Don't worry, they (we?) will all be dead soon. Young people are much nicer.
Of course. Peanuts, like the poor, will always be with us. But judging by my daughters' friends and acquaintances, the young are generally a lot less sexist/racist/homophobic and the like than the old - and a lot less so than the old were when they were young. It's not perfect, never will be, but on the whole I'd say things are heading in the right direction.Hmmn, would that that were universally true.
Some of the younger ones seem to have learnt some bad tricks off of the older ones..
Of course. Peanuts, like the poor, will always be with us. But judging by my daughters' friends and acquaintances, the young are generally a lot less sexist/racist/homophobic and the like than the old - and a lot less so than the old were when they were young. It's not perfect, never will be, but on the whole I'd say things are heading in the right direction.
More, as in more quicker, more faster, more easier/harder, more lighter.
30 years ago I went out on the North Wall in Grimsby and tried my hand at Dogfish filleting, I had the piss ripped out of me something chronic by the women ‘Doggers’....Totally OT but you remind me of visiting a shed in Grimsby where rows of men & women were gutting/filleting flat fish, at gobsmacking speed. While I was talking with the line manager, I suddenly became aware of a loud knocking thundering through the shed, and turned to see the entire workforce banging the heels of their knives on the table. "Someone must have nicked themselves," said the line manager, telling me later that the practice went back to the middle ages.
Yep, that’s much more betterer!I agree, it's abysmal (ab)use of English.
Surely everyone knows it should be -
'More quickerer, and more fasterer'
I'm too iggerant to get the Latin ref, but I quite like it. Liverpudlian? Eh? Where did the puddle come from? Mancunian? Do wot John? The arbitrariness tickles me too - how come some places have them, others don't? There is, AFAIK, no Edinburgh equivalent of Glaswegian, nor is there any term for someone hailing from Sheffield, Birmingham or Norwich. Come to think of it, I'd say more places don't have them than do - so who decided there needed to be a special term for denizens of Manchester or Liverpool? Or London?I rather dislike the illogical nature of Latin overtones in the English language.
If someone is from London, they are a Londoner. If from Glasgow, Glaswegian.
Shouldn't it be Glasgowian, or Glasgower, or Londonian? I don't like the breaking up of the word.