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What do you call your woollen top?

monty.molemonty.mole
edited February 2008 in Chit chat
For all of us that were denied the opportunity to talk about jumpers in ZnorXman's Jumper, Sweater, Pullover thread...

Jumper for me. "Sweater" is just so poncy.
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  • beanzbeanz
    edited February 2008
    Jumper here too...Sweater is a yuppy word and pullover is a granny word.....actually the corruption of pullover..

    'Don't forget your pully!'
    Ok gran.
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited February 2008
    Jumper!

    My wife says sweater, but she's a middle class yank, so I'm not surprised really :lol:

    Of course that's why she likes me I reckon, a bit rough from dirty ol' blighty.
    Every night is curry night!
  • frobushfrobush
    edited February 2008
    I hate people who wear 'Jumpers'.

    Especially the bastard the nicked mine!
  • monty.molemonty.mole
    edited February 2008
    dm_boozefreek wrote: »
    My wife says sweater, but she's a middle class yank, so I'm not surprised really :lol:

    And she'll obviously pronounce it in that weird American way rather than the proper British way.

    "If you're going to insist on saying the wrong word then at least pronounce it correctly!!!"
  • beanzbeanz
    edited February 2008
    monty.mole wrote: »
    And she'll obviously pronounce it in that weird American way rather than the proper British way.

    "If you're going to insist on saying the wrong word then at least pronounce it correctly!!!"


    Yeah it bugs me out they change 'T's to 'D's.

    Sweadder
    Budder
    etc
  • Steve(spt)Steve(spt)
    edited February 2008
    pullover as my butler gets my cloths ready for me.
  • MattLambMattLamb
    edited February 2008
    Undoubtedly JUMPER
  • milemile
    edited February 2008
    nothing, i'm not 40+
  • rich_chandlerrich_chandler
    edited February 2008
    mile wrote: »
    nothing, i'm not 40+
    Only 40+ people get cold?
    I wanna tell you a story 'bout a woman I know...
  • milemile
    edited February 2008
    karingal wrote: »
    Only 40+ people get cold?

    no, but you dont have to wear one of the above to keep warm.
  • monty.molemonty.mole
    edited February 2008
    beanz wrote: »
    Yeah it bugs me out they change 'T's to 'D's.

    Sweadder
    Budder
    etc

    And then there's this weird business with the word "water" - the language barrier is even worse for that.

    Flight Attendant: "Would you like some waa-der sir?"
    Me: "I'm sorry?"
    Flight Attendant: "I said would you like some waa-der?"
    Me: (Blank look)

    Me: "Although actually, I would like a glass of worter, please."
    Attendant: (Slight pause) "I'm sorry sir, we don't have any of that..."
  • milemile
    edited February 2008
    monty.mole wrote: »

    Me: "Although actually, I would like a glass of worter, please."
    Attendant: (Slight pause) "I'm sorry sir, we don't have any of that..."

    worter, who are you, the queen?

    i call it wata.
  • murtcepsmurtceps
    edited February 2008
    Pullover I'm afraid, in a photo finish with Jumper. I don't think I'd ever use the term sweater, for a start it reminds too much of the 80's shop "The Sweater Shop".



    Edit:- A R@re example of Seater Shop Merchandise is available on Ebay
  • monty.molemonty.mole
    edited February 2008
    mile wrote: »
    no, but you dont have to wear one of the above to keep warm.

    Bloody youngsters...

    I bet you go out at night in the middle of winter wearing just a t-shirt. Meanwhile I'm sat in front of the fire snug in my cardie and slippers. I know where I'd rather be!
  • beanzbeanz
    edited February 2008
    I was in the bar last night and ordered a Vodka and orange
    The young lovely looked at me blankly and said...a vodka and what?

    ..orange..
    ..what?
    ORANGE..

    .several moments pause..

    ohh! orange

    ...errr yeah thats what I said.

    ....you talk funny.
  • monty.molemonty.mole
    edited February 2008
    mile wrote: »
    worter, who are you, the queen?

    i call it wata.

    I've been corrupted by all those years living among the southerners. Yorkshire is a different country anyway...
  • milemile
    edited February 2008
    monty.mole wrote: »
    Bloody youngsters...

    I bet you go out at night in the middle of winter wearing just a t-shirt. Meanwhile I'm sat in front of the fire snug in my cardie and slippers. I know where I'd rather be!

    what the hell are slippers?
  • monty.molemonty.mole
    edited February 2008
    mile wrote: »
    what the hell are slippers?

    You'd probably call them splodbarrows or something like that...
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited February 2008
    beanz wrote: »
    I was in the bar last night and ordered a Vodka and orange
    The young lovely looked at me blankly and said...a vodka and what?

    ..orange..
    ..what?
    ORANGE..

    .several moments pause..

    ohh! orange

    ...errr yeah thats what I said.

    ....you talk funny.

    I may have posted it up around about the time it happened but the "server" (that's another US thing that annoys me, why not just say waitress) at Buffalo Wild Wings, thought I was taking the piss out of her and started talking like the artful dodger to me. To which I thought she was taking the piss out of me, anyway at the end we decided to get some cake and she started talking to me and my wife. Turns out she explained that she thought I was making fun of her since it was about 1:30am, and she said "we get a few people in at this time of night drunk, who just try to cause shit, and I thought you were putting the accent on" she then apologised about 25 times and started hoovering the floor.

    She was a nice girl though so I let it slide because I think she felt embaressed enough as it was.

    Another one that annoys me as mentioned with dropping letters is "erbs"
    It's fucking "herbs" you degenorate gluesniffers. Do they think it makes them sound sophisticated or something, just because people like Giada DeLorentes, or friggin' Emiril Lagassi says it.

    Those people are TV chefs dummies, they're paid to be pretentious.
    Every night is curry night!
  • ZnorXmanZnorXman
    edited February 2008
    dm_boozefreek wrote: »
    Another one that annoys me as mentioned with dropping letters is "erbs"
    It's fucking "herbs" you degenorate gluesniffers. Do they think it makes them sound sophisticated or something, just because people like Giada DeLorentes, or friggin' Emiril Lagassi says it.

    Those people are TV chefs dummies, they're paid to be pretentious.

    It's so they don't confuse the greens with the guys called Herb.
  • beanzbeanz
    edited February 2008
    Oh lord that 'erb' shit bugs the 'ell' out of me.
  • ZnorXmanZnorXman
    edited February 2008
    My woolen top I call "Grizzly" and he's has been with me for quite a while. We enjoy watching movies together and we often do eat together. Nothing gay going on, more of a symbiotic friendship-thingie. We keep each other warm, and he keeps food off the couch, he's a very quiet listener with a fairly philosophical demeanor. He's a man of the world, and can keep quiet in over a dozen languages. He's against beds in general, preferring the back of a chair. Grizzly is a jealous type of a person, so I only have one woolen top. He's also afraid of water so I've never been allowed to put him in the washing machine. Grizzly is a very straighforward kind of a guy, he keeps a stiff upper lip, perhaps because he's a hydrophobe and a bit crusty around the edges. People say I stink but the friendship I have with Grizzly is more important to me than whatever people say about me smelling like onions, pizza and self-sex. Oh, bother, I guess we do have an odd indirect sexual relationship.

    No Grizzly, I haven't told them about that good time we had at the beach last summer, and boy was it extra warm, and no, I will not mention that time you tricked me into walking without my pants downtown around xmas. Grizzly, what are you doing? Put that fork down, it's not time to eat yet. Grizzly, why the frown? Grizzly?

    Griz---!
  • beanzbeanz
    edited February 2008
    ZnorXman wrote: »
    My woolen top I call "Grizzly" and he's has been with me for quite a while. We enjoy watching movies together and we often do eat together. Nothing gay going on, more of a symbiotic friendship-thingie. We keep each other warm, and he keeps food off the couch, he's a very quiet listener with a fairly philosophical demeanor. He's a man of the world, and can keep quiet in over a dozen languages. He's against beds in general, preferring the back of a chair. Grizzly is a jealous type of a person, so I only have one woolen top. He's also afraid of water so I've never been allowed to put him in the washing machine. Grizzly is a very straighforward kind of a guy, he keeps a stiff upper lip, perhaps because he's a hydrophobe and a bit crusty around the edges. People say I stink but the friendship I have with Grizzly is more important to me than whatever people say about me smelling like onions, pizza and self-sex. Oh, bother, I guess we do have an odd indirect sexual relationship.

    No Grizzly, I haven't told them about that good time we had at the beach last summer, and boy was it extra warm, and no, I will not mention that time you tricked me into walking without my pants downtown around xmas. Grizzly, what are you doing? Put that fork down, it's not time to eat yet. Grizzly, why the frown? Grizzly?

    Griz---!

    Ohhh!!! I didn't know that was you I always see in the photo's with Jeff Minter.
  • ÆlitaÆlita
    edited February 2008
    On this subject..here is a song I like - Le pullover blanc.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAZz6xT2myA
    I stole it off a space ship.
  • andrew_rollingsandrew_rollings
    edited February 2008
    Sweater = made out of fabric rather than knitted.
    Jumper = knitted, with sleeves.
    pullover = knitted, sleeveless.

    Not accurate probably, but that's what I've always called 'em.

    Andrew
  • beanzbeanz
    edited February 2008
    andrew_rollings wrote: »
    pullover = knitted, sleeveless.

    Andrew

    Tank Top!

    (filler)
  • ZnorXmanZnorXman
    edited February 2008
    beanz wrote: »
    Ohhh!!! I didn't know that was you I always see in the photo's with Jeff Minter.

    And you still don't know it, because that's not me. It's possible that it was Grizzly, I don't always see him around every day and he sometimes disappears for a few weeks at a time, only to be found later in a corner of the house with extra bits of food and crusty bits here and there. I usually don't ask him about the crusty bits and the stains. I don't like the nasty tricks he likes to play on me, so I ask few questions.

    What's that Grizzly? No, I'm not on the computer. What? Oh, ok, I'll bring the orange juice. And what? Poached eggs? Oh, this is going to be a long stinky day. No, Grizzly, I didn't say anything. Be right over.
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited February 2008
    I wonder if Grizzly is friends with Mr. Hoppy?
    Every night is curry night!
  • ZnorXmanZnorXman
    edited February 2008
    dm_boozefreek wrote: »
    I wonder if Grizzly is friends with Mr. Hoppy?

    Might be. And to confuse the obfuscitations, on to other things though, I suspect him to have a similar accent as Mr. Rude.
  • rich_chandlerrich_chandler
    edited February 2008
    Are ZnorXman and Jeff Minter gay lovers?
    I wanna tell you a story 'bout a woman I know...
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