Check_Your_Premises

Joined

• started 151 topics
• posted 1,586 times   see topics posted on
• send a message

Posts by Check_Your_Premises

• 
  79

  A question for my UK cousins: What are the different British accents?

  by Check_Your_Premises in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  since i have so many brits and uk types in one place, i was wondering if you all could classify or tell me the names of the different british accents.

  i think most in the states could be grouped by region and then each region divided into regular folks and folks with cash.

  for instance in thestates, you basically have north east which is can be characterized by your classic new york or boston accents.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Check_Your_Premises

  Actually Katie, your "70's dub child" thread is what got me to post this one. I picked up on all sorts of English lingo in your post.

  I have only been to England twice. I hung out in London both times. I got drunk with some Irish construction workers and we took turns trying to do the different UK/US accents.

  I would really love to just go to the UK and hang out for a few months. I love it there. Maybe it is all the Benny Hill and Monty Python I watched growing up. When I was there, listening to everyone speak, I kept expecting to see the "Ministry of Silly Walks" guy, or a bunch of people running very quickly chasing Benny Hill around.

  Don't misunderstand me though. I am also a history geek, and how could a person engage in any sort of study of history without running across the remarkeable historical contributions made by the people of the UK.
• 
  79

  A question for my UK cousins: What are the different British accents?

  by Check_Your_Premises in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  since i have so many brits and uk types in one place, i was wondering if you all could classify or tell me the names of the different british accents.

  i think most in the states could be grouped by region and then each region divided into regular folks and folks with cash.

  for instance in thestates, you basically have north east which is can be characterized by your classic new york or boston accents.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Check_Your_Premises

  I guess the reason I ask is because I can only think of Irish ("It's Moy Oyland!"), Scottish ("Yesh Mish MonayPennay"), proper gent type English ("Right-0, I say, good show, I do believe I would like a spot of tea"), cockney ('aye guvna').

  And what are some of those goofy, rhyming euphemisms: Girls are "Richards" which is in reference to Richard the 3rd, because the "3rd" rhymes with "bird" which is slang for girl.
• 
  79

  A question for my UK cousins: What are the different British accents?

  by Check_Your_Premises in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  since i have so many brits and uk types in one place, i was wondering if you all could classify or tell me the names of the different british accents.

  i think most in the states could be grouped by region and then each region divided into regular folks and folks with cash.

  for instance in thestates, you basically have north east which is can be characterized by your classic new york or boston accents.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Check_Your_Premises

  Since I have so many Brits and UK types in one place, I was wondering if you all could classify or tell me the names of the different British accents.

  I think most in the States could be grouped by region and then each region divided into regular folks and folks with cash.

  For instance in theStates, you basically have North East which is can be characterized by your classic New York or Boston accents. Your long o's are very long, "what are yoooo dooooooooin". When you say "car" you say "cah". A northeasterner with cash most likely will talk like a Kennedy.

  Southern accents have several variations based on geography. I think one of the peculiarities is that southerners tend to add syllables to some words, "Matthew" would be pronounced "Matth-a-yew". Some words have vowels removed.

  Midwesterners probably have the least interesting accent. You mostly get the distinctions when you go to certain geographic areas. Wisconsin, great north types tend to say the "th" sound as "t" at end of words and 'd' at the beginning. Chicago types have a peculiar way of pronouncing the short 'o'. "Mom" is pronounced as almost as "mam".

  California West coast types tend to sound more like stoned midwesterners. For instance "mom" is pronounced more like "mawm".

  So explain the different Brit/UK type accents to we "proudly-ignorant-of-other-people's-culture" Yank types.

  (and I don't want to hear any crap from the various Yankee accents nitpicking my description. Get a life. Learn to masterbate. Something. This thread is not worth your time to nitpick. It was barely worth my time to write!!!)
• 
  32

  thinking of having a bible study

  by Ellie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  what do you think would happen if someone where to have a bible study with the sole purpose of asking lots of awkward questions just to get the reaction of the witnesses?

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Check_Your_Premises

  They will always try to get you to read and study from a publication.

  The publications are carefully framed.

  Get a dub away from their pubs and they get very uncomfortable. Talk about a non-standard dub subject and they are not so confident. It is like home base when you play tag. They are the ones who always just sit on home base and never want to run around and play the game.

  I have found that dubs are people who know about 100 verses REALLY well. As a result they come off as being very knowledgeable. Get them away from those 100 verses and you realize you are actually dealing with a person with a very narrow, limited view of the scriptures and God.
• 
  14

  Rants and raves

  by Chia in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i may have mentioned this incident before.

  please bear with me...but it's one of the things that really showed me the lack of love and concern.. shortly before my mom kicked me out of the house, someone that i had trusted (my foolish mistake) turned me in to the elders, saying i was "espousing apostate ideology".

  never mind that this person constantly complained about the elders and went to less meetings than i did...but anyway...their "encouragement" consisted of telling me, "the reason why you're becoming so bitter and angry is because you're not doing enough in field service.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Check_Your_Premises

  I liked this so much I copied it onto the book I am reading...

  Not mine. It is Robert Cialdini's. He wrote the book Influence: The Principles of Persuasion.
• 
  32

  thinking of having a bible study

  by Ellie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  what do you think would happen if someone where to have a bible study with the sole purpose of asking lots of awkward questions just to get the reaction of the witnesses?

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Check_Your_Premises

  RR,

  Oh, I know you weren't knockin me. I mostly said that for Ben's benefit.

  Milk and cookies. Hmmmmmmmmmmm.

  CYP
• 
  32

  thinking of having a bible study

  by Ellie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  what do you think would happen if someone where to have a bible study with the sole purpose of asking lots of awkward questions just to get the reaction of the witnesses?

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Check_Your_Premises

  RR,

  I have never claimed to have "the truth" so I am by definition not a fanatic... unless you wanted to say that I actually think I have "the truth" in that I think nobody has "the truth" thereby making me a fanatic. Did you follow that.

  Ok, but seriously. The difference is I don't claim to speak for God. If I get a good idea, I humbly recognize it's source as outside myself. If I get a dumb idea, which is inevitable, I claim it as mine. I don't feel the need to run the Lord's name through the mud by confusing His thoughts with mine, and saying everything I believe/say is from God.

  "A man's got to know his limitations"

  Dammit, that is not from Josey Wales! Now I have to go find a Dirty Harry pic.
• 
  32

  thinking of having a bible study

  by Ellie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  what do you think would happen if someone where to have a bible study with the sole purpose of asking lots of awkward questions just to get the reaction of the witnesses?

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Check_Your_Premises

  Oh look! A wolf in sheep's clothing!

  Now look. You probably went and scared him off.

  He would try to convert me if he had the chance. I have always been fascinated by what would happen if you got two fanatics together and watched them try to convert eachother. Actually it would probably be quite boring.

  The idea of it just strikes me as funny somehow.

  Sorry RR. I am just feeling kind of Josey Wales-ish today. Something about those big Colt Dragoons.... I reckon.
• 
  32

  thinking of having a bible study

  by Ellie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  what do you think would happen if someone where to have a bible study with the sole purpose of asking lots of awkward questions just to get the reaction of the witnesses?

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Check_Your_Premises

  Jw Ben - go give your head a wobble!

  Be nice. Ben has guts to come to this place with so many well informed and cranky apostates.

  Welcome Ben. I am not an apostate so you can talk to me. I hope you stick around. It might be tough for you though. Here all subjects are open to frank and open debate. No ideas are automatically discounted. Ideas have to stand on their own.

  Can your ideas stand on your own? If so, than you should have nothing to fear here. WELCOME!
• 
  32

  thinking of having a bible study

  by Ellie in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  what do you think would happen if someone where to have a bible study with the sole purpose of asking lots of awkward questions just to get the reaction of the witnesses?

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
• 

  Check_Your_Premises

  That is a good point MJ on the two dubs trying to out-dub eachother. I have found they are much more candid when it is just you and them.

  My question is what are you trying to accomplish? If you are just trying to convert dubs, I think that is admirable, but I question your longevity?

  For me I am trying to accomplish a couple of things. I study with them so my wife knows I am open to her religion, I am therfore able to discuss the religion with her, and ultimately I hope to help her leave it.

  The other is that I use them to practice asking difficult questions without alienating them. Once I get the hang of it, I will start using my new found skills on my wife.

  Like MJ said, it is a fine line. Ask fair questions out of a genuine sense of curiosity. Build up a lot of trust and rapport with them so you can talk about uncomfortable subjects more easily. Try to get them out of cult mode (get them to act like a normal person) before you hit them with a tough question. If they are in cult mode, it provides them with a filter and your message doesn't get through.