with the language: there are a huge number of accents over a small geographical area. They learn standard English at uni (often to a very high standard), but the colloquialisms and vast range of differences in expression and accent are a puzzler to a lot of non-native speakers at first.

As for Dublin 4, how do they survive in the rest of the country when they leave their 'roondaboots' behind?!

Walshyboy84

ZTD wrote: »

Twin Powers? Like Austin and Allegro?

Possibly!

Best to Search the Tubes of the interweb... and search Family Guy, Wonder twins and that usually brings it up! :j

shaun40400

As for Dublin 4, how do they survive in the rest of the country when they leave their 'roondaboots' behind?!

i wouldn't know!!!:rolleyes:
we can only see up their noses:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
they dont mix with the peasants:o
except to travel too RTE,the airporrrrrrrrrt and the theatre darrrrrrling,,,,

InaPickle

shaun40400 wrote: »

i wouldn't know!!!:rolleyes:
we can only see up their noses:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
they dont mix with the peasants:o
except to travel too RTE,the airporrrrrrrrrt and the theatre darrrrrrling,,,,

Jayzus...I wonder how the culchies manage!

EssexHebridean

East Anglian here - Londoner by birth.

If we get people on the phone at work with strong Scots accents they tend to get passed to me as I can understand them - the geordie accept however I find totally incomprehensible! :rotfl:

InaPickle

EssexHebridean wrote: »

East Anglian here - Londoner by birth.

If we get people on the phone at work with strong Scots accents they tend to get passed to me as I can understand them - the geordie accept however I find totally incomprehensible! :rotfl:

Very strong Glaswegian (particularly after the consumption of alcohol) seems to be the only accent I don't understand in any of the languages I speak. Don't ask me why. We had a lovely over-the-road neighbour who I did not understand in the slightest for about six months after he moved in. He would come over and I just had to nod in what I felt were the right places so that I didn't have to admit he was incomprehensible to me. Oh, the shame!

taxi73

Good luck to the Hypnos.
Well done urg.
It's def cold in the north west at the minute..even more so as I need a new circuit board in my bolier.