charles wrote: [snip]
It's the same word as the German / Netherlands Saksisch. It means "Saxon" not southerner.
Although a Scots (Teuchter) relative of mine used to I insist that it meant sausage-eater.
It's used more commonly in Welsh and many government websites feature "Saesneg" for "English". I used to find it mildly offensive but since English indicates that we are Angles it's just a bit of a difference about what flavour of Kraut we are.
to seriously reevaluate your life. Go visit the 3rd world and see how people live.
Pardon me for getting real.
I only half expected another foolish time wasting response. Plonk.
Yes, and the N word we mustn't say come directly from the Latin (with merely the doubling of the G) yet is highly offensive.
Because of the way it is used.
Andy
people live.
Earned yourself a plonk there for humourlessness. The OPs first post was clearly light hearted. If you couldn't see that I pity you.
Tim
Though I am Scots myself I like that phrase, not analysed to closely, just the sound of it.
Sassenach is just Gaelic for lowlander. However it is used nowadays (mostly) as a term for Englishmen.
Line em all up, I even put washers on with the rounded (caused by stamping)part out
Vertical when the switch is 'on', horizontal when 'off'.
Racism: terms used by white englishmen to describe anyone who isn't a white englishman. Banter: terms used by anyone else to describe white englishmen.
There. Does that make it all clear?
o lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded wit h goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing nu mber of producers.
Well in Dublin sandwiches are known as sambo's. I wouldn't fancy asking for a sambo in parts of London.
I'd always assumed everyone did that. When I made up some big (22mm i/d) washers in the lathe recently I rounded one side so they'd look right.
washers in the lathe recently I rounded one side so they'd look right.
I do in most cases but put the rounded side in when using them as reinforcing on thin metal uder stress and also for the same use on plastic. ICBW, but I feel that a sharp edge on relatively fragile materials Is Not A Good Thing.
Far too frivolous a reason.
My feeling is that horizontal orientation evokes optimism and pleasure, no doubt due to the way we recognise the human face and relate to a smile, So horizontal for family homes, and vertical for miserable bastards like accountants.
Are we still talking about screwing ;-)
Vertical for an upright honest home. Horizontal for slobs who lie around watching daytime TV.
Applause.
Barnsley police station use those on the face plates in the cells. Well for one of the screws. The other one is a two pin screw.
By extension one ought to orient the screw heads on each side of the light switch slightly off the horizontal, tilted down a little[1] on the inside edges to more accurately depict a "smile"
[1] more acute angles to be used by oriental DIYers wishing to avoid the "blank stare" look ;-)
Don't worry, Flash Gordon is approaching...
Though for a door handle (usual rectangular flat area with screw hole near each corner), I would prefer them to be aligned to rays emanating from the centre of the handle's centre of rotation, passing through the centre of the screw itself.
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