Thread: WOKE...do you use this word incorrectly....or others?

Originally Posted by DoubleChevron

Apparently I'm embarrassing ... My eldest has been looking at universities .... the "woke" bull**** you see there is amazing. Through the accommodation there was labels hanging on the doors with there "preferred pronoun". They wouldn't give me a pen to scribble out all the nonsense ones leaving "He/She/Moron" there as a replacement for made up ones."
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Could always use the following as your preferred pronoun


Me, Myself and I

Originally Posted by Saitch

It's a term that's been used for hundreds of years (not an Oz slang). I think it originated in the UK, from something along the lines of: "You can tell the quality of a carpenter by his chips".

It's not so much the term chippy I dislike, it's kind of like the dislike towards tradesmen. A chippy is far from a carpenter these days IMHO

'I had gotten hungry (an action in the past, before another action in the past) so I ate lunch.'
But it's much simpler to just say, 'I was hungry, so I ate lunch.'

Originally Posted by Saitch

In the US of A, perhaps.

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

'I had gotten hungry (an action in the past, before another action in the past) so I ate lunch.'
But it's much simpler to just say, 'I was hungry, so I ate lunch.'

As Saitch has pointed out, "gotten" is a North American term, but has more recently, been used by those who learn grammar from social media sites.

Originally Posted by Saitch

It's a term that's been used for hundreds of years (not an Oz slang). I think it originated in the UK, from something along the lines of: "You can tell the quality of a carpenter by his chips".

Not really. If the chip shop has rcd a crappy bag of spuds & said Carpenter has purchased same & they were made into chips I'm afraid he is stuck with them good or bad.

I dwell too long on this subject.

Originally Posted by Johnno1969

Isn't "chippy" also a term for a fish and chip shop? Maybe in England..? I remember Scots relatives of mine also using the term "chipper" when we went to get our haggis and chips.

Don't forget the "Deep Fried Meat Pies".

the use of the word tradie has become derogatory these days.....ask any young woman....ask anyone on the roads going to work in the morning....ask the 4wd dealers....ask the take away food cafes.... theres more.....

I was a tradesman for 45 yrs but was never a tradie.

do you wear a flouro vest over a flanno hanging loose over a pair of stubbies and a pair of unlaced safety boots with heavy m/t tread?