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13/09/2006 05:54:26
 
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Politics
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Miscellaneous
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01152731
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>>>>Our firm become a Microsoft partner. Today I needed to talk with a Microsoft worker from Ireland.
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>>>>He only asked me an ID number and a phone number and I difficulty understood him. He wasn't talking like in the films or non-english speakers. I went to Taiwan and I can talk with chinese people in english but I couldn't talk with him (Microsoft's worker) even only two words. :((
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>>>Take heart, Metin. WE can't understand the Irish either! :-)
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>>Back in the mid-90s I worked in Manhattan and worked with an Irishman who came over weeks earlier with 3 of his cousins. We would sit around drinking lukewarm Guiness and they would talk on and on and I would constantly say, "Huh? What was that? Say that again." It took me months to understand most of what they were saying. And the drunker they got, the harder it was. His favorite phrase was, "Oh bullocks!" I think it's swearing, but since no one else knew what he meant, no offense was taken...
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>Bollocks. They are part of the body, men having two and women having none. The phrase "Oh bollocks!" basically means "Oh baloney!" (among more vivid translations).

I'm sure there's a John Wayne film where he accuses someone: "you bollocksed it up"
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
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