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to wish that balls (not human) were never invented?

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WaxOnFeckOff · 21/05/2018 18:39

Jeez, it's nice to see kids out playing but the bounce bounce bounce is driving me up the wall!

Every time I see one of those US programs with the kids/teens out playing basketball on their driveway in the evening always makes me wonder why some neighbour hasn't taken a baseball bat to them.

I'm clearly not very noise tolerant.

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WaxOnFeckOff · 23/05/2018 15:04

I presume you mean "yard" too? My DC were very confused when their cousins from Virginia kept referring to the yard instead of the garden.

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smithsinarazz · 25/05/2018 22:13

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smithsinarazz · 25/05/2018 22:13

(BA MSc MSc MRTPI, seeing as you were asking)

CheshireChat · 25/05/2018 23:03

It sounds like Wax just wanted a harmless, anonymous whinge, not sure why people are so annoyed.

I mean, I got annoyed someone was talking in front of my window. I live on a main road... (first floor flat). Did I say anything- hell no! Was I still vaguely miffed- heck yeah, they were bloody loud.

BishopBrennansArse · 25/05/2018 23:08

YANBU
Next door neighbours' kid thinks it's funny to repeatedly kick balls over. We've delayed throwing them back now as it slows it a bit. I'm talking several times a day.

He's even broken my beautiful acer.

WaxOnFeckOff · 25/05/2018 23:27

Ah only a bit of a cow smith and is misanthropic your word of the week that you learned from your bog roll?

Still it's always nice when someone learns a new word.

Run along now, the grown ups are speaking.

Good work on googling qualifications, if you are a town planner then i'm a monkeys uncle. Especially as you cant't read a thread or get the gist or tone that clearly the majority of the less hard of thinking do. Someone with a Masters wouldn't usually also say that they have a BA, also think it would be more likely that you would have honours if you went on to do a Masters - or indeed two....Hmm

MBChB MRCGP DRCOG - see I can do it too, does that make me a GP? Well I dunno, you'll just have to guess...

Nice though that you cared enough to return 2 days later to stir up a bit more shit.

Hope you have a lovely bank holiday, weather supposed to be nice and warm.

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Copperbonnet · 26/05/2018 03:38

Grin Yes Wax I did mean yard.

We’ve been here long enough to become “bilingual” so I’d say yard, vacation, recess, restroom, purse, swimsuit and pants to an American but garden, holiday, playtime, loo, handbag, swimming costume and trousers to a British person.

I quite regularly confuse myself and I’m still entertaining the locals with my accent.

ACavalo · 26/05/2018 05:12

BA MSc not that unusual, and standard not to inc the (Hons) or the awarding body, especially when you have multiple post-nominatives and don't feel the need to pad your title

ACavalo · 26/05/2018 05:25

And it's MBBCh for a UK undergraduate medical degree, or Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery. Unlike the MSc (postgraduate qualification, Master of Science) or the MPharm (undergraduate qualification, Master of Pharmacy), the M in MBBCh stands for Medicine. However, although doctors and dentists receive bachelor degrees, they gain the samentitle as PhD graduates. Higher education is weird.

WaxOnFeckOff · 26/05/2018 09:12

ACavalo The qualifications i posted are genuine, whether they are mine or not. Have you read the posts by smith?

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