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Yorick
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by Yorick » Fri Aug 09, 2024 5:05 pm
gremlin wrote: ↑ Fri Aug 09, 2024 4:55 pm
Yorick wrote: ↑ Fri Aug 09, 2024 4:43 pm
gremlin wrote: ↑ Fri Aug 09, 2024 4:06 pm
I don't know if this one is eligible or not, given its origins, plus I think the word has never really made it into the vernacular, let alone fallen out of use, but 'Sprezzatura' describes the art of looking stylish, yet with an air of nonchalance, and dare I say contempt, for all things fashion.
That's me that is.
I would say you were leaning more towards the
senzatetto style of dress.
I know I'm right. In a world where 99% wear t-shirt, shorts and flip flops, fashion has no place.
I'm even comfortable wearing double check. Shorts n shirt
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by Buckaroo » Fri Aug 09, 2024 10:39 pm
Yorick wrote: ↑ Fri Aug 09, 2024 5:05 pm
gremlin wrote: ↑ Fri Aug 09, 2024 4:55 pm
Yorick wrote: ↑ Fri Aug 09, 2024 4:43 pm
That's me that is.
I would say you were leaning more towards the
senzatetto style of dress.
I know I'm right. In a world where 99% wear t-shirt, shorts and flip flops, fashion has no place.
I'm even comfortable wearing double check. Shorts n shirt
Playing golf
??
Yorick
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by Yorick » Fri Aug 09, 2024 10:56 pm
Buckaroo wrote: ↑ Fri Aug 09, 2024 10:39 pm
Yorick wrote: ↑ Fri Aug 09, 2024 5:05 pm
gremlin wrote: ↑ Fri Aug 09, 2024 4:55 pm
I would say you were leaning more towards the
senzatetto style of dress.
I know I'm right. In a world where 99% wear t-shirt, shorts and flip flops, fashion has no place.
I'm even comfortable wearing double check. Shorts n shirt
Playing golf
??
Golf is gay
demographic
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by demographic » Sat Aug 10, 2024 6:58 am
Just started working on another building fairly recently and on the subject of seldom used words I reckon "Level" and "Plumb" can't have got much usage during much of its shell construction.
"Be Reet" must have been hammered to ferk though.
Wossname
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by Wossname » Mon Aug 12, 2024 3:46 pm
cheb wrote: ↑ Fri Aug 09, 2024 3:10 pm
cheb wrote: ↑ Thu Aug 08, 2024 4:55 pm
Irascible, you fucking idiots.
Wossname wrote: ↑ Fri Aug 09, 2024 2:37 pm
Irascible. Not often, but I can be.
Unobservant too.
Ah. That’s a word you don’t see very often.
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by cheb » Mon Aug 12, 2024 3:56 pm
Punctillious.
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by Ian » Mon Aug 12, 2024 5:49 pm
Frobnicate
Cromulent
Count Steer
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by Count Steer » Mon Aug 12, 2024 6:38 pm
Mr. Dazzle wrote: ↑ Mon Aug 12, 2024 5:52 pm
Ian wrote: ↑ Mon Aug 12, 2024 5:49 pm
Cromulent
Embiggen.
That, strangely, is an exiguous post.
(Just read that word in a book review....had to look it up
).
Doubt is not a pleasant condition.
But certainty is an absurd one .
Voltaire
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by cheb » Mon Aug 12, 2024 7:00 pm
Therblig: Therbligs are elemental motions used in the study of workplace motion economy.
Mr. Dazzle
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by Mr. Dazzle » Mon Aug 12, 2024 7:03 pm
Count Steer wrote: ↑ Mon Aug 12, 2024 6:38 pm
Mr. Dazzle wrote: ↑ Mon Aug 12, 2024 5:52 pm
Ian wrote: ↑ Mon Aug 12, 2024 5:49 pm
Cromulent
Embiggen.
That, strangely, is an exiguous post.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cromulent
crom- (apparently an arbitrary formation) + -ulent
Note: The word was introduced in "Lisa the Iconoclast," an episode of the Fox animated television series The Simpsons that first aired on February 18, 1996. Coinage of the word has been attributed to the television writer David X. Cohen by Bill Oakley, one of the series' producers, in a commentary to the DVD release of the series.
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by ZRX61 » Mon Aug 12, 2024 8:27 pm
Objurgatory
Parsimonious
Nafarious
Jactitation
Farouche
Compurgation
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by Buckaroo » Tue Aug 13, 2024 9:59 am
ZRX61 wrote: ↑ Mon Aug 12, 2024 8:27 pm
Objurgatory
Parsimonious
Nafarious
Jactitation
Nigel Farouche???
Compurgation
Count Steer
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by Count Steer » Wed Aug 14, 2024 5:47 pm
My insult of the day is 'milquetoast'.
(I'm fond of 'poltroon' too).
Doubt is not a pleasant condition.
But certainty is an absurd one .
Voltaire
Screwdriver
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by Screwdriver » Wed Aug 14, 2024 7:31 pm
Neighbour asked if I could let a surveyor into his house "between 9-11am"
Delay, delay, cancel etc.
No problem I said, I was just furtling in my shed.
Haven't used that word very often. Furtle: to rummage tentatively.
Quite poetic really....
“No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.”
Plato
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by cheb » Wed Aug 14, 2024 7:36 pm
Count Steer wrote: ↑ Wed Aug 14, 2024 5:47 pm
My insult of the day is 'milquetoast'.
(I'm fond of 'poltroon' too).
How about rapscallion or jackanapes?
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by ChrisW » Wed Aug 14, 2024 7:51 pm
Count Steer wrote: ↑ Wed Aug 14, 2024 5:47 pm
My insult of the day is 'milquetoast'.
The Bloom County cockroach…?
Count Steer
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by Count Steer » Wed Aug 14, 2024 8:23 pm
ChrisW wrote: ↑ Wed Aug 14, 2024 7:51 pm
Count Steer wrote: ↑ Wed Aug 14, 2024 5:47 pm
My insult of the day is 'milquetoast'.
The Bloom County cockroach…?
Woah! A Bloom County fan? Hurrah!
Yes, but originally a character in a 1920s cartoon - Caspar Milquetoast. Became an archetype for weak, ineffective types.
Doubt is not a pleasant condition.
But certainty is an absurd one .
Voltaire
Count Steer
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by Count Steer » Wed Aug 14, 2024 8:24 pm
Wife just contributed...
Persiflage (banter or flippancy).
Doubt is not a pleasant condition.
But certainty is an absurd one .
Voltaire