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scot47
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 Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 5:02 am Post subject: Vacation Looms |
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The vacation is almost upon us and the prospect of being paid to do nothing for a loooooong holiday is mighty fine !
This is when I think of all those wage slaves in Slough and Akron who get 10 days annual vacation and work 60 hours a week ! |
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Stephen Jones
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This is when I think of all those wage slaves in Slough and Akron who get 10 days annual vacation and work 60 hours a week !
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Perhaps you could read up on EU minimum holiday entitlements and working hours directive in the break between summer classes.  |
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007
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| Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 8:50 am Post subject: |
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Sleep well uncle Gordon!
Of course with the new budget by his Excellency Gordon Brown (BTW he is the uncle of dmb and scot47  ), he is forcing people like Scot47 to emigrate and thus earn more 'golden' money and have loooooooong paid holiday under the sun of the magic kingdom, and a lower cost of living. |
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Van Norden
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| Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 11:19 am Post subject: |
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| You Ivy League types with your long holidays make me sick. Military stooges like me have to grind it out in grubby, un-airconditioned classrooms for pretty much the whole summer. |
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Cleopatra
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| Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 12:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Must say I'm a tad surprised to see a proud Scot like the OP use the term 'vacation' for what UK-nians normally refer to as 'holidays'. Next thing he'll be talking about "GPA"s and referring to women as 'guys'. |
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007
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| Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 1:25 pm Post subject: |
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scot47
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The UKofGB&NI is not a state that I feel part of. If anything I identify as a citizen of the not-yet-established Scottish Republic.
As for American usages ('vacation') I use them all the time. Don't we all ? I do have some true blue Tory colleagues here who still have a pic of Winnie on the wall and think everything transatlantic is culturally treasonous. But remember that even super-anglo, high-Tory Churchill was half-American !
As for Gordon Brown, he is not only younger than me but was in Form One when I was in Form Four !
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Cleopatra
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| Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 2:05 pm Post subject: |
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| As for American usages ('vacation') I use them all the time. Don't we all ? |
No.
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| I do have some true blue Tory colleagues here who still have a pic of Winnie on the wall and think everything transatlantic is culturally treasonous. |
Personally, I don't find them treasonous, just supremely irritating. Being referred to as a 'guy' is not something I will ever get used to. The day I refer to a handbag as a 'purse' or petrol as "gas" is the day when... well, I don't actually know what.
BTW, Scot, how's your "Gaelic" (as the Yanks say)? |
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scot47
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| Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 2:06 pm Post subject: |
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| My Gaelic is minimal. I speak Scots and Inglis. |
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007
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| Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 2:11 pm Post subject: |
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| scot47 wrote: |
| The UKofGB&NI is not a state that I feel part of. If anything I identify as a citizen of the not-yet-established Scottish Republic. |
Yes, Scot47, I 2nd your rights to be a citizen of the �future Independent Popular Republic of Scotland�, built on the principles of liberty, equality, diversity, solidarity, etc, etc,� as was clearly mentioned in the "Declaration of Calton Hill".
Congratulation for the next republic!
Petition for a Scottish Republic
To: The UK Government
We, the undersigned, call for the abolition of the monarchy in Scotland and the restoration of Scottish Independence as an Independent Sovereign Republic.
Sincerely,
Scot47
Dmb
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| As for Gordon Brown, he is not only younger than me but was in Form One when I was in Form Four ! |
Yes, Scot47, I know that, I know that Gordon Brown was born before 1947!
BTW, congratulation for Alex Salmond, it seems he is working for the future Republic of Scottland!
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Cleopatra
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| Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 2:14 pm Post subject: |
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| No Erse for you, Scot? |
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007
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| Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 2:27 pm Post subject: |
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| I speak Scots and Inglis. |
Scot47, what language is 'Inglis'? Is it newly invented by Scots? Or may be you mean 'Englis'? So, which one? |
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veiledsentiments
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| Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 2:36 pm Post subject: |
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| I know that, I know that Gordon Brown was born before 1947! |
Gordon Brown was born in 1951 and that is 'after' 1947. Tsk tsk... and that was from a math teacher.
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007
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Yes, you are correct, he was born after, not before 1947.
The point is that Gordon still younger than Scot47!
My apologies to Gordon Brown and Scot47, it seems I made them older than their real ages! |
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trapezius
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| Scot47, what language is 'Inglis'? |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northumbrian_%28Anglo-Saxon%29
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Northumbrian, also known as Ynglis and Inglis, was a dialect of the Old English language spoken in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Northumbria. Together with Mercian it was one of the two Anglian dialects introduced by the Angles. The other two dialects of Old English were Kentish and West Saxon.
The dialect was spoken from the Humber, now within England, to the Firth of Forth, now within Scotland. During the Viking invasions of the 9th century, Northumbrian came under the influence of the languages of the Viking invaders.
The Viking invasion forced the dialect to split in two. The southern Northumbrian dialect was heavily influenced by Norse. The northern Northumbrian dialect not only retained a lot of the Old English words (replaced in the south by Norse words) but was also a strong influence on the development of the English language in northern England, especially the Geordie dialect. Later its early Middle English descendant began to evolve into the Scots language in Scotland.
The Lord's Prayer
Examples of the first English literature include Christ's Prayer in Anglo-Saxon from c. 650, which begins "Faeder ure, Thu the eart on heofonum,". Some Scottish and Northumbrian folk still say [u:r 'fe�ər]"our father" and [�u: e:rt] "thou art".[1]
FADER US�R �u ar�in heofnu
Sie gehalgad NOMA �IN.
Tocyme� R�C �IN.
Sie WILLO �IN
su� is in heofne and in eor�o.
HLAF USERNE of'wistlic sel �s tod�g,
and f'gef us SCYLDA USRA,
su� uoe f'gefon SCYLDGUM USUM.
And ne inl�d usih in costunge,
ah is in heofne and in eor�o.
Other examples of this dialect are the Runes on the Ruthwell Cross from the Dream of the Rood. |
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