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Tech XXIII wrote: "" In the car I have Tony Joe White, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Leonard Cohen, John Prine, Rolling Stones, Neil Young, Nick Cave....."big car - watch they don't start fighting! make the rolling stone..."
4 of em are dead so I stack them tight together in the boot.
Serial wrote: "Yesterdays complaint from my wife "your music all sounds the same, every time you drive into the yard I just hear that same tone"I don't know what she means. In the car I have Tony Joe White, Bob..."
I can see what she means - very white, very male, very old (or dead) and some less than totally mellifluous voices.
"Sheesh, you can't please some people" - stop trying, you can't win. Either buy/put headphones on or, more controversially, point out all the other rooms that the music isn't playing in.
we have a full and varied selection of music in the car. there's rammstein, lindemann, emigrate, till lindemann, and a bit of rammstein i think."learn to drive, you can pick the music"
That's a bit unfair on Lux, isn't it? ... her Feet don't reach the Pedals! ;oO
Tech XXIII wrote: "we have a full and varied selection of music in the car. there's rammstein, lindemann, emigrate, till lindemann, and a bit of rammstein i think."learn to drive, you can pick the music""
Wise words, Tech.
I thought I'd found the answer today, when I heard the immortal words 'I quite like that'........it was Sleaford Mods......And then 'But not the singing, just the music, it's a bit drum and bass'.
As a person where the lyrics come first, I am appalled.
That's what happens when you marry an ex raver.
Today's plans... housework, shower, roll in scrambled egg, blast some Motley Crue out on the headphones later, then Halloween 5 and a nice bottle of red wine tonight. Inspiration on what to make for dinner will come to me at some point. It doesn't get more exciting than this... 🙄🙄
"Roll in scrambled egg" - is that an old Scots custom?
Ha ha, Val. Us Scots eh! It's like going for the messages (ie the shopping). ☺️
I still say messages and talk about putting dishes on the bunker and clearing the roans.
"Us Scots eh!" - pedantry spoiler follows,it's actually 'roll and scrambled egg' which in the beautiful lowland tongue comes out as 'roll 'n' scrambled egg'. or even roll 'n' scramult egg.
i'm glad that's sorted
We always said 'messages' in L'Pool as well - confused my Sheffield mates. There was also a whole new world of bakery goods!
In my experience, it's usually described as a 'roll on scrambled egg' (or sausage or cheese etc), and I've never been sure if the explanation is as simple as tech suggests. I don't have an alternative though, unless it's an inversion of 'scrambled egg on a roll'.This conversation has reminded of the latest example of the Random Things Complete Strangers Say To You In The Streets Of Glasgow:
A woman using a walking stick was coming towards me; we smiled as you do, at which she stopped and said 'No jogging for me these days'. Just to be clear, I wasn't jogging, I was walking along weighed down by two bags of messages.
Midlands childhood: 'Running errands'.
well, it cannae be a 'roll in scrambled egg', as this suggests that the roll is enclosed in the centre of the scrambled egg - messy!
It's just the way I say it, cheeky! Looking at my original post, if I do ever roll in scrambled egg, I'd best do that BEFORE my shower!
Pretty sure it'll be 'n' becoming "in". It's like have being contracted to 've and people then saying this as "of": "should of", "would of", etc. - drives me batty.
Interesting re 'messages', I though it was solely an Irish thing.I never heard it when I lived in Cornwall, but it's common here in Ireland.
I've only seen "messages" in The Broons and Oor Wullie, so I'd always assumed it was a Scottish thing.
Serial wrote: "Interesting re 'messages', I though it was solely an Irish thing.I never heard it when I lived in Cornwall, but it's common here in Ireland."
I always thought 'messages' was very likely an Irish thing as well ;o>
My beloved Nan also used to say that she was ... 'going for the doings' ... whenever she went shopping - but I've never heard anyone else say this except for her and us ;o>
Gordon wrote: "It's like have being contracted to 've and people then saying this as "of": "should of", "would of", etc. - drives me batty."Ooops!!! ... I knew I should of stayed where I was on the Snails Thread today ;o>
Lez wrote: "Is that a jam butty?"It is indeed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clyoX....
Also known as a piece 'n/in/on jam.
suzysunshine7 wrote: "Ooops!!! ... I knew I should of stayed where I was on the Snails Thread today ;o>"Grrrrrrrrr...
He adores me really ... deep down ... somewhere behind all that fury ... doesn't he? ... (* ! GULP ! *) ... Errr, oooh! - people to see, places to go and all that jazz ... I'm off! ... BYEEE!!! ... ;o>
suzysunshine7 wrote: "Gordon wrote: "It's like have being contracted to 've and people then saying this as "of": "should of", "would of", etc. - drives me batty."Ooops!!! ... I knew I should of stayed where I was on t..."
The Snails Thread has a certain ambience about it, it's likely when visiting you would use the facilities. Where as here, people just shit on the floor with abandon.
Gordon wrote: "suzysunshine7 wrote: "Ooops!!! ... I knew I should of stayed where I was on the Snails Thread today ;o>"Grrrrrrrrr..."
Me too! Sorry!
suzysunshine7 wrote: "He adores me really ... deep down ... somewhere behind all that fury ... doesn't he? ... (* ! GULP ! *) ... Errr, oooh! - people to see, places to go and all that jazz ... I'm off! ... BYEEE!!! ......"Did someone say jazz?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsz3m...
Lez wrote: "Gordon wrote: "suzysunshine7 wrote: "Ooops!!! ... I knew I should of stayed where I was on the Snails Thread today ;o>"Grrrrrrrrr..."
Me too! Sorry!"
And I'm sorry too that it annoys - because I'm not going to stop doing it - LOL!!! ;o>
suzysunshine7 wrote: "And I'm sorry too that it annoys - because I'm not going to stop doing it - LOL!!! ;o> "But why? Would you say "I of stayed behind to help to tidy up"?
Serial wrote: "What a fun day, chasing escaped Cows and then coming home and slipping on some plywood (what idiot left it there) and smacking down on my ribs.Damn painful, and tender. Never had bruised ribs, not..."
Fookin jaysus, Serial! I used to work at plywood factory right before I came to Ireland. Makes me feel like kinda arms dealer...
How are you now?
Did you mean ... ""I would of stayed behind to help to tidy up" ... ?Yes, I would say that because that's exactly how I talk in real life and I like to write as I talk - and I don't see anything wrong in me doing so? ;o>
I'm far more interested in what people are saying than in focussing on how they say it.
Except when you say it you're saying, correctly, would've which sounds exactly like would of but to percist in wrighting it rongly is totely pour grammer.
To you maybe - but not to me ;o>Like I said I'm far more interested in what someone is saying.
Serial wrote: "The Snails Thread has a certain ambience about it, it's likely when visiting you would use the facilities. Where as here, people just shit on the floor with abandon. "Yeah, you and Brassy usually. No class or manners!!!
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Don't have a problem with that, Suzy, but having worked in various jobs where what you say or write must be unambiguous, I sometimes get twitchy when people wander outside the rules. Language is always evolving if it has any life to it but often (and the news media are populated by arch offenders) people don't say what they really mean because they are using a colloquialism. That's why lawyers are rich!
... and why the Plain English Campaign was created - LOL!!! ;o>
Post Soviet wrote: "Serial wrote: "What a fun day, chasing escaped Cows and then coming home and slipping on some plywood (what idiot left it there) and smacking down on my ribs.Damn painful, and tender. Never had br..."
Do you know what, my ribs still damn hurt!
Collette wrote: "Serial wrote: "The Snails Thread has a certain ambience about it, it's likely when visiting you would use the facilities. Where as here, people just shit on the floor with abandon. "Yeah, you and..."
Class, manners, I have em in spades.
Serial wrote: "Collette wrote: "Serial wrote: "The Snails Thread has a certain ambience about it, it's likely when visiting you would use the facilities. Where as here, people just shit on the floor with abandon...."Yeah. "No" and "Bad".
suzysunshine7 wrote: "Did you mean ... ""I would of stayed behind to help to tidy up"No. I meant what I wrote.
If you write "I would of..", "I should of...", etc., then you have to write "I of...".
Sorry, Gordon, I'm completely lost on trying to follow that explanation?As I say ... "I would of ...", "I should of ...", etc.,
then why can't I also write out ... "I would of ...", "I should of ..." ... ?
I don't understand the question or what the problem is with writing out the same words in a Forum Post that I would be speaking to you if we were face to face?
I think Gordon is saying that if you would say/write "I would OF stayed behind to help to tidy up" rather than "I would HAVE stayed behind to help to tidy up"then, logically, instead of saying "I HAVE stayed behind to help to tidy up", you would say "I OF stayed behind to help to tidy up".
But, I could be wrong!
suzysunshine7 wrote: "My beloved Nan also used to say that she was ... 'going for the doings' ... whenever she went shopping - but I've never heard anyone else say this except for her and us ;o> ..."My late father-in-law (from Royton/Oldham area) always talked about "the doings" when he meant booze. It was always "time to get the doings in" or "let's be having the doings".
I'm must admit I'm pretty much lost for Words right now, Val ;o<
Val wrote: "I think Gordon is saying that if you would say/write "I would OF stayed behind to help to tidy up" rather than "I would HAVE stayed behind to help to tidy up"then, logically, instead of saying "I..."
No, you're not wrong, Val.
I suspect that the casually (but correctly) abbreviated "I would've ..." has slid into "I would of ..." in a sort of accident of pronunciation. But I could be wrong. :o)
I really long to join in but Suzy won't change and is getting upset so perhaps we should stop now?
I'd give up on explaining in the face of such resistance. In my former life I'd encounter bloody-mindedness around correcting grammar - "Well, that's how I write sir". "Yes but it's my job to tell you how it should be written correctly," seemed to fall on wilfully deaf ears. One of the most common issues was in the use of capital letters in their own name - because Word always starts automatically with a capital when they then wrote on paper you'd get their first name but not their surname capitalised correctly - John smiff. If it's wrong what's the harm in pointing it out and expecting that advice to be acted upon? Yes I understood what you wrote and it's not a matter of life or death but how does it benefit anyone to persist in demonstrating bloody-minded ignorance?
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big car - watch they don't start fighting! make the rolling stones walk (save space with their zimmers out the way!)