You do know that both Angles and Saxons were German in origin, yes?
You may come to regret inviting me into your domicile, Pap.
Possibly. But we have a silence button for flood posters.
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Yeah… And English is really German and Latin…
The weird thing about… well, it really isn’t YOUR language anymore, is it - we now speak American… but… American is the progeny of English… so…
The weird thing about our shared tongue is - there are words in it that make absolutely no fucking sense. Like “Contain”. Con, the prefix is “against” in English grammar. Right? And “tain” is one letter off from the fleshy part between your ass and your ballsack.
It means nothing. Like “balloon” it is a nonsense word. Just a sound we made to describe something.
But then you learn Spanish - which is a Latin language - and con is “with” and “tener” is to have, which conjugates to “tiene.”
Then you learn the Spanish word for contain is “contiene”.
“With to have” or… to have within.
And it all starts to make sense.
Has he finished the history lesson yet.
Can Lady Slowlane and I come out from behind the sofa…he’s very colonial isn’t he. 
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Haha.
Diplomatically, he’s a great insight into the Trump voter demographic!
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And French and Spanish and Indian and and and. It’s a mongrel language that takes the best bits from everywhere and you’re speaking an approximate version of it. 
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I for one am enjoying history lessons from someone that lives in a country that was born yesterday 
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It’s like talking to a spotty teenager who genuinely believes they know everything and think grownups are just soooooo embarrassing
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These two gems just popped up on my phone, from the express website. First off, Rupert is still at it…
…plus, this raised a chuckle.
Mike Hookem. 
Fnarr fnarr. 
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I will fear no shadowban.
“I replied too quickly. Please wait 8 seconds before responding.” How VERY English. Quite quaint.
“Slow down there American. You’re not going to out-volume the opposition position with fast talking, HERE. We’ll have order!”
“Oh, it seems you’ve posted too much for a new user. Why don’t you sit in the corner and have a pint and listen in for a bit before you contribute your opinion to the discussion? That might be nice.”
Not sure my 'Merican can handle the rules here. Everyone should come to my BBS - it is like an Australian bar fight over there. No one waits their turn to talk.
Dude, your BBS runs on teenage software and is slower than a three legged dog negotiating a treacle lake.
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Clearly you’ve missed the point, Pap. That is a huge part of the appeal, youngster.
If your site is a flashy chain sports pub in a fashionable part of London filled with a bunch of typical London suburbanites pretending to be football hooligans…
Mine is a remote shithole local in some small hamlet out in the north English countryside.
Yours isn’t better. Yours is symptomatic of what is WORSE, in general.
Your failure to comprehend this says volumes about all of our ideological differences and life experiences.
I wouldn’t mention the North on here. We’re Southerners, we fart in their general direction.
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True. Anything north of Chilworth is ‘beyond the wall’.
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We were very concerned to move outside the city boundary but satisfied that West Chilworth was within the sacred three mile limit.
That far north???
@pap I don’t recall Sotonians and the phrase fashionable ever being mentioned in the same post.
@PiddlyD does know the membership of @sotonians right?