So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

[Hercule]

Loud talkers who are close talkers.

Some people just are that way. They naturally seem to talk louder than most. One has to wonder if they have trouble hearing. My wife can be that way sometimes, though I suspect she's compensating for me not listening. I've met the opposite too - those who talk very quietly or, rather, they're very soft spoken. You'd think that after the umpteenth time you've asked them to speak up, they would. Anymore I find that I have little patience for that.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I don’t recall there being the kinds of fireworks (illegal, but that’s not much of a disincentive, it seems) we see — and HEAR — nowadays. I’m talking professional-grade pyrotechnics, stuff that goes hundreds of feet in the air and has multiple explosions in multiple colors and rattles windows a couple miles away. It’s some impressive stuff, for sure. But really, this stuff doesn’t belong in the hands of amateurs, especially amateurs who have been drinking all day. At best it’s a public nuisance. At best.

Not long after fireworks were legalized in my state, a drunken man at a party tried to launch one of these full-sized skyrockets -- off the top of his head. You can imagine the results.

 

[Hercule]

Not long after fireworks were legalized in my state, a drunken man at a party tried to launch one of these full-sized skyrockets -- off the top of his head. You can imagine the results.

Seemed like a good idea at the time. What could possibly go wrong?

 

[KILO NOVEMBER]

Not long after fireworks were legalized in my state, a drunken man at a party tried to launch one of these full-sized skyrockets -- off the top of his head. You can imagine the results.

Did he get a nomination for a Darwin Award? I see that another Maine citizen won one in 2019.

 

[ChrisB]

Not long after fireworks were legalized in my state, a drunken man at a party tried to launch one of these full-sized skyrockets -- off the top of his head. You can imagine the results.

Ludlow Kissel?

 

[Harp]

Did he get a nomination for a Darwin Award?

Long ago and far away, C-4 plastique was cut in cubes to use for heating stove fuel to brew coffee,
heat rations; after such use I saw a guy stomp on the cube to extinguish its flame...blew his left leg clean off.
Death came quick, too much blood lost and shock.

Later, the standard $10k GI Life Insurance issue became a conversational topic because the resultant
investigation rightly attributed death to carelessness.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Is scotish dialect really that different and so difficult to understand??

 

[M Brown]

So trivial, yet it really ticks you off:

a hat forum that seems to be mostly about jackets

 

[Woodtroll]

So trivial, yet it really ticks you off:

a hat forum that seems to be mostly about jackets

At least most of the jacket discussion is in the Outerwear section, where you can read it or not as you choose. What frustrates me is the Classifieds section, where you sometimes read through two pages of jackets and everything else to find the first hat for sale. Would it be that hard to put hat ads in their own category, then "everything else" in another?

 

[GHT]

Is scotish dialect really that different and so difficult to understand??

You, not being an English speaker, don't understand that the Scots people don't have a dialect. They speak English with an accent, that accent varies from region to region. The Scottish also have their own language, know as Gaelic. Scottish Gaelic is a Goidelic language native to the Gaels of Scotland. As a Goidelic language, Scottish Gaelic, as well as Welsh, Irish and Manx, developed out of Old Irish.

 

[GHT]

So trivial, yet it really ticks you off:

a hat forum that seems to be mostly about jackets

Whilst I can empathise with your sentiment, I don't agree that The Fedora Lounge is a hat forum. The name, fedora, is most definitely a description of a style of hat, but having the word lounge, makes the forum a much broader church.

The members that post about their jackets have just as strong affinity to the Fedora Lounge as those who post about their hats. Furthermore, the members who are leather jacket aficionados are polite, knowledgeable and never engage in any sort protestation about other topics, indeed, many post on a variety of threads. It's that rich diversity on so many subjects that make The Fedora Lounge such an enjoyable experience. Long may it be so.

 

[Harp]

The Scottish also have their own language, know as Gaelic. Scottish Gaelic is a Goidelic language native to the Gaels of Scotland. As a Goidelic language, Scottish Gaelic, as well as Welsh, Irish and Manx, developed out of Old Irish.

Single malt Scotch attests blended whiskey.

 

[GHT]

Single malt Scotch attests blended whiskey.

Attest, legal speak meaning to provide or serve as clear evidence of. As many a Scot might say, "Och ay!"

 

[KILO NOVEMBER]

You, not being an English speaker, don't understand that the Scots people don't have a dialect. They speak English with an accent, that accent varies from region to region. The Scottish also have their own language, know as Gaelic. Scottish Gaelic is a Goidelic language native to the Gaels of Scotland. As a Goidelic language, Scottish Gaelic, as well as Welsh, Irish and Manx, developed out of Old Irish.

In addition to differences in pronunciation, there are different words for the same things which vary from region to region.
No southerner would call his "y-fronts " "kecks". (This garnered from many, many hours of watching British police procedural shows on cable TV.)

 

[Harp]

Attest, legal speak meaning to provide or serve as clear evidence of. As many a Scot might say, "Och ay!"

Or "inner thigh wobble." Sorry, just had a Nigella flash thought in my mind.

 

[GHT]

Or "inner thigh wobble." Sorry, just had a Nigella flash thought in my mind.

Jay Leno seems to be having similar thoughts:

In addition to differences in pronunciation, there are different words for the same things which vary from region to region.
No southerner would call his "y-fronts " "kecks". (This garnered from many, many hours of watching British police procedural shows on cable TV.)

It never ceases to amaze me that some of our more wacky words, travel beyond our island. Kecks is a corruption of kicks, an old slang term for breeches. What the world's English speaking countries must have made of some of the terminology used on the TV show, Peaky Blinders?

 

[Harp]

Jay Leno seems to be having similar thoughts:
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She is such a beautiful exquisite rose.

 

[ChrisB]

You, not being an English speaker, don't understand that the Scots people don't have a dialect. They speak English with an accent, that accent varies from region to region. The Scottish also have their own language, know as Gaelic. Scottish Gaelic is a Goidelic language native to the Gaels of Scotland. As a Goidelic language, Scottish Gaelic, as well as Welsh, Irish and Manx, developed out of Old Irish.

Apart from Gaelic, there is a Scots dialect, considered a separate language by some.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language

 

[MisterCairo]

Is scotish dialect really that different and so difficult to understand??

No!

 

[MisterCairo]

My mum spoke what was referred to as "broad Scots", a broad term (pun inteneded) that includes dialects of Scottish English.

Read a Robbie Burns poem, you'll get the idea.

Or watch The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, later series with the Scots cook speaking a made-up version!