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its hard to quantify..your culture seems to have a certain officiousness where in AU and UK we tend to be more relaxed about that stuff..we tend to laugh it off and treat it as pompous grandstanding. Woops now i am in trouble!
Thanks Sire.
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Thanks Sire.
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tedolf
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thanks for your increasing predictable humour. Sorry I don't have time to answer ALL your posts! I do hope you have watched 'das boot' ..I recommend the directors cut but make sure you watch the original german form with english subtitles..The English dub is terrible!
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Guy Parsons
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That's exactly why travel is so interesting.
We are all children, but of course every culture has its own belief system, ranging from zero gods to millions of gods.
To me the interesting place is Japan where surveys show that 97% are Shinto religion and 95% are Buddhist. No conflict as Shinto (an ancient earth based religion) is all about birth and everyday life, whereas Buddhism more comes into play near death so to play safe they use both belief systems widely. Basically no gods in either system, but god-like respect paid where it is due.
An interesting impromptu discussion happened with me when an elderly fellow in Japan at Kyoto railway station accosted me with some Japanese to English translations he had been working on, and he wanted to check whether his English was acceptable.
Part of his work had "fools rush in where angels fear to tread" and the discussion veered off into trying to explain angels and devils and other weirdness in Christianity that has accumulated over the years. The notion of heaven and hell was just not understandable to him, he just did not get it.
His understanding of life an death came from Shinto where we come from the earth and when we die we return to the earth, we are part of the earth and it is just reclaiming what it owns. Shinto gurus may have a better explanation but that is how he explained it to me.
Funny, he trying to educate me about Shinto and me (an atheist) trying to explain the Christian belief system to him.
Regards............ Guy
Guy Parsons
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I guess you are getting the usual South Australia desert weather, further east and north and it's quite different. Sydney of course wet, wet, wet summer and rain forecast again for most days in March.
We need the Tedolph submarine conversion kits for our cars.
Regards............ Guy
Mike Ronesia
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Also keep in mind that the US is a very large and diversified country. Some people can't experience a tropical beach or a glacier covered mountain unless they leave their country but you can in the US. Places like England have nothing like the Grand Canyon or Yellowstone, they have to leave the country to see something like that. Others still don't have a New York, Hollywood or New Orleans. The US covers Alaska to Hawaii to New York and if you want to be somewhere were most people speak a different language then you, we have that too.
I'm not saying that there is nothing else to see, but in the US there are a lot of options that don't require a Pass Port, cavity search or a small fortune to enjoy.
That said I love travel and moved from the old country years ago. We don't have much money but we travel when we can and always enjoy it.
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Guy Parsons
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NCR in Dayton Ohio and Los Angeles in 1967. Before that NCR for 9 months in 1965 in London England.
Then later DEC in Maynard Mass. 1977 and Bedford Mass. 1979, then later as a retired tourist travelling all over.
Was that the answer to your query?
Regards............. Guy
MAubrey
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Not in Vancouver. We're just soggy.
MAubrey
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That's us!
Tony Tomlin
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The thread is a statement of the obvious but are you not confusing volume with value?
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Guy Parsons
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What else from Tedolphius as he thrashes around trying to attract attention to himself?
The Australian accent is probably an early Londoner accent maybe even early Cockney, but of course in Oz it was variously modified over the early years by new settlers, mostly from UK and stayed somewhat frozen in time whereas at "home" in England the language moved on. A bit of reading at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_English
As for US English pronunciation, I found one definite area of difficulty was "can" and "can't", sounds like "kan" and "kant". In a noisy environment they sound the same, can cause problems. In Oz they are sensibly pronounced as "kan" and "karnt" so sound quite different.
Generally though in USA I find I need to adopt a crappy fake US accent to try and be understood at times, speak Oz and they give blank looks.
Reminds me of an old story with a friend in USA in 1960's era putting in films at a lab in Ohio with another friend, a Japanese also there for computer training. "Name please", "Norman", "how do you spell that?" "N-O-R-M-A-N" and repeats needed to get it right..... "next please - your name" "Yamaguchi" (no problems, name scribbled down without needing spelling). It must be our Oz pronunciation.
If you want weird English pronunciation, just listen to any New Zealanders.....
Regards............ Guy
Guy Parsons
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Definitely a blessed change from the OM-5 nonsense going on and on and yet nobody owns one as yet.
Thanks, Billy, for this thread which worked out quite fun to indulge in, b-all to do with photography but more to do with the personalities inhabiting this warm wet swamp.
Regards...... Guy
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