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[Cousin Jack]

Friends with a banker?

[Newey]

Not taking political sides, but tuition fees should not be free.
IMHO

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?

[Mr. Dazzle]

Only people who move into banking and earn 6 figure salaries do

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*.


*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.

We literally can't afford to employ people with a first in maths or engineering from Oxbridge

[MyLittleStudPony]

If only Iccy were here to espouse the value of hand tools over degrees.

[Count Steer]

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

[Newey]

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.

[gremlin]

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?

[Taipan]

It was always vainlights around here until a teacher corrected us one day, then it was fay nights for a day!

[JackyJoll]

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.

[Cousin Jack]

I seem to recall ours was Pax.

[JackyJoll]

I seem to recall ours was Pax.

That would appear to mean you were posh.

[gremlin]

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.

[Druid]

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

[Buckaroo]

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.

[Pirahna]

Laranka Road

Where?

[Taipan]

Laranka Road

Where?

I think its rhyming slang...

[Buckaroo]

Laranka Road

Where?

I think its rhyming slang...

No, really bad memory. Lorenco Road.

What do you think I'm a wockney canker

[Buckaroo]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_ ... Literature

[Pirahna]

Where?

I think its rhyming slang...

No, really bad memory. Lorenco Road.

What do you think I'm a wockney canker

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.

[Buckaroo]

I think its rhyming slang...

No, really bad memory. Lorenco Road.

What do you think I'm a wockney canker

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.

We did the same. Moved to Gilpin Crescent, since gone, and then to Pymmes Park, by Victoria Road. We moved out of the area when I married and now live out in the sticks. It bears no resemblance now to the area I grew up in.