Off Topic Thread 3.0

swiwi_

Buer wrote: »

Complete tangent but are your kids fully bi-lingual at this point?

Me: Kiwi, French, half-arsed German and understand a good bit of Swiss German

Wife: Swinglish, Swiss German (Zürich dialect), proper German

Kids 1 & 2: English with a sort of Irish lilt, Swiss German (Zürich dialect and the Valais dialect when they want a bit of craic), proper German, oldest has started French (which she weirdly speaks with a German and not English accent)

Kid 3: Swiss German, a good bit of proper German, English with lashings of German thrown in.

Buer

swiwi_ wrote: »

Me: Kiwi, French, half-arsed German and understand a good bit of Swiss German

Wife: Swinglish, Swiss German (Zürich dialect), proper German

Kids 1 & 2: English with a sort of Irish lilt, Swiss German (Zürich dialect and the Valais dialect when they want a bit of craic), proper German, oldest has started French (which she weirdly speaks with a German and not English accent)

Kid 3: Swiss German, a good bit of proper German, English with lashings of German thrown in.

A yes would have sufficed. :pac:

An impressive little list of language skills.

I've always thought the lack of linguistic skills to be a massive weakness in this country compared to elsewhere in Europe.

swiwi_

Buer wrote: »

A yes would have sufficed. :pac:

An impressive little list of language skills.

I've always thought the lack of linguistic skills to be a massive weakness in this country compared to elsewhere in Europe.

The Irish accent of my kids is very endearing, if I might say so. My sister's kids (born & bred in enzed) have the thickest NZ accent possible (Lynn of Tawa style), which grates on the ear like nails down a blackboard.

I'd be intrigued to see if an Irish person could pick

a) That my kids have an Irish accent
b) From which part of Ireland

I'm no expert, but I'd say soft south-side Dublin accent, I can't detect any remnants of Cork anyway.

swiwi_

pickarooney wrote: »

What exactly have you become? (Bit slow on the uptake)

Congrats, anyway!

errlloyd wrote: »

I am also confused. But I presume it's something medical.

kuang1 wrote: »

A CEO of a big pharma?

A vampire of sorts. Among other things, I make people suck blood from other people (via needle and syringe), do tests on the blood or spread it on a slide and look at it myself, then give people expensive treatments (made in factoires in places like Ringaskiddy) to make them feel better, and sometimes when I'm lucky get rid of their problem entirely.

It's great fun!

Zzippy

swiwi_ wrote: »

(It's a new position Zzippy created to represent foreign minorities. Stop prejudice, that sort of thing)

Kiwis, culchies, GAA fans and Northsiders. That just about covers it...

swiwi_

I know I shouldn't...but there is a Muslim kid in my daughter's class called Haamdi.

Each time I hear his name, I can't help thinking "Haamdi daamdi sat on a wall".

Childish I know. But still makes me chuckle to myself.

irishbucsfan

This is a strange story

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/lifestyle/tv/1202508/a-year-in-eden-remaining-cast-of-tv-show-finally-leave-their-remote-highland-home/

Instead of being crowned reality TV celebrities and fought over by agents, the 10 who made it through the 12 months have learned that only four episodes have been shown – the last seven months ago.

The remaining 13 contestants quit earlier in the show – with many saying they couldn’t handle the relentless Scottish midges.

Eden, the ground-breaking Channel 4 project, saw 23 strangers cut off from the rest of the world and left to fend for themselves in a corner of the West Highlands.

Intended as a combination of reality TV and sociology experiment, the participants were challenged to create a new model of society. But just as in the Biblical Eden, temptation proved too strong on the Ardnamurchan Peninsula.

With the group torn apart by sexual jealousy, hunger and feuds, more than half the cast quit.

Struggling to live off the land, they resorted to smuggling in junk food and booze.

A year of their lives spent living in a reality TV show that they didn't know has been long cancelled... The perfect punishment for a reality TV star!

Bridge93

Our football team are so dull. Effective at times but bloody hell

Erik Shin

That was a horrific leg break for poor Seamus Coleman

Bridge93

Erik Shin wrote: »

That was a horrific leg break for poor Seamus Coleman

Hideous tackle. Arguable Bale should've gone too

shuffol

Can't understand how players can get paid to do something, practise and play it full time and yet commit themselves to playing it in such a mediocre fashion. Fun game to play but torture to watch.

Dave_The_Sheep

They get paid to win games. They don't get paid to play entertaining games.

Top level rugby is equally nervous. You play a game likes it's a massively tight game of chess. Teams are more afraid of losing than they are not winning. Look at the HC/ERC finals. It's not exactly an expansive game. It's percentage rugby.

I don't like the inexorable march toward the same stage soccer is in but unless things change I'm not sure what is going to matter enough to change things.

kuang1

swiwi_ wrote: »

I know I shouldn't...but there is a Muslim kid in my daughter's class called Haamdi.

Each time I hear his name, I can't help thinking "Haamdi daamdi sat on a wall".

Childish I know. But still makes me chuckle to myself.

That is the funniest thing I've read in a long time.
(I read that in the way that your sisters kids might sound it...)

wp_rathead

Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »

They get paid to win games. They don't get paid to play entertaining games.

Top level rugby is equally nervous. You play a game likes it's a massively tight game of chess. Teams are more afraid of losing than they are not winning. Look at the HC/ERC finals. It's not exactly an expansive game. It's percentage rugby.

I don't like the inexorable march toward the same stage soccer is in but unless things change I'm not sure what is going to matter enough to change things.

You can win things and be entertaining

wp_rathead

wp_rathead wrote: »

You can win things and be entertaining

Yes but continuously on here people seem to mix up which of the two is more important.

pickarooney

In the long run, entertainment is. You bore your audience​ to death and you damage your livelihood.

Buer

Time for Katie Taylor to stop sandbagging. Utterly took apart her opponent tonight. She's ready for a test of some description.

Opponent was gassed after 4 rounds and went into a clinch every opporunity.

Teferi

Buer wrote: »

Time for Katie Taylor to stop sandbagging. Utterly took apart her opponent tonight. She's ready for a test of some description.

Opponent was gassed after 4 rounds and went into a clinch every opporunity.

Ah they pad the records something fierce in boxing, could be a a bunch of fights yet before she actually gets a challenge.

irishbucsfan

She's keen to make a major step forward herself to be fair, but the fighters have very little say in their opponents unless they're very aggressive outside the ring.

mfceiling

Bought an aeropress yesterday. Very good coffee from it. Beats the hell out of her nespresso machine and it'll save me 2.50 every morning and 5 minutes making small talk with the Polish lad at the petrol station.

irishbucsfan

mfceiling wrote: »

Bought an aeropress yesterday. Very good coffee from it. Beats the hell out of her nespresso machine and it'll save me 2.50 every morning and 5 minutes making small talk with the Polish lad at the petrol station.

Great little yoke alright

Synode

Coffee from a petrol station. You heathen

mfceiling

Synode wrote: »

Coffee from a petrol station. You heathen

Worse than that...It's Tim Horton's coffee. Reason being that it's the only petrol station open at 5.50 in the morning on my way to work!!

Stheno

mfceiling wrote: »

Worse than that...It's Tim Horton's coffee. Reason being that it's the only petrol station open at 5.50 in the morning on my way to work!!

:eek: that stuff is foul

irishbucsfan

Going to work at 5.50? Do you work at the 19th century?

pickarooney

Literally twice as early as awec goes to work.

Stheno

irishbucsfan wrote: »

Going to work at 5.50? Do you work at the 19th century?

I regularly leave for work between 5:30 and 6:00

mfceiling

irishbucsfan wrote: »

Going to work at 5.50? Do you work at the 19th century?

Takes an hour to get there!! It's the best time of the day. No traffic, almost nobody to interact with (bar Jimmy Polish in the Texaco). Even at the weekend I like to be out of bed early. Nothing beats walking through dublin early on a Saturday morning with a coffee (3fe or Clement and Pekoe - no Tim Horton's) and watching the city come to life.

Erik Shin

mfceiling wrote: »

Takes an hour to get there!! It's the best time of the day. No traffic, almost nobody to intract with (bar Jimmy Polish in the Texaco). Even at the weekend I like to be out of bed early. Nothing beats walking through dublin early on a Saturday morning with a coffee (3fe or Clement and Pekoe - no Tim Horton's) and watching the city come to life.

I quite agree.. live in the sticks...But whenever I'm in a large city I'm up and watching everything that happens...When i stay in Jury's on Parnell St i can look out over the stalls in Moore Street and see it all come alive, dray horses taking the fruit and veg in etc...Love that!

errlloyd

mfceiling wrote: »

Nothing beats walking through dublin early on a Saturday morning with a coffee (3fe or Clement and Pekoe - no Tim Horton's) and watching the city come to life.

Yeah, this is class. Particularly on a morning like Yesterday!