What you see as evidence the rest of us see as stories and anecdotes that are not backed up by real evidence.
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What you see as evidence the rest of us see as stories and anecdotes that are not backed up by real evidence.
It is a curiosity, but despite the claims of various beauty product manufacturers, a tattoo is still the only skin treatment available that will actually change the condition of your skin.
Personally I don't think it changes it for the better, but that's just my opinion.
Personally I don't think it changes it for the better, but that's just my opinion.
No I really don't think your understanding, it would be an insult if it were from someone whose opinion I respected. Understand now???
Actually you're also spelling aluminum wrong, and yes that was originally the NA spelling (well the US spelling anyway, I believe Canadian spelling was the same as the UK) spelling but it has since become the standard international spelling in the scientific community.
As for the pronunciation of Edinburgh, well are you saying that "Edinburo" is the NA pronunciation? If so you're wrong; everybody over here says it "Ed-in-burg" I've only ever heard it pronounced "Ed-in-burro" in the UK. I assumed that as it is a UK city, the UK pronunciation would be the proper on though.
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So you'd prefer that just anyone who might steal your passport to be able to call your GP and get your personal medical information? I'm surprised that your GP would even give it out over the phone (it's illegal here as it's protected, private info)
To my mind an implanted chip is actually a layer of protection against identity theft by some miscreant thief (which is a much more real possibility than some government conspiracy)
Ah well, you see thats the thing, my GP is a human being, a Scotsman in his late fifties, we've known each other for years. If he gets a call from someone in Kazakhstan saying "I'm Dr. Blah from Blah Hospital, we've got this bloke here, he is in a bad way, is he allergic to such and such then he will provide that info. A few more faxes and digital jiggery-pokery might have more info going back and forth before copies of my past health records, x-rays or whatever were sent over.
If a machine were to call up my GP's or the NHS's machine and have the correct credentials then all my info zips over to the inquirer in an instant, if the system is flawed, has been broken or just doesn't work as folks imagined it might the wrong people could simply hoover up everybody's records.
The Edinboro thing surprises me, the only folks who struggled to pronounce it were from North America, Wisconsin actually, maybe that was problem.
And its Aluminium! Everybody else is wrong.
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When you spell out Edinburg as the NA pronunciation, is that a mis type? because the correct pronunciation is 'Edinburah' or in some parts of that city 'Embra'.
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My Dr. (my PCM and all the specialists I see as well) are human beings too. And if they got a phone call from somebody in Kazakhstan they'd assume it was a scam. In any case, as I said, they're prohibited by law from giving out any of my info with out either:
1. My express, written permission or
2. A court order
....The Edinboro thing surprises me, the only folks who struggled to pronounce it were from North America, Wisconsin actually, maybe that was problem.
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When you spell out Edinburg as the NA pronunciation, is that a mis type? because the correct pronunciation is 'Edinburu' or in some parts of that city 'Embra'.
Wisconsinites do have a thick accent (kind of a cross between their German roots and Canadian) but no, what I said stands; most over here pronounce it "Ed-in-burg."
We have hijacked the thread!
My Dr. would know I was there, his call I suppose, he did once get a call from Sweden but they didn't want any info and were just giving him the heads up about the mess that was heading his way.
Again, Edinburg, is that a hard 'g' at the end?
To make up for the earlier hijacking, I looked up the image and didn't find any links to neo-nazi/racist/far right groups. I make a point of going to the Sutton Hoo exhibit at the British Museum whenever I visit, some beautiful stuff there, it is your heritage, if you want it on your arm or wherever so be it, if some nutjobs want to use that symbol to spread their hateful ideology, take it back from them, it isn't theirs, it belongs to everybody.
Thats my tuppence worth.
Weird ways you lot in the Yoony Ted Stattys of Aimerissa have! It's pronounced Edin-burra, a hard g pronounciation belongs to the truncated German , like Nuremberg which has no h at the end. Burgh is like burough in the US, the g is not pronounced.
Agreed Rik. As I said, since it's a UK city. I'd defer to the UK pronunciation generally.
That said, how many centuries did we in North America and Europe mispronounce Bejing (Peking) and Mombai (Bombay)?
I'm not sure those were mispronounciations as much as alternate "colonial" names - IIRC Peking was based on the regional dialect of the first Chinese trading port Europeans entered and Bombay is an anglisication of a Portugese descriptive name. I'm sure there are also a lot of US place names folk here would get wrong at first attempt - Arkansas, La Jolla, Spokane, Des Moines come to mind. Around me there are a few places that no-one EVER gets right - written Strachan, Finzean and Chapel of Garioch , but without local knowledge even other Scots get them wrong!
But we're British and am fully allowed to call places what we want and if it upsets Jonny Foreigner then so be it; they should learn English.
Steady on old chap, some uncouth type will very likely be along forthwith and call you a dastardly racialist what what
Thanks, Sandbender, I need to visit the display soon as. It is part of my heritage / DNA, I'm like most of us mongrels, I have Irish, English and my children are even more mixed with my blood and their mothers Chinese, Thai, Lao, blood. I'm proud but far from the point the Rivers of blood fanatics.
Tiw and his mythology and what his image represents is what made me decide to have this inked. Being inked is a way of marking my journey,I have chosen images that at that point remind me of a stage, be it pleasant or nasty, iif they can remind me of what I should be. At the moment I'm struggling with it all, I need to be reminded that we have challenges and struggles and with effort you can make it.
Agreed. The funniest (to me) mispronunciation of a British name by Americans is when they (those Americans that haven't been there) say Worcestershire. Phonetically it's correct with either the British or the American pronunciation; just depends on where you separate the syllables. Sort of like the Choctawhatchee Bay here.
An American place name (a southern one) that's difficult even for Americans not from the area is Susqueloc in Mississippi. Unless you were from there you'd never think of the correct pronunciation: Sugar-lock.
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