Elegsabiff Blog Comments (9,358)

RE: There are usually THREE SIDES to every story...

True in life, obvious in divorce, and really underlined when it comes to politics where it seems the 3rd option is on a hiding to nowhere, nobody wants to know the unvarnished truth.

RE: Friday - my special day...

Saturdays are the day here, there's a definite buzz in town but I like Fridays too, even though strictly speaking my weekend starts Saturday, I take Sundays and Mondays off whoop whoop nearly there

TGIF have a good one

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Molly, it's fairly awful



I love Dara O'Brian's, where is he from?

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Red and Daears sitting in a tree,

RE: United States Produces Very Little Of The World's Plastic Waste Yet Seems To Always Get The Blame

If landfill is forefront waste-management, my comment re indestructible disposable diapers is more relevant than it originally seemed.

"So why ruin our lives over something that isn't even a problem?"

If switching to paper bags as opposed to plastic is ruining your life ... oh dear, we can't have that. I'm sure you can apply for a personal exemption.

You could explain that you are about to drop dead of chronic rage anyway so it won't be for long.

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Oh aye Molly something automatically sinister about a Russian accent, Trevor Noah did a fun imitation in his stand-up days, I know you don't like links but he takes it off quite well.





I grew up with those "guttural" accents so obviously don't have a problem with them, and married into a half-German family so - but yeah I used to go weak at the knees at what I called a Scottish accent. Then I got there and realized there are about 50 variations and what I liked so much was Edinburgh Light and fairly rare

I can get confused between Irish and Scottish, and for that matter between Irish and American, there's one Irish accent which sounds exactly like the speaker is trying to put on an American accent when in fact it is the Irish that was the original

Thanks ...

So true but - for me, anyway - sometimes we miss them when they go and need to look back and realize we got lucky!

RE: United States Produces Very Little Of The World's Plastic Waste Yet Seems To Always Get The Blame

Plastic bags, wraps, and films can't be recycled in your curbside recycling bins. They need a special process.

Most supermarkets have a disposal bin for old shopping bags and plastic wrap and promise to dispose of them properly. Ask your supermarket for one if it doesn't.

Plastic takes serious time to degrade completely. Paper, being of more natural origins can degrade more quickly, and is less harmful to the environment. Most towns in most places have bins for recycling paper and plastic (as well as other recyclable products). Paper shopping bags can be put into them, and more paper bags made. Plastic shopping bags can't.

We can point in every other direction and say others aren't helping, why should we? or we can take the tiny tiny step of doing one tiny bit ourselves. Go the extra distance to a recycling point. If there's a choice between plastic wrap and loose goods - buy the loose stuff. You can take a bag with you for weighing them, too. It isn't a lot to ask. If >7 billion people took even that tiny step but one person, and one person, and one person, is a start.

On behalf of those of us who have kids who will be dealing with this indestructible stuff after we're all plastic-wrapped and binned - thanks.

Talking of kids - no, will add a separate comment on "disposable" diapers. That way you can delete it if you don't see the relevance to your blog.

RE: Game of Thrones, S 8 E 3 (spoilers maybe)

I'm saving the whole series up for when I am bedridden and want to be thoroughly distracted

RE: Stepping on hot coals

Meddling and pointing fingers is govt way of saying don't look at us, look at THEM.

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Daears, we all know our own country has multiple accents, sometimes quite interesting to see what outsiders consider the generic accent but it does tend to be the one used by news reporters when a clip will go worldwide?

Been to Oz, never been to NZ, and unlikely at this stage of my life to go unless / until the teleporter invented in time (tick tock, inventors, stir your stumps)

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Robrt, me loves the drunk slur / heavy breathing / general beer goggles, hey, I could be about to score

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Hey Chat, I have a buddy in Pennsylvania and he says he can't watch non-US films or TV without subtitles For me the best part of Oz and NZ presenters is not their accents so much as their fun patter, they have a wonderfully jokey style and energy

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Bloody, but you're biased I did think your fella was originally English, though? There was another CS member (rarely seen now) who was studying Croatian with a view to moving there as she thought Croatians the nicest and most attractive collective bunch in the world. I gather the language is very difficult?

(added the rising question mark? in honour of the winners?)

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Mic, ja, the bird in your vid link is Saffer-light. You know what I sound like, I have a vlog. Blimey, never heard that other fella, he sounds strained

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Galrads, the most expensive ones, a few rows back from the front, where the sweat from the performers won't rain on you like refreshing dew but you can see and hear perfectly.

Of course those are now the 250 pound seats but hey, it's an old expression

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JJ yup I worked with a bunch of Welsh types while in Bristol. Can sound good. I think the only Irish-sounding person I have met is Molly? Does that even seem possible? Trying to think back

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Galrads, I do sweah that ac-cent looks harder work than learning another whole language

That's not where they filmed Deliverance, right?

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Eks, we're in the pound seats, baby! No more trying to sound like anything but ourselves

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Zman or heard my gravel-voiced neighbour arguing with his wife to let him into the house

But then there is Julio Iglesias

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Mick, I remember that film well good clip

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I know, Red, youtube wasn't very helpful there! I have once heard a comedian doing about 12 of the major English accents and she did a lovely Northumbrian one but I can't find the clip

Stephen Fry doing a range of Scottish, though -

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Lafonda, the Texan one made it to the top 10! Which British accent do you want, I'll find it -

This one goes down well generally - Hugh Grant teasing the Bridget Jones accent -

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Mic, here's the Florida accent

(they're ALL on youtube! who knew!)

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Red, yup, the words and the voice matter at LEAST as much as the accent

But here you go, the Northumbrian accent -

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Track, did they also pull milk carts back in the day, or am I thinking of another big breed? They are fab dogs

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Jim I did say I would have taken any bets for the top 10

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Mimi you have a fab voice and I found your English completely unmangled are you fishing for compliments

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Track, where are the subtitles?

I know 2 things about Newfoundland - it has a very nice but very large dog breed, and one Newfoundlander once shot and killed another Newfoundlander for not pronouncing the name right

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Ush, funny thing accents aren't as important to me as voices, so long as I can understand the words But yes I feel Lukeon and Map and Cat should be preening themselves right now, and making vlogs