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Pardon , eh , what !
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you are right.“I beg your pardon” surely for a proper FOC ?
and if you are being even more polite,
"i do beg your pardon".
Saddleworth2
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Who farted?you are right.
and if you are being even more polite,
"i do beg your pardon".
Kippaxpete
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Historically, the great unwashed stole words like 'pardon' from the French language to try and sound like they had a higher social standing. In aristocratic circles the word 'what?' is normally used instead.
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erm, well,Historically, the great unwashed stole words like 'pardon' from the French language to try and sound like they had a higher social standing. In aristocratic circles the word 'what?' is normally used instead.
you are right in that "pardon" is a word the upper classes look down on.
but from my experience they don't say "what?" on its own.
they say "sorry?", "sorry, what? or even "what, sorry?".
the only time they use pardon is when they grant a royal prerogative of mercy to one of their schools chums.
Uncle Wally One Ball
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Im half deaf and sometimes struggle to catch everything people say in loud places. I always say 'sorry?' Even though that sounds like its my fault. Daft as Brits arent we. Pardon is even stranger. That is what you say of you burp or fart, especially accidentally. Which also happens with age
Kippax Street 1880
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Never said Pardon in my life and it offends me when people use it. Posh twats
Apparently the posh look down on it aswell reading this thread.
Common twats
Apparently the posh look down on it aswell reading this thread.
Common twats
you are correct but depending on the day i feel anywhere from 21 to 104, when you get into your 40s your mind still thinks you can do shit and then your body laughs at you.being 48 I am slighlty insulted he refered to us in our late 40s as. FOCs. we're MACs
just a c mate. As is anyone who retires early and yes i am just jealous.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