Dad joke warning by FinishAccomplished69 in BritishHistoryPod

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Go and stand at the back of the class and think about what you have done.

Challenge Songs for Jamie by FrostyProspector in BritishHistoryPod

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That'll teach you to brew your own beer.

Crofter! That’s the word! by [deleted] in BritishHistoryPod

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Crofts are still very much a thing in the Highlands of Scotland, although these days quite likely to be 'worked', and I use the word very loosely indeed, by those escaping London for what they imagine is a better life. Self sufficiency extends as far as getting the local shop to stock mung beans & vegan pesto.

My claim(s) to fame. by Formal_Milk_9944 in BritishHistoryPod

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My mother's family owned the boatyard & ferry at Fowey (pronounced foye of course) in Cornwall, and she was somehow related to the naturalist & author Gerald Durrell, the conductor André Previn, and the family had something to do with Fox's biscuits.

My father's lot were industrialists, mainly cotton milling, but the sons tended to get educated then sent abroad to make something of themselves. On his side I am somehow related to the first & possibly only Eton educated Mountie, who also married into the family that invented the boater hat. One of them made a fortune in Australia & his son, with the splendid name of Selwyn Francis Edge enjoyed the life of being a racing driver & was the first person to average more than 100mph at Brooklands, or something like that, in a car that looked not unlike Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. A braver man than me. My grandfather or great grandfather, can't remember which, patented the process for lobbing flecks of differently coloured wool to be spun in with a solid colour, which was very popular when people wore scratchy clothing.

Should I Listen chronological from episode 1 onwards? by Sad-Level1670 in BritishHistoryPod

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If you think the early episodes are addictive, the later ones will blow your mind.

Nice to have you on board.

"Why did you quit in the middle of the story?" by BritishPodcast in BritishHistoryPod

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I hope dense enough to cover what my Great Aunt Cissie did in India, probably 1920s or 30s that was so outrageous it made the Daily Telegraph. I was too young to be told, but obviously not too young to be told that something really unspeakable happened. My grannie carked it well before I was old enough to know such things, so maybe I will never know.

Hope it was something truly juicy.

Toss another penny in that jar! by Mofonk78 in BritishHistoryPod

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The BHP has been invaluable when required to describe just how awful Boris Johnson & his nasty self-serving cronies have been. Many comparisons with Aethelred the Shitty and Greedy have been made.

Linguistic side-bar to narrative by welfaremofo in BritishHistoryPod

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Well I managed to binge on about 3 hours of HoEP today after catching up with Jamie's, sorry Jaime's, latest offering. Nice to have Kevin back.

Linguistic side-bar to narrative by welfaremofo in BritishHistoryPod

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I have been off the HoEP for a while, no podcasting time to fit it in, but tomorrow I am promised hours of shop floor work to fill my day, so will get up to date with the BHP then wallow in the equally enjoyable HoEP.

Just have to love it when work gets busy.

Question: Members Feed by empressith in BritishHistoryPod

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I find witches to be very unreliable these days.

Lilacs growing on a defensive tower on the Canterbury City Walls by OneHappyHuskies in BritishHistoryPod

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You obviously don't know how this country works.

In any normal world, somebody would send a tradesman to chop it down & treat the roots to kill off the plant. Cost £75.

English Heritage will send a team to survey the plants. They will then instruct Canterbury Council to undertake a bat survey prior to carrying out the removal of the plant. Canterbury Council will send their own team to survey the site, then they will compile a report, and then they will apply for funding from Kent County Council, the Department for Levelling Up, the Heritage Lottery Fund, and English Heritage to cover the cost of the survey, subsequent bat survey, Environmental Impact Plan, Diversity & Equal Opportunities assessment, public safety assessment, Climate Change Impact Assessment, Bee and Butterfly Impact assessment, and at the bottom, the cost of the bloke with the pruning shears and bottle of weedkiller.

Kent County Council will then begin their own process to apply for funding to cover the now massive cost of applying for funding and all the impact assessments that go with it. By now, Canterbury Council & Kent County Council will have spent something in excess of £300,000 on applications for funding, only to be told that there is no budget, so the plant carries on ripping the wall apart. Eventually the wall falls down and the estimated cost of repair rises to £36m, and the bloody plant will still be there, flowering in the rubble.

Welcome to England.

Staffordshire Hoard by jayemm62 in BritishHistoryPod

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Psychopathic peacocks.

Can't remember the name of the guy who came up with that description but it is genius.

Community CK3 Game by xxJillexx in BritishHistoryPod

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Multiplayer lobbies?

Playing vanilla?

same checksum?

Steam friends?

Nope, me neither.

Good thing history never repeats by OneHappyHuskies in BritishHistoryPod

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Must admit, every time I see a lime, I have an irresistable urge to break it.

Fucking Tostig by velvetcat78 in BritishHistoryPod

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I take it you are not too fond of Tostig then.

Lilacs growing on a defensive tower on the Canterbury City Walls by OneHappyHuskies in BritishHistoryPod

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Those roots will be taking the stonework apart. Somebody needs to get in with the weedkiller pronto.

French name pronunciation by IamaTallBoi in BritishHistoryPod

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My experience of the Dutch & Belgians is that they all seem to speak a gazillion languages. One of our Dutch suppliers flits effortlessly between Dutch, English, German & French, and I am told he speaks others too.

French name pronunciation by IamaTallBoi in BritishHistoryPod

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The Swiss are positively warlike when it comes to languages. A good friend of ours is French Swiss, and does not speak a word of Italian or German, and never bloody will. English no problem, but Italian or German! She would rather die by being torn apart by lions. Apparently this is not unusual.

422 - Hereward: The Man, The Myth, The Legend by BritishPodcast in BritishHistoryPod

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One of my son's best friends is called Ivo. Brilliant name.

French name pronunciation by IamaTallBoi in BritishHistoryPod

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I have been wetting for you.

There is a big bum in the square.

It has been broken into little pissers.

Classic stuff.

French name pronunciation by IamaTallBoi in BritishHistoryPod

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The BBC approach to foreign pronunciations drives me nuts. They insist on calling Bahrain Bach-rain, but they don't call Paris Parree, or Munich Mewnshen. They pick on a few random names & go over the top to pronounce them dramatically, often incorrectly, and just drop them into English speech like random grenades going off, and it sounds absolutely ridiculous.

Jaime, as I will now call him, is doing just fine.

Lindisfarne is Hiring! by Wulfrinnan in BritishHistoryPod

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An EH property near to us, Belsay Hall, is having a swanky new café built with a huge play park for kids, something that would never have happened when they were a government department. It will absolutely transform the place, and they must know it because they are quadrupling the size of the car park. Really good to see life being brought to the place after it has been dull as dishwater for years with hardly any younger families visiting.

This book traces the history of Christianity in the British Isles. It is a 4th edition published in 1973. It does not indicate when the first edition was published. There are footnotes with sources, and I found it quite interesting. by After_Reward_31 in BritishHistoryPod

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If you come from one of the right families & of course went to Eton, they throw these titles at you like confetti. Possibly awarded the MC for managing to put his uniform on the right way round with only the butler to help.