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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Jun 11, 2011 20:05:44 GMT
Sublimely evil prank. ;D
AH
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Post by trubble on Jun 20, 2011 20:06:39 GMT
Brings back some very good memories of school trips.
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Post by everso on Jun 20, 2011 23:42:49 GMT
Whatever language were they speaking? Was it Scottish?
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Post by riotgrrl on Jun 21, 2011 7:12:28 GMT
Those cheeky Cockney rogues . . .
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Post by Weyland on Jun 21, 2011 8:22:21 GMT
Brings back some very good memories of school trips. St Trinians, was it?
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Post by Weyland on Jun 21, 2011 8:31:00 GMT
Whatever language were they speaking? Was it Scottish? Going by the subtitles, it's either Icelandic or Faroese. The letter eth – ð – is a giveaway. It's a voiced dental fricative in Icelandic, as in English the. (I'm not sure they have a formal alphabet in Glaswegian. Or Cockney. Jean will know.)
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Post by jean on Jun 21, 2011 10:03:43 GMT
(But I'm not telling.)
What idiots! Not surprised all the videos are of men.
I like the cushions, though.
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Post by everso on Jun 21, 2011 11:11:07 GMT
I'm teaching my grandchildren basic Cockney - you know, "apples and pears = stairs" etc. I shall steer clear of Berkeley Hunt though. This is an interesting site: www.whoohoo.co.uk/
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Post by jean on Jun 21, 2011 12:48:08 GMT
Fascinating programme about Welsh-language pop music on R4 at the moment.
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Post by Weyland on Jun 21, 2011 14:25:48 GMT
Fascinating programme about Welsh-language pop music on R4 at the moment. Thanks for that, Jean. I was out, but I'll listen later.
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Post by jean on Jun 21, 2011 15:26:20 GMT
Here's a link: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b011zmqfI only became aware of Welsh pop music when my (Welsh-speaking) nephews started talking about Catatonia and Super Furry Animals, but it's got a much longer history than that. I loved the vein of self-mockery from the 70s: "We were sitting outside our Welsh craft shop playing our rustic quaint home-made Welsh harps when this Inglishman came up to us and said 'Hey man, buzz up to my pad and groove in the uptown soul scene man, and cut a bug on a groovy record'.
So we shot him."
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Post by riotgrrl on Jun 21, 2011 19:16:29 GMT
Here's a link: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b011zmqfI only became aware of Welsh pop music when my (Welsh-speaking) nephews started talking about Catatonia and Super Furry Animals, but it's got a much longer history than that. I loved the vein of self-mockery from the 70s: "We were sitting outside our Welsh craft shop playing our rustic quaint home-made Welsh harps when this Inglishman came up to us and said 'Hey man, buzz up to my pad and groove in the uptown soul scene man, and cut a bug on a groovy record'.
So we shot him."Hey, I like Catatonia and I like the Super Furry Animals. Only when they're singing in English mind . . .
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Post by Weyland on Jun 21, 2011 20:02:54 GMT
Here's a link: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b011zmqfI only became aware of Welsh pop music when my (Welsh-speaking) nephews started talking about Catatonia and Super Furry Animals, but it's got a much longer history than that. I loved the vein of self-mockery from the 70s: "We were sitting outside our Welsh craft shop playing our rustic quaint home-made Welsh harps when this Inglishman came up to us and said 'Hey man, buzz up to my pad and groove in the uptown soul scene man, and cut a bug on a groovy record'.
So we shot him."Hey, I like Catatonia and I like the Super Furry Animals. Only when they're singing in English mind . . . Racist.
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Jun 22, 2011 20:29:59 GMT
I just love the way that the hapless victim...
A: hasn't got a clue what is going on
and
B: is trying to really power back a retaliation and just failing while looking like a nob. ;D
AH
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Post by jean on Jun 22, 2011 21:12:42 GMT
Did you mean nob?
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Post by aubrey on Jun 23, 2011 8:16:38 GMT
Peel used to play a record by a group whose name meant Ferocious Mice. The record was called NCB, and that was all I could understand of it. I'll still have it on a tape somewhere.
I've also got some tapes of a group who are called the Welsh Fall, though their real name is Dat y something. I'll try to find a link later.
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Post by everso on Jun 23, 2011 15:58:58 GMT
Jean, perhaps you can help here. Some while ago Alph and I had a discussion about the correct spelling. He's saying that the man's a penis. I think it should be spelt "knob", but Alph insists on "nob". I don't intend for it to become an issue (like the trifle debacle) but I would appreciate your views.
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Post by Weyland on Jun 23, 2011 16:13:59 GMT
Jean, perhaps you can help here. Some while ago Alph and I had a discussion about the correct spelling. He's saying that the man's a penis. I think it should be spelt "knob", but Alph insists on "nob". I don't intend for it to become an issue (like the trifle debacle) but I would appreciate your views. <excuse me for butting in> Christ, it can't be that hard — it's knob. Short for knob-end. Sometimes heard as bell-end. (Not that it's the entire penis.)
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Post by everso on Jun 23, 2011 16:22:02 GMT
I don't want to upset Alph, and if he wants to spell it nob then I don't want to come over all fascist about it, but thanks Weyland.
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Post by Weyland on Jun 23, 2011 16:29:36 GMT
From Chambers [sic] . . . nob1 n. the head (); the jack of the suit turned up by the dealer in cribbage. [Perh knob] one for his nob - point scored for holding the nob in cribbage; a blow on the head. nob2 n. a person of wealth or esp high social rank. [Origin obscure; cf nabs and nib2] nobbily adv. nobbiness n. nobby adj. smart.
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