What made you smile recently?

[Wyshiepoo]

In the news...

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CD

You likely won't get this as it's the wrong side of the pond.
But the new leader of UKIP is called Dr Gammons.

What were they thinking?

As an explainer, during the Brexit thing the two 'sides' had quite a bit of animosity towards one another. Still have in reality.

Those who wanted to remain were called Lefty Remoaners. Lampooned as a Woke, Virtue signalling, Elite middle class person.

Many of those who wanted to leave were called Gammon, lampooned as a usually middle aged, overweight, permanently angry about something, red faced man.

UKIP were the main group representing leave so I find it funny that they have a Dr Gammons leading them.

 

[LissaC]

 

[TastyReuben]

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Is there any other way?

 

[rascal]

View: https://youtu.be/3gCWOb7V-b0

I enjoyed that, didn't know you liked ramones, I love them. There's a clip of them singing in s Japanese school that's good!!

Russ

 

[rascal]

I can't understand the scots accent. My first boss was a Scotsman who whistled all day Norwegian wood, I can see him now walking around in his walk shorts whistling.
My grandkids whistle, we encourage it here.
You guys would prolly find the kiwi accent "rough"


Russ

 

[Yorky]

 

[caseydog]

Some old military pics my wife just found:


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You are wearing <GASP> olive drab?

CD

 

[caseydog]

Many of those who wanted to leave were called Gammon, lampooned as a usually middle aged, overweight, permanently angry about something, red faced man.

We have those here. We call them Republicans.

CD

 

[Yorky]

This was posted on Farcebook a few weeks ago. I think it was taken around '57 or '58.

 

[Timenspace]

To be clear, I didn't sound like exactly like Gomer Pyle, it's just that I had a very noticeable "not Northern" accent, and to someone who can't tell a North Carolina accent from a West Virginia accent from an Alabama accent, Gomer Pyle is sort of a catch-all for what all people from the southern US sound like, and to be clear on that, I'm technically born and raised in Ohio (not part of the American South), but my family are all mainly from Kentucky, and the southern part of Ohio is full of transplanted Kentuckians, so there's a strong Kentucky culture here (food, music, values, etc) and we all sound like we're from Kentucky.

Wonderful.

 

[Timenspace]

That is serious country talk. I'm no where near that bad, though my grandparents and some great-aunts/uncles did use some of those terms. Not even my cousins who grew up in the country were that bad.

Honestly I never knew there were actual changes to a word until recently, when I heard a stream in which the speaker said Exspecially...whaaat?

 

[MypinchofItaly]

This was posted on Farcebook a few weeks ago. I think it was taken around '57 or '58.

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Where are you?

 

[Timenspace]

This was posted on Farcebook a few weeks ago. I think it was taken around '57 or '58.

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Is this your schoolclass? An only boys school?

 

[Timenspace]

Where are you?

Yes, and that too...

 

[Timenspace]

I can't understand the scots accent. My first boss was a Scotsman who whistled all day Norwegian wood, I can see him now walking around in his walk shorts whistling.
My grandkids whistle, we encourage it here.
You guys would prolly find the kiwi accent "rough"


Russ

I'd love it. I like the whooole range of possible and impossible accents...
There is an island Brač dialect in my country that is very peculiar and difficult to understand for a non Bračanin...but I love hearing it.

Last summer I watched a Bračanin stand up comedian on yt in understandable Croatian with a heavy but lovely accent, and the same one performing in front of his domestic audience...