Cringe at "Crimbo"

[UnquietDad]

Please sign in here if you do. I think people who use it should be shot.

Have just checked my lovely Greek icon from Crete, an image of Mary and Jesus, and it has:

MP, OV, lc(with line over), xc (with line over).

I would love it if Pen could translate.

MP plainly means that Morningpaper is the virgin mother, but beyond that I'm stumped

Oh no. Please don't hate me. I have joined a twelve step program. I go to Crystal Meth Anonymous on Tuesdays and Crimbo Anonymous on Wednesdays.

LOL, Threadworrm!

I really loathe fanjo and norks.

Hmmm.... Well, probably:

MP = mu rho - MR - thus Mary (Or Mariam/Miriam)

the next (can't get the symbol up) is theta upsilon: stands for Theou uios: son of God.

And XC - stands for Chi signma - Christos soter - Christ the saviour.

I've not seen MP (mu rho) before... Need to check it doesn't stand for something else beginning with 'rho' in Greek.

I can't abide 'arse'. Can't remember if I've said this before but it makes me think of the hairy buttocks of a posh man playing 'rugger'.

Should be sigma, obviously.

Oh thank you thank you Pen. That is lovely. It really is a beautiful thing and I feel closer to it now.

I have tainted it with buttocks crosspost though

What do you say instead, thready? "Bottom"?

You're welcome...

It's quite close to that 'fish' acronym:

Iesos Christos Theou Uios Soter (Jesus Christ, son of God, Saviour) - ICTHUS (and Icthus means fish in Greek). Hence the fish symbol for Christianity. It was a secret sign for ancient Christians.

well, I say 'bottom'. I don't say it instead of 'arse' though. That suggests that 'arse' has default status, which I strenuously reject.

I think onebat has been floating about. Not seen policywonk though. I am ashamed at being here too much. She is being good I expect.

And nonsense. Buttocks spoil nothing. Look up Venus Kallipygos...

I don't say arse to mean bottom, but I will say someone "is an arse".

X-post. Hate the idea of ancient christians using acronyms. Was it an early branding exercise I wonder.

nowt new under t'sun, thready.

Oh, ok. Well, I don't say that someone is a bottom.

Usually wanker, motherfucker. (In my head only. I swear hugely in my head.)

Oh too many chi-posts.

LOL.

I think (though am not student of Christianity) that it was more to do with hiding their existence when Christianity was persecuted.

You could draw a fish to indicate where to go to the local prayer-meet or whatever.

Unless you're being ironic...

Am a bit slow today...

Sigh.

Hi-ya!

'A bit of an arse' is my standard expression of amused contempt. 'An utter arse' precedes violence.

DS has a card which wishes him a Crucial Chrimbo, an expression which contains so much ...wrongness as to render me mute.

Why do people say "'Tis"?

Is 'arse' rather a posh insult? Are you posh?

I mean, its possible poshness is what explains the rugby buttocks. (I really do see a scrum attached to the hairy buttocks when I hear 'arse'.

Who's posh? Me or onebat? I'm not, but she drinks her creme de menthe with little finger crooked, so I'm told.

Where have you been on the bunfight thread, onebat?

Do you watch a lot of naked rugby, thready?

I loathe "Xmas" and "Crimbo"
I use C'mas if too lazy to type "Christmas". As I frequently am on here.

Am I an oxymoron?

Naked rugby? Again, only in my head.

Question was to both of you. So, Habbibu not posh but says arse. Might revise to footballers' hairy buttocks.

No-one I know says arse.