I certainly feel safer....don't you? :-)
David Niven, Errol Flynn and Basil Rathbone wouldn't be able to wear their hats in a pub today.......
Posted on 01/10/2006 7:28:11 PM PST by Stoat
I certainly feel safer....don't you? :-)
David Niven, Errol Flynn and Basil Rathbone wouldn't be able to wear their hats in a pub today.......
Their first approach toward any problem: Criminalize, inconvenience and insult the law-abiding and honorable folks first in order to avoid 'dissing' the thugs and criminals.
Thanks. I'll check out those links.
You're welcome :-) There are MANY websites devoted not only to British slang but to Aussie and other forms as well. You will get a boatload of hits by searching with keyword strings such as "British Slang Dictionary" "Aussie Slang Dictionary" etc etc.
There is a lot of interesting history behind slang, such as the reasons why Cockney Rhyming Slang came about. It was originally developed by criminals so that the police wouldn't be able to understand what they're saying :-)
The BBC site goes into some detail about this.
Young people wearing hoods is a big problem in the UK. The Neds we have in Scotland do it routinely when they go in shops to steal. Many shops have a no-hood policy.
At the end of the day, if the pub wants to ban hats in its establishment, they can.
Tom Landry and Bear Bryant wouldn't be caught in those pubs.
And I most likely wouldn't be either, but not because of hats. With the nationwide smoking ban in UK pubs, it's now no different than the public houses here in the People's Republic of Washington State, which I also don't go to.
If I can't relax with a cigar, the the reasons for going out to a public drinking establishment have just decreased exponentially.
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