Re^2: Perlmongers (was: Re^5: Editing node titles w.r.t. Perl 6 (communities))

Sad to hear that

TBH I haven't looked too deeply into it. When the topic came up, I quickly followed the link to Perl Mongers and briefly looked at whether there was one in my home city of Coventry...it seems there never has been but Birmingham is not far away and there certainly was a group there.

London is a little over 2 hours drive from here so probably too far to tempt me to a Perl meeting unless there was going to be something very special to entice me.

talexb still hosts regular monthly meetings of Toronto Perl Mongers

If London is probably too far, Toronto is definitely too far!

Although it is somewhere I did previously want to visit. I wanted to take my late mother to Canada as my father trained there as a pilot and bomb aimer and she spoke of his tales with great curiosity. It was probably an impossible mission, though, as my mother had never flown and had no intention of doing so. She was born in India and travelled between the UK and India several times as a child by boat in the days before commercial air travel. 6 weeks on a boat being seasick for the whole journey must have been pretty hellish!

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Re^3: Perlmongers (was: Re^5: Editing node titles w.r.t. Perl 6 (communities)) - London.pm by eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop) on Jan 10, 2024 at 06:39 UTC
Birmingham is not far away and there certainly was a group there Bod, that sounds like a good plan, but would you understand their Brummie dialect? BTW, which is more working class, Birmingham or Coventry? Though I don't know its current status, Birmingham.pm was led for many years by the famous barbie, who I see you already outrank at Perl Monks -- though he's slightly ahead of you on CPAN with 112 distributions. You have an easy ice-breaker though: ask barbie in your best Brummie accent to add you to his Acme::CPANAuthors::British module. :-) 👁️🍾👍🦟	[reply]
Re^4: Perlmongers (was: Re^5: Editing node titles w.r.t. Perl 6 (communities)) - London.pm by Bod (Parson) on Jan 10, 2024 at 22:54 UTC
would you understand their Brummie dialect I went to university in Manchester and stayed there for 20 years...even after all that time, people would sometimes ask me which part of Birmingham I come from! Apparently, I have a slight Brummie accent so understanding it is not going to be a problem. I'm more fluent in Brummie than I am in Aussie so understanding you eyepopslikeamosquito could be more challenging if we were ever to meet 😜	[reply]
Re^5: Perlmongers (was: Re^5: Editing node titles w.r.t. Perl 6 (communities)) - London.pm by eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop) on Jan 11, 2024 at 04:57 UTC
I'm more fluent in Brummie than I am in Aussie so understanding you eyepopslikeamosquito could be more challenging if we were ever to meet G'day Bod, fair dinkum cobber, you're a good bloke, you've even run chooks in your backyard with kangaroos loose in the top paddock. But yarnin' with you'd be hard yakka, you'd look like a stunned mullet. No worries mate, we'd go out woop woop for some amber fluid and chuck a banger on the barbie. She's apples, Bob's your uncle! :-) BTW, re Shrimp on the barbie, very few use the word 'shrimp' in Australia (the word most commonly used is 'prawn') and the phrase is often perceived as American (see also: Don't come the raw prawn). Updated: added reference to Shrimp on the barbie and Don't come the raw prawn 👁️🍾👍🦟	[reply]