Baselayers Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 And rightly so! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingram85 Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 Has CED ever liked another persons post before? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dAVe80 Posted April 22, 2015 Share Posted April 22, 2015 I've a couple of CED likes in my collection. Not 8pints level, obviously, but one or two. Post something about how much you like Taylor Swift, and he may oblige you. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted April 22, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted April 22, 2015 Has CED ever liked another persons post before? He only likes posts everyone else hates. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted April 23, 2015 Moderator Share Posted April 23, 2015 I hate that post 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted April 24, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted April 24, 2015 I've never understood why, in that New Yorker cover, there's an enormous mountain apparently in, or to the north of, Nebraska, given that this is the most notoriously flat part of the whole country. It could plausibly be the Black Hills or Devil's Tower (had Close Encounters come out yet?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingman Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 Why do Brummies call an off licence 'the outdoor'? Off licence sales from pubs used to take place from the 'outdoor department' (also called other things like the 'Jug and Bottle', I gather). It was mostly (always, perhaps?) a room with a small hatch or window opening to the bar but separate from the rest of the pub (sometimes the hatch was on the outer wall of the building opening up directly on to the street - I seem to remember one or two pubs in Stourport like that). Edit: At least that's what I think/recall. I recall the outdoor, down the bottom of my Nan's had a proper beer pump on the counter. The same old bloke used to stand in there every night, drinking Brew XI. I've lived in Birmingham for almost 30 years and I have never heard an off licence called "The outdoor" Really? It's all I've ever known tbh. Only other thing I've ever called it is the offy. But to me its the outdoor. Never known why though. Until now obviously. Really. I wouldn't have a clue what anyone was talking about if they told me they were going to the outdoor. Offy is the only thing I@ve ever called it (apart from just saying "off licence") I think its more of a Black Country thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted April 24, 2015 Author VT Supporter Share Posted April 24, 2015 South Birmingham, my mom was a Brummie, my dad was a scouser, we all called it the outdoor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dAVe80 Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 Grew up in North Birmingham, and always referred to as an outdoor in our house. No connections to the Black Country in the family, as far as I'm aware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted April 24, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted April 24, 2015 Well I'm south Birmingham and I've never heard of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 is the outdoor not a piss pot in the garden? offies here, or tesco as it's now known. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 Grew up in North Birmingham, and always referred to as an outdoor in our house. No connections to the Black Country in the family, as far as I'm aware. Same. Had this conversation with people at work and its 50-50 as to who has heard of outdoor and who hasn't! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCforever1991 Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 is the outdoor not a piss pot in the garden? offies here, or tesco as it's now known. outhouse.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Alimantado Posted April 24, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted April 24, 2015 South Birmingham here, used to hear it called an outdoor when I was a kid but not heard it for some time now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted April 24, 2015 Author VT Supporter Share Posted April 24, 2015 Is it an age thing? Maybe the word is dying out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milfner Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 (edited) Probably a parent-related thing rather than age. Never heard it referred to as an outdoor, just the offy/off licence. North Birmingham, btw. Edited April 24, 2015 by Milfner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginko Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 Ah it's good to see the Boring Thread resurrected... oh wait. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 (edited) is the outdoor not a piss pot in the garden? offies here, or tesco as it's now known. outhouse.. Those odd looks I got when I pissed in the outdoor make sense now. Edited April 24, 2015 by CarewsEyebrowDesigner 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meath_Villan Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 julianne moore.....thrice on the Sabbath Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted May 4, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted May 4, 2015 Whether Gary Neville's dad ever taught him how to shave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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