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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I like twut - better than twet or twot too - but neither is as good as tw*t with an 'a'.  :D
    I know that phrase as ' a face you could never tire of slapping' Hosta. I use it quite often. 'Face like a joiner's nailbag' is another popular one, although you need to use a Glesga accent to make it 'jiner's nailbag'.  :)
    Do you think, bearing in mind the accessibility, and amount, of information nowadays, that future politicians will wise up and realise that most people aren't thick as sh*t and can see through all their billhooks ? 
    doc - I heard them say this morning that Sheffield had more than a month's normal rainfall yesterday. You could send some to Obelixx - she's needing it. You could make a start on an ark for the winter though... ;)
    Supposed to be better here today, but they forgot to tell the weather gods. It rained most of the morning, and was more like hailstones a little while ago, but it's brighter now. 
    Just had my hedgehog food [biscuits] delivered. They seem to like it. I think they've given up on the sloe berries. Probably just as well....
    Image result for picture of hedgehog with toilet roll
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • What does 'thick as shut' mean? I don't think my chosen vowel is working very well.  :D
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Catch yersel on ppauper.
    Thick as a shut door, of course..... ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    "Back in the day" I used to use AOL chatrooms and they brought in American Mods to replace volunterr UK Mods. It was fun seeing which words we could get away with using but they eventually caught on. 
    " You can't use the word "feck", it's "disguised swearing" " 
    I replied " In which case, presumably we're not longer allowed to use the words "bigger" and "cent" "?
    Devon.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Hosta  :D
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  •  :D 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    One of OH's colleague's in Belgium was an American - highly educated, well-connected, well enough off to work because he enjoyed it, slightly prudish as they can be.  He was sent to work on a contract in Burnley where, when some chap found a particularly elusive bug in a system, he said "Well I'll be buggered".  It has a far more literal meaning in American English and our pal was shocked.   6 months in Lancashire rendered him a little less sensitive and more relaxed.


    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    Fairygirl said:
    I like twut - better than twet or twot too 
    Oh I don't know - I think twot could be a useful verb. 
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • How are we going to pronounce that @raisingirl. Twhat or toot?  :D
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