Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 6)

Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 6)

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Frank7

6,619 posts

86 months

Monday 27th July 2020
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glenrobbo said:
confused How much is a South London dime worth, Frank?
At $1.25 to £1, I’d say 12.5 pence, but let’s be fair, dropping a dime is a well known expression for reporting something to someone.
Granted it’s from across the pond, but I heard my very English nephew say to his brother, “I know it was you or Hannah that dimed me to Lily about that bird in The Drovers.”

popeyewhite

19,621 posts

119 months

Monday 27th July 2020
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Sebastian Coe.

Always has, ever since he couldn't look Ovett in the eye when he lost the 800m as a shoe-in.

glenrobbo

35,063 posts

149 months

Monday 27th July 2020
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Frank7 said:
glenrobbo said:
confused How much is a South London dime worth, Frank?
At $1.25 to £1, I’d say 12.5 pence, but let’s be fair, dropping a dime is a well known expression for reporting something to someone.
Granted it’s from across the pond, but I heard my very English nephew say to his brother, “I know it was you or Hannah that dimed me to Lily about that bird in The Drovers.”
Well, at the exchange rate you have quoted, I make that 8 pence, but it's an expression that I've never heard of before. I've heard of "peed off", but never "dimed off".
But then, I'm an Essex boy from oop norf, so what would I know?

Where can I exchange sterling currency for London dimes if I should ever venture to the capital in future?

Johnspex

4,330 posts

183 months

Monday 27th July 2020
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Frank7 said:
glenrobbo said:
confused How much is a South London dime worth, Frank?
At $1.25 to £1, I’d say 12.5 pence, but let’s be fair, dropping a dime is a well known expression for reporting something to someone.
Granted it’s from across the pond, but I heard my very English nephew say to his brother, “I know it was you or Hannah that dimed me to Lily about that bird in The Drovers.”
Well known perhaps to the kind of idiot who calls the police the Feds or a pretentious little Englishman who likes to pretend he's so travelled that he can't stop talking in Americanisms or lapsing in to French or German.

RizzoTheRat

25,083 posts

191 months

Monday 27th July 2020
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Frank7 said:
At $1.25 to £1, I’d say 12.5 pence, but let’s be fair, dropping a dime is a well known expression for reporting something to someone.
Granted it’s from across the pond, but I heard my very English nephew say to his brother, “I know it was you or Hannah that dimed me to Lily about that bird in The Drovers.”
I have never heard this expression before. (Middle aged bloke from Hampshire if its likely to be an age or regional thing)

Frank7

6,619 posts

86 months

Monday 27th July 2020
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glenrobbo said:
Well, at the exchange rate you have quoted, I make that 8 pence, but it's an expression that I've never heard of before. I've heard of "peed off", but never "dimed off".
But then, I'm an Essex boy from oop norf, so what would I know?

Where can I exchange sterling currency for London dimes if I should ever venture to the capital in future?
glen, arithmetic was never my long suit, so I couldn’t claim that I was right, and you were wrong, but I worked it out in my head this way, one pound is worth one dollar twenty five cents, so knowing that a dime is ten cents I divided 1.25 by 10, this equalled 12.5, so in my childish innocence I took a dime to be 12.5 pence.
I then crowed to my wife, “Just done a guy up here Nick, he reckons a dime is only worth 8 pence.”
She said, “He’s right I think you berk, one dollar equals 78 pence, ten into 78 goes almost eight.”
Once again I’m cattle trucked by glenrobbo, backed up by Benedict Arnold as my wife is now known.

Frank7

6,619 posts

86 months

Monday 27th July 2020
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Johnspex said:
Well known perhaps to the kind of idiot who calls the police the Feds or a pretentious little Englishman who likes to pretend he's so travelled that he can't stop talking in Americanisms or lapsing in to French or German.
Bite me

Johnspex

4,330 posts

183 months

Monday 27th July 2020
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I shall reply in the same vein, that of an 8 year old, as you have, 'my Dads bigger than yours'.

Bite me! Jesus, I thought you were supposed to be 80! FFS.

Johnspex

4,330 posts

183 months

Monday 27th July 2020
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I shall reply in the same vein, that of an 8 year old, as you have, 'my Dads bigger than yours'.

Bite me! Jesus, I thought you were supposed to be 80! FFS.

nonsequitur

20,083 posts

115 months

Monday 27th July 2020
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GroundEffect said:
nonsequitur said:
MartG said:
People commenting on a Youtube video about Anderton boat lift who cannot understand that a caisson full of water will weigh the same with or without boats in it frown

Come on people - Archimedes figured this out in 250BC !
A niche subject I would say.readitconfused
Very basic physics that every person finishing school should understand.
I never went to finishing skool. teacherhehe

popeyewhite

19,621 posts

119 months

Monday 27th July 2020
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nonsequitur said:
GroundEffect said:
nonsequitur said:
MartG said:
People commenting on a Youtube video about Anderton boat lift who cannot understand that a caisson full of water will weigh the same with or without boats in it frown

Come on people - Archimedes figured this out in 250BC !
A niche subject I would say.readitconfused
Very basic physics that every person finishing school should understand.
I never went to finishing skool. teacherhehe
Presumably because you're a bloke?

glenrobbo

35,063 posts

149 months

Monday 27th July 2020
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Johnspex said:
I shall reply in the same vein, that of an 8 year old, as you have, 'my Dads bigger than yours'.

Bite me! Jesus, I thought you were supposed to be 80! FFS.
Johnspex said:
I shall reply in the same vein, that of an 8 year old, as you have, 'my Dads bigger than yours'.

Bite me! Jesus, I thought you were supposed to be 80! FFS.
Aha! Furious Johnspex has been provoked into double posting! yikes

Calm down dear, it's not worth blowing a gasket!

I'm not trying to score any points here, it's just that I thought dimes seemed a bit out of place in a London context.
Although I am familiar with the use of 'arf a dollar' to mean two shillings and sixpence back in the day when a quid would buy you 4 US dollars at the AFEX store on the nearby USAF airbase when I was a young lad.

I guess the "who dimed me?" thing was just something in Frank's bubble.
Perhaps it should have been "Who bubbled me?"? wink

glenrobbo

35,063 posts

149 months

Monday 27th July 2020
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nonsequitur said:
I never went to finishing skool. teacherhehe
I never even got started! biggrin

nonsequitur

20,083 posts

115 months

Monday 27th July 2020
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popeyewhite said:
nonsequitur said:
GroundEffect said:
nonsequitur said:
MartG said:
People commenting on a Youtube video about Anderton boat lift who cannot understand that a caisson full of water will weigh the same with or without boats in it frown

Come on people - Archimedes figured this out in 250BC !
A niche subject I would say.readitconfused
Very basic physics that every person finishing school should understand.
I never went to finishing skool. teacherhehe
Presumably because you're a bloke?
Some of the blokes I know could scrape in.hippy

Frank7

6,619 posts

86 months

Monday 27th July 2020
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Johnspex said:
I shall reply in the same vein, that of an 8 year old, as you have, 'my Dads bigger than yours'.

Bite me! Jesus, I thought you were supposed to be 80! FFS.
Okay John, you don’t like my use of Americanisms, or anyone’s I guess, I get that, but it doesn’t faze me, I don’t want to pi$$ you off, but I could care less if it annoys you, here’s a suggestion, if you see a post authored by me, walk on by, scroll down to the next one, how does that grab you?

Cliftonite

8,406 posts

137 months

Monday 27th July 2020
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Frank7 said:
Okay John, you don’t like my use of Americanisms, or anyone’s I guess, I get that, but it doesn’t faze me, I don’t want to pi$$ you off, but I could care less if it annoys you, here’s a suggestion, if you see a post authored by me, walk on by, scroll down to the next one, how does that grab you?
Aaaaaagh! You did that on purpose?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw&ap...


Johnspex

4,330 posts

183 months

Monday 27th July 2020
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Frank7 said:
Okay John, you don’t like my use of Americanisms, or anyone’s I guess, I get that, but it doesn’t faze me, I don’t want to pi$$ you off, but I could care less if it annoys you, here’s a suggestion, if you see a post authored by me, walk on by, scroll down to the next one, how does that grab you?

L
Did you spend a lot of time at the cinema, or movies as you would call it, watching cheap American films? I bet you can do the George Raft coin rolling thing too.
For someone who professes to so proud of being a Londoner, why don't you try posting like one instead of a characterfrom West Side Story or a Damon Runyan novel?

Clockwork Cupcake

74,391 posts

271 months

Monday 27th July 2020
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Johnspex said:
Did you spend a lot of time at the cinema, or movies as you would call it, watching cheap American films? I bet you can do the George Raft coin rolling thing too.
For someone who professes to so proud of being a Londoner, why don't you try posting like one instead of a characterfrom West Side Story or a Damon Runyan novel?
Oh give it a rest will you. Your vendetta against Frank is tedious and boring, as are your posts on the subject.

Europa1

10,923 posts

187 months

Monday 27th July 2020
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Clockwork Cupcake said:
Johnspex said:
Did you spend a lot of time at the cinema, or movies as you would call it, watching cheap American films? I bet you can do the George Raft coin rolling thing too.
For someone who professes to so proud of being a Londoner, why don't you try posting like one instead of a characterfrom West Side Story or a Damon Runyan novel?
Oh give it a rest will you. Your vendetta against Frank is tedious and boring.
I enjoy Frank's musings and tales.

However, the use of "I could care less" is a hanging offence.

AlexC1981

4,903 posts

216 months

Monday 27th July 2020
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My raspberries.

Bought them on Saturday.

Delicious on Sunday.

Furry by Monday. frown
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