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You away, you green plant!

Please tell me she was from some ironically posh suburb like Milngavie or Bearsden?

Oh yeah. Only ever heard that used by French people mind you, not much usage on the isles themselves.

I went on a date

Humble brag

Don't care, still laughing at the name of his date.

I've never heard the term "Inselaffe(n)" in Germany.

Pretty wide-spread.

Renfrew, I think. No idea if that's posh? We only had the one date...

I left out that she only agreed to the date because I had tickets to a gig she wanted to see and we never saw each other again...

You might here from her again if she ever googles her, presumably, quite unique name!

I did intend to go back and edit out, have done so! Doubt she'll want remembering about our entirely uninspiring date...

Doubt she'll want remembering about our entirely uninspiring date...

Ha!

My post wasn't meant to be a dig, btw. Just a friendly reminder.

Pretty wide-spread.

Not where I'm from. Never heard it once.

Then again, maybe I just didn't have enough contact with xenophobes.

Wiktionary mentions "Predominantly in areas of the former British Occupation Zone", that might make a difference. Overall, definitely not a particularly obscure term though.

Wiktionary

I know, that's where I got the info from.

Anyway, it's rubbish as an insult in any case, more of a case of 'we need some kind of insult, but we can't think of a good one'.

Working for a German chemical firm from '83-'90,
and visiting Essen many times,
I don't ever remember hearing the phrase.

It was reported several times during discussion of the UK's non-negotiations of Brexit throughout 2018-19. I can imagine repeated contact with David Davies could bring out such a phrase from even the most anglophilic German.

In these troubled times, good to see that Southwark News is all over the stuff that really matters:

https://www.southwarknews.co.uk/news/when-is-mcdonalds-burger-king-greggs-kfc-re-opening-to-customers/

Ooops!

That's an expensive day out

I pretty sure it's an alarm of some kind but it sounds like there's an old fashioned telephone ringing in the background. I have images of a red faced supervisor on the other end waiting to scream at the poor sod whose taking the video.

Better it collapsed at the shipyard than in a weeks time on site.

'Ready when you are Mr. de Mille.'

https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/latest-news/majority-share-in-colnago-bought-by-abu-dhabi-investment-fund-455339

farrdige thinks the rules are for the poors.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/nigel-farage-visited-by-police-over-lockdown-breaches-over-dover-travel-a4431871.html

‘Key worker’??? Key wanker, more like... A hateful individual.

nice