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Mine (and your) Room101 exhibits
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- Lemon Slice
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Re: Mine (and your) Room101 exhibits
Ex Duchess of York at her daughters wedding cupping her hand to her ear and conducting the cheering crowds.
Not your day love.
Vulgar, vulgar, vulgar.
Not your day love.
Vulgar, vulgar, vulgar.
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gryffron wrote:Holland Lincolnshire was largely underwater or swamp, until it was drained by Dutch engineers in the 17th century. Not sure if the thats when it got its name. Is Holland the Dutch for swamp or reclaimed land by any chance?? Might explain the connection.
According to Wiktionary, no, it's actually from old Dutch words meaning "wood land" - unless you're talking about the Lincolnshire Holland, in which case it's from old English words meaning "spur land".
An internet search for "etymology of Holland" generally confirms that - though as with any internet search, one can't be entirely certain that the results aren't mostly the results of different sources feeding off each other...
The Dutch for "swamp" is "moeras", which is pretty obviously more closely related to "marsh" or "morass", and the Dutch term I know that comes closest to meaning reclaimed land is "polder", though that probably doesn't cover all ways of reclaiming land. Neither of them is anything like "Holland".
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There is a Holland-on-Sea in Essex
Great Hollands is a rough part of Bracknell...
Great Hollands is a rough part of Bracknell...
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Holland Park is (indirectly) named for the Lincolnshire Holland.
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AleisterCrowley wrote:There is a Holland-on-Sea in Essex
Great Hollands is a rough part of Bracknell...
Oh, yeah, and Holland Park. V posh, obviously.
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AleisterCrowley wrote:^ I'm going mad, or Mel's post has changed position
Something odd happened with it. It took me three goes to post it (and, let's be honest, it's totally not worth it!). I thought I'd posted it immediately after your post, but came back to the PC and it wasn't posted, had the 'another post...blah' thing so tried again, and same happened again as obviously even more posts, so I did it again and it was third time lucky. So, yes, it ended up further down than I expected - but odd that you saw it when it was further up.
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AleisterCrowley wrote:
^ I'm going mad, or Mel's post has changed position
You're not going mad - Mel posted the exact same response twice, some time apart, and the duplication was reported, so I removed one of them.
Cheers,
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Itsallaguess wrote:AleisterCrowley wrote:
^ I'm going mad, or Mel's post has changed position
You're not going mad - Mel posted the exact same response twice, some time apart, and the duplication was reported, so I removed one of them.
Cheers,
Itsallaguess
That explains how come AC saw it, but not how come it got posted twice!
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melonfool wrote:Itsallaguess wrote:AleisterCrowley wrote:
^ I'm going mad, or Mel's post has changed position
You're not going mad - Mel posted the exact same response twice, some time apart, and the duplication was reported, so I removed one of them.
That explains how come AC saw it, but not how come it got posted twice!
Totally agree, and I'm sorry to say that I can't be of any help in that department either, other that to suggest that perhaps we should banish troublesome double-posts to Room 101 too!!
Cheers,
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Capital FM * Presenters. The clever ones with two Brain Cells must be pregnant.
* I spend a lot of time ferrying my daughter to/from swimming. We've reached a pact where she chooses the radio in one direction and I choose for the other leg. Could call it Swexit where neither of us are happy, but we have to live with the other's choices. She is getting to love Classic FM bit by bit.
Overzealous Parking Enforcement Officers at drop off zones at aforementioned Swimming Pool. Every night (It's 4 degrees up there this evening) they are prowling up and down, swaddled up until 9pm or so when frankly it's no biggie at that time of night if parents are waiting for 5 minutes to pick up their charges. Job Satisfaction moves in mysterious ways.
Underzealous Parking Officers around the School by where I live. Zig zags, double yellows, residents' drives, they don't care.
Perhaps I can arrange a Job Swap....
* I spend a lot of time ferrying my daughter to/from swimming. We've reached a pact where she chooses the radio in one direction and I choose for the other leg. Could call it Swexit where neither of us are happy, but we have to live with the other's choices. She is getting to love Classic FM bit by bit.
Overzealous Parking Enforcement Officers at drop off zones at aforementioned Swimming Pool. Every night (It's 4 degrees up there this evening) they are prowling up and down, swaddled up until 9pm or so when frankly it's no biggie at that time of night if parents are waiting for 5 minutes to pick up their charges. Job Satisfaction moves in mysterious ways.
Underzealous Parking Officers around the School by where I live. Zig zags, double yellows, residents' drives, they don't care.
Perhaps I can arrange a Job Swap....
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What a great thread. I'm late to the table but...
Women (primarily) who stand there, wait and watch the checkout assistant scan their whole trolley full of shopping before (i) rooting around in their handbag for their purse, (ii) rooting around in their purse for their payment card, and then, only when prompted, rooting around their purse for their loyalty card. Then each card has to go back in the purse and the purse in the bag before they even think about moving their bags.
They must find the whole process of buying groceries a big surprise every single time.
Women (primarily) who stand there, wait and watch the checkout assistant scan their whole trolley full of shopping before (i) rooting around in their handbag for their purse, (ii) rooting around in their purse for their payment card, and then, only when prompted, rooting around their purse for their loyalty card. Then each card has to go back in the purse and the purse in the bag before they even think about moving their bags.
They must find the whole process of buying groceries a big surprise every single time.
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AndyPandy wrote:Capital FM * Presenters. The clever ones with two Brain Cells must be pregnant.
* I spend a lot of time ferrying my daughter to/from swimming. We've reached a pact where she chooses the radio in one direction and I choose for the other leg. Could call it Swexit where neither of us are happy, but we have to live with the other's choices. She is getting to love Classic FM bit by bit.
The joys of being a swim parent! We have reached a compromise where I decide what is played in the car, and they stick their headphones on and listen to Spotify on their phones.
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Another one from me;
People trying to get discounts/reductions in charity shops
People trying to get discounts/reductions in charity shops
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AleisterCrowley wrote:Another one from me;
People trying to get discounts/reductions in charity shops
And charity shops themselves. Specifically those that conspire with landlords to abuse their tax breaks and keep rents up, to the exclusion of regular shops on a high street.
Around here, one called St Luke's Hospice has become so egregious I refuse not merely to set foot in their shops, but also to be associated with any of their events. They clearly have far too much money already.
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The word "Spooktacular!" - usually spelt with one or two exclamation marks added at the end.
In fact most things Halloween related, but Spooktacular really grates.
I fully expect it to make it onto the list of new words added to the Oxford English Dictionary one of these years.
I blame "Strictly".
Ugh.
In fact most things Halloween related, but Spooktacular really grates.
I fully expect it to make it onto the list of new words added to the Oxford English Dictionary one of these years.
I blame "Strictly".
Ugh.
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Blokes in the gym changing rooms, drying their testicles with the hairdryers
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sunnyjoe wrote:Blokes in the gym changing rooms, drying their testicles with the hairdryers
A blow-job following an intense gym workout? Not a lot wrong with that.
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