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Originally posted by Denny Crane View PostAnyone happen to know what's the best service for getting a notification when a twitter account tweets a specific word or phrase? I'm using pushbullet but it's not fast enough.People say I should be more humble I hope they understand, they don't listen when you mumble
Get a shiny metal Revolut card! And a free tenner!
https://revolut.com/referral/jamesb8!G10D21
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Originally posted by Denny Crane View PostAnyone happen to know what's the best service for getting a notification when a twitter account tweets a specific word or phrase? I'm using pushbullet but it's not fast enough.Double-decker bus enthusiast
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Originally posted by GimmeabreakI know I've asked this before on here so sorry for asking it yet again.
Wet Room - is there somebody I should talk to on here to help me out?
Do you want me to give you some details of a person to do the job or do you need advice on the wetroom itself
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View PostToday's etymological challenges are:
fake
taxi
gobshite
with a special prize for anyone who can meld the three into a single-sentence short story.Fake
Criminal slang is a whole new world, suggestions that they spoke in this to avoid detection by straight society and then many of the words crossed over into common usage.
Taxi
But why do planes taxi?
Gobshite
with a special prize for anyone who can meld the three into a single-sentence short story"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View PostDead Parrot's fake taxi porn had so little artistic integrity that it made me hack a big gobshite all over my laptop.
My story had current affairs, sex, a functioning narrative and was educational.People say I should be more humble I hope they understand, they don't listen when you mumble
Get a shiny metal Revolut card! And a free tenner!
https://revolut.com/referral/jamesb8!G10D21
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Originally posted by DeadParrot View Postfor sale; kleenex tissues , barely used.
My story had current affairs, sex, a functioning narrative and was educational.
so clearly I win and my prize is to go and have some nice cheese"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Postah, but mine utilised the original meaning of gobshite and yours displayed cultural appropriation.
so clearly I win and my prize is to go and have some nice cheese
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View PostHere's two that I'm sure we have all been accused of being:
- Langer
- Culchie
Culchie is either a bastardisation of the Irish colite (woods). Meaning culchies are from the backwoods.
Another theory is that it's from Cul an Ti, back of the house - from the culchie tendency to enter houses through the back door.
Langer is a skinny fish or a monkey IIRC.
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View PostAnother one where nobody can be sure where it came from. Seems to have popped up in London criminal slang in the 18th century as 'counterfeit' and then gone mainstream.
Phoney
Bonus points for
Babe, and
PussyLast edited by Mellor; 04-07-19, 12:08.
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Found a really cool YouTube channel last night after stumbling across this video..
Learn with Brilliant for 20% off by being one of the first 200 to sign up at http://Brilliant.org/WendoverListen to Extremities at http://ExtremitiesPodcast....
Really interesting economics videos explained very well.I hold silver in tit for tat, and I love you for that
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Originally posted by Mellor View PostOn a similar note to fake what about:
Phoney
Bonus points for
Babe, and
Pussy
Babe is just a version on baby shirley? another Americanism
Pussy...pussy cat..but how did it get to its current common usage? One for Solksjaer imo"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Lazare View PostFound a really cool YouTube channel last night after stumbling across this video..
Learn with Brilliant for 20% off by being one of the first 200 to sign up at http://Brilliant.org/WendoverListen to Extremities at http://ExtremitiesPodcast....
Really interesting economics videos explained very well.
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View PostPhoney is an Americanism iirc - is it similar to fake, some piece of criminal underworld slang that no-one knows where it came from? Doesn't sound Germanic.
Babe is just a version on baby shirley? another Americanism
Pussy...pussy cat..but how did it get to its current common usage? One for Solksjaer imo
Nope*
Nope
*In the infant sense, baby came from the older English babe. I was referring to the slang use. "She's a babe". Which has a completely different etymology. Which makes sense when you think about it. Referring to an an adult as a "sexy toddler" sounds very wrong. So that route is unlikely.
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Originally posted by Mellor View PostNope
Nope*
Nope
*In the infant sense, baby came from the older English babe. I was referring to the slang use. "She's a babe". Which has a completely different etymology. Which makes sense when you think about it. Referring to an an adult as a "sexy toddler" sounds very wrong. So that route is unlikely.
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Originally posted by Solksjaer! View Postgot my 3rd hole in one ever tonight in Stackstown. For my greens in regulation to holes in one ratio I must be in the top 1% in the world. I hit about 1 in every 6 greens in reguation. (I know shit) wtf though eh.This may or may not be an original thought of my own.
All efforts were made to make this thought original but with the abundance of thoughts in the world the originality of this thought cannot be guaranteed.
The author is not liable for any issue arising from the platitudinous nature of this post.
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Line of Duty Season 5
SPOILERAt this stage surely they'd just sack the whole police force.
Did find it hilarious that the one other character to say bent coppers was a UCO
Guessing that it's Kate and not Hasting's that bent, and that's all a misdirection.
It's all a great demonstration in optics when it comes to evidence, and how lies beget bigger lies.
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Was in the pub a couple weeks ago and was tasked with finding a question for two lads to have a bet on that google couldnt give a straight answer to.
Fast forward to this week and question was shared in numerous whatsapp groups so probably 200+ trying to get the answer....someone finally got it last night and won nearly €1k in bets that went on it (i really should have done a deal with someone
Anyway was curious if any of ye genius people would get it.
Q - Someone i know has an ongoing disease, what is it?
Clue - Hannibal Lector, Silence of the Lambs
Now its a tough one and will require google once you get on the right track
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Originally posted by Dice75 View PostWas in the pub a couple weeks ago and was tasked with finding a question for two lads to have a bet on that google couldnt give a straight answer to.
Fast forward to this week and question was shared in numerous whatsapp groups so probably 200+ trying to get the answer....someone finally got it last night and won nearly €1k in bets that went on it (i really should have done a deal with someone
Anyway was curious if any of ye genius people would get it.
Q - Someone i know has an ongoing disease, what is it?
Clue - Hannibal Lector, Silence of the Lambs
Now its a tough one and will require google once you get on the right trackSPOILERsomething to do with kidneys (and a nice bottle of Chianti)?"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by hotspur View PostMy favourite old phrase that I've come across in recent years is: "That's mighty white of you."
“The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you’re someone. You hear them shouting ‘Heil, Spode!’ and you imagine it is the Voice of the People. That is where you make your bloomer. What the Voice of the People is saying is: ‘Look at that frightful ass Spode swanking about in footer bags! Did you ever in your puff see such a perfect perisher?’”"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View PostSPOILERsomething to do with kidneys (and a nice bottle of Chianti)?
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Originally posted by Dice75 View PostNo...its a LOT trickier than that. Im still shocked someone got it in the end. Id be very surprised if anyone else got it right again. Im fairly sure nobody here will get it so will offer up 50% of my action in next months €100k GTD game in the Green Isle to anybody that does. You will have to show your reason and not just spout random diseases
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Originally posted by Dice75 View PostWas in the pub a couple weeks ago and was tasked with finding a question for two lads to have a bet on that google couldnt give a straight answer to.
Fast forward to this week and question was shared in numerous whatsapp groups so probably 200+ trying to get the answer....someone finally got it last night and won nearly €1k in bets that went on it (i really should have done a deal with someone
Anyway was curious if any of ye genius people would get it.
Q - Someone i know has an ongoing disease, what is it?
Clue - Hannibal Lector, Silence of the Lambs
Now its a tough one and will require google once you get on the right track
Or is it blood related?Last edited by shrapnel; 05-07-19, 10:14.
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Originally posted by AndyFatBastard View PostRIP John McCririck
The obits should make for some interesting reading.
Turning millions into thousands
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View PostPhoney is an Americanism iirc - is it similar to fake, some piece of criminal underworld slang that no-one knows where it came from? Doesn't sound Germanic.
Pussy...pussy cat..but how did it get to its current common usage? One for Solksjaer imo
Originally posted by shrapnel View Posti really hope it doesn't come from Babe Ruth
Babe apparently came from;
"...an original Irish pet name for a loved one, stemming from "báb" or
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Originally posted by shrapnel View PostSPOILERPrion disease?
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Originally posted by Dice75 View PostNo...its a LOT trickier than that. Im still shocked someone got it in the end. Id be very surprised if anyone else got it right again. Im fairly sure nobody here will get it so will offer up 50% of my action in next months €100k GTD game in the Green Isle to anybody that does. You will have to show your reason and not just spout random diseases
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Originally posted by Dice75 View PostWas in the pub a couple weeks ago and was tasked with finding a question for two lads to have a bet on that google couldnt give a straight answer to.
Fast forward to this week and question was shared in numerous whatsapp groups so probably 200+ trying to get the answer....someone finally got it last night and won nearly €1k in bets that went on it (i really should have done a deal with someone
Anyway was curious if any of ye genius people would get it.
Q - Someone i know has an ongoing disease, what is it?
Clue - Hannibal Lector, Silence of the Lambs
Now its a tough one and will require google once you get on the right trackSPOILERmental disease of some sorts, is it schizophrenia? and the someone and I are one in the same? Hannibal didnt have that though, more so a psychopath
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