Petty Things That Get On Your Nerves...

[The_Kincardine]

2 hours ago, hk blues said:

Good use of the word "outwith" which is apparently a word not used outwith Scotland.

Indeed.  'outwith' is almost exclusively Scottish.  Its 'pal' is 'without' as in "There is a green hill far away without a city wall" meaning 'outside'.  Written by an Anglo-Irish hymn writer.

But 'without' carries on in the names of some City of  London churches such as "Saint Botolph Without Aldgate".

Edited July 15, 2022 by The_Kincardine

[Boghead ranter]

5 hours ago, hk blues said:

Good use of the word "outwith" which is apparently a word not used outwith Scotland.

 

3 hours ago, The_Kincardine said:

Indeed.  'outwith' is almost exclusively Scottish.  Its 'pal' is 'without' as in "There is a green hill far away without a city wall" meaning 'outside'.  Written by an Anglo-Irish hymn writer.

But 'without' carries on in the names of some City of  London churches such as "Saint Botolph Without Aldgate".

Stick it in your oxter. 

[Left Back]

4HD not being channel 104 on Sky.

[milton75]

On 01/07/2022 at 16:11, GordonD said:

Billy Connolly points out that people called Alasdair always tell you how it's spelt - "It's Alasdair - D-A-I-R."

Guilty, but only when giving folk my email address.

I get my name spelled incorrectly nearly all the time, because everyone is too used to dealing with the offspring of illiterates.

[Sergeant Wilson]

12 minutes ago, milton75 said:

Guilty, but only when giving folk my email address.

I get my name spelled incorrectly nearly all the time, because everyone is too used to dealing with the offspring of illiterates.

 

 

Edited July 15, 2022 by Sergeant Wilson

[Bigmouth Strikes Again]

Womens football? too many of the games are too one sided to make it credible IMO, NI were 66/1 to beat England.

wtf?

Made a few quid betting on it though.

Thank you.

[tamthebam]

We should preserve fine Scots words like "outwith" and "anent"

The tightening up of Scots criminal law has also dealt a blow to fine names for criminal offences like "plagium" and "hamesucking" (steady now Kenneth)

[Boo Khaki]

2 hours ago, Bigmouth Strikes Again said:

Womens football? too many of the games are too one sided to make it credible IMO, NI were 66/1 to beat England.

wtf?

Made a few quid betting on it though.

Thank you.

Have they done anything about the comedic, almost Jack Hamilton-esque standard of 'goalkeeping'?

[HK Hibee]

Folk taking suitcases onto planes as carry on mildly annoys me. How much of a hassle is waiting  15 mins for a bag at the other end. 
 

reached ridiculous standards on my trip back to HK. A number of folk couldn’t get their suitcase in the overhead locks as they were too heavy. 

[SlipperyP]

10 hours ago, tamthebam said:

We should preserve fine Scots words like "outwith" and "anent"

The  tightening up of Scots criminal law has also dealt a blow to fine names for criminal offences like "plagium" and "hamesucking" (steady now Kenneth)

That would be 'gettin tiched' something the East Coast Wives are not.

[Sarcastic Bairn]

9 hours ago, Boo Khaki said:

Have they done anything about the comedic, almost Jack Hamilton-esque standard of 'goalkeeping'?

Why have they not made the goals smaller?

Generally females are smaller and they are playing in goals they can't touch the bar in.

Mental, just lob them.

[GordonD]

9 minutes ago, Sarcastic Bairn said:

Why have they not made the goals smaller?

Generally females are smaller and they are playing in goals they can't touch the bar in.

Mental, just lob them.

And just like the wimmin only play three sets at Wimbledon, they should make the football half an hour each way.

[Sarcastic Bairn]

1 minute ago, GordonD said:

And just like the wimmin only play three sets at Wimbledon, they should make the football half an hour each way.

I just looked it up to check and seemingly it is a big divide among females, some agree and others think it is insulting.

Loads of sports change the dimensions, surely it would make it a better game?

[vikingTON]

45 minutes ago, Sarcastic Bairn said:

Why have they not made the goals smaller?

Generally females are smaller and they are playing in goals they can't touch the bar in.

Mental, just lob them.

Professional female footballers are almost certainly taller than make footballers were when the existing goal dimensions were established.

It should therefore be the male sport that increases goal size to account for the 6 foot 5 (and athletic as well) mutants that now ruin the game.

[Craig fae the Vale]

Going back a fair bit here but it was on the radio earlier and reminded me.

When Whitesnake did the re recording of Here I Go Again and changed the lyrics to "Like a drifter" from the original and much better "Like a hobo". In fact, the original version of the song is just much better all round.

[DiegoDiego]

Professional female footballers are almost certainly taller than make footballers were when the existing goal dimensions were established.
It should therefore be the male sport that increases goal size to account for the 6 foot 5 (and athletic as well) mutants that now ruin the game.

The advances in ball manufacture have surely evened that out. Play with a 1890s football today and every game would be 0-0.

[greendot]

22 hours ago, Cosmic Joe said:

Sky don't inform you of the par for the hole. 

Basic stuff. 

To be fair though with the distances these boys are driving the pars almost seem irrelevant (insert your own joke here) when they're driving par 4s with ease.

[hk blues]

23 hours ago, Granny Danger said:

I’ve always found that strange.  Maybe some day the rest of the world will catch up.

Yep.

I was in a meeting with a Scottish guy down in Watford and the word cropped up - one of our  southern colleagues was aghast and made such a huge deal about it and behaved as if we'd spoken in Chinese.

 

 

[hk blues]

22 hours ago, The_Kincardine said:

Indeed.  'outwith' is almost exclusively Scottish.  Its 'pal' is 'without' as in "There is a green hill far away without a city wall" meaning 'outside'.  Written by an Anglo-Irish hymn writer.

But 'without' carries on in the names of some City of  London churches such as "Saint Botolph Without Aldgate".

I tried without success to convince a Southern colleague that outwith is not only a word but a word which is more correct than without in many situations. Without means not existing whilst outwith means existing but outside of a particular "category.

[GordonD]

11 minutes ago, hk blues said:

I tried without success to convince a Southern colleague that outwith is not only a word but a word which is more correct than without in many situations. Without means not existing whilst outwith means existing but outside of a particular "category.

 

10 minutes ago, hk blues said:

I tried without success to convince a Southern colleague that outwith is not only a word but a word which is more correct than without in many situations. Without means not existing whilst outwith means existing but outside of a particular "category.

Did telling him twice work?