[Closed] Avoiding the wedding

what wedding?

I'll be working during the day and not going near the BBC/UK news outlets in the evening.

Am I the only one not to be invited? 🙁

His dad's runs the local greengrocers too...

Somewhere dry probably, and rather thankful that I won't be camping. The forecast for Friday is heavy rain.

Off to Skye Wednesday, back Tuesday... hopefully avoiding the Tellybox.

I'm having drinks with the Crown Prince of Bahrain.

Oh good, another thread of this.

dressing up as a nazi and gate crashing

Riding during the day, probably, down the pub in the evening, although they're having a party there, so there won't be a total escape. I'll just do what I usually do and ignore it, same as anything I'm not interested in.

...and consoling the Blairs and the Browns!

Hahahahahahaha!

dressing up as a nazi and gate crashing

could do after all he is not my brother either 😉

avoiding?? not sure if thats the right word but I'll be doing what I normally do and go for a ride maybe have a bbq and go to a pub.

If you don't care then you don't care no need to avoid, by actively avoiding you obviously care.....

If you want to go camping then great but why do it in the name of avoiding the royal wedding? I shall probably be staying at home watching some films or other on telly.

And how does the "no electricity" equate to "no wedding"?

The usual Friday things, won't make any difference to me.

13 of us off to Kettlewell on Thursday -the wedding saved all of us a day's leave :)...

What's wrong with the wedding?
Why not celebtrate it?

SB

What's wrong with the wedding?
Why not celebtrate it?

Nothing against them, just not interested, they're just people that mean nothing to me - there are a hundred things I'd rather be doing. I'm gonna try and get out for a long ride I think.

What's wrong with the wedding?

Why not celebtrate it?

What's wrong with the wedding?
Why not celebtrate it?

It's a creditability thing. As a Guardian/Socialist Worker reader, BillMC feels he must take extreme measures to avoid the Royal Wedding. Finding an isolated place with no electricity, running water, or modern western medicine, whilst not strictly necessary, shows a commitment and his impeccable credentials as an anti-Royalist.

I don't know how he's going to guarantee that the folk in the next tent won't have a portable radio though. A safer option would have been to stay indoors in his own home.........although that obviously would have been positively undramatic.

Should be spending my day downhilling and maybe taking some photos and/or video 🙂

sssoooooooo can't be arsed with Wills'n'Kate going up the aisle.

surfing in Devon 🙂

trying to sort a mtb ride in Arran - got 6 or so folk so far between work and GMBC - any takers for the 0945 ferry over and 1645 return - doing the Clauchlands then Arran Bike Club classic red with black bits ??

Getting up at 6.30 to help my daft sister-in-law to move furniture out of a house into storage (I do get to drive the van though). Not as an avoidance technique, it's just the day she chose to do it, personally I'd rather be sat at home with a beer.

So many people seem to be trying to make such an effort and noise about not watching it, me I'll be doing my normal routine and it so happens that routine is working. If I was off it'll be doing stuff with the family and riding my bike the TV wouldn't be on anyway or any other media really.

Off to the Highlands for three days with kids on a DofE exped. No TV no radio.
Avoidance nope more extreme apathy. Just bored of it and the media fawning. Mildly peeved i'm not getting an invite given that i've helped pay for it.

'A creditability thing'? I take it English isn't your first language with which to spread your carping bile. I can only imagine that life has dealt you the sh1t end of the stick, bullied at school, poor qualifications, short, underpaid, bossed around at work, bald, unlucky in love but at least ST gives you the opportunity to vent your spleen with impunity and tell the world how angry you are with everyone else as well as with yourself. Praise be.

Surely unless you normally hang around Westminster Abbey or Buckingham Palace, or watch lots of TV, you would be avoiding it anyway?

A creditability thing'? I take it English isn't your first language with which to spread your carping bile. I can only imagine that life has dealt you the sh1t end of the stick, bullied at school, poor qualifications, short, underpaid, bossed around at work, bald, unlucky in love but at least ST gives you the opportunity to vent your spleen with impunity and tell the world how angry you are with everyone else as well as with yourself. Praise be.

Not "creditability" but "credibility" ...... my proofreading leaves much to be desired. And you're right, English isn't my first language - it's my third. I stood my ground at school and wasn't bullied, and achieved qualifications to CSE level - plus my trade ones. I'm 6 foot one and a half, have always been underpaid, but never been bossed around. I have a full head of hair, and have been surprisingly lucky in love.

I take it that you don't agree with my suggestion for your reasons for finding a location without electricity for Friday ? Having now established the important facts, such as my height, maybe you can explain your cunning plan ?

BTW, thanks for pointing out [i]"how angry"[/i] I am, had you not, I might of been tempted to to think it was you who was angry and [i]"venting your spleen"[/i].

And you're right, English isn't my first language - it's my third.

What are your first two languages out of interest?

Well your getting a day off out of it. Perhaps if you have no interest etc you should go to work as normal! Christ this forum has some real plums on it..

French followed by Spanish.

Were you brought up in France then?

No, I was brought up in South London.........from the age of six. Did spend a lot of time in the summer in France though - I was a Coeur Vaillant ! if you know what that is.

Anything to do with Mel Gibson?

No idea? I'm interested to know though?

A safer option would have been to stay indoors in his own home.........although that obviously would have been positively undramatic

+1

who really cares if it's on or not? I'm riding during the morning, but in the afternoon will be going out with my family. If we happen to come across a street party or the like we may pop in, we may not. I really don't care enough to make a big song and dance about taking 'extreme action' to not watch something on a television.

I shall just happily ignore as I would anything else I care not a jot about. No special measures needed.

Anything to do with Mel Gibson?

😀 It's a youth/scouting movement linked to the catholic church - so close then. I spent some brilliant time on holiday camp up on the mountains of the maritime alps with them.

So you holidayed in France lived in South London and French was your first language and Spanish was you second and English where you lived was your third language, did you not speak to many people over here then? Was you school over here French speaking?

I don't understand the confusion. I said I was brought up in South London from the age of six - that's when I first started speaking English.

I think he missed that bit in his haste to point out that someone couldn't possibly speak 3 languages!

No I didn't miss anything it's the statement that English is the Third language.

As in Being more fluent in Spanish and French.

Ernie has given a good few clues to his background. He didn't move to London / start speaking english until 6 yr old. Previous to that either lived in a French speaking country of spanish speaking parents or vice versa

Chile was involved somewhere as well

I'm sorry if the statement was misleading. So just clarify, English is not my third language in context of "I speak the other two better", it is my third language in the context of, it's the third language I learnt to speak. Which I have always taken is what is meant by English not being the first language. And btw, English is the only language I speak these days - I haven't spoken Spanish since the age of six, and the last person I spoke extensively in French to, was my father, and he died about 20 years ago.

Sounds like Croydon's answer to that suave Frenchman of yore, Juan.

Not going to avoid the wedding, not really a problem here in Madrid. Might watch the news later to see a bit of it, I suppose.

I shall be trying to avoid it too, not got owt against them (apart from the fact he's royal) but the media saturation really gets on my wick as it does with other events. In the world cup I don't mind if every match is televised and every kick deconstructed and commented on but why does coverage start 3 weeks before the event and WTF do I need to know the england squad have arrived at their hotel wearing suits by some designer bloke I've never heard of - and thats national news programmes not sky sports.

This is the same situation 2 people I've never met and don't particularly care about are getting wed but we're all supposed to be in a happy mood about it and celebrate and [b]everybody[/b] in the media is papping on about it endlessly.
I'm in a happy mood cos the sun [s]is[/s] has been shining, the trails are in tip top condition and I'm about to become a dad again. Those are good things to be happy about and you can be damn sure I'll celebrate. royal wedding? no chance.

Previous to that either lived in a French speaking country of spanish speaking parents or vice versa

Chile was involved somewhere as well

French/Spanish speaking parents ! Well my father spoke to us in French, but he spoke to my mother in Spanish. My mother also spoke to us in French, but stopped when we all knew how to speak English - just English after that. I spoke to my brother and sisters in French until we all knew how to speak English (I am the only member of my family apart from my mother not to have a foreign accent) My father never stopped speaking to us in French, and to my mother in Spanish.

Not Chile, Argentina...... a clue in the username.

Guessing Spanish civil war refugees?

I don't really care about the wedding but I will be pretending that it is the most important thing in my life as we are using it as the excuse for a massive "wedding party" at a friends house. There will probably be flags, bunting, masks and everything

Barbeque and sunburn if the weather is good, or all in the pool if it's raining.

I doubt I will see any of the actual wedding.

EL, sounds cool, I'd like to speak other languages, French being the first but don't have the time to learn for the amount of use I'd get from them.

Guessing Spanish civil war refugees?

😕 My Father did fight in the Spanish Civil War (on the losing side) but he did not come to the UK as a refugee. He came to volunteer in WW2. No one in my family has ever held Spanish nationality. Well I think 1 or 2 of my brother's kids might have been born in Madrid, don't think they've got Spanish nationality though.

For some reason I thought it was on Monday so I seem to be doing a fairly good job of avoiding it already...

I'd like to speak other languages

I should point out that I'm not trilingual. My parents were/are, and so are my brother and sisters. But they are older than me and were able to retain their languages. Because I was so young, I soon lost the ability to speak Spanish, but not to understand it (parents spoke it to each other) Losing French is more surprising, not least because I have even lived in France as adult for short periods of time - including even going to technical college in France. But I fear that my French is probably more or less non-existent now.

Pretty easy, just watch something else on the telly or go outside.

Job done.

My uncle is going to the ceremony.

Which I have always taken is what is meant by English not being the first language.

I was speaking to a consultant geriatrician the other day about language (in the context of strokes, mental deterioration and what not) and the definition that they use is [i]"What do you think in?"[/i]

If I show you something and ask you to think, but not say out loud, what that item is, then is the word that pops into your head in English?

My uncle is going to the ceremony.

thanks for sharing.

my uncle will be doing the gardening

So is this thread about the Royal wedding or about EL not being English...I'm confused as to what to make an angry, poorly spelled, inaccurate post about.

Well yes I think in English now, but that wasn't always the case, and I have reverted to thinking in French whilst living in France.

But I wouldn't say that a 'consultant geriatrician' is necessarily an expert on the English language.

[i]"A first language (also native language, mother tongue, arterial language, or L1) is the language(s) a person has learned from birth[1] or within the critical period, or that a person speaks the best and so is often the basis for sociolinguistic identity."[/i]

French is my native language and mother tongue, and therefore my first language. Spanish is my paternal tongue and my second learnt and second cultural language, therefore my second language. English is my third language, that fact it's the only one I now speak I don't reckon comes into it.

Probably most fun to have a go at Ernie for his ancestry

So is this thread about the Royal wedding or about EL not being English.

Well it was about the Royal wedding, but the OP wanted to discuss, amongst other things, whether English was my first language. For some reason a few other people also became interested in the topic, but appear to be completely uninterested in the other important issues which he raised - such as the quantity of hair I still posses on my head.

Probably most fun to have a go at Ernie for his ancestry

**** off. There's no fun to be had having a go at my ancestry. It is deeply rooted in a land which has given the world the finest wines, the finest cheeses, and the finest love making. You can look on in envy though.

trailmonkey - Member

my uncle will be doing the gardening

Bit off-topic to be honest.

Keep it to yourself, yeah?

😉

It is deeply rooted in a land which has given the world the finest wines, the finest cheeses, and the finest love making.

The French do make some excellent wine, it's true.

I suppose one out of three ain't bad.

But I wouldn't say that a 'consultant geriatrician' is necessarily an expert on the English language.

Yeah I only said that is how [i]they[/i] use the term in the course of their work - I wasn't suggesting it was a conclusive definition. 😛

She told me about an interesting case with a patient who moved to the UK from Germany when she was five, and who spoke English as her "first language". But as her mental abilities started to fade she started speaking English with an odd German accent and finally reverted to speaking in broken German.

So perhaps when ernie starts ranting in French we'll know his gears have begun to slip.

So perhaps when ernie starts ranting in French we'll know his gears have begun to slip.

Well under those circumstances I will sometimes use the old trusty "hijo de puta" when muttering to myself.....it's got a certain kick about it.

BTW I've often wondered whether a bang on the head might suddenly have me rabbiting in French or Spanish Graham .... but not so far it hasn't.

Hmmmm (@ ernie) I consider myself a cyclist first and foremost but if I happen to be driving the day they do a road census on my street I don't think they are going to change the tick box they relegate me to if I shout "actually I'm a cyclist!" as I drive past. They'll say "no you are driving a car so you're a motorist you muppet"
and from your own quote "...or that a person speaks the best..."

but you make an interesting point.

An ex GF spent a year studying in france and she said she started thinking and dreaming in french, that made me, a confirmed mono-lingual (syllable most of the time too) chuckle.

An extra day off work. Good.
Mrs and daughter are looking forward to doing the patriotic street party thing, which will keep them happy whilst I make my escape.

Me, I'm off to Garda 🙂 hopefully I'll be over the Brenner before they make it up the aisle. 😀

from your own quote "...or that a person speaks the best..."

Notice how they use the word "or" rather than the word "and" ? There is no need for it to be the language which the person speaks best.

So the mother tongue I learnt from birth will do, as a fair description of my first language.

i'm thinking of getting married next year...all those in favour of the royal wedding please send donations to my paypal account to pay for it.......;-)

[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-13193685 ]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-13193685[/url]

words fail me

I would poke fun but suspect the guy may be of a very low IQ

I'll be over the Brenner before they make it up the aisle

What they do on their wedding night is up to them.

Weeding. Bike fettling. Listening to something gorgeous on my fantastic HiFi. Baiting Fred.

all those in favour of the royal wedding please send donations to my paypal account to pay for it.......;-)

As I understand it the monarchy costs us taxpayers around [url= http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/7872052/Cost-of-Royal-Family-drops-7p-per-person.html ]62p per year[/url].

Let's be generous and assume the wedding will use up 10% of the Royal budget for 2011.

Where would you like me to send my 6p?

this is all what you [b]really[/b] think

http://dawonderful.blogspot.com/

62 p to the richest woman/family in the country is 62 p too much

Can't escape it here in the states either---every entertainment "news" organization on TV is having 24/7 orgasms about it---reporting on details that even the participants probably don't know about and don't care about.

for those who are so enraged by the whole thing get back to work, no wedding no B/Hol!

miserable ****ers