I thought thats how they took drugs up there - by manual application to the mouth, or as its known locally, E by gum.
Ebuygumm doesn't break t' Nominet rules, eBay and Gumtree told
eBay and Gumtree have lost a legal fight to kill off a British wannabe rival thanks to Geoffrey Boycott's usage of a well-known Yorkshireism. Auto Claims Ltd, registrant of the ebuygumm.co.uk domain name, successfully saw off eBay and Gumtree by claiming its name is based on the old Yorkshire phrase "ee bah gum" and has …
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Friday 20th September 2019 01:35 GMT jake
Re: Coming soon
No, really katrinab, we have real black pudding here. It's even called black pudding. We also have Boudin, Zungenwurst, Biroldo, Morcilla, Gyurma, various Chineese and Korean variations on the theme and far too many others to name. One of the benefits of being a major melting pot is that we have all the good sausages from everywhere. Except Haggis, of course. But that's easy enough to make when you're harvesting sheep ...
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Wednesday 18th September 2019 15:38 GMT Rameses Niblick the Third Kerplunk Kerplunk Whoops Where's My Thribble?
Careful with money?
He added, in a cheeky aside: "Yorkshire people are widely considered to be careful with money. Being careful with money might be seen as a good impression for an online marketplace to give."
I find that offensive. I'm not "careful with money", I'm "downright miserly" and chuffing proud of it!
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Thursday 19th September 2019 08:59 GMT jake
Re: In a complete about face...
I used to save bailing "wire" (these days it's baler twine). I used it to string up my tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, melons, peas, beans and the like. And then I calculated the hours I spent with the bits verses the cost of a new box of twine. I stopped saving the used bits.
(For those who don't click links, 20,000 feet of 110 lb test polypro line costs $25 ... )
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Thursday 19th September 2019 12:30 GMT Chris G
Re: In a complete about face...
Amazingly, back in the '90s when I still keot horses, a lot of people would save a winter's worth of twine from feeding and then put it in the local farmer's auctions. Usually a decent bundle would fetch about a fiver. As you say, a baler spool cost peanuts.
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Friday 20th September 2019 02:30 GMT jake
Re: In a complete about face...
Looking at the big picture, I rather suspect that no matter how I choose to string up my veggies I still have a lower overall impact on the environment than the bozos sitting on five acres of lawn who purchase all their veggies at the supermarket. Hell, you don't need 5 acres, you can grow a good portion of your fruit & veg & nuts if your house sits on a .25 lot in town. I have apartment dwelling friends who grow all their herbs, and a tomato plant or three along with three or four chili plants on their balcony ... and enough micro greens for salad in their kitchen.
Besides, polypropylene is recyclable. It's not like I send it to the landfill. In fact, I encourage my neighbors to drop all their unwanted baler twine off here. A guy comes around to pick it up once or twice a year, whenever the 55 gallon drum gets full.
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Thursday 19th September 2019 10:42 GMT phuzz
Re: In a complete about face...
My dad (who's from Croydon originally), saves up lengths of bailer twine, and will knot them together to make up the required length.
The amount of time I've spent trying to undo a knot in a manky old bit of bailer twine to shift something that he's tied down is ridiculous. It's bloody awful as rope at the best of times, especially the second hand bits of rubbish he uses.
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Wednesday 18th September 2019 15:56 GMT Rameses Niblick the Third Kerplunk Kerplunk Whoops Where's My Thribble?
Re: ebuygumm needs to have a payment handling website
I'm guessing ni.com is taken.
Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can post Ni at will on the internet! There is a pestilence upon this land, nothing is sacred. Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress in this period in history.
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Wednesday 18th September 2019 16:03 GMT LeahroyNake
How much
I'm wondering how much this cost all parties involved?*
Hopefully ebuygumm are not out of pocket and I'm guessing the media coverage is doing them good.
*have you looked at the prices Nominet charges for domain name disputes... Between £200 and £750. And it is up to them to decide, if you want to appeal £3000
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Wednesday 18th September 2019 16:42 GMT Robert Carnegie
"A Yorkshireman gave instructions for the headstone for his recently departed wife. He wanted the words "She was Thine" on the stone.
"A short time later he was told the headstone had been erected, so he went to the cemetery to check. He was horrified to read "She was Thin."
"Naturally, he went straight to the monumental masons to complain that they had left the "E" off his wife's headstone. He was assured the matter would be dealt with immediately. A day or so later he returned to the cemetery to view the corrected inscription, only to read:
"EE, She was Thin"
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Wednesday 18th September 2019 19:05 GMT mark l 2
As someone who buys and sells regularly on ebay I found it amusing that ebay was found to be breaching the not as described complaint on this one.
Since ebay are notorious for allowing buyers to open 'not as described' claims for frivolous reasons to get the seller to pay for returns postage when they bought in error or just didn't like the item after purchasing. And it is very rare for ebay to side on the side of the seller in even when you appeal against the case.
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Wednesday 18th September 2019 22:46 GMT Doctor Syntax
Ee bah gum means "oh my god" in the Yorkshire dialect.
Correction: bah is "by", not "my".
"the phrase is archaic, originated in Yorkshire and is used almost exclusively there, is not commonly used and will not be known to the majority of people outside Yorkshire or to young people"
IME it's used exclusively by people who think they're putting on a Yorkshire accent.
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Thursday 19th September 2019 10:47 GMT Milton
It's Timmy Holedigger time again
Didn't Tommy Hilfiger once sue a business catering for pet dogs that used the phrase "Timmy Holedigger"? Some arse had to stand up in a court and claim with a straight face that the public would be confused and mistake the pet brand for Hilfiger ...
... and don't get me started on Chewy Vuiton ...
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Friday 22nd November 2019 18:09 GMT TwistedPsycho
A chicken shop in Reading has gone though Fernando's, sued by Nando's, then Fernandez, sued by a company 200 miles away and is an independent chicken restaurant, and is now called Manzano's.
If an independent chicken restaurant can she another independent chicken restaurant half way up the country ... anything is possible.
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