Overheard at the LFGSS golf club bar

It’s definitely “my barber” and “my dealer” so is it “my” if they provide a personal service?

I was a tennis coach for a while, those that I coached pretty much always introduced or referred to me as "my coach ElGonzo blah blah blah...".

Never thought twice about it, but maybe that's down to my hard wired third world serf mentality and I should really have been outraged?

Just told somebody that "our dog walker" is closing their business now I don't know whether I should be ashamed or not.

Good point. My customer just referred to me as his technical architect.

The customer.

I think it's kind of ok if it's a person you'd normally see regularly (barber, dealer, personal trainer, maybe doctor, etc) or if it's a builder etc that's currently doing work for you.

The weird usage is when you're talking about some random person who might be anywhere else right now.

This feels like some really small/unremarkable hills being died upon today...
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Quite the fairway obstacle.

Can we go back to golf now?

Whose golf?

my our golf

My customer just referred to me as his technical architect.

Do you only have one customer?

Is Facebook/WhatsApp down again?

My Facebook isn't.

4 at the moment, it varies over time.

More out of context quotes plez

Downsizing humble brag:

I've moved to a smaller, more expensive house

I should buy a boat:

First engine I have ever owned, a SABB 10hp single cylinder that somehow has only 1045 hours on it as lived in a marina for most of its life.

Better off out of the EU, but still milking it:

the price was significantly lower than UK stores.

This entire thread is exactly the kind of chat I'd take up fell running to avoid:
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/368562/#comment16209038

(Apart from the Chorlton hummus crisis quip.)

Did a day's fly fishing intro on a local chalk stream

point I'm trying to make is that it's commonplace usage

Oh completely. It’s 100% standard, and for that exact reason I don’t think it’s worth me getting that annoyed about, but the least I can do is provide the context for how it is used towards me, and how it comes off. The intention and reception are often totally different. I can’t really complain about it if I don’t try and explain what it’s like from my side.

I think we’re going round in circles tbh.

One of the major things that’s grated on me for the last decade is the constant surprise that I’m not thick as fuck because I have a semi-manual job.
I know that “they tidied up after themselves” is more in comparison to the norm of tradies leaving mess, but it feels like damning with faint praise and also infers how low the client’s expectation of me is in the first place (but I appreciate that the expectation is of me as a tradesperson rather than me as an individual). It’s pretty shit that people expect little of you because of your job though, and that’s kinda where these linguistic subtleties start to add up as yet another thing where it feels like you’re being looked down upon. Of course you could say “stop being so sensitive” about it, but the sensitivity is more about it being yet another thing, rather than being disproportionately annoyed by a linguistic quirk.

they really helped us rinse every penny from our buyers

is the constant surprise that I’m not thick as fuck because I have a semi-manual job.

I was a waiter for ten years, and may have just an inkling about that.

So you should know better !

;)