Just when you think it can't get any worse!
Oct 6th 2006, 8:40 pm
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Re: Just when you think it can't get any worse!
Originally Posted by ironporer
At least for # 1, I must say that of all the countries I have traveled to, or known people from the Dutch usually speak the best English of all- including what I would call a 'British accent". In fact this morning on NPR there was a Dutck spokesman for something, and except for an odd inflection on one or two words, I would have sworn she was a Brit.
#2 is just a plain old idiot who never paid attention to geography class (or Hockey games)
#2 is just a plain old idiot who never paid attention to geography class (or Hockey games)
Oct 6th 2006, 8:49 pm
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Re: Just when you think it can't get any worse!
Originally Posted by Dan725
You're right, as a rule the Dutch speak excellent english, with many of them sounding Brit or American.
can at least differentiate between a few different accents and is more intelligent than the average Texan.I think that might be why it's easier for him for people to not recognise his accent: Dutch people are as rare as rocking horse shit here, and certainly there's not been any Dutch television or movies here. So almost no one is going to get it right.
Oct 6th 2006, 9:09 pm
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Re: Just when you think it can't get any worse!
Originally Posted by TruBrit
my scottish hairdresser is a really nice gay male guy and i wouldn't have put it past him 
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Oct 6th 2006, 9:10 pm
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Re: Just when you think it can't get any worse!
Just being a bit of nit-picker, but the Union Jack is not the Union Flag.
The Union Jack is a red naval flag with the Union Flag in the top left hand corner.
The more you know...
The Union Jack is a red naval flag with the Union Flag in the top left hand corner.
The more you know...
Oct 6th 2006, 9:16 pm
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Re: Just when you think it can't get any worse!
Originally Posted by NC Penguin
Is his name Angus by any chance?
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no sorry, it's...... wait for it....B.J.
Oct 8th 2006, 3:31 pm
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Re: Just when you think it can't get any worse!
I believe that you are incorrect. The Union Jack is the Union flag.
The red naval flag that you describe is called a Red Ensign and is flow by UK merchant ships.
The more you know, the more you confuse!
Tiny
The red naval flag that you describe is called a Red Ensign and is flow by UK merchant ships.
The more you know, the more you confuse!
Tiny
Originally Posted by Octang Frye
Just being a bit of nit-picker, but the Union Jack is not the Union Flag.
The Union Jack is a red naval flag with the Union Flag in the top left hand corner.
The more you know...
The Union Jack is a red naval flag with the Union Flag in the top left hand corner.
The more you know...
Oct 8th 2006, 4:17 pm
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Re: Just when you think it can't get any worse!
Originally Posted by TruBrit
no sorry, it's...... wait for it....B.J.
If it's B J Fitzstuart I am out of here.
Oct 8th 2006, 5:07 pm
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Re: Just when you think it can't get any worse!
Originally Posted by Dan725
You're right, as a rule the Dutch speak excellent english, with many of them sounding Brit or American.
Oct 8th 2006, 9:45 pm
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Re: Just when you think it can't get any worse!
Originally Posted by Rodney you plonker
FFS
If it's B J Fitzstuart I am out of here.
If it's B J Fitzstuart I am out of here.
lol it's an abbreviation for brendan so he says
Oct 10th 2006, 11:39 pm
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Re: Just when you think it can't get any worse!
saw a weird thing at work the other day. I dont know about elsewhere but here in LA the Union Jack is something of a designer logo. You see it everywhere on expensive jeans, t-shirts all over the place. I am sure plenty of people dont even realise what it is!
Anyway I saw a guy with a union jack tshirt with the words in bold GREECE underneath it.
I long to ask him the story behind it. Is it some post modern ironic statment on the greek/UK relations (nothing particularly weird there I think). Did the designer really think its a greek flag.. or is it just some random shit that someone put on the tshirt in the same way that you get all that great engrish in japan.
If it was some other country like say iraq or even america I would understand maybe some political comment but greece???
Anyway I saw a guy with a union jack tshirt with the words in bold GREECE underneath it.
I long to ask him the story behind it. Is it some post modern ironic statment on the greek/UK relations (nothing particularly weird there I think). Did the designer really think its a greek flag.. or is it just some random shit that someone put on the tshirt in the same way that you get all that great engrish in japan.
If it was some other country like say iraq or even america I would understand maybe some political comment but greece???
Originally Posted by TruBrit
lol it's an abbreviation for brendan so he says
Oct 10th 2006, 11:41 pm
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Re: Just when you think it can't get any worse!
Originally Posted by angelman
saw a weird thing at work the other day. I dont know about elsewhere but here in LA the Union Jack is something of a designer logo. You see it everywhere on expensive jeans, t-shirts all over the place. I am sure plenty of people dont even realise what it is!
Anyway I saw a guy with a union jack tshirt with the words in bold GREECE underneath it.
I long to ask him the story behind it. Is it some post modern ironic statment on the greek/UK relations (nothing particularly weird there I think). Did the designer really think its a greek flag.. or is it just some random shit that someone put on the tshirt in the same way that you get all that great engrish in japan.
If it was some other country like say iraq or even america I would understand maybe some political comment but greece???
Anyway I saw a guy with a union jack tshirt with the words in bold GREECE underneath it.
I long to ask him the story behind it. Is it some post modern ironic statment on the greek/UK relations (nothing particularly weird there I think). Did the designer really think its a greek flag.. or is it just some random shit that someone put on the tshirt in the same way that you get all that great engrish in japan.
If it was some other country like say iraq or even america I would understand maybe some political comment but greece???
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Oct 10th 2006, 11:48 pm
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Re: Just when you think it can't get any worse!
Originally Posted by angelman
saw a weird thing at work the other day. I dont know about elsewhere but here in LA the Union Jack is something of a designer logo. You see it everywhere on expensive jeans, t-shirts all over the place. I am sure plenty of people dont even realise what it is!
Anyway I saw a guy with a union jack tshirt with the words in bold GREECE underneath it.
I long to ask him the story behind it. Is it some post modern ironic statment on the greek/UK relations (nothing particularly weird there I think). Did the designer really think its a greek flag.. or is it just some random shit that someone put on the tshirt in the same way that you get all that great engrish in japan.
If it was some other country like say iraq or even america I would understand maybe some political comment but greece???
Anyway I saw a guy with a union jack tshirt with the words in bold GREECE underneath it.
I long to ask him the story behind it. Is it some post modern ironic statment on the greek/UK relations (nothing particularly weird there I think). Did the designer really think its a greek flag.. or is it just some random shit that someone put on the tshirt in the same way that you get all that great engrish in japan.
If it was some other country like say iraq or even america I would understand maybe some political comment but greece???
Oct 11th 2006, 12:14 am
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Re: Just when you think it can't get any worse!
Originally Posted by TruBrit
no sorry, it's...... wait for it....B.J.
Last edited by Partystar; Oct 11th 2006 at 12:16 am.
Oct 11th 2006, 12:29 am
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Re: Just when you think it can't get any worse!
Originally Posted by angelman
saw a weird thing at work the other day. I dont know about elsewhere but here in LA the Union Jack is something of a designer logo. You see it everywhere on expensive jeans, t-shirts all over the place. I am sure plenty of people dont even realise what it is!
Anyway I saw a guy with a union jack tshirt with the words in bold GREECE underneath it.
I long to ask him the story behind it. Is it some post modern ironic statment on the greek/UK relations (nothing particularly weird there I think). Did the designer really think its a greek flag.. or is it just some random shit that someone put on the tshirt in the same way that you get all that great engrish in japan.
If it was some other country like say iraq or even america I would understand maybe some political comment but greece???
Anyway I saw a guy with a union jack tshirt with the words in bold GREECE underneath it.
I long to ask him the story behind it. Is it some post modern ironic statment on the greek/UK relations (nothing particularly weird there I think). Did the designer really think its a greek flag.. or is it just some random shit that someone put on the tshirt in the same way that you get all that great engrish in japan.
If it was some other country like say iraq or even america I would understand maybe some political comment but greece???
but you are right those cool way out sort of shops are full of Union Jacks on T shirts, Jacket's even shoe's
Oct 11th 2006, 4:10 pm
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Re: Just when you think it can't get any worse!
I thought that the Union Flag was only the Union Jack when it was being flown from a ship/boat ? It's the same design, just a different name when being flown from a ship.
Not 100% sure but believe that is true.
Not 100% sure but believe that is true.
Originally Posted by Tinyburst
I believe that you are incorrect. The Union Jack is the Union flag.
The red naval flag that you describe is called a Red Ensign and is flow by UK merchant ships.
The more you know, the more you confuse!
Tiny
The red naval flag that you describe is called a Red Ensign and is flow by UK merchant ships.
The more you know, the more you confuse!
Tiny
