|
|
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 1,981
Pooh-Bah
|
Pooh-Bah
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 1,981 |
>As to being offended, I'm not in the least troubled by the feeble efforts of bottom-dwelling Northerners to make themselves feel better than those of us (CK, Phyllis, stales, etc.) who live up here at the top of the world.
That's what I mean about "consenting adults". We can all give as good as we get![running for bunker emoticon]
Regards
A Pom
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2000
Posts: 3,409
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Aug 2000
Posts: 3,409 |
In reply to:
Definite communication problem here, CK.
As for the "missing permutation", I am totally perplexed. I was referring to the 28 SA doctors in your story who have apparently emigrated to NZ. (At least that's what I thought you said.) And SA has such a dearth of skilled people we can ill afford to supply the world with teachers, doctors, nurses (this is the latest drain; the UK came actively recruiting nurses last year) etc.
This I can clear up. It wasn't CK who mentioned the 28 doctors, I was I. So, you replied to him, but he hadn't written the inital comment - confusion was sure to follow! 
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2000
Posts: 3,146
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Nov 2000
Posts: 3,146 |
I intended no direct, personal insult Phyllis. It was obvious from your reply to MaxQ that you were from the Republic. The common slang for South Africans here is "japie" as you spell it (correctly, I presume) and "yappie" as I've seen it spelt. If we saw "japie" here, we would assume Japanese! We use the term the same way that we use Ozzie or Streiner and Kiwi - affectionate contempt. Especially after the last cricket series. I won't use it again here. I also assume your name ain't "van der Merwe".  I knew that was an insult. It's certainly true that we only take your best. But from what we hear here, your best should be making tracks out of a sense of self-preservation. I know a number of South Africans living here, and they haven't had an easy time of it before they arrived. An academic colleague's 60-year-old sister was raped and sliced to death in her own home outside Cape Town a year ago. Anyway, enough! Originally I thought you were from Zambia or Zimbabwe, but your post earlier showed that you were identifying with the Republic. Relatively simple deduction!  Anyway, it's good to have you on the board. {Jackie's namaste emoticon]
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 6,511
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 6,511 |
We sure do. By the way, I see you've been following the "inverted commas" conversation. I see you prefer the "old one-two"! [private wink emoticon]
I sure do, Jo, hehehe... That was purely intentional. ['no typos here" emoticon]
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 6,511
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 6,511 |
tsuwm informs: you know, all this input on various forms of football, soccer, rugby, footy, etc. makes it very clear to me now how (and why) MAD magazine came up with the game of 43-man squamish...
Rather partial here to the grandbaby, Quidditch (viz. Harry Potter) ['knowing-look-to-jmh (is-this-faux-emoticon-thing-going-too-far?)' emoticon]
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 1,981
Pooh-Bah
|
|
Pooh-Bah
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 1,981 |
>['knowing-look-to-jmh (is-this-faux-emoticon-thing-going-too-far?)' emoticon]
Along the lines of "you can never be too thin or too rich". I think you can never take a joke too far, although I have noticed that people tend to avoid me. Can't imagine why!
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 31
newbie
|
|
newbie
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 31 |
affectionate contempt I really like that expression! And I was just pretending to be offended. It was a thin pretext for educating everyone on "japie" (yep, that is the correct spelling) and arming them with another ethnic epithet.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 31
newbie
|
|
newbie
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 31 |
 Yes, I realised after sending the post that I had responded to the wrong person. But the sent post is the modern equivalent of the spent arrow - you can't get it back no matter how much you regret it. My apologies for being so scatty.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 13
stranger
|
|
stranger
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 13 |
Daisy dotes? Shouldn't that be Mairsy dotes?
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2000
Posts: 3,146
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Nov 2000
Posts: 3,146 |
Daisy dotes? Shouldn't that be Mairsy dotes?Probably. Blame Al's Hammer Disease. I do, all the time, when I can remember it. 
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
|
|
|
|
Forums16
Topics13,915
Posts229,917
Members9,197
| |
Most Online3,341
Dec 9th, 2011
|
|
|
0 members (),
795
guests, and
3
robots. |
|
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
|
|
