New Here

Welcome, some of us are a bit shirty, but don’t let that put you off the place.

Shirty is British slang in case you are not from the good old UK (I am not) so I looked it up for us on the other side -

"adjective [usually verb-link ADJECTIVE] If someone gets shirty, they behave in a bad-tempered and rude way because they are annoyed about something. [British, informal] He got quite shirty with me. ["

Good word by the way. I like it - am going to use it.

And welcome - I will try not to act shirty.

You can always say it was a typo as well.

I thought it was at first - but then I thought to myself -- this sounds like an izzy slang so I looked it up.

It’s a bit archaic, we used it a lot in the 70s. It was the sort of thing teachers would accuse us of being.

I like the term "lager lout" - were you guys being lager louts, izzy?

Not at school, not until the sixth form anyway.

On a Friday I had double Economics first thing in the morning and then nothing until last lesson when I had English.

A group of us would drive to Newcastle and visit a strip club, after watching the strippers and a couple of beers we’d drive back just in time for English.

Does that count?

We were under age, but only just, we were all 17.

Yes I can see that - I replace bad words with words that are very close - probably where this came from - (mine resulted from when kids were little) - like oh ship!

I have also frequently used words from sponge bob like "Barnacles!" or "tarter sauce"

There’s an episode of Father Ted where he gets into an argument with a group of people almost swearing. When he he asks why they’re talking like that he was shown a sign that says “No swearing.”