That the board was back up!! And it seems Im `still` Ronin.... Never mind, Hi all.

Did you not get an email before Christmas?

No!

Um...well...the board's back up.

I see.

That's good.

Ee by gum.

Arrr. I don't speak Britishese, but it be funny, it be, the above post. Arr! Thar be an invasion of smileys! Note: I appear to have gone insane. >.>

Ee by gum is Yorkshireish, which is the language for Yorkshire folks living in the county of Yorkshire and I knew a lad from college who is from Barnsley, a town in that same county who says thee and thou a lot. 'eck I lived around Walsall in the Black Country (West Midlands in the west of the middle of Britain) and have heard people calling folk cock instead of their names, eg a neighbour of mine called me cock to me but called me by ny name Paul when speaking about me to other people.

Aaaaaaaah. Yorkshire...I want to go there sometime. I've seen pictures, and it's very pretty. Of course, pretty much the entirety of those islands is beautiful. But I'd have a heck of a time trying to figure out what people were saying. But I think it'd be worth it. As for the calling you cock to your face...that is so unintentionally hilarious. Fabulous.

If you have problems with Yorkshire people talking, t hen be glad you haven't heard people in Glasgow. AND that's when they are sober, never mind if they had 10 plus pints in them.

Heh. I dunno...I seem to have a remarkable talent for being able to understand extraordinarily drunk people. Course, my experience is with rednecks, not the British. Hmmm...

Several years ago, I was in a pub with a group of friends. I was playing solitare on a game machine and there were 2 drunk regulars and despite having about 3 or 5 pints myself, I actually could understand the one talking even though he wasn't coherent. It must be the beer I think.