I would just like to say

So, I have a candidate for word of the year 2025. This year we've had "Brat", "Manifest", as recently covered, and (apparently) "Demure"

I'd like to propose "Stanage" and invite @Wimblowdriver and @DanClarke to help me with the definition. We'll then bomb flood (or flood bomb) the tinterweb. Wotcha fink?

kevstar said:

Ah see yous have done this all wrong., I aint allowed to clean up the hoose cause I bin everything & she gets grumpy
when she can only find one of her shoes....It went like this the last time...Have you seen the other shoe that matches this
one holding said shoe under my snib errrr it may have walked its way to land fill cause its stinking

Now I say do you want me to tidy up & I get an over the shoulder death stare as she walks away n says
DONT BOTHER I'LL DO IT (me inside giggling like a school kid)

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I think i recently heard a clip from the Jason Manford set. His job at home is to empty the bins.. because it's impossible to it up.

Reckon he needs tips @kevstar .

Stone56 said:

In the cloud today damp and wet outside had some IBC delivered this morning as are water storage tank has developed a leak ( get Stan ) . Apparently the water proffer internal coating only lasts 10yrs now 20yrs old got all the stuff to do it but need a window of at least 7 days plus prep time for it to fully cure hoping to get it sorted Be for Xmas and the drop in temperature fingers crossed

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Sorry mate, don't seem to have a window before Crimble!

kevstar said:

Ah see yous have done this all wrong., I aint allowed to clean up the hoose cause I bin everything & she gets grumpy
when she can only find one of her shoes....It went like this the last time...Have you seen the other shoe that matches this
one holding said shoe under my snib errrr it may have walked its way to land fill cause its stinking

Now I say do you want me to tidy up & I get an over the shoulder death stare as she walks away n says
DONT BOTHER I'LL DO IT (me inside giggling like a school kid)

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I think I have already told the story of a colleague waiter who got married and told his wife he'd do the Hoovering for her.
Big old fashioned Hoover, he got started and banged it into so much wooden furniture she ran into the room and shouted, "Don't EVER touch that Hoover again!"
So he never did!

Turktowner said:

So, I have a candidate for word of the year 2025. This year we've had "Brat", "Manifest", as recently covered, and (apparently) "Demure"

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/26/style/demure-dictionary-2024-word-of-the-year-hnk-intl/index.html

I'd like to propose "Stanage" and invite @Wimblowdriver and @DanClarke to help me with the definition. We'll then bomb flood (or flood bomb) the tinterweb. Wotcha fink?

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I fink I ought to have some input here too as I am one of the only two to have already used it.
Don't forget a word can have more than one definition so here are mine.
Stanage (noun)
1. unexpected water leakage, quite, to very, powerful, caused by accidentally or unthinkingly closing an incorrect isolation valve and then removing a fitting.
2. unexpected water leakage, quite, to very, powerful, caused by removing a fitting after closing a correct isolation valve that is faulty.


I look forward to reading other, funnier definitions.

Stanleysteamer said:

I fink I ought to have some input here too as I am one of the only two to have already used it.
Don't forget a word can have more than one definition so here are mine.
Stanage (noun)
1. unexpected water leakage, quite, to very, powerful, caused by accidentally or unthinkingly closing an incorrect isolation valve and then removing a fitting.
2. unexpected water leakage, quite, to very, powerful, caused by removing a fitting after closing a correct isolation valve that is faulty.


I look forward to reading other, funnier definitions.

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Noted, though I do believe a broader spread of mishaps could be encompassed. Imagine the disasters that could be covered by a "I had a right proper Stan" ..

Turktowner said:

So, I have a candidate for word of the year 2025. This year we've had "Brat", "Manifest", as recently covered, and (apparently) "Demure"

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/26/style/demure-dictionary-2024-word-of-the-year-hnk-intl/index.html

I'd like to propose "Stanage" and invite @Wimblowdriver and @DanClarke to help me with the definition. We'll then bomb flood (or flood bomb) the tinterweb. Wotcha fink?

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Adjective; a word used by heating engineers to describe a simple maintenance task which results in unexpected but significant savings on heating bills. Often used in the same sentences as "carbon neutral", "green energy", "why has demand for our gas gone down".

Turktowner said:

Noted, though I do believe a broader spread of mishaps could be encompassed. Imagine the disasters that could be covered by a "I had a right proper Stan" ..

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I think it should only cover water based errors.
We all make mistakes, I may make a few more than some but I admit to them to give peeps a laugh.
So maybe another definition should be

3. any mistake that the perpetrator makes, and then admits to, to give his or her fellow readers a laugh.

Turktowner said:

Arigato gozaimasu Stan-san, I'd seen the Chita elsewhere and seems well reviewed, so bought that.
I have no idea, I'd really love to appreciate whisky of any spelling, but I don't.
I've bought him Tartan and Welsh varieties before, I hope he likes it.

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Ok tell him if he doesnt like it kevy bhoy will have it.

Turktowner said:

I think i recently heard a clip from the Jason Manford set. His job at home is to empty the bins.. because it's impossible to it up.

Reckon he needs tips @kevstar .

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Ah well you see we have 2 smallish bins in the house which I started doing our bit for recycling, misses says will you empty the bins in the morning but always forget , but I give her a hot water (she doesnt drink tea or coffee) plus I fill a hot water bottle & slip it under the bed covers before I leave. (browny points right there chaps) When I come in for lunch the bin bags are sitting outside the back door & all I do is open the bins n chuck em in about 2m away.

Stanleysteamer said:

I think I have already told the story of a colleague waiter who got married and told his wife he'd do the Hoovering for her.
Big old fashioned Hoover, he got started and banged it into so much wooden furniture she ran into the room and shouted, "Don't EVER touch that Hoover again!"
So he never did!

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Wots a hoovering ???

Stone56 said:

In the cloud today damp and wet outside had some IBC delivered this morning as are water storage tank has developed a leak ( get Stan ) . Apparently the water proffer internal coating only lasts 10yrs now 20yrs old got all the stuff to do it but need a window of at least 7 days plus prep time for it to fully cure hoping to get it sorted Be for Xmas and the drop in temperature fingers crossed

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Funny you mention IBC's I got asked by the yard owner to get 8 clean IBC's the other day to make 4 water tanks for boat customers to have water as the yard water is off for repairs. (no stan needed keep him away) so plan was to cut open 4 of them & sit them on top of the other 4 & have a tap with a hose on them so customers can have water, anyhow the lad who was yard manager told the young lad to go & put them in the 4 areas in the yard bearing in mind the young lad has only been driving the manitous for a week or so after I gave him a quick lesson. The yard owner drove passed him & thought hes doing great not spilling a drop of 2000L then reversed back an realised they were empty an when questioned at tea time why there was no water in them he said Bruce (yard manager att) told me to put them about the yard but never told me to fill them.
Think that was the straw that broke the camels back an Bruce threw the towel in.

Wimblowdriver said:

Adjective; a word used by heating engineers to describe a simple maintenance task which results in unexpected but significant savings on heating bills. Often used in the same sentences as "carbon neutral", "green energy", "why has demand for our gas gone down".

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I think you mean Stanage as a noun. As in "Thanks to my stanage on the boiler, my gas bill is now zero."
If you try to use it adjectivally, it doesn't work.
How it can describe a noun, which is what an adjective does.
"Today I visited a customer who has a stanage central heating pump."
Or,
"Today I did a stanage pump replacement."
Doesn't really work does it?

So to me there ought to be a verb, "to stan", which would give you "stanning" both the present participle and adjectival use.

"Whatever you do don't stan that tap."

"All day long I was stanning in the kitchen".

Or "Mate, you have made a right, stanning job of it, the mop and bucket are in that cupboard over there."

Past Participle "stanned", as in "Who the flip has stanned in this room?"

"Stannish" could also be an adjective.
"That mess looks pretty stannish to me."

(This is only of interest to anyone with an interest in linguistics,)
"Stanage" has the ending -age which normally is a noun that comes from a verb, like leak - leakage, or can also be used as a verb, like garage, which comes from the French verb "garer" which means "to park" (and probably has some link with the word "gare" which means "station".)
Other nouns would be like roughage, plumage, triage which again comes from a French verb "trier" = "to sort out".
"Plumage" weirdly comes from "plume" which as we all know is the French for "feather" and comes from the act of plucking, so seems to be a misnomer.
"Roughage" is a relatively modern word coming more from the adjective "rough" than from the verb "to rough" which on its own is meaningless, as it needs to be followed by a preposition. So, "to rough out" makes sense as does "to rough up".

Sabotage, again from a French verb. (A "sabot" is French for a clog and workers would sabotage machinery by chucking a clog into it, the verb being "saboter")
Anchorage, from to anchor.
Coinage
Cooperage

If you want a full list many of which you will not know, as I too didn't, BUT as I do know, many of which come from French.


WAKE UP AT THE BACK THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today's visit to Bath for lunch and theatre was fun. Not only was the play good, (Birdsong) but it included unexpected nudity and simulated rumpy-pumpy. I suppose it must be in the book. The rest of it was a much more serious look at the effects of WW1 on peeps psyches, the mistakes made etc, etc. Plus love stories and other yuman interest.
The second act was pretty predictable but the first and the third were better.
Including references to the tunnel rats.
Factually accurate too.
What made it a bit fun was that on our way from lunch to the play we went into ProCook in search of kitchen knives. We only bought one as the other we wanted was not in stock. So we went off to the play with it in a box wrapped up.
Without meaning to we found ourselves saying, "Where's the knife?", "Have you got the knife?" "Pass me the knife" etc etc. In a crowded theatre.
It's a wonder we didn't get arrested!
The journey there involved driving through some quite deep floodwater, i.e up to about hub height. Hearing it running over the bottom of the car was quite interesting! |
We came back a different way.
Hope you all had good days!