I have just been asked my my next door neighbour if he could borrow my bath plug!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My last neighbour would asked "can I lend your bath plug?"
A better class of neighbours?
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Neighbours borrowing stuff
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^by^^^^^^^^^^^^
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I suppose your previous neighbours didn't need a plug since they kept their coal in the bath.
Nick
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Probably not. The last one probably took it with him.
The new one is using the bath for the first time since moving in.
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In article , ARWadsworth writes
Did you offer them a cum stiffened tissue and a foot of gaffa tape?
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To which the obvious response (which would receive blank looks) is "To whom?"
Chris
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As long as they did not have baths in the coal shed all should be well. Brian
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This is a pet hate of mine. Being a Londoner, I had never heard this way of speaking outside of "The Wind in the Willows". It was quite a culture shock, moving to the Midlands, and having a financial advisor come round to advise us on how much she could "borrow us". It got even worse when our lad sometimes uses it.
I was listening to the radio once, and a guy had phoned in with a story about forgetting his keys. He said he was banging on the door shouting "loose me in, loose me in". I worked out he meant "let me in" but was fascinated that it was clearly his first expression - again something I had never heard in London.
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Was it used in the phrase "If I could borrow you some money mate, that would be bostin". That's dialect ;-)
Simon.
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"My My, whatever next" ! Simon. (My mum used to say that)
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Being a Londoner you won't have heard the use of a consonant until you left the vile place. Birmingham is associated with a bad accent but Mockney is worserer.
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Who was he thinking of lending it to?
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A long story to that one....
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:-)
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Steve Firth gave the best ever description of my last neighbours when he said "They are not thinkers are they?"
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This is a pet hate of mine: Being a Londoner
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The correct English is of course, "lend's a bat' plug", or "giz a bat' plug".
Youse wanna lern yerself to speak proply!