Pardon , eh , what !

[flook]

Veing 48 I am slighlty insulted he refered to us in pur late 40s as. FOCs. we're MACs

This raises an existential problem I have at present, I'm 58 but retired early, so am I a FOC, a MAC or some other sort of previously unknown or unspecified "C"?

I'm losing sleep worrying about this I can tell you

 

[Sid C]

Speak up you daft ****

 

[21mago]

Speak up you daft ****

wat

 

[TonyM]

We say "sorry" in Ireland and as many times as possible.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

It's an old fashioned habit now I think. Sorry can you repeat, or I missed that are better in formal settings.

 

[BrianW]

I think when whoever it was who came up with U/non-U thing condemned 'pardon' as frightfully common. Aristocrats like what I am say: 'What?'

 

[BrianW]

It was Nancy Mitford and here are some examples.

 

[idahoblues]

What the fuck you say woman?

 

[asgoodasitgets]

“I beg your pardon” surely for a proper FOC ?

 

[lefty goldblatt]

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