Deletions on Gransnet

Actually language is weird, because al though I suggested substituting it with idiots, it isn't quite what is meant and everyone brought up in England will now this. I guess cultural content is all.

ha ha, sorry~!~!

Language use is so varied in Britain I would see "daft" buggers as a lot softer and more friendly comment than say stupid Buggers.

Daft to me seems almost a term of endearment. I know it was far from that once. Daft and stupid used to mean the same thing.

I call my DGSs "Daft ha'pworth."

Daft is a bit northern isn't it?

Yes. Daft as a brush!

Thick as a plank.

Private as in a private BUSINESS Merlot. They can do what they want- and if people don't like it they can opt out. It is not a social service or charity.

When I first lived in the Potteries, the char lady where I worked used to love teaching me Pottery speak. The loouk in the boouk, etc. But everyday she put her head round my office door and said 'go on, say it for me' and I obliged 'go away you silly booogar' and she laughed and laughed- made her day, every day. She'd never left home (Burslem) and anyone living in Hanley was a foreigner, let alone someone living in the Westlands (like us) and from Swizerland. I was the height of exotism

Half a sarny short of a picnic.

A can short of a six pack.

Not the sharpest knife in the box.

The problem with a verbose forum is that you do not get the inflection of the words. Some Gners seem to take delight in analysing every word and looking at the worst . although, I have to say, I've not seen that lately . I often call my friends " silly old bugger", they are not silly or buggers (ok most of them are old!), no one would take any offence as they know what I mean.

I was born near Meir !!

I did notice whitewave's post on the other thread though, mentioned above, where she called a pair of politicians daft buggers which could be a term of affection!!
Surely not ww [still rofl]

Did she call you 'duck' granjura?

I know I'm home again when I hear someone call me duck.

Apparently:
Where does 'duck' come from?
Firstly the word “duck” (a term of greeting, for man or woman) has nothing at all to do with the winged bird of the same name!
It is said to find its origin in the Saxon word ‘ducas’ which was meant as a term of respect; similar to the Middle English ‘duc’, ‘duk’ which denotes a leader, commander; from which comes the title ‘Duke’ and the Old French word ‘ducheé’ - the territory ruled by a Duke.

Do I believe that?

The same article claims shippon as a Potteries word for cowshed, but one of my relatives lives in 'The Shippon' (converted barn) in Devon.

Shippon sounds more likely to be a sheep shed. They are used still on hill farms during lambing season. I guess they can be used for cows too.

Skipton means Sheeptown. It's too far inland to refer to ships as in Vikingskiphuset, the Viking ship museum in Oslo.