Who Was Hitler?

I take it they were under 25 years old.

When I was in Spain there was a magnificent full Moon and my friend`s wife asked us if that was the same Moon we got back home.

Spark, my niece aged 17 is quite a bright girl and will do well in life, she wants to be a vet. She had absolutely no idea who Winston Churchill was last week.

The other day at lunch we were discussing disputes in the workplace and I brought up the infamous rivalry shared by Gunther von Kluge and Heinz Guderian. They look at me like I was a madman.

That`s worse than not knowing who Hitler was imo, particularly if they were young.

History isn't what it was.

he was a Inspector for Town & Country buses

I know people who are well up on historical facts and trivia but are as thick as two planks.

Yeah, 18. And not desperately stupid either.

A few years ago I worked with a woman who must have been born about 1970 - she had never heard of Harold Wilson.

Dec 9, 2014 -- 2:51PM, SlippyBlue wrote:

Spark, my niece aged 17 is quite a bright girl and will do well in life, she wants to be a vet. She had absolutely no idea who Winston Churchill was last week.

That's ok. Probably not started driving yet at that age so wouldn't know who has the cheapest insurance.

It's a sorry situation when the forum has got to the stage when two teenage girls are referenced on a thread, and nobody has offered to spaff on anything.

When in the US I was asked where I was from. I said England. Their reply: Do they speak English there?

It's a sorry situation when the forum has got to the stage when two teenage girls are referenced on a thread, and nobody has offered to spaff on anything.


Hahahahaha!

Gadzooks spark, my brother is built like a Sherman tank and was a top amateur boxer, if there was any spaffing going on by anyone on here about his daughter I'd run and hide if I were them.

He was the keyboard player in Sparks. End of thread...

I keep saying 'gadzooks' I'm not sure if that is a good thing or not, probably not.

thebandit, this is a bit of a classic. This Town Ain't Big Enough..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAzESJ62irI&list=RDQAzESJ62irI#t=51

I suspect there may have been a few sherman tanks already.

slippy the grandaughter made her belated appearance last night, her poor mum was 18 hours in labour. Came in at 8lb 3oz with loads of dark brown hair.

Fantasic news B-B, what a wonderful early Christmas present for you and your family.

I saw your good news last night by the way

Yes I saw that mate, everyone is drained and it was a complete nightmare dealing with the NHS. The left hand didn't know what the right hand was doing most of the time. I had to keep my cool many times when others would have lost the plot but I'm very level headed and all is good now thankfully.

Dec 9, 2014 -- 4:22PM, SlippyBlue wrote:

I keep saying 'gadzooks' I'm not sure if that is a good thing or not, probably not.thebandit, this is a bit of a classic. This Town Ain't Big Enough..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAzESJ62irI&list=RDQAzESJ62irI#t=51

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8dqCQ2MHfQ

That's a cracker the bandit, nice one.

There's nothing wrong with saying gadzooks if you are wearing pantaloons.

Congrats BB

I don't own any pantaloons Eeternaloptimist, I'd rather stop saying it than buy those strides. Payne Stewart could get away with it but I'd look fairly ridiculous in Brixton market wearing them.

"I don't own any pantaloons Eeternaloptimist, "It's ok Slippy we won't judge you, you can confide in us

You're definitely on the suspicious list slippy. Do you wear a monocle? Ever?

And do you refer to people as rascals?

Very funny!

I use old fashioned language too, but American, you varmints

American? I think not sir. Old English.

I use my dad's language. Few people ever understand me!

Would someone be so kind as to translate what Tommy has just said?

Sparky me thinks you're befuddled by the origin of gadzooks.

Ah yes but, remains old English stayed with the US a lot longer than in England. As, it is claimed, did the accent from Shakespeare's time.

I think it's origins are quite a bit older than Shakey. It's derived from gad often used to refer in a polite way to the big fella and there are instances of that being used from the 1400's.

Gads hookes. Originally two words.

Cross (gad) and Gods nails (hooks) ?

FFS I'm an old school person, a bit old fashioned in my scruples and morals, that's a given.

I have never owned a monocle nor wore a cravat for that matter. I do have a ****bund though in a wardrobe somewhere to be fair but haven't worn it for awhile.

I thought as much you perisher.

lol I know, I was talking about varmints!

There are quite a few words which exist as altered versions of God's....

Strewth!

Slippy "doth protest too much, methinks" ok,ok, I'll behave

His wrath!

I remember all about this sort of thing from Beaky Johnson's English classes and his Shakespeare obsession.

I think 'Zounds!' definitely deserves a comeback!

[His wounds, for the uninitiated]

lol I thought it was God's Truth!

In fact it was, Beaky Johnson has a lot to answer for.

Ah! Yes, well corrected Mr Sparky!

Think it may also cover my version though.

Gorblimey, Mr Toes!

hahahaha! he does indeed!

My best mate became a police officer and when he was doing his traioning/probationary period not long after we'd left school, he was part of the arrest which 'bagged' Beaky for importuning in a toilet in Longton!

We're not descending into D!ck Van D yke twaddle, Sparky!

Gorblimey strike me pink, last heard in 60s London.

God blind me then.

You fellows might like to read the Matthew Shardlake series of thrillers by C. J. Sansom, they're full of old English words. 

One I learned recently, for example, is that the jakes refers to a lavatory.  Today, in Scotland, the same slang word means a tramp.

My Chemistry teacher was Beaky Reid, his specialty was hoiking you out of your chair by the hair on your temples when you burnt the desk with the bunsen burner.

Would someone be so kind as to translate what Tommy has just said?

Very Good, EO!

Like the chit chat of old this, starts off with a comment about how poorly informed people can be, wanders off into spaffchat, returns to more appropriate congratulations of childbirth, a brief competition about who knows the most about Old English, and ends up with teachers called Beaky.

Outstanding.

hahaha! Yes indeedy!

Chit Chat, the Tangents Tangent.

Good thread chaps, night all

GN Slippy.

To call somebody a 'berk'.

I often laughed at in one the cartoons that I think was the Perishers in the Daily Mirror. Iirc Baby Grumplin' used to say 'berk'   

It comes from the rhyming slang 'Berkeley Hunt', which is definitely not another phrase for 'idiot'. 

I bet the cartoonist never knew.

It was indeed Baby Grumplin' who used to say "berk", CMAT, and I referred to it one night some years ago when speaking to The Mentally Unstable Doctor Huxtable Pig.

It was he who told me of the Berkeley Hunt juxtaposition - and I was horrified - as I'd never have called The Doctor a berk if I'd known!

Have you been reading up on Bill Cosby, Tommy?

His name in his show was Dr. Cliff Huxtable.

Our old forumite was TheMentallyUnstableDrHuxleyPig

I haven't, CMAT. I've seen a few snippets about Cosby though.

Yes, the Doctor had various amalgamations of his name.

Clarky couldn't bear him, but he (The Doctor) used to make me laugh enormously!

Which just goes to show that you rub along with some and not with others - and you can't just presume that someone you like others will like too.

I used to watch it, made me laugh.

So does the old programme 'The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air', and the  Wayans Brothers programme 'My Wife And Kids'. 

The Wayans Brothers made the 'Scream' spoofs, which were really funny.

I've tried Plebs, The Inbetweeners, Two Broke Girls, and quite a few more Yank comedies. The new ones don't make me laugh at all, apart from the Big Bang Theory, which is getting on a bit itself now.

No idea what to make of the Cosby stuff. My dad really liked him, he had several records of his stand up shows - from the 60s I think. They always struck me as funny and warm. The only other criticism of him before all this was that in his tv show he conformed too much to 'white' American standards, which is ridiculous, unless you think being well-educated, practising as a doctor, and wearing the odd comfy sweater is a white thing - which itself is a bit more offensive. You watched that show and you didn't think of their ethnicity, you just laughed.

There's a lot of people making accusations against him, and it doesn't look good that he paid one of them off, but decades is an awfully long time to get round to mentioning being sexually assaulted.

Big Bang Theory has been consistently great, but does look tired now, I sadly agree.

I mentioned the Hitler story to a friend of mine today, and he replied - it wasn't the polish lodger was it?

Thankfully not.

tell that niece vet of yours there is plenty willing people to teach her who hitler is and we dont give a feck about her d1ck of a dad