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<pedant>You can't be a cad and a bounder - the two are mutually exclusive</pedant>Originally posted by doodab View PostI can do cad. I can do bounder as well at a push.Originally posted by MaryPoppinsI hadn't really understood this 'pwned' expression until I read DirtyDog's post.Comment
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Rubbish. They are almost interchangeable and some dictionaries even define one as the other.Originally posted by DirtyDog View Post<pedant>You can't be a cad and a bounder - the two are mutually exclusive</pedant>While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'Comment
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That may be true now, but etymologically speaking the two are distinct.Originally posted by doodab View PostRubbish. They are almost interchangeable and some dictionaries even define one as the other.
A bounder is someone who behaves badly but knows no better, because they have crossed the boundary of class. A cad is someone who behaves badly but should know better because they are of an upper class who should behave better.
BounderA cad used to be a jumped-up member of the lower classes who was guilty of behaving as if he didn't know that his lowly origin made him unfit for having sexual relationships with well-bred women. [Anthony West, "H.G. Wells: Aspects of a Life," 1984]
CadOriginally posted by MaryPoppinsI hadn't really understood this 'pwned' expression until I read DirtyDog's post.Comment
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Distinct, maybe. Mutually exclusive no.Originally posted by DirtyDog View PostThat may be true now, but etymologically speaking the two are distinct.
That seems to be saying the direct opposite of the reference you quoted.
A bounder is someone who behaves badly but knows no better, because they have crossed the boundary of class. A cad is someone who behaves badly but should know better because they are of an upper class who should behave better.While you're waiting, read the free novel we sent you. It's a Spanish story about a guy named 'Manual.'Comment
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jeezuz that is piss poor....
If I ran that company I would be livid about having my companies name against such rubbishComment
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Newport - we know a song about Newport!Originally posted by zeitghostFeck me, and another one appears.
This one's in Newport, apparently, and requires knowledge of sheet metal.

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Newport has some tasty totty working in the call centres, thoughOriginally posted by zeitghostFeck me, and another one appears.
This one's in Newport, apparently, and requires knowledge of sheet metal.

Originally posted by MaryPoppinsI hadn't really understood this 'pwned' expression until I read DirtyDog's post.Comment
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Send it to Diver insteadOriginally posted by zeitghostFeck me, and another one appears.
This one's in Newport, apparently, and requires knowledge of sheet metal.


Do you need the ability to chop your own hands off?Originally posted by MaryPoppinsI hadn't really understood this 'pwned' expression until I read DirtyDog's post.Comment
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well there you go who would have thunk that....Originally posted by DirtyDog View PostNewport has some tasty totty working in the call centres, though
although-- got any photos?Comment
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