Lol

[excelsior-1]

woman on news bbc1 just said gallilopi instead of gallipoli

i am now wearing my tea all down my front

[-Talbot-]

Are you bored this morning, Excel?

[ummmm]

You really think it was so funny you spat your tea out?

[Quoi]

After 20 years we still chuckle about a family member bragging about an american trip they had. Apparently they went to the yoz-e-might national park.
I dont remember a single thing about the rest of their trip.

[-Talbot-]

yoz-e-might

Did they write it down?

[excelsior-1]

good - a similar response, that is very good Quoi, quite amusing

[RATTER15]

Quoi, as opposed to Yosemite? ' Im assuming it was the pronunciation?

[Quoi]

Yes pronunciation but in a derbyshire accent. Imagine Brian Clough saying it.
yos-e-maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaght

[Peter Pedant]

God there are some passy remarks on this day - ANZAC day

and yes - I have been spilling my tea over some of the things said and not said. Victoria Derbyshire irritated me particularly by stressing things which werent important - it was NOT a blood bath as she said
( in fact at the time it was referred to as the largest POW camp in Europe so mortality was clearly NOT uppermost in their minds )

and as the Turk said this morning it did put iron into the souls of the moribund Ottoman regime.

It WAS a political graveyard for W Churchill esq
who clearly didnt learn
he tried the quick fix again in Italy in 1943 with similar results ( bogged down and tied up a lot of troops )

Victoria D - I have it in for her - she said last week - " and the bombing of London Tokyo and Warsaw "
errrr no - Warsaw was flattened ( no wall was higher than 3 1/2 inches at the end ) but that was not bombing in 1939 - the retreating Germans deliberately blew up the city section by section 1944-5.

I have a plastic front and a lot of tea down it

[zebo]

Did I hear someone refer to Her Royal Highness Elizabeth the Second? If I didn't, then I'm off to Specsavers.
I loved to bit where that irritating woman was interviewing a family, got a few sentences into it, then was told to do it again. The puzzled family had to give the same responses again.

[Broseph]

That is funny. It reminded me of the time me and some friends went camping and we were on the discussion of what makes a perfect woman and one of us said /A big behind a toothy smile/ and one of us thought he said/A big behind and a toothless smile/ so one of us said /I love toothless women and winked/

We were in stitches for a few hours after that nugget of a gem.

[ivor4781]

i rememberer a few years ago two newscasters were talking about something warm but wet then male newscaster introduced the weather girl and asked her if she was "warm and wet"

[Barmaid]

Zebo - the commentator was hideous. I first prickled when he referred to HRH Elizabeth the Second as you pointed out. However I was yelling at the TV when referring to the german ambassador he said "Of course the germans had a vital role in this campaign". Fekkin pr1ck.

[kylesmum]

I'm going to put my head above the parapet here :

What is the present Queen referred to ? I always also thought she was Queen Elizabeth the Second.

History and even present culture and society isn't my strongest point, I have to say but this has bemused me.

[hc4361]

Kylesmum, Her Majesty. Her children are HRH, the Queen in HM.

[Prudie]

I believe it's because HRH is used for those lower than the monarch such as princes/princess. It should have been Her Majesty. I must admit I wouldn't have picked up on it. I also have no idea what this thread is actually about :-0

[kylesmum]

Thank hc and prudie. Seriously wouldn't have occurred to me if you hadn't told me. I even googled and it didn't click. !!

What a dimwit lol !!