And you thought global warming theory was B.S? This is even moreridiculous. Controlling gravity

On Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 9:55:36 AM UTC-4, Chris.B wrote:
On Friday, 15 April 2016 19:48:11 UTC+2, wsne... wrote:

OK, which is better, this:

or the Sophisticated Swing dancing:

Personal opinion is not suitable criteria for judging musical quality, skill, interpretation or expression.

Then the Chi-A-Go-Go number shouldn't be criticized so strongly.



The same holds true for many human activities and is often the cause of
unnecessary friction in society. Judgement of quality is a habit best left to
the young to give a useful outlet for their temper tantrums. We 'oldies'
should accept that what we like is probably tasteless, outdated and opinionated and just keep [smugly] mum. ;-)

The Irish folk dancing (?) number is a carefully choreographed and rehearsed performance which would be judged on different merits than the Sophisticated Swing Jack&Jill contest, in which the two dancers didn't even know what song would be played beforehand.

On Friday, April 8, 2016 at 12:46:22 PM UTC-7, Mike Collins wrote:

There's nothing but the obvious answer. The Irish Republic is Independent.
The Irish people I know object to he implication in "British Isles"that
they are subservient. I'm talking about real Irish here not the plastic
paddies you have in the USA. When I correctly answered "Shannon" the quiz
question "What is the longest river in the British Isles?" the Irish man on
my team and two Irish men on the opposing team objected saying it should be
the Severn (an English/Welsh river).
Many people who are British citizens have an Irish passport - that's often
because it's cheaper.

You seem to be as knowledgeable as anyone here concerning this group of islands, so tell me, is this basically correct?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8mzWkuOxz8

In any case, it is entertaining :)

Countryside is a geographical term hence the distinct Irish and British countrysides so out goes the 'British Isles' as a geographical entity but then again when did empiricists ever respect geography and geometry . It has nothing to do with nationalist sentiments but rather intellectual ones so no surprise here.

As Seamus Heaney put it when he objected to being included in an anthology of 'British Poetry' -

"'Don't be surprised If I demur, for, be advised My passport's green.
No glass of ours was ever raised To toast the Queen"

palsing wrote:
On Friday, April 8, 2016 at 12:46:22 PM UTC-7, Mike Collins wrote:

There's nothing but the obvious answer. The Irish Republic is Independent.
The Irish people I know object to he implication in "British Isles"that
they are subservient. I'm talking about real Irish here not the plastic
paddies you have in the USA. When I correctly answered "Shannon" the quiz
question "What is the longest river in the British Isles?" the Irish man on
my team and two Irish men on the opposing team objected saying it should be
the Severn (an English/Welsh river).
Many people who are British citizens have an Irish passport - that's often
because it's cheaper.

You seem to be as knowledgeable as anyone here concerning this group of
islands, so tell me, is this basically correct?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8mzWkuOxz8

In any case, it is entertaining :)


It's close enough but the vocabulary is still standard English. Real people
from these areas would use some dialect. It also completely missed Black
Country ( this is nothing to do with race), Manchester, Birmingham and
Geordie. The last two are particularly difficult for North Americans.

On Monday, April 18, 2016 at 5:14:25 PM UTC-7, Mike Collins wrote:
palsing wrote:
On Friday, April 8, 2016 at 12:46:22 PM UTC-7, Mike Collins wrote:

There's nothing but the obvious answer. The Irish Republic is Independent.
The Irish people I know object to he implication in "British Isles"that
they are subservient. I'm talking about real Irish here not the plastic
paddies you have in the USA. When I correctly answered "Shannon" the quiz
question "What is the longest river in the British Isles?" the Irish man on
my team and two Irish men on the opposing team objected saying it should be
the Severn (an English/Welsh river).
Many people who are British citizens have an Irish passport - that's often
because it's cheaper.

You seem to be as knowledgeable as anyone here concerning this group of
islands, so tell me, is this basically correct?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8mzWkuOxz8

In any case, it is entertaining :)


It's close enough but the vocabulary is still standard English. Real people
from these areas would use some dialect. It also completely missed Black
Country ( this is nothing to do with race), Manchester, Birmingham and
Geordie. The last two are particularly difficult for North Americans.

Thanks!

On Tuesday, 19 April 2016 02:14:25 UTC+2, Mike Collins wrote:

It's close enough but the vocabulary is still standard English. Real people
from these areas would use some dialect. It also completely missed Black
Country ( this is nothing to do with race), Manchester, Birmingham and
Geordie. The last two are particularly difficult for North Americans.

Birmingham and Geordie are are particularly difficult for many English people. ;-)

My mother once complained that within a week of our going to school in Scotland she could hardly understand a word we children said. Which suggests there is a strong survival force for becoming vocally invisible amongst the natives. [It didn't fool the Scots though!] There were similar linguistic problem in Cumberland. [Now Cumbria.]

Sassenach

Chris.B wrote:
On Tuesday, 19 April 2016 02:14:25 UTC+2, Mike Collins wrote:

It's close enough but the vocabulary is still standard English. Real people
from these areas would use some dialect. It also completely missed Black
Country ( this is nothing to do with race), Manchester, Birmingham and
Geordie. The last two are particularly difficult for North Americans.

Birmingham and Geordie are are particularly difficult for many English people. ;-)

My mother once complained that within a week of our going to school in
Scotland she could hardly understand a word we children said. Which
suggests there is a strong survival force for becoming vocally invisible
amongst the natives. [It didn't fool the Scots though!] There were
similar linguistic problem in Cumberland. [Now Cumbria.]

Sassenach


Although I was brought you up in inner city Manchester I don't have a
Manchester accent because my mother was from the Black Country and my
father was from the Peak District. There were lots of words that they
pronounced differently so I ended up taking my cues for these words from
the BBC. As a result I seem northern to southerners and southern to
northerners.

My mother's Black Country accent eventually merged with the Manchester
accent to make some people think she was from Liverpool.

On Mon, 18 Apr 2016 23:15:42 -0700 (PDT), "Chris.B"
wrote:

On Tuesday, 19 April 2016 02:14:25 UTC+2, Mike Collins wrote:

It's close enough but the vocabulary is still standard English. Real people
from these areas would use some dialect. It also completely missed Black
Country ( this is nothing to do with race), Manchester, Birmingham and
Geordie. The last two are particularly difficult for North Americans.

Birmingham and Geordie are are particularly difficult for many English people. ;-)

My wife is British (grew up in Bristol, lived in London), but has been
more than 30 years in the U.S. We watch a lot of British television,
and half the time she wants the subtitling turned on. She has a harder
time understanding the accents (especially some of the murkier ones)
than I do.

Her own accent has hybridized into something that most people can't
quite identify anymore. Obviously not American, but not so obviously
British.

This is not an nationalistic issue but rather another example of an affliction which plagues all facets of natural sciences and astronomy. To make the 'British Isles' work as it means subverting the terms geography and geometry .

The word geometry itself means 'Earth measurement' so here we have a group of people unable to assign relevance to the 24901 mile geometry of the maximum Equatorial circumference bounded within the 24 hour system and the Lat/Long system.

Any topic will eventually be swamped by people who are neither boys nor adults as the descent is to regional accents within a thread where some hapless individual reasoned out the Irish are British due to a belief that the 'British Isles' exist.

oriel36 wrote:
This is not an nationalistic issue but rather another example of an
affliction which plagues all facets of natural sciences and astronomy. To
make the 'British Isles' work as it means subverting the terms geography and geometry .


Yes this affliction which plagues all facets of science. Relying on facts.
As opposed to you affliction which prompts you to ignore facts which are
plain to everyone else. That's one of the reasons people laugh at you.
Stop being a clown and come out of the cold.