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Everybody I've spoken to that has holidayed in the US of A has said that the only way to be understood is to speak in an American accent

I think the reason the rest of the western world understands American accents is the fact that our TV & Cinemas are saturated with American content

I'd bet we'd have a very hard time understanding some of the accents
if we weren't exposed to it

I still struggle with the Scottish accent...even with the recent exposure to Velvet Soup

They use subtitling for Australian Documentaries going to the U s of A
but only where country folk speak

cheers
B....OZ

magoo wrote:
> Why not describe it as a pastime? It passes the time doesnt it?
True, I suppose. But its usual connotation is of a hobby, like hang-gliding, or doing fiddly things in Scout-huts with bits of paper.

> Which two other people? Do you mean two wives or do you mean he
> deceived the mistress(es) aswel as the wife/wives?
I mean the two cuckolded spouses: in the case of the female adulterer, her husband, and her lover's wife: in the case of the unfaithful male, his wife and his lover's husband.

> - probably didn't have time, what with all the going to mass and fucking anything with a pulse. Sounds like fun. Apart from the going to mass bit.
Well, the women looked pretty ropey to me, as well......perhaps this is the REAL explanation for all that literary misery..........

magoo wrote:
> Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. And as you are
> no doubt as pure as the driven snow and have never cheated
> sexually you are free to stone away.
It's not the 'sin' (that would be his choice of word rather than mine) that bugs me, it's the endless cycle of repetition, and then agonising about it, that I couldn't stomach. After the 100th time, one naturally begins to doubt the sincerity of any such repentance- although I concede that only his God could judge the latter. It seems a tad hypocritical to me to 'sin' once, repent, 'sin' again, repent, 'sin' again.......there's a pattern emerging here, and it ain't one that shows him trying very hard (or indeed at all) to become a better person.

> How on earth did I end up defending someone I know nothing
> about anyway?
Nobility of spirit, no doubt- you could certainly have given GG lessons......
> You have sidetracked me again.
Heh heh.... feel free to return to the point, whatever it was.

Thanks for your thoughts. I currently think this life is a testing ground for us to prepare for a life after this. This world offers us the works - from the absolute best, to the depth of depravity and we're the ones who can make it or break it. For instance, a world without crime is quite possible but we fuck it up. I dont want to float round in perfect bliss in heaven after death. I want to live a life like this one but get it right next time.

Dont ask me why babies get murdered. I have no idea what they're supposed to have done wrong.