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Disaster has befallen beautiful Surrey, with some areas under a deluge of 10-15mm of snow! The Army have, of course, offered to step-in and help, delivering much needed supplies of Chai Tea Lattes and Prosecco Prosciutto & Mozzarella Paninis. Should the situation deteriorate any further, the PM has issued orders to shoot on sight anyone looking 'a bit working class'.
In other news, something happened somewhere but it involved foreigners so there is no need to worry.
We now return you to you regular time wasting...
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modified 3-Feb-15 5:48am.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: he PM has issued orders to shoot on sight anyone looking 'a bit working class'.
Yes, but that's just in the hope that they'll get Boris... 
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There is absolutely nothing werkin class about BoJo. No-one called Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson could ever be anything but top drawer blue blood.
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Yes, but he looks like an oik pretending to be aristocratic! 
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That's the definition of the British upper classes; peasants, trying to act French.
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that's something they don't do in France as they tend to lope the heads off anyone who does (or even is accused of doing)
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A lot of royalty survived the revoloution, and in fact, the revenge, when the came back to power was more blood thirsty than the revoloution. The white terror it was called or some such.
Anyway, there are a couple of classic give aways in speech; the use of 'on' to mean 'we', 'I', 'you' and finishing a sentence with 'quoi'. This is very 'street' French and quite improper and its use is very common among real peasants so you might hear said:
"On a bien mange quoi."
This translates into very upperclass English:
"One has well eaten, what!"
Add in the obsession with wine, manners, and the use of French on menus in fancy restaurants and the evidence is clear. 
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A lot of that comes from the Normans (not French despite what Paris wants everyone to think) after the invasion the toffs were nearly all Norman and only spoke some stupid lingo (I think it was called French) it has taken us a long time to eliminate the bits we don't like
Now we have it our turn to replace the French of France with a proper language
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Norman French its called. There are a number of difference, a kw sounding 'q', and the i after the r are the best known ones, and ones we still have in English today.
Anyway, the English upper classes are still aping French peasants.
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I thought most of the French peasants now speak English like proper people, it about time the French realise that they have a dead language and convert to English like sensible folks
we will even leave the odd French word in there to make them feel at home
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Quote: werkin class
In South Africa where I grew up, that would be pronounced "wacking class"! 
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I believe the perfect South African accent is to replace all vowels with an 'i' as in big. Gi in tri it, yi'll sind lik i sith ifricin in ni tim.
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I haven't been in SA for almost 20 years, but when I hear them speak, it sounds like foreign lingo to me.
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its that because there are no worker in South Africa anymore?
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: Prosecco & Mozzarella Paninis
Prosecco is a white wine, so it's hard to find in a panino. Also, it is a far north wine while mozzarella is mainly a fresh southern cheese, you'd hardly find them together 
Maybe you intended Prosciutto and Mozzarella Paninis?
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den2k88 wrote: you'd hardly find them together
You obviously have not visited any of the poncey sandwich shops round here.
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Sadly, I did. It sold "paninis" and exhibited a large Italian flag. Of course the only Italian things in there were me and my GF
It was a nice experiment - 5£ for something I could buy at 1.5£ at Tesco and be more satisfied
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den2k88 wrote: 5£ for something
Blimey, you must have gone to one of the cheap greasy spoons.
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Yes. It was late, we were hungry and had 5-10 minutes to spare, so the first place was the best place!
The hard life of being on vacation in London and having only 3 days. Not that when we stayed 10 days we had much more spare time either... Next time I'll spend more time in Bath, I really appreciated the time there (one single day, on Saturday, in Christmas time. I never saw that many people gathered in the same place...)
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den2k88 wrote: Next time I'll spend more time in Bath
A truly beautiful town.
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You must have caught the Christmas Market. The natives tend to avoid that one due to the crowds, although there are quieter times.
It can be busy at other times of year too - Bath is the second biggest tourist attraction in the country (second to London), however London is a bit bigger. Can be frustrating as a local though, as the city seems to be run for tourists rather than locals - bloody council seems to think of it as an oversized museum.
If they had any sense, they would look at cities like Florence - a comparable size with a much better attitude (at least from my perspective, you may well find the locals there equally frustrated).
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Yes I caught the Christmas Market, even if we weren't there for that. We were there for the Jane Austen museum, gibven that my GF is very fond of Jane Austen. Between the museum, the JA themed shopping and the Regency Tea Room I spent quite a bit there, but enjoyed every moment.
Please, don't point at Italian cities as examples on how to run a city, that's BAD example. No city is regarded as oversized museums - in fact almost anything that should be preserved is wasted, ruined and/or left to the organized crime syndicates.
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Ok, point taken, but Florence seemed to do some things right too. You'd hope there would be a middle ground.
The Jane Austen museum is a bit of a standing joke, as she wasn't at all fond of the city, and had her least productive time as a writer while living there.
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Rob Grainger wrote: The Jane Austen museum is a bit of a standing joke, as she wasn't at all fond of the city, and had her least productive time as a writer while living there.
The people at the JA museum are quite honest on that point Still it has one of her few precisely known residences, also her last (and best, IMHO) novel is based in Bath - and the BBC adaptation is filmed there.
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