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by geron
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!
by geron
Sun Jan 08, 2023 5:42 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Language Replacement
Replies: 30
Views: 1339

Re: Language Replacement

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....
Bzzzt! That should be "no fewer than two faults"!
;-)
by geron
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...
by geron
Wed Dec 14, 2022 11:07 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Deadpan
Replies: 16
Views: 485

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 ...
by geron
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...
by geron
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...
by geron
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....
by geron
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...
by geron
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...
by geron
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...
by geron
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 :-)
by geron
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,...
by geron
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...
by geron
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...
by geron
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.