Stuart Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 [quote]BCBG - Big Car Big Garage peut-être or beaucoup croissants,big gut[/quote]Thanks Val, for explaining why my reflection in the mirror is a bit larger that it perhaps should be! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phoenix Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 What on earth is an ouvrieres ? sorry if this is the wrong spelling , can`t be ars.d to go back to TU`s posting.Jude Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 A worker, or working class person. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opas Posted November 18, 2004 Share Posted November 18, 2004 SB, I didn`t understand the hand washing at the kitchen sink after car repairing either...one takes the car to the little man for repairs doesn`t one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaligoBay Posted November 18, 2004 Share Posted November 18, 2004 One does when it's the timing belt, dahling. Haven't mastered the DIY controle technique either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgina Posted November 18, 2004 Share Posted November 18, 2004 [quote]Looking at the other thread, i'd just like to add this I'm working class, didnt want to work, had a good job, packed it in and moved over here after a few visits. I have been to Mcdonalds once since...[/quote]I don't understand why you had to copy my post heading to make yours, it was originally about swearing loudly in front of children and others. in a play area. I don't see the connection with snobbery.Georgina Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guerambault Posted November 20, 2004 Share Posted November 20, 2004 Oh dear Dick Smith I used to wash our dog in the bath, what does that make me?Guerambault Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted November 20, 2004 Share Posted November 20, 2004 Hairy, possibly.We used to wash ours in the sink, but it was a toy poodle, so would probably have drowned in the bath come to think of it.NB - this was not the dog which caught fire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russethouse Posted November 21, 2004 Share Posted November 21, 2004 Perhaps you'll be able to let us know if Oscar Wilde was right when he said fox was 'inedible' ( I wonder how he knew ?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jill<br><br>Jill (99) Posted November 22, 2004 Share Posted November 22, 2004 [quote]>>>And this got me thinking about other non-U things and all those tell tale words that supposedly give away a person's background and how they're invariably words that are used in French such as parf...[/quote]"My pet hate is the word 'lounge' (and even worse the aussie 'lounge room' )I think its lavatory, not loo"I've never been sure about this one as I was brought up with a lounge and my husband was brought up with a living room. Yet our mothers were brought up round the corner from each other and my husband's grandmother was "well to do" in the eyes of my Mums family. Yet, living room conjures up the old fashioned idea to me where everyone cooked, ate, bathed, washed and dried clothes etc in the one room and a lounge seems to me a place where you sit to relax, but don't use it for eating etc. I don't like Lounge Room either, but lounge seems normal to me - although my kids seem to have been influenced more by their fathers language, which surprises me since I spend more time with them, or certainly did when they were small.As for snobbery in France, I remember one family I stayed in where Madame asked me if I liked their "Villa" which seemed a very snobby way to describe their home - although it was very nice. Another day, she said she didn't like her sister in law - "elle est snob", but I can't say I particularly noticed!As for where people wash their hands etc, times have changed anyway - you do it where it is most practical. In our old house, it would have been the kitchen sink, but now we have a downstairs loo, so that seems more practical because it's away from food etc. Oh, and Madame's mother threw a wobbler because I said toilette rather than cabinet or WC. Not the done thing, apparently! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted November 22, 2004 Share Posted November 22, 2004 And as my father used to say, "You think your body everyself 'cos your mother's got a mangle."Not you Jill. I'm not sure where that came from, just popped into my head... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russethouse Posted November 22, 2004 Share Posted November 22, 2004 Yes Dick, The expression my grandmother used was 'all hair grease and no socks'At home I think we had a 'living room' The lounge was vaguely reminiscent of the pub When I worked as a nanny it was usually referred to as the 'sitting room' which given the age of some of the houses was possibly historically correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leschenauds Posted November 22, 2004 Share Posted November 22, 2004 What's classist about fish and chips? A Local hotel here is having a 'Fish &chips night next Saturday with mushy peas and the demand from all 'classes' and nationalities is phenomenal, Brits, french and Dutch at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaligoBay Posted November 22, 2004 Share Posted November 22, 2004 Russethouse said "The expression my grandmother used was 'all hair grease and no socks'"Is that the same as "all fur coat and no knickers", or is that a bit common? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tresco Posted November 22, 2004 Share Posted November 22, 2004 I heard that fur coat and no knickers one very recently, in Sligo, Eire. The other thing I heard, over and over again, was " ooooh, you sound just like someone from 'Coronation Street', with the responses being a mixture of "aah, she doesn't" and "aaaah, she does", "she does", "she doesn't" and so on until I wanted to say; 'and you lot sound like someone off 'Father Ted', but I didn't, because it was a wedding, and I was brought up to be polite in front of people, and then have endless laughs at ther expense afterwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jill<br><br>Jill (99) Posted November 23, 2004 Share Posted November 23, 2004 [quote]And as my father used to say, "You think your body everyself 'cos your mother's got a mangle."Not you Jill. I'm not sure where that came from, just popped into my head...[/quote]Not sure I understand what you are saying - but Oh, Dick - I wish I still had a mangle!When we first got married, we used to soak the washing in the bath and then haul it round to the laundrette. Then someone sold us a washing machine with a mangle. That was around 1979 - most people had automatics! How I regret the day that we were offered a twin tub and I said goodbye to the mangle! Well I wouldn't be without the automatic, but a mangle would be very handy for handwashed stuff. Mind you, it was a bit hair raising the time the clothes I was wearing got caught in it and I had to reach for a bread knife to cut myself free! Exciting times! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted November 23, 2004 Share Posted November 23, 2004 My grandmother had to give up her mangle when my grandfather took over the copper to make poteen. We had an electric mangle, which could give you a nasty pinch, but you couldn't make illegal spirits in a Rolls washing machine... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opas Posted November 23, 2004 Share Posted November 23, 2004 And I thought you lot were posh! we had an outside loo until 1989 but we had a light in which dad had rigged up(so we could see the spiders...not just brush past them!) and you know what that meant for the bedrooms don`t you.!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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