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Off Topic A Place to have a Moan about Anything

Discussion in 'Horse Racing' started by stick, Mar 27, 2018.

  1. floridaspearl

    floridaspearl Well-Known Member

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    Must be the wrong thread. I quite like the French and their ways.
     
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    OddDog Mild mannered janitor
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    Nothing wrong with ze Germans either - I’m becoming one later this year. Quite simply the best beer in the world and many other fine attributes <ok>
     
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  3. Ron

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    Oops, you have a beard. I'm looking a bit hairy myself at present and, like you, it's laziness. I'm always getting moaned at if I don't shave for a few days. Apparently it takes 10 years off me when I shave. That's an incentive in itself. Plus I always feel refreshed after a hot, wet shave. Sometimes when I look in the mirror I think OMG, have a bloody shave. My future son-in-law has grown a beard and I hate it. By the time my wife and I have finished with him I think it will come off . We don't hold back <laugh>

    No I haven't seen the ad. I'll look out for it <cheers>
     
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  4. floridaspearl

    floridaspearl Well-Known Member

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    By the way Ron , as our French corespondent . Why didn't you give us the inside track on the French plunder at lingfield today?
     
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  5. The time I met you you were clean shaved - nothing wrong with being lazy about it but I can wait a week for it to make any real difference!
     
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  6. Me too. Had the most amazing week in Alsace a few years back. And also still keep in touch with some lovely people from their Government and ones who worked for the various EU institutions
     
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    Chaninbar The Crafty Cockney

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    Yep me too. Many happy times in France and I quite like them. Don't know many Germans and only visited the Country once. People were very friendly, beer marvellous but can't say their sausages do much for me. Can't really take against a country due to the state of their sausages though.
     
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    Didn't even notice they were running FP. I don't follow French racing, UK racing takes up enough of my time. I doubt I'd be able to read the form tbh. French is a very (unnecessarily) complicated language. If I were to be President, I would make some sweeping but simple changes that would simplify the language overnight for French people.

    Come to think of it, that's another thing that pisses me off the ridiculous stupidity and complexity of French grammar. WTF were they thinking?
     
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  9. floridaspearl

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    Just going through a lazy faze Dan
     
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    floridaspearl Well-Known Member

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    What, like make them speak English .
     
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    <laugh>. No, I mean stupid grammar rules that make the language so difficult for the French to grasp. Even I have corrected some well educated French but I can't hold a normal conversation in French because I'm trying to convert French to English and it's impossible at the speed they talk. And as soon as I ask them to slow down they think I speak French and off they go again <doh> <laugh>. My daughter speaks fluent French (just picked it up from friends) but wouldn't have a hope of writing something which was grammatically perfect. At least she can communicate orally at any level. Don't know what we would do without her
     
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    That happens to me can speak a few pleasantries in French and Spanish they think I speak the lingo and I go into delboy mode.
     
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    <laugh> I know the feeling. Another problem is that so many of them want to speak English
     
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  14. I can understand French quite well and am able to read it. As soon as I try to speak it I sound like a right prick.
     
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    'Youtubers' people actually watch this stuff for entertainment

    Get yourself a proper job
     
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    My 7 year old lad's ambition when asked by his gran what he wants to do when he grows up: Fireman? Policeman? Teacher? Pro footballer? Nope.....Youtuber <doh>
     
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    To get this thread back on track .......... what really twists my melon, man, is the Americanisation of the English language.

    dThere are lots of examples, but here is my number one pet peeve. The word LEVER. It is spelled the same on both sides of the pond, but the English pronounce it LEEVER while the yanks say LEVVER. So the word when used as an adjective, should be LEEVERAGE here and - understandably - LEVVERAGE over there.

    So if you are ENGLISH - STOP pronouncing it the American way, you sychophantic aresholes!!!!

    And what about the increasing use of Airplane instead of Aeroplane GRRRRRRRR :emoticon-0146-punch:emoticon-0146-punch
     
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  18. Movies rather than cinema, candy rather than sweets, sneakers (seriously wtf?) and a whole load of others. It drives me mad - even the bleedin' spell checks come up with US spelling.
     
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    The US spell check gives me the irrits as well.
     
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    Il tell you what winds me up. People who call beigels bagals, another Americanisation.
     
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