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New Zealand Rocks

Discussion in 'Whatnots' started by Aldeth the Foppish Idiot, Mar 24, 2011.

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  1. Marceror

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    Oh, okay, and now I'm supposed to know what your wine intake has been before I respond to your posts! You're right, what a doofus I am for not adequately divining your level of intoxication before suggesting a chill pill. I guess, after all that wine, this must be the chill version I'm talking to! Scary thought! :p

    And no, I'm not trying to be a dick. I'm being completely good humored about all of this. So just laugh it off, don't get offended, and enjoy your wine! ;)
     
    Marceror, Mar 26, 2011
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  2. Silvery

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    I'm not offended nut-bag! It takes faaaaaaaaaaaaaar more than that to offend me.
    And yes, I have been posting on these boards long enough for you to know that I'm mostly drunk :lol:
    Can't remember what the buggery this topic was about now!
     
    Silvery, Mar 26, 2011
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  3. Taluntain

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    [​IMG] In other news, the RBP needs reviving so off-topic posts can go there... whether you're royalty, aristocracy or hoi polloi. :D
     
    Taluntain, Mar 26, 2011
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  4. Harbourboy

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    8people and Barmy Army have sorted this issue already.

    Nobody calls a breadfruit a bread because that would be too confusing. Same with kiwifruit.
     
    Harbourboy, Mar 26, 2011
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    New Zealand does rock. But I prefer Aussie girls. :D
     
    Tassadar, Mar 28, 2011
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  6. Harbourboy

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    What a colossal generalisation, Tassadar.
     
    Harbourboy, Mar 28, 2011
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  7. Aldeth the Foppish Idiot

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    Um... Splunge isn't an American last I checked. Maybe it's a North American thing. That said, I'm sure there are many animals we can name that some people would not have heard of.

    That's one thing that never ceases to amaze my about the UK. It seems like you guys have so many more accents than we have in the states, and this is despite the fact that you are geographically very integrated. You wonder how poeple that only live some miles away have totally different accents.

    Hells no. We only have about 4 or 5 different dialects in out entire country. Most of those sounding like inbred hicks are the Appalacians.
     
    Aldeth the Foppish Idiot, Mar 28, 2011
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    Hahaha, just personal preference mate. Let's just say Brisbane has been very... agreeable with me :D
     
    Tassadar, Mar 28, 2011
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    The pineapple people at work always refer to them as "pines". Does that help :p?

    I just had some kiwis now after reading the thread. They tasted nice. Does anybody need me to differentiate which I ate?

    It's a historical thing, their accents evolved over thousands of years. The US is only newly settled in historical terms and the same accents would have been brought westwards by the settlers as was spoken in the east. And travel was much harder back before the US was founded. Never mind pronunciation, in medieval times many words were different in communities just a few miles apart and communication could be difficult. I saw a documentary where they had some Old English professors speaking in each of the dialects and the same sentences were often unrecognisable. Standardisation of the language only really kicked off with the advent of printing and the St James bible in particular.
     
    Déise, Mar 29, 2011
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