And then this feature gets launched, which enables us to share a post with a limited audience without having to specify names each time. Works for us eh?
And then this feature gets launched, which enables us to share a post with a limited audience without having to specify names each time. Works for us eh?
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You bet! Hi Lucille! This is the first community that makes sense!!
Fab Lucille Galleli ! Did you invite the usual suspects aka: Dusty Gedge, Jasbir Rhandawa, John Wade, Cliff Johnstone, Kim Sinclair, Linda Rockwell, Michelle Potter, Jim Dehnert, Shawn McClure, Celeste Odono and anyone else you can think of guys? Can’t same mention here.
The lurker is on board Your mighty highness
Got them all in Marilou Aballe … hit the invite button if you want anyone in …
A place just for giggles! Perfect. Hmmm… I think we may be missing Denise Crawford, Marjolein Schat as well.
Not any longer Celeste Odono
Woo-hoo! Release the giggles! 😉
Aren’t we all lurkers and gigglers Cliff Johnstone in front of our computers! We need an avatar Lucille Galleli and everyone. Any suggestions?
Also has to be inclusive that represents puns as well Stephen Thackeray 🙂 Maybe a smiley G+ face. Who is good at photoshop? Denise Crawford ?
Go for it Lucille Galleli and Stephen Thackeray . I’m quite occupied for the next 6 hrs. Ciao!
kewl~ !!! A private place for Giggle Gang Giggles. 🙂 Hello everyone!
Well, hello fellow Gigglers! I see a few names I am not familiar with but I’m sure we’ll get to know each other in time over a giggle or two!!
Let the giggles begin!! 😀
Now we get to see Jasbir S. Randhawa when he’s not feeling shy in public. Is that it? Scary… :-)) Thanks for the invites Lucille Galleli and Marilou Aballe!
Thank you for joining in Jim Dehnert ! Alas I have yet to see Jasbir S. Randhawa in top pun form here , I think he is waiting for his sidekick Dusty Gedge to join in. So far Dusty has not accepted the invite. He may still be frolicking in the snow with the birds in Sweden. I was also hoping you’d be on my side when the English gentlemen here start spinning cricket terminology that I am clueless about. (John Wade Cliff Johnstone Stephen Thackeray )
Marilou Aballe You think two clueless ones can keep up with those guys???
I know but with Craig Szymanski on board we can at least redirect the conversation and start throwing in American baseball lingo 🙂
…after all we did manage to outwit them before as the once colonizers.. Jim Dehnert !
Marilou Aballe – I spent a few hours today at a high school football championship game. I was
overjoyedunfortunate to be in front of a guy who new everything about anything. My ears are still ringing with the wisdom.Yes! Craig Szymanski !!!! Suddenly I’m empowered ‘coz all I have to do is tag you LOL!
True +Marilou Aballe — or even American football… 🙂 At least they don’t seem to be too sore about the revolution any more — my sister-in-law was in London for the bicentennial and said they threw a huge affair celebrating “200 years of common heritage!”
Oh no, I can’t talk cricket or American football or baseball…. 🙁
Not a problem Mandy Allen — you can talk petanques, or boule bretonne! That will confuse all of us. :-))
They play ‘palettes’ here!!! (similar to boules but with a flat metal disc which you chuck onto a wooden board) It confuses me and I’m hopeless at it! Jim Dehnert
You don’t need to be good at the game Mandy Allen — you just need to toss out enough odd terminology that everyone thinks you’re making clever jokes!
And I bit, Stephen Thackeray. What I can’t figure out is how a “pub game” can involve a 200-yard playing field. Do the Brits have bigger pubs than I thought?
Stephen Thackeray The nags Head, Steve?! You better find some tall grass to duck into, before Marilou Aballe comes after you in her spanking new Emerald stilettos!!! :-)))
You should grow a beard and an eyepatch to go with your Sir Morgan persona, don’t you think, Jasbir S. Randhawa?
Just realised I can’t even spell the Breton game, it’s ‘palet’! The only terminology I can spout from cricket are a few things like ‘sticky wicket’ whatever that means and I know that cricket involves rubbing balls! Knurr and spell sounds a bit interesting – the equipment looks like some kind of medieval torture kit!!
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Jim Dehnert H0HoHo and a bottle of rum?! I have a pic somewhere of me with a beard, but sans eye patch, but that won’t do as Capt. Morgan had a black beard! Cheers, Jim! ;-)))
Here’s a link to a video showing the game you mentioned Steve!
http://youtu.be/0KH_Xs_8SKI
Oh dear bad singing 🙂 and what language is that again, Steve???? !!!
The Nags Head is that a name of an actual Brit pub Stephen Thackeray ?…….and that game Knurr and Spell is that still being played today?…haven’t got to the singing part, don’t know if I want to per the warnings! 🙂
Oh yes Nags Head is a really common name. I used to go and see bands at a Nags Head when I was a teenager! No idea about the game but I do think you should try to understand a bit of Yorkshire dialect from that link! Marilou Aballe I wonder if Steve talks like that? 🙂
LOL Mandy Allen ! We have the visuals of Stephen Thackeray , now we have the accent to pair it with 🙂
aye ere, na then, tha doesn’t spek wrong, it’s thy dialect wats wrang wit thee……………..Welcome to Barnsley, friendliest town I know.
I wonder if he goes around bar t’ ‘at? I didn’t even know how to pronounce that before clicking on the link! I know they say ‘t oop north but my Nottinghamshire husband informs me that a Yorkshire ‘t is quite different from a Notts ‘t !!! (I wouldn’t have a clue, I’m from the south!) All I know is oop north when they go to pubs like the Nags Head they say they’re going ‘oop ‘t pub’. 🙂 Marilou Aballe Stephen Thackeray
LOL! Cliff Johnstone Stephen Thackeray !!! Can’t understand a thing! No wonder the accent didn’t stick when you guys were around colonizing us! (Jasbir S. Randhawa Dusty Gedge John Wade Jim Dehnert Craig Szymanski )
I speak Fluent Cumbrian, Yorkshire (south, west, east and barsnley) Geordie, Welsh (the easiest word in Welsh to learn is Bah, it attracts the sheep, so they can fornicate with them) Brummie, Scouse, mancunian, Scottish, Irish and “Down sarf”.
Multilingual helps over here, some Americans complain about learning Spanish………..if only!!!
lol Marilou Aballe perhaps they just didn’t let them in!
hee hee do we have any Welsh people in this community? 🙂
Love the way you clump all Scots into one accent (no Glasgie in your repertoire?) and us southerners. Excuse me but there’s Posh, Cockney, Estuary and Country Bumpkin southern style!!! Cliff Johnstone
LOLOL Cliff Johnstone and Mandy Allen Didn’t realize there were so many dialects across the pond…and I had to turn on the subtitles when I watch Downton Abbey!!
hehehe……so true Mandy Allen > I have a wicked streak that goes into a strong Geordie accent when I speak to southerners, especially the posh ones. It’s like someone from Boston talking to someone in Alabama, I love it.
Subtitles!!!!!!!!!!! they all spoke Posh Marilou Aballe
Not everyone speaks Posh in that series Cliff Johnstone ! The downstairs folks speak a different accent and I have to constantly rewind so I’m better off having the subtitles on all the time!
I understand what you’re saying marilou, it’s a very gentile accent they use compared to the actual one. There’s a film called Kes, about a young lad bringing up a kestrel, I think you’d need a translator for that one, hell i needed one!!!!
Wow! Still catching up! My dad used to sing that song Stephen! And he was born in Melbourne, Australia! Not sure where he learnt it from but we are far more influenced by you pommies than the yanks are! 😀
Subtitles for English shows Marilou!? Clearly we watch much more English TV here than you. Most of the time I have no trouble especially with the Yorkshire accent. Used to love watching James Herriot! Now we are watching the prequel and they have Scottish accents. Meant to be Glaswegian I think. My FIL was from Glasgow and we were so surprised when we went to Britain and heard the Edinburgh folk who sound almost English compared to what he was like!
The GB accents are amazing and I much prefer them to the US ones; no offence Marilou and whoever else here is from there but some of your accents are downright grating on my nerves. Like the strong southern ones. Maybe it’s just because I am mostly British in my heritage! English, Irish, Swedish and Scottish ancestry! 😀
Now I expect a barrage of Aussie bashing comments but I can live with that! We’re the underdogs from downunder!! 😀 And don’t mention the phonecall. I had nothing to do with that!! 😮
I find the southern drawl rather endearing Kim Sinclair ! I have friends and family in Tennessee, Texas and Arizona and have met some of the most wonderful, friendly folks there. Plus I live and work in a very diverse area and have learned to be very tolerant and accepting of the many accents I encounter on a daily basis. Strong, heavy accents don’t bother me at all as I too speak with a distinct accent from my mixed heritage.
Subtitles are great for those who strive to speak and spell English properly like I do. There is more retention in my brain when I see a written word on screen. I’m also used to it as I watch foreign movies.
My apologies if I offended you Marilou Aballe. I too, live in a very multicultural society and even when I was young, was one of the people who would befriend the immigrants who were struggling to understand and gain acceptance at school.
My father worked with quite a lot of migrants from Europe and we had lots to do with them so I have never been racist or intolerant of other cultures.
What I was saying was that certain accents can be a bit annoying to listen to over and over on TV shows but if I knew the person in real life, their accent would not be what defined them but their personality and qualities as another human being. TV is a whole different thing and like all stereotypes often portrayed, they are annoying and inaccurate in the most part. For example, they often portray gay men as queeny, flouncy and pathetic men which is most damaging to the gay community trying to gain acceptance in the larger community.
I’m used to people that joke about their race (including Australians) and don’t mind a bit of a laugh if we try to imitate say, a Greek mama to them etc. but it doesn’t work in this medium so I will be more careful in future and keep those jokes for my friends in the face-to-face world!
Again, my apologies to you all if I came across as being intolerant or racist because that is so far from who I am!
I’m not offended Kim Sinclair and agree about southern drawls. However there are plenty of UK accents which grate on my nerves too – not saying which ones on here though!!! 🙂
Kim Sinclair No offence given or taken, and we’re all old friends having a bit of good-natured fun here! Cheers! :-)))
Mandy Allen !!! ;-)))
No apologies and I wasn’t offended Kim Sinclair and would never take you as one who is intolerant. I understand people’s preference over certain accents. I grew up imitating British accents from the movies we watch and still do today when I watch episodes of Downton Abbey. Btw I love British costume dramas Mandy Allen ! I am also merely saying that accents do not bother me at all as I encounter all sorts of accents in this area.
Having traveled in the southern states in the US and having relatives and friends (in academia and technology) with southern drawls, I also realize that sometimes people in general (and I blame it on the media like the examples you mentioned) have preconceived notions about people in the south which always aren’t representative of the people there. The negativity associated with it gets more enhanced rather than the good things. But that is a universal experience, other countries have the same accent related divide.
I have no problems with joking about our shortcomings and everyone here including me is a good sport. Life is so much better lived if we learn to laugh at ourselves. So let’s get on with the jokes and giggles shall we?….its past my bedtime so I will see you all sometime tomorrow. Good night!
Marilou Aballe Good night, Marilou! Happy Giggling! 🙂
PS: Do check if Kim Sinclair has placed a few of her spiders under your bed!!! :-)))
ha ha actually I hate British period dramas! Would much rather watch something American!! :-))))))
LOL Jasbir S. Randhawa ! Checking every nook and cranny from now on, including my boots before I put them on. You too Jasbir, check those lids before sitting down comfy with a magazine!
Marilou Aballe !!! ;-)))
Oh my I have the complete collection of Jane Austen movies from Masterpiece Theatre Mandy Allen ! I used to watch Desperate Housewives, but got bored with it after a few seasons. I love Big Bang Theory though!
Kim Sinclair you will have to have a word with your dad, they weren’t immigrants they were prisoners……lolololol.
Sorry people it’s British banter or the other term, Aussie bashing.
I love DH and Dallas and all those ‘completely different from real life’ types of series. Not that Downton Abbey is anything like my real life, I should add…. lol!
Talking of accents, there’s an English actor called Damien Lewis who has/is appearing as the main character in many US series such as Life and Homeland, but as an American. I saw him on the TV recently as himself talking with an English accent and it just seemed so wrong! Funny what you get used to.
Just looked him up Mandy Allen and now I remember him in Band of Brothers. Love that great WW II series and gave my Dad the collectors edition as a gift. (He loves anything WW II, books and movies). He is a good actor but have yet to see the other movies you mentioned. Will watch for it.
Marilou Aballe your dad has great taste 🙂 .
That was the other one but I’d forgotten what it was called – my OH watched Band of Brothers and I think he was playing an American in that one too! Life and Homeland are series – Life about a cop wrongly accused of murder who spent years in prison and is now seeking his revenge, and Homeland is much better – about terrorists and the CIA. That’s my kind of thing (24 was one of my fave shows!). Also totally not like my life. 🙂
Will check out Homeland then Mandy Allen thank you. I love those type of shows too, 2nd to the romantic period dramas LOL!
In that case you will love Homeland which is absolutey gripping. We are just coming towards the end of Season 2 here in the UK (I watch UK TV in France!). Don’t anyone in the US spoil it for me what happens next!
Oh Damien Lewis! I watched him in the Forsyte Saga; he played a real misogynistic pig husband in that period piece. My husband, Fin, loves shows like Homeland and I have seen a bit of it too but haven’t really watched it. We watch a lot British shows too. Just started watching one called Blackout with Dervla Kerwin and Christopher Eccleston in it.I have two more episodes on the Beyonwiz to watch. Just love these PVRs!! I love Big Bang Theory too Marilou! Have you watched the Call Me Maybe flash mob video made on their set on Youtube? It’s great!
Cliff Johnstone Would that I could but next year will be the 40th anniversary of my father’s death. And no need to talk to me about prisoners as his ancestry was of convict stock!! His great, great grandmother was sent from Lanarkshire, Scotland to the penal colony in Tasmania. 🙂
Italians and Greeks and few other nationalities came to Australia in the 50s and 60s for a better life and many worked hard and achieved a lot more than they could in their home country then the next wave of migrants was the Asians who came for the same reasons. There are cycles in ownership of fruit shops and fish and chip shops. It used to be the Italians were the fruiterers and the Greeks had the chippies and in the last five or so years, it’s been the Asians owning the take-away shops and Lebanese or others from that region owning the fruit & veg! Fascinating stuff!
People are still getting into rickety fishing boats and turning up on our shores illegally from Indonesia, Cambodia and Vietnam.
See what happens when I am tired and have been busy? You get a babbling response! That’ll teach ya to have a go at me Cliff! 😀