Would have to be on an assemblage of bike inner tubes surely?
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Would have to be on an assemblage of bike inner tubes surely?
That would need a lot of cable ties! On the other hand a puncture would be less catastrophic.
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Actually Mr fimm saw them somewhere near the Colinton Tunnel and I saw them between Saughton Park and Murrayfield. (I should have taken a photo.)
I was thinking that the river was higher than sometimes which might make it more passable by kayak. Not that I know anything about these things.
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First high five of the year with gembo by Boroughmuir High School.
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One of my favourite spots is when I, @I were right about that saddle spot @i, which I just did while doing the shopping in Morrisons.
When we first met at PoP 2015 I said 'Hi, i, I'm I were right about that saddle', a sentence never before pronounced on the surface of this planet.
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Are there certain people with whom you use your full Sunday name and others you go for the simpler "Iwrats"?
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'Hi, i, I'm I were right about that saddle'
You missed a trick there, could have been "Aye aye, i, I'm I were right about that saddle".
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@Hankchief
The contraction hadn't become totally ingrained at that time.
@Frenchy
Aye, rats! 'Aye aye' is my standard greeting for passing adult male walkers/runners/cyclists too...
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@Iwrats. Thanks for the clarity. Out of interest when did Gembo Gembo Gembo get shortened to just "Gembo"?
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And now I'm wondering if I'm pronouncing "Iwrats" correctly. I-wrats? Iraats? Eerats?
@jdanielp sounds like JDP in my head.
@chdot I mentally pronounce as Ch-dot ( "ch" as in the start of "choose" but cut off hard after the h).
eta: my standard greeting for passing adult male walkers/runners/cyclists too... - you have a different greeting for the rest of us?
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@hankchief I have always been just Gembo. Some go for Jembo but that is wrong. If I see you but it is clear we are not stopping for Le chittychat, I will raise my right arm and punch the air shouting Hankchief Hankchief Hankchief.
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Is this like the .gif pronunciation controversy? (Hard g all the way here.)
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( "ch" as in the start of "choose" but cut off hard after the h)
Nope.
It’s simply three syllables.
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See I know that but it still wants to be ch-dot mentally?
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And now I'm wondering if I'm pronouncing "Iwrats" correctly. I-wrats? Iraats? Eerats?
'Aye-rats' in my head.
you have a different greeting for the rest of us?
I do, yes. Mindful of the menace that an over-familiar angular man might present to a female human on her own I do use another greeting in that circumstance. I do recognise gender in everyday life.
I say 'see-aitch-dot' and 'srid' in my head also.
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I've always pronounced chdot as "see aitch dot", and in my head for IWRATS I say "aye rats".
Before I understood its etymology, I thought recombodna was pronounced "ree com bodna", and not "recombo dee en ay"*
I presume that SRD is pronounced "S R D" and not "Surd", for that would surely be 'absurd'**.
* I don't have the International Phonetic Alphabet committed to memory yet.
** Just a little joke, there.Posted 6 years ago # -
@Arellcat - not just absurd, but simply irrational.
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But is @steveo "stev ee oh", "steev ee oh" or "steev oh"?
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I still say '"reh com bodna".
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Police car parked on the pavement on Gilmerton Road.
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Token traffic warden outside the school this morning, I doubt the repeat offenders will take the hint but if nothing else it helps when the kids are most hyper.
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Almost forgot a treat for the CCE Greyhound Fanciers section. Spotted a Podenco in the pub. Douce hispanic greyhound fitted with priapic Yoda ears.
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General purpose multi-tool found on Seafield Rd this morning.
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Douce hispanic greyhound fitted with priapic Yoda ears.
Lovely dogs, of course. I like their comically oversized paws the most.
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It was a rescue dog too. Sooooo gentle.
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Was that @daisydaisy heading west on Balcarres Street just before 5pm today? I was heading east, was concentrating on the traffic and, in dark, wasn't sure enough of the spot to wave.
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it's a rescue hammer.
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I hope you rehomed it?
Meanwhile, I looked up Podencos and now I'm thoroughly upset on behalf of ill-treated Spanish dogs. I might need to adopt about ten.
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I hope you rehomed it?
The podenco seemed to have two utterly besotted owners and a small pack of peers. They said they both worked shifts and occasionally needed dog care when those clashed....
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I might need to adopt about ten.
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