38mess
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That's a great post, all working class people must speak like this to posh people.
An Interesting Conversation in a Chandlers.
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ip485
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Which ever side of the fence you are on, I think you are missing pretty much anything you buy and fials within two weeks will be replaced. The retailer may indeed be sceptical but it just isnt worth the fight, especially if the customer is determined or it is obvious beyond obvious it has been misuesed and abused.
rotrax
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Why do you jump to the delusion he only had two?
I know the boat, he is a fellow club member.
He has four sausage type, medium size and a large ball fender stem and stern.
Apparently he wanted all dark blue ones, so he bought two and deep sixed the tatty white ones.
Frogmogman
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Dare I say, a lot more people probably know where Tristan da Cunha is, now that it's one of the only places they're allowed to go for an overseas holiday
rotrax
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Well, as a true Cockney, born in St Thomas's Hospital opposite the Houses of Parliament in 1947 where the bells of St Mary le bow could be heard clearly on a Sunday morning, I should know how to speak Rhyming Slang and dialect.
Know wot I mean guv?
Anyway, I'm off dahner rubber fer a pint'er pigs, inneye...........................
Biggles Wader
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Sounds like a geordie to me.
rotrax
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You are weird if you think that is remotely like Geordie
Can you translate for non Cockney's?
Can you translate for non Cockney's?
dom
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OK Rotrax, that's a yellow card for you!
You must stay in character for the rest of this thread ?
You must stay in character for the rest of this thread ?
Mark-1
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Hmmm, I was born in Guy's Hospital, Southwark which I think is the same hospital as St Thomas's. I've always wondered if that made me a Cockney.
Can someone confirm if I need to sew a load of buttons on my clothes?
(Holy thread drift, batman. Or was it inevitable that we get to this point once we started talking about fenders?)
rotrax
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Guys is near London Bridge, St Thomas's near Westminster Bridge.
I depends when you were born - after the mid 60's high rise buildings and lots of noisy traffic meant the bells could not be heard at either Hospital by then.
When I was born the noisiest thing in London were the Edwardian trams grinding down to the Elephant and Castle.
Like Rhyming slang, the buttons are optional......................................
If you woz proper you would 'ave said Suverk
Mark-1
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Yeah, after the 60s so no audible bellage....
Like Rhyming slang, the buttons are optional......................................
I would have taken my newfound status very seriously, and fully complied with both the dress code and the voice protocols.
laika
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The customer is clearly trying to pull a fast one. Rotax has his location as Littlehampton. Why would someone who begins their sentences "Oi Mush" travel all the way to Littlehampton unless the Turk Town chandlers already had his card marked?
Blueboatman
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I think in the new phones there will def an app that adjusts the accent to the map location ?
With regional translation available too
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Seastoke
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it’s the sound of Bell ends.
Giblets
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Had a few of them myself during my working days. One chap tried a similar thing on when he bought back to my suppliers a heating control valve swearing blind that he had only bought it a couple of months ago and it had failed. Even produced a receipt. The lad behind the counter was a bit flumoxed as the boss was out at the time so asked me what I thought. I whipped the head off a to have a look at the date code which, it transpires, was twelve years out of date on a model that had been superceded some eight years ago. Matey was advised accordingly and left with the right hump and his aged valve in his hand having failed miserably in trying to get a brand new valve by deception!
dom
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Had a few of them myself during my working days. One chap tried a similar thing on when he bought back to my suppliers a heating control valve swearing blind that he had only bought it a couple of months ago and it had failed. Even produced a receipt. The lad behind the counter was a bit flumoxed as the boss was out at the time so asked me what I thought. I whipped the head off a to have a look at the date code which, it transpires, was twelve years out of date on a model that had been superceded some eight years ago. Matey was advised accordingly and left with the right hump and his aged valve in his hand having failed miserably in trying to get a brand new valve by deception!
I know the feeling - I tried to trade the wife in for a new model and nearly got my head whipped off too!
Giblets
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If you are referring to the current model I'm surprised you are still able to type!!!I know the feeling - I tried to trade the wife in for a new model and nearly got my head whipped off too!
dom
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If you are referring to the current model I'm surprised you are still able to type!!!
I shall count myself lucky this time ?
She says Hi BTW, promises to do a radio check when you’re back in your tower ?
