Odd things your neighbours do?

[ashleyman]

My accountant came out to find garden paving slabs on the roof of his BMW and the car covered in food. He thinks he might have upset one of his neighbours, lives in a nice road, no previous or anything. Very weird.

[Greshamst]

My friends neighbour hoovers his driveway on a bi-weekly basis.

[PositronicRay]

Greshamst said:

My friends neighbour hoovers his driveway on a bi-weekly basis.

You take photos of your friends neighbour to post on the internet!

Wierdo.

[nonsequitur]

Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah said:

The neighbours wife is Polish, he lived there for a while, so knows the language.

Yesterday morning an argument starts between them, he starts out in English, she's arguing back in Polish. He then starts arguing back in Polish, and they carry on the row for a good 10 minutes. The argument then ends with a swift 'fk OFF' from her.

It was very amusing.

Poland 0 Senegal 2

[nadger]

Shuvi McTupya said:

Digga said:

Random English phrases inserted into conversations held in another language always reminds me of: "eth eth eth eth eth, Chris Waddle"

It was a bit of a revelation to me as a child that the Indian Language seemed to be missing lots of words so they just used the English word for stuff.

I was at a mates house and his parents were talking in Indian but i would pick out the odd word like 'battery' and 'microwave' and Remote control.

As a youngster we weren’t allowed sky tv. However as we lived in Cheshire and were relatively close to wales, we could pick up s4c. I used to quite enjoy watching programmes in Welsh, mainly just to see what words they didn’t have in welsh (they’d say them in English!). The one I really remember was ‘dirty weekend’!

[Shakermaker]

nadger said:

As a youngster we weren’t allowed sky tv. However as we lived in Cheshire and were relatively close to wales, we could pick up s4c. I used to quite enjoy watching programmes in Welsh, mainly just to see what words they didn’t have in welsh (they’d say them in English!). The one I really remember was ‘dirty weekend’!

yes, I learned of that one as I had a lot of welsh friends at uni who spoke Welsh to each other. Not entirely sure the rest of the conversation other than "dirty weekend"

[droopsnoot]

nadger said:

As a youngster we weren’t allowed sky tv.

First world. We had ITV, but weren't allowed to watch it unless it was a really special occasion, such as a Bond film.

nadger said:

However as we lived in Cheshire and were relatively close to wales, we could pick up s4c. I used to quite enjoy watching programmes in Welsh, mainly just to see what words they didn’t have in welsh (they’d say them in English!). The one I really remember was ‘dirty weekend’!

I'm seeing the same in the new BBC4 series "Hidden", set in Wales with various bits of Welsh language with subtitles thrown in. It's quite fun to read the subtitles (which seem to be a little in front of the dialogue) and guess which bits will be in English.

[bobtail4x4]

I remember a rally service team, they would jabber on in welsh with about half the words in english, the welsh language stopped at the industrial revolution,

jabba jabba jabba jabba spanner jabba jabba jabba socket jabba jabba jack etc

[Johnnytheboy]

bobtail4x4 said:

I remember a rally service team, they would jabber on in welsh with about half the words in english, the welsh language stopped at the industrial revolution,

jabba jabba jabba jabba spanner jabba jabba jabba socket jabba jabba jack etc

One of my friends tells a story about being in North Wales about 5 years ago, and listening to two teenage girls at a railway station talking welsh, and the conversation ran

"Lldd lldd lldd lldd lldd Facebook lldd lldd lldd Facebook lldd lldd lldd lldd lldd lldd Facebook"

For the whole time she was there.

[Blown2CV]

bobtail4x4 said:

I remember a rally service team, they would jabber on in welsh with about half the words in english, the welsh language stopped at the industrial revolution,

jabba jabba jabba jabba spanner jabba jabba jabba socket jabba jabba jack etc

battery = batri
exhaust = egzost

i am sure there are more.

[tjl]

Blown2CV said:

battery = batri
exhaust = egzost

i am sure there are more.

Cloc
Eliffant
Lori

[MartG]

tjl said:

Blown2CV said:

battery = batri
exhaust = egzost

i am sure there are more.

Cloc
Eliffant
Lori

Digidol

[Rostfritt]

tjl said:

Cloc
Eliffant
Lori

Bws

[rfisher]

Ambiwans, obviously.

Sosugizz, probably.

[Vocal Minority]

Off topic - but on that note

https://youtu.be/zKIrglPF7IA

The Dutch have no word for ‘holy st’ (apologies for awful video)

[pherlopolus]

bobtail4x4 said:

I remember a rally service team, they would jabber on in welsh with about half the words in english, the welsh language stopped at the industrial revolution,

jabba jabba jabba jabba spanner jabba jabba jabba socket jabba jabba jack etc

True story....

My mother in law is first language Welsh, but doesn't find out about the new words they bring into the language. My first language English wife used to teach Welsh in primary school, and kept using the new ones in conversation and confusing the MIL...

[cheddar]

Vocal Minority said:

Off topic - but on that note

https://youtu.be/zKIrglPF7IA

The Dutch have no word for ‘holy st’ (apologies for awful video)

Brilliant

[cheddar]

Vocal Minority said:

Off topic - but on that note

https://youtu.be/zKIrglPF7IA

The Dutch have no word for ‘holy st’ (apologies for awful video)

Brilliant

[eltax91]

Sold us a piece of land (in their garden) with planning permission to build a house on.

On day 1 of construction, fire off an angry text complaining about a sod of grass and 3 rocks that had rested up against their fence.

[Silverbullet767]

rfisher said:

Ambiwans, obviously.

Sosugizz, probably.

It's Ambiwlans, you 'tard.