Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

Generali

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

Pronunciation of Bwlchtocyn... Bull-chhh-tock-in The chhh bit is from the throat, sounds a bit like choking. :rotfl:

Blimmin' flick. What is wrong with Gaelic languages? I lived in Brittany for a while and they couldn't summon up a Q between them despite Quimper being a notable place in the Breton nation.

I think that Gaelic spelling is a joke at the expense of the Anglo Saxons, French and Spanish.

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

Have decided to have a very restful day today, as after 2 days gardening at caravan followed by the trip home I'm knackered. Was so tired that I fell asleep in the car on the way back. You will be relieved to hear that OH was driving.

Pastures, thanks so much for the reminder of the estate agent show. :A We'll be watching it on catch up when OH gets back home.

Restful day is good. I plan the same for tomorrow.

I'm watching some more of the Paris-Roubaix cycling race that I recorded on Sunday. I'll watch the rest tomorrow. The next most important thing will be bread baking for lunch and making risotto for dinner.

I love cooking and so do the kids. I got The Girl into eating asparagus this evening.:j

neverdespairgirl

Polish is a bit like that. It looks like it's written in the same alphabet as English, but there's all sorts of traps for the unwary. Like me.

the "L" with a line across it sounds like a "w", "w" sounds like "v", and there's all those special cz and sz combinations, and "z" can have lots of different accents over it.

PasturesNew

Years ago I knew a white woman, whose ex was a black professional wrestler. Just wiki'd him and he's dead now and had 6 kids, but the woman I knew had just 3 by him. Youngest was black, middle was 'usual mixed colour' and the eldest was probably technically an albino (certainly looked almost so).

neverdespairgirl

http://www.buzzfeed.com/tabathaleggett/how-posh-are-you-actually

I'd dispute some of them as being "posh" myself...

But have a look anyway (-:

I got 37 out of 100, then did it for my parents, who got 68, but wouldn't be seen dead with a framed degree certificate!

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Years ago I knew a white woman, whose ex was a black professional wrestler. Just wiki'd him and he's dead now and had 6 kids, but the woman I knew had just 3 by him. Youngest was black, middle was 'usual mixed colour' and the eldest was probably technically an albino (certainly looked almost so).

I don't think there is 'almost albino'. Albino is pretty definite a sense of pigment. zag will do doubt have better way to explain this than I would try. Misskool would too.

There were some words that described people who were 'genetically black' ( or predominantly so ' but ( using the terminology of the less enlightened time ) 'could pass for' white or were mixed raced. These words have been replaced in parlance Like words we don't use beginning in 'n' because they were used so offensively.

Colour expression is facinating and beautiful. One of the very difficult things about it from understanding in animals is the huge range of colours, and that in naming phenotype expression American parlance won. This means often trying to work out what colour the animal is in 'English' or 'American English' as well as trying to understand the genetics.

In horses I have never seen lots of the really unusual expressions, like brindle, ( though I have a brindle dog!) and certainly some of the dilutes. And I admit I struggle to tell them apart.

There is a colour I love the nearest English expression for is 'liver chestnut with a flaxen mane and tail' but its not the correct term at all. Because its a silver expression not the one that we would use for the creamier blonder 'flaxen'

This is reflected, interestingly, in that few of our native requirements are THAT colour specific. In Britain, and lots of Europe, morphology was more important, and only 'coloured ponies' like patchy cows , were excluded, but all the solid colours were usually allowed ( there are several exceptions to this though)

We also have the colour 'chestnut' here, which in American is sorrel, but also the range chestnut covers is actually huge.

There is another colour I like which icelandics call gra. And it is grey, but sort of specially so. Our grey, covers all different colours of grey and white ( sometimes we add words like dappled, or flea bitten or iron) but this can actually mean different things entirely. Grey horses are a colour that HAS greyed, and iron grey can actually be blue roan, but roan implied a 'common factor' like skewbalds did to some.


When passports came in some people got very cross when there 'black horses' were passported ( accurately) as brown.

Special girl was before passports were mandatory but had one for her anyway, she was black, but had a fading gene, I remember being consoled several times on the fact she was no longer 'black' technically, and having to disappoint people having a bit of what they felt was a dog on their dark brown horses, by explaining she was actually black! She had an interesting expression that belied her common blood and it wasn't her facing gene!

michaels

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

http://www.buzzfeed.com/tabathaleggett/how-posh-are-you-actually

I'd dispute some of them as being "posh" myself...

But have a look anyway (-:

I got 37 out of 100, then did it for my parents, who got 68, but wouldn't be seen dead with a framed degree certificate!

Quite agree. By putting together a list with such ghastly items one reveals all that needs to be known about how long ones family has been wealthy.

GeorgeHowell

27/100 "pretty posh but pretty grounded too - the best of both worlds"

lemonjelly

Unlucky for some - 13!
I ticked pond, as I'm about to have one (even though it'll only be there til I dig it up/fill it in).
There are things on that list I didn't know existed!

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

Unlucky for some - 13!
I ticked pond, as I'm about to have one (even though it'll only be there til I dig it up/fill it in).
There are things on that list I didn't know existed!

We were going to have our first garden pond ( unless the Cake counts?) dug yesterday but there is a pip in the way.


We're trying to decide whether to try digging it smaller or having a raised one. I actually wouldn't mind just having a big, beautiful pot or something there.......but the price of beautiful pots is significant. .

Spirit_2

Generali wrote: »

Babies are basically machines for turning milk very noisily into poo.



It's a quote from perhaps the greatest rider of all time, Eddie Merckx. He rode the Tour de France with a fractured cheekbone so he knows plenty about suffering. He also set the record distance for cycling in an hour in 1972 which was only properly beaten in 2000. Even then, he set the record around Mexico City at high altitude whereas the record was beaten at 10m above sea level!

The biggest problem with cycling as not suffering is you can't give up halfway through. If I've ridden 50km (30 miles) out somewhere then I'm committed to riding the 50km back home again!

If you get a big fat sit-up-and-beg bike and good gears then cycling can be far more comfortable than walking. That's my training plan for the next year or so in fact. Get something heavy and comfy and ride it everywhere:

That looks like my bike except the basket is wicker.