Talk about 'speaking english, I think', rereading my comment makes it seem like I could be saying 'She isn't hard to understand, you're stupid for saying so', totally not what I meant to say.

I guess it just comes down to having heard those accents more or being around bad english speakers while learning the language.
I jokingly refer anyone mentioning having difficulties understanding spoken english to watch episodes of The Sky At Night with the late Sir Patrick Moore, almost no accent will give you trouble after that and you learn about the universe
example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y60oPFChu1U

Patrick Moore died today. I thought I'd *promote this one to show how awesome he was

Having trained with Sir Patrick Moore for a few years now, I don't understand what they're on about.

>> ^conan:

i now it's probably rude but i wish they'd subtitle hawking. for a non-native english speaker it's very hard to understand him because the pronounciation is all messed up by that computer....


As a non-native english speaker myself I look at it like this: Trying to understand people who don't speak a "clean" english will in the end make it easier for you to understand "anyone" speaking english.

For me personally, Hawking is easy to understand... but than again I have had ample training by Sir Patrick Moore

To add to the comment I added on that post, I've always known who he was because the likes of The Goodies would make fun of him (and Sir David Attenborough, and the likes). He's a fairly well-known astronomer, and a slightly less well-known xylophone player, who has played (in 1981) for the Queen in a Royal variety performance.

I don't think I've ever seen him without his monocle.

In reply to this comment by Fusionaut:
http://videosift.com/video/Space-Snacks-With-Sir-Patrick-Moore-the-astronomer
lol, I went to go see who Patrick Moore was and found this.
In reply to this comment by oritteropo:
Close. I would vote for Giraffe number 1, then Kenya. Maybe they're my equal faves with Scampi and Badger coming after.

I don't like all of them, the salad fingers ones and the like leave me completely cold (choccy otoh leaves me hungry

Oh no! I forgot Patrick Moore! Now I don't know whether I like it more than Scampi or not... OK, I'd better stop here before I get really confused...

The very English Patrick Moore. He was regularly lampooned on the British children's programmes I used to watch on TV as a child.

As is pointed out in the weebl cartoon named after him, he does indeed play the Xylophone, and has played for the Queen

http://videosift.com/video/Space-Snacks-With-Sir-Patrick-Moore-the-astronomer
lol, I went to go see who Patrick Moore was and found this.
In reply to this comment by oritteropo:
Close. I would vote for Giraffe number 1, then Kenya. Maybe they're my equal faves with Scampi and Badger coming after.

I don't like all of them, the salad fingers ones and the like leave me completely cold (choccy otoh leaves me hungry

Oh no! I forgot Patrick Moore! Now I don't know whether I like it more than Scampi or not... OK, I'd better stop here before I get really confused...>> ^AdrianBlack:

Yes! I love them all, Russian Dancing Men is my current favorite..is your first fave Badger or Kenya?
>> ^oritteropo:
My 2nd favourite weebls-stuff cartoon The original loops, and it's always hard to tell when to stop it

Close. I would vote for Giraffe number 1, then Kenya. Maybe they're my equal faves with Scampi and Badger coming after.

I don't like all of them, the salad fingers ones and the like leave me completely cold (choccy otoh leaves me hungry

Oh no! I forgot Patrick Moore! Now I don't know whether I like it more than Scampi or not... OK, I'd better stop here before I get really confused...>> ^AdrianBlack:

Yes! I love them all, Russian Dancing Men is my current favorite..is your first fave Badger or Kenya?
>> ^oritteropo:
My 2nd favourite weebls-stuff cartoon The original loops, and it's always hard to tell when to stop it

I do believe this is what they call an ass handing.

or was that just something that guy in the park made up..?>> ^Tymbrwulf:

2:12 - Professor Philip Stott:
He has not published scholarly articles in the field of climate change, although he has published books on the subject.
Writes books instead of having his theories subject to peer review.
2:18 - Professor Paul Reiter:
The UK government has said that Reiter "does not accurately represent the current scientific debate on the potential impacts of climate change on health in general, or malaria in particular. He appears to have been quite selective in the references and reports that he has criticised, focusing on those that are neither very recent nor reflective of the current state of knowledge, now or when they were published" - Source
2:33 - Professor Richard Lindzen:
Jerry Mahlman, director of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, did not accept Lindzen's assessment of the science, and said that Lindzen had "sacrificed his luminosity by taking a stand that most of us feel is scientifically unsound."
3:07 - Professor Patrick Michaels:
Office of Science and Technology Policy director, John Holdren,[8] told the U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee, "Michaels is another of the handful of U.S. climate-change contrarians … He has published little if anything of distinction in the professional literature, being noted rather for his shrill op-ed pieces and indiscriminate denunciations of virtually every finding of mainstream climate science."
He also gets money from fossil fuel companies.
7:06 - Patrick Moore:
Moore has earned his living since the early 1990s primarily by consulting for, and publicly speaking for a wide variety of corporations and lobby groups such as the Nuclear Energy Institute.[36] Monte Hummel, MScF, President, World Wildlife Fund Canada has claimed that Moore's book, Pacific Spirit, is a collection of "pseudoscience and dubious assumptions."[41] Dr Leonie Jacobs of the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands has accused Moore of being paid by the timber industry in order to deliberately mislead the public about logging.
He is accused of having "abruptly turned his back on the environmental movement"
I wish they would source the people on all the other claims. Would be nice to fact check those as well.
What kind of debate are you trying to start here, blankfist?

2:12 - Professor Philip Stott:
He has not published scholarly articles in the field of climate change, although he has published books on the subject.
Writes books instead of having his theories subject to peer review.

2:18 - Professor Paul Reiter:
The UK government has said that Reiter "does not accurately represent the current scientific debate on the potential impacts of climate change on health in general, or malaria in particular. He appears to have been quite selective in the references and reports that he has criticised, focusing on those that are neither very recent nor reflective of the current state of knowledge, now or when they were published" - Source

2:33 - Professor Richard Lindzen:
Jerry Mahlman, director of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, did not accept Lindzen's assessment of the science, and said that Lindzen had "sacrificed his luminosity by taking a stand that most of us feel is scientifically unsound."

3:07 - Professor Patrick Michaels:
Office of Science and Technology Policy director, John Holdren,[8] told the U.S. Senate Republican Policy Committee, "Michaels is another of the handful of U.S. climate-change contrarians … He has published little if anything of distinction in the professional literature, being noted rather for his shrill op-ed pieces and indiscriminate denunciations of virtually every finding of mainstream climate science."
He also gets money from fossil fuel companies.

7:06 - Patrick Moore:
Moore has earned his living since the early 1990s primarily by consulting for, and publicly speaking for a wide variety of corporations and lobby groups such as the Nuclear Energy Institute.[36] Monte Hummel, MScF, President, World Wildlife Fund Canada has claimed that Moore's book, Pacific Spirit, is a collection of "pseudoscience and dubious assumptions."[41] Dr Leonie Jacobs of the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands has accused Moore of being paid by the timber industry in order to deliberately mislead the public about logging.
He is accused of having "abruptly turned his back on the environmental movement"

I wish they would source the people on all the other claims. Would be nice to fact check those as well.

What kind of debate are you trying to start here, blankfist?

Using one or two youth gatherings, and featuring idealistic but ill-informed youths to represent the gamut of Canada's environmentalists who do rely on ecologically-based, well researched positions, is bull****.

To represent Canadian environmentalists at their best, P&T should have spoken to David Schindler, Elizabeth May, Tzeporah Berman, Maude Barlow, Holly Dressel, to name but a few.

Patrick Moore's pro-forestry stance, btw is not well regarded by some of Canada's most effective environmentalists: e.g. Montel Hummel of World Wildlife Fund who said: "I have read Patrick's book, Pacific Spirit. It is not the work of a 'forest ecologist' but a disappointing blend of pseudo-science and dubious assumptions being used to defend clearcutting and the forest industry."

I took a geology class with a professor who studied gypsum caves in Northern New Mexico and, after collaborating his data with an astrophysicist, developed a theory that the temperature rise on earth was due to the cycling of sun spots that occurs about every 600 years. He is still working on it. But who knows if that one is true either.

I agree with the last sentiment given by Patrick Moore in that we might keep environmentalism in mind in order to improve our methods. Because honestly, would anyone give up their life right now, unless they were forced to? Those kids are at that rally to socialize and conjure up material for poetry chapbooks. That woman who lived in the tree for years was dangling with jewelry. Does she know how's that's mined?

I really detest scare tactics of all kinds. And I think most University activist leaders, spouting this stuff, are just doing it to get laid.

And I consider myself liberal.

Do not mock the Moore. For he has a xylophone.

The recent 50th Anniversary shows were hilarious - the one with Brian May in the future on Mars was really bizarre...even by Patrick Moore's standards!