uk.d-i-y is going....

[Phil]

... only 24 unread posts this morning (overnight), a new low point :-(

[Adam Aglionby]

daisy...daisy....

[Brian Gaff]

What, I have not noticed much change here. Maybe everyone is busy with their angle grinders?

Brian

[Bob Eager]

And WD-40.

And car body filler.

[Artic]

Bob Eager scribbled...

... sabotaging windmills...

[newshound]

and checking our boilers

[ARW]

My brain dead mother was going to spray her grandchilds bicycle brakes with WD40 to stop them squeaking:-)

[Bob Eager]

I checked mine. She's fine.

[fred]

Are you saying it wouldn't have worked :-?

Don't worry about the safety issues, the product would have returned to congealed whale spunk in about 5mins flat so all would be well.

[ARW]

[Windmill]

I've only heard that word four or five times in all the decades since I was a teenager. Thought it was local slang and/or had gone out of favour.

[fred]

What, whale?

I think you must have moved to a more sheltered existence, AFAIAA it is still in common usage, obviously depending on the company.

Perhaps there's been a PC attempt to re-invent it cf. smeg head ref Red Dwarf, clearly an allusion to a smell cheesy nob end but try finding that definition on a search these days.

Australians seem to get very confused about such terms, see def 7:

[The Medway Handyman]

Are you an expert on congealed whale spunk?

[fred]

It's amazing what you can find out on the Discovery channel.

[polygonum]

ex-spurt?

[The Medway Handyman]

Speaking of local slang - when I were young, we used to play "it" or "he" - prolly known as a game of tag.

If you wished to be temporarily immune (whilst tying a shoelace for example) you held up crossed fingers & shouted "feinights". Unsure of the spelling, but that's how it sounded.

I thought everyone said the same, but it appears regional.

What did you shout?

[The Medway Handyman]

:-)

[Tim Streater]

Yeah same here - Three Bridges at the time.

[The Medway Handyman]

East London in my case.

Any idea of the derivation?

[Huge]

My North London born wife used this word in similar games, but I've never heard of it. I'm not really from anywhere much (father in the services, so we moved a lot) but I lived in Bristol longer than anywhere else.