GP = Goat's piss?

Was a long day at the new coalface...nah, a true classic is an SR500...know
where I can get another one?

 

Really? I thought something worthy wouldn't be measured in phony angst and
lame vinyl jackets....

Don¹t listen to Ali G, psssshhhhhhh

Hammo

 

Yes, you are right, you cant believe it. Cos it wasn't the young ones.....


Hammo

 

Top-poster ...

Cheers
Goaty

 

A country boy eh? You prefer five strand with barb or have you succumbed
to ringlock like the rest of them!

Cheers
Goaty

 

It occurs to me that you could really wind someone up if you
translated 'five strand with barb' into Frog. So, did you
have any experience with fencing /avec la bavure/, Dane?

And the /cerradura del anillo/ is clearing up nicely,
thanks for asking.

-----sharks (I love googlefish)

 

Wow. That joke is really plumbing all time new depths of originality.
Well done. Can't believe I've never heard that one before.

 

"Dane" wrote

You should have done English.

You also need to learn to spell ENCYCLOPAEDIA.

Theo
Young people these days make their own pits.

 

"Knobdoodle" wrote

Greek but you think using ordinary English

His language skills are AWE-full!

This is fun.

Theo
Say something in Latin Dane.

 

"Hamish Alker-Jones" wrote

Not since the original screening.

Theo

 

But, Theo, doesn't an image of the kids of today sweating away with shovels
in their hands damage the assertion that they're all lazy and soft and
wouldn't know hard work if it bit them on the arse, and in your day...?

Maybe you could say something like, "They had a warning sign and a fence[1]
around that pit since before I was a lad... see, with the disrespect for
rules the modern kids show, it's no wonder they ignore the sign, hop the
fence, fall into the pit, skin a knee and then cry about how their knee
hurts...".

Just as condescending, but it manages to cede absolutely no credit to the
kids; makes them appear clumsy and uncoordinated, to boot...



[1] There you go. Another subtle-subtle jab[2] at Dane's past as a
swashbuckling beekeper.
[2] And another...

 

Si hoc signum legere potes, scis nimium eruditionis habes et operis boni
in rebus Latinus alacribus et fructuosis potiri potes

I don't really have anything funny to say to you in Latin.
Most of my studies were of classical texts like Virgil's Aeneid
and less classical texts like Caesar's "De Bellum Gallico"

However, you can have my favourite poem from Martial's Epigrams:

Hesterno fetere mero qui credit Acerram, fallitur: in lucem semper
Acerra bibit.

I loosely translate it as:
They say that Acerra reeks of last nights wine. It is a lie. Acerra
reeks of this mornings wine.

The structure and meter make it far better (and more acerbic) in its
original language.

Now can we go back to talking about bikes or what?

dane

 

"Intact Kneeslider" wrote

day...?

I don't have that image of the 'kids of today'. Most of the young
people I meet are hard-working and earnest, showing great integrity
and honesty. They've had it tough getting into the work-force, unlike
my/our generation who had secure jobs handed to them on a plate.

We have a young bloke we employed at 17 in June last year at $300 a
week. He's 18 now and, because of his skills and mature handling of
his job responsibilities, he's now on $600 a week. As well as that we
pay our staff a productivity bonus of 30% (shared between all staff)
of the first $20K a month of profit, 60% of any profit above $20K.

Sure, kids make the same dumb mistakes we made when we were young.
It's a Darwin test phase we all go through.

Theo

 

I wasn't bragging. I was stating a fact.

Besides, I don't think excessive punctuation is entirely necessary here.
aus.moto isn't so high brow as to require such an extreme level of
attention to punctuation.

The English language is malleable and while the point is clearly
conveyed, trivial punctuation only serves to put you one keystroke
closer to arthritis.

That being said, strictly correct grammar and punctuation has its place.

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with
which I will not put.

Dane

ps. "oh yeah<semi-colon dot dot dot dot>"
what the ****?

 

I'm almost contrite I did that to you Dane. Just how big a pit do you
need before you can see me digging it?

I did 'Caesar in Britain' and Virgil. My textbooks did not have any of
the lower case or punctuation you used in your Latin, (where it didn't
exist), which you appear loath to use in English (where it is
considered good etiquette). And that was the point of my question.



Theo
What bike are you riding? I've forgotten.

 

JUASJUASJUASJUAS!!


Postman Pat

 

The way proper Latin sentences are structured is different to English.
Anglicised punctuationa and capitalisation help a native English speaker
translate it.

See my other post in this thread about punctuation.

Thats all I have to say on the matter.

Caesar's latin is fairly primitive. Virgil and Catullus, while very
different, were much more skilled writers.

is this another pit that im failing to see?

a red one.

 

"Dane" wrote

You were trying to help me understand it?

They were writers, Caesar was a soldier.

No, but I see you're looking for one now. Always be wary of old guys
with shovels.

As in a red coloured one, or as in Ducati. My brother has five of the
latter, and my son two.

No hard feelings.

Theo

 

<ref blows whistle for illegal hold; one of the participants looked like
veering towards asserting dominance by comparing chattels>

 

You were trying to help me understand it?
No. I assumed you probably googled for a translation. It's a famous
modern day Latin phrase. I'm sure Google has enough translations of it.
It was translated from English directly into Latin, retaining our
spelling and punctuation.

a red coloured one with lots of plastic, straight from Japan.
Wouldn't have it any other way

none here either.


Dane