Increase your vocabulary

Just heard this on the radio: Schnookums

As in "Darling , you're my sweet schnookums and I'm so in love with you".

Calling me schnookums, however, would sound the death knell of a relationship.

had you never heard that before?
used to go out with someone who would call me "doll face" purely to unnerve me. weird.

Yes O, capital G retained.
Woof woof

Humptybackfuckpot

had you never heard that before?
used to go out with someone who would call me "doll face" purely to unnerve me. weird.

Thankfully I hadn't, no.

Doll face? That is so wrong. I hope you dumped them.

hah it was kinda a joke... I was a bit less 'ladylike' then, in terms of appearance.

Ladylike is overrated.

Christ, was just looking for evidence of my own tom-boy appearance in youth, and came across a relatively recent photo of me with boobs and stomach folds. Reality check!

:/
reason for the quotation marks was that I didn't really mean ladylike as a cultural value, more that I get my gender misread a lot less these days.

Putting a photo of a programme top-heavy with Geordie folk in a thread on this topic is like smashing a bottle of Newcastle Brown into its very existence. A good Geordie would drink every drop first though.

^ Who are these sour faced individuals with poor hairstyles?

^ Who are these sour faced individuals with poor hairstyles?

East beers.

^ Who are these sour faced individuals with poor hairstyles?

West beers

^ Who are these sour faced individuals with poor hairstyles?

South beers

Just please don't say ladies' drinks.

^ Who are these sour faced individuals with poor hairstyles?

etc

That is Westlife and their groupies.

^ Who are these sour faced individuals with poor hairstyles?

Seriously? I'm not even British and I know. Fuck, I'm old. Auf wiedersehen, pet.

JG Ballard keeps on giving. Confusing use of familiar words in unfamiliar contexts.
"The yachts and motor cruises sat in their trestles,"
"The craft porpoised through the rough water"

Will Self has to be playing best on this thread,
But one realm tantalising my grey matter has to be the Welsh,
How about these 3 for microwave oven-
Popty-ping
Ficrodon
Meicrodon

After that give Klingon and Elvish both a play for messing up your brains.

This thread is getting more and more surreal
(as has *mf sine the J)

^ Who are these sour faced individuals with poor hairstyles?

Cast from Queer as Folk

"The yachts and motor cruises sat in their trestles,"

I have always liked this word.

I love words which are onomatopoeic too, such as lolloping and plundered.

Not so crazy about the word onomatopoeic itself though :)

I have always liked this word.

I love words which are onomatopoeic too, such as lolloping and plundered.

plundered? how does that sound anything like itself?

Ha!

OK, well maybe that one's stretching it a bit but to me it sounds heavy, harsh with the 'p', a bit sinister etc. The opposite of say, lavish:)

Cycler.
Heard at a cycling conference today from a Dutch chap.
Why not? We use driver and walker. Seems friendlier than cyclist