@Hurtle, supper was my favourite meal. It stopped me getting tharashed to bed with a broken bottle after 23 hours down t'pit.
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Breakfast
Morning Coffee
Luncheon
Afternoon Tea
Dinner
Supper
Straight forward enough, I seem to remember The Royal Marines have 8 meals a day on board ship, can't think where they fit the other 2 meals in
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
When young and attempting to speak German to a family friend, he was laughing as apparently I was pronouncing half my words in a North German accent and the other half in a South German accent.
He told me that the accent and vocabulary difference between North and South Germany was greater than the difference between England and Scotland.
Not sure how/if true this is?
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
boredsurfin wrote:
Breakfast
Morning Coffee
Luncheon
Afternoon Tea
Dinner
Supper
Straight forward enough, I seem to remember The Royal Marines have 8 meals a day on board ship, can't think where they fit the other 2 meals in
I was in a meeting with Swiss TV in Berne and I was kind of nodding off listening to them chat in German when everyone suddenly switched to English
"what's up?" I asked
"we couldn't understand each other in German, we're switching to English"
Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
@davidof,
After all it is free
After all it is free
boredsurfin wrote:
Breakfast
Morning Coffee
Luncheon
Afternoon Tea
Dinner
Supper
Straight forward enough, I seem to remember The Royal Marines have 8 meals a day on board ship, can't think where they fit the other 2 meals in
Second breakfast, elevenses
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La paix wrote:
I was in a meeting with Swiss TV in Berne and I was kind of nodding off listening to them chat in German when everyone suddenly switched to English
"what's up?" I asked
"we couldn't understand each other in German, we're switching to English"
Heard the same in a hut in Sweden, Norwegian, Swedish and Danish similar but not the same. They default to English quite often.
Ski the Net with snowHeads
Ski the Net with snowHeads
While channel surfing I stumbled across a quiz show with teams from the 4 main German-speaking countries. The German team took it very seriously and won. The Austrian team didn't take it very seriously and lost. The team from Liechtenstein were apparently the same people every week (not such a large population pool to choose from) but didn't do badly. No one seemed to understand the Swiss team.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
Didn't have a prob' with the Glaswegian kid . . . but then I though Rab C Nesbit was funny he taught me well
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
Csb123 wrote:
king key wrote:
Csb123 wrote:
I'm with Queenie, it's embarrassing being British.
Csb123 wrote:
king key wrote:
Only if you're an embarrassment.
This is just madness
Whereas your opinion that, "it's embarrassing being British" is completely rational. If you feel so embarrassed to be British abroad then I see two options, either don't go abroad or emigrate and become a national of another domain as Queenie has done. We certainly don't need you to feel embarrassed abroad and insulting to the rest of the British people.
Whoosh! Straight over your head
@Csb123, Brilliant, I’m still laughing 10 minutes later , straight over his head for sure
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
So if you're just off somewhere snowy come back and post a snow report of your own and we'll all love you very much
queenie pretty please wrote:
@davidof, yes, ex-pat, immigrant or whatever.
some people don't like the ex-pat moniker (Christa Jackson, ex-snowhead for example) so I like to avoid any micro-aggression in that respect, at least.
You know it makes sense.
You know it makes sense.
davidof wrote:
La paix wrote:
He told me that the accent and vocabulary difference between North and South Germany was greater than the difference between England and Scotland.
Not sure how/if true this is?
Well jings crivens, help ma boab, depends where he's been in Scotland
Well we ex-pats that frequent a ski station living nigh on throughout the season naturally feel way more superior than the hordes that arrive for their week holidays etc
Fortunately, where we are it's not too much of a ski factory nor full of Brit Reg Range Rovers, and what Brits are here are well behaved so it tends to be the Frenchies whose behaviour can be a tad irksome, and that tends to be a result of people simply being on holiday and being way more relaxed, that is leaving their brains at home
We're just back from ten days being the above Billies in Japan, I think we behaved well, and in Japan, one is really conscious of not offending anyone.
However, Niseko in Hokkaido is overrun with Aussies, and I like to think I'm pretty well travelled and experienced in things, I have over the years encountered many an Aussie, but this trip I learnt, as did others with me, a new description for unruly Aussies, "Bogans" !!!
Aussies we were chatting to found it hilarious that we'd never heard the word*, have others on here heard it before?
* I never watched Aussie soaps etc
Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead
I hate the expat moniker, I’m an immigrant. Expat seems to turn you into an absolute funny fellow here in Ch
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
@Weathercam, only heard it as we know some people whose name is Bogan.
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Rather than unruly, although they can be, I thought Bogans would be more the unsophisticated type of Aussie akin to yokels. Often marked out by the sporting of a mullet by the male of the species.
@Nadenoodlee, I have long thought of myself as an immigrant (when I think about the matter at all) though I occasionally drift into the term expat these days. Does ex-pat in Ch imply living in a tight social circle?
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
La paix wrote:
And lost the other half of my post?
When young and attempting to speak German to a family friend, he was laughing as apparently I was pronouncing half my words in a North German accent and the other half in a South German accent.
He told me that the accent and vocabulary difference between North and South Germany was greater than the difference between England and Scotland.
Not sure how/if true this is?
Whilst using my few words of Arabic to a customer, both started laughing. They were from Saudi Arabia and told me I was speaking with a Lebanese accent !! (a bit like Australian English and English English..)
Well we ex-pats that frequent a ski station living nigh on throughout the season naturally feel way more superior than the hordes that arrive for their week holidays etc
Fortunately, where we are it's not too much of a ski factory nor full of Brit Reg Range Rovers, and what Brits are here are well behaved so it tends to be the Frenchies whose behaviour can be a tad irksome, and that tends to be a result of people simply being on holiday and being way more relaxed, that is leaving their brains at home
We're just back from ten days being the above Billies in Japan, I think we behaved well, and in Japan, one is really conscious of not offending anyone.
However, Niseko in Hokkaido is overrun with Aussies, and I like to think I'm pretty well travelled and experienced in things, I have over the years encountered many an Aussie, but this trip I learnt, as did others with me, a new description for unruly Aussies, "Bogans" !!!
Aussies we were chatting to found it hilarious that we'd never heard the word*, have others on here heard it before?
* I never watched Aussie soaps etc
Yes, heard it a few times. There's a couple of Aussies that do a night out called 'Bogan Bingo' - which is basically a game of bingo with lots of jokes, drinking, cheesy 80's soft rock and other games thrown in. Very un-pc, but very funny. Great night out if there's a group of you. Not for the sensitive types though!
Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
Nadenoodlee wrote:
I hate the expat moniker, I’m an immigrant. Expat seems to turn you into an absolute funny fellow here in Ch
same. When I first moved here I used to go to meetings of the German English Association. Dreadful. Full of expats moaning about the fact that it's all different to England... I've never gone back and have never looked back!
After all it is free
After all it is free
Steilhang wrote:
Nadenoodlee wrote:
I hate the expat moniker, I’m an immigrant. Expat seems to turn you into an absolute funny fellow here in Ch
same. When I first moved here I used to go to meetings of the German English Association. Dreadful. Full of expats moaning about the fact that it's all different to England... I've never gone back and have never looked back!
Yep, me too. I saw a sign on a building in the city “British Austrian Association” or something like that on a Union flag. Walked right past and never looked them up, expecting it to be exactly as @Steilhang has described. I guess I could be wrong on that, but I don’t care enough to check.
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@achilles, I think those who use the moniker here would like it to. I find them tedious at best, embarrassments more often. They seem to think it’s the last days of the colonies...
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
@Nadenoodlee, do they do competitive dinner parties? Whilst I do have some regrets about not living in France, as I had intended at one stage, the people who would have been my neighbours constantly invite one another to elaborate dinners. That would have driven me nuts.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
Rather than unruly, although they can be, I thought Bogans would be more the unsophisticated type of Aussie akin to yokels. Often marked out by the sporting of a mullet by the male of the species.
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