It’s another chester draws thread...

[OccasionalNachos]

I have just discovered that my DP of 11 years - so far always seemed like a fairly decent adult man - says ‘Chester drawers’. Specifically, I was asking him where some paperwork was and he said ‘in the top Chester drawers in the spare room’

This has never happened before.

AIBU to leave?

Chester draws that's defiantly rediculous

Hopefully we can forgive him for his age but my 4 year old picked out his own bbq food on on Saturday and when I asked what he’d chosen he said ‘chicken phillips’ 😂

When people describe some one as a little angle...... I see it on Facebook all time and makes me cringe so much.... Angel it’s angel lol

How do you grasp mettle? Mettle is vigour, spirit, temperament, and I don't see how you can hold it at all (and it doesn't have "the" in front of it as a rule, because it is an abstract not an object). Have it or show it, yes; grab it, no. You grasp a nettle to show your mettle.

Aaron Hill some time around 1750 rather rubs in that it is not mettle originally:

"Tender-handed stroke a nettle,
And it stings you, for your pains:
Grasp it like a man of mettle,
And it soft as silk remains."

The point is that if you stroke up against a nettle it stings you; if you grip it, the tiny spikes on the leaves are crushed and don't go through your skin and you are not stung.

And see wordhistories.net/2019/01/28/grasp-nettle-origin/

I feel sorry for your DP, he’s been made an escape goat.

I bet he’s fumming.

@ChesterDrawsDoesntExist

Seeing my own username irritates me a bit.

This made me proper laugh at the end of some shitty hospital news - thank you xx

Irregardless of what he said, you should leave him.

Also in Natasha Bedingfield pronouncing hyperbole as "hyper bowl" in These Words when the lyrics are all about writing 😂😂😂

My kids say, I'm gunna search it up on the internet.

My boss comes out with youse instead of you, will youse do this ASAP aaaaarrrrggggg

My exdh used to say "rations of bacon" but I didn't notice until after we married :(

My DH says winduz for windows - It’s disgustang!

The origin is 'mettle', although, because it sort of makes sense, 'nettle' has become acceptable

I think it's the other way round.

Woman in cafe asked for a ‘Cup a chino’

his draws is beside the spinal staircase...

He doesn’t leave his pack lunch in the Chester draws does he?

A friend when camping was taking about the "doe-fee" field until we realised she was talking about d of e (Duke of Edinburgh) 😂

Road signs saying advanced notice of closure.
And, I may have mentioned previously, road liable to flooding. No. Prone to flooding, or liable to flood

almost every one of my colleagues will say 'confinscate' or 'coffinscate' instead of confiscate and it makes me want to cry

Wow 13 pages and no one has asked if they are aloud to join in.

I think you might need to except this

Are you sure he's not saying "Chest o'draws" which is what I say, the "o" being more like the 'e' sound in "get"?

I used to work with someone who said that. He was congratulating himself on teaching an overseas colleague how to pronounce something. He didn't get the irony!

That was replying to @colourfulest

I've noticed that 'begs the question' now is used to mean what it sounds like it should mean, can't help feeling it's an improvement.

What do you think it sounds lovely ke it should mean!