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backontrack

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Barnstaple: The largest item of stationary in the world.
Mallaig: Just above my ankle.

How naughty are these allowed to be? I ask as I have some rather lewd ones that are most likely post-watershed.

That hasn't stopped Harbornite! :lol::roll:
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Milngavie - The Scots name for Rodin's The Thinker.

Very good. *clap clap clap*
 
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If anyone feels offended by my previous post then they can do one. I'd attend church more if they had more debates.
 

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Rectory - RMT's agenda

Flirt - What Yorkshire balloons do

Borstal - A politician's seat
 
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Erection- How the chinese communist party selects a new leader...

That reminds me of the joke that did the rounds after the 2000 United States Presidential election, about Japan sending an aid shipment of Viagra to assist with the Americans' "Erectoral difficulties"...

Slaithwaite - The best way to make use of cabbage which is past its best.
 

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Erection- How the chinese communist party selects a new leader...

I don't think you quite understood why this joke originated with Japanese speakers.

It does not work when simply migrated to a different group of people, unfortunately. :lol:
 

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I don't think you quite understood why this joke originated with Japanese speakers.

It does not work when simply migrated to a different group of people, unfortunately. :lol:

Damn. I thought it was the Japanese who say L instead of R and the Chinese who say R instead of L?

Oh well, just swap Chinese for Japanese and ignore any references to their Communist party! Hold on, I'll just rewrite it...

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Erection- How the Japanese select a new Prime Minister.


Trump- The Yorkshire word for bird or mammal's rear.
 
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bb21

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Damn. I thought it was the Japanese who say L instead of R and the Chinese who say R instead of L?

Oh well, just swap Chinese for Japanese and ignore any references to their Communist party! Hold on, I'll just rewrite it...

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Erection- How the Japanese select a new Prime Minister.


Trump- The Yorkshire word for bird or mammal's rear.

I don't really know how this joke came about. Japanese alphabet has no "r" sound, which means that many Japanese people cannot pronounce the "r" sound, because they never have to. So this is completely the wrong way round.

Chinese people generally don't have this issue, as both exist in the Chinese language, although Cantonese speakers tend to have more of a problem getting English pronunciation right, as the Cantonese dialect only has 45 different "sounds", northern dialects in general 46, both lacking most importantly the "e" sound (as in "deckchair" - hence a northerner would most likely say "fake" if they wanted to swear in English :lol:), and Wu-dialect 51, comprising all that exist in the English language (49 I think iirc). Ethnic languages vary. You can often tell by the way English is spoken whereabouts people are from. :lol:
 

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I don't really know how this joke came about. Japanese alphabet has no "r" sound, which means that many Japanese people cannot pronounce the "r" sound, because they never have to.

Chinese people generally don't have this issue, as both exist in the Chinese language, although Cantonese speakers tend to have more of a problem getting English pronunciation right, as the Cantonese dialect only has 45 different "sounds", northern dialects in general 46, both lacking most importantly the "e" sound (as in "deckchair"), and Wu-dialect 51, comprising all that exist in the English language (49 I think iirc). Ethnic languages vary. You can often tell by the way English is spoken whereabouts people are from. :lol:

Yeah.

To be honest, I've met and I know a few Chinese people (Mandarin) and their English seems alright, no real issues with pronounciation.
 

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