things that make you smile

[melted welly]

At primary school my best friend pronounced petrol " petlar", he's over 50 now and still does the same.

a pal still says “telephonegraph poles”

 

[bumkin]

a pal still says “telephonegraph poles”

for years i said telewag poles

 

[cudota]

for years i said telewag poles

for years i said telewag poles

for years i said telewag poles

still do

 

[Kidds]

still do

I thought everyone did

 

[betweenthelines]

FIL says Hiel (as in Hitler) instead of oil. MIL says The-ater instead of theatre 'cos she thinks it's posh. Had an Aunt who used to do a passable impression of the Queen (think Brian Sewell) when answering the phone, then it was broad Devon dialect once you said who you were!

Winds me up when people say I-ran, I-raq, I-talian etc.

 

[bovrill]

Winds me up when people say I-ran, I-raq, I-talian etc.

 

[Lofty1984]

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Ooooo too soon ??? I think not

 

[Av Gorritt]

FIL says Hiel (as in Hitler) instead of oil. MIL says The-ater instead of theatre 'cos she thinks it's posh. Had an Aunt who used to do a passable impression of the Queen (think Brian Sewell) when answering the phone, then it was broad Devon dialect once you said who you were!

Winds me up when people say I-ran, I-raq, I-talian etc.

I think 'eil and The - ater were common pronunciations in this area - My Grandfather always used them along with "fray-gile , with a soft G . There was on old lassie here who had a job as a phone answerer for the local doctor . She used to answer with "Hell- ew this is Dr. ----'s Surgery " in absolute "Cat - Glaaaaws " tones . When you made yourself known , she would relapse into the broadest local dialect " Eee- 'Ello ---!

 

[JP1]

German Pekin ducks on my travels today

 

[fred.950]

Our trampoline has visited our neighbours more times in the last year than I have

 

[melted welly]

5yr old and 6 of his pals got letters home from school today for “poking a dog through the fence and making it bark”.

the day before, he and his pals had locked the janny in a garden shed (padlock and hasp)..........she had the keys in the shed with her, which caused a bit of a problem.

letter home about the dog, but just a verbal warning about the incarcerated janny. Poor Janny.

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Good lad. He’ll go far!

 

[Celt83]

What a legend!

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Our lad was using a computer at school to search about suicide bombers for a discussion they were having about it later that day.

We got a call to check he wasn’t being radicalised.

Thought it best not to mention the AN fertiliser and diesel tank in the yard.

 

[melted welly]

Good lad. He’ll go far!

He often does, won’t come back when called!

 

[Cab-over Pete]

That’s lads for you.

They don’t change. His O level PE teacher says he’s doing brilliantly at school, can’t really fault him except he gets all the work done “and then spends the last twenty minutes of the lesson dicking around on YouTube!”

They lost a ball on top of the music room today. They tried climbing up into a pyramid and couldn’t reach. He then has a light bulb moment....”hang on, back in a minute”

He disappeared into the lunch hall, nicked a crutch off a lad with a broken leg and then managed to get the ball with that.

He took it back..... later.

Happy days, but of course he can’t see it like that at the moment.

 

[Nearly]

That’s lads for you.

They don’t change. His O level PE teacher says he’s doing brilliantly at school, can’t really fault him except he gets all the work done “and then spends the last twenty minutes of the lesson dicking around on YouTube!”

They lost a ball on top of the music room today. They tried climbing up into a pyramid and couldn’t reach. He then has a light bulb moment....”hang on, back in a minute”

He disappeared into the lunch hall, nicked a crutch off a lad with a broken leg and then managed to get the ball with that.

He took it back..... later.

Happy days, but of course he can’t see it like that at the moment.

That kind of ingenuity and adaptability will.be beaten out of him by proper site training.

 

[Netherfield]

39 years ago I bought a pair of step ladders, dad was with me as we passed a DIY place and I spotted them outside. A few weeks later dad said "mum could do with borrowing them steps to get into the top of a wardrobe, we lost mum in 2002, sadly dad died July last year, but I finally got my steps back this week.

 

[Cab-over Pete]

It will @Nearly

He’s got a great “crack on and get on with it” attitude.

I just hope it doesn’t lead him into bother one day!

 

[Jerry]

So glad Veganuary is near the end, not that it’s bothered me at all. Home grown shoulder of lamb slow roasted in white wine, herbs, onions. It’s literally falling of the bone. Sauce now reducing for a sublime gravy or Jus if your posh!