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Psychomacologist said:

A cupboard is basically any enclosed storage space with a door, including closets but also kitchen cabinets and anything similar.

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This.

There's a specialised case we all know. The cupboard for clothes is a wardrobe. I can't think of another one. You'd think there'd be more.

aliwood said:

This.

There's a specialised case we all know. The cupboard for clothes is a wardrobe. I can't think of another one. You'd think there'd be more.

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Around here, a wardrobe is sometimes called a chifforobe, but that's a freestanding armoire-type thingie.

sianshan said:

And a cabinet is generally free-standing, and almost always has fancy doors. It refers to a posh piece of furniture.

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Cabinets would be only a few feet high, doors and drawers are allowed. If they're long, then they're called sideboards, if they only have drawers then that's a chest of drawers and if they are higher than about four feet or so then they are called tall-boys, but that's an old expression. I've only ever heard my gran use it.

ION, rain stopped play* with my decorating - well, I had to do a fix on something that takes 24 hours to cure (as in dry out, not fix with medicine) so I am forced, forced I tell you, to stop and drink tea.

*Do cricketing terms work in decorating, perhaps not.

i wanna see a cricket game.

My husband has his knickers in a knot because both the Cincinnati Reds and the St. Louis Cardinals lost yesterday; both his teams are out of the playoffs. I love baseball, but not THAT much. He's been pouting since suppertime last night.

I'm gonna have to self-ban myself for the morning, or I'm never going to get this writing done. Writing humor is HARD!

jallenecs said:

speaking of.....

How do y'all pronounce "primer." I was taught to pronounce it with a short "i", to rhyme with slimmer. I've heard others pronounce it with a long "i", to rhyme with climber.

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In my case the climber pronunciation is for a beginning lesson or basecoat paint. For a lesson it is the lesson that will prime the well so to speak to make learning later easier.

The slimmer pronunciation is for the beginning books in your very first year of school. I don't remember this being used by anyone of my generation or later. Some people of my parents used it, and my grandparents generation both were used. (this is gut feeling estimate anecdata and may have no relation to reality)

jallenecs said:

Primer as in a beginning student's lesson book. I KNOW that ain't no Appalachian term, because of the MacGuffey readers. The first books were called "primers." And MacGuffey was a Yankee.

ETA: looked it up, it's a real word. See?

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It is a word and if I heard it in conversation I would know exactly what it was without a blink.

jallenecs said:

Speaking of words, what's a cupboard? Is it like a closet?

And in Jane Austen, she makes a comment about "shelves in a closet." It was supposed to be sarcastic, I think. I don't get it. Are you supposed to put shelves in a closet? Not?

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In my usage, a cupboard is a small closet like space with zero to three shelves. Most often about 1/3 the distance between floor and ceiling. they can be from floor up, or from ceiling down. The space in the middle is usually counter in a kitchen or workspace elsewhere.

sianshan said:

Interesting, because here we use cupboard exclusively for the places where you put food stuffs and cups and plates and such. They are kitchen things.

Closets =/= cupboards, at least not here. The terms are not interchangeable.

And a cabinet is generally free-standing, and almost always has fancy doors. It refers to a posh piece of furniture.

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A cabinet is usually at least mostly floor to ceiling, it is not a small room, but something that is added after the wall is built and is placed against the wall. It is often a piece of furniture that can be moved like the couch when you rearrange. Though can also be attached to the wall.

jallenecs said:

i wanna see a cricket game.

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I warn you, there are times when it's deadly boring. Take your writing.

aliwood said:

I warn you, there are times when it's deadly boring. Take your writing.

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It can't be any duller than a fencing match. Thirty seconds of blindingly fast, bloodthirsty violence, followed by thirty minutes of judges and athletes huddled together, muttering to themselves over the scoring. Rinse. Repeat.

Night night all

jallenecs said:

It can't be any duller than a fencing match. Thirty seconds of blindingly fast, bloodthirsty violence, followed by thirty minutes of judges and athletes huddled together, muttering to themselves over the scoring. Rinse. Repeat.

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Really? The fencing I've seen on the tv has been one match after another. Instant scoring and whizz bang another round.

Mind you, I have seen low level cricket and it's mind numblingly slow compared to test match level, so I guess similar things apply.

Decorating is exhausting.

Don't do it people. Just don't go there.

Greetings. It's morning here. How is it where you are? So want to curl up in my bed and nap, but I have the boy this morning as he doesn't go to school on Fridays. Warning, long multi-quote upcoming because y'all was so busy whilst I was a sleepin'. I wonder what they would do at work if I let myself slip into my natural state of speech. *ponders this because he's feeling silly today.*

jallenecs said:

It can't be any duller than a fencing match. Thirty seconds of blindingly fast, bloodthirsty violence, followed by thirty minutes of judges and athletes huddled together, muttering to themselves over the scoring. Rinse. Repeat.

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aliwood said:

Really? The fencing I've seen on the tv has been one match after another. Instant scoring and whizz bang another round.

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Depends at the level. There can be some in-depth discussion, but in all the fencing matches I've been at (as spectator) that seemed to not be the norm.

Mind you, it helps a lot if you know what's going on, otherwise even when they are facing off against one another it can look pretty dull.

aliwood said:

Should I point out how unhealthy this sort of food is? Should I point out that you'll feel better eating something else?

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Should I point how GOOD it is, and how there is no point in maintaining a healthy lifestyle if it does not allow you to indulge once in a while?

I'm pretty sure Sian's leading a healthy enough lifestyle that the occasional bout of fried chicken will not, in any circumstances, significantly endanger her well-being.

The point is moderation, not abstention. Most people fail in their diets precisely because they try and go completely without, and that's so much harder to do.

And even homemade, it's no worse than your cake, really. Different vices, different impacts, but neither one is exactly health food.

Psychomacologist said:

Don't kick yourself. Austen's humour is often very understated.

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Which is one of the reasons I keep saying Austen is over-rated.

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I know you're going to beat me for that one, but I don't care.

slcboston said:

Should I point how GOOD it is, and how there is no point in maintaining a healthy lifestyle if it does not allow you to indulge once in a while?

I'm pretty sure Sian's leading a healthy enough lifestyle that the occasional bout of fried chicken will not, in any circumstances, significantly endanger her well-being.

The point is moderation, not abstention. Most people fail in their diets precisely because they try and go completely without, and that's so much harder to do.

And even homemade, it's no worse than your cake, really. Different vices, different impacts, but neither one is exactly health food.

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My weakness is not sweets, as a rule. I like a bit of cake or choco every once in a while. But mostly, my failing is savory: pasta, bread, potatoes. I loves me some starchy goodness. And butter. AND BACON!

jallenecs said:

My weakness is not sweets, as a rule. I like a bit of cake or choco every once in a while. But mostly, my failing is savory: pasta, bread, potatoes. I loves me some starchy goodness. And butter. AND BACON!

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Pork rinds.


These are my weakness. Particularly on road trips.



And caramels. At any time. (Which is why ignoring the Halloween candy I've bought is so difficult. I have to buy things I'll eat, in case I get stuck with it, but then it's harder to ignore.)

slcboston said:

Should I point how GOOD it is, and how there is no point in maintaining a healthy lifestyle if it does not allow you to indulge once in a while?

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Whatever. I am too exhausted from over-decorating to argue.

slcboston said:

Which is one of the reasons I keep saying Austen is over-rated.

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I know you're going to beat me for that one, but I don't care.

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Damn right I will.

Get in the shame pit.

slcboston said:

Pork rinds.


These are my weakness. Particularly on road trips.

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Are they the same thing we call pork scratchings?

There are pork scratchings and pork cracklings, one is meatier and softer the other is super crunchy. I prefer cracklings, Jos prefers scratchings.

Anninyn said:

Damn right I will.

Get in the shame pit.

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Sorry.

Don't like her.

Don't like Dickens, either, for the most part.

I find them both indicative of England's Boring Age of Literature.

*ducks and runs*

Good morning. It will be a slow, quiet day at work today. Very few people are here.

Anninyn said:

There are pork scratchings and pork cracklings, one is meatier and softer the other is super crunchy. I prefer cracklings, Jos prefers scratchings.

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The crunchy ones. Always the crunchy ones.

And the good ones are hard to come by, so any time I see them I tend to buy them.

Even though I should not.

slcboston said:

Sorry.

Don't like her.

Don't like Dickens, either, for the most part.

I find them both indicative of England's Boring Age of Literature.

*ducks and runs*

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SHAME PIT.

Anninyn said:

Damn right I will.

Get in the shame pit.

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Did you not see yesterday's conversation? Bos is of the "sticks and stones may break my bones, but whips and chains excite me" school of innuendo. You're only encouraging him!

slcboston said:

Sorry.

Don't like her.

Don't like Dickens, either, for the most part.

I find them both indicative of England's Boring Age of Literature.

*ducks and runs*

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Anninyn said:

SHAME PIT.

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See? He's egging it on!