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Christel wrote:

snayperskaya wrote:

Christel wrote:

No honest, he is.......scouts honour

Not doubting you, it was the Welsh suggestion that made me laugh.

WelshShooter flying the flag and all :)

Oh, I see

I'm from Shrewsbury originally and I must admit that every time I go away somewhere people always ask what part of Wales I'm from, as they say I have a Welsh accent!!!.

S'funny, wherever Ovenpaa goes people ask him if he is from London, go figure as he has never lived there.

That's the joke Christel, I know snayper isn't Welsh but he often gets lumped in as one of us! The thought of his "foreigner" wife possibly being a Welsh would have been funny to me

Edit: whilst we're talking about a case of mistaken identity... I was on a conference call with a chap from a German company who we were looking to subcontract a process to. After a couple of weeks of daily calls he complimented me on my posh, well spoken Cambridge English accent. I didn't study in Cambridge, nor have I ever lived there I just have a "posh" phone voice and speak more eloquently to make sure non-English speakers don't get hung up on my accent "innit butt"? But this was a first for me. He was amazed that I was Welsh and have lived in Wales my whole life as I didn't sound like the other people from our business.

The HDPE bottles for C2R come from Scotland and the chap I speak to is from Glasgow. Christel being Danish struggles with some of our UK dialects and that is one so she handed the call to me and we both laughed about her lack of understanding and he told me he was actually putting on his telephone voice... from that point onwards he always speaks to me in Glaswegian. Luckily I know what I am ordering or I would really struggle.

On the subject of dialects I knew a chap who could swap Irish dialects with ease and once demonstrated to me how people from the north and then south spoke, then how Protestants and Catholics differed and even the nuances of individual counties and streets. He then moved onto BBC English. When he spoke 'normally' he was softly spoken and hard to place. He was still authorised to, and indeed did, carry a 9mm in a shoulder holster when I last saw him a few years ago. Military was all I knew, he never shared anything more and I never asked. My guess would be intelligence services of some sort.

WelshShooter wrote:That's the joke Christel, I know snayper isn't Welsh but he often gets lumped in as one of us! The thought of his "foreigner" wife possibly being a Welsh would have been funny to me

Edit: whilst we're talking about a case of mistaken identity... I was on a conference call with a chap from a German company who we were looking to subcontract a process to. After a couple of weeks of daily calls he complimented me on my posh, well spoken Cambridge English accent. I didn't study in Cambridge, nor have I ever lived there I just have a "posh" phone voice and speak more eloquently to make sure non-English speakers don't get hung up on my accent "innit butt"? But this was a first for me. He was amazed that I was Welsh and have lived in Wales my whole life as I didn't sound like the other people from our business.

I'm not Welsh and you knows it good boy, .....proper tamping I am Butt!!!

To be fair I can put on a very convincing Welsh accent, I spent quite a bit of time in the Rhondda as a kid.

snayperskaya wrote:
To be fair I can put on a very convincing Welsh accent, I spent quite a bit of time in Rhoda as a kid.

Misread that one!

snayperskaya wrote:To be fair I can put on a very convincing Welsh accent, I spent quite a bit of time in the Rhondda as a kid.

Hmmm, we still 'as 'im down as GRU does we. Deep cover...

Polchraine wrote:

snayperskaya wrote:
To be fair I can put on a very convincing Welsh accent, I spent quite a bit of time in Rhoda as a kid.

Misread that one!

I spent many a day down in Rhoda's valley...

meles meles wrote:

snayperskaya wrote:To be fair I can put on a very convincing Welsh accent, I spent quite a bit of time in the Rhondda as a kid.

Hmmm, we still 'as 'im down as GRU does we. Deep cover...

nashe vremya pridet tovarishch

* looks at wrist, taps Poljot *

"19:17, Comrade."