Well, er, Happy New Year. Can I come back now?

[Mr. Peanut]

She is not a PoM , she is Scotch.

Bad luck Ms Jazbug5. and you well know you would always be welcome back here, where you belong.

Not her, the other ones

[boomer]

meany...........that sucks!..........and where were you last night any how?

hey, it sure does suck, but she's unlikey to get sympathy after calling me and my bretherin names.,, now is she/he/it?

i was planning on heading up, went on the 2 fiddy ride, got back home then went over to Mr White Trash's and things turned ugly from there on it. I believe i went to bed at 5 this mornin.

Happy new year to you

[boomer]

Poms, whinging.

I do believe its Jasbug thats whinging

[Mom]

hey, it sure does suck, but she's unlikey to get sympathy after calling me and my bretherin names.,, now is she/he/it?

i was planning on heading up, went on the 2 fiddy ride, got back home then went over to Mr White Trash's and things turned ugly from there on it. I believe i went to bed at 5 this mornin.

Happy new year to you

you were called names!!!!!! what is with that?????? LOL

Happy New Year mate!.....were the tui's annoying your ears at 5am too?....lucky for you, i had DMNTD playing Tui ring tones to encourage the bastard birds to wake everyone up.......i will be off to the sleepy place real soon.....

[jazbug5]

Oh, dear- I had forgotten what delicate flowers our English brethren can be..!

Seriously- I was really quite battered and more than a little annoyed when I vented my spleen last night. I sorta thought some fellow bikers might understand how I felt at the time. Now, I apologise for the 'English' comment- if it helps (and this is quite true) if I had been in Scotland, I would have said the same things about Scottish people. Point being I wish I was back in NZ. Y'know?

Aaaanyway. Happy new year, chaps- even to the Sassenachs among you.

(Thanks to the kind folk proffering tea and and sympathy, by the way. I shall not start any more whinging threads this year, I pwomise. Wonder if any of the more regular contributers could be persuaded to make the same pledge?)

[Clockwork]

‘Tell you what……. I'll try not to make any offensive generalisations about other nationalities so that I can avoid making half-arsed apologies containing sarcastic references to their "emotional fragility".
Happy New Year to you too.

[eliot-ness]

She is not a PoM , she is Scotch.

Arghhhh!!! She is either Scottish or a Scot. Scotch is whisky, (but not whiskey, that's Irish).

[BigB]

Hi

My partner works in Insurance and say's you should be ok unless you were advised that they were canceling your insurance. Most companies have a grace preiod for late payments, just try talking to them.

cheers

B

[Ixion]

Arghhhh!!! She is either Scottish or a Scot. Scotch is whisky, (but not whiskey, that's Irish).

I cannot be having with running after every passing linguistic fad at my time of life. The habits of early life stay with us for aye. If we are to gae aboot after the latest faddishness, your preference would needs to rendered into txt , and become Sctz

Scotch was good enough for Sam Johnson, and Boswell and Burns . And Sir Alexander Macdonald, no less! And Charles Stuart, the Royal Martyr. As a good Jacobite, I can take no higher authority

and that all such His Majesty's subjects of England and Ireland as shall join with him in pursuance of this Agreement may come to the Scotch army and join with them (K Chas, Engagement)

Mr. Arthur Lee mentioned some Scotch who had taken possession of a barren part of America, and wondered why they would choose it.Johnson: "Why, Sir, all barrenness is comparative. The Scotch would not know it to be barren." (SJ)

I have been correcting several Scotch accents in my friend Boswell. I doubt, Sir, if any Scotchman ever attains to a perfect English pronunciation(AM)

My heart warmed to my countrymen, and my Scotch blood boiled with indignation. I jumped from the benches, roared out 'Damn you, you rascals!', hissed and was in the greatest rage . . . I hated the English; I wished from my soul that the Union was broke and that we might give them another battle of Bannockburn (JB)

On A Scotch Bard, Gone To The West Indies (RB)

The same applies to Welch, BTW.

[eliot-ness]

Wiktionary. Usage notes
The Scottish dislike the term Scotch and consider it offensive. The more appropriate adjectives are Scottish or Scots.

[Ixion]

Oh goody. Pedant warz

Three of the four authorities I mentioned were Scottish. Or Scots. Or Scotch. Or Scottis (the most technically correct term) . If Sir Alexander MacDonald, MacDonald of Sleat, does not know what he ought to be termed, I know not who would.

[SPman]

As a good Jacobite, I can take no higher authority

Oh!...............Charles Stuart.................




I hope......................

[Ixion]

Well, nowdays, His Majesty King Francis II, King of England Scotland France and Ireland. But his title descends of course from Charles Stuart, the Martyr, as you say (via his daughter Henriette) . (He is also Duke of Bavaria)

[jrandom]

Fucking linguistic pedants.

And yes, Jaz, you can come back.

Please come back.

[jazbug5]

‘Tell you what……. I'll try not to make any offensive generalisations about other nationalities so that I can avoid making half-arsed apologies containing sarcastic references to their "emotional fragility".
Happy New Year to you too.

Fair point. I didn't actually mean it in the way that it evidently read- but that's my fault (albeit I wrote the orginal comments in a bit of a drunken rage) and not necessarily the fault of the reader. I also should not have attempted to make light of it by trying to bait the biters (these things need facial expressions and rib-nudges to really work properly). Bacon sandwiches and bar mizvahs typa-thing. (As in going down like a...)
So. I apologise unreservedly. Please feel free to make a few sweeping generalisations about short Scottish females with wierd senses of humour and poor impulse control.

Anyway, 'Carma' has got me this time: my insurance was indeed cancelled. I was too sick to look at my emails, and apparently they had emailed to warn me the day before. (Despite having 2 phone numbers for me.) Additionally, although the first set of people were all poised to pay for the damage, they apparently know that it went over a second time that night, and put a note through the door which has me a bit worried- as in 'This complicates things, doesn't it?'. It's getting picked up this afternoon, and I should know more about the extent of the damage soon, but it seems I may be on my own with it if they decide to argue since I don't have insurance on my side. Sigh.
Time for a third job, possibly.

PS 'Scotch' may be out of use, and a little irritating to most of us who think of it as a beverage, but it is not technically incorrect. Ixion is quite right.