Red Room

[Jehane]

Pleased we got you laughing, LR. Hard days are just so... hard.

 

[~InHisHands~]

Goodnight everyone. God bless you all.

 

[Jehane]

Gosh it's quiet in here... Practising solitude in the Red room.

 

[~InHisHands~]

It's amazing what total solitude can do for a person. I'm around people all day at work. Along with all the "noise" of life. I'm always thankful when I'm home all by myself. Then I know it's quiet and calm and the Lord is there. He works on placing spiritual bandaids on the hurts of the day and works on restoring me. He then works on any correction needed in my life and teaching me new things from the days events.

 

[~InHisHands~]

Have a blessed day all. It's time to drag myself to work again. *Sleepy Smile*

 

[P_G]

Yeah English is cool.

You ever listen to Alister Begg? Scottish preacher I really enjoy hearing him,

PG

 

[Jehane]

My poppy was Scots. I'd listen to him tell the same stories over & over just so I could listen to his accent.

G'day, P_G. (There's an Australianism for you.)

 

[MrJim]

PG, I'm sooo sorry to dissapoint you; I'm told I sound English, so unless you think English accents are cool...

Most of us over here can't tell the difference.

I once "insulted" a Scotsman by calling him Irish. He was a guy that came around supplying our First Aid equipment. I used up some stuff and called the office and some lady answered and I said something about having "that Irish guy come over" and she said coldly: "He's not Irish, he's Scottish".

 

[~InHisHands~]

I'm a mutt. *LOL*

 

[Jehane]

Ye-ouch! Mind you, if you know your history at all Irish raiders settled the west coast of Scotland & Irish gaelic & Scots gaelic are close enough they can understand each other, unlike Welsh...

 

[MrJim]

Ye-ouch! Mind you, if you know your history at all Irish raiders settled the west coast of Scotland & Irish gaelic & Scots gaelic are close enough they can understand each other, unlike Welsh...

Typica american ignorance, y'all sorta just get lumped together, but we like the accent-it makes people sound more educated.

Well, except that cockney sort like in My Fair Lady, it don't sound educated, it just sounds cool, Eliza.

 

[~InHisHands~]

*Listening in*

 

[~InHisHands~]

bbl, chores await! *hugs4all*

 

[Jehane]

A lot of Aussies sound like cockneys - which stands to reason; that's who the Brits transported - along with the Irish, the Scots & the Welsh. Just like in the wars they tried exterminating us all in the heaviest fighting. (History condensed into a nutshell.)

 

[~InHisHands~]

Why did they try to do that Jehane?

 

[Jehane]

As colonists we were expendable, fodder for the great British empire & if you were Scots, Irish or Welsh you were definitely a second class citizen. In Scotland & Wales they did horrible things to kiddies who spoke their native tongue (which wasn't English) in school; a policy that nearly exterminated 2 languages.

 

[~InHisHands~]

That's really a shame.

 

[MrJim]

I didn't know all that.

 

[Jehane]

Hm. It gets me hot under the collar when our Aboriginals complain about what's been done to them. They got a mere 200 years; the S, I, W got centuraries of it.

 

[~InHisHands~]

You know, I still to this day don't know what an Aboriginal is. *Duh*