Every Little Interests The Elite

purpledonkey

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Oh, you learn something new every day! Talk about pd and the Urban Dictionary on here earlier, but I've just learned from BBC News about a euphemism. They were talking about a story in the papers about couples having less sex and the presenter mentioned the phrase "Netflix and chill". I've now checked via wikipedia and elsewhere and, indeed!

Why don't people just come out and say precisely what they mean?!!:eek::eek::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: I would never have known. If someone had come out and asked me for "Netflix and chill", I would have literally been confused and thought they'd literally meant watching Netflix and "chilling out", you know, relaxing watching a film or video on Netflix. That's what it meant to me. I'd never even heard of the phrase before tonight (I don't read dictionaries anymore:rotfl: and obviously I don't go out enough:eek::rotfl:). I would have had no clue, I'd have taken them literally! At least now I know:D:rotfl::).:doh:

:rotfl: I had to explain that to my mother last week

bubbs

Night all x

frequent

I'd say the beer is 4 x £1.125 x 4 = £18.00.

How ?

I don't know.

Savvybuyer

purpledonkey wrote: »

:rotfl: I had to explain that to my mother last week

:rotfl::rotfl:

I was just about to say.
Don't get me onto this now, or else I will go on for pages and pages about it obsessively. I would have no problem about explaining something like that. I wish people had just said it to me straight though, please. All these unclear euphemisms that fail to communicate anything at all to me. I would have had to ask "but what do you mean?" and thus put my foot in it yet again, thus missed out and killed the moment completely:o:rotfl:. Or else maybe I would have gone back to their house expecting just a film but, well, got a little bit more than I expected:D:D:T:rotfl. However, at least I now know.

mhoc

I think we need to start a list of the innocent ones, add me to the list as well

I also had to check Wikipedia - apparently it's been around since 2009.
Where have I been for the last 6 years ...

Savvybuyer wrote: »

Oh, you learn something new every day! Talk about pd and the Urban Dictionary on here earlier, but I've just learned from BBC News about a euphemism. They were talking about a story in the papers about couples having less sex and the presenter mentioned the phrase "Netflix and chill". I've now checked via wikipedia and elsewhere and, indeed!

Why don't people just come out and say precisely what they mean?!!:eek::eek::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: I would never have known. If someone had come out and asked me for "Netflix and chill", I would have literally been confused and thought they'd literally meant watching Netflix and "chilling out", you know, relaxing watching a film or video on Netflix. That's what it meant to me. I'd never even heard of the phrase before tonight (I don't read dictionaries anymore:rotfl: and obviously I don't go out enough:eek::rotfl:). I would have had no clue, I'd have taken them literally! At least now I know:D:rotfl::).:doh:

If someone had asked me for sex, at least I would have understood them:eek::rotfl:. However, at least people (I mean in RL:D:rotfl:) could now ask me for "Netflix and chill" and I would now know:cool::rotfl:.

Savvybuyer

mhoc wrote: »

I think we need to start a list of the innocent ones, add me to the list as well

I also had to check Wikipedia - apparently it's been around since 2009.
Where have I been for the last 6 years ...

I'm obviously getting old. It's teen slang I think. I used to be up on these things, but, having passed my teenage years now a long time ago, I no longer am.

I think my problem is that I listen too many rappers and they just come straight out with things in a very direct way and don't go for all this euphemism that must have just passed me by - whoosh!:rotfl::rotfl::doh:

Apparently, according to here, it means "hooking up": http://www.seventeen.com/life/friends-family/news/a35841/this-dad-just-learned-what-netflix-and-chill-means-and-hes-freaking-out/

It doesn't even mean that:rotfl: - and even that is a euphemism. If you said "hooking up", I'd assume you meant something like talking on the phone to each other:eek: - nothing to do with sex at all. It doesn't mean hooking up. It means having sex. There is another version, on UD, which this forum would not permit me to repeat, but I notice that it defined on UD as a way of saying Netflix and chill when you want to be "less deceiving":rotfl:. Indeed. Saying "chill", when you mean, er, something else, is deceiving! Obviously:rotfl:.

fairclaire

Savvybuyer wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl:

I was just about to say.
Don't get me onto this now, or else I will go on for pages and pages about it obsessively. I would have no problem about explaining something like that. I wish people had just said it to me straight though, please. All these unclear euphemisms that fail to communicate anything at all to me. I would have had to ask "but what do you mean?" and thus put my foot in it yet again, thus missed out and killed the moment completely:o:rotfl:. Or else maybe I would have gone back to their house expecting just a film but, well, got a little bit more than I expected:D:D:T:rotfl. However, at least I now know.

At least it's interesting Savvy. Way more interesting than DS2 latest obsession.......which is reporting every single pothole he sees to the council
He's discovered our councils website for reporting road problems. Whenever he's out and about on foot or in the car and he comes across a pothole it is logged and reported. We did a fair bit of trekking this morning and he had 16 to report. I've even been asked to revisit a certain street tomorrow as he's not sure how many there were.

I'm letting him go with it. There have been a few strange obsessions along the way but this one might be the strangest yet. I am careful to say where I'm going at the moment though as I get a run-down of where potholes are on my way.

Hope you had a good time in Glasgow PD....isn't it FAB?

Savvybuyer

fairclaire wrote: »

At least it's interesting Savvy. Way more interesting than DS2 latest obsession.......which is reporting every single pothole he sees to the council
He's discovered our councils website for reporting road problems. Whenever he's out and about on foot or in the car and he comes across a pothole it is logged and reported. We did a fair bit of trekking this morning and he had 16 to report. I've even been asked to revisit a certain street tomorrow as he's not sure how many there were.

I'm letting him go with it. There have been a few strange obsessions along the way but this one might be the strangest yet. I am careful to say where I'm going at the moment though as I get a run-down of where potholes are on my way.

Hope you had a good time in Glasgow PD....isn't it FAB?

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
Sorry:o:o. It was just so funny, even if I don't appreciate what a nightmare it may be for you (or maybe not).
He'll be absolutely and completely consistent though - and not a single pothole (that comes into a place where he happens to go) will be missed:D:rotfl::(:rotfl:.

They'll "love" him at the council - I've been a bit like that. Every rule - and nothing is too small:D:o:rotfl:. But... in theory (and that's the point, in theory, not practice) he's doing what everyone ought to be doing and he's not wrong - it's just people generally don't behave that way and everyone else is wrong. Imagine if everybody did that though - they'd never be able to get out to anywhere and the phones would be constantly jammed as their staff would be unable to cope. (I can actually foresee a point coming where they ask him not to report things and he'll be like :huh:?!? - but I was told that's what you should do - and they just end up logging things and not able to take any action because he's reporting so much - in order words, absolutely everything that ought to be reported. Best of luck. I can see the "shut down correspondence" reply eventually coming - and, at that point, with me and with organisations, that's the point at which I know I have "won":D:rotfl::(. Infuriating when they fail to reply to correspondence though:rotfl: - but that's because they have no answer to give as I am right:p:rotfl:.)

It's very interesting. (No it's not, Savvy!) I'd love to know where every pothole was and take and catalogue every one of them in my own personal database, with a list (I love those:rotfl:) of where they all are and the dimensions of each one, what date they have been filled in, which are still outstanding etc. etc.

pattylabelle

Anon wrote: »

Random question, but does anyone know anything about burglar alarms? Ours keeps going off at random during the day when we are out and at night (when set!). Could this be caused by the backup battery going flat (as not replaced in years) or do we need to get an engineer out? When you put your code in to stop it, it is always the same sensor that has triggered it according to the panel light.

Many thanks

Anon

The back up battery failing does cause problems like that - we got a wee man who knew about alarms and came and replaced the battery for £25 - you could probs do it yourself if you knew model number etc and bought direct. Our alarm was 10 years old at the time and the battery was so old it was bulging and warped. Interesting thing was - when he was out he told us to change the alarm code because if we didn't we would cause probs on the panel using the same buttons all the time. So for example if currently using code 1234 change it to 5678 to double the life of the panel :money::money:

Savvybuyer

Savvybuyer wrote: »

It's very interesting. (No it's not, Savvy!) I'd love to know where every pothole was and take and catalogue every one of them in my own personal database, with a list (I love those:rotfl:) of where they all are and the dimensions of each one, what date they have been filled in, which are still outstanding etc. etc.

The "problem" (although it's not) is that (I think) generally people will think that I am being - or am trying to be - sarcastic in saying this. However, the "trouble" is that I am not:eek::eek::rotfl: and that I'm being serious. Even though some of you now won't even believe that. It's something that someone on the spectrum might do - it's not "wrong", it's just not the generally-done thing (but then again when is anything right merely because it's "generally done"?:think:) and therefore it's strange and weird. However, these days, I rather like being "weird" - the true weirdos that ought to be criticised are the people that do horrible things - but my weirdness in a non-criminal and non-anti-social sense, I rather like being that way and would never these days have it any other way!

I don't mind being "weird" if that means I'm the only one that's really right:rotfl:. But you're "not wrong" either. Just you're not right:rotfl::rotfl:.