Comments | hirez: The dielectrics of Middle England.

hirez

The dielectrics of Middle England.

Feb 17, 2009 23:39

I don't generally read the Daily Fascist 'speak you're brains' section because, well, I've got a fine set of sharp sticks with which to poke myself in the eye already ( Read more... )

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echo_echo February 17 2009, 23:54:04 UTC

You are quite right. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equestrian

quercus February 18 2009, 09:39:33 UTC

But they would of course use "equestrianist".

And they'd start a sentence with a conjunction.

hirez February 18 2009, 10:36:17 UTC

Sir has the nut of it.

chiller February 17 2009, 23:53:49 UTC

I hate to say this, but they're also ALL Pratchett-readers.

hirez February 18 2009, 10:37:28 UTC

That's a bit disturbing. Still, they're not the type to turn up and bother Sir T. in person.

chiller February 18 2009, 10:52:57 UTC

No, and it's not Pratchett's fault. I like Pratchett. But there is a certain type who reads him who ought to have been put in a hessian sack and drowned at birth.

echo_echo February 17 2009, 23:55:19 UTC

I've heard banker substituted for wanker, "He's a right banker" but these days, I'm not sure which is the graver insult.

aoakley February 18 2009, 00:12:01 UTC

There are some genuinely profanity-innocent, too. Such as my mother, who believed that "dick head" was a contraction of "dickybird-head".

moral_vacuum February 18 2009, 01:01:26 UTC

When I was a child I'd never seen the word "fallacy" written down, so when someone used the term on the radio I thought they were saying (in a posh way) that something was a load of cock.

childeric February 18 2009, 07:47:34 UTC

I remember reading in an otherwise-entirely-sober archaeological site report about some megaliths the sentence 'The notion that the projecting long stone was a male fertility symbol is, of course, a fallacy.' We don't get all that many laughs in my field, of course.

moral_vacuum February 18 2009, 01:00:06 UTC

I found myself referring to my dear wife as "the memsahib" the other day. My brass-buttoned navy blue blazer is no doubt in the post.

valkyriekaren February 18 2009, 01:05:23 UTC

Y'know, if I see one in a charity shop in remotely the right size. I shall be compelled to buy it for you, now.

Is it better if it has small sailing ships or fake naval insignia on the buttons?

moral_vacuum February 18 2009, 01:21:07 UTC

I wouldn't be seen dead in such a garment. Even for fancy dress.

However I think buttons with little coats of arms on would be a better idea. This would be worn with grey flannel trousers and golf shoes, of course.

hirez February 18 2009, 10:39:47 UTC

"And what do you have lined up for le weekend, old chap?"

[FX: Mimes golf-swing. Makes 'pock' noise.]

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