TheBritishBloke
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In regards to watching the footy, you could go to TVCatchup.com on your iPhones/iPads there.. It's like 15seconds behind the actual footage I guess, but it's still a way for you to watch it without cramming in a pub.
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The 5th annual London Picnic, 2010
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firestarter
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Jaffa Cake
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As well as Robert Green, the ball and dodgy goal decisions, the tabloids are probably going to blame MacRumors for England's defeat...
Jaffa Cake
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Anyway, I booked our hotel a little earlier this evening. Expect the Cakes to tip up at about 2.30pm. 😎
Eraserhead
macrumors G4
To be honest its not unreasonable, I can't believe FIFA doesn't use more technology to check these things at the world cup.
firestarter
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Jaffa Cake
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Mitthrawnuruodo
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Nah, it's just one picnic for professional fault, isn't it? To get three picnics you need to be sent off for violent conduct, don't you?
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Jaffa Cake
macrumors Core
I'm not sure. If we'd had park gate technology installed like many of us have been crying out for for years things might be a little clearer.
robbieduncan
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Jaffa Cake
macrumors Core
Any news on the surface at Hyde Park? We need the hallowed turf to be up to the rigours of international-level picnicking.
robbieduncan
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Unless it's been watered it's going to be hard, yellowed and possibly scorched. It's baking hot down here and has been for the past week 😀
anjinha
macrumors 604
Jaffa Cake
macrumors Core
Ah, but Robbie's Scottish – possibly the only nationality on earth more at home in the damp and the cold than the English. 😉
firestarter
macrumors 603
Saturday must be a very auspicious day in Portugal, if it's the only day you guys could be bothered coming up with a proper name for! 😛
Considering feina is Catalan for "work" are the days of the week actually named "first work day", "second work day" etc in Portuguese? 😱
Nah, I have to be using a sort of "false friend" there. Sunday can't be "first work day" surely?
Jaffa Cake
macrumors Core
Sábado is Sunday, surely? Sabbath, and all that. Segunda-Feira would be Tuesday in Englandshireish, being the second day and all?
Saturday in Spanish is sabado and Italian is sabato, so it's more likely (though not certain) for Sábado to be Saturday in Portuguese.
EDIT : I've found a list 🙂
* Domingo – Sunday
* Segunda-feira – Monday
* Terça-feira – Tuesday
* Quarta-feira – Wednesday
* Quinta-feira – Thursday
* Sexta-feira – Friday
* Sábado – Saturday
So the weekend days are very nearly the same as in Spanish (and nothing like as in Catalan). Feira I take it must mean "day" in some way rather than "workday", although "dia" is "day" in the usual sense 🙂
firestarter
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anjinha
macrumors 604
Well, "feira" doesn't mean "work" in Portuguese (it means "fair" or "market" actually, don't ask me the logic on that one) but "segunda", "terça" do mean "second", "third", etc. "Sunday" is "Domingo" so we don't really call it "first work day". 😛
Thanks. I got the segunda, terça bit as it's virtually the same in Spanish (segunda, tercera, etc.). So Monday is Second Market? That's quite different to the usual Latin variants. It's a bit different in Catalan, but even there you can see the similarities between dilluns for Monday and lundi, lunedi, or lunes. Did some old King of Portugal decide to rename everything at some point?
Jaffa Cake
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Well, I don't know! 😀
The only foreign language I did at school was French and I was rubbish at that. Luckily, anjinhamarota speaks English otherwise we'd just have to wave at each other.