Phrases/words that set your teeth on edge.

[teamsaint]

A silly point, I admit.

I thought it was appealing.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I thought it was appealing.

I didn't understand this. So I Googlied it.

[teamsaint]

I didn't understand this. So I Googlied it.

Sadly, I think we will run out of puns soon.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Sadly, I think we will run out of puns soon.

I nearly missed that one - so I embowledened it.

[Padraig]

I nearly missed that one - so I embowledened it.

I do declare it stumped me too f.

[LMcD]

I do declare it stumped me too f.

Do we think we've covered this point sufficiently? (I only ask because it's a matter that's been long on my mind).

[french frank]

I do declare it stumped me too f.

He chucks down all the time. It's all over with him.

[LeMartinPecheur]

Otherwise it should have been Executive Ploughmen.

Perhaps I was over-hasty in deriding the Executive Ploughmans.

An executive is surely the person who does the real work, so these days the Executive Ploughman must be the tractor-driver.

What then does the mere Ploughman do? His age-old job of following the plough, probably while sucking a straw

[Barbirollians]

No. A tenant must occupy. A renter need not.

With respect , that is just wrong .

For a tenancy to be created classically there must be exclusive possession for a term at a rent ( though since Ashburn Anstalt v-Arnold it is doubtful rent is necessary . The question more is an intention to create legal relations .

A tenant does not need to occupy for there to be a
Tenancy just a right to possess and to exclude all others from possession including the landlord

The term “ renter” has become used instead of tenant for no good reason . The overwhelming majority of renters as described are private renters who because of the Housing Act 1988 are in fact properly described as assured shorthold tenants.

The term renter has no legal meaning - it does not describe people who permission to occupy that falls short of a tenancy - a person permission to occupy bring a licence and licensees do not pay rent they pay a contractual fee . Rent as a term being indicative of tenancy .

Hence, renter is a meaningless invented term when in fact they are tenants !

[kernelbogey]

....What then does the mere Ploughman do? ....

Watch out for a wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie...?

[kernelbogey]

....I can remember my very first ploughman's, largely because it was in a pub by the Itchen where you could sit and watch the water voles going about their business. Just a simple, warm white cob loaf, butter, huge hunk of cheese and pickled onions. Perfect apart from the beer, which was Watney's Red Barrel - CAMRA was founded the following year.

Not far from the Itchen, in Braishfield, was a wonderfully old-fashioned and eccentric pub, with husband-and-wife 'landlords' (she claimed that she kept a chain in the boot of her car, to hoik homeward-bound customers' cars out of the ditch), which served the best value 'ploughman's' and ham sandwiches I've ever encountered, the former like Richard's first, the sandwiches great slabs of home-cooked ham in doorstep sarnies. They kept their beer brilliantly. The pub was borderline scruffy, and the garden filled with decrepit garden furniture which the semi-feral fowls had liberally territory-marked - hence our family name for the place 'the chicken-shit pub'. It was called the Newport Arms, and it closed some years ago when the couple had died, and the last I saw it was for sale - no doubt to become an up-market home.

(Sorry, off topic, but I hope a sequitur.)

[LMcD]

The nice young nurse practitioner tells me that, after I've had a blood test in February and she's seen the results, we may remeet.

[cloughie]

The nice young nurse practitioner tells me that, after I've had a blood test in February and she's seen the results, we may remeet.

It messes up Vera Lynn’s rhyme!

[Serial_Apologist]

It messes up Vera Lynn’s rhyme!

... which in turn doesn't go down well with vegetarians!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... which in turn doesn't go down well with vegetarians!

No - it makes them blu ... oh, you're ahead of me!