deanb Posted November 11, 2016 Author Report Share Posted November 11, 2016 So a pretty good example video on the above. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted November 29, 2016 Author Report Share Posted November 29, 2016 So Excel posted about the PA system outside his house playing christmas music n Ethan became intrigued about their being public PA systems set up. Anywho after a bit of joking about likes of V for Vendetta n such pointed out that yeah some towns n cities do have PA systems, usually hooked up to CCTV cameras to tell folks to get off bikes in city centres, or pick up litter or what not. I'd pointed out town I last lived in had such a system set up, and hey in looking up an example video what was up the top but my old town. Ahh...Middlesborough, so long. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted December 1, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 1, 2016 So something fun: A few weeks ago (heck I guess might be over a month now) Bill Cinton remarked that "Jeremy Corbyn was the maddest guy in politics". Which national papers latched on to. You see, while he may have meant it in the "angriest" sense, sort of "I'm mad as hell and not gonna put up with this" way, it gets played over here in the "crazy/insane" sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted December 15, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2016 I'd say, though I guess now I'm about to say this an issue...but I'd say his Geordie is better than his Yorkshire. But then I'm more familiar with Yorkshire so it's possible there's issues with his Geordie. He does kinda acknowledge them a bit though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted December 16, 2016 Report Share Posted December 16, 2016 Are the issues with his pronunciation or the meaning of the phrases? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted December 16, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 16, 2016 Pronunciation, some stresses on weird parts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted December 17, 2016 Report Share Posted December 17, 2016 But... You just described the Yorkshire dialect. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted December 17, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 17, 2016 his stresses are on weird parts compared to a Yorkshire dialect. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted December 18, 2016 Report Share Posted December 18, 2016 Pretty sure the video and the Yorkshire accent have weird stresses on certain syllables. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted January 19, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2017 Binging 30 Rock at the moment. There's a scene where they're about to take the subway and get stopped by heavily armed policemen and go through her purse, the gag is more on the content of her purse than being stopped by rifle wielding policemen. So is that normal, or did part of the gag not land with me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted January 19, 2017 Report Share Posted January 19, 2017 Can't speak for New York in particular, but that definitely does not seem normal. Unless is it like an airport with metal detectors or something that she set off? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted January 19, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2017 No, entrance to a subway. hey found a video (I guess I should add this is more targeted at GOH and other NYC based members, I understand it's most likely specific to there, same with London being an outlier with armed police on regular patrol....though turns out Newcastle recently added to that list :/) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted January 20, 2017 Report Share Posted January 20, 2017 This show is not remotely humorous. I've never been to New York, but can confirm that there are not typically armed guards at San Francisco subway entrances. I assume that the armed guard thing is not typical of NY either and is more a "funny" take on how NY is perceived as up tight vs laid back Cleveland... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted January 20, 2017 Report Share Posted January 20, 2017 (edited) There are sometimes police at some subway entrances who do random bag checks. It was instituted after 9/11. I've never had my bag checked and only rarely seen them stop anyone. My subway station near My office in Brooklyn often has a pair. Unlike in the video, they're always inside the station and usually have a table set up. They also don't carry rifles. It's cheaper to film a street scene than one in a subway station, though. Major Manhattan subway stops, usually those connected to proper train stations or near huge tourist attractions, used to have national guard troops (not police) guarding them outside an in, but I haven't seen that for a few years. I think they're deployed in response to terrorist attacks (even foreign ones in Europe) to make tourists feel safer. It's security theater. Edited January 20, 2017 by Mr. GOH! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted January 20, 2017 Report Share Posted January 20, 2017 Ironically would have the exact opposite effect upon me. I start to worry when I see people carrying heavy artillery. Guns make me nervous regardless of who is carrying them. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted January 20, 2017 Report Share Posted January 20, 2017 (edited) Me too. But tourists from Bumfuck, Nebraska, love guns and military uniforms, as fascists are wont to do. Edited January 20, 2017 by Mr. GOH! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted January 20, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2017 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-38281451 "Armed police does everything but 'reassure' the public, it makes us really uncomfortable. This isn't the states!" 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted January 25, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2017 What we would call a "Mexican Wave" you guys apparently just call "the wave". Apparently this is because while it originated in the US and not Mexico the first time it kinda hit big outside of US was when broadcast from the FIFA World Cup...in Mexico. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted January 27, 2017 Report Share Posted January 27, 2017 What phrases do you all use to describe someone who always has to have gone one better than you? For example, someone recently describing a colleague said, "If you've been to Tenerife, she's been to Elevenerife" which tickled me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted January 27, 2017 Report Share Posted January 27, 2017 (edited) We call those people Donald J. Trump, among other things. Edited January 27, 2017 by Mr. GOH! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted January 27, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 27, 2017 One-upmanship? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted January 27, 2017 Report Share Posted January 27, 2017 I mean, technically, yes, but that's not exactly the colourful local parlance I was hoping for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted January 28, 2017 Report Share Posted January 28, 2017 I'd call them a one-upper. Sorry to disappoint. I think Seinfeld had a funny term for those people, but I can't remember what it was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCP Posted March 1, 2017 Report Share Posted March 1, 2017 Hey! UK! Stop calling vacuum cleaners "hoovers". That's not a thing, no one says that. Stop trying to make it a thing. It's NOT catching on. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted March 1, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2017 If you guys get a cut don't you stick on a Band-Aidtm? I think we're allowed our Hoovertm. IIRC the French for tissue is Kleenextm. And of course herointm instead of diamorphine. Oh and para-acetylaminophenol known as paracetamol over here and acetminophen over there. Both names derived from different parts of the chemical name. Anywho Wiki has a decent list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericized_trademarks Both US and UK have trademark terms for adhesive tape but ours is sellotape and yours is scotch tape. Though we also call it "sticky tape" too. Huh, also looking at that list in Brazil it's "Durex" (which'd be condoms over here not sticky tape). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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