First Aspect
Guru
Brian is only around 70.
Prince Andrew
- Thread starter Pale Rider
- Start date
Page may contain affiliate links. Please see terms for details.
Brian is only around 70.
CXRAndy
Epic Member
All uphill
Senior Member
What is acceptable?
Looking-glass and fragrance?
I need to know in order to maintain my standing.
Pinno718
Guru
Centimetres? He's taller than that.
secretsqirrel
Senior Member
Pinno718
Guru
Fragrance: 'pit stick', 'stink spray', 'pit perfume', 'pit juice'. 'stink stopper'... (you choose Andy).
He'll need to pick up the lingo when he's living under the M4-A40/Hammersmith flyover. Prostitution might be a way to make a living.
briantrumpet
Pharaoh
Putting my slippers on and puffing on my cigar, this kind of twaddle has a lot to answer for: it's all code for categorising people so posh people know who isn't 'one of them'. A lot of 'table manners' are like that too, including the daft one about putting your fork into your right hand if you put down the knife - that only suggests you were using the wrong hand for it in the first place (if you're right-handed).
Ian H
Shaman
Scent.
secretsqirrel
Senior Member
It’s just a sub-culture like any other.
briantrumpet
Pharaoh
It is, but one that stinks/stank of implied superiority, so not quite "like any other".
briantrumpet
Pharaoh
icowden
Shaman
Many years ago, one of our most feared/respected teachers was apt to go into apoplexy over this. He seemed to be modelled on Windsor Davies' Sergeant Major. He sang opera and his voice could carry across the entire school (and this was a large school) as well as over 800 boys singing hymns in assembly. He was a lovely chap but very old school. The more intelligent time wasters hitched on to the fact that he absolutely loved to regale us with anecdotes rather than actually teach, so they would always try to divert him into a story. He was also the final teacher to smoke a pipe in class - he was still doing it throughout the 80s.
Apparently when the school went co-ed and there was a directive to use pupils first names instead of surnames, he blithely ignored it preferring <surname> for boys and Miss <surname> for girls.
But say "pardon" if you didn't need pardoning for something was, in his book, a most heinous crime.
"SAY WHAT BOY. IF YOU HAVEN'T COMMITTED A CRIME OR A SIN YOU DON'T NEED A PARDON".
Pblakeney
Legendary Member
This. It is all just snobbery and looking for an excuse to look down on others.
That said, there is no excuse for eating like an animal.
briantrumpet
Pharaoh
Indeed- there are things that are just unpleasant, such as farting at the table, though I think I'd permit burping, which is considered a compliment to the chef/cook in many cultures, IIRC. I don't give a FF how people eat their peas with their fork.
Ian H
Shaman
I eat my peas with honey,
I've done so all my life.
It makes them taste quite funny,
But it keeps them on the knife.