User talk:HighKing/Archives/2010/October

Sign

Hi HK. Think you might want to sign this, (could do it myself of course, but it always looks a bit 'busy-bodyish'). Best. RashersTierney (talk) 09:43, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

Ooops - ta --HighKing (talk) 11:22, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

Template:BID

Hi,

When you subst the template you should remember to sign after it in the normal way.

Ta

Codf1977 (talk) 13:31, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Thank you. Didn't know that. I'll fix. --HighKing (talk) 13:33, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

scrap all of that ! - I have made a number of changes to {{BID}}, one of which is auto sign. Codf1977 (talk) 15:25, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

:-) --HighKing (talk) 15:36, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

ANI

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October 2010

You've been edit warring.[1] and prior edits. Since you stopped three days ago, I will not block you now, but don't do it again or else I'll apply a penalty as if I had blocked you this time. Jehochman ^Talk 13:04, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Hi Jehochman, I appreciate the coming-down-hard approach on all concerned, and I understand why I received this warning. --HighKing (talk) 13:43, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

Patience

Have you heard of this name before: “Britain and the Atlantic seaboard countries of the European Union”. It's from The Neolithic Studies Group. Obviously, it includes Brittany, France and the Iberian Peninsular as well as Ireland and the surrounding Islands. But it just goes to show that things keep evolving all the time; as I'm sure they'd agree :) Best, Daicaregos (talk) 14:33, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

This is more apposite: "Atlantic Northwest Europe" (same source), enjoy. Daicaregos (talk) 15:14, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

It's a new one on me! --HighKing (talk) 16:34, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

Strine

I'll avoid commenting further in the discussion, but Australian English is much closer to British English than American English. By and large, spellings are the same, etc. The words and phrases that differ are typically localised, like "thong" for flip-flop. The only American English word I can think of is "labor" - and that's only in "Australian Labor Party" - a hard day's graft is still referred to as "labour" (the ALP has a history with US syndicalism, if I remember rightly, and saw Noah Webster's spelling reform as related to industrial reform. Australian trade unionism in general has some IWW influence from way back when - their trade union federation sings the IWW song Solidarity Forever, for example). TFOWR 22:49, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

Bollix

Just to say thanks for introducing me to a new Scrabble word - I had no idea that bollix existed! I've heard of prolix and of course bollocks - a sort of wierd fusion? Or is it an irish-ism? Jamesinderbyshire (talk) 09:52, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

You're welcome :-) I was scratching me bollix about the origins of the Irish version. Asked a mate - he said "Ask me bollix". Asked another and he said "I'm bollixed, piss off and go bother someone else". Rang my fone-a-friend and he said "Stop talking bollix" and just then a wee bollix barged against me and I dropped my phone - screen cracked and it's bollixed now. --HighKing (talk) 11:46, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

Sorry HK, but that sounds like a load of ol' bollix! RashersTierney (talk) 14:02, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

ROFL! Fmph (talk) 14:04, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

Agree Rashers it's a load of me bollix. Mo ainm~Talk 14:09, 15 October 2010 (UTC)