“North Island”

[bainbrig]

Baltic (well, I think he was) washing machine fitter, bit enigmatic, insisted he was from “North Island”.

Is this Baltic code/slang for a bit of the old Yugoslavia?

Ta

BB

[Buenchico]

Island/Ireland? Might he actually be from Belfast or thereabouts? They've got some very strong accents around there!

;-)

[Buenchico]

Or perhaps he's a Kiwi?

[Mamyalynne]

My first thoughts too Buen.

[ummmm]

I don't understand the Question!

[hereIam]

I too thought NZ as I had relatives from there.

[Toorak]

I think that B.B. is getting Baltic and Balkan mixed up

[Prudie]

I thought you meant he was really cold :-)

[wolf63]

It is baltic here in Scotland today

[Buenchico]

>>> I think that B.B. is getting Baltic and Balkan mixed up

So do I, Toorak, but it's only a thousand miles from Tallinn to Belgrade, so it hardly matters, does it?

;-)

[spathiphyllum]

the baltic sea is north, isn't it? like north east ish

[ichkeria]

Why did you think he was from the Baltic states BB?

[spathiphyllum]

aland islands?

[bainbrig]

Huge geezer. Hands like shovels. Strong wouldn’t come close. Looked like a contestant off World’s Strongest Man.

His pal happily owned up to being Serbian.

(I know northern Ireland very well!)

[ichkeria]

There are a lot of Lithuanians in N Ireland. Maybe he was over on a series of jobs

[ichkeria]

Hope the Serb was here legally ;-)

[Peter Pedant]

Baltic and Balkan
easily confused
I remember when ZM thought the river in Autin Tx was nt the colorado.
it was - - there are two....

Imagine an O level script
After the arch-duchess got shot in the Baltic - which she found very painful, war broke out, and was only ended by the Battle of Waterloo in 1915(*)

(*) 30% of schoolkids think that the B of W was a battle in the Great War

[Buenchico]

>>> 30% of schoolkids think that the B of W was a battle in the Great War.

Whereas the other 70% know that it's really this:
https://tinyurl.com/yc5vfgpp

[bainbrig]

Do you know, ichkeria (I hope the Serb was here legally), I forgot to check.

I should have demanded his papers like a good citizen of The Realm, jah?

[ichkeria]

Relax I was joking :-)

[-Talbot-]

Why would to turn up to fix a washing machine?