https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-sussex-46623754.
perhaps all major airports will eventually employ their own industrial sized drone, operated by a trained/authorised pilot who can track and pinpoint the nut-jobs who cause such disruption and possible catastrophe..
i think its going to be a perfect black mail opportunity.
a phone call to a national tv company saying a drone will be launched into a major airport--tomorrow--unless the government coughs up a million. not a lot. the gov would have to pay.
no need to threaten to kill anyone--just major disruption.
then--rinse and repeat. again and again.
just though i'd start a thread devoted to languages, dialects/sociolects and accents, with the idea being that posters can comment on any language, or dialect or accent of any language, on this thread.. any phrases, expressions or idioms that you find interesting are also welcome.
first, the subject of english accents came up on another thread.. the british isles have many different types of accent (although many of the dialects may be dying out), and if i start to take a closer look, i can't help but see 'patterns' .... in received pronunciation of standard english, the letter r is pronounced initially, between vowels, and after consonants, e.g.
red, arrow, break.
as a nerdy little swot at the kingdom hall meetings i read up the list of languages the watchtower was printed in. one such language was tagalog. i dont know why--it amused me. i had no idea where it was spoken. but i soon forgot that.
now--60 years later--it is often spoken in my house--it is one of many languages of the Philippines, and my wife is filipina. she usually speaks tagalog to her family, scattered all over the world. she is also fluent in ilocano., but doesnt understand vissaya, cebuana or loads of other local dialects.
so far i have failed to learn any tagalog. ignorance seems bliss.
just though i'd start a thread devoted to languages, dialects/sociolects and accents, with the idea being that posters can comment on any language, or dialect or accent of any language, on this thread.. any phrases, expressions or idioms that you find interesting are also welcome.
first, the subject of english accents came up on another thread.. the british isles have many different types of accent (although many of the dialects may be dying out), and if i start to take a closer look, i can't help but see 'patterns' .... in received pronunciation of standard english, the letter r is pronounced initially, between vowels, and after consonants, e.g.
red, arrow, break.
i attended an all boys grammar school in birmingham ( UK ) in the late 50's. we had to choose either latin or german as a subject. i chose german as the lesser of 2 evils. one word i soon learned was father---vater. it cracked me up. for those who dont know its pronounced FARTER.
bill ,a non witness is killed driving home after work, providing for his family.
he left behind his wife and 3 kids all under 8 years of age.
armageddon comes the very next month.
I had a jag in this system.
Don't wait. If you want one get one. I loved mine.
yep--i remember it--you gave me a lift more than once.
bill ,a non witness is killed driving home after work, providing for his family.
he left behind his wife and 3 kids all under 8 years of age.
armageddon comes the very next month.
i wanted a jag in the new system.
in my area, a lot of young people don’t want to have kids.
they get married young from 18-22 years old, and think that they know how they’re going to feel the rest of their lives about having children, (which they think will be never).
i respect people who don’t want to have kids, there are good reasons not to, but i think it’s foolish at a young age to think you will never think differently for the rest of your life.
my born-in dub wife didnt want kids, she told me one day that sister so-and-so had died as a result of choking on the afterbirth.
she suddenly changed her mind about starting a family--telling me she thought her father would like a grand child.
she is still a dub. well suited to it.
after observing my jehovah's witness friends and family members for over 50 years it became apparent that the vast majority of "the brothers and sisters" pick and choose the rules and laws that their church/organization what them to follow.. tough the society may state these admonitions as definite "do's and don'ts" many of the church followers put these admonitions in the the "grey zone.".
the reason being jehovah will give them special dispensation.
yes, for some odd reason jehovah will cut these people some slack for the same things he must punish others for.
back in my late teens--the late 1960's---the general unspoken idea for courting couples was it was ok to play--but no penetrative intercourse.
in the first few years of my marriage--i had to pray out loud at bedtime.
( i dont think " for what we are about to receive may the lord make us truly thankful" would have gone down too well. )
what did you make of the conventions i used to dread them.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6bhlhtbaos.
what our dub parents put us kids through back then would now be considered child abuse in the UK
is it something they do?
how they say things?
how do you spot a jehovah’s witness?.
if you see 2 people walking very slowly from house to house
or they stand chatting on the doorstep for ages when no-one is home.
what did you make of the conventions i used to dread them.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6bhlhtbaos.
last biggish one i endured was at the old Wembly stadium--London UK--about 1969 or 70 i think. it rained the whole time. it was trully dreadful--i vowed--never again.
and never did.
