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5am posts...
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Are us 5am posters up late, or have we woken up early?
Going back to sleep now.... (hopefully!)
Are us 5am posters up late, or have we woken up early?
Going back to sleep now.... (hopefully!)
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It depends where we are.
It's lunchtime here, where I am.
It's lunchtime here, where I am.
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Well past beer o'clock round these parts ![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif)
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For me, it's when I wake early for a wee and can't get back to sleep.
But considering Mike$ signed up for TLF at 3.29am, then either your an insomniac, or the mods were working through the night approving people.
But considering Mike$ signed up for TLF at 3.29am, then either your an insomniac, or the mods were working through the night approving people.
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I used to have regular chats with Basket Bob at various hours of the night. We were both unable to sleep, these days I always find someone who likes a game of scrabble no matter what time it is in the UK. Agree with the going for a wee though, it's so damn cold it wakes me up immediately.
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Early tonightRhyd6 wrote:I used to have regular chats with Basket Bob at various hours of the night. We were both unable to sleep, these days I always find someone who likes a game of scrabble no matter what time it is in the UK. Agree with the going for a wee though, it's so damn cold it wakes me up immediately.
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That'll teach me to have a glass of squash before bed, but in my defence I'd had a salty tea.
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Salty tea?
Sounds horrid!
Goggle doesn't really seem to know much about it either....
Sounds horrid!
Goggle doesn't really seem to know much about it either....
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Tea was chicken Fajitas, I gather it is what Londoners call "Dinner".Mike4 wrote:Salty tea?
Sounds horrid!
Goggle doesn't really seem to know much about it either....
Dinner is what Londoners call "Lunch".
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Oh dear. I have just been to have my eyes tested, but I still saw this post, and thought "Who the hell is Sam". Nurse!!
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When I was a school boy there would be a bell to mark the beginning of lunchtime and we went in shifts to the dining hall where dinner ladies served meat and 2 veg and followed by pudding for desert.DrFfybes wrote:Tea was chicken Fajitas, I gather it is what Londoners call "Dinner".
Dinner is what Londoners call "Lunch".
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Ah I see. That's what I'd call supper, wot with me being so posh an all that.DrFfybes wrote:Tea was chicken Fajitas, I gather it is what Londoners call "Dinner".Mike4 wrote:Salty tea?
Sounds horrid!
Goggle doesn't really seem to know much about it either....
Dinner is what Londoners call "Lunch".
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Why is it that northerners are aware that different terms are used, and can immediately explain any misunderstandings, but southerners can't cope with anything unfamiliar?DrFfybes wrote:Tea was chicken Fajitas, I gather it is what Londoners call "Dinner".Mike4 wrote:Salty tea?
Sounds horrid!
Goggle doesn't really seem to know much about it either....
Dinner is what Londoners call "Lunch".
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Do you get Camels with it?kempiejon wrote: When I was a school boy there would be a bell to mark the beginning of lunchtime and we went in shifts to the dining hall where dinner ladies served meat and 2 veg and followed by pudding for desert.
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I do love a smoke after a mealDrFfybes wrote:Do you get Camels with it?
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Ah, I think this is related to the way posh English abroad can make foreigners understand what they are saying simply by shouting in English, loudly and very sloowwwly.swill453 wrote:Why is it that northerners are aware that different terms are used, and can immediately explain any misunderstandings, but southerners can't cope with anything unfamiliar?DrFfybes wrote: Tea was chicken Fajitas, I gather it is what Londoners call "Dinner".
Dinner is what Londoners call "Lunch".
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Camels and a lot of sand probably.DrFfybes wrote:Do you get Camels with it?kempiejon wrote: When I was a school boy there would be a bell to mark the beginning of lunchtime and we went in shifts to the dining hall where dinner ladies served meat and 2 veg and followed by pudding for desert.
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I was looking for some lighter distraction from the off-line stresses of the day and I certainly found it in this topic!
Reading the OP I was going to suggest time-zones but I see that Richfool has done so already. When I was living in Asia I continued to post to TLF. It feels different, you know that what you write will perhaps be there for hours before it's read by anyone. If there is anyone else on-line they're either an insomniac or living somewhere with your region. You become familiar with who this sub-group is!
Then when you return say a day later the topic might have come to life and developed like Frankenstein into something very different than intended![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_e_biggrin.gif)
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Reading the OP I was going to suggest time-zones but I see that Richfool has done so already. When I was living in Asia I continued to post to TLF. It feels different, you know that what you write will perhaps be there for hours before it's read by anyone. If there is anyone else on-line they're either an insomniac or living somewhere with your region. You become familiar with who this sub-group is!
Then when you return say a day later the topic might have come to life and developed like Frankenstein into something very different than intended
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Yes, good point. Upon thinking about it, all those years I took "dinner money" to school and only ever got lunches.kempiejon wrote:When I was a school boy there would be a bell to mark the beginning of lunchtime and we went in shifts to the dining hall where dinner ladies served meat and 2 veg and followed by pudding for desert.DrFfybes wrote:Tea was chicken Fajitas, I gather it is what Londoners call "Dinner".
Dinner is what Londoners call "Lunch".
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I would suggest that it is not entirely a northern vs southern thing. Growing up in Northeast London, I walked home from School for a midday meal (the like of whichI cannot remember), but returning home in the afternoon I then had my "Tea", which was cleared away long before my father came home and sat down to his "Dinner".
I have always tended to think of it more as a class thing, with Tea being working class, and an evening dinner showing clear intentions of moving up into Middle Class.
I have always tended to think of it more as a class thing, with Tea being working class, and an evening dinner showing clear intentions of moving up into Middle Class.
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So where does "high tea" fit into all this?Nimrod103 wrote:I would suggest that it is not entirely a northern vs southern thing. Growing up in Northeast London, I walked home from School for a midday meal (the like of whichI cannot remember), but returning home in the afternoon I then had my "Tea", which was cleared away long before my father came home and sat down to his "Dinner".
I have always tended to think of it more as a class thing, with Tea being working class, and an evening dinner showing clear intentions of moving up into Middle Class.
I never quite understood what it was. Perhaps it was something you had late afternoon, supplemented later in the evening with "supper" as a substitute for the proper evening meal we called "dinner".