Hey, you blimey limeys

[stewey]

...dont forget to put your clocks ahead eleven hours tonight!

[redman41]

All the Worlds Clocks are Plus or Minus GMT. They should leave us in the UK on GMT permanently as changing the Clocks goes back to WW2 times.

[jno]

good heavens, how old fashioned, you still use clocks over there?

http://www.techwatch....g-at-hands-of-mobile/

[jno]

OMG redman, you mean I'll have to reset my clock to 1945? That's going to take a bit of winding and I'll only be able to get my strength up by eating spam and running from V1s.

[redman41]

Some of us are still using Sun Dials jno ! :-)))))

[stewey]

We don't put hours back until Nov.7th.. So, for a week I'll be closer to you...........Timewise:)

[stewey]

Not too many though, Doc, seeing as the term "limey" does have a non-derogatory historical significance. Actually, I sometimes get called it over here:)

[fredpuli47]

Well, stewey, we suspect 'limey' has always been somewhat derogatory, right from when it was first used (for 'lime-juicer)'. We don't think of it as complimentary in itself, anyway.

And, 'blimey' is not an adjective,so there's no 'blimey limey' or 'blimey' anything. But the phrase 'gor blimey' has an adjectival use. We speak of 'a gor blimey Londoner' or say someone is 'a bit gor blimey' meaning that they speak with a very marked London accent, sometimes called a 'Cockney' accent, or in that dialect.And Lonnie Donegan's immortal song 'My Old Man's a Dustman' contains the line 'He wears gor blimey trousers and lives in a Council flat ' suggesting that someone seeing his father's trousers would exclaim 'Gor blimey!' That expression is a corruption of 'God blind me !' and is rarely heard these days. 'Blimey' on its own is often heard in London and the South East.

[bibblebub]

that's you told

[jno]

oh I don't know, fredpuli, I don't think limey is any more derogatory than yank, and probably a bit less so than pommy.

[stewey]

I don't in the least feel insulted when I'm referred to as a 'limey".

[carmalee]

got it under control but thanks anyway Stewey