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Any breed of people who can somehow pronounce the word "now" as "nigh" with a bizarre question-like upward inflection at the end deserve some kind of grudging respect tbh.

Ahh, fond memories of Portsmouth mothers leaving their devil-spawn toddlers unattended to stand on the street waving signs saying "PEODOPHILS OUT IN IT"... It was the Paedo Summer that made me first want to leave the country, actually... the whole place felt oppressively reactionary around that time, what with the petrol protests and everything else going on. People seem to have chilled out a bit more now. Or found less high-profile targets for their bile, I don't know.

...is pronounced "aitch", not "haitch". Surely?

Paula Abdul - Opposites Attract Fucking classic.

I see what you've done there 165819[/snapback] A triple-typo?

I'm still using the PC I had made up for me when I moved to Germany in mid-2001, with German-language Windows and all. Some of the terms are completely different and impenetrable, and then you get the comedy couldn't-be-arsed translations. "Systemadministrator" anyone?

But would he come to Newcastle?

It's one of the things that attracts me, when people find out I know a bit about computers I end up sorting out their various computer problems, so I've had to sort out a fair few German versions of Windows, compound-tastic. Everything about Germany appeals to my sense of humour, perhaps unsurprisingly. . 165807[/snapback] Technical documentation, bureaucracy-speak and legalese are the way to go. Apparently something like 60% of the world's tax literature is published in German. No wonder the economy's fucked.............. </robw>

I'm trying to decide which language to learn next, German is very tempting. 165802[/snapback] You'd better like obscenely long compound nouns. It's no wonder translators working into German bill by the character and not the word.

I'm still putting it through my German-manufactured humour processing machine (Humortiefanalysenanlage), which should provide an explanation as to why it was funny within half an hour or so. Then we can all nod and say "ah yes, I am seeing it now. This is being very witty."

My fella pisses himself even when somebody trips over in the street in front of us. I'm constantly having to drag us into shop doorways or behind bus shelters to stop us getting physically assaulted. 165725[/snapback] Are you calling me a hom? 165735[/snapback] Flagrant tbh. The Germans have a "You've Been Framed" equivalent called "Upps!" (yes, it's German for "oops"). Why bother with a clever title when you can get straight to the point, after all?

My fella pisses himself even when somebody trips over in the street in front of us. I'm constantly having to drag us into shop doorways or behind bus shelters to stop us getting physically assaulted.

You got to show off your mad accounting skillz early on then? 165689[/snapback] Freestyled it too. (that's without a calculator to the uninitiated) 165690[/snapback] Word. Well, number.

Do I get extra brownie points for admitting up front that I'm shit-scared?

Or they did... 165648[/snapback] It's a homophobic Nazi conspiracy! I shall be writing to the Chronicle forthwith. Sending them some dodgy Wacky-style poetry, that is.

I think it is, that's the thing. Somebody just didn't quite think it through properly.

Right, I'll stop gaying up this thread now. Beer good.

Incidentally, I love the way our beloved city's gay area is colloquially called the Pink Triangle, a symbol of gay oppression dating back to the Nazi era. I mean I'm all for reclaiming words and symbols from their darker meanings, but surely that's a bit like naming a Jewish cultural centre the "Yellow Star" or sculpting a black rights monument in the shape of a burning cross or something...

Why do you think I want him at a pissup? Renty is HOT STUFF. 165613[/snapback] At the risk of sounding like LM - you still havnt answered my question gemmill how often do you go? 165616[/snapback] Since I left in 2004 I think I've been back 2 or 3 times. It's a nice place though, you know. It's not like I keep returning to some gay shanty town. 165622[/snapback] No need to travel to a run-down gay shanty town when there's the Pink Triangle right on your doorstep, after all...

Redneck chic. It just isn't right.

Actually iirc he was all defensive about it, saying only poofs would go and see that film (classic sexual insecurity). Then I read in the film thread yesterday he did end up going to see it, and yes, reading between the lines, he cried buckets. 165577[/snapback] Going to see it at the cinema was definitely a hom's pilgrimage, Renty baby. I saw it on a plane where the alternatives were unwatchable. Difference between me watching it on a plane and you watching it on a plane is that when it finished, I didn't lift the arm-rest and try to snuggle into the man sat next to me. 165582[/snapback] Was this the plane to San Francisco? 165586[/snapback] Every night I've been dancing in the disco Dreaming dreams of San Francisco And burly Phil who waits for me

He's got a side parting in that pic! Quality! 165557[/snapback] Getting ideas?

I'll be happy to sponsor people, but that's all. Total coward, me.

Where did you get that photo from 165248[/snapback] one of his legs i guess 165253[/snapback] Looking at it, I really hope it's from his leg...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/5216422.stm Aww, wook at the widdle child-maiming heroin-addict serial offender... bless his cotton socks!