The Off Topic Topic

[Admiral Yi]

Who's jacked off at work?  Quick show of hands.

[Habbaku]

I think their hands might be busy.

[Habbaku]

Court rules its OK to fire a man for wanking in the toilet.

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/masturbating-in-a-bathroom-stall-at-work-is-grounds-for-firing-nova-scotia-labour-arbitrator-rule

Wait...is that wrong? Should I not do that? Because if I knew this sort of thing was frowned upon...

Can't Stand Ya!

[PDH]

What about helping someone else out in the stall?  Asking for a friend here.

[Admiral Yi]

Double bonus points.

[Malthus]

Court rules its OK to fire a man for wanking in the toilet.

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/masturbating-in-a-bathroom-stall-at-work-is-grounds-for-firing-nova-scotia-labour-arbitrator-rule

Well, to be exact - fired for wanking in the toilet so loudly that it annoyed other people using the facilities!

[Savonarola]

I was listening to The History of England () Podcast and the speaker mentioned that there were only about 10 words in the English language that come to us from Brittonic.  Wikipedia has a list, but some of them are of dubious origin.  (Interestingly, it seems that more words come to us from Gaulish than Brittonic as the Romans/Franks and ultimately Normans adopted more Gaulish words than the Anglo-Saxons did Brittonic.)  In any event, one place where the Brittonic language survived into the twentieth century was in the Yan, Tan, Tethera counting system used by shepherds.  Are any of the British posters familiar with this sort of counting system?

Some of the terms look suspect:  Yain-o-bumfitt, Yan-tic-a-bub, and Peddera-a-bumfit all look like code words for illicit acts made up to deceive Cromwell's religious police.

[Threviel]

Is that the excellent, extremely slow and Rome-hating podcast made by a ex-lawyer from the US?

[Josquius]

I was listening to The History of England () Podcast and the speaker mentioned that there were only about 10 words in the English language that come to us from Brittonic.  Wikipedia has a list, but some of them are of dubious origin.  (Interestingly, it seems that more words come to us from Gaulish than Brittonic as the Romans/Franks and ultimately Normans adopted more Gaulish words than the Anglo-Saxons did Brittonic.)  In any event, one place where the Brittonic language survived into the twentieth century was in the Yan, Tan, Tethera counting system used by shepherds.  Are any of the British posters familiar with this sort of counting system?

Some of the terms look suspect:  Yain-o-bumfitt, Yan-tic-a-bub, and Peddera-a-bumfit all look like code words for illicit acts made up to deceive Cromwell's religious police.

I've heard of it, but never encountered it in reality.

My surname is Brythonic. We've a lot of names, place names et al from it at the least.

[Savonarola]

Is that the excellent, extremely slow and Rome-hating podcast made by a ex-lawyer from the US?

I think that might be The British History Podcast.  This one begins with the Roman withdrawl from Britain.

So far this has been good; but I'm only on Episode 2. 

[The Brain]

Is that the excellent, extremely slow and Rome-hating podcast made by a ex-lawyer from the US?

I think that might be The British History Podcast.  This one begins with the Roman withdrawl from Britain.

So far this has been good; but I'm only on Episode 2.

Southern or regular?

[Valmy]

Is that the excellent, extremely slow and Rome-hating podcast made by a ex-lawyer from the US?

Yeah his Rome hating was really stupid. I mean nothing he said was wrong (well not technically, he had an annoying habit of saying vast generalizations that were not untrue but very misleading...which annoyed the fuck out of me) but dude get a grip. It made me doubt I was going to get much quality out of him with such an annoying bias and I could see it repeating with the Normans and whoever else he thought were icky and bad. So I checked out. I vastly prefer David Crowther.

[Savonarola]

I've heard of it, but never encountered it in reality.

My surname is Brythonic. We've a lot of names, place names et al from it at the least.

Yeah, the Wikipedia article didn't cover place names.  "Thames," I believe, is a Britonic name.

I also learned from the podcast that "Wal" or "Wall" comes from the old English word for "Foreigner," but came to mean "Briton" (and "Slave".)  Hence "Wales" and "Cornwall" but it also came to be used in family names like "Walton," (maybe Wallace and Walpole as well? )

[Razgovory]

I've heard of it, but never encountered it in reality.

My surname is Brythonic. We've a lot of names, place names et al from it at the least.

Yeah, the Wikipedia article didn't cover place names.  "Thames," I believe, is a Britonic name.

I also learned from the podcast that "Wal" or "Wall" comes from the old English word for "Foreigner," but came to mean "Briton" (and "Slave".)  Hence "Wales" and "Cornwall" but it also came to be used in family names like "Walton," (maybe Wallace and Walpole as well? )

I know it does for Wallace, it also forms the root for the word Walnut.  It's not just found in Old English, it's also found in other Germanic languages.  It is the root for regions such as Walachia and Wallonia.

[Duque de Bragança]

I've heard of it, but never encountered it in reality.

My surname is Brythonic. We've a lot of names, place names et al from it at the least.

Yeah, the Wikipedia article didn't cover place names.  "Thames," I believe, is a Britonic name.

I also learned from the podcast that "Wal" or "Wall" comes from the old English word for "Foreigner," but came to mean "Briton" (and "Slave".)  Hence "Wales" and "Cornwall" but it also came to be used in family names like "Walton," (maybe Wallace and Walpole as well? )

Germanic origin see Welsch. Came from a celtic tribe, meant foreigners specially Celts initially and eventually romance speakers. Gave Walloon in English too.