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« Reply #4590 on: 16:25:10, 10-09-2008 » |
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5810 Ollie, come on, chap!! Nealry there!! 180 to go!!!
Er... no, never mind.  Thanks for the cheers! Now. Back to work. |
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« Reply #4591 on: 16:44:04, 10-09-2008 » |
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Someone in TOP has just mentioned the death of Vernon Handley! Perhaps one of the best conductors since Sir Adrian Boult! What a sad loss. I hope the BBC will dedicate tonight's Prom as a IN Memroriam to him.
RIP Vernon Handley.
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« Reply #4593 on: 17:24:44, 10-09-2008 » |
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Thanks Mort. have posted.
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« Reply #4594 on: 01:08:47, 11-09-2008 » |
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My glass is half empty - or half full.  |
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« Reply #4595 on: 02:41:43, 11-09-2008 » |
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- To the optimist, the glass is half full
- To the pessimist the glass is half empty
- To the engineer the glass is twice as large as it needs to be
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Click me -> About meor me -> my handmade storeNo, I'm not a complete idiot. I'm only a halfwit. In fact I'm actually a catfish. |
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« Reply #4596 on: 07:18:03, 11-09-2008 » |
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I love that saying. Half full, sounds better though!! Especially a pint of real ale, as opposed to wine!!!
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« Reply #4597 on: 07:47:58, 11-09-2008 » |
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One can be without this word. I wish people stop using expressions like: Come at half eight, because I will come at the wrong time. No matter how many times I beg them not to say it to me this way they insist on doing that. And then they laugh if I say: Do you mean you want me to come at 6:30? I try to explain, but it is no use.   This word gives me a lot of headache, but who cares.  |
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« Reply #4598 on: 08:14:36, 11-09-2008 » |
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I wish people stop using expressions like: Come at half eight, because I will come at the wrong time. No matter how many times I beg them not to say it to me this way they insist on doing that.
I do agree, t-p. That business of saying one time when everyone is somehow meant to know that it actually means another must be one of the daftest social conventions there is. I'm a simple soul and if someone invites me for half past seven I innocently assume that's what they mean. But if I turn up at half past seven I am sometimes greeted with a look of disdainful disbelief at my social idiocy and put in a corner with a jig-saw or something until the 'proper' time. I'm with you, t-p. Come the revolution, let's get this nonsense abolished on Day1. It's quite nerve-racking enough going to parties or whatever without this additional social hurdle to negotiate. Is it a British/Irish thing? Or does it happen elsewhere? |
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« Reply #4599 on: 08:21:28, 11-09-2008 » |
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In Russian language if you say: Come half seven - the meaning will be different. Half seven means half before seven. I understand the concept of half (past is understood), but when numbers are introduce I switch to Russian in my brain (I can think in English now, but not when numbers are introduced). As a result I always come an hour early. I am very frustrated. I am afraid as it is already that I don't understand something and they don't really want me to come or something else is not right. With this nervous state I always make mistake. My brain complete turns itself off by now in this situations because I made so many mistakes already. |
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« Reply #4600 on: 08:38:15, 11-09-2008 » |
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That business of saying one time when everyone is somehow meant to know that it actually means another must be one of the daftest social conventions there is. I'm a simple soul and if someone invites me for half past seven I innocently assume that's what they mean. But if I turn up at half past seven I am sometimes greeted with a look of disainful disbelief at my social idiocy and put in a corner with a jig-saw or something until the 'proper' time.
I'm the same, George, though I have tried to train myself out of it. If you and I are ever invited to the same social event, we can do the jigsaw together. |
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« Reply #4601 on: 08:51:57, 11-09-2008 » |
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Right, I'll be there at half past seven on the dot, Mary. Now all we need is an invitation. In Russian language if you say: Come half seven - the meaning will be different. Half seven means half before seven. Oh, I see what you mean, t-p. I didn't realise you had this additional complication to deal with as well. It must all get very confusing. But if we are all early at least we can all do the jig-saw together. |
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« Reply #4602 on: 08:53:56, 11-09-2008 » |
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I am sometimes greeted with a look of disdainful disbelief at my social idiocy and put in a corner with a jig-saw or something until the 'proper' time.
That has never happened to me. I tend more towards leaving an amount of time to get somewhere which would be optimistic if all the components of the journey were working perfectly and were seamlessly meshed with one another... I'm surprised we've ever managed to meet. t-p, I presume you also leave parties an hour early. That would be the kindest thing to your hosts of course. |
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« Reply #4603 on: 08:57:27, 11-09-2008 » |
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My glass is half empty - or half full. There was an ad for one of the myriad brands of Kölsch which went: Pessimist: "The glass is half empty." Optimist: "Not for long!" t-p, it's the same in German as you may know - halb sechs=5.30 (or of course 1730) fünf vor halb sechs=5.25 viertel sechs=5.15 dreiviertel sechs=5.45  |
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« Reply #4604 on: 08:57:59, 11-09-2008 » |
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Then there's the tricky matter 'half seven for eight'. What's wrong with 'Come at half seven, we'll be eating at 8'.  |
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