siampolee
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Post by siampolee on Apr 30, 2017 20:59:35 GMT 7
Just finished watching two BBC series which I downloaded from my favourite UK torrent site. The first series was ,''Middlemarch'' (BBC 1994) by George Eliot or T S Eliot whichever you prefer which is also available on Youtube in a number of clips I thoroughly enjoyed the series. www.imdb.com/title/tt0108858/?ref_=nv_sr_1However the shining star is, '' The Adventures of English'' narrated by Melvyn Bragg, it is a wonderful history of the English language and I certainly learnt a bit more than I already knew about the English language. Well worth watching if you love the English language in all its perverse interpretations and it's wonderful history. www.imdb.com/title/tt0343228/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1Methinks if not already seen ,Buhi would enjoy The Adventures of English and possibly our Dutch uncle too who is no intellectual sloth.
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smokie36
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Post by smokie36 on Apr 30, 2017 21:01:54 GMT 7
Where is my mention?
You know I went to university....and not one of these polyversity joke Newspeak establishments neither guv!
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rubl
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Post by rubl on Apr 30, 2017 22:19:06 GMT 7
Where is my mention? You know I went to university....and not one of these polyversity joke Newspeak establishments neither guv! and an honourable mention for our Scottish lad who no doubt through hard work managed to overcome severe hurdles and learned to speak English. Allegedly that is, I've never heard him speak yet
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rubl
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Post by rubl on Apr 30, 2017 22:36:07 GMT 7
Of course, my own pronounciation of the English language is perfect, although after a few glasses of some fine, real fine Whisky those who listen carefully might just nearly imagine some 'foreign' influence in the tone
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bowie
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Post by bowie on Apr 30, 2017 22:52:13 GMT 7
Just finished watching two BBC series which I downloaded from my favourite UK torrent site. The first series was ,''Middlemarch'' (BBC 1994) by George Eliot or T S Eliot whichever you prefer which is also available on Youtube in a number of clips I thoroughly enjoyed the series. www.imdb.com/title/tt0108858/?ref_=nv_sr_1However the shining star is, '' The Adventures of English'' narrated by Melvyn Bragg, it is a wonderful history of the English language and I certainly learnt a bit more than I already knew about the English language. Well worth watching if you love the English language in all its perverse interpretations and it's wonderful history. www.imdb.com/title/tt0343228/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1Methinks if not already seen ,Buhi would enjoy The Adventures of English and possibly our Dutch uncle too who is no intellectual sloth. Middlemarch is indeed a classic. George Eliot,,,,Mary Anne Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Wikipedia. Research her. An extraordinary woman; defied social conventions.
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siampolee
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Post by siampolee on Apr 30, 2017 23:19:10 GMT 7
I didna include ye in laddie I ken your gas is a different gas to they English gas.
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Post by buhi on May 1, 2017 0:13:37 GMT 7
And was; do you get that?
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Post by buhi on May 1, 2017 6:06:14 GMT 7
And was; do you get that? And still am. How, i do not know. I should have been dead last night and nights before. I wake up. How? I do everything to destroy myself. Here i am.
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Post by buhi on May 1, 2017 6:25:23 GMT 7
No i won't do that. Have before and failed. Will see it out.
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Post by bowie on May 1, 2017 6:36:30 GMT 7
No i won't do that. Have before and failed. Will see it out. That comes close. Yes i could perform that.
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Post by buhi on May 1, 2017 8:13:00 GMT 7
Step son is schizophrenic.
Made worse by being in a Thai prison.
Just now was almost violent. Thought wife was at risk from me. No chance, i am not violent. Cooled him down. Wife left with father, an known event. Mother to hospital. "Do you want to see me dead at the hands of your own son?". "Idiot, he will not touch you,". Soi dogs.
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Post by bowie on May 1, 2017 8:26:59 GMT 7
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Post by buhi on May 1, 2017 14:12:30 GMT 7
Oh i can be evil, if that means not conforming. My son sitting near. Well i have to admit a fine specimen. As tall as me now and still growing. Could he flatten me. Sure he could. Would he ever want to; i hope not. First son has that honour and i was more agile then.
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