In any communication with Pendraken I have found their staff unfailingly helpful, and able to supply what I want, even if I wasn't sure.
We are constantly told the British don't do customer service, so I can only assume you are foreign.
Que?
SIE SINDT FREMDEN! glaube ich??? :-\ =)
With apologies to genuine German speakers. Both native and otherwise
Mollinary
Quote from: Leon on 18 June 2012, 05:24:16 PM
Que?
There you go. Bloody foreigners, the lot of them. 8)
Cheers,
Aart
Well the North is a 'kind' of foreign ;D
Quote from: republic of tolworth on 18 June 2012, 09:41:33 PM
Well the North is a 'kind' of foreign ;D
Oi! Shouldn't you be painting... ;)
I was going to go to the birthday bash, but my shots are out of date... :d
Quote from: republic of tolworth on 18 June 2012, 09:41:33 PM
Well the North is a 'kind' of foreign ;D
Yes, but what kind? :d
No dey is Cornish......
IanS
Quote from: republic of tolworth on 18 June 2012, 09:41:33 PM
Well the North is a 'kind' of foreign ;D
Lots of planets have a north.
Quote from: Last Hussar on 19 June 2012, 05:23:12 PM
Lots of planets have a north.
Well, there are lots of foreigners!
Said the wee Dutchman.. :-\ 8)
Cheers,
Aart, foreigner
Quote from: Aart Brouwer on 19 June 2012, 06:01:50 PM
Well, there are lots of foreigners!
Said the wee Dutchman.. :-\ 8)
Cheers,
Aart, foreigner
Yes, Aart, but you have to try
really hard to be a foreigner in your own country. :D
The North or Up North in England is is defined by Wikipedia of anything north of the River Trent and south of the Scottish border (Where they really are foreign, paint their bodies blue and hunt haggis :D) However we all know how inaccurate Wikipedia can be. :d
All Southerners know that the north really begins at Watford Gap services on the M1. As you go further north of this the people speak with more and more distinct funny accents. (Of course my East London twang is "proppa english an not an accent " :>) This can be proved by the following list of Northerners.
eg = Brirmingham -Jasper Carrot
Liverpool - Cilla Black
Newcastle - Cheryl Cole, although in her case I could think of a very good way to keep her quiet :d :d
They also aquire stranger pastimes - talking of Whippets, Pidgeons and Ferrets and keeping them in strange places within thier clothing. Their clothing too gets stranger with flat caps, and men wearing Kilts etc. It also rains more the further north you go.
The up side of going north is the beer in general gets cheaper and better the further north you go until you get to Yorkshire where it starts to decline ( a yorkshireman told me this - thats why he drinks lager so the beer must be very very bad :-\) Should any Yorkshireman wish to disprove this I can supply my address if you should wish to post a bottle or two :D
You also get a higher proportion of Redheads - Good in Niks case - Bad in Noshers, so this is a matter of preference.
As for south of the Thames the map should be white with "There be dragons" written on it. ;D
I will now go and take refuge in my castle ( Pele tower to any Northerners reading this :) ) and await the onslaught
Uh -Oh !!
Here we go again ! :d :d
I'm keeping well out of this.....
Apart from the fact that I'd say....It's not necessarily going North that means more rain.....It also depends how far West you go. ;)
Personally I LOVE all the different accents we've got in the British Isles....Apart from ONE...And I'm not going to insult anyone by letting you know what it is !!
Cheers - Phil.
No offense is intended to anyone with an accent - you only notice other peoples after all.
I was just trying to help those on the forum not native to this country to understand why we see being Up North as sort of foriegn - obviously in a tounge in cheek way. (Otherwise Leon might really screw up my next order)
Some accents that women have are very alluring :)
Quote from: Hertsblue on 20 June 2012, 07:33:48 AM
Yes, Aart, but you have to try really hard to be a foreigner in your own country. :D
Not in England mate. And until the coming of the railways, 'e be a furriner' applied to pretty much anyone not from your village.
There is the famous tale of a traveller in the 1700s heading up the Thames from London who stopped at a local quay about 10 miles outside the city to find some food. Upon asking a local woman where he could buy some eggs she replied, 'i'm sorry sir, i don't speak French'. So many of those local languages have been lost...
As an expatriate 'Ampshurrman' living in the goodly north eastern County of Durham, i only have another decade or so of residency to be eligible to apply for my passport and citizenship. Many of the folk (Gerodies, Makems, Monker Hangers, Pitmatics) I work with stand ready to kick me south of the Tees the moment i do anything 'foreign'...
As to the southern image of the north, i agree and i always assumed that everywhere north of the Thames was a windswept moor populated by cloth-capped, whippet owning, pigeon fancying savages covered in coal dust and speaking funny. Oxford was the other side of the world so going north of that was off the map...
Every trip i now take returning to the south makes me realise that it's the south that is populated by savages. Miserable, ignorant, grumpy unpleasant savages (cheer up for crying out loud!).
I shall likely remain a southerner until i lie in the ground, but i wish my folk had retained the sheer decency of the north...
Consider this last fact:
America is a nation of 200,000,000 people founded by folk drawn from every part of the world, and they have fewer accents, dialects, and languages than the 60,000,000 wonderfully squabbling people on the whole British Isles...
PS: I'd point out that London has very little to do with England, Wales, Cornwall, Scotland, Ireland (either bit), Mercia (check it out, it has its own movement http://www.independentmercia.org/ (http://www.independentmercia.org/)), or Britain. A wall around the M25 would be most useful to keep the troublesome, Hellish nation of London seperate from the rest of us. :D ;)
EDIT:
Quote from: TechnoPersonally I LOVE all the different accents we've got in the British Isles....Apart from ONE...And I'm not going to insult anyone by letting you know what it is !!
It's Scouse isn't it?
THE WORST accent on the planet. No exceptions.
And i married one, albeit tempered with the 'Army brat' accent. Gawd luv 'er.
Of course the best accent is my own...
Quote from: Luddite on 20 June 2012, 12:29:12 PMPS: I'd point out that London has very little to do with England, Wales, Cornwall, Scotland, IReland (either bit), Mercia, or Britain. A wall around the M25 would be most useful to keep the troublesome, Hellish nation of London seperate from the rest of us. :D ;)
I'm sure most Americans feel that way about Noo Yok, most Dutchmen about Amsterdam, most Germans about Berlin. Three-quarters of France hates Paris with a vengeance, &cetera.
Cheers,
Aart
Quote from: Aart Brouwer on 20 June 2012, 12:34:55 PM
Three-quarters of France hates Paris with a vengeance, Cheers,
Aart
Only three-quarters of France hate Paris ! - I thought apart from the Parisians they all did. Mind you the Germans like Paris - Thay keep trying to live there ;D ;D
To be fair, by that measure, there's evidently a lot of places the Germans like. :d
Two cracks at the world title...nice try Berlin, etc... ;D
Quote from: Just a few Orcs on 20 June 2012, 04:50:06 PM
Only three-quarters of France hate Paris ! - I thought apart from the Parisians they all did. Mind you the Germans like Paris - Thay keep trying to live there ;D ;D
My dear boy, quite a few Frenchmen
pretend to be Parisians, even if only 10% are the real thing. ;)
Cheers,
Aart