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- Mon Jan 09, 2023 11:31 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Language Replacement
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1339
Re: Language Replacement
....but the likes of "We was stood on the corner" has become accepted despite having no less than two faults.... Bzzzt! That should be "no fewer than two faults"! ;-) Oh dear. Quite right. I shall just slide under the table ... Don't do that! Everything else you wrote was spot on!
- Sun Jan 08, 2023 5:42 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Language Replacement
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1339
Re: Language Replacement
Bzzzt! That should be "no fewer than two faults"!rivegauche wrote: ↑Sat Jan 07, 2023 11:01 am ....but the likes of "We was stood on the corner" has become accepted despite having no less than two faults....
- Fri Dec 23, 2022 8:44 am
- Forum: Kilts, Kilts
- Topic: Kilt length - advice requested
- Replies: 61
- Views: 3490
Re: Kilt length - advice requested
Ankle socks only in summer for me , otherwise tights of various deniers and colours according to mood or weather. Sock suspenders for a "fetching" look, emmmm no. Steve. Oh dear, your picture instantly reminds me of a joyous BBC-2 TV series of long ago, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_W...
Re: Deadpan
Stu, some of the best satire around the time of TW3 [0] were 2 radio series - Round the Horne and Beyond Our Ken. You catch Kenneth Williams and Hugh Paddick and others at their very best. Rambling Syd Rumpo and Julian and Sandy. Absolutely brilliant. Indeed so. A run of them has just ended on BBC ...
- Sun Dec 04, 2022 11:36 pm
- Forum: Skirts and Kilts for Men
- Topic: man-skirt in amazon
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1234
Re: man-skirt in amazon
So the "original" is 125 euros and the Amazon version £20. The Amazon one must be a Chinese knock-off then. Actually, I would wear it but only either the blue or white one which look more stylish than the other two. I have the Hiatus one in black and the Incerun in white (though my wife d...
- Mon Nov 21, 2022 7:37 am
- Forum: In the News / Advocacy
- Topic: The Michigan Daily: A Bad Bunny masterclass: adding “sazón” to male style
- Replies: 41
- Views: 1563
Re: The Michigan Daily: A Bad Bunny masterclass: adding “sazón” to male style
The English word ship or boat comes from the Latin, navis, which in Latin is feminine, thus all boats are "she". That looks like a conspicuously false etymology. While navy and navigate are from Latin, ship and boat have reached us by a different route -- from Germanic origins. Das Schiff...
- Tue Nov 15, 2022 10:09 am
- Forum: In the News / Advocacy
- Topic: British Airways’ male crew members to be allowed piercings and makeup
- Replies: 15
- Views: 633
Re: British Airways’ male crew members to be allowed piercings and makeup
By handbag, do you think they mean purse? In British English, a purse is the pouch in which a woman (it's usually a woman, anyway) keeps her coins. Her handbag is what she carries her purse and other daily essentials in. However, my wife carries a handbag only for formal occasions such as weddings....
- Fri Nov 04, 2022 11:26 pm
- Forum: Skirts and Kilts for Men
- Topic: Made it easier?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 1471
Re: Made it easier?
Something I'm wondering about....have some gay people used marriage as camoflage? To appear seemingly straight? That has been done for a long time. The most prominent example was Jeremy Thorpe, 1970s Liberal leader. In these circumstances one might refer to the wife as a beard. I don't know whether...
- Thu Nov 03, 2022 8:54 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Butchering the English Language
- Replies: 56
- Views: 2217
Re: Butchering the English Language
So far, this thread has just been about the written language. What about spoken dialogue? That's even worse. One irritant for me at present is people who prefix all their answers with "So..." when being interviewed on radio or TV. It doesn't do anything except to make them sound condescen...
- Tue Nov 01, 2022 9:39 am
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: Butchering the English Language
- Replies: 56
- Views: 2217
Re: Butchering the English Language
So, Carl, you say that you use UK English, but does that mean that you use the English spellings such as "realise" or "colour" ot the US versions? I may have been this way before, but -ise spellings are not universal in UK English. Many authorities -- including the university pr...
- Mon Oct 31, 2022 3:34 pm
- Forum: Skirts and Kilts for Men
- Topic: Check out the bassist in this NPR Tiny Desk
- Replies: 6
- Views: 519
Re: Check out the bassist in this NPR Tiny Desk
I notice that the bassist wears a wedding ring, which implies that he enjoys full approval at home
- Sat Oct 29, 2022 8:55 am
- Forum: Skirts and Kilts for Men
- Topic: Is this a gender neutral skirt?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 5191
Re: Is this a gender neutral skirt?
Ok, so I'm curious: how long is it in cm/inches? And what size? Because I'm getting rubbish answers from support. I ordered size L, as recommended by the calculator on the site -- it asks for height, weight, etc. I'm about 97cm waist and it fits well. The waistband has two pairs of clips 5cm apart,...
- Thu Oct 27, 2022 9:42 pm
- Forum: In the News / Advocacy
- Topic: Skirts for Men: Why More Men Should Wear Them
- Replies: 51
- Views: 1994
Re: Skirts for Men: Why More Men Should Wear Them
Moreover, substantial chunks of the text are of dubious authenticity or have plainly been manufactured for one reason or another over the centuries. For chapters and verses and some fascinating background, see "Beyond Belief: Two Thousand Years of Bad Faith in the Christian Church" by Jam...
- Thu Oct 27, 2022 11:49 am
- Forum: Skirts and Kilts for Men
- Topic: Is this a gender neutral skirt?
- Replies: 84
- Views: 5191
Re: Is this a gender neutral skirt?
Well, I showed the Adidas web page to my distaff side, not expecting much of a reaction -- but she was strikingly positive about it. She didn't care much for the green colour or the shirt-dress, but was strongly approving of the black skirt. With that encouragement, I decided to give it a go, in spi...
- Tue Oct 25, 2022 10:23 pm
- Forum: Freestyle Fashions
- Topic: Wearing a skirt on Halloween?
- Replies: 74
- Views: 5513
Re: Wearing a skirt on Halloween?
I'll be going to a party with my wife and will most likely be in my French "kilt" from hiatus-shop.com -- which isn't really a kilt at all but a slim-fitting black skirt.