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Cyril Haearn wrote:TDS
Tragedy of drive-shopping (Cyril Haearn)
Encouraged by town planners who create clusters of food stores

Someone explained why: the big stores try to devour the little stores, then they try to devour each other, like insects crawling over a carcass

Hedkayse
Start-up making deformable HSOs, helmet-shaped-objects (not yet available)
(geomannie)

Dino
Deal in name only

(mikeonabike)

The -best- deal. The only deal
Dealing has to do with playing cards and games of chance I think

OTP
Off the peg, refers to frames, alternative: customised or tailored

Not from here...

Travelling with friends an their young daughter on the Motorway, when she asks for the toilet. We explain Services in about 20 mins.

She says "But I'm Turtling"

I had never heard the phrase, but apparently it refers to when a turtle starts popping its head out of shell

PurgaTory

State somewhere between being half-in and half-out the EU
(Cyril Haearn)

Cunobelin wrote:Not from here...

Travelling with friends an their young daughter on the Motorway, when she asks for the toilet. We explain Services in about 20 mins.

She says "But I'm Turtling"

I had never heard the phrase, but apparently it refers to when a turtle starts popping its head out of shell

See also Prairie Dogging
https://youtu.be/YNxtPl7SaDQ

Cumbersomes

Cycles with wheels bigger than 20"

Used by simonineaston

CGOAB
Crazy Girl/Guy On A Bike

Jusqu'au-boutisme (French)
Carrying on to the end, refusing to recognise one has lost. Or won

Used by John Lichfield, the Guardian 11.12.2018

A very old one: the stiffords. Comes from Sir Richard Stafford Cripps, whose surname with the vowels swapped round denoted the condition noted above as turtling. As in Do hurry up in there, I've got the stiffords.

TBC
Taking back control of National Destiny

Tbc
A big disease with a little name

Cyril Haearn wrote:

Cyril Haearn wrote:TDS
Tragedy of drive-shopping (Cyril Haearn)
Encouraged by town planners who create clusters of food stores

Someone explained why: the big stores try to devour the little stores, then they try to devour each other, like insects crawling over a carcass

There is an awful cluster of four stores near me but they are not so close together because the car parks are huge, it is a long walk to adli
A fifth store just opened in the train station nearby, there is an organic food store too

I see he Sun coined a new word Brextinct to describes May's deal

Wenglish
Language spoken in Wales from Shotton, Wrecsam, Croesoswallt, Maesyfed to Casnewydd Gwent
Many varieties, also heard in Amwythig and elsewhere

Used by Patrickpioneer