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spellingandgrammarchecker
04 Jun 15 16:39
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Not the 'subbies' you can select yourself, these 'subbies' came with the newsreel.

I have no interest in football at all, and the only Jack Warner I knew was Dixon Of Dock Green.

The latest FIFA news came on the BBC this morning, and I noticed that Jack Warner is an african.

Isn't using subbies racist. Silly

I understood every word he said, because I got used to their accent in London. 

The luvvies want them in the UK, so they also must have understood what he said.

So who were the subtitles assisting? Happy
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Report HH Sultan Vinegar • June 4, 2015 4:51 PM BST
off at a tangent but re the BBC, I've noticed recently that the BBC when talking about Germans in WW2 call them Nazis. eg a Nazi unexploded bomb or "he fought the nazis during the war."

So we weren't fighting Germany, we were fighting Naziland.
Report naydam • June 4, 2015 4:55 PM BST
Is 'luvvies' some sort of cockney slang? I've asked about it before, but the only definition I can find is for slightly 'camp' male actors.
I can understand why they ('subbies') would be helpful to many people. They even use them for programmes like 'Benefits Street'...and damned useful they are, too! Grin
Report HH Sultan Vinegar • June 4, 2015 4:56 PM BST
yeah I always thought they should've been put up when Alex Ferguson was talking on the box.
Report spellingandgrammarchecker • June 4, 2015 5:08 PM BST
Naydam

if you watch bollocks like Benefits Street, you need all the help you can get. Laugh

You woold appear to be a supporter of immigration, to that end,  perhaps you should be able to understand them when they're speaking English.

I can.

The fault must lie between your lug'oles and your brain.
Report spellingandgrammarchecker • June 4, 2015 10:24 PM BST
HH Sultan Vinegar    04 Jun 15 16:51 
off at a tangent but re the BBC, I've noticed recently that the BBC when talking about Germans in WW2 call them Nazis. eg a Nazi unexploded bomb or "he fought the nazis during the war."

So we weren't fighting Germany, we were fighting Naziland.


Was that near Swaziland?
Report YOMOMMA • June 4, 2015 10:29 PM BST
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Report spellingandgrammarchecker • June 4, 2015 10:43 PM BST
This thread is worth more than 4 stars, it's at least a 5.
Report Foinavon • June 4, 2015 10:59 PM BST
I agree with H.H.
Subtitles are required when the speaker is Scottish and especially so for Glaswegians.
Can't understand a word they say.
Report spellingandgrammarchecker • June 5, 2015 1:01 AM BST
Ye fekkin sassenach bassas Laugh
Report Foinavon • June 5, 2015 6:29 PM BST
Laugh
Report naydam • June 5, 2015 10:06 PM BST
SaGC. I tend to watch what I think might be interesting. I am unsure as to why I was tuned in to channel 5 at that time, but there will be a reason. Anyway, I must say that without the addition of translation in certain areas, I would have been unable to comprehend WHAT the two 'leading' females were saying.
Obviously, my hearing is not as good or well-tuned as yours because you seem to have had no problem in understanding them. Unfortunately, I struggled.

You then say that I appear to support immigration and as such I should be able to understand them. I have no idea why you should say that but it isn't really relevant, anyway. All of the people that I saw seemed to have lived in Stockton-on-Tees for all of their lives.

I do wish you could resist the urge to have little personal 'digs' at people. You would be a much nicer person.
Report spellingandgrammarchecker • June 5, 2015 10:31 PM BST
I'm virtually deaf in one ear, but seldom wear my hearing aid.

I have worked with irish, glaswegians, scots from the highlands, mancunians, scousers, geordies, chinese, japanese, spaniards, portuguese,  italians, french, dutch, greeks, turks, africans and asians.

I have understood every word they said when they were speaking English.
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