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Not to me you aren't.Did you forget that I'm bossy now?![]()
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Not to me you aren't.Did you forget that I'm bossy now?![]()
I could arrange a ticket to England, if you're interested in trying your luck with the local stock...?Ahem.![]()
I could arrange a ticket to England, if you're interested in trying your luck with the local stock...?
Every day I'm forced to realise how much of a terrible person I am.
I love it.
Rip Van Winkle Jr.?You go right ahead and wallow. I'll wait here 'til your done.
*naps*
Rip Van Winkle Jr.?
It's like asking Satan himself to wallow in flames. I don't wallow. I embrace. Accepting the rotten side of your personality lets you do so much with it.
I could make so many mildly inappropriate comments. But I shan't. Suffice to say I'm curious too. *chortling*Can't wait to see what you're like in twenty years.![]()
I could make so many mildly inappropriate comments. But I shan't. Suffice to say I'm curious too. *chortling*

Again, with the tempting me to make inappropriate comments. I'm dying inside with the italicised very. Toppest of keks.Some poor woman is going to have her hands very full with you.![]()
Again, with the tempting me to make inappropriate comments. I'm dying inside with the italicised very. Toppest of keks.
And you already know one who does.


おやすみなさい。(goodnight)Now it's my turn to resist a cheeky remark.
I must to bed! Goodnight, dear Kal![]()
I don't have a joke, but I have an anecdote. The other day, I was actually walking down the street and I heard two men talking. I was on my phone, and one of the voices was so starkly different than anything I'd heard in something like 15 years that I stopped and looked up. And it was this wonderful English gentleman having some conversation with his friend or acquaintance or what have you, and he said 'Oooooh,' (here, in a protracted, awestruck tone that made one think he'd just discovered God) 'that's proper smart!'
That's. Proper. Smart.
If you've never heard it, I can't possibly begin to explain how amazing it sounds to hear something like it. You want to laugh at it, to scoff at such an archaic, misguided use of the word 'proper,' but you just can't because it fits so damn perfectly. And you stop and say it to yourself a half dozen times, because it's just inexplicably enjoyable to say.
And for some obscure, primal reason, against all sort of common sense or muscular control, I was compelled to laugh. It was a sound and a voice that reminded me so strongly of home that I just couldn't help it. I remembered how much I love cockney. I don't speak it, and I know there's something of a stigma against it in a lot of circles, but cockney is fabulous.
Death to anyone that ever thinks otherwise.

Archaic, maybe, misguided - certainly not. Proper is derived from the Latin Proprius, and one of the meanings is "really". So all that he meant was "That's really smart".
I must get out more...![]()
I reckon I use 'proper' that way sometimes. As a complimentary exclamation for instance. "That's proper magic!" So, in my middle England dulcet tone is that proper amusing or proper attractive?
A celebrated regional variation on the theme for those who live in Geordieland: "Purely Belter". I mean, isn't that just purely belter? It's the title of a film, in which the geordie lad who says it twice reveals such a deep inner agony. I'd say to one and all, 'You must watch it', but ... if you haven't lived near the River Tyne it will sound "proper foreign" for the most part!


I reckon I use 'proper' that way sometimes. As a complimentary exclamation for instance. "That's proper magic!" So, in my middle England dulcet tone is that proper amusing or proper attractive?
A celebrated regional variation on the theme for those who live in Geordieland: "Purely Belter". I mean, isn't that just purely belter? It's the title of a film, in which the geordie lad who says it twice reveals such a deep inner agony. I'd say to one and all, 'You must watch it', but ... if you haven't lived near the River Tyne it will sound "proper foreign" for the most part!
I haven't used purely in years.
But belter is properly chav-tastic!
(See what I did there?)
glad you like it.'Wow! Belter!'glad you like it.
It's great in a group setting when you're given a big surprise which delights you. "Wow! Belter!"
'Wow! Belter!'
I'm appropriating that.

Indeed lol. Case in point.It's what your lion's saying to his lioness I think.![]()
I reckon I use 'proper' that way sometimes. As a complimentary exclamation for instance. "That's proper magic!" So, in my middle England dulcet tone is that proper amusing or proper attractive?
A celebrated regional variation on the theme for those who live in Geordieland: "Purely Belter". I mean, isn't that just purely belter? It's the title of a film, in which the geordie lad who says it twice reveals such a deep inner agony. I'd say to one and all, 'You must watch it', but ... if you haven't lived near the River Tyne it will sound "proper foreign" for the most part!
I've been using proper since I was a child.
Another one that my Canadian cousins loved to copy, is the use of the word "well". As in, "that pie is well nice". They thought it was hilarious.
They have the most astonishing ability to dress up anything with a few well-chosen pretty words and make you feel as though you've been served a slice of champagne cake on a paper doily.
I must confess I rather like it.![]()
Phew! For a moment I thought you were saying we were being insincere...![]()