I keep accidentally speaking Coventry-ish

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  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Mark, you act like it's the other side of the world :D
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    harmless_little_f*** wrote:

    Sarah's daughter said to me 'What do you call them then?'

    'Bread rolls.'

    'They're called batches though.'

    'What does it say on the packet?'

    'Bread rolls.'

    'Exactly.'


    you should have finished with "yo shut up batch"
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    Chime wrote:
    hlf I think you'll find they're called cobs :cool:

    I think you'll find I'm told it's batches. And I've seen 'batch' in place of 'bap' or 'butty' on the local cafe menu as well as a couple of shops. I've seen cobs too though.

    I don't know, if you can't make your fookin' mind up what they're called, how can a Londoner learn? :D
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison
  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    Mark, you act like it's the other side of the world :D

    I know it sounds lame. I'm already flogging myself with a teeny weeny cat o' nine tails for starting the thread! But you have to understand, I've never moved more than a few miles from my house, so it's exciting :)

    Also, I think people with accents are funnier. And I want to be funnier.
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison
  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    dunkman wrote:
    i loved Stratford UA ... loved it.

    more japs than a dyslexic boxer... but at least they're all teency small so i could still see stuff... i realise how racist and generalising this comment is... and they all have cameras and wear school uniforms.. good times.
    Oh god yeah. Seriously, the japanese people around Stratford are INSANE, and I truly don't mean that in a racist way, just a truthful one :)

    Couldn't walk outside my school (Shakespeare's school) without an, admittedly lovely, japanese person asking if they could take photos with us, as if we knew Shakespeare by association.

    Stratford is my favourite part of that area around home, even though it is still ultimately boring. It depresses the hell out of me that my parents have moved away now, with me off at uni, so I no longer have a place there where my friends are etc. I can crash on sofas etc but it's not the same :( Never thought I'd miss the midlands...
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    Oh god yeah. Seriously, the japanese people around Stratford are INSANE, and I truly don't mean that in a racist way, just a truthful one :)

    Couldn't walk outside my school (Shakespeare's school) without an, admittedly lovely, japanese person asking if they could take photos with us, as if we knew Shakespeare by association.

    Stratford is my favourite part of that area home, even though it is still ultimately boring. It depresses the hell out of me that my parents have moved away now, with me off at uni, so I no longer have a place there where my friends are etc. I can crash on sofas etc but it's not the same :( Never thought I'd miss the midlands...

    You can crash on our sofa anytime mate.. We'll buy you a batch :)
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison
  • chime
    chime Posts: 7,839
    harmless_little_f*** wrote:
    I think you'll find I'm told it's batches. And I've seen 'batch' in place of 'bap' or 'butty' on the local cafe menu as well as a couple of shops. I've seen cobs too though.

    I don't know, if you can't make your fookin' mind up what they're called, how can a Londoner learn? :D

    Well I'd never heard 'batch' until Sian insisted that was what they were called :rolleyes: ... but where I shop (:coughs: Waitrose ... and Mr Warburton agrees) a 'batch' is a loaf of bread so I don't believe her :p

    I'm from t'other side of the Midlands and it's always been cob to me,

    A butty can be on a cob or a sandwich
    So are we strangers now? Like rock and roll and the radio?
  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    When you start saying "fixin' to eat" then you know you're in trouble! :D;)
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    Chime wrote:
    Well I'd never heard 'batch' until Sian insisted that was what they were called :rolleyes: ... but where I shop (and Mr Warburton agrees) a 'batch' is a loaf of bread so I don't believe her :p

    I'm from t'other side of the Midlands and it's always been cob to me,

    A butty can be on a cob or a sandwich

    Sarah's behind me and she's confirmed that in Cov it's 'batch' but it's 'cob' in other places, including the black country... so there ya go, it's both. :)
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    harmless_little_f*** wrote:
    I think you feel like that about anywhere you've lived.

    A lot of people like Windsor. I spent 8 years of my life there and I can spend a day there happily but generally, I think it's the biggest Conservative, safe-as-Disney, world-avoiding middle class commune in the country.

    I dunno.. i love where i live. It has it shortcomings, but i do love it here.
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    Chime wrote:
    Well I'd never heard 'batch' until Sian insisted that was what they were called :rolleyes: ... but where I shop (:coughs: Waitrose ... and Mr Warburton agrees) a 'batch' is a loaf of bread so I don't believe her :p

    I'm from t'other side of the Midlands and it's always been cob to me,

    A butty can be on a cob or a sandwich


    this conversation is mental.. its a feckin roll!!! :D
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    dunkman wrote:
    I dunno.. i love where i live. It has it shortcomings, but i do love it here.

    Well I guess I feel the way I do about Windsor because I lived there while I was still under my parents' roof.. I have a lot of affection for the towns I've lived in since.
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison
  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    dunkman wrote:
    this conversation is mental.. its a feckin roll!!! :D

    Too right!
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison
  • chime
    chime Posts: 7,839
    dunkman wrote:
    this conversation is mental.. its a feckin roll!!! :D

    Shhh you it's your piece :p
    So are we strangers now? Like rock and roll and the radio?
  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    I guess my lil joke didn't make much sense in a thread about Europe.
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    AmentsChick wrote:
    When you start saying "fixin' to eat" then you know you're in trouble! :D;)

    :D










    happy now? ;)
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    dunkman wrote:
    :D










    happy now? ;)

    Very much so.
    This is the greatest band in the world -- Ben Harper

  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    Chime wrote:
    Well I'd never heard 'batch' until Sian insisted that was what they were called :rolleyes : ... but where I shop (:coughs: Waitrose ... and Mr Warburton agrees) a 'batch' is a loaf of bread so I don't believe her : p

    I'm from t'other side of the Midlands and it's always been cob to me,

    A butty can be on a cob or a sandwich
    it's cob here :confused: these people have nooooooooooooo sense! :cool:

    There's plenty here which makes no sense... sometimes I feel like I'm in one of those stupid things where everythings just weird :D

    I'll never get the accent... but I was quite dead tonight and I moved from one table to the other and was so dim that I couldn't remember if I brought my drink or not. Looked to the other table and thought this guy was gonna drink my pint... was telling this story and saying 'and I was gonna go over there' and one of the lads said 'see, you've been too long in kidderminster already' :D but it wasn't cos of the accent lol.

    And yeh, a batch is a loaf :cool:
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    a cob is something that corn grows on... a batch is an especially crusty loaf of bread... a bread roll is a fucking roll of bread :cool:
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    At the risk of sounding like I really care (there are far more pressing issues in the world), in Coventry, any bread roll of any description is called a 'batch'. Or do I need to get Sarah on here to verify? :mad: :p
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison

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