THE YARD..... The GC Grumble Societies thread.... ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK...!!!

I would say a floor is something that is man made, something laid as opposed to just being there, like the ground!

 

I think we have the makings of a whole new thread here, Alice. We'll have to think of a suitably curmudgeonly name for it. I haven't noticed the floor/ground problem, but I have noticed that people tend to fall pregnant rather than become pregnant these days. This is just sheer carelessness. You can fall over, you can fall ill and you can fall foul of the law - but you should never fall pregnant. I'm bored with hearing the expression. (Notice: bored with, not bored of.)

 

:rotfl: Maybe that's it then - a case of whoops! I've fallen for it. Although I tend to feel it's more about personal responsibility. If you become pregnant, you admit that you may just have had some small role in the matter. If you fall pregnant (ie fall victim to pregnancy), you can be walking to bus stop and pow!- it just happens. Pure bad luck, like catching avian flu or suffering from hay fever.

 

I am British and proud to be so called. That means I call upon the wonderful traits of the English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh. Means we also have the best Country in the world !!

 

Aaron...we used to refer to them as silicon Scots :hehe:

 

When I was a boy, we had a backyard and a garden. The yard was a concrete area immediately outside the house, the other side of which was the garden, the cultivated area.:gnthb:

 

I think the most famous example of this is Rod Stewart, who, I believe, was born in London of a Scottish father.:gnthb:

 

Love it!:hehe:

 

Jings, this has opened a can of worm, I and I only wanted to know about The Yard !

Axie - Ali, I've never heard the term Silicone Scots, but it sounds pejorative. Have I missed something?

ClaraLou, now that I've mentioned floor / ground I'm sure you'll see it everywhere. Life's like that. Also look out for Affect / Effect. They don't seem to have any idea what the words mean - and I'm talking about the "quality" press. We just call them all comics. Well, language does move on.

Shiney, it is very obvious that in the eyes of the world some people are more people than others. Some of what I have read in response to the floods in Pakistan ( not on this forum or I wouldn't be here) has horrified me, people saying they are just muslims and why should we care . They are all just people. Those women and children are nothing but people like you and me. I'm sure you weren't saying anything different Shiney.

ClaraLou - fall pregnant - I think that originates from Victorian times. Girls fell from grace - pregnant !
Shiney, no men can't "fall" pregnant. They just put on a clean shirt and walk away.

Jings, maybe we do need a new thread, and all I wanted to know about was "the yard".

 

One of the things we see now,originated from American T/V Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus is the using of fingers in the air when speaking, as Punctuation Marks :( it gets on my wick :( music.

 

Hi Alice

Yes, I'm afraid this thread has meandered rather a lot. When I was writing letters to the MoJ (you'll remember my hostel woes from another thread) I discovered that the then Minister of State for Justice, David Hanson, didn't know the difference between 'affect' and 'effect'. I was positively apoplexic. If someone is going to patronise me, lie to me and generally trample all over my life I do at least expect them to get the spelling right.

 

Music, I seem to remember that Billy Connolly did a very funny piece on the wavy-fingers-in-the-air punctuation marks. Unfortunately I can't remember the details. :o I think it had to do with giant mimed questions marks etc.

 

Billy Connolly and very funny. Now THERE`S a contradiction in terms.:gnthb::gnthb::rotfl::rotfl: