alright?
fettle?
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Thu 24 Sep 2009, 20:05, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

feeling a bit vintage today
you?

I really have no idea what fettle means
( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 24 Sep 2009, 20:11, Reply)

and i don't really know what you mean by vintage!
how's your' fettle is an enquiry as to one's general state of kilter.
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Thu 24 Sep 2009, 20:18, Reply)

oh that's how you answer? by using another word I don't know?
are you playing 'lets confuse the american' ?

edit: vintage=old
( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 24 Sep 2009, 20:22, Reply)

Nah!
We're playing "Let's flummox the Yank".
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 24 Sep 2009, 20:25, Reply)

cunt
I'm going to fuck your shit right up
( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 24 Sep 2009, 20:26, Reply)

But you're too bamboozled for a pagga right now.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 24 Sep 2009, 20:29, Reply)

Pagga!!!
going all the way back to 1981 there, folks...
i thought that was just a northern thing.
where did you learn it?
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Thu 24 Sep 2009, 20:32, Reply)

The last time someone asked what it meant
to explain it, they made an analogy involving what would happen if the Oxford/Cambridge boat-race was a tie.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 24 Sep 2009, 20:35, Reply)

Pile-On!!!
Get Among It!

LOL god, the vernacular language of secondary school ;-)
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Thu 24 Sep 2009, 20:44, Reply)

I sort of missed out on that
Being schooled abroad, we didn't know much dialect-slang, but as I was co-educated with pupils of other nationalities, we borrowed words from eachothers' languages and used them as slang.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 24 Sep 2009, 20:47, Reply)

thems was fightin words
we gon fight
then have make up bummings
( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 24 Sep 2009, 20:34, Reply)

yeah, i'd guessed...
no confusion intended...
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Thu 24 Sep 2009, 20:25, Reply)

suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure

( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 24 Sep 2009, 20:27, Reply)

honest injunn!
no fooling!
so anyway, how's your fettle?
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Thu 24 Sep 2009, 20:30, Reply)

better than yesterday, ta
how's yours?
( Lisette von Falcon, Thu 24 Sep 2009, 20:34, Reply)

it's been a really productive day. very happy.
Gronzo and i were sanblasting the sandstone flags that will become the kitchen floor in the house i have been re-inventing for my family and i.
looking good;-)
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Thu 24 Sep 2009, 20:42, Reply)

Fettle = mood

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 24 Sep 2009, 20:18, Reply)

that's right, spoil my fun...
anyway, y'aaarlreeet pettle?
and thine other half be okay?
send my regards.
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Thu 24 Sep 2009, 20:27, Reply)

Aw, this reminds me of the lovely Geordie lady at work.
She's awesome.
( Maladicta, Thu 24 Sep 2009, 20:42, Reply)

I seemed to have once discovered a mini-Geordieland nestled somewhere in West Yorkshire

( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 24 Sep 2009, 20:43, Reply)