a bit council

[Cliftonite]

northwest monkey said:

Stickyfinger said:

who or what is Ola ?

So along with having never heard of TK Maxx or Argos a couple of weeks ago, you've now never heard of Ola Jordan or presumably Strictly Come Dancing?

It's a show that's on TV in the corner of your drawing room. The TV is the thing that looks like a black rectangle canvas in a frame and has moving pictures on sometimes - mainly watched by people not existing on your social plane.

It was a perfectly good question from Stickyfinger. I had no idea what an Ola was either. But was too shy to ask.

[Goaty Bill 2]

Cliftonite said:

It was a perfectly good question from Stickyfinger. I had no idea what an Ola was either. But was too shy disinterested to ask.

EFA

Seriously, I have no idea either.
Please do not tell me.
Yes, I have heard of that dancing 'program', and I know far more than I ever cared to. The advertisements for it are cringe worthy enough for anyone.

[BrabusMog]

Cliftonite said:

northwest monkey said:

Stickyfinger said:

who or what is Ola ?

So along with having never heard of TK Maxx or Argos a couple of weeks ago, you've now never heard of Ola Jordan or presumably Strictly Come Dancing?

It's a show that's on TV in the corner of your drawing room. The TV is the thing that looks like a black rectangle canvas in a frame and has moving pictures on sometimes - mainly watched by people not existing on your social plane.

It was a perfectly good question from Stickyfinger. I had no idea what an Ola was either. But was too shy to ask.

I didn't either, but a quick Google image search gave some good results!

[Stickyfinger]

BrabusMog said:

I didn't either, but a quick Google image search gave some good results!

When I typed in "Total Gay bks" in an attempt to find info I was amused what came up !

Agree the Adverts (eg Breakfast BBC) make me shiver.

[Europa1]

Goaty Bill 2 said:

Cliftonite said:

It was a perfectly good question from Stickyfinger. I had no idea what an Ola was either. But was too shy disinterested to ask.

EFA

Seriously, I have no idea either.
Please do not tell me.
Yes, I have heard of that dancing 'program', and I know far more than I ever cared to. The advertisements for it are cringe worthy enough for anyone.

Your spelling of "programme": Council. Did you mean disinterested or uninterested?

[Goaty Bill 2]

Europa1 said:

Goaty Bill 2 said:

Cliftonite said:

It was a perfectly good question from Stickyfinger. I had no idea what an Ola was either. But was too shy disinterested to ask.

EFA

Seriously, I have no idea either.
Please do not tell me.
Yes, I have heard of that dancing 'program', and I know far more than I ever cared to. The advertisements for it are cringe worthy enough for anyone.

Your spelling of "programme": Council. Did you mean disinterested or uninterested?

"program/programme": occupational hazard combined with a considerable dose of laziness and the influence of working with and reading documentation written by my erstwhile 'neighbours' to the south.
The intentional lowering of one's own standards so as to become comprehensible to one's audience may on occasion be necessary in my experience.

"disinterested or uninterested": Take your pick. Clearly I could not easily use both in the same sentence, though I grant you; "uninterested" expresses the sentiment more accurately.

I will not, as so often happens in this thread, return with anything along the lines of "pedantry = council" or such nonsense.
I stand corrected.

[popeyewhite]

Goaty Bill 2 said:

Cliftonite said:

It was a perfectly good question from Stickyfinger. I had no idea what an Ola was either. But was too shy disinterested to ask.

EFA

Seriously, I have no idea either.
Please do not tell me.
Yes, I have heard of that dancing 'program', and I know far more than I ever cared to. The advertisements for it are cringe worthy enough for anyone.

I had the misfortune to catch it once by mistake. The men act up strutting around like prize cocks while the women show off their (quite nice, actually) bodies tip-toeing around the men. It's extremely nasty and glittery.

[soad]

Joe Browns? Even Littlewoods stock most lines.

[Jimmy Recard]

Stickyfinger said:

I am not Gay or Transsexual.

So now we've moved on from making a point of asking questions to prove disdain to general bigotry

[MDMA .]

Dog Star said:

mp3manager said:

Council-tastic!
They even have a stty LCD above the fireplace.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-33417...

What in the name of Satan's arse is going on there!?!?

It looks like some massive fungal growth.

Coming soon to every house in Cheshire.

thought it was the Grinch :

[CayenneWkr]

Artificial Christmas trees. Any more than two colours of bauble on a real tree.

Abbreviating Christmas to 'Xmas'

[Digitalize]

CayenneWkr said:

Abbreviating Christmas to 'Xmas'

I do this because I'm not Christian, and don't celebrate it as any sort of religious holiday.

[Condi]

Digitalize said:

CayenneWkr said:

Abbreviating Christmas to 'Xmas'

I do this because I'm not Christian, and don't celebrate it as any sort of religious holiday.

I do it 'cos I'm lazy.

[northwest monkey]

CayenneWkr said:

Artificial Christmas trees. Any more than two colours of bauble on a real tree.

Abbreviating Christmas to 'Xmas'

We've had the Xmas one before - apparently it's ok according to some ancient tradition

I'm half expecting someone to ask "What's Christmas?"...

[WD39]

northwest monkey said:

CayenneWkr said:

Artificial Christmas trees. Any more than two colours of bauble on a real tree.

Abbreviating Christmas to 'Xmas'

We've had the Xmas one before - apparently it's ok according to some ancient tradition

I'm half expecting someone to ask "What's Christmas?"...

Slight correction.

It's chrismaaaaaaaaaas!!, courtesy of Noddy Holder and Slade, from now until the end of time.

[Stickyfinger]

northwest monkey said:

We've had the Xmas one before - apparently it's ok according to some ancient tradition

I'm half expecting someone to ask "What's Christmas?"...

I know that one....it is when we have the poor folk round and let them eat some meat and drink ale on their one day off a year

[Burwood]

Stickyfinger said:

northwest monkey said:

We've had the Xmas one before - apparently it's ok according to some ancient tradition

I'm half expecting someone to ask "What's Christmas?"...

I know that one....it is when we have the poor folk round and let them eat some meat and drink ale on their one day off a year

Lol.

[dudleybloke]

Stickyfinger said:

I know that one....it is when we have the poor folk round and let them eat some meat and drink ale on their one day off a year

Then we all point and laugh at Tiny Tim. Oh such fun.

[standards]

CayenneWkr said:

Artificial Christmas trees. Any more than two colours of bauble on a real tree.

Abbreviating Christmas to 'Xmas'

Agree with the tree decoration observation.

Could be council to be unaware that the original Christmas stories are in koine Greek and the 'X' is the 'chi' at the beginning of 'christos' in said language.

But the Xmas tree baubles defo.

Oh dear, is 'defo' council?

[anonymous-user]

No, but in Essex 'Caahnsiw' is translated from 'Council'

'Illiterate tt' on the other hand has no translation due to the number of syllables.