Help! need 'polite society' expression...

Annie I think Alioxen was referring to my post. In my part of the country Oh, sugar! means the same as Oh, bu**er ! ( or which ever expletive you choose)

Och, I know what you mean Annie

Agus, so difficult explaining the ch isn't it lol

Alioxen, turf, sod, clump of soil , choose which ever, but it doesn't mean sugar .

Just remembered a bloke when I worked for a short stint at a recruitment agency.

I rang to ask if he wanted a shift at a well known distributor, 'tray washing'.

He said "I would rather put my head in a plastic bag and boil it in water, or wash the wife's knickers".

I said I'll take that as a no then shall I.

The Scots vernacular version would be 'Aye - Right!,' but really has to be spoken to get the right amount of disdain and venom into it.

Do they have an Equalities Headtutor equivalent who you could appeal to?

You could suggest that they install a Tutor Jobsworth Naughty Step for breaching inclusiveness. Just a thought . . .

Sounds good to me Bags (tick emoticon)

I like that one Annie and being a Scot the ch comes naturally

Maybe saying 'Turf bridge!' in Welsh is the same as saying 'Sugar!' in English?

Sod that for a game of soldiers.

I am listening to your reasoning but in this instance I cannot concur with your thoughts.

I am leaving this situation due to my obvious inability to rationalise your thought process.

Bugger that is certainly more to my liking and says it all bags. . Unless you are going to say it to me of course.

Lordy Lugwash

Lordy Lordy Mr Claudy

Blimey O' Reilly

Flying figs

Flying farts

Can't be arsed

'Are you 'aving a larf?'

Very eloquently and elegantly put, bags!

Google translate says the Welsh means 'turf bridge'.....it prefers 'dywarchen i ffwrdd'...........uh?

Elegran , bont is easy , think bon as in Bon Bon and add the t , sadly ch does cause problems because it comes from the back of the throat , so

Tea war chen. bont

Sod Off

Good luck lol

Life is too short to stuff a grape, so stuff this.

Works for me, bags!

Tiddly push!!

What do yous think of this? (part of a longer, politely expressed... er... rant):

"I shall not give up (yet). I'm a problem solver. I have already tried, with X's and Y's help in formatting, to fill in the forms on the computer. It was time-consuming and it wasn't working properly so I gave that up. If I had been paid to do it, I'd have worked it out somehow, eventually, but I'm doing this for fun, as an enjoyable leisure activity, so bugger that. Sorry, "fiddlesticks!" just didn't quite cut the mustard."

I must remember tywarchen bont. How do you pronounce it?

Your request is physically impossible for me to comply with.

Oh, just read your latest post. In that case, hand it over as is and say "Sorry, but with my health problems I just could not manage to do it as you asked, what with the pain and the time it would take. I do hope this will be adequate."

sod 'em.

Tywarchen bont, no help to you but I find it most useful, oh - it's sod off

"Oh, I've so many urgent things on my plate just now, I just can't spare the time. Can you find someone else who . . .? "

My time and expertise could be of more valuable use elsewhere.