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Very well said!

Let me think.....

Has anyone been to Majorca and had ensaimadas? They are so lovely. I would emigrate there just for them. Those beaver tails look interesting though........carb craving is hitting me!

'Bugger' is stronger than 'bloody' here in the UK, I would say. Bloody really isn't bleeped out much on TV, although you wouldn't hear it on Children's TV or anything. Bugger is a bit stronger, and it depends on the context/usage. For example, if you said "My son is a little bugger!!" or something similar, that is less offensive than using "bugger" as an exclamation of annoyance. I think. So many nuances! I admit to being slightly surprised though when Ron kept saying it in the HP films - my daughter said "Ooh Ron just swore Mum!" and I think I told her that it was not a nice word but not as bad as the sh or the f word.

Whoa!! So many good points made here since I posted my Batman fantasy ( ) last night (btw I was thinking of the 1960s Batman - Adam West?? HOT. And quite camp. But well, there you go ) In a straight choice between Batman and Mika I'd go for Mika. Spiderman? Naah. Quite agree with all this (that was a hard post to edit!!) Well this is interesting. Much as part of me would love to, I cannot imagine chasing Mika across England, let alone the world. My husband knows I'm a bit obsessed with him, that I think he's the best thing since sliced bread etc. but really there has to be a limit...if I suddenly announced I was going to six or seven gigs of his in the space of a month or so, I DO think he would start to suspect (irrationally, but nonetheless understandably!) that I was either trying to get some groupie action ( with Mika!! LOL) or was clinically insane. I wouldn't do it. At the end of the day you know how far you can go with these things, and it comes down to respect for your partner's feelings, which is part of a mature loving relationship. This is what it boils down to in the end isn't it. Well partly. Ha. *born too early, sigh *

That just makes me think of Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins Or Sid James in a Carry On film. It does amuse me that on US shows whenever they have an English or British character and they want to make them sound really really British, they make them say 'bloody' in every sentence . Think Charlie in Lost. It's not that strong - even Ron Weasley says it in Harry Potter

But he isn't going to is he, Mika I mean. It really is total fantasy. Maybe some people on the forum think they might be in with a chance ( ) but most of us know we are not. For many reasons . I don't think there is any harm in a bit of fantasy. it isn't tantamount to adultery, nor does it mean you don't love your real life partner. I may as well imagine running off with Batman. It aint gonna happen but it's fun to imagine

Well then to me, it's you who is posh!! If I said it like that in Barnsley town centre I'd get beaten up. Can't believe that. Here it is very mild. Not as strong as damn, no way.

introduire.. so what should it be, laissez-moi vous présenter..? or Je vous présente..?? I can see how he tries to literally translate words but I agree that if he just spent more time in France again it'd come back to him. You use it or lose it to some extent. (I need to join the French thread now it is all inclusive for some practice!)

Didn't know where to post this, but it just made me smile (from Yahoo music's chart commentary section): "Also new in the Top 10 is 'Happy Ending' from Mika which moves 16-7 upon physical release. His continuing ability to have hit singles is rather pleasantly reassuring. For all the "next big thing" hype that accompanied his arrival in the mainstream at the start of the year, the high camp primary colours nature of his work carried with it the risk that 'Grace Kelly' would make him a one hit wonder. That we are now almost in November with his 4th Top 10 single and the 'Life In Cartoon Motion' album still in the Top 20 is proof enough that he is no novelty. Where he goes with a second album will of course be fascinating." - James Masterton :wub2: http://uk.launch.yahoo.com/charts/comment.html

Love salmon, and all things from the sea. I often wish I lived in New England, by the sea, so I could eat lobster every day. Here in the UK lobster is a major delicacy, so expensive, hardly anyone can afford it. My parents went to Plymouth (MA) on holiday and had lobster from a stall, it was ridiculously cheap.

Now you are really talking some seriously gorgeous heart attack comfort food.. *drools* *plans move to Canada*

This is the best thing we have to compare to poutine - chips and curry sauce, always tastes best when eaten whilst walking home from the pub on a cold winter's night. They tell me you can't get it in Southern England though. Strange. Correct me if I'm wrong.

YUM!!!!! Thanks. So it's like chips and gravy (or, fries and gravy) but with cheese too? Genius. I love it. I want it. Why do we not have that in England?

lol, I wish I knew where that saying comes from..it's bizarre! It seems to be more of a South Yorkshire/Nottinghamshire saying, from the coal mining areas. If that has anything to do with it (coal? monks? ) As for scone...are you posh??

I think the trick is to know your limits with the drinking...this is one reason I am a little thankful Mika didn't come along ten years ago because I didn't know my limits then, and I would certainly never have remembered a thing about his concerts!! Being a wise (not boring!) oldling therefore has some advantages! And the sock thing, well I sympathise for Mika, there is just nothing more irritating than 'falling-down socks' as I used to call them when I was a little girl!! And thanks cubitus for the report. I'm not too happy about the state of Mika's health though. I hope it is just a little cold he's got. But what's with the bandaged hand? What has he been getting up to?? Here we go, mothering him again, LOL.

We call it a brace, singular, as opposed to braces (suspenders). And what is this poutine thing? anyone got a picture of it? I just can't visualise it at all. I guess the North Americans are still in bed now... I like this thread. And can any Aussie give me a precise deifinition of a bogan? Is it a bit like chav, or more like gimp?

Thanks for posting Not a bad article but they should realise Mika doesn't only appeal to young children and schoolgirls excited by gay culture, as they seem to imply.

I was going to ask Babs that, but I didn't want to stir up a hornet's nest of emotion....

It's not easy to define 'chav', it's a fairly new word in Britain. I won't try - I'll leave it to Wiki instead: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chav

Well here are a few of mine. I'm from South Yorkshire, in England, but I live 40miles to the West of there, in Lancashire, and there are many differences even then!: pop = a fizzy drink sarnie = sandwich (Lancashire: butty) trousers = self explanatory but in Lancs they are pants pants = underwear to have the monk on = to be in a sulk/bad mood (in Lancs to be in a mard) cuppa = a cup of tea (Lancs, a brew) snap = food *dinner = midday meal *tea = evening meal *supper = a bite to eat just before you go to bed eg a biscuit/slice of toast *this really upsets Southerners in England hee hee we pronounce SCONE the same as BONE, but in Lancs they pronounce it like GONE, and they say I 'sound posh' when I say it in my accent (I'm anything but posh!) Scone is a strange one!

Thanks, I certainly understand what you mean with regards to Hugh's French, and I think I understand what you mean about Mika. It's his intonation which is a bit anglicized. He does seem to speak French with a very Parisian accent though, am I right? e muet and all that?

Thanks, I hadn't seen that!!! I shouldn't laugh though - at least he is trying poor man, and that's very un-British!

I'm intrigued to know what you mean by this! Do you mean his mannerisms and expressions? What exactly? What is it that makes him seem so British to you, as a Frenchie? Just curious..

Yes it's definitely easier to pick up other romance languages once you know one. I speak three Romance languages but although I've never studied Italian I can read it, and even understand it if spoken slowly, and I can even understand a bit of Romanian. The thing is, Mika's comfortable having a go, he isn't inhibited about making mistakes, that's so important with foreign language learning. As I said before, he's an excellent role model for British kids, and the British in general as we are not famed for our language skills! Generally speaking as a nation we are lazy linguists.