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🐫CURMUDGEONS' CORNER 7. If you have a dose of the cameelious hump🐪

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I had a job where after a long time, probably ten years, you could have furlough on full or half pay - so much for each year you'd worked. I tacked it half pay onto my maternity leave. I think it's a military term ,although I wasn't working for the military.. Definitely not an Americanism
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Good old Google turned up this for the origin "Furlough - 1620s, vorloffe, "leave of absence," especially in military use, "leave or license given by a commanding officer to an officer or a soldier to be absent from service for a certain time," from Dutch verlof, literally "permission," from Middle Dutch ver- "completely, for" + laf, lof "permission,"
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    Middle Dutch/Proto Germanic origins, apparently, but in English mostly a military term:

    https://www.etymonline.com/word/furlough

    At least ‘blue sky thinking’ has been immolated on the sacrificial heap of management-speak. Made me want to lie in a meadow chewing the cud rather than coming up with stupid ideas of how to do a task differently but infinitely less efficiently than how you did it before 🙄  
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I’ve just had that ‘Hire a Private Jet ‘ ad pop up here, now I can hire one from Bradstone, that is a tiny tiny village near here, one farm, 2 houses and a redundant church.  Think I’ll look into this, be handy to catch the plane a few miles up the road. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    What'll they release to thank the fire brigade for putting out the fires they start?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Not to mention who's going to pay the vets for putting the cows down that swallow the bits, and compensate the farmers for the loss of their cattle?
    😠

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





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    It's an old term from butchery where the whole animal is utiised form snout to tail and every bit in between be it for eating or making leather.
    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
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    The word I like is poppycock from the Dutch
    pap = soft
    kak = err, dung.

    The Dutch have a great put down for someone who has an inflated opinion of himself, “well, he still $hits brown.”
    Rutland, England
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    de-funding a de-lightful addition to the lexicon😕
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Obelixx said:
    It's an old term from butchery where the whole animal is utiised form snout to tail and every bit in between be it for eating or making leather.

    They say every part of a pig can be used, except the squeak.
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