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What's in Bellshill, Judge Josef?

Why would you send someone there? It's not a prison perchance? Like Shepton, Horfield or Dorchester...

They're the West Country "playgrounds", incidentally, so they are, by the way...

As I'm sure you know better than most, Reenie, towns are like menus - Some are set.

Is that Shepton as in Shepton Mallet, btw?

Tough choices....

.....makes me have violent thoughts.

Josef wrote:As I'm sure you know better than most, Reenie, towns are like menus - Some are set.

Is that Shepton as in Shepton Mallet, btw?

Indeed. Or "Shit'n'smellit" as the neighbouring towns know it.

coworker instead of colleague
loan instead of lend
raise instead of rise
invite instead of invitation

"basically"
"mindset"
"you know" (usually peppered throughout a short sentence)

All of the above used by people on radio phone-ins trying to sound more intelligent than they actually are.

"mate"

as in, "awright mate"

Sets my teeth on edge. Don't know why, just does.

'Learn' instead of 'teach'.

A colleague of mine who got married recently kept saying 'I'll need to learn him* to dance for the reception'.

*future husband.

I had to bite my tongue. Think it was just sheer stupidity on her part more than anything else, as she also told us she would need 'a jag against typhoo' for her honeymoon in Cuba.

Urbex.

lynnski wrote:'Learn' instead of 'teach'.

A colleague of mine who got married recently kept saying 'I'll need to learn him* to dance for the reception'.

*future husband.

I had to bite my tongue. Think it was just sheer stupidity on her part more than anything else, as she also told us she would need 'a jag against typhoo' for her honeymoon in Cuba.

The tea in cuba is poor quality

samscafeamericain wrote:

lynnski wrote:'Learn' instead of 'teach'.

A colleague of mine who got married recently kept saying 'I'll need to learn him* to dance for the reception'.

*future husband.

I had to bite my tongue. Think it was just sheer stupidity on her part more than anything else, as she also told us she would need 'a jag against typhoo' for her honeymoon in Cuba.

The tea in cuba is poor quality

I thought it was pure quality.

Luco wrote:

samscafeamericain wrote:

lynnski wrote:'Learn' instead of 'teach'.

A colleague of mine who got married recently kept saying 'I'll need to learn him* to dance for the reception'.

*future husband.

I had to bite my tongue. Think it was just sheer stupidity on her part more than anything else, as she also told us she would need 'a jag against typhoo' for her honeymoon in Cuba.

The tea in cuba is poor quality

I thought it was pure quality.

ats mintit jullup man

"war on terror"

Quite how you can wage a war against an abstract noun escapes me

stinkpad wrote:"war on terror"

Quite how you can wage a war against an abstract noun escapes me

Media speak:

Credit crunch

Knife culture

lynnski wrote:Yeah, in Superdrug when you're just in for you conditioner and toothpaste, 'would you like any stamps or mobile top up with that?'. NO I DON'T

that annoys me more than it should, they do it in woolies too now. If i wanted stamps Id buy them I'm in for cheap shitey shampoo.

wellness
anything out of a politicians mouth - they all lie, so its annoying
mate, pal,mucker, hen