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Damian the absent Scotsman...
~Damian where art thou~
Have you left us for good is that true? Please come back: WE MISS YOU! Damian,Damian this is your your que so what do you say? Will you come back to Langcafe?! :-) http://www.langcafe.net/
DAMIAN: what Sander says is true, you're needed back on Langcafe! A certain compatriot of yours has surfaced in a photo wearing your National Dress (I mean, kilt! Kilt! It's NOT a dress!) and we require your expert opinion....
By the way -- Rhys Ifans? Is he Welsh? I've heard him talk in movies -- is THAT a Welsh accent? 'Cause if it is, bad news for Andrew: it's not so far removed from an English one to my poor ears!
I'll wander over Langcafe way.
If Rhys Ifans is not Welsh then I am a newly landed alien from Planet Xenon. What name could be more Welsh than Rhys Ifans? Off hand I haven't much idea of what his accent sounds like. Andrew isn't sure either. I will research the guy out......cool if he comes from somewhere like Abergynolwyn or Merthyr Tyfil or Penrhyndeudraeth! Don't those names just roll off the tongue like quicksilver? I have just received expert guidance by mobile from my braw Welsh friend Andrew...down in Sir Fon (circumflex over the O) aka Anglesey......who tells me that Rhys Ifans is pronounced: ['RH-u-s 'Ee-vans] In North Wales the U in Rhys is equivalent to the French "U" in du or tu. In South Wales it is pronounced more like [Rees]. Hey...how about Ioan Gruffydd? ['y-o:@n 'Gr-u-fi-TH] The DD in Welsh is pronounced as TH in mother, then, this etc. Ioan Gruffydd....that fluent Welsh speaking hottie with the Celtic eyes...you know the guy...Captain Hornblower? He's as Welsh as they come...a trained actor (I'll look him up).....he adapts his accents to whatever parts he plays but his ordinary speaking voice is straight out of the Welsh hinterlands. I know he lives just outside Cardiff. Caerdydd in Welsh.....remember how I told you above how to pronounce the DD! THis way.... The Y in Caerdydd is pronounced the same way as the French "u" again...as in tu or du. Isn't Welsh fun? Yeah......Ioan Gruffydd.................I saw him in a short TV film in a weird off-beat series..he played a wanker......literally!
Hey...I spelt his name wrongly...it's Ioan Gruffudd...pronounced the same way I was told by Andrew anyway. He was born in Cardiff but now lives in Los Angeles. I bet he wows them there with his Welsh. He's 32 next month! I didn't think he was that old to be honest but if he was in the film Wilde then I suppose he must be.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/arts/sites/ioan_gruffudd/pages/biography.shtml http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/film/interviews/article295613.ece http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2004/07/16/ioan_gruffudd_king_arthur_interview.shtml http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/arts/sites/ioan_gruffudd/ Back to Rhys Ifans.....he comes from Wrexham, in North Wales, while Ioan Gruffudd comes from Cardiff, in South Wales. Rhys Ifans was in the film Notting Hill...I've never seen that film but reading it up in one of the links above I saw that in that film Rhys played Spikey.....a serial masturbator! What with Ioan doing the same in that film I told you about before it must be a national pastime in Wales. Now I know what Andrew gets up to when we're not chatting on the phone...... :-)
oops! here's the Rhys Ifans link I mentioned above
http://film.guardian.co.uk/Player/Player_Page/0,4159,92421,00.html
SANDER:
To Langcafe I'll wend my way But right away I have to stray Because a mate is at my gate And he's a guy who cannot wait A moment more for me to say Goodnight until another day We're off to have a nice wee chat So just for now I'll raise my hat To you until I next sign in And then we'll let more fun begin In here and then across the way In that cool place called Langcafe. hae go sharpish now.....bye the noo!
I forgot about this...just remembered about it now in my break.
Anyway, maybe not...I have visited it but it's a wee bit top heavy for me tbh.
<<Anyway, maybe not...I have visited it but it's a wee bit top heavy for me tbh.>>
Damian, what do you mean by "top heavy"?
I think I expressed it badly ELAINE......I meant that I don't have much time to use forums on the net really...I come into Antimoon when I'm able to do so...like when I have a break from work. Apart from Antimoon I go into two work related (journalism) forums (fora?) and two more relating to Scotland and all things Scottish! Now there's a surprise for you! :-) Oh...and a sports forum as well...forgot.
I have yet to find an "I Hate England" forum!* LOL Only joking...only joking! Honest! :-) I don't know if such a forum exists and even if it did, I would not contribute to it. England is really cool! (it's the weather you know...) joke! *PS: CANDY....I really was only joking.......believe me! :-)
<<*PS: CANDY....I really was only joking.......believe me! :-) >>
Yeah, I know, no probs! <winks across the Tweed> If there was such a forum, no doubt it would be highly popular! :-) |