THE BRITISH THREAD II

Oh dear, I've scared her away.

I shouldn't shout like that!

The supervisor must be hovering near her desk.

Could be that.

But I will now desist from further shouting, anyway.

G'day to you, McTag!

Forget Boston: Britain won the tea battle against Germany

(Teekanne is known for such: dozens of teashops here in Germany got warning letters over the last decades ...)

MSOLGA!

G'day girl!

How you doing?

Not 'seen' you in ages - sorry about the 'eff' word - sometimes no other word will do.

x

BTW Muckty, I do not have a 'supervisor', I am a Manager, believe it or not.

I do have a 'Head Girl' as I like to call her - but I don't see her that often, only when she gets her jodhpurs in a twist over nowt.

x

We will fight them in the tearooms, and at the tea dances. We will fight them in the caffs. We will nevah surrender.

G'day to you, msolga.

I have been writing to my cousin (once or twice removed) Angus, in Auckland.
That's down your way, isn't it?

These Jocks get everywhere.

If I ruled the world,
Every day would be the first day of spring....


Nice and warm and sunny here today

...every heart would have a new song to sing

Cheers for that Mucty, it will be playing in my head all day...

Where's spenders?

x

He's gone off in a sulk because we are not interlecshal enough for him here.

More likely sulking because you guys lost the test series against the West Indies this week!!

I loved it Dutch. I always stick up for whoever England is playing. And that goes double for the West Indian boys. It was a great series. I watched it all. Fancy the miles second best team running off with the trophy using pure cunning. Fabulous. What a game cricket is. Once you get jingoistic about it you have lost the plot. It's a missionary project.

Sky's commentary team is a wonder. As is the camera work. I've seen a fair bit of the matches in S. Africa as well and that commentary is pathetic and nearly as bad as what the Americans provide themselves with.

smorgsie was correct. The conversation on here recently has been dire. I was so touched by smorgsie's post about her empathy with her jobseekers that I couldn't bring myself to shred her sweet illusions. Sweet illusions trump economics every time. I nearly had a lump in my throat.

But Utd won. And liverpool. And Chelsea. And Arsenal (unfortunately)

So its The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and associated foreign players 4, Italy 0. (nil...nillo...nillissimo)

If I never hear another brainless godless media celeb airhead exclaiming "Oh my God!" again, it'll be much too soon.

Surely Mac that will depend upon the circumstances giving rise to the exclamation.

It is well known that "Oh my God!" is the most common expression declaimed by ladies in the last throes of frenzied ecstasy. Often repetitively and with more exclamation marks.

Just watched part 2 of Red Riding. Pretty accurate portrayal of West Yorkshire police circa. 1980. And I've just realised why its called Red Riding...ok I'm slow.

I must regretfully and mournfully bow to your own evidently superior experience on this point, Spendy old fruit.

Somebody wrote a book called South Riding, did they not.
But there were of course only three, because "riding" was once a term for the third part of a whole, or so I was told.

and EDIT

The word riding is descended from late Old English *þriðing or *þriding (recorded only in Latin contexts or forms, e.g., trehing, treding, trithing, with Latin initial t here representing the Old English letter thorn). It came into Old English as a loanword from Old Norse þriðjungr, meaning a third part (especially of a county), cf. farthing. The modern form riding was the result of initial th being absorbed in the final th or t of the words north, south, east and west, by which it was normally preceded.[2][3]

A common misconception holds that the term arose from some association between the size of the district and the distance that can be covered on horseback in a certain amount of time.

I presume that means that the Chieftan's various "squeezes" were sequestered in bowers in these various bits and were referred to as the "north riding", the "south riding" etc as he was usually too pissed to remember their names and wasn't bothered anyway.

Is that what you are hinting Mac in your usual opaque manner?