Reply to: Thread for the discerning conversationalist

[Gonzo]

Ere guv'nor. We'll have less of your fancy words if you know what is good for you.

Out here, in Her Majesty's distant Dominions, we may be enthralled that the leaps and bounds taken in technological science mean that communication with the mother country does not take three months like it used to in the twentieth century, but that does not mean that we have time to spare to contemplate the use of fancy language where it is not needed.

Out 'ere a man survives only through the application of hard work and an honest day's toil, while at the same time being mindful not to upset the natives who have been known to take offence at the most trivial slight such as kicking them off the land they claim is their own.

There's no need for your fancy words out 'ere.

[RichardCranium]

'Evening Sir Richard!

Please be so utterly gracious as to accept my most sincere and felicitatious apologies, for it doth appear a snipe of the gutter variety hath purloined my access of the InterWeb and sent a missive of most injurious and hostile in nature.

I shall, forthwith, admonish said urchin with suitable and apropos vigour as can be mustered by myself whilst wielding an item of segmented arboreal construction material of dimensions four and a half of that. With, perchance, a half a foot of nail projecting throughwith.

Yours, etc.

[Mich the Tester]

Eh?

Wot?

Wotchoo on about, mister?

You wanna smack inna marf?

'Evening Sir Richard!

[RichardCranium]

Eh?

Wot?

Wotchoo on about, mister?

You wanna smack inna marf?

[Mich the Tester]

Apparently you don't need it when you is well posh, innit!

Public schools aren’t very posh any more anyway. They just have more ‘facilities’ like Olympic swimming pools, rowing lakes, indoor tennis courts and wireless networks. All the old fashioned posh things like beatings, sexual depravity and tyrannical ex army colonels who’d learned their pedagogical skills shooting fuzzy wuzzies in Bongobongoland have been abolished in the name of political correctness and Health and Safety.

[sasguru]

And reluctance to pretend that they are a world power with all the baggage/debt that entails...

Most of the GB's problem is of midgets pretending to be giants.

World's policeman - Pah!

WSS.

Isn't this need for status a deep cultural problem, though?

[OwlHoot]

Most of the^D GB's problem is of midgets pretending to be giants.

FTFY

(where GB = Gordon Brown)

[BlackenedBiker]

Since you plebs took over the country, us aristos have had a hard time.
Still we did a better job of running the country than you lot have done.

Back to the coal face Blue Collar type

[cojak]

Jolly good show old bean! Indeed, these 'continentals' seem somewhat less predisposed to 'boom' and 'doom', much to their credit. Indeed one's impression is that the Bundesrepubliek is performing quite admirably in assuring the good cheer of her citizens, in no small way thanks to the competence of Mrs Merkel. Perchance she might advise Her Majesty's government on principles of good bookkeeping and fiduciary prudence?

And reluctance to pretend that they are a world power with all the baggage/debt that entails...

Most of the GB's problem is of midgets pretending to be giants.

World's policeman - Pah!

[sasguru]

Apparently you don't need it when you is well posh, innit!

Innit, though!
Just like you don't need hygiene and central heating.

[norrahe]

Quite. I take it your noble but destitute parents couldn't afford a school that taught grammar?

Apparently you don't need it when you is well posh, innit!

[Mich the Tester]

Since you plebs took over the country, us aristos have had a hard time.

Quite. I take it your noble but destitute parents couldn't afford a school that taught grammar?

[Mich the Tester]

or look very obviously like a former public school boy....

I've spent 20 years doing my best to hide that and recently decided 'sod it, there's not that much to be ashamed of'.

[sasguru]

didn't you recently confess your father was a failed business man and you went to comp.

Since you plebs took over the country, us aristos have had a hard time.
Still we did a better job of running the country than you lot have done.

[norrahe]

No. One does not attempt to emulate a Dutch student with one's sartorial choices.

or look very obviously like a former public school boy....