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  1. Ticklishchap

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Another example of bad manners in the new low class Britain: emails from staff at often well-established companies that begin ‘Good Morning’ or ‘Good Afternoon’ without troubling to write the name of the person being addressed. I have experienced this recently with several companies I have...
  2. Ticklishchap

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Thank you Sir and welcome.
  3. Ticklishchap

    Ever Been On The Radio?

    I have just checked and WLAC is now billed as the station ‘Where Nashville Comes to Talk’. For some reason it doesn’t broadcast to Britain online. If it did, I could now be listening to the Sean Hannity Show. … I am not sorry to be deprived of this privilege. Listening to worldwide radio is...
  4. Ticklishchap

    Ever Been On The Radio?

    WLAC was internationally renowned for decades as The R&B Station. I speak as a bit of a radio obsessive since my schoolboy days in the 1970s. I think it’s now ‘talk radio’?
  5. Ticklishchap

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I do not accept it and, as I said yesterday, I send documents back if ‘they’ is used where it should say ‘he or she’. As I am paying for these documents- which are usually contracts with clients - I can have them worded in any way I want as long as it is professional.
  7. Ticklishchap

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I think you’re taking my comments out of context. I was not talking about the small number of people who are intersex/non-binary/hermaphrodite, etc., but the attempt to impose ‘gender-neutral’ language on the whole population to be ‘politically correct’ and pretend that differences between male...
  8. Ticklishchap

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I like genuine working class accents and cultures very much. And the Yiddish language: I’m a North London boy after all. My point was not about authentic working class, but the trashy, lumpen, ersatz working class accents on current British TV and radio.
  9. Ticklishchap

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    That is another bugbear: the “LGBT” thing - along with LGBTQ+; LGB; L&G; LGBTQWERTYUIOP+*^#%•. F**k that. Or rather don’t in my case, because I don’t do ‘gender fluid’ and am only attracted to masculine men. The whole thing annoys the Hell out of me. What am I supposed to have in common with a...
  10. Ticklishchap

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The ‘rise almost as a question’ has come into British English as well. It’s known as the Upward Inflection, or as I call it the Upward Infliction. It’s seriously cringeworthy.
  11. Ticklishchap

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    To continue the accent theme, the age of “BBC English” is dead. In Brexitland there is an East German style obsession with “working class” culture and making everybody “equal” - while real inequalities of wealth and income rise to new heights (again as in the DDR). The version of “working class”...
  13. Ticklishchap

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    There’s also ‘No worries’ when said by non-Australians. It sounds false, shallow and dare I say it … common … on British lips. When Aussies say it, it sounds laidback and cool . Which brings me to another British monstrosity: cool pronounced kewl. It’s usually said by Basic Becky when she’s...
  14. Ticklishchap

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    On your last sentence, both propositions are true. Agree entirely with you. My other bugbear is the almost ubiquitous and very ugly sign-off ‘Kind Regards’. I always want to reply ‘Unkind Gargoyles’.
  15. Ticklishchap

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I’m going to introduce another linguistic bugbear: the increasingly generic use of the singular ‘they’ and ‘them’ and the attempt at both governmental and corporate level to force this on us. This morning, I was in contact with a private sector company I work with sometimes and was told by a...
  16. Ticklishchap

    Military 'woolly pully' sweaters

    I have taken advantage of the discount to buy a new RAF (Blue-Grey) standard WP with shoulder and elbow and also the Patchless (Welbeck) Navy version. These are replacement items: the ones I have are becoming old and threadbare (not like me, I hasten to add).
  17. Ticklishchap

    Military 'woolly pully' sweaters

    I meant to write ‘hang in there and keep posting’. … As far as change is concerned, my motto is: ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’. Thank you for your encouraging words: I really appreciate the thought behind them.
  19. Ticklishchap

    Military 'woolly pully' sweaters

    They are missing out on a lot of US business. I’ll ask them if there’s anything they can do to cut costs. Here in the UK it’s free delivery.
  20. Ticklishchap

    Military 'woolly pully' sweaters

    … And of course you spell it Wooly Pully whereas for us it’s two l’s: Woolly Pully. Two peoples divided by a common language as George Bernard Shaw said. I recall the WP being in use in the US from the late 70s with a v-neck Navy and the olive crew neck coming in during the 80s for the USMC...
  21. Ticklishchap

    Military 'woolly pully' sweaters

    @Peacoat: Thank you Sir. I am really ‘chuffed’ as we Brits say and honoured (as we spell the word) by your comment. The only thing I would partially dispute is that the WP is an arcane piece of clothing. It has survived since WW2 and is still going strong. … To be honest I had been starting to...
  22. Ticklishchap

    Military 'woolly pully' sweaters

    There is a 25% discount at Outdoor Knitwear until 8th June. Code JUBILEE25. The website is www.outdoorknitwear.com
  23. Ticklishchap

    Military 'woolly pully' sweaters

    I thought it was the haircut until I heard about the erotic collar. …

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