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

My OH would agree with you, Dai. But I find him funny.

 

A yard is something with a solid bottom .

 

That includes me, then.

 

Me too! I like this thread, it is quite similar to my mornings at the golf club when we meet after the round of golf for our 'coffee and biscuits' and spend the next hour discussing the latest medical threats to our aging bodies.
Glad to see the meanderings of the GC fraternity.....

 

Let`s have an over fifties thread, no one else allowed.:lollol::lollol::lollol::gnthb:

 

To Alice
as insulting as plastic paddy....a play on words

 

Don't get any of it Axie-Ali
Plastic Paddy ? Silicone Scots ?
I've put the capitals in for you.
Maybe you will come back and tell the simpletons what it's about.

 

someone who considers themselve Irish, but are not (i.e born elseware), are plastic Paddys, those that consider themselves Scottish but are not (again born elseware), are silicone Scots. It is in no sense Perjorative.
Please explain to me the need to capitalise the words plastic and silicone?

 

I know a few people here, born in the UK who have parents who themselves were born in Ireland. Hence Plastic (the implication being not real, phoney, a bit fake) Paddies (Paddy being an English term, sometimes considered an insult, for an Irishman). These people agree with this term. I suspect the word Silicone means similar! It's a joke insult, like calling the English in Australia Poms...

I think both words should be capitalised though!

Actually...even worse are those Irish who left Ireland when they were young, spent all their time in England, or America, or Australia and alwaysa plan to return to the 'Old Country'. They spend their time telling all who will listen that they will go home, one day, someday, when the time is right, when the money is right, etc, etc. I bet the Scots are just the same! Something to do with a massive chip on shoulder that both the Irish and Scottish suffer from, when they live abroad.

 

Oh My,
I always thought 'plastic Paddy' referred to the trend in recent years of dressing up in garish emerald apparel - and generally making oneself look like a green halfwit - on St Patrick's Day driven by some insane notion that it might increase one's Irishness.

I am surprised to learn - but completely unconcerned - that I may be a plastic Paddy since despite having lived in Ireland for 56 years, I was born in Kent of Irish parents. However, Mrs M has always been convinced that I am English because she thinks I listen to too much Radio 4.

 

Very true Shiney, a case of rose tinted spectacles. I suffered from it for a while after I left Ireland in 1995, always saying I was only staying in Scotland for a few months and then would go home. 15 years later, having lived in Scotland, London and now Sussex I have no intention of going back to live in Ireland!

 

So bringing it back on topic, if it was originally a geard. Could the addition of tun, enclosure, have made it sound like it does today ? Geardtun/ garden.

And taking it straight off topic again. When I lived in Wales, the welsh had a term of endearment for me - Sais bastad it was.

No idea why this has gone italic, or how to change it !