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SimCityAT wrote:

Word of the Day

AUGUST 10, 2018

rash
marked by undue haste or lack of caution

So you mean that all these red spots I have on my skin are from my lack of caution? I knew I had been a bit profligate with the higito, the white spirit, that explains it alll now.

SimonTrew wrote:

fluffy2560 wrote:

I always thought aircraft carriers turned into wind...

An aircraft has a much shorter and faster turning circle than an an aircraft carrier.

Ideally an aircraft should land into the wind and take off with the wind behind it, land or sea,

That is why every runway has two directions e.g 09/27 so ATC can choose from the met charts on that day's traffic whether to go THAT way or THAT way. But turning around an aircraft carrier is only slightly less difficult than turning around an airport, so it is a lot easier to turn the aircraft around.

No, I'm not convinced.

The same applies, take off into the wind on the carrier because then you've got a greater lift at a lower speed over the ground.  So that's the same departing or arriving (which is in the same direction).

When you enter the circuit over the airfield, there are four parts depending if you are arriving on departing:  crosswind, downwind, base and final (or departure).   The normal turns are all left with exceptionally a right turns.    Obviously with the different wind directions, they will change which end they will fly to and from.

SimCityAT wrote:

Word of the Day

AUGUST 10, 2018

rash
marked by undue haste or lack of caution

I was just wondering what due haste would be... running for a bus or something..

No wonder I have all these red spots  and a rather gregarious outreach on my upper epidermis, I was far too quick with the old turpentine and it has brought me out in a.... haste....

fluffy2560 wrote:

[ The normal turns are all left ...

Yes that is just by convention that stops the blighters smacking into each other, if everyone does left turns.  But then we are back where we started, they do not do turns to port. I just checked my latest copy of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS V) , 2002, and it is still port to port, i.e. leff-hand driving.

And I was always told, you pass the Port to the left.... egésegedra.

It seeems silent though on aircraft,  seaplane or an aircraft in distress landing (watering?) on a a body of water would have surely have to obey SOLAS V as patently it is no longer an aircraft (it is not in the air) but a maritime vessel.

This is why the "Miracle on the Hudson" was a bit iffy if you ask me. OK the pilot got it down safely enough, but he forgot, once his airplane had turned into a boat, to raise the US flag upside down as a signal of distress

SimonTrew wrote:

fluffy2560 wrote:

[ The normal turns are all left ...

Yes that is just by convention that stops the blighters smacking into each other, if everyone does left turns. .....

This is why the "Miracle on the Hudson" was a bit iffy if you ask me. OK the pilot got it down safely enough, but he forgot, once his airplane had turned into a boat, to raise the US flag upside down as a signal of distress

They can do right hand circuits at an airfield. It just depends. In fact they do it here at Farkashegy when they take off in an Easterly direction.  That's because of the noise abatement and the large hill at the end of the runway.   Never ever seen them doing left hand circuits towards the East.  On the other hand when they land towards the West, it's always left handed.

At Ferihegy, they seem to land East to West and West to East at the same time.  In which case they will by necessity have contra-rotating circuits.

I think the Hudson guy had a lot on his mind.

fluffy2560 wrote:

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At Ferihegy, they seem to land East to West and West to East at the same time.

Don't think so, but then at Ferihegy (Budapest Liszt Ferenc International AIrport) I tend to track it when the missus is landing so I know when to get the dinner going.... they tend either to go past easterly over Mónor do a turn around Súlysáp and then come back in, or come straight in from the east, they do not do both at the same tme. Pretty much always landing is over the Duna, easterly approach, and take off is easterly and out. Never known it to be otherwise, no doubt in somebad weather they turn it around but they do  not run it both ways at once, that is a recipe for disaster,

My missus' late father worked at Ferihegy I before the new terminal was built. The  kitchen floor tiles in his house, by some amazing coincidence, are exactly the same as the floor tiles in Terminal 1... also the roofing on the shed and workshop, if you were not looking too closely you would mistake them for the rubber conveyor belts from the baggage collection..

But that iis Koestler's Fallacy of course, Arthur Koestler the Hungarian, who pointed out we  never notice alll the coincidences that don't happen.

SimonTrew wrote:

fluffy2560 wrote:

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At Ferihegy, they seem to land East to West and West to East at the same time.

Don't think so, but then at Ferihegy (Budapest Liszt Ferenc International AIrport) I tend to track it when the missus is landing so I know when to get the dinner going.... they tend either to go past easterly over Mónor do a turn around Súlysáp and then come back in, or come straight in from the east, they do not do both at the same tme. Pretty much always landing is over the Duna, easterly approach, and take off is easterly and out. Never known it to be otherwise, no doubt in somebad weather they turn it around but they do  not run it both ways at once, that is a recipe for disaster,.

I think the set up you're experiencing is that there's not enough traffic for both runways to be open. Last time I was there, they were working on the more Southerly runway and therefore only had one open.   

My experience of coming in from all sorts of directions is if coming from the West is that they fly over my house, in the direction of  Ferihegy but they turn over the Duna towards Dunakeszi and thence straight in.   In the other direction, they just come straight in or go around the top towards Dunakeszi.  But if landing from the South, they tended to use the Southern runway.  I've landed that way loads of times.

But rather than mess about supposing, just look at the Jeppsen charts forBUD (click here).  It's all there.

There are plenty of airports where they use two runways at the same time.  So long as there's sufficient separation, then it's all fine.  I believe there's even one with three runways, all used together.

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SimonTrew wrote:

klsallee wrote:

SimonTrew wrote:

What Kisallee means is a "közjegyzői hivatal", in English I back-translate as "notary public", or "jegyző", notary, recorder, that is authorised by the State to witness and say this is a faithful translation here is my stamp, this is a good and true representation of the facts.

No. That is not what I meant. I meant exactly what I said. Please do not try to "re-interpret" what I say on my behalf.

The OP apparently lives abroad and can not go to the local tax office. One needs to get a "power of attorney" for someone else to physically go into an office for you instead of doing it yourself. The tax office will not talk to someone else on your behalf unless you give them this power, as your tax information is private and confidential.

If one does not know what "power of attorney" means, they can look it up. And, no, one does not need someone else to be an "attorney" to be given this power, but one should probably consult an attorney to draw up the paperwork to assign someone this power.

It is not easy to translate that very legalistic meaning. Neither you nor I claim to be lawyers. If you happen to be a lawyer I shall bow to your better judgment on tbe translation. In English law there is no such thing as an "attorney", you can give power of attorney to anyone who is compos mentis, that is entirely different from being what the US call an "attorney", a solicitor or legle eagle. Power of attorney is usually invested in close family, not with the legal beagles. Power of Attorney, in English Common Law, means that you say "somebody else can sign on my behalf", significant, sign-if-i-can't.

And I am one or rather was for my late mother so don't tell me what I already know.

First, in the USA, lawyer and attorney are synonymous. We don't call them solicitors.

Second, to have someone else talk to the tax office one must sign over such rights to another person. "Power of attorney" adequately describes what needs to be done (to an American like myself).

Third, a family member is not required to be given "Power of attorney". My wife helps expats all the time like this through her company. And she goes to an attorney/lawyer to draw up the agreement for the expat to sign giving her such rights to talk and deal with offices in Hungary, and even, but not limited to, "signing" documents on their behalf. This document is required in Hungary for her to do all such. That is, talking "English common law", or American phraseology, is not really relevant here in that regards. Only Hungarian law matters. If you want to know the exact legal terms, I can ask my wife to send me her attourney's contact number and you can pay the hourly fee for a consultation on legal terms in Hungary.

Finally, I understand that the OP is from UK, but I am from the USA, and concepts and definitions differ. You may have a point in how the UK mind and common law versus USA law defines phrases. You have a point in regards to the OP's potential understanding. However, you are getting a little bit stuck on "correcting me" and not quite enough on helping the OP "translate" that correctly into what the OP may understand. I say, correctly, because your prior were actually not correct, since, as I said, my wife does this so I do have some understanding about what she does.

Hope this helps.

klsallee wrote:

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First, in the USA, lawyer and attorney are synonymous. We don't call them solicitors.

Second, to have someone else talk to the tax office one must sign over such rights to another person. "Power of attorney" adequately describes what needs to be done (to an American like myself).

Third, a family member is not required to be given "Power of attorney". ...

Just 2 Ft worth and to echo Klsallee's comments. There is much similiarity between the UK and USA on this subject.

A Power of Attorney is the same in the UK as USA - authorises another person to sign on the principal's behalf.   I come across this in my work sometimes and even personally re my parents (they are on the edge of needing this level of help). 

PoAs are usually time limited and restricted to the subject matter.  So if there's a contract to build an office and a consortium wants the work, then there's a lead representative and the other members authorise them to conduct negotiations for say 90 days usually with full powers over the entire arrangement but limited to the subject of the negotiations.  So the PoA couldn't cover say, other corporate matters like where an office would be located.   

If a PoA covers another person (say a vulnerable or sick or old person), they are severe restrictions in the UK on what can be done.  Can be anyone and doesn't have to be a family member.  Variations have to go to a court for permission - Court of Protection.

In the UK, we have solicitors which are lawyers in the lower courts.  Above that, in the higher courts, we have barristers who wear wigs/gowns and all that stuff.  High court hearings can be held without the funny clothes.  Usually solicitors commission barristers to argue the case as barristers are trained to argue the nuances and debate the finer points.  That's why a lot of politicians in the UK are actually barristers.  And they get paid an absolute bundle as well.

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SimonTrew wrote:

klsallee wrote:

No. That is not what I meant. I meant exactly what I said. Please do not try to "re-interpret" what I say on my behalf.

The OP apparently lives abroad and can not go to the local tax office. One needs to get a "power of attorney" for someone else to physically go into an office for you instead of doing it yourself. The tax office will not talk to someone else on your behalf unless you give them this power, as your tax information is private and confidential.

If one does not know what "power of attorney" means, they can look it up. And, no, one does not need someone else to be an "attorney" to be given this power, but one should probably consult an attorney to draw up the paperwork to assign someone this power.

It is not easy to translate that very legalistic meaning. Neither you nor I claim to be lawyers. If you happen to be a lawyer I shall bow to your better judgment on tbe translation. In English law there is no such thing as an "attorney", you can give power of attorney to anyone who is compos mentis, that is entirely different from being what the US call an "attorney", a solicitor or legle eagle. Power of attorney is usually invested in close family, not with the legal beagles. Power of Attorney, in English Common Law, means that you say "somebody else can sign on my behalf", significant, sign-if-i-can't.

And I am one or rather was for my late mother so don't tell me what I already know.

First, in the USA, lawyer and attorney are synonymous. We don't call them solicitors.

Second, to have someone else talk to the tax office one must sign over such rights to another person. "Power of attorney" adequately describes what needs to be done (to an American like myself).

Third, a family member is not required to be given "Power of attorney". My wife helps expats all the time like this through her company. And she goes to an attorney/lawyer to draw up the agreement for the expat to sign giving her such rights to talk and deal with offices in Hungary, and even, but not limited to, "signing" documents on their behalf. This document is required in Hungary for her to do all such. That is, talking "English common law", or American phraseology, is not really relevant here in that regards. Only Hungarian law matters. If you want to know the exact legal terms, I can ask my wife to send me her attourney's contact number and you can pay the hourly fee for a consultation on legal terms in Hungary.

Finally, I understand that the OP is from UK, but I am from the USA, and concepts and definitions differ. You may have a point in how the UK mind and common law versus USA law defines phrases. You have a point in regards to the OP's potential understanding. However, you are getting a little bit stuck on "correcting me" and not quite enough on helping the OP "translate" that correctly into what the OP may understand. I say, correctly, because your prior were actually not correct, since, as I said, my wife does this so I do have some understanding about what she does.

Hope this helps.

abosolutely correct on all counts. I was picking you up basically so as not to mislead those who use British English -- as the public forums are available to external search- That is all. "Divided by a common language" as Wilde said,. but then what would he know, he was Irish

klsallee wrote:

Third, a family member is not required to be given "Power of attorney"

Again, that is a bit ambiguous. Nobody is  required to take or give power of attorney, it is purely the choice of the giver, of sound mind, giving it and to choose who to give it to, and then still under English common law while the person giving the power of attorney is still capable (mentally or physically) then the courts take a very dim view of the person with power of attorney abusing that power

It is a last resort really to say "if I am incapable, can you do this for me", it is not carte blanche that he or she with the power of attorney can do whatever they like, it is cui bono really, "who benefits?" and if the court finds that the power of attorney has been abusing that power, the court tends to be rather displeased and will treat as theft, deception or whatever.... but of course in the US the exact rules will vary state by state (I don't think it is Federal law is it?)

I think a power of attorney has to be a "natural person" i.e. not a compoany/corporation which is also a person, as a legal fiction,. but again that may vary by jurisdiction.

I am not a lawyer

SimonTrew wrote:

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Again, that is a bit ambiguous. Nobody is  required to take or give power of attorney, it is purely the choice of the giver, of sound mind, giving it and to choose who to give it to, and then still under English common law while the person giving the power of attorney is still capable (mentally or physically) then the courts take a very dim view of people abusing that power

It is a last resort really to say "if I am incapable, can you do this for me", it is not carte blanche that he or she with the power of attorney can do whatever they like, it is cui bono really, "who benefits?" and if the court finds that the power of attorney has been abusing that power, the court tends to be rather displeased and will treat as theft, deception or whatever.... but of course in the US the exact rules will vary state by state (I don't think it is Federal law is it?)

I am not a lawyer

One thing to say is that if someone is under age, the court will appoint a Guardian (actually Guardian ad litem - Guardian in Law) for proceedings.  That person, in the UK anyway, is often a barrister, and will act for the child.

I am not a lawyer either but I have some direct experience of this kind of thing.

I was getting worried, as its been so quiet in here today, apart from where to find hookers?

fluffy2560 wrote:

SimonTrew wrote:

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I am not a lawyer

One thing to say is that if someone is under age, the court will appoint a Guardian (actually Guardian ad litem - Guardian in Law) for proceedings.  That person, in the UK anyway, is often a barrister, and will act for the child.

I am not a lawyer either but I have some direct experience of this kind of thing.

I looked up Wikipedia's article just now on power of attoorney (there is one) and it seems to me a bit US centric but ev en then says it varies by jurisdiction,. "in most states" etc.

We used to call those kind of minors (i.e. someone having not reached the age of majority) "wards of court" but I am not sure if that is still now the legal expression.... and since the age of majority is itself rather undecided (in England and Wales you can legally drink alcohol at the age of five,  be convicted of a criminal offence at the age of ten, join the military or get married at the age of sixteen as you can play the National Lottery, but not gamble any other way or, vote or smoke until the age of eighteen, and to become a member of the British parliament yoou must be at least a twenty-one)  that I just get a great big pot (bogrács) over the wood fire, primed  with coopies of legal documents, and fill the pot up with the carp I got from the stream. But that is another kettle of fish.

When I was selling my house, I gave the power of attorney to my dad, as I could not be dealing with the sale be in 2 places and working.

SimCityAT wrote:

I was getting worried, as its been so quiet in here today, apart from where to find hookers?

Weekends are always quiet... you find all the hookers down at the river obviously fishing for carp with their hooks, I am on nodding terms with quiite a few good hookers from the bait shop round the corner. One told me that today he got a 30lb carp but you know how fishermen exaggerate, but I was not sure for a minute if he was a piscator or a pistacor, i fell for it hook, line and sinker.

SimCityAT wrote:

I was getting worried, as its been so quiet in here today, apart from where to find hookers?

The OP on that thread wanted to avoid areas but it works equally well the other way around.

Without being judgmental,   I've seen plenty of places with these kind of street workers. I used to live near Amsterdam and it's in your face there up on the canals near the Central Station.  I also lived in Southampton and there's a street there which is just full of them.   Even here at the Acquincum Hotel back in the 1990s, it was pretty busy.

It's not always quiet, but Marilyn must be busy or taking a break so its more noticeable also holiday season? Not that many chat in here apart from the usual suspects.

SimCityAT wrote:

When I was selling my house, I gave the power of attorney to my dad, as I could not be dealing with the sale be in 2 places and working.

Yes, it is not only for when you are incapacitated, that is special or limited power of attorney,. to do it for a specific purpose. You can give it to anyone, the WP article has it as I think "laiety" and I many years ago corrected some redirects on that to say no "laeity" means "people who are not clergy" and corrected "layperson" and "laypeople" and some things like that, with consensus, i forget exactlo but I think "layperson" went to one page and "lay-person+ to another, things like that but obviously it has crept back in and I have just given up on editing Wikipedia now because people write rubbish quicker than I can correct it, after about eight years translating and editing i just gave up. I think technically I am indefinitely banned or something but i just could not be bothered to argue, just threw in the towel because more does not always mean better....

Goed used to exist as a redirect to Göd the town/villlage in Hungary, and when I opointed out that Goed does not exist... these are meaningless search terms that are easy to add with a tool but hard to get rid of. I got through about ten thousand of those that some pillock without authorisation had run a bot that turned every double dotted letter  öü etc into a German-language oe, ue etc even if it were Hungarian, Turkish etc but after ten thousand edits to remove them they got a bit fed up wioth me I think ,well so be it. wikipedia is these days all about how much crap you can post, not what genuine value you give, the missus and I spent weeks translating the articles on the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, it was not just about how many edits in those days

fluffy2560 wrote:

SimCityAT wrote:

I was getting worried, as its been so quiet in here today, apart from where to find hookers?

I also lived in Southampton and there's a street there which is just full of them.

I lived in Southampton too, at the end of my street was the red light district. I forget the name, but it was on the way to Portswood.

SimCityAT wrote:

It's not always quiet, but Marilyn must be busy or taking a break so its more noticeable also holiday season? Not that many chat in here apart from the usual suspects.

I think it's become a bit British, less factual and needs more conversation and diversity.

I can throw in that it's British week in HU Lidl from Monday - they've got Smoked Bacon, Ham and Leek Pies, some sort of packaged fish and chips, Newcastle Brown, another Bitter, some Stout plus a few other things less interesting like "British yoghurt".   No idea what British yoghurt is!

fluffy2560 wrote:

SimCityAT wrote:

It's not always quiet, but Marilyn must be busy or taking a break so its more noticeable also holiday season? Not that many chat in here apart from the usual suspects.

I think it's become a bit British, less factual and needs more conversation and diversity.

I can throw in that it's British week in HU Lidl from Monday - they've got Smoked Bacon, Ham and Leek Pies, some sort of packaged fish and chips, Newcastle Brown, another Bitter, some Stout plus a few other things less interesting like "British yoghurt".   No idea what British yoghurt is!

I don't miss British food any more.... But we have those weeks too, so might get some bacon and have a bacon Barm Cake.

fluffy2560 wrote:

SimCityAT wrote:

I was getting worried, as its been so quiet in here today, apart from where to find hookers?

The OP on that thread wanted to avoid areas but it works equally well the other way around.

Without being judgmental,   I've seen plenty of places with these kind of street workers. I used to live near Amsterdam and it's in your face there up on the canals near the Central Station.  I also lived in Southampton and there's a street there which is just full of them.   Even here at the Acquincum Hotel back in the 1990s, it was pretty busy.

When I was studying in Manchester in the early nineties, there was a bit of a shortcut from my university digs into the center of town which was a well know red light area. Once I came back along that way carrying my weekly shop from the discount shop, and happened to cross tjhe metro (tram) line right in fromt of a woman of easy virtue. I was looking out for trams (the trarmline had only just ben buiilt so it was kinda not when we learned road safety to olearn tram safety too) and just happened as I crossed to end uop right in front of her. She said "Er,. are you looking for something dearie?" I said "Well, what have you got? With all this shopping from KwikSave I only have 67 pence left". She laughed. That is absolutely a true story.

Nothing wrong is my moral world for anyone offering his r her body for money, I cannot see how that differs from offering your muscles or brain for work, we are all whores. providing it is done voluntarily  I don't see a problem in it at all,. but unfortunately, for most it is not a choice.

SimCityAT wrote:

II also lived in Southampton and there's a street there which is just full of them.   Even here at the Acquincum Hotel back in the 1990s, it was pretty busy.

Well Southampton is a big Navy port on the south coast of England and as the old song goes, "All the nice girls love a sailor".

The trouble with sailors is that.... they tend to love other sailors   so I imagine trade would be quiet

SimCityAT wrote:

fluffy2560 wrote:

SimCityAT wrote:

It's not always quiet, but Marilyn must be busy or taking a break so its more noticeable also holiday season? Not that many chat in here apart from the usual suspects.

I think it's become a bit British, less factual and needs more conversation and diversity.

I can throw in that it's British week in HU Lidl from Monday - they've got Smoked Bacon, Ham and Leek Pies, some sort of packaged fish and chips, Newcastle Brown, another Bitter, some Stout plus a few other things less interesting like "British yoghurt".   No idea what British yoghurt is!

I don't miss British food any more.... But we have those weeks too, so might get some bacon and have a bacon Barm Cake.

Yes I have had one of those pies but really what you need is good deep fried potatoes as accopmaniment with them.

Good pie, missed the chips.

Aldi had for a while "Angol Bacon" I think they called ito maybe "Angol Szelet Bacom" which resembled British Back Bacon,. buit was really not very good.

I agree that we are in danger of becoming the UK Indefensible League or something, it is too much UK in here right now, but it a lot of people are on their holidays etc so beyond a certain point there is not much we can do....  Marilyn is around as she was at the Helpdeskla couple of days ago (I took and followed up the query in private messages) but I think she is pretty busy for a few days....

SimonTrew wrote:

SimCityAT wrote:

II also lived in Southampton and there's a street there which is just full of them.   Even here at the Acquincum Hotel back in the 1990s, it was pretty busy.

Well Southampton is a big Navy port on the south coast of England and as the old song goes, "All the nice girls love a sailor".

The trouble with sailors is that.... they tend to love other sailors   so I imagine trade would be quiet

I would not say that its Portsmouth that is more of a Navy dockyard. Southampton catered for cargo and cruise liners.

SimCityAT wrote:

SimonTrew wrote:

SimCityAT wrote:

II also lived in Southampton and there's a street there which is just full of them.   Even here at the Acquincum Hotel back in the 1990s, it was pretty busy.

Well Southampton is a big Navy port on the south coast of England and as the old song goes, "All the nice girls love a sailor".

The trouble with sailors is that.... they tend to love other sailors   so I imagine trade would be quiet

I would not say that its Portsmouth that is more of a Navy dockyard. Southampton catered for cargo and cruise liners.

Indeed. The Queen Mary and QE1 and QE2 were launched from Southampton, it has always been full of queens....

Unfornuately it got a bad reputation after RMS Titanic, after having successfully left Belfast on a trial run,. came into Southampton for the first time to take on fare-paying passengers and there wa an unfortunate incident after leaving, but these days Southampton is a thriving port, handy for boarding a boat to destinations south west and east, and connections by fast trains and road to the north. Which is something to be said for it, you can very quickly leave Southampton and hundreds of thousands do each year

You can also still get a hovercraft from Southamptomn to the Isle of Wight, which does seem to me rather like choosing between the devil and the deep blue sea, except that the Solent is not very deep... like the people on the Island,. it has hidden shallows. I did suggest to Fluffy2560 a few days ago on this forum that since, as he reminded me,  the prototype was made with a vacuum cleaner and some tin cans, it would have been more appropriate to call it a hoovercraft, but it is a bit late for that now

I think you will find the Hovercraft goes from Portsmouth to the Isle of White. The Red Funnel ferry service goes from Southampton.

SimCityAT wrote:

I think you will find the Hovercraft goes from Portsmouth to the Isle of White. The Red Funnel ferry service goes from Southampton.

Isle of Wight. OK it used to go from Southamoton but that must have changed then....  We are in danger of becoming a bit too British here, shall we move on to something more international like that Hngarian meat and eggs are the best in the world,. always fresh and meat that actually tastes of something not full of water, and veg in season that is so beautiful, and why can you not get medium weight cigarette papers in hungary they always the lightweight ones tend to fall apart with the humidity.

Someone asked me today, what is the Hungarian for "black and decker workmate"? Welll.,,"féketer és Karoly munka-asztal"  obviously, Carol Decker that woman who fronted the band "T'Pau" in the eighties, with the christmas hit single "kina  ezedben", "China in your Hand", so obviously Carol is Karoly in Hungarian,  so it would be "Feketer és Karolo munka-aszstal" wouldn't it. I am so much better than Google Translate you just have to think Hungarianly., magyarwise.

Well I'm watching iZombie so will have to carry on tomorrow.

Night

SimCityAT wrote:

fluffy2560 wrote:

SimCityAT wrote:

I was getting worried, as its been so quiet in here today, apart from where to find hookers?

I also lived in Southampton and there's a street there which is just full of them.

I lived in Southampton too, at the end of my street was the red light district. I forget the name, but it was on the way to Portswood.

For some reason I think it was Oxford Road in Southampton but after Googling, I've been reminded it was Derby Road.  I'm talking about mid-80s.  They had dolls in the windows and if it was standing up, then there was a vacancy and if it was missing or laying down, then it was occupied.

Reminds me of passing through Paddington Station at about 3am after nights out in town.  To get back out to where I was living, you had to wait until about 05.30 for the first train.  Across the road was a Wimpy (fast food outlet) which was packed with working ladies.  It was their refuge if it was raining  heavily or the Rozzers (Police) were on the prowl.  Just around the corner were multiple cheap hotels which, presumably, did hourly rates.   It was all a bit seedy.

Coincidentally, I've been watching Louis Theroux's season of documentaries on Dark States.  One of them was human trafficking for sex in Houston.  It's all mixed up with control, violence, drugs and mental health issues.   It's worth watching as Louis T has a rather laid back but probing interviewing style. Helps that he has very verbal interviewees.   As an aside, he visited Huntington, West Virgina (heroin town) and Milwaukee (shooting deaths amongst the African American community). 

I don't know about here and I am guessing,  probably  some of the workers are trafficked from further East and places like Ukraine and Moldova.

fluffy2560 wrote:

SimCityAT wrote:

fluffy2560 wrote:

I also lived in Southampton and there's a street there which is just full of them.

I lived in Southampton too, at the end of my street was the red light district. I forget the name, but it was on the way to Portswood.

For some reason I think it was Oxford Road in Southampton but after Googling, I've been reminded it was Derby Road.  I'm talking about mid-80s. 

They had dolls in the windows and if it was standing up, then there was a vacancy and if it was missing or laying down, then it was occupied.

Reminds me of passing through Paddington Station at about 3am afternights out.  To get back out to where I was living, you had to wait until about 05.30 for the first train.  Across the road was a Wimpy (fast food outlet) which was packed with working ladies.  It was their refuge if it was raining  heavily or the Rozzers (Police) were on the prowl.  Just around the corner were multiple cheap hotels which, presumably, did hourly rates.   It was all a bit seedy.

For me was it was over 20 years ago, but I have lived in quite a few places, and all the road names sound the same  Mind has gone blank now. Will have to study Google Maps to familiar myself of the area again.

I know some are not so keen on Netflix but there are some really good programs/films on it. Sure they are the latest. But these days its very rare that you can rent DVDs. As for going to the pictures, I would have to travel quite far to watch a film in English. But these days films seem to come out so quickly its easy to miss them. There doesn't seem to be any hype leading up to their release.

But also Netflix has a lot of foreign films which are quite enjoyable if you don't mind subtitles.

SimCityAT wrote:

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I know some are not so keen on Netflix but there are some really good programs/films on it. Sure they are the latest. But these days its very rare that you can rent DVDs. As for going to the pictures, I would have to travel quite far to watch a film in English. But these days films seem to come out so quickly its easy to miss them. There doesn't seem to be any hype leading up to their release.

But also Netflix has a lot of foreign films which are quite enjoyable if you don't mind subtitles.

From Austria, it's a problem.  We used to go to Sopron to the cinema as they had movies with subtitles regularly but I suspect it's all stopped now.   

I heard the other day, they are planning to do less subtitling on HU TV to encourage  development of language skills.  I find dubbing everything rather ridiculous.  Even the BBC don't do that. 

I myself like watching in the original language with subtitles. The best variant is English dialogue and foreign subtitles. I've been watching something in Spanish recently -  House of Paper (about a bank robbery in Spain - might be Netflix).   I've realised my Spanish is really bad if almost non-existent but I have learnt stuff from doing it and I've been entertained somewhat.

Netflix is really shaking stuff up.  Their budgets for new output is huge - I think $3 billion this year - and some of their stuff is excellent.  Not everything is good but plenty of hits there. They really seem to have good writers.  Amazon and Hulu are good too.  Looks like streaming is the way to go - hence Murdoch's plan to sell Sky - now looks like a lame duck.  Glad I cancelled my subscriptions years ago.

SimCityAT wrote:

Well I'm watching iZombie so will have to carry on tomorrow.

Night

I stopped watching iZombie as I like my zombies less friendly and anti-zombie forces heavily armed.

Walking Dead will be back soon.   

I'm quite a fan of the genre since I saw Dawn of the Dead in 1978.

Its quite funny, I forget what the film was, but checking the language and it had "Australian English", others have "European Spanish".

I've not come across "Candanian French" yet, but give it time the more I explore I might come across one.

SimCityAT wrote:

Its quite funny, I forget what the film was, but checking the language and it had "Australian English", others have "European Spanish".

I've not come across "Candanian French" yet, but give it time the more I explore I might come across one.

European Spanish is Castillian Spanish.   Bit different from South American varieties.  The Euro version is like Hoch Deutsch except with a lisp.

Australian English is different too - I have some  family connections there and they can use different words like the Scottish but with less fried Mars bars.   But there's less difference I suppose between UK and Australian vs UK and US English. What with those crappy soaps from Australia on British TV, everyone should understand. Probably import those to the UK and enrich UK culture with flavours of Boganspeak - tinnie, barby, dunny.

That's the beauty of not having an Acadamie Francaise fighting against Le Weekend and Le Car Parking or even Le Shopping.  Zut alors! Mon Dieu, mon aéroglisseur est plein d'anguilles!

But in rights, Every country native English is different, so why not call it British English, American English etc....? lol

SimCityAT wrote:

But in rights, Every country native English is different, so why not call it British English, American English etc....? lol

You mean rights issue? Copyright protection etc? 

On the menus in many PC systems, regional settings usually say English (UK), English (US) and even odder variants like English (Zimbabwe).   With the world being smaller digitally, maybe it should just be English now.  Keyboard layouts another thing. 

Arabic I believe has many variants which are almost mutually unintelligible.