Overheard at the LFGSS golf club bar

Regardless of the possessiveness of "my", "my car dealer" implies the person is buying new cars regularly enough to have a relationship with the dealer, which clearly golf club when taken out of context.

If you're only buying a second hand £3000 hatchback every 7 years the dealer isn't going to remember you

I don't understand how watching this thread eat itself could be completely without any entertainment value, but here we are.

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.

'My street'?

@6pt and @Tenderloin are right. Sorry.

Or you've been going to the same place for 20 years, every year.

Not everything has to be Culture War fodder chaps.

You fucking dick.

A founding principle of the business is that however valuable, I’ll not do business with cunts. This regularly leads to the rejection of wholesale customers. Reason being that enjoying what I do and not dealing with cunts is more valuable to me than cash. How ironic that I chose to talk to you in my free time.

You are of course welcome to not take business advice from me, and I'm fine with you making a huge sacrifice and not talking to me either - I don't anticipate that impacting on my quality of life in anything but a positive manner.

Curiously, why the and not our?

They’re the staff, the manager.

I know my place and often say "my boss".

Springsteen is mine though.

I reckon if you use someone more than once and intend to use them again you can say ‘my’. Not sure how that works in a coffee shop…

GP… my patients?

Culture War

Class war, please

I see little class here.

Top work. As always dude

Sure, but it seemed to be consensus that out of context quotes are the only possibly-worthwhile aspect of this thread, so we are required to ignore that detail.

My mother vs the mother? How far do we take this?

My experience of this a tradesperson is that I’m not a huge fan of being referred to as “my electrician” as it feels like it introduces a power dynamic where the client is in charge rather than it being an equal and mutually beneficial relationship.
Same goes when I hear people saying it about other tradespeople - it’s so often the way that it is said that puts my back up. “I’ll get my joiner in to sort that” - just seems a bit degrading.

It’s a minor thing, and largely semantics. I can see how many people would see it as inconsequential, and I’d posit that the majority of tradespeople are completely unbothered by it.

I see dentist has come up. I wouldn’t be comfortable referring to them as “my dentist” to their face, but it is the obvious shorthand for use in conversation, while saying “the dentist” doesn’t really add any ambiguity either.

I think we all agree to talk like Buffalo Bill (it puts the lotion in the basket, etc) and no more problem.

fwiw "the man who sells me marijuana" certainly sounds more golf club than "my weed dealer".

"It puts the weed in the basket" - see, works for many situations.

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My Hometown

‘The wife’ is way more golf club than ‘my wife’.

Nailed it