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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2017 0:11:47 GMT
Saw a Chinese guy in Verona airport about 5 years ago wearing a Stoke top. I was there with work and had booked my return flight to get home for a midweek game that night. So I went over and said : are you heading back for the match tonight ? He did not speak a word if English and just looked at me with a puzzled look. So I pulled out my season ticket (was before the new card system) and he jumped up with a smile and pulled out a ticket stub from the previous Saturday's match which was Chelsea at home. Then he started hugging me and for his wife to take our photo. No idea why he had been to the Brit, but hope he still wears the shirt back in China with pride! Johnny Come Ratery. |
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Post by duckling on Apr 28, 2017 2:56:44 GMT
Saw a Chinese guy in Verona airport about 5 years ago wearing a Stoke top. I was there with work and had booked my return flight to get home for a midweek game that night. So I went over and said : are you heading back for the match tonight ? He did not speak a word if English and just looked at me with a puzzled look. So I pulled out my season ticket (was before the new card system) and he jumped up with a smile and pulled out a ticket stub from the previous Saturday's match which was Chelsea at home. Then he started hugging me and for his wife to take our photo. No idea why he had been to the Brit, but hope he still wears the shirt back in China with pride! Johnny Come Ratery. Native Chinese speaker here. Both the L and R sounds are present in Chinese. I have no idea why foreigners think Chinese people can't pronounce L sounds. Think of Chinese last names like Lee, Lin, Lai. One feature of the Chinese language is that all phonemes end in vowel sounds. As a result, Chinese speakers either drop consonants at the end of syllables or overpronounce them so that the consonant is a separate syllable. Johnny Come Lately in a Chinese accent would be Jon-ee Con La-te-lee. shanghaipotter, how do you not know this living in China? (I assume that's where your name comes from.) |
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Post by djduncanjames on Apr 28, 2017 3:11:25 GMT
Saw a Chinese guy in Verona airport about 5 years ago wearing a Stoke top. I was there with work and had booked my return flight to get home for a midweek game that night. So I went over and said : are you heading back for the match tonight ? He did not speak a word if English and just looked at me with a puzzled look. So I pulled out my season ticket (was before the new card system) and he jumped up with a smile and pulled out a ticket stub from the previous Saturday's match which was Chelsea at home. Then he started hugging me and for his wife to take our photo. No idea why he had been to the Brit, but hope he still wears the shirt back in China with pride! How lovely, great story!  |
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Post by djduncanjames on Apr 28, 2017 3:16:47 GMT
Native Chinese speaker here. Both the L and R sounds are present in Chinese. I have no idea why foreigners think Chinese people can't pronounce L sounds. Think of Chinese last names like Lee, Lin, Lai. One feature of the Chinese language is that all phonemes end in vowel sounds. As a result, Chinese speakers either drop consonants at the end of syllables or overpronounce them so that the consonant is a separate syllable. Johnny Come Lately in a Chinese accent would be Jon-ee Con La-te-lee. shanghaipotter, how do you not know this living in China? (I assume that's where your name comes from.) Lighten up FFS if you are sticking around for a year! You seem precious, broken bones in an Arsenal thread gets you wound up because you broke your arm, now this! lol Don't take issue because its a remix please! |
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Post by duckling on Apr 28, 2017 3:35:38 GMT
Native Chinese speaker here. Both the L and R sounds are present in Chinese. I have no idea why foreigners think Chinese people can't pronounce L sounds. Think of Chinese last names like Lee, Lin, Lai. One feature of the Chinese language is that all phonemes end in vowel sounds. As a result, Chinese speakers either drop consonants at the end of syllables or overpronounce them so that the consonant is a separate syllable. Johnny Come Lately in a Chinese accent would be Jon-ee Con La-te-lee. shanghaipotter, how do you not know this living in China? (I assume that's where your name comes from.) Lighten up FFS if you are sticking around for a year! You seem precious, broken bones in an Arsenal thread gets you wound up because you broke your arm, now this! lol Don't take issue because its a remix please! Sheesh, I'm teaching people how to accurately mimic a Chinese accent, not to express outrage at people trying to do so. It's akin to a non-English speaking person saying that they're imitating a British accent when they're actually imitating an American accent. I think British people would be pretty annoyed by the inaccuracy. By the way, the lack of phonemes ending in consonants does not apply to Cantonese, the language spoken in Hong Kong. They have L sounds too. I should have made that distinction. |
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Post by djduncanjames on Apr 28, 2017 3:47:09 GMT
Lighten up FFS if you are sticking around for a year! You seem precious, broken bones in an Arsenal thread gets you wound up because you broke your arm, now this! lol Don't take issue because its a remix please! Sheesh, I'm teaching people how to accurately mimic a Chinese accent, not to express outrage at people trying to do so. It's akin to a non-English speaking person saying that they're imitating a British accent when they're actually imitating an American accent. I think British people would be pretty annoyed by the inaccuracy. By the way, the lack of phonemes ending in consonants does not apply to Cantonese, the language spoken in Hong Kong. They have L sounds too. I should have made that distinction. MATE! Share a story! Who cares! I like everyone no matter language or colour. Read up on Sammy Lee  |
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Post by Boothen on Apr 28, 2017 4:44:49 GMT
Seems like many of us haven given Stoke shirts to random people on our travels around the world, good job everyone!  Not exactly a shirt, but I do know that there is, or at least there was, a SCFC pennant hanging in the dressing room of Pannaxiakos F.C. on Naxos. I know because it was me that left it there. |
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Post by hooftastic on Apr 28, 2017 7:43:58 GMT
I've given old shirts to people in China, Nepal, Tibet (so China again I suppose), Cambodia, Thailand, Israel, Ethiopia, Afgan and Lebanon.
Although I'm sure I can't claim credit for any seen as a lot of charity clothing gets sent to Africa, Asia and the Middle East, typically old football shirts are commonplace amongst them.
.... The one I gave away in Lebanon was my old man's (so an XXXL).... I bet they're still trying to put weight on now to fit into it.... Or maybe using it as a tent!
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Post by hoofmagic on Apr 28, 2017 7:52:41 GMT
Reg Harris stoke potters speedway rider lol
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Post by Stav on Apr 28, 2017 8:00:52 GMT
I have it on good authority that one of my old Stoke shirts (circa 1992) is still hanging up in the Duke of Duckworth pub in St John's Newfoundland.
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Post by marrer on Apr 28, 2017 8:03:24 GMT
I was waiting to pay for petrol the other week in the Blue Mountains about 100kms west of Sydney. A bloke had a bright yellow short on with Britannia across the front. A closer look and there was the stoke badge. Thought it must be a goalie shirt but he told me it was from the stoke reserves. Anyway he was a good bloke and on holiday from Longton. He gets on the oatcake (my predictive text just spelt pancake but i changed it) but I've forgotten his name. If you're reading this mate, hope you had a great trip back.
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Post by djduncanjames on Apr 28, 2017 8:08:38 GMT
I was waiting to pay for petrol the other week in the Blue Mountains about 100kms west of Sydney. A bloke had a bright yellow short on with Britannia across the front. A closer look and there was the stoke badge. Thought it must be a goalie shirt but he told me it was from the stoke reserves. Anyway he was a good bloke and on holiday from Longton. He gets on the oatcake (my predictive text just spelt pancake but i changed it) but I've forgotten his name. If you're reading this mate, hope you had a great trip back. did it look like this?  |
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Post by marrer on Apr 28, 2017 8:37:20 GMT
I was waiting to pay for petrol the other week in the Blue Mountains about 100kms west of Sydney. A bloke had a bright yellow short on with Britannia across the front. A closer look and there was the stoke badge. Thought it must be a goalie shirt but he told me it was from the stoke reserves. Anyway he was a good bloke and on holiday from Longton. He gets on the oatcake (my predictive text just spelt pancake but i changed it) but I've forgotten his name. If you're reading this mate, hope you had a great trip back. did it look like this? That's the one. Didn't have Ryan's head sticking out but you're spot on there Duncan. |
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Post by Northy on Apr 28, 2017 9:02:40 GMT
I was waiting to pay for petrol the other week in the Blue Mountains about 100kms west of Sydney. A bloke had a bright yellow short on with Britannia across the front. A closer look and there was the stoke badge. Thought it must be a goalie shirt but he told me it was from the stoke reserves. Anyway he was a good bloke and on holiday from Longton. He gets on the oatcake (my predictive text just spelt pancake but i changed it) but I've forgotten his name. If you're reading this mate, hope you had a great trip back. did it look like this? that's the one I sent to India, he must have liked yellow |
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Post by mickmillslovechild on Apr 28, 2017 14:27:51 GMT
 Beat that! "Busta is a Stokie....." |
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Post by samba :) on Apr 28, 2017 16:00:00 GMT
I saw someone once in abersoc, but abersoc is basically a mini stoke by the sea so it doesnt really count
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Post by butlerstbob on Apr 28, 2017 17:43:31 GMT
I once saw some guy wearing a stoke top in Mousehole Cornwall, around 2006 whilst I was on my holidaybobs!
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Post by pipesurgeon on Apr 28, 2017 18:09:57 GMT
On holiday in 2010 in Gambia gave taxi driver a stoke top saw him with it on a couple of times in the village it looked better than all them Newcastle bar code tops
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Post by estrangedsonoffaye on Apr 28, 2017 18:18:34 GMT
I once saw a sign post by a house in Camber, pointing to Paris, London etc.....and the Britannia Stadium......
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Post by bayernoatcake on Apr 28, 2017 19:31:44 GMT
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Post by tijuanabrass on Apr 28, 2017 23:37:11 GMT
Sheesh, I'm teaching people how to accurately mimic a Chinese accent, not to express outrage at people trying to do so. It's akin to a non-English speaking person saying that they're imitating a British accent when they're actually imitating an American accent. I think British people would be pretty annoyed by the inaccuracy. By the way, the lack of phonemes ending in consonants does not apply to Cantonese, the language spoken in Hong Kong. They have L sounds too. I should have made that distinction. MATE! Share a story! Who cares! I like everyone no matter language or colour. Read up on Sammy Lee Did you mean Sammy Chung? |
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Post by djduncanjames on Apr 29, 2017 0:31:01 GMT
Apologies, yes I did mean Sammy Chung, Sowwee Sorry guys |
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Post by boothenboys1863 on Apr 29, 2017 7:20:49 GMT
I went Turkey a few years ago and there was a bloke who had a shop in the hotel ugër cän he was name I'll never forget him. Anyway, I got talking about football to him and he was a besiktas fan and everywhere I go I take a Stoke flag for my balcony (typcial English lout) and on the last day I give him my flag and he said he'll put it up in his shop.
A few weeks later, we decided book up and go again to the same place but this time with all the family. I got there and went see straight away if he'd put my flag up but he hadn't so I asked the bloke where ugër was and he said he was in another shop now in the up in the town so the next night we went up for a drink in the town and see if we could see this shop. Got to the top of the main strip and there it was a 6x4ft St. George's Cross with SCFC on it in the window of his shop I was absolutely buzzing!
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Post by bayernoatcake on Apr 29, 2017 10:52:27 GMT
I went Turkey a few years ago and there was a bloke who had a shop in the hotel ugër cän he was name I'll never forget him. Anyway, I got talking about football to him and he was a besiktas fan and everywhere I go I take a Stoke flag for my balcony (typcial English lout) and on the last day I give him my flag and he said he'll put it up in his shop. A few weeks later, we decided book up and go again to the same place but this time with all the family. I got there and went see straight away if he'd put my flag up but he hadn't so I asked the bloke where ugër was and he said he was in another shop now in the up in the town so the next night we went up for a drink in the town and see if we could see this shop. Got to the top of the main strip and there it was a 6x4ft St. George's Cross with SCFC on it in the window of his shop I was absolutely buzzing! Where he now tells the story of the battle of the Britannia, where he fought off 40 Englishmen to capture his prize!  |
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Post by scfconnor on Apr 29, 2017 11:03:10 GMT
Donated a Stoke shirt to Champs Bar in Budapest (they have shirts and scarfs lining the walls) last year. My mate went in March and they hadn't put it up.
Put a second Wolves top up since I went, apparently.
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Post by stokefc on Apr 29, 2017 12:37:56 GMT
i went to Calgary in 2013 to see family and have a holiday , went to a theme park called calloway park it was pretty shit if im honest but driving back we got to the city and it was rush hour traffic i saw a car in front of me with a big Stoke badge on the back windscreen we managed to get closer so i started beeping the horn the lad in the car looked pretty annoyed when i got next to him we both wound do our windows and i shouted up the potters to which he started laughing and fist pumping , think i made his day
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Post by Caerwrangonpotter on Apr 29, 2017 13:03:41 GMT
Random lady wearing her "Bojan" home shirt this morning at Worcester Parkrun. Nothing too continental I know, but only usually 2 Stokies doing our Parkrun.
The good lady also suggested that the little Spaniard should be starting today & not in Germany. Much kudos indeed 😆
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Post by Dutchpeter on Apr 29, 2017 15:37:35 GMT
 A random Sugar Ray Leonard look a like in a Stoke Shirt |
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