The Weather

[boltonboris]

Heard we're in for a flag twattingly good summer!

Can't wait for frapuccino season!

[William the White]

Heard we're in for a flag twattingly good summer!

Can't wait for frapuccino season!

Really? Where did you hear that?

Hope it's true.

Can already her the clink of the ise in the mojito.

[TANGODANCER]

Heard we're in for a flag twattingly good summer!

Can't wait for frapuccino season!

Really? Where did you hear that?

Hope it's true.

Can already her the clink of the ise in the mojito.

I can hear the sound of lawn mower wheels.

[Bruce Rioja]

Heard we're in for a flag twattingly good summer!

Can't wait for frapuccino season!

Really? Where did you hear that?

Hope it's true.

Can already her the clink of the ise in the mojito.

To mojitoise?

[boltonboris]

The independent.

"Likely to be the hottest summer on record"

And the driest!! Dryest(?!) feck knows.. But YEAH hosepipe baaaaaaaaaaan!

[bobo the clown]

Didn't we gave a dry and freezing winter forecasted back last Autumn ?

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Unrelenting wall to wall sunshine (interrupted now and then with cloud) with a high of 15 degrees C (positively tropical).
Fxck it, I've just told my boss I'm having the afternoon off, so's me and the dog can go (leadless) into the hills awandering free.

[conversation went something like:
me: I fancy this afternoon off
him: You haven't booked it
me: I know, that's why I'm telling you now
him: what if we all fancied this afternoon off?
me: why? do we?
him: that's not the point
me: it's sunny. I fancy it off.
him: go on then
me: I was anyway.
him: *glare*)

[thebish]

Unrelenting wall to wall sunshine (interrupted now and then with cloud) with a high of 15 degrees C (positively tropical).
Fxck it, I've just told my boss I'm having the afternoon off, so's me and the dog can go (leadless) into the hills awandering free.

[conversation went something like:
me: I fancy this afternoon off
him: You haven't booked it
me: I know, that's why I'm telling you now
him: what if we all fancied this afternoon off?
me: why? do we?
him: that's not the point
me: it's sunny. I fancy it off.
him: go on then
me: I was anyway.
him: *glare*)

what??? NEITHER of you thought to mention the death penalty for apostacy or Halal meat slaughter???

I don't think this was a real conversation!

[Bruce Rioja]

Unrelenting wall to wall sunshine (interrupted now and then with cloud) with a high of 15 degrees C (positively tropical).
Fxck it, I've just told my boss I'm having the afternoon off, so's me and the dog can go (leadless) into the hills awandering free.

[conversation went something like:
me: I fancy this afternoon off
him: You haven't booked it
me: I know, that's why I'm telling you now
him: what if we all fancied this afternoon off?
me: why? do we?
him: that's not the point
me: it's sunny. I fancy it off.
him: go on then
me: I was anyway.
him: *glare*)

LLS: You fecking Dr White honkin' jam-rag fecking spunk-bubble! I'm telling you Mr Boss Man, you keep looking at me I'll put you in the fecking ground, promise you!

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Unrelenting wall to wall sunshine (interrupted now and then with cloud) with a high of 15 degrees C (positively tropical).
Fxck it, I've just told my boss I'm having the afternoon off, so's me and the dog can go (leadless) into the hills awandering free.

[conversation went something like:
me: I fancy this afternoon off
him: You haven't booked it
me: I know, that's why I'm telling you now
him: what if we all fancied this afternoon off?
me: why? do we?
him: that's not the point
me: it's sunny. I fancy it off.
him: go on then
me: I was anyway.
him: *glare*)

what??? NEITHER of you thought to mention the death penalty for apostacy or Halal meat slaughter???

I don't think this was a real conversation!

He's a white supremecist Grand Wizard in the Ku Klux Klan (or that's how he's perceived at least) so it wouldn't have been appropriate, I'd have never gotten away in time.

[thebish]

gotten????? {shock!}

[Lost Leopard Spot]

gotten????? {shock!}

(Gott in Himmel) What's wrong with gotten?

[Lost Leopard Spot]

^
Here's what David Crystal says about The gotten/got distinction in
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language (p.311):
"Gotten is probably the most distinctive of all the AmE/BrE grammatical
differences, but British people who try to use it often get it wrong.
It is not simply an alternative for have got. Gotten is used in such
contexts as
They've gotten a new boat. (= obtain)
They've gotten interested. (= become)
He's gotten off the chair. (= moved)
But it is not used in the sense of possession (= have). AmE does not
allow
*I've gotten the answer.
or *I've gotten plenty.
but uses I've got as in informal BrE. The availability of gotten
does however mean that AmE can make such distinctions as the following:
They've got to leave (they must leave) vs
They've gotten to leave (they've managed to leave)."

I'd add that Crystal's I've gotten the answer isn't starred if it means I have figured out the answer, rather than I have the answer.

[bobo the clown]

gotten????? {shock!}

(Gott in Himmel) What's wrong with gotten?

If you need telling then there's no point.

You'll be saying "off of" next.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

gotten????? {shock!}

(Gott in Himmel) What's wrong with gotten?

If you need telling then there's no point.

You'll be saying "off of" next.

I admit - sometimes I get off of the train, on other occassions I get out of bed in the morning too.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

*Thread Hijack Alert*

[Prufrock]

Your fecking clue is the 'AmE' they keep mentioning.

Well I never!

And 'BrE'?! That'll be 'E' then.

I could accept 'BastE' and 'E'

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Your fecking clue is the 'AmE' they keep mentioning.

Well I never!

And 'BrE'?! That'll be 'E' then.

I could accept 'BastE' and 'E'

We'll have to add ScoE soon...

[Worthy4England]

Your fecking clue is the 'AmE' they keep mentioning.

Well I never!

And 'BrE'?! That'll be 'E' then.

I could accept 'BastE' and 'E'

We'll have to add ScoE soon...

That looks like it's missing an "n", to make scone as in S-Cone.

[TANGODANCER]

Anyway, thanks to five minutes of sunshine the wife's decided gardening is on the Saturday cards. "Well, you haven't got a match have you?" Great.....