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GagaJo Tue 23-Mar-21 09:27:58

So, over the last few weeks I have seen one upmanship on GN about the following:

Curtain v plantation shutters
Paint v wallpaper
Sausages (cheap and fatty v butchers)
Easter eggs
Holidays (2nd home v beach and poool)
Houses (detached v anything else)

Have I missed anything?

Alexa Fri 26-Mar-21 11:54:01

Puzzler, we had a garage pronounced GARage. Man next door actually a nice man, had moved from social housing to an owned semi and he said garADSHE.

Riverwalk Fri 26-Mar-21 11:56:53

Juliet27

My favourite shopping bag.

Before clicking to enlarge the photo I read it as 'My Vag is better than yours'

kittylester Fri 26-Mar-21 12:13:24

That's real one man suppose riverwalk.

muse Fri 26-Mar-21 12:24:11

Starting reading this thread yesterday. Having a read this morning I'm reminded of the Class sketch from Frost report

How about the opposite:
Monty Python - We were so poor. (Four Yorkshire Men) grin
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlIXn0r0AY8

NotSpaghetti Fri 26-Mar-21 12:27:50

Riverwalk -
Before clicking to enlarge the photo I read it as 'My Vag is better than yours

.... mmmn, and I see it is also 100% re-useable...

M0nica Fri 26-Mar-21 12:51:10

Lucca that would be telling, but one of my uncles was called Sweeney Todd grin

annodomini Fri 26-Mar-21 13:24:07

We had a 'garridge' and were obliged to keep our bikes in it overnight. I can't understand why so many youngsters nowadays keep bikes outside (my GC included). No wonder a lot of them get stolen. I was reliably(?) informed that a great aunt whom I never knew had married the managing director of Johnny Walker. Not that my family ever felt the benefits!

kittylester Sun 28-Mar-21 20:58:15

We had a garridge but DH had a gararge!

annsixty Sun 28-Mar-21 21:04:02

I am as Northern as they come and have Southern GC who sit on the grarss take a Barth etc but I have always had a gararge.
Never a garidge.

Ellianne Sun 28-Mar-21 21:11:40

I was told that to sound more posh you should speak slower and elongate the vowels. So grarss sounds posher than grass apparently.

GagaJo Sun 28-Mar-21 22:32:24

Unless you're from Norfolk, Ellianne. Then you sound like a bumpkin. I should know!

Ellianne Sun 28-Mar-21 22:35:15

Devon and Dorset have long vowel sounds too! Now where's my piece of straw?

crazyH Sun 28-Mar-21 22:41:29

And I trump all yours - I have a helipad -
Bought Easter Eggs for my grandkids - £2.99 each from Home Bargains, just thought I’d let you know.....

nanna8 Sun 28-Mar-21 22:52:07

Ah she’ll be right mate. Haven’t seen what youse have here but you poms, it’s part of life, right? Jealousy’s a bloody curse mate.

Lucca Mon 29-Mar-21 12:08:29

Ellianne

I was told that to sound more posh you should speak slower and elongate the vowels. So grarss sounds posher than grass apparently.

You should speak without moving your top lip.

M0nica Mon 29-Mar-21 22:18:00

I was brought up saying neither garridge nor gararge, but simply saying the word the way it was spelt 'garage', with a flat open 'a' and no emphasis on the last syllable