Is East Dulwich Becoming Too Posh? (Lounged)

[fish]

Where, exactly, is this place - named Brondesbury?

[mockney piers]

I thought it was one of those scandanavian teams that occasionally lurks in the UEFA cup.

[clare]

No it's a badly designed shelfing unit from IKEA.

[Michael Palaeologus]

They have dragons. It is a scary place.

[Administrator]

poshness -> Scandinavian teams -> shelving units -> dragons -> Lounged

[Michael Palaeologus]

How can we be lounged from the Lounge?

We need a sub-lounge. A posh one in ED.

[Jah Lush]

I always thought a lounge was a posh word for a living room. Maybe it's the forum that's posh.

[Ant]

Funny, I always thought lounge was a less-posh word for sitting room.

It's like the dinner/tea/supper conundrum.

[Jah Lush]

Good point with that conundrum. Front room, back room, sitting room, it amounts to the same thing.

[mightyroar]

napkin or serviette?

pudding or afters?

shagging or doing it?

i do love a good conundrum.

[clare]

afters or arrrfters....bath or barrrrth.....still get pulled up by southerners for my short "a's".

Is East Dulwich becoming too southern?

[Jah Lush]

Too southern!!!! Well it is south London what do you expect.

[clare]

I expect it to be full of lippy northeners who love the north but it's too cold there so they make do with living here and then they heve kids who thus ARE southerners and then they grow up being southerners and become embarrassed by their parents accents. What to do? I'm freezing typing this. I better phone my mum and check she's got an extra jumper on.

[Keef]

The Queen doesn't sound Northern, and it's the queen's English, end of story ;-)

[clare]

Here's me thinking she was a lass from Hudderfield.

[Jah Lush]

ED really would be a posh place if we all spoke like the Queen. Would you have us all walking around with old fashioned plummy BBC voices Keef? What about estuary English is that good enough for you?

[fish]

"Off with their heads"!

[Chartwell]

Well, one of George III's son's did live with his mistress in ED, so one never knows, the Queen might come 'home'.

[Jah Lush]

Point taken. I'm outta here to get outta my head.

[SimonM]

>>The Queen doesn't sound Northern, and it's the queen's English,<<

But that's because she's practically German :))

[mockney piers]

SimonM, really now, what on earth is German about Elizabeth Saxe-coburg Gotha?

[dulwichmum]

She is German and her husband is Greek! Hurrah for the European Union.

[mockney piers]

you mentioned other nationed heritage, come clean DM, from what paaaarts you be fraaaaam now?

Oi be a bit spickish.*

*I'm disgusted by the pejorative use of the term Spic, Mockney Piers is clearly a racist, wash his maaf out!

[dulwichmum]

Dear Mr Mockney Piers,

My parents are Irish. In the words of Roddy Doyle 'I'm black and I'm proud'.

[bald marauder]

Dear DM, I believe for best effect, one should say "Oim black, and Oim proud".

It's all in the accent and intonation, I think Roddy would agree.

Cool though, Ireland is a great and beautiful nation. (I guess this explains your sudden feisty outbursts as well.)

And my Godparents were Irish, so I've always felt a certain affinity - particularly with the West Coast, Galway area.