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Post by Pete on Jun 28, 2008 0:06:32 GMT
Blatantly so, Paul!
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Post by Verbivore on Jun 28, 2008 1:14:40 GMT
[...] If ANYONE used dude, I would run a mile, after cringing and throwing up. [...] Vadim: I'm with you! To me, dude belongs with backward-facing baseball caps and slack-jawed vacant faces. Not a "civilised" term at all. When I become Australia's Diktator, dude (along with that silly headwear) will be banned from use. Penalty: "re-education" camp!
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Post by Paul Doherty on Jun 28, 2008 1:22:30 GMT
I mentioned to my teenage children today that I thought their mother was buff. They hate that.
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Post by Verbivore on Jun 28, 2008 1:29:23 GMT
I mentioned to my teenage children today that I thought their mother was buff. They hate that. Paul: What does buff mean in that context? The only uses I know for the word are "polish" (the car, furniture, etc.) and "naked" - as in in the buff.
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Post by Paul Doherty on Jun 28, 2008 3:42:24 GMT
Attractive. Synonymous with fit or well fit!
I'm not sure if it can be used of a man (although fit in this sense can be). I've never heard a man described as buff, but maybe I don't move in the right circles.
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Post by Geoff on Jun 28, 2008 4:17:02 GMT
To me, dude belongs with backward-facing baseball caps and slack-jawed vacant faces. Not a "civilised" term at all. When I become Australia's Diktator, dude (along with that silly headwear) will be banned from use. Penalty: "re-education" camp! ... and you'll ban the wearing of baseball caps with the peak cocked off to the side, I hope. I think that's even sillier than wearing the cap backwards. The only good thing I can see in the wearing of backward-facing baseball caps is that doing so seems to identify the wearer as an idiot car driver.
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Post by Verbivore on Jun 28, 2008 8:13:20 GMT
[...] ... and you'll ban the wearing of baseball caps with the peak cocked off to the side, I hope. I think that's even sillier than wearing the cap backwards. The only good thing I can see in the wearing of backward-facing baseball caps is that doing so seems to identify the wearer as an idiot car driver. Yup - sideways, too, Geoff! And I think you're also right about the peak-backwards drivers. I'm sure I posted on the APS board (a long time ago) the story of my little social experiment at my local Sunday market: How to get all baseball cap peaks facing forward post haste.
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Post by TfS on Jun 28, 2008 9:08:23 GMT
I'm sure I posted on the APS board (a long time ago) the story of my little social experiment at my local Sunday market: How to get all baseball cap peaks facing forward post haste. Maybe the answer is to get the manufacturers to produce the caps with the peak sewn on to the back of the cap. Thus, in the perverse manner of wearing the caps back to front, this would then have the caps worn the right way round from the observers' view point. Just a thought. TfS
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Post by Pete on Jun 28, 2008 9:56:41 GMT
I'm sure I posted on the APS board (a long time ago) the story of my little social experiment at my local Sunday market: How to get all baseball cap peaks facing forward post haste. Maybe the answer is to get the manufacturers to produce the caps with the peak sewn on to the back of the cap. Thus, in the perverse manner of wearing the caps back to front, this would then have the caps worn the right way round from the observers view point. Just a thought. TfS Or the peak could go all the way round the hat and we could call it a derby, trilby or bowler.
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Post by Twoddle on Jun 28, 2008 10:20:15 GMT
Attractive. Synonymous with fit or well fit! I'd not heard "buff" used in that context before. In my young day, "fit" - when used as a description of an attractive young lady - was usually expanded to "fit as a butcher's dog".
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Post by Gabriel-Ernest on Jun 28, 2008 13:31:03 GMT
. . ."fit as a butcher's dog". Bearing in mind the thinness of some of today’s female stars, the above puts me in mind of that very evocative phrase: “I’ve seen more meat on a butcher’s pencil.”.
As to the head-gear question; perhaps we can persuade our various governments to put a tax on all baseball caps worn backwards. Bearing in mind the invidious presence of surveillance cameras in every part of modern life it shouldn’t be too difficult to enforce. Only bettered, I feel, by the proposal of levying a tax on all foreigners living abroad.
G-E.
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Post by Pete on Jun 28, 2008 13:52:33 GMT
foreigners living abroad. Tee hee ;D ;D ;D
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Post by Pete on Jun 28, 2008 13:55:58 GMT
foreigners living abroad. Seriously, though, in my work colleagues refer to "foreign" a lot in ways that would be ambiguous or just wrong. For example, if I send a US client a report that refers to "foreign taxes", what will he think I mean? So I change it to refer to "non-UK taxes".
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Post by Barry on Jun 28, 2008 15:05:29 GMT
Oh, trust me, Paul, it is (at any rate, it is on the other sort of websites I visit). In fact, I'd always assumed it was a male-descriptive term; I'd associated it in my mind with that buffed look that shaved (and I'm not talking face, here), oiled, male porn-stars have. Evidently it's gender-neutral.
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Post by Paul Doherty on Jun 28, 2008 17:18:42 GMT
Pete: welcome to god-hood. Barry, I'm not sure it has the same meaning, though. Buff about a girl simply means attractive; I don't think it has the shaved/polished/sculpted/oiled connotations that it has for gay men. Same with Twod's fit: I don't think it has implications of being particularly interested in running about (which is surely what a butcher's dog does), simply of being very attractive. And it definitely applies to boys too, as www.fitlads.com attests. Although that's a gay/bi site, fit is equally used by girls about boys.
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