Xela Posted August 23 Share Posted August 23 The day the Beatles were photographed on the Abbey Road crossing for the iconic photo, was the the same day of the Manson murders in LA. @bickster isn't sure what the bigger crime was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted August 23 Moderator Share Posted August 23 11 minutes ago, Xela said: The day the Beatles were photographed on the Abbey Road crossing for the iconic photo, was the the same day of the Manson murders in LA. @bickster isn't sure what the bigger crime was. The bigger crime happened in August 1960 at the Jacaranda (which got a plaque outside today to celebrate their part in the dreadful events of that day) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
il_serpente Posted August 23 VT Supporter Share Posted August 23 8 minutes ago, bickster said: The bigger crime happened in August 1960 at the Jacaranda (which got a plaque outside today to celebrate their part in the dreadful events of that day) I thought you were a year or two younger... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLAMARV Posted August 23 Share Posted August 23 3 hours ago, lapal_fan said: Stop trying to appropriate our history!!!! Someone ban the strange accented man! Ooo am yow callin weird sowndin yow yampy sod? #Yamyamsinexile 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLAMARV Posted August 23 Share Posted August 23 (edited) 3 hours ago, Marka Ragnos said: Do people near the Marches sound slightly Welsh? The Radnorshire Welshies round by me sound nothing like them weirdos up North or the odd ones to the South. To be fair I can't understand what the lady in your story was saying, or how, despite the phonetic spellings but the proper Welsh folk have been known to sneer at the Anglicised nature of the middle bit by the Marches. There's loads fewer Welsh language speakers than elsewhere and a much softer accent than most people would recognise as a Welsh accent. Edited August 23 by VILLAMARV 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marka Ragnos Posted August 24 VT Supporter Share Posted August 24 (edited) 1 hour ago, VILLAMARV said: The Radnorshire Welshies round by me sound nothing like them weirdos up North or the odd ones to the South. To be fair I can't understand what the lady in your story was saying, or how, despite the phonetic spellings but the proper Welsh folk have been known to sneer at the Anglicised nature of the middle bit by the Marches. There's loads fewer Welsh language speakers than elsewhere and a much softer accent than most people would recognise as a Welsh accent. She sounded a bit like this. It's bizarre, hearing this, because it sounds a little like my dad, which is probably why I found this woman's voice sort of mesmerising? I think the "eee-KNOW" interruptor was more incidental than I'd imagined. Thanks for letting me "think aloud" here on this. Would people in this area sound similar? Edited August 24 by Marka Ragnos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted August 24 Moderator Share Posted August 24 On 22/08/2024 at 22:19, Chindie said: This dumb looking creature is a crested gecko Looks like a calmer chameleon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nor-Cal Villan Posted August 24 Share Posted August 24 21 hours ago, Xela said: The day the Beatles were photographed on the Abbey Road crossing for the iconic photo, was the the same day of the Manson murders in LA. @bickster isn't sure what the bigger crime was. My wife’s 4th birthday Some say the murders actually took place on the 9th, as they broke in just before midnight but times of death were on the 9th Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marka Ragnos Posted August 24 VT Supporter Share Posted August 24 (edited) 19 hours ago, VILLAMARV said: The Radnorshire Welshies round by me sound nothing like them weirdos up North or the odd ones to the South. To be fair I can't understand what the lady in your story was saying, or how, despite the phonetic spellings but the proper Welsh folk have been known to sneer at the Anglicised nature of the middle bit by the Marches. There's loads fewer Welsh language speakers than elsewhere and a much softer accent than most people would recognise as a Welsh accent. I was able to find out today! The ~65-70yo woman I heard is from St. David's. Dunno if she was a Welsh speaker, but her accent didn't have the twang I associate with Welsh speakers using English. Really interesting! @mjmooney Edited August 24 by Marka Ragnos 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted August 25 Share Posted August 25 Leonardo Da Vinci, Christopher Columbus, Henry VIII, Nostradamus, Michaelangelo and Copernicus, all lived at the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted August 25 Share Posted August 25 (edited) 1 hour ago, Xela said: Leonardo Da Vinci, Christopher Columbus, Henry VIII, Nostradamus, Michaelangelo and Copernicus, all lived at the same time. Maya Jama, N3on, The Tamworth Spud Man, Giovani Pernice and Ted from Gone Fishing all alive at the same time. Mind blown. Edited August 25 by Seat68 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted August 25 VT Supporter Share Posted August 25 (edited) 1 hour ago, Xela said: Leonardo Da Vinci, Christopher Columbus, Henry VIII, Nostradamus, Michaelangelo and Copernicus, all lived at the same time. Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Leon Trotsky and Sigmund Freud - all relatively unknown at the time - were living in the same city (Vienna) in 1913. Edited August 25 by mjmooney 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted August 25 Moderator Share Posted August 25 13 minutes ago, mjmooney said: Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Leon Trotsky and Sigmund Freud - all relatively unknown at the time - were living in the same city (Vienna) in 1913. You missed out Tito, he was there too 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted August 25 Moderator Share Posted August 25 1 hour ago, bickster said: 1 hour ago, mjmooney said: Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Leon Trotsky and Sigmund Freud - all relatively unknown at the time - were living in the same city (Vienna) in 1913. You missed out Tito, he was there too Not for the last time in history, Tito the least significant of the 5. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted August 25 Share Posted August 25 Marlon, Michael, Jermaine, Adolf and Tito. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted August 25 Share Posted August 25 2 hours ago, Seat68 said: Maya Jama, N3on, The Tamworth Spud Man, Giovani Pernice and Ted from Gone Fishing all alive at the same time. Mind blown. ...and they have the cheek to say we haven't evolved as a species! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted August 25 Share Posted August 25 1 hour ago, mjmooney said: Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Leon Trotsky and Sigmund Freud - all relatively unknown at the time - were living in the same city (Vienna) in 1913. I remember reading about that a few years back. Fascinating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLAMARV Posted August 26 Share Posted August 26 On 24/08/2024 at 19:21, Marka Ragnos said: I was able to find out today! The ~65-70yo woman I heard is from St. David's. Dunno if she was a Welsh speaker, but her accent didn't have the twang I associate with Welsh speakers using English. Really interesting! @mjmooney Not quite 'Little England' but not far away. Wrong side of the Landsker Line. It doesn't necessarily equate to Welsh sounding accents or not - and like I said earlier there's much variation between North and South anyway, Cardiff and Swansea are very different sounding and the valleys has it's own twang but the above map showing Welsh speakers in Wales over 3 from wiki is kind of a good guide between the ideas of 'the Welsh bits' and the more Anglicised bits. The only exception to the idea of the more west you go, the more 'Welsh' it is is the south western bit. Maybe that applies here. Maybe not. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLAMARV Posted August 26 Share Posted August 26 Looking at it, I'd probably say that the exception to that in terms of Anglicised accents would be the Eastern edges of the valleys (Ebbw Vale, Merthyr, Pontypridd etc) where there are fewer Welsh speakers, but still, to my mind, a broad Welsh accent. It probably peters out around Abergavenny, Usk, Monmouth etc. I'd hazard a guess that there's a recent influx of people north of and in and around Newport who work in the Bristol area due to cheap house prices since the tolls on the Severn Bridge were done away with that is probably having an effect on how 'Welsh' that area sounds. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLAMARV Posted August 26 Share Posted August 26 And keeping on topic, and in the name of full disclosure, It was only upon joining VT that @chrisp65 introduced me to the concept of Little England. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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