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.

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!

DAMIAN GREEN
this is such a manipulated, political witch hunt

not even the bloodhounds are claiming any porn that this chap may or may not have had on the company or his personal pc was other than perfectly above board ...... the prudes will no doubt claim that no one should view such stuff

disgraceful behaviour by both the perpetrators and the media

Manuel.

Define pornography and erotica for me.

But, is what is good for the goose good for the gander?

But I can't see why the elite should not be investigated, prosecute and tried by the same judicial system as the general public.

But as you say, it may be a political action and a more sophisticated (tory) elite may wish to suppress exposure of their various proclivities.

May not look good on their party buntings.

My father is almost as big a leftie as you Fred and is no big fan of Green or any Tory but even he reckons the police or ex police are out of order on this one and should be prosecuted if possible for their actions.

Actually I think it's the first time I've ever heard my father stick up for a Tory MP !

fred - in this instance, the porn was checked out a decade ago and nothing (remotely) illegal/untoward was found in its content
indeed, the data files were instructed to be destroyed/deleted, but this was clearly not done

You knew your father?

Yeah , said he knew your mother too.

Manuel,

Re-read P 79639.

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Also, have a look at legal aspects present legislation on "porn" images and remember "one man's meat is another man's poison".

One of the problems of this area is the involvement of "sexual connotations" rather than the considering the "abuses" or "exploitations" of the "individuals", especially those who are more vulnerable due to age or other sensibilities.

It may be easier to have a simpler implementation using the latter to define laws.

As far as Damian, you, or I, are concerned, if in the course of police investigations "dubious" information or "evidence" of "criminal" activity is found which may be of relevance to potential criminal activity, it seems sensible to investigate.

(If a photo and May and a bill for the purchase of Cyanide were found in his draws it could be related to a future poisoning of a mistress, or rats in Downing Street.

(I can't quite remember what Damian himself was investigating at the time, prior to the police investigating his own activities.)

Perhaps, he also was guilty of intrusion in some form or other.

Dil.

No.

I checked my birth certificate.

Dil.

P 79644

But the most sobering thought about the comment may be that it could make you a half-brother.

God forbid.

But I have a guess, my mother's, childbearing period was over before your father was wearing nappies.

Dil
:)

There's nothing I like more than porn. Especially with loads of garlic and a bit of chilli.

Try a little of Dil's Brawn!

Dil ....

Just take those former police offices pensions away in the same way as they would if they were still in the force. Action like that will make others hesitate from taking the medias blood money.