Moat Manhunt

[Hoboh]

Is it just me that feels slightly uncomfortable to hear the police responsible for catching a serial killer describe a time as 'teatime'?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/10556948.stm

No.

It's all this Southern stuff creeping up North that's doing it!!!!! Tea times tea time!

[mummywhycantieatcrayons]

Oh god, no, I definitely didn't want to get the lunch/tea/dinner debate going again.

But whatever you call your evening meal, it doesn't seem a particularly precise way for a policeman to make reference to a time...

[thebish]

Is it just me that feels slightly uncomfortable to hear the police responsible for catching a serial killer describe a time as 'teatime'?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/10556948.stm

No.

It's all this Southern stuff creeping up North that's doing it!!!!! Tea times tea time!

I have to admit a guilty secret that I now have hybrid terminology - lunch in the middle of the day (as in lunch-box / packed lunch - does any one have a dinner-box?) - and tea in the evening (whether it is main meal or not)

dinner is only on special days - christmas dinner or possibly sunday.

[Prufrock]

Is it just me that feels slightly uncomfortable to hear the police responsible for catching a serial killer describe a time as 'teatime'?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/10556948.stm

No.

It's all this Southern stuff creeping up North that's doing it!!!!! Tea times tea time!

I have to admit a guilty secret that I now have hybrid terminology - lunch in the middle of the day (as in lunch-box / packed lunch - does any one have a dinner-box?) - and tea in the evening (whether it is main meal or not)

dinner is only on special days - christmas dinner or possibly sunday.

I got doing that to. At first when I moved to that London I'd insist on dinner/tea but eventually you get bored and succumb to this lunch business. Still never got the hang of saying dinner for th'evening meal, even when utterly surrounded by Southerners. More confusing was living with a Northen Irelander this year, who called a beer a brew, hence his confused expression when I asked him one morning if he wanted a brew!

[Bruce Rioja]

dinner is only on special days - christmas dinner or possibly sunday.

See, I say that a roast chicken dinner, or a roast beef dinner, for me, transcend any reference to the time or day at/on which they're taken.

[thebish]

dinner is only on special days - christmas dinner or possibly sunday.

See, I say that a roast chicken dinner, or a roast beef dinner, for me, transcend any reference to the time or day at/on which they're taken.

quite possibly - and were I not a vegetarian I would probably agree!

(but "roast chicken dinner" sounds like something you'd buy in a vacuum-sealed pack at Iceland....)

[TANGODANCER]

Way back in the mists of time breakfast, dinner, tea and supper were always the terms manual workers used, although breakfasts were usually at home, or not at all except weekends. Tea-time is, at least for me, a home term and "dinner" ( Dining-out) taking a later meal out somewhere. ( Eat out/dine out, go for a meal etc) I always liked the Spanish idea of communal meals ( la comida -the main meal) taken later, 8/9 o'clock in the evening. Since everybody knows what you mean anyway, it hardly matters today. Ten years from now you'll probably just take a pill four-times a day and that'll be it.

[BWFC_Insane]

This thread has gone down hill.

Its not remoatly interesting anymore.

[Bruce Rioja]

This thread has gone down hill.

Its not remoatly interesting anymore.

Yeay!!!

[Gary the Enfield]

This thread has gone down hill.

Its not remoatly interesting anymore.

Perhaps we should 'ringfence' the discussion and get back to the topic in hand.

[thebish]

Way back in the mists of time breakfast, dinner, tea and supper were always the terms manual workers used, although breakfasts were usually at home, or not at all except weekends. Tea-time is, at least for me, a home term and "dinner" ( Dining-out) taking a later meal out somewhere. ( Eat out/dine out, go for a meal etc) I always liked the Spanish idea of communal meals ( la comida -the main meal) taken later, 8/9 o'clock in the evening. Since everybody knows what you mean anyway, it hardly matters today. Ten years from now you'll probably just take a pill four-times a day and that'll be it.

FOUR times a day - are you adding in "supper" to the breakfast, dinner and tea pills!!

[TANGODANCER]

We have a Moat House here in Bolton......nahhh.

[TANGODANCER]

Way back in the mists of time breakfast, dinner, tea and supper were always the terms manual workers used, although breakfasts were usually at home, or not at all except weekends. Tea-time is, at least for me, a home term and "dinner" ( Dining-out) taking a later meal out somewhere. ( Eat out/dine out, go for a meal etc) I always liked the Spanish idea of communal meals ( la comida -the main meal) taken later, 8/9 o'clock in the evening. Since everybody knows what you mean anyway, it hardly matters today. Ten years from now you'll probably just take a pill four-times a day and that'll be it.

FOUR times a day - are you adding in "supper" to the breakfast, dinner and tea pills!!

I live in Farnworth. They have bigger appetites here.

[Bruce Rioja]

We have a Moat House here in Bolton......nahhh.

Nahhh indeed. It's a Holiday Inn now.

[Bruce Rioja]

Way back in the mists of time breakfast, dinner, tea and supper were always the terms manual workers used

Manual workers, you say! Exclusively? So what would go on at family mealtimes if a family boasted both manual and non-manual workers? Blimey that must've been chaotic!

[thebish]

Way back in the mists of time breakfast, dinner, tea and supper were always the terms manual workers used

Manual workers, you say! Exclusively? So what would go on at family mealtimes if a family boasted both manual and non-manual workers? Blimey that must've been chaotic!

what did manual workers call the box they had their dinner in?

[TANGODANCER]

Way back in the mists of time breakfast, dinner, tea and supper were always the terms manual workers used

Manual workers, you say! Exclusively? So what would go on at family mealtimes if a family boasted both manual and non-manual workers? Blimey that must've been chaotic!

You might note I said "terms"manual workers used" and never mentioned anything whatsoever about "exclusively" or non-manual workers. Since you mention it though, I don't remember anyone else using differnt descriptions be they blue or white collar workers. Breakfast, dinner, tea and supper it was.

[TANGODANCER]

Way back in the mists of time breakfast, dinner, tea and supper were always the terms manual workers used

Manual workers, you say! Exclusively? So what would go on at family mealtimes if a family boasted both manual and non-manual workers? Blimey that must've been chaotic!

what did manual workers call the box they had their dinner in?

I know you're just itching for somebody to say "lunch box", but it was always a sandwich box or snap tin in our house.

[TANGODANCER]

We have a Moat House here in Bolton......nahhh.

Nahhh indeed. It's a Holiday Inn now.

I really must get out more. They'll be shutting the Palais next.

[Tombwfc]

Breaking News: Police are in negotiations with Raoul Moat

No word yet on the medical or any PSG.

Seriously though, it looks like the games up. He's apparently wandering around with a gun to his head.

Charlie Brooker commentary here - http://twitter.com/charltonbrooker Sopel really is acting like a prick.