Off Topic Things that aren't worth a new thread ...

When something new is invented, which French people decide if it's masculine or feminine and on what basis? There seems to be no rhyme or reason to any of it.

A tomato is female, a pepper is male. A melon is male but a watermelon is female, wtf guys why.

 

C'est la vie?

 

Mon dieu.

 

I never knew this, but i like it. Pretty cool.

 

I dont drive this way often (yes, deliberately) but it can still catch me out, expecting to see a floodlight.

 

Barbers getting tattoos of scissors or cut throat blades on there hands, face and arms yet you never see a checkout person with a till tattooed on their arm.

 

The street with my local library in (back in junior school days) used to sound dead old fashioned, now it sounds dead modern!
The Kings Road, southwick.

 

I am no expert but this seems a strange/brave decision by the ref

 

There was a reference, on breakfast news, to the high rate of suicides in the farming community.

I commented to Mrs Smug that they have an advantage because they all have loads of shotguns, rope, barns, sharp stuff and poisons ...

... Mrs Smug said, "One more word and you won't need to contemplate suicide."

 

Two football buzz I'm fed up with :-

"DNA" and Jim Whites tongue firmly up Newcastles hoop and the fact their ownership is seemingly just ok now.

 

If I'm not sure I'll say le or la, and un or une, in a way that sounds a bit like either.

What was really difficult is that some things are masculine/feminine in the singular but the reverse in the plural

 

That's how it works mate, drip drip drip ...

... and there are loads of drips in Newcastle.

 

The Newcastle DNA test to determine child support payments.

Doctor, "Who could the father be?"

Mother, "D'na."

 

I can only conclude they're on a windup nothing else makes sense.

I know English is no picnic, "The bears bear hard hard yarn yarns" being a sentence that makes sense, but the whole feminine/masculine thing just feels like being complicated for the hell of it.

 

We lived there for five years and I never came to terms with the language.
We went to loads of French lessons and the poor lass explained it hundreds of times but to no avail, I hadn't a clue, mind I wasn't the only one in the class who struggled.

 

And why have a letter on the end of every word that you don't pronounce ...

... except if it's a place name like Portugal

 

Time is such a strange concept that my brain struggles to comprehend.

Today is the 30th anniversary of Black Wednesday. It will be very familiar in the memory of a lot of people and may not even seem like the distant past to some.

Yet if you look at it on a linear timeline, it's closer in history to JFK being assassinated and the Beatles releasing their first ever single, than it is to today.

These things look even more pronounced when you go back further in history. Things closer in time to the birth of Elizabeth II than the present day include: the presidency of John Quincy Adams (the 6th president), The death of Thomas Jefferson and Beethoven, the opening of the first railway line in England and the invention of the fountain pen.

 

Right there mind.

The gap between the Boer War ending and me being born, is a lot less than the gap between me being born and now!

 

apparently, cleopatra lived closer in time to today than she did to the first great pyramids being built.

 

That's a brilliant fact, or a brilliant, apparent, fact.