I love a good business dinner on my dinner break. All the dinner time specials just make it that much more worthwhile
I love the fact that this arguement is still rumbling on.. My chippy does lunch time specials for lunch.
Let me tell you something, I really don't give a ****. You both think you're right, I think I'm right. In exctly the same way that something you walk on is a footpath and NOT a pavement, to me dinner time is the mid day meal and tea is the evening meal.
And in exactly the same way, everyone else in the UK calls the thing we walk on by the side of the road the pavement, and lunch is what everyone else eats in the middle of the day. Let's just agree that you disagree with everyone else in the country
in all fairness I call it a path not footpath mind. nor pavement. definitely not sidewalk. ****ing yank bastards... I was going to go watch Argo this weekend but after reading the fact they have rewritten history once again I refuse to spend my money on it. So instead I will buy Skyfall this weekend so as to complete my collection.
Everyone else? What utter bollocks, I thought you were from Manchester, clearly this is not the case if you seriously think 'everyone else' says lunch and dinner instead of dinner and tea. ****ing rubbish. And, as for the pavement thing, just because the general consensus over time has lead to, admittedly, a large majority of folk refering to what is a footpath as a pavement does not make it so as I KNOW, due to my profession, that a pavement is the construction of a highway. This is a FACT. I'm a civil engineer, qualified up to the eyes, and I don't really enjoy being told, smuggly, that i'm wrong when I am 100% correct.
If Gilbert O Sullivan says it, then it must be ****ing so. All I ever get from you is breakfast dinner and tea Served with all the love that you possess So tomorrow I'll be off with nothing left in me Bar a helping of your tenderness People said before we met how good you could be Especially at well that they didn't say So I let my imagination get the better of me Not thinking that I would regret that very day Now I'm mixed up with a girl Who believe me cooks like a pro But outside of that It's no good at what she should be, loving me Now I'm mixed up with a girl Who believe me cooks like a pro But outside of that It's no good at what she should be All I ever get from you is breakfast dinner and tea Served with all the love that you possess So tomorrow I'll be off with nothing left in me Bar a helping of your tenderness All I ever get from you is breakfast dinner and tea Breakfast dinner and tea
Ah, couldn't resist trolling you a bit there My family's from Lancashire, and we always referred to it as breakfast, lunch and tea. Dinner was only ever used for a formal meal, usually at the weekend. Like I've said before, dinner is technically whichever meal is the main meal - if you have a sandwich at midday that's lunch, if you go to a restaurant that's dinner. As for pavement, the fact that civil engineers use it one way doesn't mean that's the 'correct' way. If I remember my Latin correctly, pavement is any smooth horizontal area that can be trodden upon. Hence the limestone pavements in the Dales. Or any area that is paved to be smooth and horizontal. So it can be either the road or the path at the side, depending on how you look at it. Either way, it's never a footpath. If it's next to a carriageway, it is either a pavement or a footway - a footpath by definition stands alone.
Yeah, I'd say footway is a true term, if rarely used. Not sure if footpath has to be stand alone though, although that's another argument altogether! I'm guessing by that you mean through a field or something, i.e. away from the highway? That could be termed a right of way, of which then you have sub sections; footpath, bridleway and BOAT (byway open to all traffic) Like I said, another story. A clear technical way of differentiating between the traffic and pedestrian part of the highway though is pavement and footpath/footway. The pedestrian bit is not a pavement, which was all my initial argument ever was!
I don't really eat before bed but always had "tea" after school, cake and a drink and then Supper at about 7pm which was a main meal. The world has gone mad too many blurred lines.
It does all get a wee bit technical - I was thinking of something through a park or a woodland where there is no bridleway or cycleway or other such. And isn't the clear technical way of differentiating between different parts of the highway to use carriageway for the cars (or carriages) and footway for pedestrians? As I understand it, pavement in the way you are referring to it means the engineering material used to make the road - isn't that same material used for most footways? Seems to me to be one of those technical terms that has fallen out of common usage and been replaced in common vocabulary. Much like weight - it is impossible to have a weight measures in kg or pounds and stone, that's mass. The weight is measured in Newtons and is dependent on the gravitational field. Still, I don't see Weight Watchers rebranding themselves as Mass Watchers any time soon...
All three at some point or other I would have thought, probably while lavishly oiled up and wearing gold hot pants. I'm hungry, I think for tea is a chicken curry of some sort but I might just treat myself to some ****e or other en route home from the farming stronghold of Hereford this evening. Not sure what yet. I am doing the poussin this Saturday. Nowt fancy, just a garlic, lemon and rosemary infusion with which I'll make the gravy (sauce or reduction if you southern ****wits want to start quoting semantics to me about how it is wrong to have gravy with poussin ) and I'll have potato, green and carrot element on the side and some crusty bread. It'll be ****ing great.
