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Maybe Not as Parochial as You might Think – Last Week’s Views
07 Friday Feb 2014
Posted in Uncategorized
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
I’m paranoid one of these Germans will call me out and show how bad I am speaking German.
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Did you learn German at school, sea?
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Don’t be silly. This is what they learn:
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.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Eem_3M4gV8
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I am greatly entertained. Thank you, Carisbrooke. I love those. (My first soundscape from you Awwwwww! 😉 )
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At school and first year 1 Uni.
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We didn’t have choices, but my children had choices at State School in Primary School whether they did German or Italian. Radical..
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By ‘we’, I meant in my year..
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Julian did most of them on his whistle stop world tour.
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What counts as a view? Cause if the usual suspects Australian suspects are bored, seeking distraction or aroused by some particular issue its conceivable they’d get 50 views a day.
Just to set and upper bound 5 x 50 x 7 = 1750. There’s the lion’s share of your Australian views. Unless I’ve misconstrued the meaning of view.
What I’m getting at here is none of the usual suspects seem to be located in the US. So why the popularity there? I’m intrugued. Ex pat Australians? Well then why doesn’t the UK figure? Australian using proxy ISPs perhaps. Maybe Ellis is right and CIA is watching. There’s a Pigsarms desk in the next office to the Bob Ellis desk now.
What did they find so interesting?
I’m reminded of a Bob Ellis theory. An accusation he’s levelled at me.
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It’s just automatically scanned by US computers checking for clues to terrorism.
It’s not actually real people.
How could it be? If it was real people, they would have commented on how Clarke and Dawe made them laugh so much that they pissed their pants.
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You provoke a thought, Jules. Maybe the US views are google servers doing their thing. Does anyone know how that works? I know the scan the interwebs several times a day. Would WordPress log that as a view?
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I would say that it constituted a ‘viewing’. After allone has to log in to viw, however just touch the article’s protocol to log a hit.
I’ll ask my son, when we Skype this weekend. He oversees millions of £s of complicated equipment. And, what’s confusing is that he understnds what he’s doing. I prtend, but really it’s mainly gobbledegook® (ha ha) to me.
It is an interesting thought though.
Singing in the rain was excellent , BTW.
I hadn’t seen the whole movie for years.
Oh well, I had better go and view my daughter’s new house (inside). They settled yesterday and will take a week to move in – so I’ll get a chance to burn off some calories.
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Weeell,
Some US hits are from people looking for a recipe for the famous Southern delicacy Pigs Arms.
Other US hits are from googling police and their weapons. Pigs Arms.
Most of the rest are from people using the proxy US IP address they got for downloading software, while googling Voice in search of singing lessons.
😉
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Nesting instinct, Carisbrooke?
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Just got back. Dolphins went past their garden and my daughter took it as a good omen.
RE: home.
No if you remember my son-in-law has a building company. However he doesn’t have a full licence, so he’s working toward that (doing modules). (My daughter is a high school teacher – in the public system. She’s assistant to the head of English and is involved in setting English curricula, or summit. I dunno, nobody tells me exactly. And if they do I forget.)
They do decking and pergolas, and he has 12 carpenters working for him. They’ve done a few small renovations using their corporate building license and now he wants to go up a step.
So they will live in this for a year and renovate to a high standard; giving him that chance to use his design and build flair. Then sell it. The work will count towards his building modules.
They are going to let the other house out.
Seeing the dolphins was mind blowing. As he said, “You wouldn’t get them in Middlesex “(where he comes from).
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When I wrote ‘they do’, I meant my son-in-law’s company. My daughter, Juliana Londoness, doesn’t have anything to do with his work.
She works most weekends doing stuff for Qld education and her students.
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I will be so amused if my son was one of your sons’ labourers for a while there, Carisbrooke. He is out of there now however and has gone south to Uni. 🙂
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Sorry that came out as goobledygook. I’d meant to delete that Ellis used to accuse me of being a CIA agent. He rolls out the accusation at others quite regularly.
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Sea Monster, Ziss iss zee Pigss Armss. Vee don’t gobbledygook hir!
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Oh well. Solved the problem of their steadfast refusal to comment. Shattered some treasured illusions. Reinstated another. All and all a good days work for the Monster.
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What the?
I must have missed summit.
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Yes, wonderful; but what did they look at? And why don’t they leave a comment? And what about all the other countries? What’s up with them that they don’t drop in?
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That’s what I was wondering about, no comments ?
Those two from Finland are most likely my two younger sisters, keeping an eye on me, they have said as much… 🙂
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There are now 3d Printers able to print a real beer. It is at the beginning stage but with increased research it will be possible to print and drink and eat beverages and food.
https://www.google.com.au/#q=3d+printer+able+to+make+real+beer
I have put in an order for one that can print a nice Dutch herring and decent Norwegian kochen brodchen met herrlicke kaase.
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I fear terribly that’s the fish buried in barrels in backyards & rock crannies for months. Why didn’t I at least take Old Icelandic languages. So useful…
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Not bad for a corner pub and the verandah needing painting again. Big corner.
SPONSORSHIP DEAL ALERT (SIRENS EeeeawwWWW): Thank you, Shoe Decorator and Painters.
🙂
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Brilliant. Here’s something for the English speaking lookers with a funny bone:
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And what of Begium, Perhaps we need Poirot on the case.
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We can be disappointed in Belgium taking their eye off things algy, I say, old chap what..
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Yes, he uses a monocle 🙂
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I say Carisbrooke, I think that is so spot on.
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And a waxed moustache
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I say, Algy. It looks a conceit. Maybe not as effective as an eye for keeping one onto things, you dear old thing.
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Perhaps the odd gait then.
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Funny. Now where’s Carisbrooke for a comment when we need him. Gone to market up there somewhere or other in Queensland I will warrant. Positive he’s not in Venice yet. What ho I must be off. Going walking. Cheerio pip.
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I’m here.
I just came back to read Clarke and Dawe again.
Wasn’t it hilarious?
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He’s not Belgian though.
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I had no idea the man was missing.
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How come the Americans did not say anything, not even a good morning, none of those 846 …?
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Wow. Simply amazing
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I second that.
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Smokey Robinson & The Miracles.
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