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Re: Questions that need to be answered
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2025 5:58 pm
by Mr Moofo
Count Steer wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2025 4:55 pm
Mr Moofo wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2025 4:15 pm
Count Steer wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2025 4:07 pm
In following up the 'Why Bristols?' I found 'Bristol-milk' but it's not to do with Bristols.
It was sherry (17th century), I suppose 'cos a lot of it landed there.
'Bristol fashion' obvs just means 'in good order' and not frilly bras. Maybe they had time to furl all the sails neatly and do a bit of deck swabbin' etc in the long voyage in from the coast.
Bristol City - Titty
Yes....but the original question was why Bristol and not, say, Manchester, Swansea or Norwich etc? It could have been any city. I suppose a 'berk' type word could have been conjured up from any famous hunt too. I guess some thing are what they are because that's just what are.
The legendary Bristolian rhyming slang
Re: Questions that need to be answered
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2025 6:09 pm
by Count Steer
Mr Moofo wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2025 5:58 pm
Count Steer wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2025 4:55 pm
Mr Moofo wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2025 4:15 pm
Bristol City - Titty
Yes....but the original question was why Bristol and not, say, Manchester, Swansea or Norwich etc? It could have been any city. I suppose a 'berk' type word could have been conjured up from any famous hunt too. I guess some thing are what they are because that's just what are.
The legendary Bristolian rhyming slang
Then they'd be 'Brizzles'
Re: Questions that need to be answered
Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2025 3:26 am
by Saga Lout
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2025 4:46 pm
Guessing you all missed
Sagas reference to other FCs that end in "city".
I also guess "Bristol Cities" rolls off the tongue easier.
A couple of people seem to have missed that. Poor obs?
Re: Questions that need to be answered
Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2025 8:23 am
by Treadeager
What happened to the missing posts that answered SL's question about poor obs ?
Re: Questions that need to be answered
Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2025 9:16 am
by Gregor
Taipan wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2025 11:56 am
Saga Lout wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2025 10:46 am
Why did Bristol get the honour of becoming rhyming slang for thruppenies? Why not Manchester or Leicester or Swansea or Cardiff or... (I've run out of City football teams
)?
"Look at the magnificent Manchesters on that bird!"
Tis a good question. More amusing is kids and adults calling each other berks in the 70s, even on TV, when its actually rhyming slang for Berkshire Hunt = C**t!
Re: Questions that need to be answered
Posted: Sat Jan 18, 2025 8:48 pm
by Felix
Why do dogs anal glands stink so fucking bad. Is that meant to attract the opposite sex?
Re: Questions that need to be answered
Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2025 12:25 pm
by Yambo
Saga Lout wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2025 11:35 am
Widdershins is anti-clockwise. I don't know if it predates clocks but it does have an old fashioned ring to it.
The opposite of widdershins is Sunwise based on the way the sun moves across the sky from east to west. If you or something else was moving widdershins it would be going in the opposite direction to the sun.
Garlic or Scottish word iirc.
Re: Questions that need to be answered
Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2025 12:37 pm
by Horse
Yambo wrote: Mon Jan 20, 2025 12:25 pm
Saga Lout wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2025 11:35 am
Widdershins is anti-clockwise. I don't know if it predates clocks but it does have an old fashioned ring to it.
The opposite of widdershins is Sunwise based on the way the sun moves across the sky from east to west. If you or something else was moving widdershins it would be going in the opposite direction to the sun.
Garlic or Scottish word iirc.
I'd been in New Zealand for weeks before I realised that the Sun went E-N-W through the day
It was one of those 'does not compute' moments
Annoyingly, the colleague who arrived to take over realised on the second handover day
Re: Questions that need to be answered
Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2025 12:42 pm
by Yambo
Horse wrote: Mon Jan 20, 2025 12:37 pm
Yambo wrote: Mon Jan 20, 2025 12:25 pm
Saga Lout wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2025 11:35 am
Widdershins is anti-clockwise. I don't know if it predates clocks but it does have an old fashioned ring to it.
The opposite of widdershins is Sunwise based on the way the sun moves across the sky from east to west. If you or something else was moving widdershins it would be going in the opposite direction to the sun.
Garlic or Scottish word iirc.
I'd been in New Zealand for weeks before I realised that the Sun went E-N-W through the day
It was one of those 'does not compute' moments
Annoyingly, the colleague who arrived to take over realised on the second handover day
Yeah, sorry, I should have said "in the northern hemispere".
Re: Questions that need to be answered
Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2025 1:43 pm
by Saga Lout
Yambo wrote: Mon Jan 20, 2025 12:25 pm
Saga Lout wrote: Fri Jan 17, 2025 11:35 am
Widdershins is anti-clockwise. I don't know if it predates clocks but it does have an old fashioned ring to it.
The opposite of widdershins is Sunwise based on the way the sun moves across the sky from east to west. If you or something else was moving widdershins it would be going in the opposite direction to the sun.
Garlic or Scottish word iirc.
Autocorrect or fat fingers?
Re: Questions that need to be answered
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2025 5:30 pm
by Wossname
What exactly were me and Billy Joe McAllister throwing off the Talahachi bridge?
Re: Questions that need to be answered
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2025 6:14 pm
by Cousin Jack
And to raise the cultural bar....
Who is Sylvia?
Re: Questions that need to be answered
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2025 6:35 pm
by Treadeager
Cousin Jack wrote: Thu Jan 23, 2025 6:14 pm
And to raise the cultural bar....
Who is Sylvia?
To raise it even higher...." What is she ? ".....
Re: Questions that need to be answered
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2025 6:40 pm
by Count Steer
Treadeager wrote: Thu Jan 23, 2025 6:35 pm
Cousin Jack wrote: Thu Jan 23, 2025 6:14 pm
And to raise the cultural bar....
Who is Sylvia?
To raise it even higher...." What is she ? ".....
Oooh! Culture Vulture alert!
Meanwhile, how many beans make 5 and why isn't Sean Bean pronounced Seen Been or Shawn Bawn?
Re: Questions that need to be answered
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2025 7:30 pm
by Treadeager
More like " old gits alert " !
Re: Questions that need to be answered
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2025 8:01 pm
by Mr Moofo
Wossname wrote: Thu Jan 23, 2025 5:30 pm
What exactly were me and Billy Joe McAllister throwing off the Talahachi bridge?
Even the song writer doesn't know ...
Re: Questions that need to be answered
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2025 8:03 pm
by Mr Moofo
Count Steer wrote: Thu Jan 23, 2025 6:40 pm
Treadeager wrote: Thu Jan 23, 2025 6:35 pm
Cousin Jack wrote: Thu Jan 23, 2025 6:14 pm
And to raise the cultural bar....
Who is Sylvia?
To raise it even higher...." What is she ? ".....
Oooh! Culture Vulture alert!
Oooh look, the tweed jackets and leather elbow patches are back in town, eating their lad-de-dah seaweed and tofu frittata !
Re: Questions that need to be answered
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2025 9:00 pm
by Count Steer
Mr Moofo wrote: Thu Jan 23, 2025 8:03 pm
Count Steer wrote: Thu Jan 23, 2025 6:40 pm
Treadeager wrote: Thu Jan 23, 2025 6:35 pm
To raise it even higher...." What is she ? ".....
Oooh! Culture Vulture alert!
Oooh look, the tweed jackets and leather elbow patches are back in town, eating their lad-de-dah seaweed and tofu frittata !
I reckon you could do a pretty good matar paneer with tofu for the squeaky cheese in the cheesy peas.
Re: Questions that need to be answered
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2025 11:09 pm
by Cousin Jack
Count Steer wrote: Thu Jan 23, 2025 9:00 pm
Mr Moofo wrote: Thu Jan 23, 2025 8:03 pm
Count Steer wrote: Thu Jan 23, 2025 6:40 pm
Oooh! Culture Vulture alert!
Oooh look, the tweed jackets and leather elbow patches are back in town, eating their lad-de-dah seaweed and tofu frittata !
I reckon you could do a pretty good matar paneer with tofu for the squeaky cheese in the cheesy peas.
Tofu is never an acceptable alternative for cheese, nor meat for that matter.
Re: Questions that need to be answered
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2025 11:42 pm
by The Martian
Treadeager wrote: Thu Jan 23, 2025 6:35 pm
Cousin Jack wrote: Thu Jan 23, 2025 6:14 pm
And to raise the cultural bar....
Who is Sylvia?
To raise it even higher...." What is she ? ".....
I'll raise you one better "why is Sylvia?"