El Pibe

There's nothing intrinsically wrong with initialisms and acronyms, but i grant you that they can be irksome when people simply assume everyone knows them all, so can be a bit exclusive or alienating in that sense. for the record (FTR?) it's O(ther) H(alf).

Talking of class TV (and ignoring SJ's FB post about nostalgia for a moment), my mate's going to be writing for the new Dangermouse. Cool!!

I think ye here is the (indeed obsolete in england) second person plural. I actually quite like it as there are situations where it can clear up ambiguity. In fact there are lots of little bits and bobs that sound like something out of a victorian novel that are still in use here, press for cupboard, amn't (which sounds bizarre to us, but is actually valid) etc

Dialect prejudice is something I constantly have to force myself to overcome and not be wound up by (it's easy if you try ladynorwood). Ironically "it's well" meaning "it's good" is a feature of language here, rather than incorrect, but a generous interpretation that maybe there's an implicit end to the sentence, say "your house is looking well [constructed]" could explain it. Illuminous seems to be the standard word for luminous. Though comparisment seems to be only favoured among my in-laws rather than widespread so usually elicits a rolling of the eyes from me. Irregardless gets no bye from me though.

exactly. It's called dialect prejudice!!

no, you're choosing to misinterpret what someone's saying by only allowing for one interpretation of the word good, and then projecting your ignorance onto another. And don't use evolve, as if you've been caught out by a some new rule. You're simply having a reaction thanks to an incorrect prejudice that you must have learned from someone else; blame them I say!! I'm not telling you what to do, im presenting you with the facts, choosing not to believe in gravity doesn't stop you falling out a window does it. Anyhoo, teh my bad for getting wound up methinks.

"thats a bit vague ? example may help?" 2 posts above

Funnily enough what grates with me is people deigning to tell others what to do whilst only exposing their own ignorance, even when given the correct information, making them irritatingly dogmatic zealouts.

>> though I wonder if, when answering, CofE schools weren't really what they were thinking of. Thing is, if 'British values' are genuinely reflected by things like church fetes and the CofE, then there is probably a case to be made for a non blanket ban, just those that aren't us innit. Not so very long ago that Catholicism was decidedly unbritish, better dead than red (cassock). Its not an assertion I necessarily agree with, but it'd be intersting to have a straw poll of the incidence of fundamentalist teaching and undermining of science in the various faith schools and how CofE would fare.

I'm not sure I agree with your point, he was saying that indoctrination was once de rigeur (imposed by law) for state schools, and yet a visiting vicar would sit quite nicely in Cameron's cosy idea of Britishness. It was more an atempt to point out inconsistency and hypocrisy than to analogise the two situations per se. we're certainly in agreement on your last point. In fact the whole 'trojan horse' nonsense is because it happened in a non-faith school, whereas indoctrination and religious conservatism is rife in many, many faith schools. They should be the real issue here.

very good "Idiot 1: That's awesome. Idiot 2: Wait, what? Idiot 1: Uh, I mean, that's "TEH" awesome! Idiot 2: Oh, thank god! For a second there I thought I wasn't talking to another idiot! Idiot 1: "PNWED"! "

he still does. and is extremely wealthy touring the world to people who listen to that sort of thing and nod sagely, safe in the knowledge they're superior to us sheeple.

"when asked "how are you" the response "I'm good". I'm enquiring after your health not your behavioural status" http://motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com/2011/08/03/the-im-good-outrage-is-nonsense/ http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/good-versus-well I'm well at pedantry ;-P

is it just me or is charlie brooker hitting a bit of a purple patch of late. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/16/david-cameron-britishness-charlie-brooker?CMP=fb_gu "Sometimes [at school] I watched through the windows as the local vicar, a uniformed officer of the Lord, Trojan horsed his way into the classroom to indoctrinate the locals. This was all OK because it was happening in a leafy English village with a duck pond, thatched cottages, and a cricket pavilion. But today the government is concerned about more sinister Trojan horse schools, apparently more sinister because they're located in cities and involve different religions." and in a similar vein http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/15/david-cameron-british-history-values "Where the government's agenda becomes dangerous is if one side claims its values are those of the nation as a whole. This is an age-old strategy of authoritarian regimes and movements, used to exclude, ostracise or suppress dissidents. The instrument of McCarthyism to persecute the US left, after all, was the House Committee on Un-American Activities. But we've seen this at work in our own country recently. The Daily Mail declared that Ralph Miliband was the "man who hated Britain" because he was a Marxist who opposed institutions such as the monarchy, the Church of England and the army. Not deferring to the status quo, in its view, is not just un-British, but anti-British"

Brazil not looking like world beaters, but I'm sure they'll get a few more dodgy decisions to propel them into the last 4 in the hope that it'll all come together. I'm hoping today should deliver the most satisfying set of matches so far. I'm quietl;y confident for Spain which is usually the kiss of death.

am down to one t-shirt, bells tolling, a smothered clang competing with the portentous insectile drone in the blighted, lifeless air. I could be in Santa Rosbercon frankly!! Roll on global warming.

she was in Birdsong too. Though I'm sure the video cassette of it in chez carnell gets a bit blurry at minutes 36, 48 and 123!!

Not really caught much nordic noir, does Let The Right One In count? We did recently watch the Tunnel, the anglo-franch remake, which was excellent. I imagine alot of the dano-swedish culture clash stuff would probably be lost on us, whereas the anglo-french worked well, helped by fantastic performances from the two leads. I'd like to give more of the original stuff a go, but subtitles is another hurdle to overcome. Whilst not agasint it in principle, La Piba tends to go 'not tonight dear I'm too tired" *ahem* when the option arises, so to speak, more tea vicar?

Isn't it nicknamed the divorce-maker or something like that? La Piba nearly did one, but luckily her career took off without it. Plus i advised against it as the last thing she needed to be as an analyst/program manager was a.n.other [dull] Mckinsey clone, when her strengths are that she sees things from unexpected angles.

I didn't find the books a chore, though i have heard that Feast for Crows is a bit of a slog and perhaps explains why i haven't kicked it off. I've only watched 1-2 of Battlestar Gallactica, but really liked it. La Piba has caught a few snippets, and acknowledged that it seemed intriguing, well written and probably worth watching, but when it comes to the crunch....spaceships.....can't get off the ground. We delve in and out of Breaking Bad, we're half way through 3; I do think it's excellent, but I hit my limits within two or three episodes and need a week or two break, so progress is slow. We've really been enjoying Fargo though!

i have it recorded, but la piba was ill in bed, so ewagerly awaiting. Have read the books up to about here, so some stuff in season 4 was new to me, some not. Thus know a few bits of what'll happen but hopefully a couple of surprises in there too. It is excellent though. And it's not _really_ fantasy (zombies and dragons aside), as la piba would have hated it otherwise.

and won't anyone think of the cats!?!?!

"Unless you did it with no control or near pedestrians - you're just blocking of the escape" ...and of course it was all done by a seasoned driving professional in a stress free situation, perfect visibility and definitely no hard to see toddlers around, no siree, not a tragedy wainting to happen. But like I said, one trained bomb dog would have done the job, assuming the subhuman scumbag who had forfeited all human rights, which are only enforced on us by Europe, didn't have that instant drying hard resin to spray on said dog.

When will the libtards with their stupid gun control laws ever learn. If this young lady had been prominently displaying her AR15 he'd never have even tried, or if he had she could have squeezed off a few rounds in his general direction and job done. Wake up sheeple, and seize power. I'm certainly voting ukip if it means i can keep a couple of RPG6s in the back of my car for just such an occasion!!

nice to finally cheer for a team that isn't losing