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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2017 16:05:10 GMT
Christmas music is in the shops.
What Christmas music did people play everywhere before the likes of Slade and Wizzard came along? Everywhere seems to have much the same playlist, and it's strange to think that there was a time when all of that music was new and there was a time before that when it wasn't there at all.
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Post by Jon on Nov 30, 2017 16:09:26 GMT
Christmas music is in the shops. What Christmas music did people play everywhere before the likes of Slade and Wizzard came along? Everywhere seems to have much the same playlist, and it's strange to think that there was a time when all of that music was new and there was a time before that when it wasn't there at all. Probably Christmas Carols and White Christmas on repeat.....
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Post by peggysue on Nov 30, 2017 16:11:59 GMT
It's been snowing all day up here in the North East brrr
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2017 17:44:38 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2017 19:13:45 GMT
Today in life in retail...(my poor colleague next to me)
"Why is this pictures I wanted his life story?" "It's a graphic novel, but it's still a bigoraphy" "It's not made up then?" "No, it's his life story just in a graphic novel"
(Go around for a few minutes on this one- I can see how this part was confusing to those not familar with graphic novels)
"The thing is though I really want his new autobiography." "There isn't a new one I'm sorry just x and y published on x and y" "No I read that he's written a new autobiography, and I want that one"
(extend variations of the above for 5 minutes or so) "No I know he was writing a new one, when is it out?" "I'm pretty sure there isn't sorry" "Why?" *pause* "Because he's dead?"
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2017 20:22:10 GMT
Took some cat photos, then had a nap.
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Post by Dawnstar on Nov 30, 2017 20:28:49 GMT
What is it with the internet & cat photos? Even my work's Yammer, which I thought would just have work-related posts, has loads of cat photos!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 30, 2017 21:57:33 GMT
Interesting (YMMV) cat fact: the genome for the domestic cat contains the sequence CATCATCATCATCATCATCATCATCATCAT. This also suggests that cats have ten lives, not nine. ( source)
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Post by TallPaul on Dec 1, 2017 9:30:32 GMT
Then maybe your poor postie will be able to afford the other half of his trousers. This being 2017 (nearly 2018), HE is a SHE, wearing HER shorts. And you a teacheress, too!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2017 12:08:26 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2017 12:44:44 GMT
There's a guardsman wearing a busby covered in fairy lights behind window number 1 of my advent calendar. Nice...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2017 12:58:51 GMT
I've just got a parcel behind mine. I'm not saying I don't *want* the chocolate in my advent calendar, but I'd appreciate it if the pictures put in a little effort too. (I'd also appreciate a wider variety of chocolate-filled nativity-themed advent calendars but that's a personal "wanting to have it all" bugbear I guess.)
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Post by TallPaul on Dec 1, 2017 13:13:45 GMT
I saw my first paper hat of the season on my lunchtime perambulation. (I should probably add that the wearers were in a restaurant, rather than just wandering the streets.)
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2017 13:23:46 GMT
I saw my first paper hat of the season on my lunchtime perambulation. (I should probably add that the wearers were in a restaurant, rather than just wandering the streets.) You're gonna break it to us next that it was parsley and his mates in a Nandos, aren't you?
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Post by michalnowicki on Dec 1, 2017 13:26:45 GMT
Surprised that's permitted, given you can't advertise for a Polish / Hindi speaker in England? Oh? Where's that coming from? I remember seeing loads of "X language customer service roles" advertised in Scotland (that might be the difference), but I do wonder what is the reasoning behind this?
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Post by TallPaul on Dec 1, 2017 13:27:12 GMT
He was with Fiona Bruce, @caiaphas. They were both wearing capes.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2017 13:32:45 GMT
Just read it - it sounds best if you do so in a Welsh accent, I have to say. If I understand correctly, you need Welsh to get a job in Wales? Surprised that's permitted, given you can't advertise for a Polish / Hindi speaker in England? Essentially yes- and no. In private sector not so much, particularly if not 'public facing' so Admiral for example are a huge employer in Cardiff and while they do like to employ Welsh speakers, you could happily spend a career there not speaking a word. Likewise any of the other big companies like that. In public/third sector then increasingly (thanks to the Welsh Language act, or amendment to it this year) it's more and more acceptable to exclude people for not having Welsh- previously it would have been 'desirable' and in practice you'd often lose out at interview stage if someone equal in all respects also had Welsh. The crux now is you can't even apply without Welsh. I'm all for increasingly the language but for me there's several key issues: 1. Generations, particularly of working class kids went without proper Welsh in school therefore are already starting on a back foot. 2. There is a certain mentality of 'keeping out' non Welsh speakers that's being allowed to grow and grow (particularly in the arts) 3. As you rightly say, we couldn't exclude on the basis of other langauges, and in certain areas of Cardiff, in certain industries anything from Polish to Urdu is actually a more useful language. 4. I'd like to be able to have these conversations in Wales without getting my head bitten off.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2017 13:34:14 GMT
Surprised that's permitted, given you can't advertise for a Polish / Hindi speaker in England? Oh? Where's that coming from? I remember seeing loads of "X language customer service roles" advertised in Scotland (that might be the difference), but I do wonder what is the reasoning behind this? I don't know for sure- but you can always advertise for it if you can 'prove' its essential to the role. The trouble in Wales is the Welsh Language act has made it such that you can blanket apply it to basically anything, whereas before you had to be able to prove there was a difference between 'Fluent Welsh essential' and 'willing to learn as a condition of employment'
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Post by Tibidabo on Dec 1, 2017 14:15:04 GMT
postal delivery operative s are still walking around in a t-shirt and shorts. HE is a SHE, wearing HER shorts. You put it in the general plural so I was just putting it in the general singular - HE = gender neutral in this case. Sorry. I'm feeling pedantic 'cos I'm in a bad mood due to the fact I work in a 1960s listed building (it's falling down for chrissakes) full of leaking glass and have just got home to a kaput boiler. This is Tibidabo, Somewhere in England, with cold feet and an aching heart, married, several children, p!ssed off, really dreadfully p!ssed off......taking it out on TallPaul .
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Post by TallPaul on Dec 1, 2017 14:29:25 GMT
That's nothing. As a 12 or 13 year old, I was once, literally, nearly killed when a window, frame and everything, fell from my 1960s school building. It's now been demolished.
And look on the bright side. You'll soon be going to see Hamilton!
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Post by Tibidabo on Dec 1, 2017 14:52:08 GMT
nd look on the bright side. You'll soon be going to see Hamilton! You could actually be right about that. Thanks TallPaul. You sure know how to cheer up a gal! In fact, I'm so grateful I'd love to invite you over for a drink. You could sit under my favourite garden plant whilst we have a lovely chat.... Eh? What's my favourite plant you ask? Why, it's a beautiful waterlily of course!
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Post by harrie on Dec 1, 2017 14:54:58 GMT
I’m a first language Welsh speaker and I think you raise really important points here! The new Welsh Language Standards are great in theory to increase the use of the language and ensure that Welsh speakers can access public services in Welsh if they choose to do so etc, but I 100% agree with you that workplaces should help/fund new employees to learn it. As ever, I would imagine that funding is the issue. Pob lwc gyda’r dysgu! You might have heard of it already but apparently the Say Something in Welsh website is meant to be a good resource for learners :-)
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2017 15:01:55 GMT
I’m a first language Welsh speaker and I think you raise really important points here! The new Welsh Language Standards are great in theory to increase the use of the language and ensure that Welsh speakers can access public services in Welsh if they choose to do so etc, but I 100% agree with you that workplaces should help/fund new employees to learn it. As ever, I would imagine that funding is the issue. Pob lwc gyda’r dysgu! You might have heard of it already but apparently the Say Something in Welsh website is meant to be a good resource for learners :-) Thanks Harrie! Much appreciate it. I think the theory behind the Welsh Language Standards is sound- but in 'real terms' use will only increase if we can support more people to learn as well- otherwise we're stuck in an endless loop of the same smaller group of people speaking to each other, which clearly was nobody's aim!! Diolch- I've used a couple of resources like that and it's great for conversational Welsh, hoping one day I'll get beyond that!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2017 15:20:56 GMT
Hpw frequently is Welsh spoken in Wales at the moment? Around 1990 my mother used to live in the north and at that time the south of the country was making a big fuss about speaking Welsh but actually speaking English while the north was quietly getting on with making Welsh their native language. I found that in the vicinity of Pwllheli it was as common to hear Welsh as English except when talking to foreigners (i.e. me), and it felt like a fully bilingual society.
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Post by harrie on Dec 1, 2017 15:31:57 GMT
Statistically there are more Welsh speakers in Cardiff than anywhere else, but obviously being a city they get absorbed by the other cultures. You’re definitely more likely to hear it spoken in parts of North Wales, but I find I hear it more in Cardiff now than I used to.
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