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gremlin wrote: ↑Tue Nov 05, 2024 1:53 pmBut if listen to the original interview, he quietly says 'Fay knights' at the end and has his pinkies double crossed.Taipan wrote: ↑Tue Nov 05, 2024 1:51 pmIt's not about whether they are or not, its Starmer's blatant lies in his manifesto pledge!
"What about university tuition fees then? Will you remain committed to scrapping them?"
Starmer "They're all pledges Andrew, so the answer to these questions is yes."
"So university tuition fees being scrapped will be in a Starmer manifesto?"
"Yes. That's why it's a pledge."
Slight tangent here, the misses who comes from Kent would say "Fay Knights" except I thought it always sounded like "Vey Nights" or some creature out of Star wars possibly, I'm from the south, Portsmouth area, and we always said "Tig" when crossing fingers, so what did you say and where were you from?
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Yeah but they get the salary from day 1, not after 4 decades.gremlin wrote: ↑Tue Nov 05, 2024 4:02 pmEven better, be a bit of a thick shit at school, miss out on A levels and degrees and all that malarkey, somehow blag an interview at a bank aged 16, wing it for the next 40-odd years, get the salary and have no debt to pay back*.Mr. Dazzle wrote: ↑Tue Nov 05, 2024 3:50 pm Only people who move into banking and earn 6 figure salaries do
*Mind, when I left school, it was grant, and given I was thick as mince, I wouldn't have got to uni in my wildest dreams.
We literally can't afford to employ people with a first in maths or engineering from Oxbridge
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S'been raised before has this one.Newey wrote: ↑Tue Nov 05, 2024 5:21 pmgremlin wrote: ↑Tue Nov 05, 2024 1:53 pmBut if listen to the original interview, he quietly says 'Fay knights' at the end and has his pinkies double crossed.Taipan wrote: ↑Tue Nov 05, 2024 1:51 pm
It's not about whether they are or not, its Starmer's blatant lies in his manifesto pledge!
"What about university tuition fees then? Will you remain committed to scrapping them?"
Starmer "They're all pledges Andrew, so the answer to these questions is yes."
"So university tuition fees being scrapped will be in a Starmer manifesto?"
"Yes. That's why it's a pledge."
Slight tangent here, the misses who comes from Kent would say "Fay Knights" except I thought it always sounded like "Vey Nights" or some creature out of Star wars possibly, I'm from the south, Portsmouth area, and we always said "Tig" when crossing fingers, so what did you say and where were you from?
Fainites/fains or vainites/vains seems just a locality thing.
See under UK in the Wiki (we said vainites oop north but I think we commonly used a different word all together but I can't remember what).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truce_term
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A truce term is a word or short phrase accepted within a community of children as an effective way of calling for a temporary respite or truce during a game or activity, such as tag or its variants.
The above copied from Wiki but it did remind me on the reason for the the X fingers and shouts of Tig, thanks for the link.
The above copied from Wiki but it did remind me on the reason for the the X fingers and shouts of Tig, thanks for the link.
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I'm south London and it's always been 'Fay knights'. Always sounded like 'Vay knights' to me as well, which is odd, as south London pronunciation is known for its perfection and attention to convention, innit?
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It was always vainlights around here until a teacher corrected us one day, then it was fay nights for a day!
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Haven’t thought about that for about 60 years.Newey wrote: ↑Tue Nov 05, 2024 9:27 pm A truce term is a word or short phrase accepted within a community of children as an effective way of calling for a temporary respite or truce during a game or activity, such as tag or its variants.
The above copied from Wiki but it did remind me on the reason for the the X fingers and shouts of Tig, thanks for the link.
We had one, but I can’t remember what it was.
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I believe at Harrow it was used to request a respite from the tag-team buggery of 3 rampant sixth-formers in the shower blocks of the rugger field.
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We used "cree" in South WalesNewey wrote: ↑Tue Nov 05, 2024 9:27 pm A truce term is a word or short phrase accepted within a community of children as an effective way of calling for a temporary respite or truce during a game or activity, such as tag or its variants.
The above copied from Wiki but it did remind me on the reason for the the X fingers and shouts of Tig, thanks for the link.
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Lorenco Road doesn't show up on Google Maps either, only Lorenco House on the corner of Pretoria Road. I've a cousin that lives at the north end of Pretoria Road, I'm from a bit further north in Edmonton but escaped a long time ago.