h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

"phishing" refers to a deceptive email sent by scammers who pretend to represent a reputable site, and ask you to give them sensitive information so they can steal your money and/or your identity.

Chavs are also known as pikeys - both chav and pikey mean gypsy originally.

Chav or something near it is Romany for young man.
Pikey comes from turnpikes, ie life on the road. It's London for any chav who lives in the countryside.


Why arrogant? Me or Wordsworth? I don't understand 'arrogant' in this context. (Post 30)


Jab

Is I wandered lonely as a cloud arrogant by the same token?

I wandered (not you mate!)

Jabs

Or 'if you can remember the 60's....'

That's something you may not have heard of. It's called a Joke.

Jabs

Joke - as in Post 37, when Vi didn't really think that phishing had anything to do with a bath.



Sorry to have interrupted the thread folks, but I don't much like being called silly and arrogant.


Jabs

You are neither silly nor arrogant, Jab.

The person who originated the saying was the one I was getting at.
Of course it was humor. It's just that we all experienced the sixties in our own individual ways. There wasn't one *right* way to experience them. We didn't all take various substances to forget what was going on.

When I was in college, I had a roommate who smoked pot. I wished he wouldn't, but I wasn't about to start an argument over it. I would have hated to have seen him get in trouble over it (another student actually did get arrested for it, poor soul).

Did I ever mention that I was a worrier?

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it's OK, he can still be president as long as he didn't inhale

not only do I remember the 60's, but August 2010, I'll be in them again

A mate of mine is trying to repopularize the word - "Dimbox". Apparantly an acient word that means exactly what it sounds like.

Ah the wonderful '60s. Yet childcare books now, tell us that we were too permisive with our kids. As a latecomer to the parenting business, I'm apparently still far too permisive as a parent. It's just that our lot think it's only fair to treat others as equals. We'll have to see what the next lot turn out, if they're awful, we can go - nah nah ne nah nah!

Sorry, Paul, seem to have lost me temper there. Hope I wasn't too hurtful.

Friends?

Jabs

Dimbox is great - (as - and unfortunately I'm saying this a bit late) were Taffy's Twokkers - that's genuine, I've heard of that one, but only quite recently


Jabs

Of course we're friends, Jab.

I can say things very clumsily at times.
Not that I'm proud of it.

Jabs

how about "doomers" ?
the worlds going to flood/the worlds going in to ice age etc etc

or "doomoid"
same thing,spouting the world ends within a century

Taff - off subject again, sorry, - to show what a really good man Obama might be, he recently said (as you might know) "of course I inhaled, what was the point otherwise?" - and nobody made a big deal or anything, such is his charisma. Honesty too.


Jabs

Not a new term, but I still use "Jammy Dodger" - Lucky b*gg*r

Simulpost is probably both new and widely understood.

I do not know if this is a new word "dimlow" but over a month ago, I heard this banded around when anyone made a mistake.