Whats the catch? - Page 3

codprawn · 09 February 2006, 19:25

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Originally Posted by signum

thank y very much....all corrections accepted....you know here we are mainly "forced" to learn at least one foreign language from childhood...
but as y pointed we see many many many american films so it is easy to make this kind of "mistakes".
the only british i remember is about 10-12 years ago that we had the Bennie hill series......all rest is american...

Benny Hill - a true classic but not exactly a good advert for Britain - then again!!!

Talking of Britain you seem to be a little confused - Great Britain and England are not the same - Welsh and Scottish people tend to get rather upset if they are called English!!! Much safer to just call us all British!!!

A friend of mine was born and brought up in Athens - his father is Greek - his mother Welsh/British. He always used to come to visit his grandparents here in Swansea - he loves British winters - especially Christmas time - now he is living here and training to be a cameraman - he had a great project covering the Athens Olympics.

signum · 09 February 2006, 20:15

codprawn yr right...sorry...i hope you saw some of Athens even by tv.....
hope some day to take my wife and pay a visit....
i would like to learn more about this kind of sitouations but without causing any trouble.....maybe if you'd like to send me a pm i'd be glad to "talk"...

The Garfish · 10 February 2006, 15:27

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Originally Posted by signum

i hope you saw some of Athens

i av bin ther an kwite frannkly sum ov dem bildins nead a bitt ov reepare werk.

gArf

Scary Des · 10 February 2006, 15:44

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Originally Posted by codprawn

........- his father is Greek - his mother Welsh/British.

Doesn’t that make him three quarters welsh

Des

signum · 10 February 2006, 18:07

garfish during the Olympic games some money where given in order to "fresh up" a bit the outside of some buildings...mostly the old ones in the centre of Athens (plaka) which are from the late 18th cent.
hope inspite the buildings y'd liked the rest of area, if y've gone to Acropolis but mailnly if y'd liked the people.....

codprawn · 10 February 2006, 20:17

Spent some time in Athens and Piraeus a few years ago - traffic the worst I have seen anywhere!!!

signum · 10 February 2006, 21:39

too many cars....consider 4.500.000people having 3.500.000cars and motorcycles......
but unfortunately didn't see the very best we have.... you've seen just centers....not suburbs.....outside...or our islands.......maybe next time try to come with better guidance and more time....
it's like for example for me to come there and see just the Big Ben and around....not the beauty outside nor the true life......

Try to imagine that Athens is like a big valey surrounded by mountains....nowdays we have some cold (around 0 degrees) and in the mountains we have snow...about 10-20cm...on the other hand 40min from center of Athens you can be in beachside......
Should send some pics if you want to see more and better what i mean.....
i'm in yr disposal if y want.....

pathalla · 11 February 2006, 00:23

Just wanted to ask all you ribbers about Benny Hill, we used to get it on one of the channels here in the states, I loved watching his show, very funny stuff, I used to laugh until I cried at times watching those skits, how he seemed to always accidently grab the ladies in exactly the wrong (right) place. Over here on non cable t.v. (network channels) god help us if they ever exposed a breast, doesn't happen. Anyhow, I believe we used to get a heavily edited version of Benny, comments please....

codprawn · 11 February 2006, 04:03

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Originally Posted by pathalla

Just wanted to ask all you ribbers about Benny Hill, we used to get it on one of the channels here in the states, I loved watching his show, very funny stuff, I used to laugh until I cried at times watching those skits, how he seemed to always accidently grab the ladies in exactly the wrong (right) place. Over here on non cable t.v. (network channels) god help us if they ever exposed a breast, doesn't happen. Anyhow, I believe we used to get a heavily edited version of Benny, comments please....

Unbelievable the double standards in the USA - Janet Jackson showing a glimpse of breast being a classic example!!! And yet where is the world's largest porn industry? Talk about double standards!!!

If you liked Benny Hill you would love Little Britain - in this politically correct era it is like a breath of fresh air - although how they get away with it beats me. It has achieved cult status over here.

Apparently they are going to make an American version but no way will it be the same!!!

Benny Hill was very popular but there were many other truly great British comedy shows - porridge - Dad's Army - Allo Allo and of course the ultimate - Fawltt towers with John Cleese.

Not many Yank shows do it for me although I LOVE Married with Children - Kelly is great!!!

Nos4r2 · 11 February 2006, 04:10

mmmmm..... yeah.... Christina Applegate....

What on earth you doing up at this godawful time CP?

codprawn · 11 February 2006, 04:12

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Originally Posted by signum

too many cars....consider 4.500.000people having 3.500.000cars and motorcycles......
but unfortunately didn't see the very best we have.... you've seen just centers....not suburbs.....outside...or our islands.......maybe next time try to come with better guidance and more time....
it's like for example for me to come there and see just the Big Ben and around....not the beauty outside nor the true life......

Try to imagine that Athens is like a big valey surrounded by mountains....nowdays we have some cold (around 0 degrees) and in the mountains we have snow...about 10-20cm...on the other hand 40min from center of Athens you can be in beachside......
Should send some pics if you want to see more and better what i mean.....
i'm in yr disposal if y want.....

Been all over Greece - up into the mountains - along the east coast past Marathon up to Thessaloniki - also to many of the Greek Islands. Sadly it was 15 years ago - will have to do it again soon.

People were really friendly - which is more than can be said for many other countries in Europe!!!

Srellom · 11 February 2006, 08:43

I also love Greece. I mate and I did the pack packing thing there years ago, catching the ferry across from Brindisi. We spent 2 weeks in Athens when I became ill, we were so skint we had to eat every day down at the Plakka, which was an experience. We ended up spending almost a month on Crete "socialising" with the Brit girls there on holiday.