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wendy

12th July 2011, 16:59
Feel free to vent your anger here!!!!! In fact I'll join you!!!!! A forensics team for a veggie patch eh? Have I gone quite mad????? (We can do abuse of question marks too!!!!!!) What on earth will they do - take DNA samples from your runner beans?????

You say you're "not a happy bunny".... perhaps it's the other bunnies who are gorging themselves on your fresh produce who are the culprits????

Seriously though - are people near you really selfish enough to do that? If so, I'd get meself a shotgun. Tell us more please.
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bullfrog

12th July 2011, 17:08
@Pastille -- commiserations!!!!!!!!!
@Pipesmoker -- they're best described as 'bunny ears' (happy or otherwise).
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aristophanes

12th July 2011, 17:12
Pipesmoker: In the US we call them air quotes, and they're usually used by airheads.
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aristophanes

12th July 2011, 17:21
I just came in from weeding my garden. A woodchuck has been eating my chard!!!!! My exquisite, heavily savoyed argentata!!!!!!! The varmint has dug a tunnel system that looks as if it required massive federal funding, and it CANNOT BE OUTSMARTED!!!!!!! And it looks like a %$&^^!@ linebacker!!!!!
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pipesmoker

12th July 2011, 17:43
Thank you for your sympathy, one and all. Perhaps I should explain the word scunner for those who are not Scottish. A scunner is that which gives one the boke.

P.
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julie, aberdeen

12th July 2011, 17:50
As is "she's pure mingin, she gies me the boke ?"
J
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trigger

12th July 2011, 17:55
Is it someone on here, Julie?
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julie, aberdeen

12th July 2011, 18:22
Absolutely not, they're all lovely, helpful people.
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the joker

12th July 2011, 18:48
Ah Pipesmoker.
You have revealed all to me,regarding the people who use two fingers to indicate quotation marks.
I had always taken offence,thinking they were indicating some other meaning to me.Rather rude (I believe).
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pipesmoker

12th July 2011, 18:59
Hello, Joker,

I fear you may have been correct in your assumption. The inverted commas are done with (sort of) inverted fingers. Those with upright digits, are expressing an opinion. A suitable response is to finger one's nose or stick one's tongue out, blowing a raspberry if the occasion demands.

Hope you are well.

P
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