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April 16, 2009 at 5:44 pm |
‘That’s it see. A lot of people can’t keep up with what words are acceptable these days and what words aren’t. It’s like my dad for example, he’s not as cosmopolitan or as educated as me and it can be embarrassing. He doesn’t understand the new trendy words, like he’ll say “poofs” instead of “gays”, um, “birds” instead of “women”, “darkies” instead of “coloureds”‘.
- Gareth, from The Office
April 16, 2009 at 6:57 pm |
Mmn, but what would he call an ottoman?
April 16, 2009 at 7:46 pm |
This is another Scots thing I think – it was explained to me thus:
Kevin Keegan is a poof, Quentin Crisp is a homosexual
From which I take it that effete non-Scottish footballing types with dodgy perms and their ilk are poofs (or should that be pooves?)
April 16, 2009 at 8:12 pm |
Yarb – Good lord, you mean I’m trapped in an episode of The Office?
J – they were complaining they could never talk about having a gay time any more either…
PB – I don’t know about Scots. More of an age thing, possibly…
April 16, 2009 at 8:38 pm |
You’re probably right…. incidentally I was 25 before I’d ever heard the term ottoman applied to furniture – it was always the empire that was approximately where modern Turkey is to me. The furniture was always a “poof” or “poofy” (no idea what spelling to apply as it was never written down)
April 16, 2009 at 8:59 pm |
And there’s me thinking that Ottoman was Gavin Maxwell. . .
April 16, 2009 at 9:03 pm |
*groan*
April 16, 2009 at 9:04 pm |
Titus?
April 16, 2009 at 9:06 pm |
In some parts of Scotland that’s someone who doesn’t stand their round. . .
April 16, 2009 at 9:23 pm |
I knew I’d regret posting this
April 16, 2009 at 9:32 pm |
There was a Scotsman sitting in the pub quietly doing a crossword in the paper when he announced to the pub in general “The clue is ‘on a desert island’, 8 letters, M_ROON_D”. An Englishman sat at the bar shouts over “Marooned!”. The Scotsman replies quick as a flash “pint o’ heavy and a dram then”.
The old ones are the oldest… I’ll get my coat.
April 17, 2009 at 7:36 am |
I’d already been given mine
April 17, 2009 at 9:44 am |
You’d think it was an age thing but no, it’s still in regular usage across all demographics here.
It’s someone who goes out wearing a coat, right?
April 17, 2009 at 10:07 am |
Two people are looking in the window of a cake shop in Glasgow. The first one says “Is that a cake or a meringue?” The second one says “Naw, you’re no wrang, it’s a cake right enough”.
Ba-dum-tish.
I’ll get my coat (but I shan’t wear it)
April 17, 2009 at 10:10 am |
What’s the difference between Fred Astaire and Walt Disney?
Fred Astaire dances and Walt Dis-ney
I’m putting mine on as I saunter towards the door. . .
April 17, 2009 at 10:25 am |
taxi for the lot of you…
April 17, 2009 at 10:29 am |
I prefer Breakaway – I find Taxi biscuits much less satisfactory.
April 17, 2009 at 10:31 am |
Anyone here named McLetchie?
April 17, 2009 at 1:32 pm |
It’s taken me until now to think I know what you’re hinting at Richard… some reference to Taxigate at Holyrood?
April 17, 2009 at 1:35 pm |
Spot on…
April 17, 2009 at 1:45 pm |
All right, that’s enough. Innuendo and bad puns are bad enough, but politics…
April 17, 2009 at 5:49 pm |
In America, a poof is one of those fabric puff things. I’ve seen a very entertaining thread on a travel messageboard about whether people in Britain take a poof or a scrubber into the shower….
April 17, 2009 at 7:36 pm |
@PB – It’s spelt ‘pouffe’
@Autolycus – one could always be adventurous & try both at the same time!
@Havers – thanks – I’d forgotten about him – showing my youffe
April 17, 2009 at 9:36 pm |
Be fair – he’s almost given up the lynchings entirely since New Year
April 17, 2009 at 10:50 pm |
@j – in my house it’s spelled “footstool”
@disgruntled – sorry – not only was it politics, but tory scandal politics… I blame Havers for starting it. I reckon he’s looking for six of the best.