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Chilly Briton and Chilly Teuton
2008-04-27 12:02
Britons are just the funniest people...or at least that's what top businessmen said in a survey about European humour. Some 34 percent of respondents to the latest UPS Europe Business Monitor said the British have the sharpest wit, while only three percent backed German claims for the accolade. Even in Germany, only one in ten executives said their countrymencracked them up-- compared with 47 percent who sided with Britain, the survey showed. The poll of 1,450 executives in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Britain showed that most nationalities liked their local humour best. German, French and Dutch bosses were the exceptions. Some 66 percent of Spanish backed their own wit, followed by 59 percent of British, and 58 percent of Italians. Second-placed overall in the laughter probe was Italy with 18 percent of votes, followed by Spain with 15 percent. Only one in four French respondents considered their home country to be the funniest, while 34 percent of them favoured Britain and 16 percent Belgium. None voted for Germany. Germany also struggled to pick up points away from home -- apart from three percent of British votes, and one percent apiece from the Netherlands and Italy, the country drew a blank. Executives also voted on humour levels in Ireland, Denmark, Sweden and Austria, with the latter pair barelyraising a smirkoutside of Germany. |
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2008-04-27 20:10
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Austria`````````我本来还想孩子你澳大利亚打错了,然后立马反映是奥地利```
话说,澳大利亚那个学校来,害我脱不了影响````
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2008-04-30 00:16
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THAT IS SO NOT TRUE
the germans are the best at black humour, there's simply no other race like them
the british are funny all right but scarily changable (consolerable?), meaning when they joke you should be well prepared to expect a severe temper the next second (possibly influenced by their weather)
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2008-04-30 00:17
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like your new photo of the tallice girl, briony is she called?
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2008-05-01 01:25
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Briony, which means Bryony, which is a botanical name for a kind of poisonous plant, is called "泻根属". Can be found in Yorkshire. See here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryony
http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/b/brybla75.html
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2008-05-01 01:37
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They are both good at dry and chilly humour.Can be very nastily serious and nastily ironic. Idleness and lack of discretion compared to Germans may have given the Britons the better impression.Anyway, you can derive much meaning from 'chilly'...
Fucket. Bought a seventh edition Advanced Oxford, and found it all for learners; and nastily new.Large numbers of modern compound and foreign words appear and lots of good old words have been omitted. Fucket. Went to look for the OED, which is the one GranT used with word origins, and it's 398. Looked for Shakespeare's RSC version, and it's 300, with a nasty Japanese rehearsal photo in it. Fucket. The fine collection of Shakespeare with notes in the school library is still not available. and my mother's got no time to photocopy it. Fucket.Got lots of things to read and learn but always confined to idleness and computer. Fucket!
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2008-05-01 01:38
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Rocket! Locket! Fucket!
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2008-05-07 06:31
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there's no need for language like this anyway
u r worse than my classmates
(one girl had just shouted at the top of her voice f**k when she found out we've only got one week left until exams, carried to the next classroom and caused a small investigation later)
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2008-05-07 19:08
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What does that 'investigation' point to?
Sadly, 'nasty' and 'fucket' have become two of the most constant residents of my mouth (mostly 'nasty Hyaline' and her 'nasty deeds', you see; quite personal opinion; not quite courteous). Looking for substitutions, like (f*cking 'like') hedious or nauseating or foul or saucy or infamous or anything; none so theatrical as 'nasty', the mouth-wide syllable part.
Exams near. New dawn coming, then?
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2008-05-14 17:10
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'nasty' investigation points to 'nasty' threat of detention
already had one exam, history, disaster
what had hyaline done to annoy you now? i know it can't be that much fun when she goes on about her obsessions
have you read anything from George Gissing? brilliant fellow
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2008-05-14 21:04
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Didn' think they'd be so serious abite this. Britain has been on a large scale retorted by her movies, or rather American movies?
Right, it could well be discripted as a country of 'f*ck' if you sink too much into films. Sometimes British films can be little better. Just watched two of Jamie Bell's work, Billy Elliot and Hallam Foe (does this name-naming tradition come from Dickens?) So many verbal aggressive 'fck', and in the latter there are literal 'fck'sss. Made me quite sick, actually, and bewildered. Thank goodness this is a good lad, and there were beautiful loch scenes, or sometimes you can't stand some British-made movie for long, for their being extremely aggressive or realistic or tediously dry.(Don't take me serious!) If you ever chance to glimpse at Made in Britain, it is even more fcking verbally. How can you blame me then? ...
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2008-05-14 21:13
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hujiaomanchan,if you take me meaning, that's what I give to describe her small talks. More seriously, obsession, right. As a matter of courtesy, I'll just say you could imagine her smiling nastily with teeth out when you feel she's really nasty and by smiling she compromisingly protest that she actually is NOT. Most annoyingly when we are apart at a safe distance, she's all right stuck sometimes in maths. But when I tip over that line, right, she gets all fluent in her inspiration and I in a seething air of me brain. Most nastily you see the way she asks you which food you shall not eat, and put her spoon in the plate and stir, stir, stir... That's all. Acceptable, but comically nasty...
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2008-05-14 21:23
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Gissing, no, in truth never encounter that name. Impressive eyes and brows any way. Will read that some time. Most recently working on snakespoop's Mid and Lear (the former is gorgeous, I'd say. woods and faeries, any way. I like that Latin and Old English 'ae'. Like in Daedulus and Maetamorphoses...), and Edward Grey. And other stuff about language lit... music birds trees photography... All except chemistry. Fck. And I've fcking got some enthusiasm in chuci, if you see that. (Wondering about my growing willingness in 'poeming'...)Fcking sarcastic, to a great surprise to Lisa, I've finally borrowed from the school library sth absolutely Chinese. ...
Incidentally, ever read Forester's Hornblower? I've read some excerpts. Funny enough.
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2008-05-15 03:22
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when the hell has she developed the habit of 'stirring' other people's food? that is SO nasty indeed.
well Gissing writes the sort of thing that makes you want to jump on the bed (since i was so often reading in bed) because you found the exact word to describe your faint obsessions and indulgency.
my exams could never be more boring and personally i would like to find some new ambition in chinese lit rather than cope with tedious stuff such as concrete, spring and voltmeters.
Forester's Hornblower? no idea what it is. why does it sound oddly like Luna Lovegood's crubblehorn-snorekak or whatever it was
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2008-05-15 03:24
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plus, i was not accusing you for anything, only though as civilised as you are (and i am), we are not supposed to swear, no need, someone said
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2008-05-15 18:26
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Then I must read him, really. Which book in particular is that you read?
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2008-05-15 18:28
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That stir... Comes from clumsiness in the art of 'Spoon Using', praps.
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2008-05-15 18:48
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PS:Ever heard of Bernhard Schlink's Die Vorlesser? Modern.(The reader.) Whose film will be put out this year with Winslet and Fiennes in it. (He's over fifty and taking the role of a young boy. miraculous gene. Not much younger than Nighy but they look scores apart.) Post war story. A teenage boy fell in an obsession with a illiterate middle aged woman who once was in Nazi doing trivial jobs.She was sent to prison; he didn't save her; she about to come out, he prepared to meet her, and she committed suicide... Modern eh? I s'ppose I can try some German ones this time.
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2008-05-18 05:37
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it was called 'the private papers of ...' forgot the name, fictional apparently.
with my experience in psychology, i'd advise you to simply go back to the 'good old days' and have done with it. Obviously modern people think they are only awake when they are feeling particularly cynical as well and usually put their random ideas into what they call 'rock music' and 'modern poetry'. I don't necessarily oppose straightforwardness since i'm not always so willing to maushal their stupid ideas.
please don't tell me Fiennes is gonna be the young boy and Winslet is gonna be the illiterat woman. how young exactly is the boy supposed to be?
i wonder what 'German Classics' are like?
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2008-05-19 17:35
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Well then. For me summer, I'd like to fill up a bit of Lotr. So WOULD YOU PLEASE bring the uncut version back? Been longing to watch thim.
Mark that, he used Brt-acc in 1900, just a bit casual. Sounds good to me. Seriously, he's a London middle class chap and speaks far more beautifully (standard)than Beckham. Truly, his Am-acc is good but really slimy. Am-acc itself is slimy enough, like holding a ball in the mouth.
That old thing is a milder one enough among his roles. He just can't get rid of villains... Sad you watched this first...
Suddenly find McAvoy quite acceptable. (Esp that Goatie with a goatee...)
Good. Britons have good ideas for names, honestly... First thing that comes in to me mind is a HEN in the woodland. Shall I put a hen here in the blog?
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2008-05-19 17:56
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Can't get rid of Scottish accent. Dlink instead of drink, me instead of my, Okie instead of Okay,su instead of so, winding tone, 'o'f(as in f'a'll )instead of 'o'f(as in fur) etc... And sometimes add some elements of NorEng speech. Can't say I quite catch it. But am obsessed with it.
PS: Going to study Shakespeare's Merchant(severely severed, of course), and watching Ro&Ju at school. Bloody gaudy colours. Sham cheek powder. Kind of Islamic, you could say. 1960s. Suffering. Far from me stantard of Snakespoop...
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2008-05-30 09:02
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did he really use british accent? didn't notice that
do put a hen, a fat one also, on the other side of briony, they would match well.
bloody shakespeare, as colin firth rightly says, i think i'll do some study on that too
i do miss scotch accent a bit, for recently haven't heard anything except london accent, which you just can't resist picking up if staying among them too often
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2008-06-02 01:10
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when is ur exams?
what is the other priest doing anyway? been silent for ages and ages, bet she's working really hard isn't she? (or... messing with everything?)
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2008-06-02 23:55
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June, twenties. And the beginning of July. For years they got no exams for subjects already taken in graduation exams. Now in consideration of the, forgive me, fcking Olympics, we're all taking thim again, and all the same will scurry here and there outside school attending classes to make room for the fcking Olympic training. Fcket.
She? Don't get a clue what her mind's up to. Fluttering messy words and logic, and smirk to us, as usual. Don't know why she's not shown up all along? Well, s'ppose she's too tired from smirking every day.
Me eyelids are impatient to enjoy them intimacy. Solly, Priest, going down.
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2008-06-04 21:22
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i've just finished all my exams. chemistry which was the last one, is a total nightmare. Didn't sleep at all last night, accidentally fell asleep halfway through it, anyway i'd be very pleased to see a C on my last paper
never mind that, now totally enjoying the pleasure of packing and brilliant sunshine
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2008-06-04 21:24
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r u guys doing anything special for the f*cking olympisc? school-wise
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2008-06-05 20:08
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Coming back? Anyway, many Cs as you may get, things are temporarily all finished for the moment. We've got a little more than a month to endure. And greater pains afterwards. Fck.
Not much. The school's doing much, obviously. And incidentally, the other priest has offered to be a volunteer.
You heard about the earthquake? Donated anything?
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2008-06-06 06:29
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i'll be back next saturday
heard anything from Jes lately? she might be already back
of course heard of it, the whole world has, hasn't it. Didn't donate anything though, not in our school anyway, we've got this thing in the school with the british +, about the earthquake and sth in Burma
i'd like to volunteer for something, no offers
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2008-07-02 20:30
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saw your new front
that was dramatic
and a little frightening
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2008-07-03 17:10
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poor job as it is that he takes in this play(find meself enjoying (in spite of meself) zigzaging & tumbling among words),it appears to be the same as I did last year. Narrator. Nasty job, eh? But anyway seems he puts it well. Called 'first love', I s'ppose. In theatre.
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2008-07-11 12:53
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he looks comedy-y and it bothers me
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2008-07-11 21:23
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Why's that? You don't expect him to be always quite so long-faced as in English Patient and The End of the Affair or Onegin, or as devilish as in Schindler and Red Dragon, or as nervous as Oscar Hopkins? 'Bothers you', that is a little unfathomable, te te'you the truth.
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2008-07-13 16:42
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i guess i just got so used to him looking solemn and grumpy
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