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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has left the UK after agreeing a US deal that will see him plead guilty to one charge and go free...

Telling how all his thousands of 'fellow journalists' stayed absolutely silent the whole time,  slavishly towing their editors corporate line for their billionaire owners.

Free Press my arse.

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2 hours ago, cosmicway said:

I 'm looking for a serious proposal by a film producing company for my block buster scenario idea (see literary corner).

Don't write it on forum. Don't want someone to steal your billion dollars idea. 

[cosmicway 1,333]

30 minutes ago, NikkiCFC said:

Don't write it on forum. Don't want someone to steal your billion dollars idea. 

That's a consideration.
But it's not new. It's from 2013.
The communist party threatened to blockade all the cinemas if it was released.
I was invited to receive the award for the new scenariographer of the year and then the telephone went silent - they gave the award to some nouvelle vague nonsense.

The scenario is about treasures.
I knew somebody who was into the treasure hunting equipment business.
I used to scoff at him "you have n't military specifications - at best we will strike some unexploded wartime ordnance with your stuff - got straff griechenland".
But then something happened and I changed my mind and gave me the idea.

[cosmicway 1,333]

TORY BETTING SCANDAL

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/25/gambling-scandal-reinforces-uk-public-distrust-politicians

Do you think it was sinful behaviour ?
I disagree.
Snatching many from the bookmakers is not a sin under any circumstances.

[YorkshireBlue 3,264]

On 25/06/2024 at 17:56, cosmicway said:

I used to scoff at him

See, where I am from, scoff means food, so all I see here is "I used to food at him"

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2 minutes ago, YorkshireBlue said:

See, where I am from, scoff means food, so all I see here is "I used to food at him"

"speak to someone or about something in a scornfully derisive or mocking way" says google

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12 minutes ago, cosmicway said:

"speak to someone or about something in a scornfully derisive or mocking way" says google

Regardless what Google says, no one here uses scoff in that context, or certainly no one up north, speaking to someone in a mocking way is called taking the piss, in 36 years I've never heard anybody say I scoff at him, but I hear daily people say are we going for some scoff, or scoff time? 

Edited June 26, 2024 by YorkshireBlue

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4 minutes ago, YorkshireBlue said:

Regardless what Google says, no one here uses scoff in that context, or certainly no one up north, speaking to someone in a mocking way is called taking the piss, in 36 years I've never heard anybody say I scoff at him, but I hear daily people say are we going for some scoff, or scoff time? 

I don't know. Never been that far up. Places I have visited in the old Albion are London, Brighton, L'pool for one hour, Oxford, Cambridge, Nottingham. Also the Brecon Beacons. I want to visit Loch Ness.

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12 minutes ago, cosmicway said:

I don't know. Never been that far up. Places I have visited in the old Albion are London, Brighton, L'pool for one hour, Oxford, Cambridge, Nottingham. Also the Brecon Beacons. I want to visit Loch Ness.

With the UK you have then English language in a dictionary, then you have the proper English language that differs between all different places, easy example is what we call a T cake, it's basically bread but in a circle, used for bacon sandwich, other places in the UK, call it a balm, bap, roll, toilet is another example, very rare some one says I'm going to the toilet, it's either bog, crapper, shitter, piss pot or loo, here in Yorkshire we don't use the word "the" so instead of, I am off to the park, we would say, am off t park, we use stuff like, si thi, or ta'ra for bye, many other places in the UK have there own slang as well of course.

Edited June 26, 2024 by YorkshireBlue

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1 minute ago, YorkshireBlue said:

With the UK you have then English language in a dictionary, then you have the proper English language that differs between all different places, easy example is what we call a T cake, it's basically bread but in a circle, used for bacon sandwich, other places in the UK, call it a balm, bap, roll, toilet is another example, very rare some one says I'm going to the toilet, it's either bog, crapper, shitter, piss pot or loo, here in Yorkshire we don't use the word "the" so instead of, I am off to the park, we would say, am off t park, we use stuff like, si this, or ta'ra for bye, many other places in the UK have there own slang as well of course.

I used to live in the heart of cockney country, Limehouse. They speak rhyming slang there.

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3 minutes ago, cosmicway said:

I used to live in the heart of cockney country, Limehouse. They speak rhyming slang there.

Exactly, forgot English when you come here 🤣

[Vesper 30,085]

scoff has multiple meanings, and they are all used in the UK

both of you two are using correct defintions

scoff means to show scorn, to mock, and is absolutely used in the UK in that way

it also means food in slang usage, same as scousers, etc use 'scran' or geordies use 'scrawn'

it also means to eat food quickly, the same as how yanks say 'scarf' (he scarfed down the food they would say)

Edited June 26, 2024 by Vesper