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Jim Garten wrote:

mutter mutter stillsoundslikeamadeupwordtome mutter mutter

It could be a lot worse. Like Dutch. Now that's a fantasy language if there ever was one!

Ik weet wat u - it' bedoelt; belachelijk s, is het niet?

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And Babelfish.com's no bloody help - the above is supposed to say "I know what you mean, it's ridiculous, is it not"

When you translate the above back into English, it comes out as:

"I weet what you - it' means; ridiculously s, it is not?"

Damned Walloons

Edited by Jim Garten - February 06 2009 at 06:23

Jon Lord 1941 - 2012

Это становится сейчас глупо

When people get lost in thought it's often because it's unfamiliar territory.

Jared wrote:

So, 'Tory Girl' has spoken, I see...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7868401.stm

scratch the surface but a little way...

although, on reflection, she has nothing to worry about, as her mother's favourite morning read, the daily Torygraph has charged to her aid on its trusty 'white' steed...

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/george_pitcher/blog/2009/02/05/thatcher_is_well_out_of_the_bbc

Now be fair Jared. Do you seriously expect the 55 year old daughter of a former prime minister, with only several years education at an expensive girls school, a degree from University College London and several decades of work experience in the British media to even begin to understand that referring to a black tennis player as 'the golliwog' could in some way be construed as offensive? It was just an innocent remark taken out of context or possibly a harmless piece of friendly banter. Is it really so different to calling somebody from East London a Cockney?

Let's bring back the good old days before PC when an evening's entertainment consisted of wholesome fare like the Black and White Minstrels, Love Thy Neighbour and The Comedians with Jim Davidson and Bernard Manning!

And if Tory Girl really believes there was nothing wrong with what she sadi, maybe she should try selling golliwogs on Brixton Market for a couple of weeks.

'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'

Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom

Fun and games with my broadband today. Phoned Virgin yesterday and a very helpful young lady told me I could upgrade to a 10Mb line for £10 less than we're paying now per month. Bargain of the year (so I thought) but nothing could be that simple! I got called out for work in the early hours of this morning and discovered I had no broadband. Called Virgin and after much messing about, I discovered that you can't have a 10Mb broadband with the set-top box that we have. Sadly the helpful young lady never mentioned this. So it's back to Virgin and get the line reset back to what it was (1Mb).
Then I have to phone the technical support again (good job it's free) and he tells me I have to physically connect the PC to the set-top box to get my old connection back. I tell him I can't do this as the PC is upstairs and the box is downstairs. He tells me to take the PC downstairs. I swear at him then discover it's working anyway. The only good thing about all this is that I now appear to have a 4Mb connection. Confused

So apparently they're sending me the cable modem I need to get up to 10MB, but why didn't they tell me that in the first place? Angry

Album of the Year to Plant & Krauss at the Grammys, way to go Robert!

Another day of the school being closed........ I was spitting feathers until I needed to make a trip to the shed, 10 feet from the back door and I fell over twice! Our 5 inches of unmelted snow is now 5 inches of solid ice! Shocked

I now forgive the school.............. however feel inclined to send them in next week during half term to make up for it!

Anyone see Mick Jagger at the Bafta's last night?

R x

The Monday Quiz...

Can you imagine working for a company that has 635 employees and has the following employee statistics:

29 have been accused of spouse abuse
7 have been arrested for fraud
9 have been accused of writing bad cheques
17 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses
3 have done time for assault
71 cannot get a credit card
14 have been arrested on drug-related charges
8 have been arrested for shop-lifting
21 are currently defendants in lawsuits
84 have been arrested for drink driving in the last year

Which organisation is this?

What?

Ok Dean, who's government is this?

Dean wrote:

Ours

Those figures look a bit low for our lot

.

'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'

Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom