On a lighter note

Favouritsm, that's wot it is, bloody favouritism.

Where's my Geordie day, then?

Hmm?

X-(

GG

I started to download it but gave up after eight minutes and still loading - but then I'm only getting 31.6 kbps at the moment.

BTW Yorkshire accents are easy to understand, well at least when compared to a Gordie that is. My dad was a Yorkshireman from Huddersfield, - thas 'Uddersfild (about as close as you can type the accent)

After reading the article, or at least the first 6 paragraphs before I got completely lost, I can only conclude that Yorkshire must be the most elegant and cultured portion of all of Great Britain, despite those dusting rags they call dogs. A friend of mine has a Yorkshire terrier, named Raisin, that I actually have used to dust a shelf, and they do a wonderful job. And I'll bet that my wife makes the best Yorkshire Pudding in all of Vermont. All part of the single dinner (roast beef, mashed potatoes and puddin' and gravy) that nobody in the family complains about.

is a Geordie.

This is someone who hails from Newcastle upon Tyne in the North East of England. They are renowned for their generous nature (not [b]quite[/b] being Scottish) and totally incomprehensible dialect.

http://tinyurl.com/e6r3r is where they are.

I'll try to get my contribution level back up to scratch now I've got my brown stuff gathered in one place.

I've missed all of you even the ones whoo get right on my nerves.

You know who you are yer buggers.

Thanks to Neil for the wb
TJ for the PM

Max and Proteus for another chance to irritate their septums and most of all Deadly Earnest for so MUCH amunition.

You mean, WHO, don't you? :x

And yes, when I have heard not "A" gordie, but "THE" gordie speak in the native dialect, my only response was "huh?" :D

Think almost lasagna, but in a yorkie instead of with noodles. start with a sirloin steak, and mince...... wine is in there as well. Did my Julia Childs impersonation when I did my test run. :D The single most complex dish I have ever created, and it was nothing but rave reviews! Hours in the kitchen though.

oh my, I am hungry now! Got to wait for the heatwave to break first though. It is either cold dishes or on the grill as I am NOT turning my oven or stove on and heating the house up more! B-)

Heat 36/98.6 farenheit
Humidex = 45.3/113.5 farenheit
UV INdex - Very high (8)
Air Quality Index 44 (32 is acceptable)

Its really sticky.

Two weeks ago a Gramdmother (97 years old), her daughter and grandaughter were out in the car. They stopped at a WalMart and the younger two went inside to fill a prescription. While they were there they did some shopping. People passing by saw the Grandmother in obvious distress in the car and called 911. The younger two were arrested for failure to provide the necessities - they protested they really loved their mother and took good care of her.....

James

tis larzi wend (English translation "Is a lazy wind") they say that when the wind is so strong and sharp it goes straight through you because it's too lazy to go around you.

- for a foreigner!

Sheeps heed n stotty cyek - Geordie delicacy

Dunk n suck - another one

And this joke will probably miss you, too:

Long before radio was used on ships, there used to be a Lloyds hailing station at the end of Shields Pier. A man sat there all day and night, taking notes of the details of the ships going in and out of the port.

One foggy evening (pea soup-er it was) he thinks he can hear a boat coming in, so gets out his old fashioned equivalent of a megaphone.

"Wots ya name?"

The reply: "Anna"
Again, he shouts: "Wots ya name?"

Same reply - "Anna"

Irate, and shouted desperately this time:

"Wots ya bluddy name, man!"

Again, the same reply - "Anna"

Finally, in totally exasperation, the Lloyds man lifts his megaphone, and positively screams down it:

"Ah knaa ye knaa, but marra, ah wanna knaa!!"

Ah well, that should by-pass the lot of you, apart from Bob in Calgary.

Just in case you missed this the first four times I posted it....

http://www.thenortheast.fsnet.co.uk/GeordieDictionary.htm

Oh, and I totally befuddled jd when I called to wish him happy birthday, and came out with one line, just one line mind you, of "proper" Geordie - he's right, all he said was "Huh?"!!!

GG

I'm a Geordie (and proud of it, if you hadn't gathered!)

You may get more of an idea here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geordie

which is where I think Neil got that joke from!

Oh, and personally, I count as a Sand dancer.....

and just to confuse you even more, Pa talks a mix of pitmatic, dock, Geordie and (sometimes, just rarely!) English!!! (and he's also a Sand dancer....strictly speaking, Ma's a Jarrovian...!)

Confused yet? And if not, why not?!

GG

http://tinyurl.com/j8kl9

ps. You should find it easy to place the Jarrovian. That one, they do in English.

:D

that you AREN'T a Geordie, that was it....

Broon.

Huh!

It's DOG when you live here....

(hence the phrase "He's Dog Happy, he's in the dryer at Cherry Knowles)

[if that doesn't get you going.......]

:x

GG

I had to go and search for "Dog" as I hadn't hear that one. I put "Broon" to show that I'd cracked the clue.

I believe that the "Dryer at Cherry Knowles" must refer to the Cherry Knowles Mental Health Complex where all of the nutters in the North East - including yourself - spend some time (you get to leave when you want, though).

Am I warm? :p

Hmmm. Does "the dryer" signify that we have an alcoholic being "dried out"?

This is like a quiz show off Radio Four!

You cracked it - just about spot on, apart from the fact that I don't work in Cherry Knowles... (as you already know!) and in the good old days, it was also a rehab unit for WWII vets.

Yup, Dog is Newcastle Brown. The Original. It's alcoholic content has been lessened over the years. At one stage, the health units up here actually asked the original brewers to make it less evil - they ran out of spaces in the alcoholics wards in the whole of the North East of England!!! Yup, strong stuff, it was.

Ok, you got that one, so here's another: (which I think is too easy, but I can't think of an alternative at the moment)

In Geordie speak, what are:

The Iron Fairy
The Blinkin' Eye
The Slug

and - ~snigger~ ha ye dropped ya dottle on the proggy mat, ye mad gadgie?

(I'm enjoying this - can you tell??!!)

:D

GG

Tony mate, the biggest problem with engaging in a battle of wits with you is that you have so little ammunition.

That's why I have to give you some, to keep the battle going long enough to be interestign and fun.

has to be that wonderful statue, "Rust Bucket of the North"

Neil :D

Personally, I think [b]our[/b] Millennium Bridge, closed for repair after three days, was more fun but yours is prettier.

:p

Cooking with Semtex, here. I've got to go out to M&S now so I'll address the Slug and your final cryptic sentence when I get back.

The Sage Gateshead music centre seems not to be as well appreciated as Norman Foster hoped, then?

Who's the Daddy?!

:D

Now I [b]am[/b] going out!

are you completely bereft of common sense as you appear to be dropping cigarette ash on my home-made rug.

Translated into Surreyspeak.

Neil :D

Looking at the maps provided, WHY do all the Road names start with an "A"? Is this to keep people from getting confused by having too much to remember? :D

This could be like the Canucks having to order their beer by a colo(u)r as the names are too hard to remember? (Blue) :^0

[i]
"If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding! How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?"

Barnaby park. It's a lovely park just outside downtown Vancouver. But has, if my mind recollects correctly, no real streetname nor east/west south/north clearyfication. Just Barnaby Park lol but there were 2 of them a real park [i](bushes, lake, tracks, forrest, dear, rabbit, even ducks :) and so on)[/i] and a motorhome park. How's that for logic :)

Rob

[i]edited cause I can't type my name right any more :( [/i]

I couldn't tell you where north, south, etc is unless I have a compass in my hand. I wear a ring on my left thumb so that I can tell right from left.

I am not alone, either.

I have a map of my closet so that I can find my way out.

GPS RULES!

I have dyslexia, a mild case of dyscalcula and astigmatism so I don't see clearly.

yet I have an excellent internal nacvigation system.
I don't get lost, even when I moved to Toronto for a couple of years, took only an hour before I had myself oriented for finding my way around the city. I had never been there before moving there.

the term dyscalcula (made me think of count chocula). But I certainly am with you on that. My math skills are atrocious. Basics are fine, other than that..well, I need help.

Years ago, a company I worked for had all the employees undergo an 8 hour psychological exam. The company that administered the tests called and asked me to come in to talk to them. (I believe I was 24 or 25 years old at the time). I was terrified. Did I fail THAT badly? What they said, was I could do with studying a math text book, but that overall, my scores were very high. They wanted me to retake part of the test, which was pictures of a shape broken apart in pieces, and you had to choose the correct reassembled shape. I had finished that portion very quickly and got them all right. They wanted me to do it again, in with them watching. I did it again with no problem. How? I have no idea, I just can. Give me the same pieces with step by step instructions on assembling them, forget it.

I have very good recall for conversations, passages in books, movie lines, etc. Ask me to remember what I ate for dinner last night? It's gonna take me a minute or two to come up with the right answer.

On Saturdays. Steak. Rare cow. Grilled. And a martini.

Only reason that I know this is that it has become a joke on my 3 Day team. We walk our longest walks on Saturdays. After 15+ miles, the body is screaming for protein.

I have (half) jokingly said that I have been going senile since 16. That isn't far from true. There are things that stay with me and things that don't. I use my PDA religiously.

An interesting thing- once I have written something down, I don't have to refer to the note. If I write something down, it is with me forever, it seems.

The good news is that variations like these are accceptable in the IT world.

I'ts actually a fairly small park for this area.
http://tinyurl.com/ff2sh

Personally, I find Central Park in Burnaby to be more interesting to wander around.
http://tinyurl.com/kburl

or best of all, Stanley Park in Vancouver itself.
http://tinyurl.com/g2wzl

That's bostin' thar is ar kid!! :p

This is the bet: if you can translate this WITHOUT reference to your mate Colin, I really WILL buy you a bottle of Dog. And it'll be the real stuff, as brewed oop yer, and I'll get it to you somehow.

Excerpt from a dear old lady, Wor Dorfy, sadly long gone, who wrote for the local paper in the local lingo for years....

"Insteed o' Stick No Bills w' cud hev Clag Nee Pyeppor an' insteed o' that polite little notice in the parks aboot keepin' yor dog on a lead ye cud hev Keep A-Hadden Yor Dog.
"Them pedestrian traffic lights that says Cross Now cud just hev a brief Howay! an' instead o' Keep Britain Tidy notices thor wud be Divvent Hoy Yor Muck Heor.
"The shops, as weel, wud use propor langwidge.
"The bakers would sell stotty cyeks, Sudden Deeth, and Penny Bosters.
"The fruiterers would sell snadgers an' scallions an' pea swabs; an' at the drapers w' cud ax for sharts an' linin's an' semmits, an' ganzeys an' twilted twilts.
"An' ivry hatter wawth the nyem wud sell duts.
"Think hoo much mair interestin' menus an' tarrifs wud be if w' waar offered cups o' scad, shives o' chuck, gob-height samwiches, or ducks wi' veils on."
But then she concluded:
"On the other hand, us Geordies is such distinct porsonalities, w' daint need t' fash-on aboot bein' recognised as Geordies.
"Us disn't need nee special tartans, nor emblems nor nowt.
"Cass us is special folks - an' a gud product needs nee advortisin'."

[i] [b] The game's afoot.......[/i] [/b]

]:)

GG

aka Wor Dorphy, Our Dorothy...

OK, but I'll probably never get it all. It does make amazing reading, though!

:D

ooooooooot!

You're too good at this search business!!

Ok, keep going...... so far you've earned the bottle, label and cap, but not the contents...!!!

:D

GG

Unfortunately, for me at least, it doesn't work. Looking at my hands to see a letter takes several seconds for some reason. A glance at the ring on my thumb is immediate.

It is an odd thing with ADHD- things that I can do intuitively are things that baffle others. But simple things that others can do without thinking leave me baffled.

I was diagnosed very young and started learning work-arounds almost immediately. I was tested pretty exhaustively lately and was shown how I compensate for the challenging things.

Would have been nice if it had just "gone away" like they said it would...

Most of it was fairly straightforward. It was the shopping stuff than done for me!

Clag Nee Pyeppor - stick no paper
Keep A-Hadden Yor Dog - I'm guessing "keep a hand on your dog"
stotty cyeks, Sudden Deeth, and Penny Bosters - You know I know Stotty Cake but Sudden Deeth and Penny Booster have me stumped
Snadgers and scallions and pea swabs - Turnips, spring onions and then I'm completely stuck on "pea swabs"
sharts an' linin's an' semmits, an' ganzeys an' twilted twilts. - shirts, linens, vests, pullovers and quilted quilts
An' ivry hatter wawth the nyem wud sell duts. - and every hatter worthy of the name would sell woolly hats (in black and white)
cups o' scad, shives o' chuck, gob-height samwiches, or ducks wi' veils on. - cups of tea, something from a chicken and then it's downhill from here on!

I REALLY must do some work!

Neil :p

a clinical psychologist doing a brain scan or by a pediatrician doing a behaviour check list test?

I ask because my son was diagnosed by a pediatrician using a text list (scan IV or something like that) as being ADHD - yet a brain scan said he was not. He, like me, does have Aspergers.

Many people with other Autistic Sydnrome issues, like Aspergers, often present similar sypmtoms as ADHD and ADD but they really are not ADD or ADHD. Those with the rela problem had a noticable difference in the brain scan the Alpha and Gamma waves have a greta difference. That does not stop a lot of Pediatricians continuing to make incorrect diagnosis of people.

If you do not have the hardwire difference then the use of the Amphetamines etc actually do harm and not good. If you do have the hardwaire problem then the amphetamines do help a lot. I did a lot of reserach on this when my ex wanted my sone dopped with Amphetamines for being ADHD as she could not handle him. Funny thing was, he was only a problem for her, not for me or any other carers.

Now back to the left hand / right hand.

You do know that back during the Continental War (what soem calls the War of Independence) a lot of illiterate recruits joined the Continental Army and in training it was found that they did not know their left from their right. So a piece of straw was stuck in the left shoe and the marching call change to reflect that, thus the term Strawfoot meaning not so smarts.

The last time I was tested (for about 6 hours) it was determined that I have ADHD (big surprise) and was able to determine that it was responsive to amphetamine therapy. Something in impulse control coupled with focus.

The truly unfortunate thing is there has been an eagerness to diagnose ADHD or ADD (the two are quite different) and prescribe a "fix". I agree with you- Aspergers is too frequently missed completely.

Especially in a child that presents with hyperactivity as a defining clinical symptom, there is less a chance that the necessary additional testing will be done. In some children, hyperactivity is the result of food allergies. Amphetamine therapy will do nothing to help.

Because of when I was diagnosed, I had repeated EEGs to define wave activity. As I understand it, those results coupled with the exhaustive testing for focus and impulse control provide the basis for definitive diagnosis.

I am not at all surprised that your ex was willing to jump at medication. While Mellaril can be somewhat effective in controlling behavioral challenges in people with Autism, it is hit or miss with Aspergers- even though Aspergers is considered a form of Autism. Medicating the ADHD child is almost guarenteed- especially in larger families and during the school years.

Fortunately, you son had an edge- you.

Always wondered where "Strawfoot" came from...

You were right on more than I thought you would be!

Ok ? keep a-hadden yor dog is actually ?keep a hold of your dog? ? close, though!
Sudden deeth ? super-sweet dough, no longer made; penny boster ? extra large iced bun
Pea swabs ? pea pods?.
Shives o? chuck ? sides of chicken, i.e. half a chicken
Gob-height samwiches ? mouth height extra thick bread sandwiches filled to the gunnels
Ducks wi? veils on ? scotch eggs, or rather, made with Cumberland sausagemeat

On the basis that you can't buy 3/4 of a bottle, I'll stand the whole one for you; after all, you did work quite hard at this.....

(and the rest of the board must think we've gone nuts!)

]:)

GG

Ask some of the southerners around here to translate what they often refer to as "English".

Or join a Highland Scot in this.

It's actually fun to read. Amazing how local dialect becomes so prevalent.

Here in the Midwest, two common ones that drive me out of my tree- "take with" as opposed to "take with you" and "irregardless". How anyone can use the word irregardless in a sentence and keep a straight face completely baffles me.

Edited for typo and to add- a spell check does nothing for you when you spell the wrong word correctly!

Jest cause ya?ll ain?t got no good larning from yorn high falootin' places don?t means you kin poke fun at us'ns in the South!!! Long live the South!!! :^0 B-)

Edited to change a spelling, Man, that was hard to type... :)

And ever so applicable in the US as well!

In my Geordie Googling, I came across some poetry...

Geordie's New Shoes

Gan canny where yer gannin
With new skeets upon yer feet
Cos the tiket mans a cummin
Tappy lappy doon the street

Aan aah can?t afford te pay him
This week he?s getting noot
Cos the scullery flair wants diyin
Aah?ve te buy the tarry toot

Se divvint scuff yer new skeets
Cos they?ll have te gan te hock
Unless there?s oot agannin
Doon alang the dock

So gan canny where yer gannin
Mind yer Ps and Qs
And what ivvor ye are diyin
Tek care them bloody shoes

Gan canny where yer gannin
Grandmother where are you going

With new skeets upon yer feet
Wearing new shoes

Cos the tiket mans a cummin
Because the landlord is coming

Tappy lappy doon the street
Walking down the street

Aan aah can?t afford te pay him
I cannot afford to pay him

This week he?s getting noot
He won't be getting any money

Cos the scullery flair wants diyin
Lost me here
EDIT- The kitchen fire is dying (?)

Aah?ve te buy the tarry toot
Lost me here too
EDIT- I need to buy coal (?)

Se divvint scuff yer new skeets
So don't scuff your new shoes

Cos they?ll have te gan te hock
They will have to be pawned

Unless there?s oot agannin
Unless someone is hiring

Doon alang the dock
Down along the dock

So gan canny where yer gannin
So Grandmother, where are you going

Mind yer Ps and Qs
Mind your manners

And what ivvor ye are diyin
And no matter what

Tek care them bloody shoes
Take care of your shoes!

Didn't get all of it but you must admit- a valiant attempt from an American.

GG, Neil- what did I miss?

Edited as above and to add- oddly, the more I read it, the clearer it seems. Or am I finally gone round the bend???

been diagnosed with anything. My older son, however, was evaluated by a psychologist and a medical doctor and diagnosed with ADHD, Dyslexia, OCD and Tourette's Syndrome (he doesn't swear, he just has/had a mild facial tic). It was through the course of his evaluations that I saw myself in much of it. Zach (my son) has never been treated with amphetamines, at the time, I was told that those drugs could make his Tourette's Syndrome symptoms worse. This all came about years ago, when he was nearly 8 years old (he's 19 now) and it was absolutely devestating to me. I had a friend who is a nurse and worked with terminally ill children and she gave me a journal that she keeps to help her deal with the grief that goes along with her job. I got through a few pages and could not read anymore, it was so terribly sad. She told me that she wanted me to read it because I needed a good dose of perspective. And she was right, my son had issues to deal with, but non of them were fatal.

He's had a difficult time, and still does to a degree, but he is smart and extremely grounded. I'm hoping that will be enough to help him be a successful adult.

I know I've dealt with 'focus' issues, recurring obsessive thoughts (no need to have obsessive type of routines, thankfully) but have found ways to work with the way my mind works, rather than against it.

The poem is addressed, I think, to a young boy and not a grandmother.

"Gan canny where yer gannin" means to go carefully wherever you are going and "The ticket man" - the closest equivalent in the US would be a loan shark!

"scullery flair wants diyin" - the scullery floor but what the hell it wants doing to it is beyond me! "tarry toot" might possibly be tobacco related but, really, I haven't a clue!

The poem was basically aimed at Gadget for her cryptic Geordie to me.

Neil :D

You need to read it out loud with some Geordie vowel sounds which would make it quite lyrical.

p.s. I'm sure now that tarry toots is cigarettes as "toot" has become a slang name for cocaine!

has the same social interactions behaviours. 90% of what pediatricians test for in ADHD applies to ADD, Aspergers, Tourettes, and a several other identified issues along the Autistic Syndrome line. It is one of the reasons why the clinical psychologists use the brainwave scans to define ADD and ADHD as it will show as a definite difference there.

My son was diagnosed at 8 years of age as ADHD, he managed without drugs until I could get my ex to agree to a brain scan and diagnosis by specialists in Sydney when he was 13 years old. They provide ADD and ADHD were not the issue. And their consensus was Aspergers (since then other family members have been identified with Aspergers). Allyn is now 18 going on 19 in January next. He is still developing some ways to cope with society - his biggest problem is that most people speak faster than he can comprehend so he needs a job that relies on the written word and no verbal communications, really easy to find, lol.

It isn't easy dealing with the way some people react, they think just because they told him something that he HAS to understand it. Then they get angry when he doesn't. Some learn to understand some don't.

Anyway, best of luck to you and yours.

The Black Country's tongue has been junked on the tip.
Folks say it t'ay proper English, a decaying dialect.
I reply, "Shut yow cake hole barmpots, dow yow know
Black Country is the onny survivin' sound of Owld English?
Even that famous mon, Chaucer, was a West Midlands mucker".

So yow plont potatoes an' we dig - up taters with dirty donnies.
Yow maintain oral igiene with toothpaste, we spit out tuffpaste.
Yow weit fer a bus when we catch the buz. T'ay no different.
The music may sound outta tune, but the routine's the same.

I gerrup at 6am, wash me onds and fisoge n' comb me yahair.
Pull on me uniform trazis, thermal ganzy n' weskit.
I pop me yat on me yead n' grab a Tetnul Dick for breffus.
Say torah to me cocka, mec sure he'll give the babbee its bokkle,
Promise owa Lewis a bag of kaline suck.

"Adu?" to Mrs Hollingsworth, ooh 'er is 'alf soaked since
That Martin went missin', sawa the coppers kum this mornin'.
Number 24's wommel is yowling the street down again.
At the buz stop Muck Fayce and Bragg Arse sly munch -
Fayces like a fawpny hock. The buz driver's gorra cobb on,
Chunters "tickets ploise", caggy-handed bugger.

I sit next to Mrs Millward, ers a nus at Hallum orsepickle.
Ooh 'er dow 'alf mec me loff, loff I say I nearly shat me self.
"Oroit?" I ask, " 'ow was yow wikend?" 'Er says, "I ay bloody
Havin' a Saturday off agen. The twins got into an argy-bargy
On the tip, bobbies bought em um scared to jeth -
They want coal crackin'on their yeads".

Me boss at Dray Springs has gorra a bob on hisself.
11.30 fake break atter stand outside in the cowld,
Cor risk another foyer. Gagging for a cuppa tae, gotta
Gob full of fevers. Kum 5.30 I'm the fust outta the dowa,
"Trarabit". Cook lomb's brains on toast fer faither's supper.
The tittie babi squawls cutting 'er tuttie pegs and kiddling.

Then it's up the wooden hill to me cot,
Countin' the bobhowlers splattin' up me window.
That's mar life in mar language, rusty vowowls,
Corroded consonants, maet flies aet its rottin' flesh.
Black Country leaves a metallic taste in yow mouths,
But in owa 'ell flame foundries we'll melt it down
And keep recastin' it.

Edited because the damn autocensor can't cope with dialect.

Ok, from the top.....

Take it steady where you?re going
With new shoes upon your feet
-
The ticket man ? the man the pawnbroker used to send around to collect the interest on money paid for items in hock which were not to be sold, but held to buy back

The collector is coming
Walking down the street
-
?Tappy Lappy? ? the sound the mens shoes used to make on the cobbles when they were fitted with metal segs to stop undue wear and tear

And I can?t afford to pay him
This week he?s getting nothing
Because the scullery (offshoot to a kitchen ? usually used as a washroom and laundry) floor wants doing
*this is the only one that?s flummoxed me ? I need to ask Pa what ?tarry toot? is ? even I haven?t heard of that one!

So don?t scuff your new shoes
Because they will have to be pawned
Unless there?s anything going (i.e. work)
Down along the dock

So take it steady where you?re going
Mind your manners
And whatever you are doing
Be careful with those bloody shoes!

Now then ? to get a proper handle on the accent, you need to get your ?ear in? if you see what I mean ? so have a Proper Geordie link on me?

(I?ve just spent an enjoyable half an hour in a pleat of giggles at some of these)

You?ll need the volume up fairly loud, and you WILL need to play them more than once ? we Geordies are notorious for talking at an extremely rapid rate of knots?..

http://tinyurl.com/npvq7

Wey, ye knaa, ah?ve had a reely gud tyem deeing all this for yuz, ah?d neely fogot haw t?tackle the lingo cos as?ve had t?taak English fa see lang.

Cheeaz, marras!

(You do realise no-one is going to be able to understand a word I say for the rest of the day..... I'm stuck in Geordiespeak!)

:D

GG

I'm not posting owt but but funnies today. I've had enough of shouting about Lebanon.

See how you gerron wi' Jelli's pome. It's much closer to my neck of the woods though there's not much dialect around my home town.

:D

tend to keep out of the really serious threads myself, I get a tad riled at some peoples attitudes.....

So, you gonna start the Yuk then? Tell you what, you start, and I'll see if I can quickly find a Geordie joke or two to flummox the yanks & co to put on there!

I'll get to Jelli's pome when I have more time, which should be later this afternoon (out gallivanting again, another clinic, another security session.....I'm getting all the good jobs again....!!! :p )

On a Geordie joke search....! :D

GG

And that to the man that stood you up :D ;) forgiven him already? :)

"Wey, ye knaa, ah?ve had a reely gud tyem deeing all this for yuz, ah?d neely fogot haw t?tackle the lingo cos as?ve had t?taak English fa see lang."

Well, you know, I have had a really good time doing all of this for fun, I do(had) nearly forgot(ten) how to handle(tackle/write) this language because I had to take(put) up on(with) English far to long.

Dunno if it's translated right to the letter but think it's quite allright.

Rob

[i]edited cause of @#$%#@[/i]

What we obviously need here is a Geordie to Dutch lexicon. let's try into English - you can do the rest.

Wey, ye knaa, ah?ve had a reely gud tyem deeing all this for yuz, ah?d neely fogot haw t?tackle the lingo cos as?ve had t?taak English fa see lang.

Well, you know, I've had a really good time doing all of this for you. I'd nearly forgotten how to tackle the language because I've had to talk English for so long.

Neil :)

Neil - damn good at this, aren't you? What are you doing? Trying for TWO bottles of Dog?! Ok, I'll buy!

Rob - don't be silly! Of course he's not forgiven!

oh - and "man" is generic in Geordie speak, hence the phrase "how man woman man!" oft shouted in exasperation!

Translation: "oy, you!"

:D

GG

these are the statistics of the town of paraburdoo where I grew up. its not unusual to have a string of 45 degrees C days in summer, every summer. All temps are in celsius I'm afraid.

http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/cw_007178.shtml

Paraburdoo recieve most of our rain in the summer months when its hottest, this is not unusual for a semi-arid climate.

Wey, ye knaa, ah?ve had a reely gud tyem deeing all this for yuz, ah?d neely fogot haw t?tackle the lingo cos as?ve had t?taak English fa see lang.

Wel, weet je, ik heb er veel plezier in gehad om dit voor jou te doen. Ik was bijna vergeten hoe ik met deze taal om moest gaan omdat ik heel lang engels heb moeten spreken.

Have fun with it :)

Rob

Caravan/motorhome and trailerpark on Cariboo Road near Burnaby Lake were we stayed. (just did look it up on the map).

Stanley Park was great aswell, but did some tracks there after our tour trough NW USA, SW Canada and Vancouver Island. Great tour it was :)

Rob

worried for a sec. there. :)

Canny tuh heor that yas still pickin on neilb abyeut the standin up incident tuh yee. :D ;)

Rob