Lets talk - the English fred

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Hello knetians,
I'm not really sure if a fred like this already exists in the depths of the stoner.net, but since the search engine doesnt work for shit, I'm just starting one anyway.
In a few months I will begin an apprenticeship for which I should freshen up my English writing skills.
Having learned English at school, there is a slight possibility that i may have forgotten some of my vocabulary and the knowledge of how to write and use it correctly. Then i thought, what the hell, I am never going to write English essays just for training purposes, why not find somebody in the Internet to talk to. Well, since I like to limit change in my life to a minimum, the stoner.net is probably a good place to start such a project because I'm here every day anyway.
Ok, lets finish with a quote from the beloved show host Ricky:

Lets talk!

You can use www.google.de if you want to search freds! Just Tipe site:kiffer.net XYZ !
I think its a good idea !

Yes, i know.. But I just felt I couldnt be bothered with it at the moment.
I think this fred could work just like the offtopicfred, just in English, making it understandable to just a limited group of people. With this racist and unfair rule I plan to raise the freds attractiveness, knowing that people always want to be there, were they shouldnt be. An elite if you want to call it like that.

As a first topic we could use an old coversation starter: the weather.
Is the weather as good wherever you are, or are you getting depressions because of the constant sound of rain dripping on your windows?

well, the sun is shining! i didn´t believe in the sun for a few weeks, but now:
whoa! so i went into the park and played with my dog throwing sticks. ( ) writing this, i feel my english skills have gotten very bad, i have to practise more. so this fred is a good idea, especially for people, who want to learn/train english.
how is the weather in other parts of germany, as nice as here?

My english is very bad, too. I mean the english i write. I can read and understand everything but writing a text on my own isnt as easy as i thougt a few minutes ago. Maybe i should do my english homework. (i didnt do homework since 3 years or something like that)
Now i realize i have to improve my skills!

Weather situation is mostly the same in Hamburg. Stormy, rainy...

I am in the lucky situation to make use of my language knowledges every day in the office. At least english.

This thread might be a great place for people who fear to loose their english vocabulary and to train it but I will rather keep using the german offtopic thread.

Geeee! Lovely!!!! Okay....sorry, I´m always gettin´a bit crazy when I get the chance to write (or speak) in my favourite language. I am weird, I know^^

Well I find it really REALLY wonderful that Il dudo has started this thread. But now we need a topic. What are we gonna talk about?

...bollocks ?

no, just kidding...

we could talk about our english-teachers at school!
my teacher was called miss mc kenzie, she was from scotland, so she was a good teacher. she called everyone who didn´t do homework a schlampe!
after the parents told her not to do this, because many girls had to cry, she called everyone SCH - Lampe

If i remember correctly Ricky, god of showmasters (at least on Sat1 in the late 90tes), used to talk about life, love, sex and everything. That could be a good start.
But we should be careful not to push a certain topic too much, because then people might loose interest in the fred alltogether.
I can tell you about important events in my life, that could be kinda interesting ().. For example just a few minutes ago I cleaned my kitchen sink - and I really talk about cleaning, not the usual Zewa-wisch-and-away routine. Now its bright and shiny, just as Grey in Greys Anatomy.
And tomorrow I will have my first theory lesson to aquire my driving license, and I start to think that perhaps I should have started another pot-smoking-break to allow my brain to properly absorb the information its going to recieve. Well, so much about me (I'm sure thats a German figure of speech, that can't really be used in English, but Wayne?)..

semms to be funny ^^

my teacher is a *censored*

Never mind the Bollocks - here's the Lets talk - the English fred!

I think it's a good idea. I like to read and speak english, but my spoken and written language sucks really. But it's fun to bring in some phrases from sites like Bash.org or different song lyrics, just because they fit in.
It's much more easier than in german. If you say something like "All ur Base r belong to us" in german, everybody look at you like you were a total fool.
I hope that nobody do a "error count", that would be really bad for my karma.

SCH - Lampe

Thats funny.. My old English Teacher used to do really funny stuff too.
Once there was this girl in the front row who always turned around to chat with her friend that was sitting in the row behind her. Well Mr. X sneaked up to her, got his head really close to the girls head who didnt notice him. Then he shouted her name really loudly in her ear.
Her reactions were hilarious, but she never learned from her mistakes. *g*

I have seen horses puke

Is this english for runaways?

Hey "The Dude", imho it's easier to speak and think english when you're stoned, because the sentences are mostly shorter, which means you have more time to search for food!

And another evidence for my theory:
If I would write down the word "Exzellent" in the Offtopicfred, nobody would understand this. But here, in the neat Lets talk - the English fred, the word

Excellent!

is on one side a expression of my good feelings for this thread (), and on the other side every Gamers Brain recognize the word and they instantly hear a loud, low voice from heaven which shout this word! Q3A ftw!

Hehe LoneWolf, lets see if that really works. .. Uh, i mean *pull*



Now that I started to think about the good old days (sure..) I remebered so many wacky things our teacher used to do..
Once we read a book called "The quiet American" in which one of the characters is a Vieatnamese girl who behaved really, lets say humble. *g*
Sometimes he read us dialogues from the book in which he then used to add lines to the stuff this girl called "Phuong" said. Basically it sounded like the script to a rather dark porn movie including precious phrases like "Me love you long time".
We used to have much fun

Our English teacher was also a bit weird. Every year there was a huge Santa Claus standing in front of a super market. Ya know, such a big thing made of...hum...i think made of plastic and filled with air. Our teacher hated the creature and alway told us that he would like to stab it with a knife.
Well, and one day, the Santa Claus (or his remains^^) was laying on the ground, empty, frazzled...poor thing^^
The police could never find out who was to blame...

Im going to let you all in on a secret: English teachers all are members of a secret society. They meet up at schoolyards and near to university buildings at night, pray to satan and practice sodomy. But dont tell anybody.

Anyhow, working in a Videostore has given me the possibility to watch practically every new movie on the market. A few days ago "Superbad" got into my trembling hands, and Ive got to say: I loved it.
Its a teenflick like American Pie, but it has much more into it. I laughed my ass of, and recognized parts of my youth in the adventures of the main characters. Its great, go to a Video store tomorrow and borrow it.

McLovin rules!

Has one of you guys and girls already seen it?

My english teacher was a really cool guy. One of the best teachers in the whole school; he was an american, from "Schicago" and he was very funny, he joked all the time.

Man, I miss the old times, hangin' in the school with my mates...

SODOMY and LUST!

i belive my pig whistles!
a fred likes how for me done!

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made my day!



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yeah i've already seen superbad and in fact its an really good movie.

Have you seen it in English or in the sync version?
I've seen both and I really can only repeat myself: sync sucks!
If you want to get this movie, you need to watch the English original..
Especially the way McLovin talks to his friends, friggin great!

"I am MäckLovvin' gängstaaaaaas"


Chicka-chicka-yeah Fake-ID Fake-ID *flow*

Does any1 know the song title of the "Top Gun" beginning scene?

i've seen the syncversion 'cause i was in the german cinema!
i think i should watch the movie in the original version too.. hmmm.. maybe i'll do.

how much is the fish?

LoneWolf that "take my breath away" crap ? thats performed by berlin

otherwise take a look on the o.s.t.-tracklist

i belive my pig whistles! a fred likes how for me done!

I see you're very on the wire but don't go me on my alarmclock ;)

LoneWolf that take my breath away crap ? thats berlin

Sorry, I can't understand

Holy shit!
There has just been a big fight between more than two people in the corridor of my appartmentbuilding. With screaming, hitting and everything. I'm sure that the police is going to be here (again ) in no time to check everything out. Fuck! I hope theres no smell of dope in the area of my apartmentdoor..

Lets open a window..

Ah, an english fred, very nice

The amazing life of Il dudo ^^. Ey man, why are such exciting things happening ´round ya? I mean, compared to that, my life is boring. Okay, it IS boring, nothing ever happens...

Concerning Post #1197454:
About dubbed movies:
Worst case is dubbing HipHop- or Gangsta-Movies!

If you watch movies like Menace II Society or the funny ones like Soul Plane, it's a cruelty to listen to that lousy translations!You can't translate no slang- and if you try so, it'll end terrible!

Dubbing normal movies isn't soo bad, I think- even if I prefer wachin' them undubbed.

You see! Thats exactly what happened in Superbad.
In English this nerdy kid who has called himself McLovin shoots a gun at a traffic sign and shouts something like "Hrrhaha! Break yourself fool!" *bang* *bang*
In the German version its "Stirb du Opfer" which isnt funny at all.. I dont know why, perhaps because its not pronounced in the right way. But I really think that the English version is brilliant, whilst the sync one is at best mediocre.

WORD Odonata

did anyone see Pick of Destiny or SO HIGH?

the translations were one of the badest I ever heard

Or watch Borat ;)

Slang can't be dubbed!

We could spend much time to write down all the names of all the movies that suck in the German sync if they are compared to the English sync. It be complete far quicker, if we would only write the ones down that are as good or better than the original.
I would for example say, that Clerks 2 is funnier in German than in English..

nethertheless i dont think Menace II Society is that good, maybe if Tupac had played "Caine"...*fg*...:-)

Hehe an english fred, exciting! Im in newzealand for almost half a year, and my spoken english sucks nob. Bloody Keewee slang. Thats the bad thing about going overseas to learn english- you loose your perfect clean school english. Its a shame.
NEway got to go to work now. Hasta la vista

Well... school english, this glorious bunch of language-rape they call Oxford English is as boring and sterile as a hospital hallway. Where's all the nice trifles, little expressions of wide and rich flavour, which make a spoken language a worthy language at all? Sure I can see how teachers don't like reading "fuck" all over your exams, but then again, just fucking do that if you feel it fits. As long as the exam doesn't in general read like written on a sidewalk in Idlewood, L.A. it's all going to be fine.

But well, also make sure your teachers know a slight bit of humour. With some of mine it was possible to let some "bad" english slip through, others would rather conclude that your entire language sucked ten kinds of ass, if you just used "don't" instead of "do not".

Meh. It's after all the language which acts for us, and not us acting for the language. So as long as one can understand stuff, there's no point in judging between perfect clean school english and slang ways.
And so to say, my english used to be "better" too. But teh internets managed in several years of chatting, reading, watching, hearing and whatnot to really kill all common sense for right and wrong.

And when it comes to movies, even I as rarely ever movie-watching person can say that the original sync is usually way more of a pleasure to the ears than all those horrible attempts of translating. As a matter of fact, Germany is having about one of the biggest synchronization industries around the world. Seeing then how in our neigbouring countries a lot of movies are just being broadcasted with added subtitles, it's no wonder that almost the entire population is bilingual. But here, most of all in recent years, it seems that a renaissance is coming to happen: especially the younger generation has grown up with english video games, movies, books and of course... the almighty internet. So, I seriously would not be surprised if english is going to be official world's language sooner or later.