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19 Dec 2019, 11:38 pm
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20 Dec 2019, 4:11 am
narcissists rush over eachother for more beautifull virtue signalling bling
beads and mirrors
20 Dec 2019, 7:35 am
20 Dec 2019, 7:42 am
Sh*t it's Friday. Every week I get confused because I start one hour earlier than I do all my other days. Time to go put on by bauble earrings and Father Christmas hat. Poor tree still up but unadorned 
20 Dec 2019, 11:40 am
There's a British-vs-American English thread going elsewhere, but this made me laugh...
fluffysaurus wrote:
Half way home from work last night, I could hear sirens. The nearer I got to my estate...
because in American English, "estate" means something like:
So fluffy has let her mask slip again. (Or in fact, that was probably not even fluffy posting, but merely one of her junior butlers in charge of social media....)
20 Dec 2019, 5:06 pm
Darmok wrote:
There's a British-vs-American English thread going elsewhere, but this made me laugh...
because in American English, "estate" means something like:
fluffysaurus wrote:
Half way home from work last night, I could hear sirens. The nearer I got to my estate...
because in American English, "estate" means something like:
That little thing? no here's my estate.
Oh hang on, wrong picture, this is more like the housing estate I live in.
In English an estate can be any size such as when someone dies what they leave is referred to as their estate
where as places like where I live are properly called housing estates. They are collections of houses built together
by the same builders post war. I'm guessing they were often built on the land of large estates (sold off for death
duties) possibly the reason for the name being used for both.
20 Dec 2019, 5:10 pm
Darmok wrote:
So fluffy has let her mask slip again. (Or in fact, that was probably not even fluffy posting, but merely one of her junior butlers in charge of social media....)
Not true
20 Dec 2019, 5:15 pm
20 Dec 2019, 5:56 pm
fluffysaurus wrote:
Darmok wrote:
So fluffy has let her mask slip again. (Or in fact, that was probably not even fluffy posting, but merely one of her junior butlers in charge of social media....)
Not true
I know the crown isn't big enough, but it was the only one I could find.
20 Dec 2019, 6:04 pm
fluffysaurus wrote:
Darmok wrote:
There's a British-vs-American English thread going elsewhere, but this made me laugh...
because in American English, "estate" means something like:
fluffysaurus wrote:
Half way home from work last night, I could hear sirens. The nearer I got to my estate...
because in American English, "estate" means something like:
That little thing? no here's my estate.
Oh hang on, wrong picture, this is more like the housing estate I live in.
In English an estate can be any size such as when someone dies what they leave is referred to as their estate where as places like where I live are properly called housing estates. They are collections of houses built together by the same builders post war. I'm guessing they were often built on the land of large estates (sold off for death duties) possibly the reason for the name being used for both.
I think our US equivalent is "housing development." This is not to be confused with "housing project," which is now a US synonym for urban slum or ghetto. Best to stay away from "the projects."
(Your country estate reminds me of an old cartoon featuring an elderly gentleman in his dressing gown, reading the morning paper in a wing chair in the corner of a gigantic room, with the butler standing nearby. "My god!," he reads. "It says here the east wing burned down last night!")
21 Dec 2019, 11:21 am
Just was passing through, as I have no territory of my own to call, so, " I'll just go with abode"
21 Dec 2019, 2:16 pm
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21 Dec 2019, 5:02 pm
longshot wrote:
Just was passing through, as I have no territory of my own to call, so, " I'll just go with abode"
Hello Longshot, are you still using the library computer?
