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Yes, I got that too, and I'm looking forward to watching it over the hols. I also got from the same source "Blott on the Landscape" at a knockdown price. Another excellent series with a great cast. -
That's true, I would. I don't think he smirks at women - if he did he'd get his cardboard face slapped & his head would soon fall off & I'd notice it.Originally posted by teamsaint View PostComment
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I doubt it. There are apparently hordes of women who would be only too pleased if Mr Titchmarsh smirked at them, and more.Originally posted by Osborn View PostComment
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I couldn't wait. I bought that set as soon as it was released. It cost a lot more than £4.50 but I don't regret the purchase one little bit. Superb series.Originally posted by Stillhomewardbound View PostComment
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"Private Schultz"
I would easily have payed top dollar for it myself. There's a ropey clip version of the 1st episode on You Tube which is a real tease, because you know the entire thing has to be watched in its entirety.
Richardson is astonishing and his performance far out-ranks House of Cards in my opinion but the meat of the piece has to be Jack Pulmans superb writing.Comment
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I said upthread that I really find it hard to get my head around labels and 'must-have' brands and have just seen today the mayhem and violence that a re-issue of some Nike trainers have caused in the US. Unbelievable that people are so indoctrinated that somehow owning a pair of these will make their lives ......... better or somehow ..... not sure of the right word ........ meaningful? It's worth being pepper sprayed or tasered for these?
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oh dear....or is this 'news' part of an extended marketing campaign, the incidents in the news story hyped, emphasising that 'these old plastic pumps are very popular....look at the mayhem they're causing'?
It's worth being pepper sprayed or tasered for these?
probably .....if you can then stick your pumps on ebay at a big mark up. odd to think of them as a currency though! better or somehow ..... not sure of the right word ..........temporarily a bit richer probably covers it.
stick to your yellow wellies anna
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I have never owned a pair of trainers, this makes me a very sad person I think. I just prefer leatherOriginally posted by handsomefortune View Poststick to your yellow wellies annaComment
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No, not at all, Anna. I've never seen the sense in paying exorbitant prices to advertise so called "designer" goods plastered with makers' logos. In my day, trainers hadn't been invented. We wore sandshoes - "sannies" in the local vernacular.Originally posted by Anna View PostComment
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Indeed ... when I first moved South I could never quite grasp why so many of my English colleagues announced they were off to grab a tennis shoe for lunch ...Originally posted by mangerton View Post
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Sandshoes were Home Counties for sandals in my nipperhood. Well my mum called them sandshoes - but she did come from Middlesbrough, (poor dear), so I may be wrong there... Incidentally, for those interested (like me) in local/regional dialects, Bristolians use the word "Daps" for gym shoes/plimsols.Originally posted by scottycelt View PostIndeed ... when I first moved South I could never quite grasp why so many of my English colleagues announced they were off to grab a tennis shoe for lunch ...Comment
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Yes, plimsolls were called daps when I was growing up in Wiltshire.Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostComment
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Pumps for me in Nottinghamshire....Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
One reads in Wiki: "In the UK plimsolls were compulsory in schools' physical education lessons. Regional terms are common: in Northern Ireland and central Scotland they are sometimes known as gutties; "sannies" (from 'sand shoe') is also used in Scotland. In London and the home counties and much of the West Midlands and north west of England they are known as "pumps". In parts of the West Country and Wales they are known as "daps" or "dappers". There is a widespread belief that "daps" is taken from a factory sign - "Dunlop Athletic Plimsoles" which was called "the DAP factory". However, this seems unlikely as the first citation in the Oxford English Dictionary of "dap" for a rubber soled shoe is a March 1924 use in the Western Daily Press newspaper; Dunlop did not acquire the Liverpool Rubber Company (as part of the merger with the Macintosh group of companies) until 1925."
I love that sort of stuff...
Right, on with the Xmas motley...
Last edited by Nick Armstrong; 25-12-11, 09:55."...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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I wonder if the regional divisions between names for plimsolls coincide with those for the different regional playground terms for 'truce'? - My mother, a Londoner, used 'fainites' - but in Wiltshire is was 'creases'. Any other regional variants?Originally posted by Caliban View PostComment
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Daps here, hence 'get your dappers on' and fainites (does that come from a French word?), to be in a sulk is 'got a cob on', a scratch (cut) is scram (as in 'I scrammed my leg on a bramble) and someone who talks a lot is very chopsy, as 'She don't half chops on) Can't think of any more at the momentOriginally posted by vinteuil View PostComment
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