That's what the little stick is forQuote from Hover fly on receiving his, “It’s a wonder they didn’t draw a face on the turd”.

That's what the little stick is forQuote from Hover fly on receiving his, “It’s a wonder they didn’t draw a face on the turd”.
I love how language evolves, and morphs, and different groups and cultures will take on, or preserve, their own dialect.Some white teenagers in Birmingham now have British Asian accents. Even British Asian accents have come into existence in my lifetime.
If you drew it with that particular stick, the face wouldn't be noticeable. You need a change of colour.That's what the little stick is for![]()
I wonder if they had a few mystified calls from people who didn't know what faeces, or stool meant, and so just had to settle for a term which although childish, isn't offensive, and which pretty much everyone has come across.My recent colon cancer screening kit from the NHS referred to the item under test as "poo" throughout the instructions. Mercifully, they didn't refer to "sitting on the potty".
Yes, of course they did, but they could have put it in adult language too and not infantilise people.I wonder if they had a few mystified calls from people who didn't know what faeces, or stool meant, and so just had to settle for a term which although childish, isn't offensive, and which pretty much everyone has come across.
It's always going to be a tricky subject to get the tone just right on, isn't it?Yes, of course they did, but they could have put it in adult language too and not infantilise people.
I'm seeing flex more often used as a term for showing off, atm ."Flex", as in "flex the rules". What's wrong with "bend"? Bend has worked for decades. Does flex add any meaning at all?
Plonkers.
That's hardly a new usage.I'm seeing flex more often used as a term for showing off, atm .
Either physically or materially or even intellectually.
I agree, however when you're dealing with a childish sense of humour it's possible to go too far the other way and be so proper and adult that it causes unintentional mirth.Yes, of course they did, but they could have put it in adult language too and not infantilise people.
You missed a bit off thereThe utterly pompous 'egregious'.![]()
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