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thair
- a traditional song, usually a lament, originating in the scottish highlands. First collected in Culpitcher's Book of Thairs (1798)
- to be either reluctant, or frightened; "he knew he must investigate the strange noises coming from the cellar, but he was thair to go in"
- oh idk who fucking cares another word for bumhole will that do send tweet
(, Wed 27 May 2026, 22:01, archived)
My grandfather edited The Oxford Book of Ballads
No offence
(, Wed 27 May 2026, 22:11, archived)
what!!!
tell me everything about this at once I insist
(, Wed 27 May 2026, 22:12, archived)
His life's work was a 3 volume anthology of Burns
Collector/archivist of Scottish poetry and folk songs. Dryden expert. Editor of shitloads of classic Oxford University Press Austen, Dickens etc. Prof of English Lit at Swansea (where he was the sworn academic enemy of Kingsley Amis according to King-o's diary), turned down an Oxford chair in favour of Nottingham as he believed he'd be fewer restricted and (as my exhausted b3ta pals x sick to death of endless repetition) was the Sex Pistols' expert witness in the 'Bollocks Trial'
(, Wed 27 May 2026, 22:31, archived)
OH MY FUCKING GOD
Thank you
right choice on oxon there imo, it's a cunt factory
(, Wed 27 May 2026, 22:41, archived)

sorry any reading alumns, in my defence, you absolutely fucking KNOW I'm right
(, Wed 27 May 2026, 22:42, archived)
Dirty old bollocks

(, Thu 28 May 2026, 0:07, archived)

a o
ad ock
(, Wed 27 May 2026, 22:25, archived)
pfffff
grondfother, bollods, :)))))
(, Wed 27 May 2026, 22:40, archived)