(November 13, 2017 at 9:21 am)mh.brewer Wrote:

(November 13, 2017 at 8:48 am)Dave B Wrote:

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Americans still speak quite a lot of olde English as a legacy of the Pilgrim Fathers.

Only when we want to sound like wankers ya bloody tosser.

Naw, them's mostly new English!  "Bloody" goes back to the late 17thC though, rowdy young aristocrats were called "bloods" and to be likened to them could be an insult in lower social classes. It has been used, fraternaly, in American gang culture has it not?

Thinking of "scallion", "skillet", "settle"and others that have been lost or changed meaning and pronounciation back here. Though, with "Internetese" some of those are changing. Pity.

http://www.abroadintheyard.com/new-fangl...d-england/

Language has to change but it's not always for the good.

This is s test post, my last seems to have vanished!

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Naw, them's mostly new English!  Brewer! 

"Bloody" goes back to the late 17thC though, rowdy young aristocrats were called "bloods" and to be likened to them could be an insult in lower social classes. It has been used, fraternaly, in American gang culture has it not?

Thinking of "scallion", "skillet", "settle"and others that have been lost or changed meaning and pronounciation back here. Though, with "Internetese" some of those are changing. Pity.

http://www.abroadintheyard.com/new-fangl...d-england/

Language has to change but it's not always for the good.

(Let's see if this posts)

In the first 30 days and prior to your first 30 posts there is this rule about links to external content. Don't think you're a violator but then I'm not a mod. Might want to read the forum rules before you get your hand slapped. 

https://atheistforums.org/rules.php

Keep posting.

Oops!

Not being able to link is like having your hands tied over your mouth as a gag!

I see that you finally put some cloths on.

I don't know.  My first game coaching Little League I tried to move my center fielder by shouting out " Mike, 3 steps to the left. "  It looked like a marching band doing a scatter-step.  4 kids promptly moved to the left.... including my first baseman who walked into foul territory.

Two things crossed my mind:

1 - "You better think of some nicknames for these kids in a big hurry." 

and

2 - "You've got an idiot at first base."

This is just a test post 'cos I am having probs.



Nope, I get the picture on the edit screen using [img] tags but when I preview it all I see is [Image: ]

Please tell me what you see guys.

(November 14, 2017 at 3:52 pm)Dave B Wrote: This is just a test post 'cos I am having probs.



Nope, I get the picture on the edit screen using [img] tags but when I preview it all I see is [Image: ]

Please tell me what you see guys.

I can see the image.

(November 13, 2017 at 8:31 am)Dave B Wrote:

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(November 13, 2017 at 8:09 am)chimp3 Wrote: Dave's not here!

That's what we like you to think . . .