So when the UK sleeps, we know you other MNers are out there part II

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I was looking for thumbwitch's recipe for that cake and found the old thread has disappeared so Linzer and I thought we'd resurrect it!

Was Yogi Bear dubbed Linzer? It really doesn't appeal, though I loved the cartoon as a kid!

Thanks tadjenny, DH has actually agreed to see it without any bribery! . We did know about Geoffrey Rush, but not about Guy Pearce - he's quite keen to see it, which surprised me a little.

We also want to go and see Tangled - it might be DS's first trip to the cinema (whooo!) - so we'll have to fit the both of them in somehow.

Don't think I've seen Made in Dagenham advertised anywhere - I'm assuming it has something to do with Ford cars but will have a look. :)

Penguin - have a good flight - hope you can get online while you're in the UK as well (take your thermals, apparently it's freezing there!)

Yes, Yogi Bear was dubbed - another reason why I didn't particularly want to see it, although I also enjoyed watching the cartoon when I was younger. I really can't stand dubbed films/TV programmes (the voices just sound wrong, plus I'm convinced that they only have a pool of five or six German actors dubbing all the films as the voices all sound the same), one of the reasons I hardly watch any Austrian TV (far too many dubbed American series).

I've read about Made in Dagenham and it's definitely a film I'd like to see, but I'll have to wait for it to come on TV in the UK and get my parents to record it for me, as it's quite unlikely to be shown here.

the kings speech is excellent - just a thoroughly well told story.

i also enjoyed tangled when i took dd to see it, and have avoided yogi bear.

i think we'll end up getting made in dagenham via netflix, but i grew up in kent (not near dagenham) so it will be like my 'home' accent. i have so many discussions with friends over here about accents.

a british friend of mine here has just taken over a coffee shop & has called it 'joe & rosie' - i have had to explain about cockney rhyming slang so many times, the yanks just don't get what the name means. i got the 'rosie' bit immediately, but it took a while before i remembered about the 'cup of joe'

Er, kickass I'm confused - does it mean tea cosy? Not good on rhyming slang, I'm afraid!
Has she got lots of books lying around and does she serve yummy cakes, because I want to come!

Thumb it's about the women machinists' strike in 1968 which helped lead to the Equal Pay Act. It appealed to the feminist/socialist in me and was really well acted and funny too. Although every time I see the words BBC or Film4 on screen I practically burst into tears at the moment! [silly emoticon] Took the dcs to see Tangled when we were in the Bay Area. Didn't bother with the 3D but it was good and they really enjoyed it.

I don't get the rhyming slang either .

I've just googled Made in Dagenham to see whether there's any chance it might be shown here and was to discover that the "German" title is We Want Sex. (Have seen a picture of the banner it's referring to and can sort of work out what's going on, but even so...) We can't go and see it now; what would we tell the DC we were going to watch?

rosie lee = cup of tea.
i thought everyone knew that!

i assume you know butchers & apples & stairs.

my friend is also from kent, only a few miles from where i grew up, so perhaps it's the proximity to london thing. i once went ski-ing in austria & the ski instructor loved all the rhyming slang & knew more of it than i did.

yes, mark kermode was on about 'we want sex' - it's such a 'eurotrash' thing to do to a movie.
can you tell the dc's you're going to a documentary about the advent of the liberation of the oppressed underclasses, through the assertion that sexual equality is a basic human right? that sounds boring enough to stop them asking any more questions.

That sounds like a good idea, kickass - I can see the DC switching off after the first few words of that sentence! Now just need to find somewhere where it's on (in the original version, of course). I did discover that The King's Speech is coming to an English-language cinema in Vienna in mid-February, but our lack of a babysitter is a slight problem (unless we arrange for all three DC to stay overnight with friends).

I've heard of apples and pears (but don't think I've ever heard it used in RL) and butcher's (which I have), but my knowledge of rhyming slang is sadly lacking otherwise. The only other phrase that springs to mind is me old china . I'm sure I remember hearing people use it at school, but I was probably a bit too far from London (Oxfordshire) to hear much rhyming slang.

Trouble and strife for wife and Richard the third for bird, titfertat for hat? This is about as much as I know as you don't hear it Lincoln!

I can't imagine that the King's Speech would work as well dubbed. I mean it would take a really talented voice actor to replicate Colin Firth's performance.

Even more shocking is that the Equal Pay Act has still not resulted in women earning as much as men more than 30 years later.

I like the bit where people were talking about their Mums going into labour during films and being named after characters or actors. I had hopes yesterday but alas no!

I thought you were from Aberystwyth Linzer?

oh that's enormously weird - I just wrote a long post including my favourite bit of rhyming slang and it's disappeared into the ether! How very bloody irritating.
My favourite is "brassic", actually boracic lint = skint.

Shocked that they "eurotrashed" the film title - taking a politico-feminist story and making it about women and sex - that's outrageous! Really not good.

News from Queensland so far is amazingly good, considering - the storm slowed a little as it neared land and now it's inland has been downgraded from a Category 5 to a 2 - news so far is that no one has even been hurt, which is great, but there are areas that police haven't been able to get into yet. THere is a lot of property damage but it looks like they have had an incredible escape, really.

Good news thumb!

That's good news about Queensland, thumb - property damage not great obviously, but it's good that no one has been hurt.

We moved to Aberystwyth when I was 13, jenny - we lived in Herts and Oxfordshire before that. The good thing about living in Austria is that I can say I'm from Wales without people telling me that I haven't got a Welsh accent (I now make sure I say Wales in a very English - or should that be British? - accent ever since someone thought I was from Wels in Austria!).

Won't be buying bananas any time soon, by the looks of it - just seen pics of a banana plantation and every single plant is snapped in half, bananas on the floor :(

old china I believe comes from china plate = mate.

You moved around a fair bit then Linzer - are you from a forces family or just got wanderlust?

We moved to Lincoln just before my 13th birthday, when my Dad came out of the RAF.

Nature can be so destructive, it's amazing. It's awful for those affected though.

i thought richard 3rd = turd!
my auntie always calls her hat a titfer.

our friends here think we're just making it up & don't get it. they say 'how does butchers rhyme with look?'

it was around 1 am at new year, but we had explained how it all worked.

i daren't even start on pearly kings & queens. we always used to have them in carnivals when i was young. after explaining all this to friends a few weeks ago i had the song 'arthur daley' in my head for days. i just kept thinking 'he's alright' randomly.

i love discussions about language & how it develops. getting used to hearing the accent here has been one of the hardest things, i really missed english voices at first, though have got used to it now.

kickass, I believe you are correct about the Richard.

Yep, I know people who always referred to their titfer too. I used to see Pearly Kings and Queens at carnivals when I was young but haven't seen any for ages - are they still actually around, do you know?

according to wiki they are

No, not forces - my dad just got transferred a couple of times. He had a choice between Aber and Bristol the last time we moved, and chose Aber as he'd been to university there.

I love discussions about language too; the linguistics classes were the part I enjoyed most of my degree. I didn't find the accent in the USA too difficult to understand, but a lot of the words were new - it was quite a strange feeling, being in a foreign country yet one where English was spoken, which was something I'd never experienced before.

Linzer, it's the same in Australia - I have no problem understanding the accent, even the strongest ones, but there are some words that don't mean the same as I expect them to, and some phraseology that's all cockeyed as well.
So yes - it's difficult because you think they're speaking English but actually it is a foreign lingo! Ditto for them too though - I have to word-check some things to make sure they know what I'm talking about.

Sometimes it makes me smile, other times it pisses me off a bit - but that's very parochial of me.

Trying to catch up....failing.....good news about Queensland, banana trees grow back very quickly thumb, which is why there are so many of them in the Caribbean (which is forever being trashed by hurricanes). All the banana trees in St Lucia were flattened by the hurricane while we were there, which was tough as it is one of their only source of incomes.

I grew up in Kent too (well partly, in between living abroad) - north Kent. My dh grew up in Croydon and is forever using rhyming slang. I like Ruby (Murry) = Curry.

We are still trying to unpack. The dd's new bunk bed was delivered yesterday so we need to make that plus two sets of drawers and a wardrobe. Oh JOY!

Ah the joys of making flatpack furniture.. actually I'm not too bad at it, mainly because I follow the instructions, unlike some people I could mention DH.

Stranded, I know they grow back quickly but it's an entire crop that's lost, as you will realise - which will push banana prices through the roof for everyone, to say nothing of the crop losses for the farmers. We're looking at up to $18 per kilo (at current exchange rates, that's £12 per kilo of bananas - probably about £2 per banana!)

All the sugar cane is trashed too so we can look forward to another increase in fuel prices - much of our unleaded has 10% ethanol added, and the ethanol comes from the sugar.

Good job DS doesn't like bananas, isn't it?!

So OB has booked me in the hospital for Saturday 9am to break my waters. Tadbaby may be here at the weekend! Must go and arrange childcare for the dcs!

ooh, exciting, and scary.

Whoooo!! Very exciting - yes, better arrange childcare, don't suppose they will enjoy hanging around the hospital waiting to see the new baby when it arrives (Mum, is it heeeerre yet?")