Any good jokes ... ?

[Profpointy]

Welsh don't join the "Other languages" as they understand perfectly, counting in a very similar manner

Indeed: fourteen, fifteen, fifteen and one,
fifteen and two, two-nines, nineteen, twenty, twenty one..... twenty nine, twenty ten etc

 

[Gwylan]

French: ...sixty-seven, sixty-eight, sixty-nine, sixty-ten...
Other languages: *stares*
French: *stares back*
French: ...sixty-eleven, sixty-twelve...
...
French: ...sixty-sixteen, sixty-ten-seven...
Other languages: *shutting eyes*
French: ...sixty-ten-eight, sixty-ten-nine...
Other languages: *covers face with hands*
French: ...four-twenties! Four-twenties-one...

Belgium, where some bits speak a dialect of French

Seven aunts
Eight aunts
Nine aunts

 

[tyred]

 

[Gwylan]

Indeed: fourteen, fifteen, fifteen and one,
fifteen and two, two-nines, nineteen, twenty, twenty one..... twenty nine, twenty ten etc

But where @Profpointy does twenty come from?

 

[Profpointy]

But where @Profpointy does twenty come from?

Good point. Doesn't have "two" in it all all and is a word in its own right as it were

 

[Chislenko]

Good point. Doesn't have "two" in it all all and is a word in its own right as it were

To be fair I still use the old system for 20 40 60 etc hugain, deugain, trigain and 11-19. Not a fan of the new "decimal" system for 11-19.

 

[Profpointy]

To be fair I still use the old system for 20 40 60 etc hugain, deugain, trigain and 11-19. Not a fan of the new "decimal" system for 11-19.

Agree, standards are slipping. There was this term "Cymraeg biw" for dumbed down Welsh. The other odd thing is a lot of South Walians now speak Welsh with a strange half Gogish accent picked up in Welsh language schools.

 

[mistyoptic]

I made myself a belt from herbs yesterday. Mrs O said it was a complete waste of thyme

 

[newfhouse]

A colon can really change the meaning of a sentence.

Example:

"The marbles fell out of my pocket."

"The marbles fell out of my colon."

 

[Dave7]

Friday morning and this middle aged man takes a beautiful young woman into the jewellers. He tells the jeweller "I want a beautiful ring for this beautiful woman".
The jeweller brings a nice ring and says it would cost £5K. The man says "you don't understand.... this woman deserves your best".
Jeweller brings a real sparkler declaring it would cost £40K. The man says "we will take it. I will pay by cheque, give you time to clear it, then we will collect the ring"
Monday morning the jeweller phones the man to tell him the cheque bounced as the account is empty.
The man says "yes, I know.....but can you imagine the weekend I had"?.

 

[Cavalol]

 

[raleighnut]

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Aye it goes well with Cheese.

 

[Jameshow]

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Our current Vlad was a takeaway delivery driver at one point I believe!

 

[Profpointy]

Our current Vlad was a takeaway delivery driver at one point I believe!

Back in the day I used to send emails to Attila the Hun.

True story! We were dealing with a Hungarian IT supplier, can't quite remember what we were buying, but they were pretty good. Their technical director was named Attila; a nice guy and very capable.

I guess the Hungarians see the original Attila the Hun as the great warrior/king who kicked the Romans out (after all "what did they ever do for us") whilst many with a more classical view of the world see him as a barbarian who sacked Rome

 

[PeteXXX]