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[bobo the clown]

However much it's sneered at and however much I live around people who don't say it .... I simply can't call my evening meal "dinner" without feeling like I'm being a ponce.

What do people with this particular hang up (if there are others) say when they want to ask a female acquaintance out for an evening meal?

Ah ... that's when one takes on the affectations of ponciness and it's acceptable. I suppose I consider 'tea' to be low key and matter of fact, whereas 'dinner' is a more formal and refined affair.

If you have dinner in the evening what do you call the midday meal ?

[mummywhycantieatcrayons]

However much it's sneered at and however much I live around people who don't say it .... I simply can't call my evening meal "dinner" without feeling like I'm being a ponce.

What do people with this particular hang up (if there are others) say when they want to ask a female acquaintance out for an evening meal?

Ah ... that's when one takes on the affectations of ponciness and it's acceptable. I suppose I consider 'tea' to be low key and matter of fact, whereas 'dinner' is a more formal and refined affair.

If you have dinner in the evening what do you call the midday meal ?

A bite to eat at my desk.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

lunch

[thebish]

However much it's sneered at and however much I live around people who don't say it .... I simply can't call my evening meal "dinner" without feeling like I'm being a ponce.

What do people with this particular hang up (if there are others) say when they want to ask a female acquaintance out for an evening meal?

Ah ... that's when one takes on the affectations of ponciness and it's acceptable. I suppose I consider 'tea' to be low key and matter of fact, whereas 'dinner' is a more formal and refined affair.

If you have dinner in the evening what do you call the midday meal ?

he's a gentleman who lunches...

[Worthy4England]

However much it's sneered at and however much I live around people who don't say it .... I simply can't call my evening meal "dinner" without feeling like I'm being a ponce.

What do people with this particular hang up (if there are others) say when they want to ask a female acquaintance out for an evening meal?

Ah ... that's when one takes on the affectations of ponciness and it's acceptable. I suppose I consider 'tea' to be low key and matter of fact, whereas 'dinner' is a more formal and refined affair.

If you have dinner in the evening what do you call the midday meal ?

Not sure I'm with you there Your Clownliness. I'd be offering a bite to eat, rather than "dinner"

[TANGODANCER]

Think the northern rules have changed a bit. One time nobody could afford meals out, so you had you tea, and your dinner was at dinner time. Tea's a drink, but in this area it was what you had after work. I think it was because, after a day in the mill or down the pit nobody could be bothered getting the soup tureens and fourteen-piece silver service, cutlery sets out and serving the wine, so they just brewed a pot of tea instead and called it tea time.

[Lord Kangana]

Obviously thought up by a southerner, as it only contains areas close to the A1-M1 corridor. Heaven forfend that they ever learn anything about the world.

[bwfcdan94]

Obviously thought up by a southerner, as it only contains areas close to the A1-M1 corridor. Heaven forfend that they ever learn anything about the world.

The north west was seriously neglected by this test I agree.

[bobo the clown]

However much it's sneered at and however much I live around people who don't say it .... I simply can't call my evening meal "dinner" without feeling like I'm being a ponce.

What do people with this particular hang up (if there are others) say when they want to ask a female acquaintance out for an evening meal?

Ah ... that's when one takes on the affectations of ponciness and it's acceptable. I suppose I consider 'tea' to be low key and matter of fact, whereas 'dinner' is a more formal and refined affair.

If you have dinner in the evening what do you call the midday meal ?

Not sure I'm with you there Your Clownliness. I'd be offering a bite to eat, rather than "dinner"

That's uncommonly pleasant of you sir. Where are you taking me ?

... & just so you know, I'm not putting out on a first date.

xx

[Hoboh]

90.0000° N, 0.0000° W

[Lost Leopard Spot]

If you did, you'd get frostbite.

[thebish]

Obviously thought up by a southerner, as it only contains areas close to the A1-M1 corridor. Heaven forfend that they ever learn anything about the world.

The north west was seriously neglected by this test I agree.

aye - but the north west isn't very north...

[bwfcdan94]

Depends where as I think Carlisle is reasonably north as is Barrow and Workington.

[Worthy4England]

However much it's sneered at and however much I live around people who don't say it .... I simply can't call my evening meal "dinner" without feeling like I'm being a ponce.

What do people with this particular hang up (if there are others) say when they want to ask a female acquaintance out for an evening meal?

Ah ... that's when one takes on the affectations of ponciness and it's acceptable. I suppose I consider 'tea' to be low key and matter of fact, whereas 'dinner' is a more formal and refined affair.

If you have dinner in the evening what do you call the midday meal ?

Not sure I'm with you there Your Clownliness. I'd be offering a bite to eat, rather than "dinner"

That's uncommonly pleasant of you sir. Where are you taking me ?

... & just so you know, I'm not putting out on a first date.

xx

Pie n Chips?

[bobo the clown]

]Pudding and chips and I'm yours.

[clapton is god]

^ I have never eaten a pudding since 1978 when a colleague went to a house in Breightmet from where the occupants had called 999. They had bought pudding and chips and the Mrs was quietly enjoying it when she felt something unusual in her mouth. On investigating further she found an cows entire eyelid including all the eye lashes. She was violently sick and wanted retribution. I've not been able to look at a pudding from that day to this without feeling ill. Don't let it put you off though.

[thebish]

^ I have never eaten a pudding since 1978 when a colleague went to a house in Breightmet from where the occupants had called 999. They had bought pudding and chips and the Mrs was quietly enjoying it when she felt something unusual in her mouth. On investigating further she found an cows entire eyelid including all the eye lashes. She was violently sick and wanted retribution. I've not been able to look at a pudding from that day to this without feeling ill. Don't let it put you off though.

eughh!! - but - they called 999???

[bwfcdan94]

^ I have never eaten a pudding since 1978 when a colleague went to a house in Breightmet from where the occupants had called 999. They had bought pudding and chips and the Mrs was quietly enjoying it when she felt something unusual in her mouth. On investigating further she found an cows entire eyelid including all the eye lashes. She was violently sick and wanted retribution. I've not been able to look at a pudding from that day to this without feeling ill. Don't let it put you off though.

Only in Sunningdale ay Zulu.

[wigan white]

Boom 100%......although not sure about the Newcastle bit!!!!!

[Relentless09]

Is NI that far north though?

Well, you've to drive to Stranraer for the shortest crossing to Belfast, so yes.

Im more Northern than you English men