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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 04 2008 at 07:14
Originally posted by progmetalhead progmetalhead wrote:

 
(It may be just an English joke, I don't know whether you will have heard about the Norfolk inbreeding over the little pond, then again the Dutch own most of the land here in East Anglia  Ermm Big%20smile)
 

to be fair, they did reclaim most of the fens for you. Isn't there a region of the the fens called Holland?
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Originally posted by Syzygy Syzygy wrote:

Originally posted by progmetalhead progmetalhead wrote:

Originally posted by Angelo Angelo wrote:

Originally posted by progmetalhead progmetalhead wrote:

Newcastle Brown is a mighty fine ale you know! I'm a tad brittle this morning LOL


This morning was a bit cloudy and not too cold on our end of the North Sea.

Wondering though, what kind of man on the British isles it takes to have Newcastle Brown at breakfast... ConfusedWink
 
It's in our breeding, hence the webbed digits! LOL
 
(It may be just an English joke, I don't know whether you will have heard about the Norfolk inbreeding over the little pond, then again the Dutch own most of the land here in East Anglia  Ermm Big%20smile)
 
Edit: My mate always starts the weekend with a hair of the dog Caffreys at breakfast time Ouch
 
It's a part of England where family trees don't have branches Wink.


Interesting concept - family trunks?




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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by progmetalhead progmetalhead wrote:

 
(It may be just an English joke, I don't know whether you will have heard about the Norfolk inbreeding over the little pond, then again the Dutch own most of the land here in East Anglia  Ermm Big%20smile)
 

to be fair, they did reclaim most of the fens for you. Isn't there a region of the the fens called Holland?



The Dutch are the inhabitants of The Netherlands, of which Holland is only a small part (which I don't want to be part of, like many of my countrymen). Ouch
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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by progmetalhead progmetalhead wrote:

 
(It may be just an English joke, I don't know whether you will have heard about the Norfolk inbreeding over the little pond, then again the Dutch own most of the land here in East Anglia  Ermm Big%20smile)
 

to be fair, they did reclaim most of the fens for you. Isn't there a region of the the fens called Holland?

 
Although nowadays the county
is regarded as rural and sparsely
populated, in the days when the division
took place, it was regarded as being the
most densely populated part of England.
In the Domesday Book Holland existed,
albeit the Fens were undrained, so
Holland was regarded as being an area
south of Boston around Kirton.  Since
that time the Fens have been drained by
Sir Anthony Thomas and others, and
there has been  struggle between
Kesteven and Holland to own the Fens.
Holland won, and the Lincolnshire Fens
became part of Holland, and were then
divided into three seperate sub-areas
called Skirbeck, Kirton and Elloe.
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^ Ah, nearly Norfolk then Embarrassed
 
 
 
/edit: nearer than Skegness though Wink


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Points: 2081 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 04 2008 at 07:27
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^ Ah, nearly Norfolk then Embarrassed
 
 
 
/edit: nearer than Skegness though Wink
 
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/edit: nearer than Skegness though Wink
 
when that was posted, we'd only been given a reference to the North Sea...no-one had said anything about Norfolk....LOL
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Points: 19818 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 04 2008 at 07:28
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Claus 64 of the Magna Carta:
 
"* (64) IT IS ACCORDINGLY OUR WISH AND COMMAND that the Home Counties shall be free of weather foul and grim, and that men in our region shall have and keep all these liberties, rights, and concessions, well and peaceably in their fullness and entirety for them and their heirs, of us and our heirs, in all things and all places for ever and be smug and complacent with it. "
 
I am a little surprised that a man of your understanding should quote such an important document out of context...Stern%20Smile
 
Clauses 61-67 were demanding that King John should ensure that Home Counties weather be kept fine in the context of enabling the peasantry to keep their cattle free from Morrain, their pigs to forage for food on common land and to increase surplus cereal stoarge in the tithe barns...Geek
 
These clauses were accordingly superseded by the 1707 Act Of Union, when the Earl of Glasgow demanded as part of the settlement, that 'All Highlanders and Clansmen should enjoy equal amounts of Smugness and Complacency in respect of weather foul and grim, as their home counties cousins...'
 
Knowing the kind of weather which commonly afflicted early 18th century Scotland, a compromise had to be reached...Wink
 
 
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Points: 2081 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 04 2008 at 07:35
Careful J,  if you start quoting old documents someone might bring up the fact that people from Hereford are actually welsh and hence the small matter of sheep etc Ermm LOL  Tongue
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Points: 89372 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 04 2008 at 12:24
Well it's lucky that Jared isn't from Herefordshire or Wales, then. Big%20smile
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Originally posted by progmetalhead progmetalhead wrote:

Originally posted by Angelo Angelo wrote:

Originally posted by progmetalhead progmetalhead wrote:

Newcastle Brown is a mighty fine ale you know! I'm a tad brittle this morning LOL


This morning was a bit cloudy and not too cold on our end of the North Sea.

Wondering though, what kind of man on the British isles it takes to have Newcastle Brown at breakfast... ConfusedWink
 
It's in our breeding, hence the webbed digits! LOL
 
(It may be just an English joke, I don't know whether you will have heard about the Norfolk inbreeding over the little pond, then again the Dutch own most of the land here in East Anglia  Ermm Big%20smile)
 
Edit: My mate always starts the weekend with a hair of the dog Caffreys at breakfast time Ouch

Caffreys for breakfast?ShockedDead
Mind you, a group of us once went on a weekend binge in Margate. The following morning one of the guys laid out the breakfast table for us all - table mat, knife, fork, spoon -

and a carton of warm Tusker beer left over from the night before.Dead
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Points: 19818 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 04 2008 at 12:42
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Well it's lucky that Jared isn't from Herefordshire or Wales, then. Big%20smile
 
quite true James, quite true...Wink
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^^^

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Points: 3596 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 05 2008 at 12:44
Is Amsterdam in England ? that would make certain coffee shop orders easier 'linguistically" speaking Wink
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Originally posted by debrewguy debrewguy wrote:

Is Amsterdam in England ? that would make certain coffee shop orders easier 'linguistically" speaking Wink
I think you'll find that the coffee-shop staff in Amsterdam have a pretty good understanding of English and it's various colloquialisms Wink
 
But although Amsterdam is located in the region known as Holland, it is not in the region of England that bears the name, but The Netherlands... possibly bearing a similar name due to it's similar geography. So if you went into a coffee-shop in Boston (which is in Holland, UK and not Massachusetts, USA as was originally believed) and asked with a knowing wink for "a brownie" you are more likely to be served with nothing more potent than a chocolate flavoured cake and possibly a slapped-face.
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Points: 19818 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 05 2008 at 13:58
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

I think you'll find that the coffee-shop staff in Amsterdam have a pretty good understanding of English and it's various colloquialisms Wink
 
in fact, the average the average member of staff in an Amsterdam coffee-shop, despite also having to leaern Dutch, German and French at school, has a better understanding of English and it's various colloquialisms than an average member of staff in a Mcdonalds in Essex....Confused
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Points: 2081 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 05 2008 at 14:09
Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

I think you'll find that the coffee-shop staff in Amsterdam have a pretty good understanding of English and it's various colloquialisms Wink
 
in fact, the average the average member of staff in an Amsterdam coffee-shop, despite also having to leaern Dutch, German and French at school, has a better understanding of English and it's various colloquialisms than an average member of staff in a Mcdonalds in Essex....Confused
 
Probably because they originated from Poland and Kosovo.  Big%20smile  
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More depressing news today. No, not the continuing banking crisis but the renaming of Pizza Hut to Pasta Hut. I mean, when was the last time anyone went into Pizza Hut for the pasta?
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