Waking a sleeping Dragon?

[Luthor]

Any tips?

He is asleep and one of the crickets I have been trying to get out of his enclosure has darted away and is now underneath him.

Any tips on waking / moving him without scaring the hell out him?


Cheers

 

[Luthor]

Sorted.

Basically, just pick 'em up and move them and they'll just wonder why they woke up somewhere else, lol.

Got that last cricket, now I can go to bed!

 

[jeserah]

this post was epic.

I can hear your accent through your post and I think it's completely awesome. I expect you're from the UK; am I right, or am I totally off the mark?

Haha, anyway, I'm glad you got the cricket out from under your slumbering beardie!

 

[Luthor]

8)

Lol, yes I am from the north-west of England...or "oop north" as we say.

I do tend to start writing as I would speak once I start to get settled in.

There's a dragon-related poem in our local accent you can listen here: Th'Unsworth Dragon
(With a translation!)

 

[jeserah]

That poem was great!
Although.... the translation was great too because some of the words I wouldn't have been able to understand at all without picking them apart slowly. It made me feel a little uneducated, haha. My favorite part's when he gets the idea to shoot his dagger from his firearm.

So now the question is: do you speak in a dialect that heavy or use those colloquialisms frequently? Curious minds want to know!

 

[Buggsy]

lol some of the older blokes will use most of the phrases at some point or another, but i think the younger generation just pick out a few that stick with us!

 

[nair88]

that poem was great! i love listening to different accents and dialects. i feel boring with my "normal" american accent ;-)

 

[Luthor]

So now the question is: do you speak in a dialect that heavy or use those colloquialisms frequently? Curious minds want to know!

Not really, though my accent a lot seem to think is very "northern" (I beg to differ with them lol - though I have had problems in the USA trying to order a coke quite a few times...I get a quzzical expression then the question "cork???" ).

It tends to get thicker if I am with my dad...and even thicker with my grandad as his dialect is actually a lot stronger than even the guy reading the poem ( ee wer a pitmon, tha' see!) - as Buggsy said, the older blokes (working class at least) speak like that but it has been filtered a little for the last couple of generations at least.

If you listen to some of the other poems on that site, some are pretty funny "working class" tales. Funny to me at least as I relate (and understand wht he's saying - couple of favourites are "Bedtime" & "Goo'int Baths")

~Luth

 

[Jenster]

Hahahaha! This thread is hilarious!

 

[Luthor]

Hahahaha! This thread is hilarious!

I hope thy's not mocking me accent, else I'll affert come reawnd and sort thee owt.

:lol:

 

[Eljay]

:mrgreen: I'm pretty thick accented too. I could read that post easier than the american's posts! haha.

 

[jeserah]

lol. Next time i travel to london I'll need to take a trip "oop north" and have a conversation with you. And maybe see your beardie, too! You can laugh as my expression becomes more and more bewildered :lol: