3rd annual Twoism meet - Sat 4th July 2015 - Dorset, UK

[IanRedpoint]

'Mashed like a daft potato' sounds like something from Brass Eye. I'm going to drop that into conversation whenever appropriate now. Definitely 'shitfaced' for 10/10 drunkenness here.

[Jonse]

Items vballs lost, in order of distance found from the edge of the clifface:

* His Galaxy S5 (0.00000001 nanometers)
* Wallet (3 cms)
* Money (all of it) (2 feet)
* Another empty bottle of Captain Morgan's Rum (n/a never left his hand all night, although his look of bewilderment when he asked us who'd drunk it and we all replied 'You did' was priceless)
* Credit cards (various ranging from 12 cm to 200 yards)
* Shoes (never found again)
* Ability to talk (unclear - might have been 'normal' accent?!?)
* Ability to stand up (fall down) stand up (fall down) stand up (fall down)... (3 feet, 6 feet and 12 feet respectively)

I should not have been drinking coffee while scrolling down to this.

[Echo the Sun]

It is a matter of contention. I consider munted to be the height of drunkenness and a satisfying albeit sleepy, embarrassing, nauseous and possibly dangerous ending to a night out. Others would say shitfaced deserves that position.

I prefer mashed to smashed as it is more evocative to me. What's worse, having been smashed like a delicate vase, or mashed like a daft potato?

I don't know anyone who says sloshed, perhaps it just isn't used in London much amongst my generation.

Other parts of the country have different terms. For instance, various Scots say 'blootered' or 'blootert', 'buckied' (as in Buckie High. comes from a disgusting syrupy tonic wine called Buckfast), 'buckled' (meaning one's legs are not functioning properly), 'pished', 'mortal' (pronounced mortul. Quite profoundly drunk, any traits worthy of a higher being having long departed.), and 'puggled'.

i love the word munted. but your pronunciation would be better than mine, with a glottal stop instead of a [t]

[Aerial Boundaries]

That is a common misconception amongst North Americans. Not all British people talk with a 'glottal stop' (I never knew it was called that). I for instance mostly say my 't's as 't', though it depends on my mood etc.

It varies from place to place, even within cities. The UK is much much more differentiated than other countries realise.

[Jonse]

I can see how the misconception would arise, "British" is very broad and English people, in my experience, are generally very clear and intelligible to non-English people when they speak. "British" could also include someone with the most insane Scottish accent on the planet Earth, at least to outsiders who look at the word "Britain" politically/geographically. There might definitely be some "glottal stop" going on there. Also, for what it's worth, I have a bit of that with my slightly Phoenician accent as well even though it's so plain.

Anyways, I came here to ask: should we plan ahead and make arrangements for carrying vballs away from danger, you know, just in case?

[vballs]

Mashed like a daft potato hahahhahahahah

[vballs]

That was my personal highlight, seeing vballs fall back à la Delboy in that scene in Only Fools.. quality moment haha.

Still well jelly I can't come, hope it all goes smoothly, especially with the international contingent.

No way man you are not coming? Shit one. I'm aiming to base my trip on your methodology from last year. Take as little as possible and cope just as well or better than everyone else.

[Jonse]

Hexagon Sun of the Midwest Grapes

Limestone Abyss of the Climbing Tuesday

Ruby Blister and the Zoo

Certified Hexagon Son



~cryptic~

[Echo the Sun]

That is a common misconception amongst North Americans. Not all British people talk with a 'glottal stop' (I never knew it was called that). I for instance mostly say my 't's as 't', though it depends on my mood etc.

i know; i was just horsing around. i actually studied linguistics quite extensively

i should remember that jokes like that can perpetuate stereotypes

unfortunately, misconceptions about language are all too common despite the integral role language plays in our society.

[Aerial Boundaries]

That is a common misconception amongst North Americans. Not all British people talk with a 'glottal stop' (I never knew it was called that). I for instance mostly say my 't's as 't', though it depends on my mood etc.

i know; i was just horsing around. i actually studied linguistics quite extensively

i should remember that jokes like that can perpetuate stereotypes

unfortunately, misconceptions about language are all too common despite the integral role language plays in our society.

Oh right, sorry inflections don't carry well over text.

I can see how the misconception would arise, "British" is very broad and English people, in my experience, are generally very clear and intelligible to non-English people when they speak. "British" could also include someone with the most insane Scottish accent on the planet Earth, at least to outsiders who look at the word "Britain" politically/geographically. There might definitely be some "glottal stop" going on there. Also, for what it's worth, I have a bit of that with my slightly Phoenician accent as well even though it's so plain.

Anyways, I came here to ask: should we plan ahead and make arrangements for carrying vballs away from danger, you know, just in case?

There's that, and there's also the multitude of British 'awright guvnah' characters in media that Americans have been exposed to. Incidentally, I used to work as a luggage porter in a hotel and one of the guys there actually sounded exactly like that. Not even joking, he was younger than me, had mousey hair and went 'awright sah let me get those baigs'. He was just missing the old cap.

Oh and our safety precautions for vballs and the rest of us are a bunch of orange cones around the cliff edge. It's a straight drop down btw. Beautiful view, but we've got to keep an eye on each other esp. towards the end of the night.

[Echo the Sun]

That is a common misconception amongst North Americans. Not all British people talk with a 'glottal stop' (I never knew it was called that). I for instance mostly say my 't's as 't', though it depends on my mood etc.

i know; i was just horsing around. i actually studied linguistics quite extensively

i should remember that jokes like that can perpetuate stereotypes

unfortunately, misconceptions about language are all too common despite the integral role language plays in our society.

Oh right, sorry inflections don't carry well over text.

definitely. and no need to apologize, man. it was my bad.

[Echo the Sun]

Oh and our safety precautions for vballs and the rest of us are a bunch of orange cones around the cliff edge. It's a straight drop down btw. Beautiful view, but we've got to keep an eye on each other esp. towards the end of the night.

yep. you all be safe. keep your headlamps on at all times at night, and if you need to pee, don't try to do it off the cliff in the dark! but in the day, feel free to have a who can pee the farthest contest

[Mexicola]

Its become a little tradition of ours that when Over The Horizon Radar comes on, usually in the small hours, we lie with our feet dangling over the cliff looking up at the stars. It's something else I can tell you

[Echo the Sun]

Its become a little tradition of ours that when Over The Horizon Radar comes on, usually in the small hours, we lie with our feet dangling over the cliff looking up at the stars. It's something else I can tell you

what a sight it would be if you were walking under the cliff and didn't know what was going on up there. "oh, god! jonestown all over again!"

[Negamuse]

Another moment was looking off the cliff edge into the black and off in the distance to the east was the orange dot of someone else's beachside fire, miles away. I just thought "yep, they get it".

[Mexicola]

Yeah, I reckon that was someone someone over at Dancing Ledge. They had the better name, we had the better location

[fujee]

Another moment was looking off the cliff edge into the black and off in the distance to the east was the orange dot of someone else's beachside fire, miles away. I just thought "yep, they get it".

Yeah, spot on man, I thought the same thing. It's actually mad how far away they were, that stretch of coast is an unsung British treasure.

[Echo the Sun]

Yeah, I reckon that was someone someone over at Dancing Ledge. They had the better name, we had the better location

that is an awesome name

my new name for your location is Dangling Brink

[Mexicola]

[Techboy]

We had the Belgian pre meet up

Image credit/ Fredd-E.