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Friends with a banker? :o

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gremlin wrote: Tue Nov 05, 2024 1:53 pm
Taipan wrote: Tue Nov 05, 2024 1:51 pm
Yorick wrote: Tue Nov 05, 2024 1:11 pm
Not taking political sides, but tuition fees should not be free.
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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."
But if listen to the original interview, he quietly says 'Fay knights' at the end and has his pinkies double crossed.

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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gremlin wrote: Tue Nov 05, 2024 4:02 pm
Mr. Dazzle wrote: Tue Nov 05, 2024 3:50 pm Only people who move into banking and earn 6 figure salaries do :lol:
Even 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*. :lol: :thumbup:


*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.
Yeah but they get the salary from day 1, not after 4 decades. :obscene-birdiedoublered:

We literally can't afford to employ people with a first in maths or engineering from Oxbridge :lol:
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If only Iccy were here to espouse the value of hand tools over degrees. :(
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Newey wrote: Tue Nov 05, 2024 5:21 pm
gremlin wrote: Tue Nov 05, 2024 1:53 pm
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."
But if listen to the original interview, he quietly says 'Fay knights' at the end and has his pinkies double crossed.

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?
S'been raised before has this one. :)

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.
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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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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.
Haven’t thought about that for about 60 years.

We had one, but I can’t remember what it was.
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I seem to recall ours was Pax.
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Cousin Jack wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2024 9:04 am I seem to recall ours was Pax.
That would appear to mean you were posh.
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JackyJoll wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2024 9:16 am
Cousin Jack wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2024 9:04 am I seem to recall ours was Pax.
That would appear to mean you were posh.
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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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 used "cree" in South Wales
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Ours was "fuck off or I'll beat you senseless" cause I was born in Tottenham bruv. Laranka Road !! Or little Russia as it was known by the locals.
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Buckaroo wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2024 3:11 pm Laranka Road
Where?
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Pirahna wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2024 3:46 pm
Buckaroo wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2024 3:11 pm Laranka Road
Where?
I think its rhyming slang...




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Taipan wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2024 3:47 pm
Pirahna wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2024 3:46 pm
Buckaroo wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2024 3:11 pm Laranka Road
Where?
I think its rhyming slang...

No, really bad memory. Lorenco Road.

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Buckaroo wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2024 10:15 pm
Taipan wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2024 3:47 pm
Pirahna wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2024 3:46 pm

Where?
I think its rhyming slang...

No, really bad memory. Lorenco Road.

What do you think I'm a wockney canker :angry-cussingblack:


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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.