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Twirlies
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Maddie | Report | 3 May 2020 16:37 |
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crossed wires can be vey painful ;-) |
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Island | Report | 3 May 2020 16:34 |
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Ah...…. crossed wires. I was responding to namelessones opening post. |
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Island | Report | 3 May 2020 16:26 |
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:-S Sorry Maddie I don't understand your reply at 16.18 |
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AnninGlos | Report | 3 May 2020 16:23 |
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Never heard that. But I did see that our bus passes might be suspended to ease overcrowding. No problem we will survive without going to town. |
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Researching: |
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nameslessone | Report | 3 May 2020 16:23 |
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OH doesn’t drive so I was really annoyed when I discovered they knew our little bus was still running. |
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Maddie | Report | 3 May 2020 16:18 |
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it might be if you were a twirley, they have probably not heard of such a phrase |
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Island | Report | 3 May 2020 16:15 |
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How did you know I was going to ask that Maddie? :-S |
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Maddie | Report | 3 May 2020 16:13 |
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something i would be if i weren't housebound :-( |
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Island | Report | 3 May 2020 16:12 |
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I've lived in both worlds. The one where you just walk to the bus stop and a bus appears and now in the one where you have to go online to see if there is a bus at all! Dark ages! :-0 |
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Maddie | Report | 3 May 2020 16:11 |
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twirly means: Noun. A senior citizen, or OAP (old age pensioner). Originally bus driver's slang, from supposed senior citizen's regular attempts at using their cheap off-peak journey passes before the permitted off-peak hour, and therefore being "too early" (a verbal corruption of). E.g."How can I keep the bus on schedule when at every bus stop I have to refuse all the twirlies." |
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nameslessone | Report | 3 May 2020 15:33 |
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Poor older Londoners, they might become Twirlies like much of the country. |
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