2019 PF Member Awards coming soon

[Greg Bernhardt]

Our internal nomination process has begun so be on your best behavior and make as big of a positive impact on the community as you can in order to catch our eye! Public voting will start Dec 23rd and end Jan 6th with award ceremony on Jan 7th. Thanks and good luck!

 

[phinds]

be on your best behavior

Bah humbug

 

[pinball1970]

Bah humbug

You get my miserable git nomination.
If you are not from the UK, this is a term you use for a grumpy uncle who does not like children or Xmas.

 

[pinball1970]

Just to add, it's a term of endearment. Kind of.

 

[phinds]

You get my miserable git nomination.
If you are not from the UK, this is a term you use for a grumpy uncle who does not like children or Xmas.

What does it mean if you ARE from the UK?

EDIT: Oh, "term of endearment" ? Weird. Bah humbug.

 

[pinball1970]

Yeah I thought this may lead to stuff.
We have different language than anyone else surely you know this?
By different I mean more extensive, deep history, literary context, more nuanced etc..
Miserable git in the north west of England means you do not smile as I hand you a milk stout.
Is that good enough?
Thinking I may pip you to humour vote this year, I expect your vote this year sir.
We did some voting yesterday but no idea what that was about now, THIS is the election. Edit removed one 'sir' the post sounded too British.

 

[pinball1970]

What does it mean if you ARE from the UK?

EDIT: Oh, "term of endearment" ? Weird. Bah humbug.

If you are from the UK means just that. I wasn't being cryptic

 

[sysprog]

You get my miserable git nomination.
If you are not from the UK, this is a term you use for a grumpy uncle who does not like children or Xmas.

An example of use of 'git', accompanied by an emphatic pejorative, from:

I'm So Tired​

by The Beatles​

. . .​

I'm so tired, I'm feeling so upset​

Although I'm so tired, I'll have another cigarette​

And curse Sir Walter Raleigh​

He was such a stupid git​

. . .​

(Probably the knowledge that Sir Walter Raleigh is credited/blamed with/for having been the first to have brought tobacco from the New World back to Europe is closer to universal in England than in the US, but in the usage above, I would venture, the meaning of 'git' is rather inferable.)

 

[pinball1970]

An example of use of 'git', accompanied by an emphatic pejorative, from:

I'm So Tired​

by The Beatles​

. . .​

I'm so tired, I'm feeling so upset​

Although I'm so tired, I'll have another cigarette​

And curse Sir Walter Raleigh​

He was such a stupid git​

. . .​

(Probably the knowledge that Sir Walter Raleigh is credited/blamed with/for having been the first to have brought tobacco from the New World back to Europe is closer to universal in England than in the US, but in the usage above, I would venture, the meaning of 'git' is rather inferable.)View attachment 254106

John Lennon actually says 'get' not 'git'
I think that is more of a North west thing, git is is more southern.

 

[sysprog]

John Lennon actually says 'get' not 'git'
I think that is more of a North west thing, git is is more southern.

I've seen it in print as 'get', but I've heard 'stupid git' frequently (as a boy in Oxford in the '70s). I thought 'get' was simply a mistranscription of John Lennon's Liverpudlian pronunciation of 'git'. I suppose that as a noun 'get' could mean 'a thing gotten' or 'a person begotten'.

 

[Ibix]

I believe git is a variant on get, in the sense of begotten (to be a child of), or more likely misbegotten (to be a bastard child of). It's pretty far removed from its roots (in a "gosh darn it to heck" kind of way). It's a insult, but I've certainly seen it used with a smile in an inoffensive way.

 

[pinball1970]

I've seen it in print as 'get', but I've heard 'stupid git' frequently (as a boy in Oxford in the '70s). I thought 'get' was simply a mistranscription of John Lennon's Liverpudlian pronunciation of 'git'. I suppose that as a noun 'get' could mean 'a thing gotten' or 'a person begotten'.

Yes he does go very scouse on that track, Maggie May is the other one.

 

[pinball1970]

An example of use of 'git', accompanied by an emphatic pejorative, from:

I'm So Tired​

by The Beatles​

. . .​

I'm so tired, I'm feeling so upset​

Although I'm so tired, I'll have another cigarette​

And curse Sir Walter Raleigh​

He was such a stupid git​

. . .​

(Probably the knowledge that Sir Walter Raleigh is credited/blamed with/for having been the first to have brought tobacco from the New World back to Europe is closer to universal in England than in the US, but in the usage above, I would venture, the meaning of 'git' is rather inferable.)View attachment 254106

This site says 'get' I definitely hear 'get'
https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/63729/

 

[pinball1970]

When are the nominations released? @Greg Bernhardt

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

When are the nominations released? @Greg Bernhardt

When voting opens on Dec 23rd.

 

[pinball1970]

When voting opens on Dec 23rd.

Cheers

 

[Evo]

I remember a friend from the UK and he'd return home from the pub and say he was pissed. I asked why he was so mad. He'd say "I'm not mad, I'm drunk"

Cookies are NOT biscuits.

Chips are not french fries.

 

[pinball1970]

I remember a friend from the UK and he'd return home from the pub and say he was pissed. I asked why he was so mad. He'd say "I'm not mad, I'm drunk"

Cookies are NOT biscuits.

Chips are not french fries.

Yes the term must be centred on the fact that alcohol inhibits anti diuretic hormone giving rise to more urine production.
It gives rise to some strange phrases besides being 'p1ssed.'
I'm going on the p1ss tonight (I will be drinking this evening)
I am well p1ssed (I have consumed a lot of alcohol and I am now drunk)
I got back p1ssed up and the Mrs was really pissed off at me( I came back drunk (nothing to do with up or down) and my wife was most annoyed with me)

 

[pinball1970]

I remember a friend from the UK and he'd return home from the pub and say he was pissed. I asked why he was so mad. He'd say "I'm not mad, I'm drunk"

Cookies are NOT biscuits.

Chips are not french fries.

Evo, re Chips and Biscuits.

Afternoon tea and biscuits with friends, with a sprawling view of English countryside of flowers, green hills and oak trees will make you realize why Constable, Gainsborough and Wordsworth were inspired to create beautiful art. Isaac Newton too probably although he was interested in how it all worked rather in just the way it looked.
Chips? Getting drunk and having a chippy supper won wars, gave the world the industrial revolution and built an empire.
I'll stop there because I don't want to overstate it.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Just a few days left! Polls open Monday!

 

[BillTre]

I remember a friend from the UK and he'd return home from the pub and say he was pissed. I asked why he was so mad. He'd say "I'm not mad, I'm drunk"

Cookies are NOT biscuits.

Chips are not french fries.

I spent a year in a lab in Newcastle upon Tyne (Northern England) and learned a lot of interesting Britishisms.
Also ran into some Geordies who seen to have their own dialect.

There were several phrases I liked, but the most memorable (probably because I worked on ships for a year) was "stroppy". An older gal in the lab used it.
Her explanation was that it referred to someone under a lot of stress, as in the strops on an old sailing ship that connected stays (which keep the masts from flopping around due to the wind) to the hull of the ship.
The nautical world has its own lexicon.

 

[Evo]

I spent a year in a lab in Newcastle upon Tyne (Northern England) and learned a lot of interesting Britishisms.
Also ran into some Geordies who seen to have their own dialect.

My friend also lived in Newcastle upon Tyne he could speak Geordie, but due to attending private schools, spoke proper British/English as his main language. He referred me to a website once that had a Geordie to English translator! It was very funny.

And yes sailors have a language all their own.

 

[hutchphd]

(Probably the knowledge that Sir Walter Raleigh is credited/blamed with/for having been the first to have brought tobacco from the New World back to Europe is closer to universal in England than in the US, but in the usage above, I would venture, the meaning of 'git' is rather inferable.)

All Bob Newhart fans of a certain age know this fact. He did a wonderful bit about Sir Walter telephoning the Queen and describing his New World discovery of the weed. A very funny man.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Polls will be coming out within the hour. I won't have time tomorrow

 

[sysprog]

All Bob Newhart fans of a certain age know this fact. He did a wonderful bit about Sir Walter telephoning the Queen and describing his New World discovery of the weed. A very funny man.

Yeah, that was brilliant -- here he is doing a reprise of it on the Dean Martin show . . .

 

[Evo]

Yeah, that was brilliant -- here he is doing a reprise of it on the Dean Martin show . . .

I guess that was before smoking tobacco became socially BAD, it had been known to be unhealthy before this show, but most people ignored the warnings.

Dean Martin died of acute respiratory distress from lung cancer. He was a chain smoker.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

If you haven't noticed, the polls are open!
https://www.physicsforums.com/forums/2019-pf-member-awards.295/

 

[PeroK]

I spent a year in a lab in Newcastle upon Tyne (Northern England) and learned a lot of interesting Britishisms.
Also ran into some Geordies who seen to have their own dialect.

There were several phrases I liked, but the most memorable (probably because I worked on ships for a year) was "stroppy". An older gal in the lab used it.
Her explanation was that it referred to someone under a lot of stress, as in the strops on an old sailing ship that connected stays (which keep the masts from flopping around due to the wind) to the hull of the ship.
The nautical world has its own lexicon.

A British comedy duo, Harry & Paul, did a series of sketches where a posh English family keeps a Geordie as a pet! I don't know how they got away with it.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

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[Greg Bernhardt]

Award ceremony will be tonight or tomorrow!