Shard

The one with Rebekah Brooks?

http://www.private-eye.co.uk/covers.php?

Souvy

That's the issue. There was a single-pane cartoon in it that made me laugh my nads off. I wish I'd scanned it...........

Shard

Why use one word when four will do! Indeed, why limit oneself to one quartet when a second quartet will explain the idea just as well.

Shard

Sorry, misread. Thought you were looking for the cover rather than the issue itself.

BristolUK

It's like the 'class' thing. It's not just the UK, other places have the same distinctions, just different terms.

Wrong side of the tracks is another for the US.

BristolUK

This?

ultrarunner

Only that in Canada, there is no "way of speaking" to indicate class, it's more like I have a big truck, 4 wheeler and a cottage...I am class and better than the rest. Oh, and I might have gone to the U of T or McGill

dbd33

I've long doubted that you're in the army, for a while I've thought it improbable that you have umpteen passports, secret identities and security clearances. Now I doubt that you've even been to Canada.

On what planet is a commuter school for Asian students, such as the U of T, posh?

ultrarunner

Wow....another bigoted / xenophobic comment by you. What is interesting is, you don't seem to realize that you might be offending people A lot of those "Asian students" are smarter than you are, and probably more worldly

You doubting that a service member is irrelevant, and trying to validate that for you is just a waste of time.

My point was in relation to Canada and the "class system" here, not the UK. What is Canada's response to Cambridge and Oxford? Perhaps at time you need to pause and read the whole post, before you nit pick and go off on your bigoted rants

An immigrant in another country, having issues with other races? Now that is just classic

dbd33

Queen's. Perhaps King's. But, as a colony, Canada sends it's richest and cleverest students abroad.

dbd33

No doubt. But less posh.

ultrarunner

I'll compile all your bigoted comments for a rainy day, and perhaps create a thread for it. I like how you always speak for the whole of Canada, because of course from your place in Guelph or Toronto.....you are part of the conversation in every single rich home, when it comes to sending their kids to university.

Thanks for coming out...have a nice day.

bats

I think there is a posh way of speaking in Canada. It's a slower and more precise speech, using a better vocabulary and no slang. Users tend to talk more quietly.

BristolUK

I wouldn't go as far as saying they sound lah-di-dah but you should hear some of the more elderly, better dressed 'ladies' around here speak.

BristolUK

Yes.

Different posh. Not plum in mouth, just relative to others.

Much like the UK.

A lot of people think my mum sounds posh. I doubt the lady of the manor thinks so.