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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Biggie" data-source="post: 330008" data-attributes="member: 24034">I agree, but now that I am older and wiser, although Big Sister and Dear Mama will suggest that I'm getting dumber because I often behave and carry on in a fashion that they both KNOW is me "not living right" because they know everything about everything about everything.  But I digress...I was once a young chap with little frame of reference and hearing about places like Frome  Newcastle, Birmingham, Edinburgh et al I assumed that they were a  galaxy way. The epiphany hit me when I started driving for the job I was doing. West Country is about 2 hours away. I can reach Birmingham in around two hours. Basingstoke to Newcastle was about 5 hours. The UK is rather small but the range of accents is greater than the land mass would suggest. Recently I was doing great work by showing a fine gentleman I have known since time that I can match the man drink for drink to defend my honour...I showed him this platform and some of my paradigm altering magic postsHe noticed something.... he said something like "you use phrases and ideas that you like that others won't get. I know that you are going the the long way round to get it across but other don't know that....On reflection the man was letting the shed load of Heineken talk for him.  I always get straight to the actual point!</blockquote>