Pross
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But a spendthrift is the opposite of what you describe "a person who spends improvidently or wastefully"
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But a spendthrift is the opposite of what you describe "a person who spends improvidently or wastefully"
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briantrumpet
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Once I'm up to four layers plus an oodie and still feeling cold (or just want to give myself a very naughty treat), the heating goes on. It's currently *nearly* 16C indoors. Luxury. I'm looking forward to standing charges being reduced or abolished.
secretsqirrel
spiteful class warrior
Funny thing about 16c. It feels a bit on the chilly side in the house until you spend a few hours out in the cold, then it feels quite cozy.
Pblakeney
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OMG! I really have totally misunderstood that and have been using it incorrectly for decades. 🤪 I thought it was related to thrifty.
Yes, I did mean the complete opposite. That's me learned my one thing for today. 😉😂
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briantrumpet
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Perception is a funny thing... it's the opposite in the summer in France... 25C feels quite warm inside the house, but if I've been out cycling, the house feels like a fridge.
swee'pea99
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Apparently women actually do feel the cold more. I discovered this recently and mentioned it while we were discussing the thermostat; 'er indores and the daughters of hardship all gave me that 'you just heard did you?' look. I'm not entirely clear how you could establish this, scientifically like, but it is apparently the case. So I've put it up to 19. I know, I'm just a big-hearted Hector, what can I do.
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briantrumpet
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Haha. I think most of us have bits of vocabulary that we've got wrong since childhood, especially if it makes some sort of logical sense (as 'spendthrift' does for your definition). That moment when someone looks at you weirdly, or someone says something that doesn't make sense to you in response...
Anyway, it's a good day for you, as you've learnt something new, which is great when you're in your 7th decade or close (I think)! 🤣
Pross
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I had to double check when I read it as I started to wonder if I had it the wrong way around (again due to the thrifty bit).
Pross
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Apart from the ones who are at a stage in life where they are always hot. Trying to get our choir rehearsal room at a temperature all the women are happy with is the bane of my Sunday evenings.
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briantrumpet
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Is it possible that you're misinterpreting women choristers coming up to you to tell you they're hot? Maybe you're the young man in the choir they all fancy. (Under 60 counts as a young man in a choir.)
swee'pea99
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For me it was 'enervate'. I didn't come across it often, but when I did I thought it meant to liven up, to invigorate, only discovering well past my half century that it actually means the exact opposite: "...lacking physical, mental, or moral vigor, or feeling drained of strength, energy, and vitality."
Of course it can happen with whole expressions...
"When I was young my father said to me: “Knowledge is power, Francis Bacon.” I understood it as “Knowledge is power, France is bacon.”
For more than a decade I wondered over the meaning of the second part and what was the surreal linkage between the two. If I said the quote to someone, “Knowledge is power, France is Bacon," they nodded knowingly. Or someone might say, “Knowledge is power” and I'd finish the quote “France is Bacon" and they wouldn't look at me like I'd said something very odd, but thoughtfully agree. I did ask a teacher what did “Knowledge is power, France is bacon" mean and got a full 10-minute explanation of the “knowledge is power” bit but nothing on “France is bacon". When I prompted further explanation by saying “France is bacon?” in a questioning tone I just got a “yes”. At 12 I didn't have the confidence to press it further. I just accepted it as something I'd never understand.
It wasn't until years later I saw it written down that the penny dropped."
Answer by one Lan L Baron to a question on Reddit in 2011: 'What word or phrase did you totally misunderstand as a child?’
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briantrumpet
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That's it, I'll never vote Labour again. I don't like gherkins or marmalade, and I think they should be properly taxed.
deptfordmarmoset
Über Member
Must have misheard ''working class''....
bobzmyunkle
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Yes, but don't forget the kerosene (whatever that is).
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...ervatives-miliband-carers-latest-news-updates
Treasury claims its food tariff cuts, combined with Rachel Reeves' tariff cuts, will cut consumer costs by up to £595m
It is not just gherkins where the Treasury is cutting import tariffs. (See 9.07am.) Here is the lists from the Treasury of mostly food imports where tariffs are being cut.
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briantrumpet
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Ah, seriously, garlic. I always buy it by the 100kg from Aldi.
