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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. :obscene-birdiedoublered:
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 :obscene-birdiedoublered:
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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. :obscene-birdiedoublered:
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 :obscene-birdiedoublered:
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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 :obscene-birdiedoublered:
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cheb wrote: Fri Aug 09, 2024 4:40 pmCurmudgeon.
Yorick wrote: Fri Aug 09, 2024 4:43 pm


That's me that is. :obscene-birdiedoublered:
:lol: :lol: :lol:
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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.
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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. :angry-cussingblack:
Ah. That’s a word you don’t see very often.
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Punctillious.
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Frobnicate

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Ian wrote: Mon Aug 12, 2024 5:49 pm Cromulent
Embiggen.
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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 :lol: ).
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Therblig: Therbligs are elemental motions used in the study of workplace motion economy.
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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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Objurgatory

Parsimonious

Nafarious

Jactitation

Farouche

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ZRX61 wrote: Mon Aug 12, 2024 8:27 pm Objurgatory

Parsimonious

Nafarious

Jactitation

Nigel Farouche???

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My insult of the day is 'milquetoast'.

(I'm fond of 'poltroon' too).
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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....
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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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Count Steer wrote: Wed Aug 14, 2024 5:47 pm My insult of the day is 'milquetoast'.
The Bloom County cockroach…?
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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! :thumbup:

Yes, but originally a character in a 1920s cartoon - Caspar Milquetoast. Became an archetype for weak, ineffective types.
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Wife just contributed...

Persiflage (banter or flippancy).
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