Yes, did wonder if it was used differently long ago, but has been corrupted more recently. Still can't make a lot of sense of it either way.
Yes, did wonder if it was used differently long ago, but has been corrupted more recently. Still can't make a lot of sense of it either way.
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longdogs
I always thought it was just sarcasm. If it was half the price it was being sold for, it would be cheap (although not in the case of the precious metal bog handle)
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Big Tone
The one I always feel is back to front I hear a lot is when a guy says "I'm going to take a p1$$" or "going for a wee".
Excuse me but, if anything, you're giving it away.
So you went for a pee did you? Is it in your handbag or something?
A dear old friend of mine who's a polyglot, originally from Trieste, never quite got his head around how we mix past and present tense like "I didn't do it". To this day he might say "I didnt did it" or "did you farted". Think about it! We take it for granted, (our way), but it doesn't make sense in other languages...
That's because English has the (dis?)advantage of having roots in a number of different languages brought here by various invaders over the centuries.
I suppose we have the advantage of not being required to assign (and remember) a gender* for every conceivable item we talk about but, nevertheless, I do feel sorry for any foreigner who chooses to try to learn English.
*I sometimes wonder whether a German, for example, would be confused if I referred to an item as der, die or das, or whether they'd just have a quiet titter to themselves and think 'stupid Englishman'!
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Big Tone
Yeah, like we never "invaded" others. (Having *conquered half the globe).
And so we are reaping what we have sown and b1tching about it like a spoilt kid
Bloody foreigners!!! More *Murder, rape, torture, pillage, slavery, ethnic cleansing (a more anodyne and acceptable word these days)
Yeah, like we never "invaded" others. (Having *conquered half the globe).
And so we are reaping what we have sown and b1tching about it like a spoilt kid
*Murder, rape, torture, pillage, slavery, ethnic cleansing (a more anodyne and acceptable word these days)
Was I b1tching about it?
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Big Tone
Wasn't a dig at you dude. We're cool, I hopeYeah, like we never "invaded" others. (Having *conquered half the globe).
And so we are reaping what we have sown and b1tching about it like a spoilt kid
*Murder, rape, torture, pillage, slavery, ethnic cleansing (a more anodyne and acceptable word these days)
Was I b1tching about it?
Just sayin' it as it is; as always...We were/are invaders - by definition. Okay, our forefathers were, and still are, British invaders along with them across the pond
Wasn't a dig at you dude. We're cool, I hopeYeah, like we never "invaded" others. (Having *conquered half the globe).
And so we are reaping what we have sown and b1tching about it like a spoilt kid
*Murder, rape, torture, pillage, slavery, ethnic cleansing (a more anodyne and acceptable word these days)
Was I b1tching about it?
We were/are invaders - by definition. Okay, our forefathers were, and still are, British invaders along with them across the pond
Sure. No problem.
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Wasn't a dig at you dude. We're cool, I hopeYeah, like we never "invaded" others. (Having *conquered half the globe).
And so we are reaping what we have sown and b1tching about it like a spoilt kid
*Murder, rape, torture, pillage, slavery, ethnic cleansing (a more anodyne and acceptable word these days)
Was I b1tching about it?
We were/are invaders - by definition. Okay, our forefathers were, and still are, British invaders along with them across the pond
Not my forefathers, unless they found a shilling in their glass...
http://tinyurl.com/avqro23
'...as many as one-fifth of wealthy Victorian Britons derived all or part of their fortunes from the slave economy.
As a result, there are now wealthy families all around the UK still indirectly enjoying the proceeds of slavery where it has been passed on to them. Dr Draper said: "There was a feeding frenzy around the compensation." A John Austin, for instance, owned 415 slaves, and got compensation of £20,511, a sum worth nearly £17m today. And there were many who received far more...'
So compo' existed back then ! Just massive sums - in return for abolishment of slavery - It came at a cost to the tax payer !! SFA dosh to the slaves tho'.
We should apologise, some rusty bullet hole once demanded...
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