Assume v. Presume

[EEPhil]

Barton's used to run buses between the cities, but not any more.

Kinchbus*, sometimes disguised as Trentbarton*, only runs Nottingham to Loughborough.(* same parent company)

The other side of the Trent.

Oh, you mean Nottingham (or Notting-gam or Nottinum as I've also heard).

 

[Black Hole]

Wasn't it used like e.g. "I have his acquaintance", "I have her acquaintance", "I have their acquaintance"

No, "my acquaintance" (when clearly referring to more than one). Possibly there is a silent apostrophe in the spelling, which could make it work, if in that era they didn't like the sound of "acquaintances" (like James' ball).

 

[Black Hole]

I thought it was always raining in Manchester.

I could have said "it were always raining in Wales", but that seems like stating the obvious. I was in Leicester contemporary with Ripping Yarns, or there abouts, which is why it got riffed as a personal meme.

 

[Black Hole]

Wasn't it used like e.g. "I have his acquaintance", "I have her acquaintance", "I have their acquaintance"

"These acquaintance" is a clincher. I have another idea: perhaps it is "acquaintants".

 

[Black Hole]

Oh FFS.

I downloaded Google's rip of an 1895 print lodged in the Bodleian in 1896.



So all the way through I've been befuddled by the reader having an affectation! Stand down.

 

[EEPhil]

Of course you have little to loose,

(I only mention it because someone, don't think it was you, pointed it out when I did the same.)

 

[prpr]

Perhaps you could lend him your spanner?

 

[EEPhil]

Perhaps you could lend him your spanner?

I don't have many spanners left. They went for scrap when I moved.

 

[Black Hole]

Bugger.

 

[prpr]

Bugger.

Did you catch your knuckles whilst using the spanner?

 

[Black Hole]

So all the way through I've been befuddled by the reader having an affectation! Stand down.

It's Emma Thompson's fault. Clip attached.

 

[EEPhil]

I thought it was always raining in Manchester.

ISIHAC.
Pippa Evans: The sun'll come out tomorrow
Tony Hawks: You've not been to Manchester before, have you?

 

[Black Hole]

ISIHAC

On the queue for car listening.

I was at the Bristol recording.

 

[EEPhil]

On the queue for car listening.

I was at the Bristol recording.

I remember. You posted a picture of the theatre. Was that the one where the aforementioned Pippa Evans (and someone else) did a pick-up song of "Phantom"?

 

[Black Hole]

That was the previous time, a couple of years ago!

 

[EEPhil]

That was the previous time, a couple of years ago!

That occurred to me a short while after posting. I thought about deleting the post, but what the hell! I can't tell Bath from Bristol! Both start with B and fairly close to the M4/M5 junction.

 

[gomezz]

Only Bath once had a one-legged pigeon on its station platform thought!

 

[Black Hole]

Only Bath once had a one-legged pigeon on its station platform thought!

One-legged pigeons (or one-footed?) rarely enter my thoughts, whether on a station platform in Bath or not.

That was the previous time, a couple of years ago!

This recording was on 7th May at the Colston Hall*.

* Now called Bristol Beacon by/for the wokerites, but not by me! This is a point of hilarity during the intro for Programme 4. Funnier still, the pal I was with is 15 years younger than me with a foot in the woke camp.

 

[EEPhil]

Colston Hall

Fortunately the Nottinghamshire village of Colston Bassett (one of the few places permitted to call cheese Stilton) does not have a woke problem. It was not named after the wokerites target.

I can't tell Bath from Bristol!

What's even worse. I've been to Bath University once (maybe twice) and I've never been to Bristol. I should know the difference.

 

[EEPhil]

Having searched this forum for the usage of the word "alight" I can only find this ten year old post

when I would say "caught alight" or "caught light" -

At no point can I see a reference to the other meaning of the word.
Who, in normal conversation, uses the word "alight" to mean get off [a bus/tram/train]? Only the transport providers.
Announcements on a bus:
"Next stop [stop name]. Alight here for [name] Medical Centre and [town name] Fire and Police station" Fire - Alight. Well I always find it funny.
"...Alight here for the football grounds"
"Next stop Cricket Ground. Alight here for County Hall".
I'm sure, if giving directions, most people would say "get off at the Cricket Ground" not "alight at the Cricket Ground".
I suppose it could be worse. Deplane is already in common usage. Detrain is listed in at least one dictionary. Debus anyone?