Lucky13
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His alterego must be Michaela or something.... 
A Queen question for our British cousins. (actually everyone, but them, mostly)
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meatloaf109
1st Lieutenant
Queens!!! we are back on track!
Readie
Chief Master Sergeant
So, round a huge circle we go
We sit here in our sceptred isle and benevolently regard the world... content in the knowledge that our fledgling colonies have done quite well for themselves and that the Europeans are on the right track.
No wonder Queen Elizabeth is proud.
It is quite wonderfull being British.
John
We sit here in our sceptred isle and benevolently regard the world... content in the knowledge that our fledgling colonies have done quite well for themselves and that the Europeans are on the right track.
No wonder Queen Elizabeth is proud.
It is quite wonderfull being British.
John
Readie
Chief Master Sergeant
Michael, have you been drinking old boy? I hear that the Canadian winters are rather long and dull...but, er cough...
Lucky13
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....and still, here am I and me fellow countrymen, them old norsemen, keep an eye on you unruly lot, as to not mess with our investment!
Readie
Chief Master Sergeant
....and still, here am I and me fellow countrymen, them old norsemen, keep an eye on you unruly lot, as to not mess with our investment!
Jan, you lot made a complete balls by invading Scotland. The Danes were right to invade England, create 'Danelaw' and marry the local girls.
Lucky13
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We just tagged along, with the Danes and the Norwegians to do some recon, which is why I'm here...let them face the bill!
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meatloaf109
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I wish they all could be califonia girls....
Freebird
Master Sergeant
yulzari
Staff Sergeant
The Somerset name for escargot as a dish is wall fish. I knew a restaurant in Somerset that still served them.
To quote from Flanders and Swan about those foreign johnnies outside the sceptred isle: 'It's not that they're bad; it's knowing that they're foreign that makes them so mad.'
Writing as a North African Viking ex British SNCO resident in France I would like to declare that the Normans were French whoever their great grandfathers might have been.
English football fans might like to ponder over the fact that the 'Three Lions' English football shield symbol is that of Aquitane. It was also the Prince of Aquitane (Edward of Woodstock, later known as the Black Prince) who burned down my village. My neighbours seem remarkably forgiving.
I recall unfortunately offending oldcrowcv63 earlier. Can I just mention my mother was once a US Army Master Sergeant if that helps?
To quote from Flanders and Swan about those foreign johnnies outside the sceptred isle: 'It's not that they're bad; it's knowing that they're foreign that makes them so mad.'
Writing as a North African Viking ex British SNCO resident in France I would like to declare that the Normans were French whoever their great grandfathers might have been.
English football fans might like to ponder over the fact that the 'Three Lions' English football shield symbol is that of Aquitane. It was also the Prince of Aquitane (Edward of Woodstock, later known as the Black Prince) who burned down my village. My neighbours seem remarkably forgiving.
I recall unfortunately offending oldcrowcv63 earlier. Can I just mention my mother was once a US Army Master Sergeant if that helps?
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meatloaf109
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My first wife was from Queens N.Y.
98 pounds of pure mean!
98 pounds of pure mean!
Lucky13
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I do apologise if I offended or in any way upset you Yulzari. I do hope that you do know what I meant though.
We'll have to disagree on that point as they were not French genetically or culturally. The Norman-French language still had many words and usages retained from the original Norse languages of the Normans' forbears although the invaders did adopt the Gallo-Romance speech of the indigenous people,just as they would adopt much Anglo-Saxon after the conquest of "England".
They just happened to settle an area which lies within modern France but that doesn't make them French.
Cheers
Steve
Readie
Chief Master Sergeant
Complicated Steve.
French was the 'ruling classes' language for a long time and the Normans had little, or no intention of learning English.
I know that the French regard the 'northern French ( aka Normans) as a little odd, rather like Bretons I guess.
As 100% southern English I could say the same of those in the northern parts here
In fact, having thought about it.. living in the 'north' of any country attracts the same riducule from those in the 'south'...even though those in the' north' of France are only 22 miles away from the 'south' of Britain...
Arrrrrrrrrrrragh.
John 8)
French was the 'ruling classes' language for a long time and the Normans had little, or no intention of learning English.
I know that the French regard the 'northern French ( aka Normans) as a little odd, rather like Bretons I guess.
As 100% southern English I could say the same of those in the northern parts here
In fact, having thought about it.. living in the 'north' of any country attracts the same riducule from those in the 'south'...even though those in the' north' of France are only 22 miles away from the 'south' of Britain...
Arrrrrrrrrrrragh.
John 8)
Lucky13
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Same in the old country, Sweden! 'Typical Northerners' and other expressions!
'Typical Northerners' and other expressions! 
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
At least us northerners talk proper, like wot I did !
Lucky13
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Quite right old boy, anything else would not be cricket what!
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
Whyeyeman, it's a canny gaym is that cricket like!
yulzari
Staff Sergeant
Theym baint proper janners up country.
I would have put it in Lemesin patois like my neighbour, whose wife has to translate him into French, but my Parisian cousins already presume I've become a vrai paysan dans la France profonde and are amazed we have railways, electricity and internet (though we don't want to talk about drains.....)
I would have put it in Lemesin patois like my neighbour, whose wife has to translate him into French, but my Parisian cousins already presume I've become a vrai paysan dans la France profonde and are amazed we have railways, electricity and internet (though we don't want to talk about drains.....)
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meatloaf109
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Wow, That sounds kinky.
Some things just don't translate from "English" to english very well!
