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Post by Mosha on Feb 16, 2019 18:52:42 GMT 7
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Post by rubl on Feb 16, 2019 19:04:08 GMT 7
Interesting. Now I'm wondering how to PC label my middle finger on the right hand which itches to raise itself in a time honoured, but no doubt also somewhat old-fashioned manner  |
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Post by AyG on Feb 16, 2019 20:18:08 GMT 7
Number ones and number twos have a rather different meaning for me.
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Post by rott on Feb 19, 2019 17:46:51 GMT 7
Interesting. Now I'm wondering how to PC label my middle finger on the right hand which itches to raise itself in a time honoured, but no doubt also somewhat old-fashioned manner "time honoured"?, "old-fashioned"? Sadly not, just another americanism that has crept in. |
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Post by rubl on Feb 19, 2019 18:00:26 GMT 7
Interesting. Now I'm wondering how to PC label my middle finger on the right hand which itches to raise itself in a time honoured, but no doubt also somewhat old-fashioned manner "time honoured"?, "old-fashioned"? Sadly not, just another americanism that has crept in. I beg to differ. Apart from our colonial cousins writing "time-honored" also the suggestion of 'time', 'tradition' and 'many years' seems to somewhat exclude any American influence in this.  "A time-honoured tradition, practice, or method is respected because it has been done or used in the same way for many years:" |
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Post by rott on Feb 19, 2019 20:57:33 GMT 7
Differ any way you like matey, in the UK it was always two fingers. Similarly, to watch football we went to the "match" not the "game", went for a "pint" not a "beer", got a "g....." not a "bj", etc, etc. Creeping Americanisation squire.  |
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Post by rubl on Feb 20, 2019 12:56:45 GMT 7
Differ any way you like matey, in the UK it was always two fingers. Similarly, to watch football we went to the "match" not the "game", went for a "pint" not a "beer", got a "g....." not a "bj", etc, etc. Creeping Americanisation squire. Shouldn't that be 'creepy Americanization squire'? PS en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_finger"The first unambiguous evidence of the use of the insulting V sign in the United Kingdom dates to 1901, when a worker outside Parkgate ironworks in Rotherham used the gesture (captured on the film) to indicate that he did not like being filmed." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_sign#As_an_insult |
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Post by rott on Feb 20, 2019 14:41:45 GMT 7
Just having arisen from my early afternoon kip, I read that at first as Rotterdam. I thought that kirnt's got an answer for everything. Wrong again you are forgiven. |
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Post by rott on Feb 20, 2019 14:43:14 GMT 7
Off to join the afternoon p**s-artists, but I will be on coffee till 5.
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Post by Mosha on Feb 20, 2019 19:46:27 GMT 7
Differ any way you like matey, in the UK it was always two fingers. Similarly, to watch football we went to the "match" not the "game", went for a "pint" not a "beer", got a "g....." not a "bj", etc, etc. Creeping Americanisation squire. Get it right, pint or 3. |
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Post by rott on Feb 20, 2019 23:07:47 GMT 7
One always said "going for a pint", if others took that literally well that was their problem.
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Post by rubl on Feb 20, 2019 23:58:27 GMT 7
"Three pints a day keeps the doctor away" Somehow I keep forgetting pints of what it was supposed to be  |
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