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Prince Charles visited a flood ravaged part of England and he commented " A jolly good disaster". Does he ever take his foot out of his mouth ? He did then donate 50 thousand pounds to the flood relief but the comment was stupid and not helpfjul for those suffering.


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Apparently the loon Owen Paterson did in fact finally make a brief visit to the area last week - but still far too late in the day - and was harangued by locals. Yes TGSE, 'Jolly good' is a common phrase in the UK. It's a jolly good job Paterson wasn't ducked in the flood water, and his head stood on.

 

 

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/27/owen-paterson-angers-locals-visit-flooded-somerse...

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As far as the royal's go, Charles is pretty good, he's done some progressive things and involved himself in projects (good ones) that he has copped a lot of flak for - even though I am certainly not a monarchist - he does seem to be a jolly good chap.   

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It's an English thing and not likely to be taken the right way out here...

 

'Jolly' does not mean 'joyful'.  You will also hear them say 'that's jolly bad luck old man'

 

In this case 'a jolly good distaster' meant that it was big enough to gain the help it needed.

 

We usually use 'bluddy' instead, that's the Oz thing Smiley Happy


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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

It's interesting how idiomatic expressions can lose their meaning in translation, 'Jolly good' is pretty much a catch-all phrase in the UK:. I've a jolly good mind to tell her what I think of her, he needs a jolly good thrashing, it's a jolly good job your mother doesn't know what you get up to etc etc.


And it's a jolly good thing I have thick skin and put up with all the narrow minded hypocrites on this forum or I would truly hide in a corner, a lot of you cannot wait to jump on anyone who makes a comment if you don't agree or you find fault, you OH so perfect people.  NOT


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@newstart2380 wrote:

@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

It's interesting how idiomatic expressions can lose their meaning in translation, 'Jolly good' is pretty much a catch-all phrase in the UK:. I've a jolly good mind to tell her what I think of her, he needs a jolly good thrashing, it's a jolly good job your mother doesn't know what you get up to etc etc.


And it's a jolly good thing I have thick skin and put up with all the narrow minded hypocrites on this forum or I would truly hide in a corner, a lot of you cannot wait to jump on anyone who makes a comment if you don't agree or you find fault, you OH so perfect people.  NOT


And you don't?

It's the nature of a forum. If people are reading the forum at the time of course they wil respond at the time.  It's not like they sit and wait for a certain poster to post just so they can attack that poster.  If they're not there at the time they will respond later. 

 

Holding a different view or opinion doesn't make people narrow minded hypocrites.

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a lot of you cannot wait to jump on anyone who makes a comment

 

Was that not the basis of the opening post?

 

 

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Extra, Extra, read all about the Somerset floods here...

 

 

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@newstart2380 wrote:
And it's a jolly good thing I have thick skin and put up with all the narrow minded hypocrites on this forum or I would truly hide in a corner, a lot of you cannot wait to jump on anyone who makes a comment if you don't agree or you find fault, you OH so perfect people.  NOT



 

Narrow minded hypocrites because they disagree with you?  I don't see it as anything personal, just people on a forum airing their opinions,  which is what a forum is all about.  Anyone posting an OP should expect that imo.  

 

 

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Narrow minded hypocrites? Why,I can feel a song coming on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlzrNKN3rZI&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Me too, Spots...

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWCK0hCxGjI 

 

 

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