Thatcher has died

Thanks, sel.

And greatnan.

Quite right, jingle - it is in the mind of the beholder!

Bags you know sometimes you read something, then read it again and then feel more confused (actually you probably don't but I do) I felt like that after your dissection of the word. HR was an easy one

JO8 , LOL.

sel, eh??

Or as they used to say in Lancashire (probably still do but I don't live there any more): "Yer wot, luv? Wot yer on about?"

You didn't mean wtf, did you? That's three words: what. the. flip.

As jingle explained

Bags wot yer on about has been said to me many times, many, many times (where did that come from - a radio programme?)

Since living int South, I have learnt a 'kindly explain yourself or 'could you elucidate' works better. I try and hold back and be grown up most of the time.

Oh, and I didn't answer your original question but that's another failing of mine

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Bags I've just remembered what your post reminded me of - Donald Rumsfeld explaining about knowing about things.

Bluebell , so you did not mean "what the flip" . you meant the other ?

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What pray does FO mean ?

They mean the same, nonu. One is more emphatic than the other, that's all. Expresses a little more irritation, you might say. But they mean the same. Listen to the meaning, not the words, as an Ecuadorean friend of mine used to say.

sel, Wot yer on about still works fine in my circle, especially with a twinkle in one's eye.

FO means "Fizzle Out why don't you? I'm getting irritated." but only the first two words are, ahem, spelled out.

Oh wait! I think it might mean "Fall off your high horse, perleese!"

In short, it means what the hell you want it to mean.

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Check your pms, bluebell. I'm having some of that stuff beginning with 'r' too

or reflection even

I find it incredible that Nonu could have reached adulthood without knowing what every child in the playground knows. FO means Fuck Off, a good old Anglo-Saxon way of telling somebody what you think of them. Now all you delicate flowers can pretend to faint, holding your scented hankies to your nose.

I thought so, but I had to check because I didn't "know". Refection is something you eat in a refectory (or sitting room in my case). I'm having some of that. Coffee and flapjack. Dead good. Reflection may follow.

Ah! I wondered which you came from bluebell. . Mumsnet or Saga. Do you know, my money would have gone on Saga!

What does that mean, jingle?

BTW, did ticktock ever come back on this thread? #cantbebotheredtolook

j08 - what is Saga?