The Bluestocking - the one where the nights start to draw in

[Boiledbeetle]

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Settles down in the comfy chair by the fire.

I would say not east Belfast in general.

I would say Cherryvalley, specifically, no?

But you’d be unlikely to be asked by many English people to use that term, unless discussing geological specimens.

Oh lord you would not believe the hoops I had to jump through when I was doing a job application with a pin code and voice recognition, and the pin code had the number 8 in it

This is true. Many folks have not had the experience of the mineral man coming round every Friday with a bottle of white lemonade, a bottle of brown lemonade and a bottle of pineappleade. Or sometimes it was raspberryade - orange mineral was a moveable feast.

It’s not “orange mineral”

Its oranj minrel

see also shaur

mhyrrh

squrl

All of the above make my kids piss themselves laugh at me.

Red lemonade.

football special (McDades?)

I feel your pain. 30-odd years here and I still have to think when I’m saying aight.

I also got funny looks about Prince Charles having ascended to the thone

I was knitting a herringbone which was very slow and fiddly, so I went with the really easy pattern you posted.

Hope you like it.

Picture the boring RP speaking magpie looking mystified...

Though not half as funny as the ones I got when dialling into a work meeting and explaining that "I'm only here for the crack"

@SionnachRuadh will we go to morellis in the Port for a poke?

Nope. I'm southern & said off-licence, but northern friends called it a 'beer off'.

My dad was a Weegie of Irish origin (thanks for the passport, Grandad), and he used to.say "Haud your wheest, or you'll hae your heed in your hands tae play wi'".*

As a result I was delighted that the women's rights group called themselves the Women who Wouldn't Wheest. Now there are tonnes more people who know what wheest means.

*Shut up or I'll knock your block off.

That's a beauty, Myrtle. Love it.

Yay for the northern beer offs!

We went to the Tank Museum at Bovington a couple of weeks ago, & when nearly there we saw tanks on transporters (which DH found terribly exciting). Your way of moving them by road would be much easier.

I still hope that some day I'll see a No Smoking poster that says 'Nick Yer Fegs' 😉

Ahhh, @SionnachRuadh, I hear you on the voice recognition challenge. I frequently refer colleagues to this helpful documentary to explain how shit it is for many of us.

That’s wee buns that is so.

Believe it or not, voice recognition software doesn't do well with RP either. The more clearly I try to enunciate, the worse it does. I suspect it's trained exclusively on Estuary accents.

Brilliant!

I love the Scottish elevator.

im just after me tea and now im banjaxed so i am. I do be doing this here all the time ate myself til I near have the dry bokes. Mon tae feck and wet that tay . You’ll take a biscuit so you will sure?

^^ my wee granny god love her

Do you know what, I get this all the time when I say something completely straightforward and people on the Teams chat look at me like I'm speaking Japanese or Greenlandic or thon African language with a click in it, and it annoys my brain so it does.

Yes. Me too. My West Midlands colleagues are lost at times.

I said to one young man “C’mere you to me a wee minute” and he wasn’t nearly half as scared as he should have been 🤣🤣🤣

See also. The insult (? Is it - not really an insult insult but) “yer ma”