"Santa" is an Americanism - in the UK its "Father Christmas" isnt it?

[janmoomoo]

Or am I being pedantic?

Well, to get back to Santa. Or father Christmas as my English friends call him. I did a mini survery at work today. I am the only member of staff in teh whole store wh calls him Santa. Everyone else says father Christmas,mind you they are all from Hampshire. 6 customers called him Santa, 5 were Scots and 1 Welshwoman.

Well, at least there's finally someone on this thread I can understand. They've all been blethering away about Rooney sweets and everything!!!

You all right, hen?

Rooney - is he no a fitba player wi a face like a skelpit erse?

I wouldn't flatter him by saying that.

pmsl at skelpit arse!

Tada - do you like my name change?

x post with Geansai - I think Saltire meant 'on a good day, with lots of airbrushing'

Bella - it's erse not arse!

Loving the name, Saltire!

Aren't you worried people might think you are frightfully naff and not at all classy?

FWIW DH's family are about as far away from middle class as you can get and they say FC so boo sucks to all those Hyacinth Buckets out there who are just trying to be proper.

THANTA IT IS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

x post - sorry for saying arse - been down South too long

The only classy people I know are the ones who drink their Bucky in a glass instead of straight oot the bottle

don't make me laugh like that when I really need a wee - it's not fair!

Oh no, must ask!!!

Do I go to the

loo

lavatory

toilet

bog

or some other place?

None of the above.
its pish hoose

Good one, Saltiresays

SANTA

Unfortunately, however, you have not won the special prize I am going to award to the first person to tell me that toilet is vulgar/crass/common/generally beneath oneself.

Feel certain that will happen soon, though

Mam get us a pack of tayto from the press and a can of guinness while your there and I heard a thump and think Santy got stuck up the chimney . Shove those colleen crap sweets, i want a double centre.

Bella. They ar enow talking about Colleen sweets. Those Irish must have a thing about Mr and Mrs Rooney!

this'll be the first and last time Graham O'Sullivans gets a mention on Mumsnet!!

Mind Yooooooo, i recently discovered they do refills for 75Cents so I was told. By my plumber. Yeah. OK?

...and what about Mikado biscuits? or as my mother insists on calling them....

Mick - a -do

TnoG, took my aunt from the cunthreee up to Dublin and we went to Starbucks above BT2. She kept calling it Starburkes. sniggery snigger.

Wats, bring a buggy with a pack of nappies hanging off it. Tis mandatory.

lololooo

I don't know, those culchies, they'd be the death of ye.

My mammy calls Volvo cars Vulvas

oh my God. I'd crash the car if she said it while I was driving!

what do they call those? Malapropisms is it? A neighbour of mine was brilliant for those. She used to get all dressed up in her 'refinery'.

Saltire - are you there? They definitely have a thing about the Rooneys, don't they?

Should we start talking about Ally McCoist, or Soooooooo-ness?