>>(what makes it worse is that the male is also German und so sprechs in an alien accent and intonation)
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>I'm suprized you don't tease him... hey buddy (oi chap?) a little less Saxon and a little more Anglo.
Tease him?!! We rip the back out of him all day! :-)
BTW, it'd be "eh, mate!". However, he's no stranger so I address him by his name (but we never let him forget the War) - well, he usually starts it (apologies to John Cleese).
- 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.
