Cringe at "Crimbo"

[UnquietDad]

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

Bleeeee! Football!!

"Arse" is a wonderful word to describe a person.
Not suitable for a bottom.

So, fellow pedants, am I an oxymoron or just an arse?

Hairy arse is to rugby as waxed sac and crack is to football.

Actually I've a feeling that footballers' buttocks aren't hairy.

Surely it's Chrimbo?

at you all.

I'm posh-ish. I don't wash very often, that kind of thing.

What is the bunfight thread, Habbibu?

x-post swedes! You said the same thing but funnily.

Naked rugby. Probably the most dangerous sport in the world.

I quite like 'arse'. Drawl it: aaahhhhrrrsse.

Or, when DH has done something catastrophic: "Oh, you absolute arse!"

UQD:
"Xmas is surely fine as a written abbreviation provided you don't actually say it."

You?

Why the shock, finknottle?

We've already discussed how it is - technically - correct.

I'm a bit shocked that nobody else has stepped forward and said they have also been know to say Crimbo. Cowards.

My 21 year old Uppingham educated next door neighbour sent me a card that wished us all a happy Chrimble.

At UQD merely being lazy & not at all scholarly, Greek or otherwise

with a heart over the i.

Here, onebat. But you're only to post if you utterly agree with me. Otherwise I'll cry.

I have never ever said 'Crimbo'. Not even jocularly. Not even to denounce it. It has never crossed my lips. I'm not sure I had ever come across it except on MN for a few weeks.

I say "Chrimbo" and I'm not ashamed!

CHRIMBO CHRIMBO CHRIMBO!

Shudder.

"Not even to denounce it." LMArseO.

'Least I spell it right!

Please! The image of an arse dropping off during naked rugby is just too disturbing.

ahem Wiki says Crimbo was first used in 2000. That's wrong. I distinctly remember using it in the 80s.

Yes, the reason I didn't object to Xmas (that much) was exactly the one outlined by Penthesileia.

"Crimbo" has no scholarly pedigree of any sort!

Just seen your post of 14:34:33, finknottle!

Do you know what mu rho might be for? I assumed Mary, but could the rho stand for something else?

Chrimbo is very very useful actually.

In winding you lot up!

Where's my sherry? (Stamps size 5 threateningly...)