Emma Thompson: Stuck up cah or what?

Does your elite intellect know the differenece between ‘pidgin’ and a ‘pigeon’?

that’s a good one 🙂

Does your elite intellect know the differenece between ‘pidgin’ and a ‘pigeon’?

Yes thanks, well enough to make a pun.

yes it is but he had to google and it took a while to reply. I like the original line , very funny. I suspect Graham was mocking us even further with his amusing misuse that went way over the heads of the illiterate plebs
EDIT: Damn I look silly now thanks to writing whilst you posted 😳

Quite right Junkyard.

Though, truth be told, it was actually a word that I only learned yesterday from this comic:

So really it was **** peristeronic as shit

Yes thanks, well enough to make a pun.

Hmm… Convoluted puns. Whatever next. 🙂

Anyway, where is the cockney troll? Feeding the peristeronic park life?

Take your sesquipedalophobia elsewhere Shibboleth. 😀

(the irony of someone with your name complaining about obscure words is not lost on me)

I love nothing more than an obsure word Graham. But surely “sesquipedalophobia” is the verbal equivalent of pulling the legs of flies. A bit like making dislexic dyslactic dilspleptic dyslexic so difficult to spell.

Here I am! 🙂

Are you all having fun?

Excellent!

Right. I’ll reiterate my original point, which seems to have been somewhat lost amongst all the bickering and silliness…

Behind a fairly valid point about the erosion of certain aspects of our language, is a sneering resentment towards others. Narrow-minded insular cah.

Note that I acknowledged the ‘fairly valid point’. See that bit? That’s important that is.

Then, notice the ‘sneering resentment towards others’ bit.

That’s the bit I’m getting at. And at this stage, I really must thank AdamShibboleth, TooTall, Cap’n Flash and others, for actually demonstrating my point in a far better manner than I could have managed myself, what wiv my por edukashun an evryfink.Thank you gentlemen for proving me right, that there is a fascism of language and culture that exists in our country, where certain groups assume themselves to be the principle social actors, and that everything else is merely secondary annoyance.

Of course, we find things that fall outside of our own individual cultural experience strange, and sometimes amusing. Some of the things teenagers do to look ‘cool’ make me laugh, they look ‘daft’. Like that wearing your trousers round yer knees nonsense; I am aware of the origins of the ‘style’, and can see how portraying a ‘tough’ image is somewhat important to teenage lads, but it is, to me and possibly others, a bit silly. I find the desperate attempts of insecure young men to look big and tough pretty funny, as it reminds me of my own feckless youth. Same as sticking a safety pin trough yer nose to prove that you’re anti-establishment; just a bit daft. Who on here, that might have been punks when they were kids, goes about like that now? We grow up, and slowly conform to the norm.

Because we need jobs. We need to be respected as adults in an adult world. We quickly leave our teenage foibles behind and move on.

I see the spelling “cah”, put that with my knowledge of Elfred’s location, and I hear it in a nice Ray Winston style accent.

If that was his intent, then he was looking to convey status.

See, it’s this thing of ‘status’ that I don’t get. Yes, I’ll use the vernacular which I am used to, for effect. It’s just a joke. Maybe some just find it ‘daft’. Whatever. But as for ‘status’; I don’t see myself as being any higher or lower than others. A person should be defined by their individuality, not their bank balance or what school they went to or whatever. I must say I do find the attempts by TooTall and AdamShib to demean me, to reduce me to some sort of lower status being, very amusing. I think that says more about their particular insecurities and failings than it does about mine. Just exposes them as judgemental snobs. Making assumptions about my character based on very little information, and no knowledge of who I really am. 🙂

Well there you go.

Play nice now…

Isn’t ‘daft’ another word for thick or foolish?

No. It’s not. Deffo not thick where I come from, at any rate.

You can easily be intelligent and daft at the same time, in fact one usually follows the other IME. I knew a bloke that had a Masters in Biochemistry that couldn’t change his wiper blades on the car, and threw the new ones in the bin.
Which was clearly a daft thing to do.
He was clever, but not wise, in that instance, if you catch my drift

A mate’s mum was a teacher. When she got her first microwave, the first time she tried to use it, she wondered why it wouldn’t just warm the plates for Sunday dinner. Daft woman!

Making sense yet?

(As an aside, my grandmother’s maiden name was ‘Daft’. Hilda Daft in fact. Seriously)

my grandmother’s maiden name was ‘Daft’. Hilda Daft in fact.

😆

(Runs off to change name by Deed Poll)

Who one here, that might have been punks when they were kids, goes about like that now?

**COUGH!**

A typical Fred filibuster. You must have been up all night.

I think that chip on your shoulder is causing you to list slightly. I can think of no other explanation for your cockeyed interpretation of her comments.

Sneering resentment? The only sneering resentment I can see seems to be emanating from yourself!

Oh yeah.

APART from PeterPoddy, who on here….

😳

I think that chip on your shoulder is causing you to list slightly. I can think of no other explanation for your cockeyed interpretation of her comments

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

“Pot calling Kettle! Pot calling Kettle! Come in Kettle, this is Pot and you’re looking rather black!”

HaaaaaaaaaHaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!

BUSTED!!!!

Oh, that’s made my day has that.

🙄

WooooHooooo! He’s shut up at last!

There’s no point in arguing with an idiot Peter, you’ll only drag me down to your level and beat me with your vast experience. 🙄

Sneering resentment? The only sneering resentment I can see seems to be emanating from yourself!

From a a man who comes up with such delightful ejaculations as this:

I would certainly never employ anyone with visible tattoos. It’s a judgement issue – if they’re stupid enough to deface themselves, they’re not sensible enough to work for me.

FoxyChick/Angela = The kind of woman who carries a rape alarm purely to boost her own ego.

Those in glass houses….

Yes of course. I forget how superior you are. Silly me.

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**giggle**
Yeah, right, in your dreams sunshine, toddle off home to mummy with your tired old cliches….. 😛

I would certainly never employ anyone with visible tattoos. It’s a judgement issue – if they’re stupid enough to deface themselves, they’re not sensible enough to work for me.

I take it that goes for wacking great big holes in your earlobes as well?

**phew**

I’m safe!

ah the old jokes are the best Adam.
PP does indeed have a point
EDIT: That was really distasteful stuff to FC – I had not seen it before. That, even for you, was barrel scrapingily bad.

Elfinsafety – Member
Froma a man who comes up with such delightful ejaculations as this:

There’s no ‘sneering resentment’ there whatsoever. Just dislike. In exactly the same way that Miss Thompson thinks that using words like ‘innit’ and ‘like’ make a person sound stupid, I think tattoos make people look thick.

If you had the ability to look at the big picture, you’d be able to see that my agreement with her comments is quite similar to my views on tattoos, which I’d wager she would probably share to a certain extent.

Go and get a dictionary and look up the word ‘resentment’. Then, for contrast, try and find ‘dislike’. It’s under ‘D’.

I think the rest Of us should retire and let Fred and Shibboleth duke it out man-style

Naah, this is fun and I have time to spare! 8)

Can someone help me identify who the idiot is on here?

There’s no ‘sneering resentment’ there whatsoever

Yes there is.

It’s probably one of the most bigoted, prejudiced statements I’ve ever seen on STW.

Roughly translated – “People like that aren’t good enough for me”

Your ego must need it’s own bedroom.

See, I can’t hate Shib, as he’s proved my point so spectacularly, re snobbishness and prejudice. He’s actually an asset, in this case! 😆

But AdamShib; a lot of your posts on here are to pour scorn on others, or to attempt to insult and belittle people.

Junkyard, I’ve never claimed to be a particularly nice man.

You seem very keen on proving what an ‘orrible character you are. And how much cleverer you are than others.

Impotence is, according to Sigmund Freud, the universal affliction of man under civilization. A certain amount of it characterizes the love of all civilized men. The more you ignore it – care to show your animal unhinged self, unruliness, rebellion, unending adultescence, amortality, nothing stops you now – the more you show the hold it has on you. You betray your fundamental impotence.

Care to share?

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Come on Fred, it doesn’t take that long to look up 2 words in a dictionary.

Why don’t you come and tell the other boys and girls what you’ve learnt?

Oops, double post…

Can someone help me identify who the idiot is on here?

Oh! Me! Pick me! Pick me! 🙂

Can someone help me identify who the idiot is on here?

I’m an idot, and so its my wife! 😀

‘Ang on, ‘aven’t got a wife…

Erm…

No, I’ll have to get back to you on that one. It’s gone, it’s gone.

Roughly translated – “People like that aren’t good enough for me”

Well translated Peter, thanks. We did that subject pretty much to death, and the only conclusion I came to was that I steadfastly stand behind my views. Any of the drivel that was posted to try and show me ‘the error of my ways’ simply galvanised my opinions.

The only reason Fred brought it up is to try and divert attention from the fact that his shoulder-chip caused him to interpret a perfectly lucid, eloquent voicing of a successful, educated woman’s opinion as sneering resentment.

Why don’t you come and tell the other boys and girls what you’ve learnt?

Well, taking your shining example into account, if he just does the opposite I imagine he’ll be on the right lines……

Now then, I’ve got me gun, where’s that barrel of fish…?

not going to read the thread but i’ve met Emma Thomson a couple of times and she’s lovely. I can speak proper though when required, and probably did in front of her.

🙂

If only you guys could see how stupid you look!

I know. Funny though innit? 😀

looks to see who’s here..nods at al…wanders out the door agin.