Nice people thread part 6 - thrice by twice as nice :)

PasturesNew

Generali wrote: »

I burgle, you burgle, he burgles, thee burgles, thou burglst etc (not positive about the older conjugation rules).

Then the verb was transformed into a noun, burglar. There was rejoicing across the land.

Sounds like a reduction in crime to me, if there is only one burglar now.

MiddyMum

Wha gwan me brovaz......

lostinrates

Nice people who know the rates wreck might remember the utility room....it's now gone, revealing the whole of the kitchen wall. By heck, it looks Bigger. (and quite beautiful). What I will never get used to is how much impact this sort of thing has on light. Light is now flooding in to the hitherto gloomy temporary kitchen.

michaels

MiddyMum wrote: »

Wha gwan me brovaz......

Be careful, you'll get Viva out resident Trustafarian started.....blood

dinofabio

MiddyMum wrote: »

Wha gwan me brovaz......

You'd sound positively white talking like that where I live

It's da fashun innit?

dinofabio

MiddyMum wrote: »

I often have people shocked when they meet me in person, they say that I don't "sound" or write like a black person.

I have a young sounding voice. People are often surprised when the see me in the flesh - for all the wrong reasons!

silvercar

lostinrates wrote: »

No, it's not posh, it's correct. No more posh than apostrophe use or should have v should of' or loose and lose.

In fact, I would have thought you'd like it, its about correct use of language...and you have such a keen eye for that sort of thing.

I never get should have or loose/ lose or bought/ brought wrong, but sometimes confuse less/fewer. A lot of my first school teachers had welsh as their first language that may explain it (but may not).

silvercar

dinofabio wrote: »

I have a young sounding voice. People are often surprised when the see me in the flesh - for all the wrong reasons!

OH has a young looking face, he is also thin, people knock at the door and ask him if his father is home, which amuses him greatly.

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

OH has a young looking face, he is also thin, people knock at the door and ask him if his father is home, which amuses him greatly.

Wow!


I think it's not unusual for men to age better than women at first, but then for us to do better in the long run. My mother is older than my father, and always looked it until a few years ago and now looks about ten years younger than him. IMO.

My neighbour is in his seventies, but I thought he was in his fifties. He rides his horse every day, and three/ four days a week through winter follows the hunt on foot (cery occasionaly ripdes, but last year his wife said no more as she is worried he is getting doddery and more likely to have an accident....but he is NOT doddey!)so a few hours walking, climbing over fences etc. the impact of regular exercise on aging seems pretty clear in cases like his.

silvercar

Some people do have very subtle 'indications' my husband told me when he first met he was part Italian and had been educated there, but I just 'knew' he was Jewish. (and no, he doesn't have a name that Shreiked it at me).

When we bought our first flat the sellers (jewish) told us they had thought we were the only people who looked at it that weren't jewish. A plus in their eyes because they could then take their mezuzahs ( little prayer boxes on door posts, google for more info) with them, then they met our parents (who insisted on looking round before exchange) and it dawned on them they had made a mistake.