A Question For You Limeys

[rosco rathbone]

Is the word "daddy" used commonly in the limeyzone to mean "father"?

The reason I ask is that I'm trying to figure out if Sting, in the 1983 Police hit "Synchronicity ll", is singing about the USA or the UK. His lyrics are ambiguous. "...cheap tarts on a red light street..." would seem to be UK-specific, but the protagonist of the piece is referred to repeatedly as "Daddy".

 

[IndieSnob]

I'm not a limey (thank god for small favors), but oddly enough last night I was listening to The Police box set. Once in awhile I go back to see if I can still stomach something, and well, I still can't.

Too derail even further, watch this now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LFfTX95cuY

 

[rosco rathbone]

I'm not a limey (thank god for small favors), but oddly enough last night I was listening to The Police box set. Once in awhile I go back to see if I can still stomach something, and well, I still can't.

Too derail even further, watch this now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LFfTX95cuY

I would not like to live in a world that was all-Police, or all-Beefheart.

Now since we're doing "hail the sixstrings that drew blood...", here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHNZUop7OK0

 

[Bad_Doggie]

Yes.

Woof!

 

[dolf]

*fap*

 

[rosco rathbone]

*fap*

How do posh slappers like yourself refer affectionately to "father"? I imagine something like "paPA", accent grave on the second a.

 

[dolf]

How do posh slappers like yourself refer affectionately to "father"? I imagine something like "paPA", accent grave on the second a.

or daddy.

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

Papah went out with Victoria fps! Dad or Pops.

 

[oggbashan]

Daddy or Dad is normal usage for children.

Pater was 1920s/30s for upper class or people aspiring to be upper class.

If referring to your father in conversation with someone else who is not a sibling he would be called 'my father', or informally 'my dad' because 'my daddy' would be juvenile.

 

[rosco rathbone]

Daddy or Dad is normal usage for children.

Pater was 1920s/30s for upper class or people aspiring to be upper class.

If referring to your father in conversation with someone else who is not a sibling he would be called 'my father', or informally 'my dad' because 'my daddy' would be juvenile.

I envisioned the upper crust saying either "pater" or "father".

 

[oggbashan]

I envisioned the upper crust saying either "pater" or "father".

Father is more likely now. 'Pater' would be ironic, a rebuke to a father trying to be too old-fashioned.

 

[islandman]

What of "limey"?

Lima beans?

 

[rosco rathbone]

Father is more likely now. 'Pater' would be ironic, a rebuke to a father trying to be too old-fashioned.

Do they even teach the Classics @ public school any more? Or is it all STEM now.

Remember John Charity Spring in Flash For Freedom?

 

[Sean]

What of "limey"?

Lima beans?

Limes. The Royal Navy used to issue lime juice to combat scurvy.

 

[islandman]

Limes. The Royal Navy used to issue lime juice to combat scurvy.

Good to know.

Thanks.

 

[rosco rathbone]

Good to know.

Thanks.

How does an Islandman not know that??

Next you 'll be telling us you drink no rum.

 

[rosco rathbone]

Pops.

Pops I see being said ironically/cheekily by lower class youths.

I know in ireland they say "da".

 

[oggbashan]

Do they even teach the Classics @ public school any more? Or is it all STEM now.

Remember John Charity Spring in Flash For Freedom?

'Public Schools' in England are not for the public. They are private, fee-paying.

Yes. They still teach Latin and Greek but neither of those subjects are compulsory. Latin was when I was at school because you couldn't go to Oxford or Cambridge Universities without passing Latin. I started Latin at age 9.

All three of my daughters studied Latin. One studied Classical Greek as well because it was the only subject that her parents couldn't help her with.

 

[rosco rathbone]

'Public Schools' in England are not for the public. They are private, fee-paying.

Next you'll be telling me that you don't pronounce all the syllables in "Worchestershire Sauce".

 

[oggbashan]

Next you'll be telling me that you don't pronounce all the syllables in "Worchestershire Sauce".

Who does? Lord Cholmondely doesn't.

 

[rosco rathbone]

Who does? Lord Cholmondely doesn't.

"Chumly", right?

I should have been a limey.

 

[oggbashan]

"Chumly", right?

I should have been a limey.

English/British sailors needed vitamin C from limes or other fruit because they were at sea for much longer periods than most other navies.

That was true even during WW1. The Battleships of the German Imperial Navy were not designed to stay at sea for more than a few days. The Royal Navy Battleships were equipped to be at sea for months.

 

[rosco rathbone]

English/British sailors needed vitamin C from limes or other fruit because they were at sea for much longer periods than most other navies.

That was true even during WW1. The Battleships of the German Imperial Navy were not designed to stay at sea for more than a few days. The Royal Navy Battleships were equipped to be at sea for months.

All part of ne'er, ne'er shall be slaves, what what.

 

[CHNOPS]

Ohhhhhh. "Slaves."

I wondered why they were so proud that Britain never never shall be saved.

However, now I'm pissed at them for being so smug about their colonialism. 'We own slaves, goddammit, we don't be slaves.'

 

[oggbashan]

Ohhhhhh. "Slaves."

I wondered why they were so proud that Britain never never shall be saved.

However, now I'm pissed at them for being so smug about their colonialism. 'We own slaves, goddammit, we don't be slaves.'

The British abolished slavery. The Royal Navy enforced it, long before the US gave up slavery.