Post something you've learnt today
- Deebank
- Resonator
- Posts: 24733
- Joined: 10 Oct 2003, 13:47
- Location: Ina beautiful place out in the country
Re: Post something you've learnt today
Both my daughters wanted to indentify as Welsh (in addition to British and English) on the census, despite being born in East and West Sussex respectively.
I've been talking about writing a book - 25 years of TEFL - for a few years now. I've got it in me.
Paid anghofio fod dy galon yn y chwyldro
Paid anghofio fod dy galon yn y chwyldro
- Darkness_Fish
- Posts: 7793
- Joined: 27 Jul 2015, 09:58
Re: Post something you've learnt today
Deebank wrote:Both my daughters wanted to indentify as Welsh (in addition to British and English) on the census, despite being born in East and West Sussex respectively.
Are you not concerned that they've got such low self-esteem?
Like fast-moving clouds casting shadows against a hillside, the melody-loop shuddered with a sense of the sublime, the awful unknowable majesty of the world.
- Minnie the Minx
- funky thigh collector
- Posts: 33546
- Joined: 29 Dec 2006, 16:00
- Location: In the naughty North and in the sexy South
Re: Post something you've learnt today
Ted Lasso is fucking GREAT.
You come at the Queen, you best not miss.
Dr Markus wrote:
Someone in your line of work usually as their own man cave aka the shed we're they can potter around fixing stuff or something don't they?
Flower wrote:I just did a google search.
- Deebank
- Resonator
- Posts: 24733
- Joined: 10 Oct 2003, 13:47
- Location: Ina beautiful place out in the country
Re: Post something you've learnt today
Darkness_Fish wrote:Deebank wrote:Both my daughters wanted to indentify as Welsh (in addition to British and English) on the census, despite being born in East and West Sussex respectively.
Are you not concerned that they've got such low self-esteem?
Yes, keeping England in thw mix was a worry but at the end of the day it is where we live so what can you do
(My parents are both from Luton )
I've been talking about writing a book - 25 years of TEFL - for a few years now. I've got it in me.
Paid anghofio fod dy galon yn y chwyldro
Paid anghofio fod dy galon yn y chwyldro
- Minnie the Minx
- funky thigh collector
- Posts: 33546
- Joined: 29 Dec 2006, 16:00
- Location: In the naughty North and in the sexy South
Re: Post something you've learnt today
This exists
You come at the Queen, you best not miss.
Dr Markus wrote:
Someone in your line of work usually as their own man cave aka the shed we're they can potter around fixing stuff or something don't they?
Flower wrote:I just did a google search.
- harvey k-tel
- Long Player
- Posts: 40893
- Joined: 16 Jul 2003, 23:20
- Location: 1220 on your AM dial
- Charlie O.
- Posts: 44848
- Joined: 21 Jul 2003, 19:53
- Location: In-A-Badda-La-Wadda, bay-beh
Re: Post something you've learnt today
Morrissey must be so proud.
- The Fish
- Beer Battered
- Posts: 13063
- Joined: 24 Oct 2003, 20:04
- Location: Sunny?Worthing
Re: Post something you've learnt today
The last line of that made me laugh out loud.
We're way past rhubarb
- Geezee
- Posts: 12798
- Joined: 24 Jul 2003, 10:14
- Location: Where joy divides into vision
Re: Post something you've learnt today
Reading a bio on Leonard Cohen, I didn't know that he was actually in Havana (as a young tourist - perhaps the only in the country at the time given the circumstances - dressed and looking like Che Guevara) when the Bay of Pigs invasion happened. Detained at the airport suspected of being part of the invasion and only made it out by sneaking away onto a flight while guards were distracted.
Smilies are ON
Flash is OFF
Url is ON
Flash is OFF
Url is ON
- souphound
- World Class Ignoramus
- Posts: 27823
- Joined: 27 Oct 2003, 19:49
- Location: Tralfamadore, with Montana Wildhack
Re: Post something you've learnt today
Geezee wrote:Reading a bio on Leonard Cohen, I didn't know that he was actually in Havana (as a young tourist - perhaps the only in the country at the time given the circumstances - dressed and looking like Che Guevara) when the Bay of Pigs invasion happened. Detained at the airport suspected of being part of the invasion and only made it out by sneaking away onto a flight while guards were distracted.
Interesting. Lenny sure had an interesting life.
Footy wrote:Last week, I discovered that the cordless drill I bought about 5 years ago is, in fact, a cordless screwdiver.
- Minnie the Minx
- funky thigh collector
- Posts: 33546
- Joined: 29 Dec 2006, 16:00
- Location: In the naughty North and in the sexy South
Re: Post something you've learnt today
We watched a great documentary about Andy Sweet last night
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Sweet
Tragic. Well worth watching the doc. Amazing photographer.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Sweet
Tragic. Well worth watching the doc. Amazing photographer.
You come at the Queen, you best not miss.
Dr Markus wrote:
Someone in your line of work usually as their own man cave aka the shed we're they can potter around fixing stuff or something don't they?
Flower wrote:I just did a google search.
- harvey k-tel
- Long Player
- Posts: 40893
- Joined: 16 Jul 2003, 23:20
- Location: 1220 on your AM dial
- Minnie the Minx
- funky thigh collector
- Posts: 33546
- Joined: 29 Dec 2006, 16:00
- Location: In the naughty North and in the sexy South
Re: Post something you've learnt today
The word ‘brachiate’
- the method by which one can move ape like through forests swinging from tree to tree
- the method by which one can move ape like through forests swinging from tree to tree
You come at the Queen, you best not miss.
Dr Markus wrote:
Someone in your line of work usually as their own man cave aka the shed we're they can potter around fixing stuff or something don't they?
Flower wrote:I just did a google search.
- souphound
- World Class Ignoramus
- Posts: 27823
- Joined: 27 Oct 2003, 19:49
- Location: Tralfamadore, with Montana Wildhack
Re: Post something you've learnt today
The word "amphibrach" - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/amphibrach
I was looking up stuff on Leonard Cohen at the time, especially re: Famous Blue Raincoat.
I was looking up stuff on Leonard Cohen at the time, especially re: Famous Blue Raincoat.
Footy wrote:Last week, I discovered that the cordless drill I bought about 5 years ago is, in fact, a cordless screwdiver.
- Six String
- Posts: 23075
- Joined: 16 Jul 2003, 20:22
Re: Post something you've learnt today
When the Beatles heard MacArthur Park (Richard Harris) they went back in the studio and added more choruses to Hey Jude partly by using a loop and then that very long fade so the song was closer to the length of Mac Park 7:11 vs 7:21. Apparently George Martin told Jimmy Webb that it wasn’t a coincidence.
Everything is broken
B. Dylan
B. Dylan
-
- Posts: 10580
- Joined: 05 Mar 2009, 22:22
- Location: Unlisted
Re: Post something you've learnt today
That I've started cat threads on BCB ... Posting images in a thread that Jimbo started is suddenly my starting cat threads. Too funny ...
If love could've saved you, you would've lived forever.
-
- Posts: 10580
- Joined: 05 Mar 2009, 22:22
- Location: Unlisted
Re: Post something you've learnt today
NCIS New Orleans has been cancelled.
If love could've saved you, you would've lived forever.
- Charlie O.
- Posts: 44848
- Joined: 21 Jul 2003, 19:53
- Location: In-A-Badda-La-Wadda, bay-beh
Re: Post something you've learnt today
Chicken tikka masala originated in Glasgow (according to QI - though according to Wiki there is some question about this).
- Samoan
- Posts: 11947
- Joined: 28 May 2008, 10:22
- Location: The Glad Tidings Mission Hall
Re: Post something you've learnt today
Today, almost about to start, three women seek a place in sporting folklore as they bid to become the first female jockey to win the Grand National.
Rachael Blackmore, Bryony Frostby and Tabitha Worsley
Blackmore is on Minella Times, Worsley will ride Sub Lieutenant and Frost to ride Yala Enki.
Rachael Blackmore, Bryony Frostby and Tabitha Worsley
Blackmore is on Minella Times, Worsley will ride Sub Lieutenant and Frost to ride Yala Enki.
Nonsense to the aggressiveness, I've seen more aggression on the my little pony message board......I mean I was told.
- Samoan
- Posts: 11947
- Joined: 28 May 2008, 10:22
- Location: The Glad Tidings Mission Hall
Re: Post something you've learnt today
It's Blackmore!
Horse Racing World History
" I don’t feel male or female right now - I don’t even feel human "
Horse Racing World History
" I don’t feel male or female right now - I don’t even feel human "
Nonsense to the aggressiveness, I've seen more aggression on the my little pony message board......I mean I was told.