Grammar question

Ah. "Library" or "east wing" might do, then

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "AndrewR"

Lunch. Which seems fairly universal in most places I've been. Iow,
anyone knows what you mean and you're not branded as a posh git by some
cloggie.

My grandparents always referred to it as pudding, but I've always called
it dessert; buggered if I remember why.

To me, "settee", "couch" and "sofa" are interchangeable and I've never
been aware of any class distinction between them.

Public bars have lounges - houses have rooms for various functions.
Having said that, I do like a lounge about from time to time, so any
room I'm lounging in is the lounge.

"Bog", "Lavatory", "Cludgie", depending who I'm talking to.

Napkin, never called it anything else.

One should never say "Pardon" when one is fucking. It makes the other
person think you've farted.

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Dave

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In uk.rec.motorcycles, Simian said:

I do this as well but it's so hard to think of something else.

For example: "That **** pulled out on me" could be translated to "The
gentleman's erratic driving caused me to take avoiding action".

Actually, I think swearing sounds daft, but I do it all the same.

I can see that. The only menial thing I can think about that is tea-boy
or cleaner/broom pusher so an upper class being menial under duress and
then having to be polite to the Hoi polloi must have been painful
indeed.

 

God, I HATE that. Seems to have become the trendy thing in recent
years, but unless it's made with flour, suet & stuff and steamed it's
just WRONG!

 

I grew up eating 3 meals a day - breakfast, dinner and tea. As I
migrated slowly but surely from working class to middle class, I moved
to having breakfast, lunch and dinner.

*Now*, however, I seem to be mingling with the upper middle classes,
and find the evening meal has become "supper". Supper used to be a
bit of bread of cheese before bed - what's going on?

 

Don't the upper echelons have about 14 distinct meals throughout the day
they can partake in? Anyway, it shouldn't bother us of the food-is-fuel
perspective.

Remember: even those in First class are going to burn when the plane goes
down.

 

Likewise, but it was nothing to do with 'class'. More that there was a
language and culture shift over that period. It used to be that the
midday meal was the main meal, and our 'tea' would often/normally be
sandwiches and stuff rather than a cooked dinner. Plus it was eaten
about six o'clock, which is far too early for dinner.

Later on my (and many other people of our generation) habits changed,
such that lunch became more of a transitory thing (I don't normally
have a middle-of-day meal at all) and the main meal shifted to the
evening, and to later in the evening at that, hence the change of the
language used.

you misspelt 'pretentious twats'.

Fashion.

 

Ah, ok. So someone might say "come round for supper", but "let's go
out for dinner"

If only you'd explained this sooner...

 

Shirley it refers to the nature of the meal. This northerner used to
have meat and 2 veg at dinner time, ie middle of the day.


(What the **** are these?)

Is that 'sorry' as in "pardon", or was it indeed an apology?


Any notion of a separate snot rag for foody bits would have been highly
pretentious!

 

Or the Captain Pugwash ones.

 

The ones with Seaman Staines on them?

 

Well, perhaps, but this is takes me into a world of black and white
movies, clipped accents and french windows. One certainly couldn't
sit and eat in any of the kitchens where I grew up.

Good grief no. I save those for a<wink> "hot date"

 

Tim left a note on my windscreen which said:

Can't it be singular too?

"I decided to refer it to you, yourself." Works (I think?)

 

Yes.

 

thee is singular.
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thee, thou, thine rather than you, you, yours
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It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

It sounds like a particularly heavy piece of industrial equipment
crashing to the ground from 3 floors up.

"On reflection, I decided to refer it to you, since you're the only one
talented/ugly/thick/related-to-the-boss enough to do it."

Has just the right balance of damnyoureyes and asslicker about it, I
feel.

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Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

You missed "tiffin".

 

and "high tea".