Houndslow Borough Council

[Lucy]

Has anyone worked for them before?

Anyone know how far Houndslow is from Gatwick/Heathrow?

Hi SA !

I sometimes find www.movethat.co.uk useful for stuff about an area, I guess you know about tfl etc

Have a good day

[SallyAnne]

A yam yam is someone from the Black Country. Although, I do try to sound as though I'm not from there...

Sorry mate - I've never understood that either (I always though people up here were just being racist about Birminghams high ethinic population when they said that!!)


Where exactly is that then? Is it an area of cities or something? (God I sound so thick - I'll never give southern agents a hard time for thinking Leeds is in the North East again!)

[Bagpuss]

Thats not geordies - thats Vikki Pollard!!

Same dress sense

[SallyAnne]

Hi SA !

I sometimes find www.movethat.co.uk useful for stuff about an area, I guess you know about tfl etc

Have a good day

Cheers Lucy! Hows you today? Were you out partying for womankind over the weekend?

[SallyAnne]

Same dress sense

I must admit, we did all have our hair like that at school!

[Lucifer Box]

you just know this will appear in Xen's signature now - thanks Lucifier

I felt safe to post it as he has run up against the sig character limit. He will have to chose to ditch one of the incumbents first and that will pose him a severe dilemma.

The guys from NI I lived with had hilarious accents. It reminded me of watching "Why Don't You..?" as a kid, but worse. Imagine someone speaking with an NI accent and then think through this real quote from one of them in your mind...

"Did yer see yer maaan over there with the big bitch so he was but".

Mind you, I was living in Manchester at the time.

[EqualOpportunities]

Sorry mate - I've never understood that either (I always though people up here were just being racist about Birminghams high ethinic population when they said that!!)


Where exactly is that then? Is it an area of cities or something? (God I sound so thick - I'll never give southern agents a hard time for thinking Leeds is in the North East again!)

It is indeed an area - it has it's own museum and everything

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Country

[Lucifer Box]

Sorry mate - I've never understood that either (I always though people up here were just being racist about Birminghams high ethinic population when they said that!!)


Where exactly is that then? Is it an area of cities or something? (God I sound so thick - I'll never give southern agents a hard time for thinking Leeds is in the North East again!)

No, it's just onamatapoeic. People from the Black Country sound like they are saying "yam yam" all the time, e.g. "Margret, how much am choc-wheats?". It's called the Black Country because as the industrial centre of the world in the 18th and 19th centuries everything was covered in soot.

[SallyAnne]

I felt safe to post it as he has run up against the sig character limit. He will have to chose to ditch one of the incumbents first and that will pose him a severe dilemma.

The guys from NI I lived with had hilarious accents. It reminded me of watching "Why Don't You..?" as a kid, but worse. Imagine someone speaking with an NI accent and then think through this real quote from one of them in your mind...

"Did yer see yer maaan over there with the big bitch so he was but".

Mind you, I was living in Manchester at the time.

Living in a house in Manchester with a load of Irish...I bet that went down well!

[Lucifer Box]

Living in a house in Manchester with a load of Irish...I bet that went down well!

British, as they used to insist. They were very loyalist.