STFU (Shut the F*** UP)

I hope they get the problems figured out with the iPad. It seems they have the most problems with accessing this site.

I feel so badly for FK. She has had more than her fair share of loss. I wish we could all just wrap our arms around her.

Had a lovely light night chat with Firekracker. Have been meaning to ring since my phone plan changed. I now can ring world wide within the plan which is great.

Big hugs to all.

Group hug to you all. FireKracker I am in the same boat - Have a friend that they can't figure out why she can't breath and she has decided after 8 months, no more testing to find out - she has given up and stated she will either be healed by God or go to be with the Lord.

This is a pic of my daughter bathing my new grand-son in the hand dish in my ensuite.. They stayed here with us last night.. HaHa.. I didn't realise that I was in the photo when I took it !!

Love the photo Lucy. Your daughter is so pretty - like her Mom!!

Awwww....such a precious little baby!!!

Yay babies lucy

Basement door is locked so stay away though I will sit in the steps with you.

I locked that basement door long ago. Good to see you back Kracker!

Good to see you Joan.

Lucy, beautiful baby and your daughter is lovely...and I love that you called the sink a "hand dish" So interesting! Australia is fast becoming the place I most want to visit someday! I have been watching Real Housewives of Melbourne lately - guilty pleasure

FK, so sorry about your friend. Hugs!

Gotta run as am at work as usual. xo to all!

I had a pretty bad RA flare a few years ago and I was stuck in the house. My DH and I started watching McLeod's Daughter's on Netflix and we were hooked! That's when I heard the word bloke. I love that word!! At the beginning of the show we had to turn on subtitles to understand everything. By the end of the series we could understand everything. I loved that show.

Morning all

Wrote a long erudite post about language differences and lost it.

We use bloke here as well. Our language here is close to the Aussies. I enjoy linguistics and have fun finding variations. We can act as interpreters between you and the Brits as we tend to use both terms.

One that always gets a laugh is when you use the term 'fanny'. It has a different meaning here. An American lecturer at one of our universities couldn't understand the reaction he got when he told a group of young wen to hurry up and get their fannies on the seats. It was only later when he told his Kiwi wife what he had said that he understood and apologised to his class the next day. He went on to write an US - NZ dictionary which is very funny.

There are some advantages to having RA eh Slow.?

Koalas are stinky.

He is called Blinky Bill after a children's book.

Kathy, I believe it is a woman's private parts... the part the gynecologist is so very interested in... but it is slang for those parts

lol

Alyson,

that sounds like what we have here with our various versions of referring to a soft drink. I remember when my family moved from Wisconsin to the East Coast and we were staying with my mom's brother and his family. My aunt asked my mom to get some soda from the store while she was out that day running errands, so mom said she would. So off goes my mom on her errands and when she came back, she was helping my aunt unload the groceries and my aunt says "you forgot the soda." Mom looked at her and said "No I didn't, you are holding it in your hand." My mom had brought home a box of baking soda! My aunt laughed and said she had forgotten that where we are from we call it "pop". So the next time she asked my mom to get some soda from the store, my aunt would either specify "pop" or just call it by the brand name.

That would be awful to name your daughter "Fanny"  which I used to think was a pretty quaint name......

But now all I can think of is a four letter slang word for the same area, which I believe is about one of the worst slurs one can use, hear, etc.

It starts with C....................