say somethign poncy about yourself - go on

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lol pointy. agree crapola (feel sure ive met people who would do that though...)

special things for brekkie? am in awe. can just about function at breakfasttime, let alone summon energy for poncy behaviour... mind you, i did make scrambled egg with smoked salmon bits in once, though served on regular plates... does that qualify??

socci - yes I think that just about defines it. The appearance of a thing is more important than it's use ie grape scissors eh Camy.....

grape scissors?? am starting to wish id made time to follow this thread from the start... sounds hilarious (and eye-opening)

I am poncy enough to query the claim that lounge is a French word.
Etymology questionable, it would seem.
Ban it from your homes by all means, but find another excuse.

wheres the bit about lounges then? (cant be arsed to trawl through thread, have a poncy house to poncily decorate...)

speaking of which, and along these lines, the rooms have 'names' on the plans so that all relevent parties know what we are talking about when we refer to one wall or another... and (jokingly) we have referred to some of ours as: Family room, Drawing room and Music room... do i win??? (we will call them the living room and the Grown-up living rooms in RL when the builders etc are gone)

Oops, hadn't realised how long the whole thread is.
Posts from LadyMacbeth, Fri 26-Jan-07 at 10:01:12 and then 11:19:15 about words of French origin which people think are posh.
Where I come from, lounge isn't thought of as posh.
My parents, on the other hand, have a drawing room, a vestibule and..... a butler's pantry.
(AA scuttles off in shame at having such a high ponce factor in her gene pool.)

thanks AA (makes me think of alcoholics, that). yes! you win! especially if they have a butler in the butlers pantry... hehe

we had a pantry, but its gone to make way for the double height atrium which is a dining room, or will be. and we will have a housekeepers cupboard (or something) to replace the lost storage space in the new kitchen... make you feel any better?

i suddenly feel very footballers wives...

Should have thought through my name more carefully, AA does indeed have dubious connotations. It has been shortened to Auld by other posters, but that just makes me feel ancient.

I did feel momentarily better on reading your post. Atrium is pretty good.

Then I recalled that my mother also calls the room off her kitchen a scullery. But fortunately no scullery maid in it. Nor butler in the pantry, sad to say. Think what she calls a scullery would now be known as a utility room.

i didn't think i was poncy but we have some silver napkin rings and we use them...????

Yes OrmIrian it just doesn't feel right cutting small bunches of grapes for dd using great big kitchen scissors

I think I can feel a Mothers day present from dd coming on

I have a hot tub, is that poncy?

"i did make scrambled egg with smoked salmon bits in once, though served on regular plates... does that qualify??"

no. The plates is the whole point. The essence of the ponciness. The nub of ponce.

(reply to galore)

hot tubs are common

'the nub of the ponce'

"I am poncy enough to query the claim that lounge is a French word."

yes, auld! I was poncy enough to pick up the dictionary to check the spelling of 'wrack' as in 'wracking my brains' but then thought nah. But the fact I picked up the dictionary to check 'wrack' while on a message board is var poncy. I knew I had it in me!

I don't drink instant coffee, we buy coffee in it's green bean state and roast it ourselves.

ponce factor 8/10

NP, I agree there was someone murdered in one round these parts not so long ago.

pretentious-moi?

I would still like one though, a hot tub that is.

They make me think of Matt and Lillian in The Archers.

Drinking Gin and Tonic Dahhhhling.

listening to the archers? You ponce.

on Radio 1940 as dh calls it.

Big ponce factor.