Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

I love her to bits.

Hmmm? I am not being racist but merely wondering about genetic facts...

There is now a possibility because of here racial background of them having a black child or grandchild and also possibly with ginger hair. So effing what?

I wish this couple every happiness and a long and enjoyable married life together.

Happy Xmas.

I see Ocado was the most hated share @ 17.44 on 21st November, those shorters would have been hit hard with today's big rise.

Momentum/Labour get in, claim they will bring democracy for 'the people', do nothing of the sort as latent greed and lust for power develops and consumes the leaders. It is laughable for one side to claim only the other is corrupt.

Stanley Johnson, MEP (Retired)

What a useless, rubbish tosser!

Why am I watching this shite?

eh?

Trouble accessing UK websites today, what is going on!! Will not load Stockwatch pages or even the BBC uk website. The rest of the world is working normally, must be snow!!

Doc,

Like father, like son, huh?

You would think the council in Aberdeen would be up to speed with icy weather and the necessity to grit roads overnight. Not a hope sadly. My wife left for work at 6.30am this morning turned right into a minor road from one of the major roads leading in and out of the city which was covered in sheet ice and banjaxed a parked car. Absolutely nothing she could do to control the car. To add insult to injury a council gritter no bigger than a fork lift with a bin on the back was parked on the corner having run out of grit and was waiting for a top up. Couldn't make this shit up.

Snow Chris ? it's sunbathing weather down south .

hilary

Very probably. Although, I'm not absolutely sure.

Chris

BT.DT.GTTS.

Sadiq Khan's not too happy with BoJo today, Doc.

Bob from Tekken 7?

Merry Christmas



Royal Bank of Scotland is set to close 259 branches across the UK, with 197 Natwest and 62 RBS outlets being shut down due to a massive switch to online banking.


680 jobs are expected to be lost as the huge amount of branches are closed by the the middle of 2018.


http://metro.co.uk/2017/12/01/list-of-natwest-and-rbs-branches-closing-across-the-uk-7123401/

Exec, post 79629, keh?

OUTRAGEOUS ! Going to send a letter to my MP , Supermarkets raise the price of Christmas biscuits , they know how to hit a man , someone will pay .

Been there. Done that. Got the Tee-Shirt.

Fortunately, didn't hit anything.

Ah right Exec got it now. My bet is you have grand kids and they are educating you in the today speak. :0) I'm still trying to work out Doric.

Word up: 20 of the best Doric terms
Gabriella Bennett
Feature Writer

It's often seen as the poor cousin of the better-funded Gaelic.

But champions of Doric in the north-east have fought a doughty campaign to keep it alive, and today found support from local bus operator First Aberdeen, which is starting a Doric bus service with words from the dialect featured inside vehicles.

Aboard The Doric Bus, which will be part of regular services in the area, patrons will be greeted with weel-kent phrases across interior advertising panels, including 'bosie' (a cuddle, or hug), 'feart' (afraid) and 'puckle' (a bit or a few).

A first glance at the Doric dictionary for inabootcomers might be slightly disorientating, as the lyrical words and phrases of the north-east can take a while to absorb into more southerly brains (including mine, from deepest Portsmouth) - tooteroo, anyone (any wind instrument)? Or humpie-baikit (hunchback)?

To some, the phrase 'furry boots' might pertain more to a poor sartorial choice in footwear than a Scottish city, but the term has now become so synonymous with Aberdeen that there is even a furry boots app, designed to let users keep abreast of traffic, weather and events.

The phrase also proved popular with comedy act Scotland the What?, who formed in the 1950s while attending the University of Aberdeen and went on to tour the world with incomparably wry social observations of life in the north-east.

It's not just a language of laughter, either ­- many prolific Scottish writers have utilised Doric in their work - key players in the Kailyard genre (most notably Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Scots Quair trilogy) often used Doric to add credibility to scenes and dialogue portraying archaic rural life, as well as creating pathos.

Historically used to refer to the dialect of Lowland Scots, Doric was adopted in the north-east during the 20th century, but the word itself possesses a somewhat unexpected etymology.

Greek Dorians living in Sparta were said to use a more succinct form of the Ancient Greek language - often with harsh pronunciation and restricted vocabulary - compared to the Attic language spoken at the time in Athens.



Further links between the two languages were made when comparisons were drawn between the anglicised version of English used in Edinburgh and the language used in more rural areas, and the term Doric became incorporated into our lexicon permanently.

Despite Doric taking its origins from bygone times in country some 2000 miles away, the language is still very much alive and kicking in the north-east.

These are our favourite words picked from the Doric dictionary, with examples of usage - some have been adopted into the wider Scottish vernacular, others not so much (and we've added a Received Pronunciation definition for the uninitiated). What would you add to the list?

Allagrugous - awful, terrible. The quine looked so allagrugous a couldnae ging near her. (The girl had adopted a ghastly appearance; I refrained from making her acquaintance)

Beddit - to be in bed. Stop yir footerin aboot or yi'll be beddit. (Kindly refrain from misbehaviour, otherwise you'll be placed in bed)

Cat-sookins - wet, limp hair. Yer quine has cat-sookins. (Your daughterappears to have a most unappealing head of hair upon her exit from the shower)

Drookit - drenched. A wiz trapped under thon brandet and am drookit! (Alas, I found myself caught under a drain cover and I'm subsequently soaked to the skin)

Een - eyes. Ma cowkin made ma een waater. (I retched so violently that the action brought tears to my eyes)


Scary huh!