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| Author: | slugeater [ Sun Jan 27, 2008 8:12 pm ] |
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It's now confirmed, I'm moving to Cork, Ireland, around the 25th of February and will stay there...until further notice. Relocation won't be a problem since the company I work for provides a nice package that should avoid me the hassle of having to find a roof by myself. time to get some oral english practice I'm badly lacking. First order of business: finding a decent metal-oriented pub. 
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| Author: | Obo [ Sun Jan 27, 2008 9:43 pm ] |
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slugeater wrote: time to get some oral english practice I'm badly lacking.
Won't do you much good in Cork. 
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| Author: | slugeater [ Tue Jan 29, 2008 9:56 pm ] |
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Why so ? Was I without warning sent to a place where old druids speak to their flock in gaelic ? 
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| Author: | Azzameen85 [ Tue Jan 29, 2008 10:34 pm ] |
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slugeater wrote: Why so ? Was I without warning sent to a place where old druids speak to their flock in gaelic ?
Doubt it. But then there's Obo...
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| Author: | Talon1977 [ Wed Jan 30, 2008 7:09 pm ] |
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ROFL! Sluggy got transferred to Stab-city. Have fun! The Cork accent is nearly unintelligible even to an Irishman, from what I understand. But what you DO understand will have you cracking up laughing! |
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| Author: | Obo [ Wed Jan 30, 2008 8:19 pm ] |
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Stab city is Limerick. And the only time I've never been able to understand a single word spoken by an Irish person who was speaking english was a guy with a thick limerick accent. Not. A. Single. Word! Of course he was a security guard who I had to get past to do some work at a chemical plant. But some Cork accents can have their moments. |
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| Author: | Talon1977 [ Wed Jan 30, 2008 11:14 pm ] |
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See what happens when you try to see so much of one country in such a short period of time??!
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| Author: | X2-PB [ Fri Feb 01, 2008 5:54 pm ] |
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My mother's maternal grandmother came from Cork (That's right, I'm an eighth Irish!). To my understanding the Cork accent was quite soft. I certainly find it easier to understand than most English accents. |
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| Author: | Talon1977 [ Sat Feb 02, 2008 12:45 am ] |
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X2-PB wrote: My mother's maternal grandmother came from Cork (That's right, I'm an eighth Irish!). To my understanding the Cork accent was quite soft. I certainly find it easier to understand than most English accents.
an eighth Irish! See? I knew you weren't ALL bad! heh
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| Author: | slugeater [ Sat Mar 01, 2008 4:55 pm ] |
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Well, the move is now done, I'm there, in a nice house and with internet access. No trouble for now except that they drive on the wrong side of the road, which is a bit disturbing. I 've had a suprisingly easy time to understand the locals even though my verbal english has never been really practiced. Joke of the day: they call 3.5 mbits broadband. Oh, well, should be enough anyway. 
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| Author: | Talon1977 [ Sat Mar 01, 2008 5:47 pm ] |
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heh. Good to hear you're all settled in. Surprisingly, it took me no time at all to adapt to driving on the "other" side of the road when I was there. What was strange was that it took me longer to re-adjust to driving on the right side when I returned home. |
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| Author: | X2-PB [ Fri Mar 07, 2008 4:02 pm ] |
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Talon1977 wrote: heh. Good to hear you're all settled in. Surprisingly, it took me no time at all to adapt to driving on the "other" side of the road when I was there. What was strange was that it took me longer to re-adjust to driving on the right side when I returned home. That's because, psycologically, it's easier to drive on the left side of the road. I'm sure there's a scientific reasoning for it but I can't remember for the moment!
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| Author: | Talon1977 [ Fri Mar 07, 2008 5:56 pm ] |
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It's also easier to use the metric system, but we can't seem to do that either!
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| Author: | X2-PB [ Fri Mar 07, 2008 7:05 pm ] |
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Talon1977 wrote: It's also easier to use the metric system, but we can't seem to do that either! Nah, imperial measurements make so much more sense! Inches and Feet are very accessible measurements where as centi- and decimetres aren't as useful. Millimetres are very useful, however, so I personally actually use a hybrid system of millimetres, inches, feet, metres and miles! (I actually know most of the conversion factors too!)
The nautical system of fathoms and nautical miles is useful too (A nautical mile being one minute of latitude is quite a useful bit of trivia to know). |
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| Author: | Ravage [ Sat Mar 08, 2008 1:40 am ] |
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X2-PB wrote: Talon1977 wrote: It's also easier to use the metric system, but we can't seem to do that either! Nah, imperial measurements make so much more sense! Inches and Feet are very accessible measurements where as centi- and decimetres aren't as useful. Millimetres are very useful, however, so I personally actually use a hybrid system of millimetres, inches, feet, metres and miles! (I actually know most of the conversion factors too!)I know you backed me up in the game roll call thread... but still... wierdo. |
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| Author: | X2-PB [ Sat Mar 08, 2008 12:47 pm ] |
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Ravage wrote: X2-PB wrote: Talon1977 wrote: It's also easier to use the metric system, but we can't seem to do that either! Nah, imperial measurements make so much more sense! Inches and Feet are very accessible measurements where as centi- and decimetres aren't as useful. Millimetres are very useful, however, so I personally actually use a hybrid system of millimetres, inches, feet, metres and miles! (I actually know most of the conversion factors too!) |
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| Author: | slugeater [ Mon Mar 10, 2008 9:56 am ] |
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And next you'll want to be back with a pound being worth 12 shillings, right ?
Metric system is good in the sense it uses the same ratios as our decimal counting system. After 9, you go up the scale to something else. I don't want to imagine kids being asked at school: "Imagine a quarter gallon water being carried by a car at 63 miles per hour in a bottle that leaks Ml an hour. How much water will be lost, gross and in %, when the car has traveled for 8 nautical miles ? Please make a graph wiewable on a 19" monitor" [qupte] It's far easier to say a metal bar has a 2inx2in cross section than say it has a 50.8mmx50.8mm cross section.[/quote] Countries that never used the imperial system have no reason to have 50.8mm thingies. They'll likely make them at 51mm if there isn't any reason why it should be otherwise. the meter has had many definitions. The early one was "the tenth millionth part of a quarter meridian". The current one is "the distance light crosses in 1/299 792 458 seconds". |
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| Author: | Flyoc [ Tue Mar 11, 2008 8:55 am ] |
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Ho well... Have fun there, buddy ! |
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