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09-16-2021, 04:02 PM
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No Ice In My Bourbon
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"Glad you found it of some use/fun" - she's happy we found her list of breweries/pubs to be amusing "....can tell you about the History....some day.." - she's lived and she's lived thoroughly - as a result, she could tell us the histories of all of these breweries at some unspecified time in the future "latest news Marks and Spencer are closing 11 Shops." - Marks and Spencer is a British retailer that is closing 11 shops (in France where Dianne lives, though she doesn't specify that this is where the closings are occuring - source: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-58582860) - apparently this also the latest news in France or that Dianne has read "Stores down due to Brexit...." - apparently, the news is reporting that these stores are closing as a result of financial difficulties incurred by Brexit "Pants I say...." - 'Pants' is british slang for "rubbish" or "nonsense". Whether Dianne is directing this light invective towards the explanation for the closures or rather simply the closures themselves is, so far, unclear |
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09-16-2021, 04:12 PM
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Zum Henker Defätist!!
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09-16-2021, 06:05 PM
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...here to hear...
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: He lives on Love Street
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 Excellent job!Marks and Spencer are a kind of icon of retailing in England, with a store in most high streets. They have a good reputation, and are known variously as Marks, M&S or Marks and Sparks. They've been around for a 100 years or more, which is why closures are a news item. EDIT: to be pedantic, i think I'd translate "Pants" more like: "That's bad! What a shame! Bad luck". "Rubbish/ nonsense" is more like you don't believe someone. Pants = I accept this information, but I don't like it.
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"Am I enjoying this moment? I know of it and perhaps that is enough." - Sybille Bedford, 1953 Last edited by Lisnaholic; 09-16-2021 at 06:11 PM. |
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09-16-2021, 08:21 PM
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Born to be mild
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I think "pants" is also a sort of in-joke, as Marks and Spencer are also known as being a lingerie store, so it could be that too. Or not.
FYI the way pants is used as a descriptor here and in the UK is literally rubbish. "That show last night was pants." "I went to a gig and the band were pants." "Covid is pants." "My dog is thirsty and pants" and so on. Pants = worthless, useless, crap, disappointing and on and on and on.
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09-18-2021, 11:50 AM
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Hell yeahz gonna get to eat a mammoth burger <3
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09-18-2021, 09:19 PM
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09-19-2021, 07:34 AM
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09-19-2021, 09:04 AM
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...here to hear...
Join Date: Nov 2010
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@ Soundgarden + Trollheart: yeah, I think on reflection, that you are both right about "pants" and it is my correction was wrong. My apologies to Soundgarden.
My on-line posture as a hip Brit is now officially in shreds 
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09-19-2021, 01:13 PM
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Music Addict
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you could have been right on it but you wernt....weart= were not. Pants because people use to always love M & S Pants....covers male and females bums for this example.. Well done now translate it in French...please don't though 
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09-19-2021, 01:17 PM
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