Overheard at the LFGSS golf club bar

Delilah ?

Genuine question - does the fact of getting quoted here so frequently ever cause someone to reflect about how they speak and think about things?

It's become, if it was ever else, just an outlet for LFGSS's Lord of the Flies tendency I think.

I got "called out" for having to go to work.

I thought the best (most entertaining?) aspect of this thread is things taken out of context.

Quoting this for reference, this thread is great and isn't simply jealousy or envy when done right. Shame it gets derailed constantly but the flouncing is entertaining :)

Clearly you don’t see a problem with the insinuation of ownership over a service provider. Doesn’t come as a surprise.

I would suggest that it's you who is reading in the ownership element there.

I'll continue to see my dentist, whilst having zero impression that they belong to me.

The use of "my" is suggesting that there is a relationship there, which is why it's common/standard usage for things like doctors and dentists who you see for decades (and often longer).

^ this

for decades (and often longer)

Blimey

Hate to agree with Dammit on this thread but he's right. I would also say 'my bank' or 'my company' when I know for sure if anyone possesses anyone it's them owning me.

On the other hand I would never say 'my coffee roaster' unless I ran a cafe or something. Because it's pretentious.

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Cars are golf club.

My parole officer

My guy

Exactly, we’d say “my dentist” or “my solicitor” because there’s a professional relationship there that is - often - codified by a standards authority or code of practice.

But if you say “my coffee roaster” then you’re a fucking dick.

I go to the dentists/doctors* because although its the same building , it is usually a different one each time.

• about once a decade
  

I used to roast coffee as an employee of someone who would refer to me as “my coffee roaster” and she was a proper cunt. Didn’t last long. I now employee people and none of them are my anything. They’re the staff, the manager.

Pretentious, moi?

My car is not golf club. Even the pot washer in the kitchens at the golf club would be ashamed to admit ownership of such an old banger.

I'd say that "Oh, I don't own a car" could be more golf club than "...my other Porsche..." but it depends on context (and taking it out of context).

Unless, of course, Mr Peel is reacting badly to someone simply trying to suggest that they feel there is a relationship between them and Mr Peel which they value, and that they value sufficiently to communicate this (possibly clumsily, but whatever).

Mr Peel, in this case, due to reasons that we should probably not examine, damaging his own business unnecessarily by allowing his own prejudices to distance himself from customers who are telling him that they feel there is more than a commercial relationship between them.

Pretty sure the posher you are the older your car

Even my pot washer in the kitchens

Knowing you, you go out of your way never to use “the wife”.

But if you say “my coffee roaster” then you’re a fucking dick.

Until you add “local” to it.

Fucking hell lads. Have a word yeah. The public school chat was dynamite content relative to the last few pages.

Sadly doesn't work in reverse or I would be pretty much a Duchess

He's been here 12 years, I should really get to know their name.