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24.10.2018, 15:28
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| | | Re: Smoking on the train platforms.uughh
| Quote: | |  | | | Can we replace the jury? | | | | | Tom, I like your style.  |
24.10.2018, 15:34
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| | | Re: Smoking on the train platforms.uughh
| Quote: | | | | | Can we replace the jury? | | | | | Having another hissy fit, Tom? Don't worry, even this one will pass.
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24.10.2018, 15:57
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| | | Re: Smoking on the train platforms.uughh
| Quote: | | | | | Having another hissy fit, Tom? Don't worry, even this one will pass. | | | | | I had to google that. Never heard it before. It's a term that American schoolgirls use.
I never knew. I thought you were a grumpy old Swiss man who hated foreigners.
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24.10.2018, 16:00
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| | | Re: Smoking on the train platforms.uughh
| Quote: | | | | | I thought you were a grumpy old Swiss man who hated foreigners. | | | | | And I thought that she was a grumpy old foreigner who hated Swiss! 
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24.10.2018, 16:08
| | | | Re: Smoking on the train platforms.uughh
| Quote: | | | | | I had to google that. Never heard it before. It's a term that American schoolgirls use. | | | | | No or not only. Remember hearing that in the UK back in the 80s.
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24.10.2018, 16:09
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| | | Re: Smoking on the train platforms.uughh
| Quote: |  | | | No or not only. Remember hearing that in the UK back in the 80s. | | | | |
On American sit-coms?
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24.10.2018, 16:15
| | | | Re: Smoking on the train platforms.uughh
Hissy fit: a term used all over for quite some time.
Personally I like "conniption fit". HTH.
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24.10.2018, 16:51
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| | | Re: Smoking on the train platforms.uughh
| Quote: | | | | | I thought you were a grumpy old Swiss man who hated foreigners. | | | | | Better not try, you've just demonstrated how "good" you are at that.
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24.10.2018, 16:55
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| | | Re: Smoking on the train platforms.uughh
| Quote: | | | | | Better not try, you've just demonstrated how "good" you are at that. | | | | | Which bit of it was wrong? The "man" bit, perhaps?
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24.10.2018, 17:01
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24.10.2018, 17:10
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| | | Re: Smoking on the train platforms.uughh
| Quote: | | | | | Which bit of it was wrong? The "man" bit, perhaps? | | | | | Who knows. At least you've realised you were wrong, that's a start.
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24.10.2018, 17:17
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| Quote: | | | | | Who knows. At least you've realised you were wrong, that's a start. | | | | | I'd like to think that you yourself knows...
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24.10.2018, 17:20
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| | | Re: Smoking on the train platforms.uughh
| Quote: | | | | Hissy fit: a term used all over for quite some time.
Personally I like "conniption fit". HTH. | | | | | Hardly the same thing.  https://www.southernthing.com/hissy-...544967447.html
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24.10.2018, 17:55
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| | | Re: Smoking on the train platforms.uughh
So writing "Can we replace the jury" in reply to "The jury's out" is neither a 'hissy fit' or a 'conniption fit'.
It's simply a retort or a come-back and certainly nothing to warrant Urs Max's (sic) response.
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24.10.2018, 18:45
| | | | Re: Smoking on the train platforms.uughh
| Quote: | | | | | | | | | | It is where I come from ( clue, not a Southern US state).  plus I didn't run a comparison, just said I liked the word. Which I do. Also, tortoise, umbrella and purple. HTH.  | | This user would like to thank for this useful post: | | | This user groans at for this post: | |
24.10.2018, 19:14
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| | | Re: Smoking on the train platforms.uughh
| Quote: | | | | It is where I come from ( clue, not a Southern US state). plus I didn't run a comparison, just said I liked the word. Which I do. Also, tortoise, umbrella and purple. HTH. | | | | | I had never heard it so it's a new one on me. Thank you.
Much preferable to 'hissy fit' which still sounds a girly thing to say.
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24.10.2018, 19:49
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| | | Re: Smoking on the train platforms.uughh
| Quote: | | | | It is where I come from ( clue, not a Southern US state). | | | | | And not where I come from, which also is NOT a Suthrun US state.
But, we at least try to understand redneck-speak. 
Tom
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24.10.2018, 21:26
| | | | Re: Smoking on the train platforms.uughh
| Quote: | | | | | And not where I come from, which also is NOT a Suthrun US state.
But, we at least try to understand redneck-speak.
Tom | | | | | Maybe you’ve been away too long, but rednecks are not just in the southern US. They are all over the US.
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24.10.2018, 23:09
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| | | Re: Smoking on the train platforms.uughh
| Quote: | | | | | Is it me or can no one else take the smoking here? Why is it allowed to smoke on train platforms while waiting for the train. The smokers aren't even polite smokers. Always have cigarette smoke blown in my face and stuck in my hair. I can't take it anymore. I get caught before I can even get to the warm "non smoking room". It's making me crazy! | | | | | In Switzerland money is spent on several more than needed stuff, why not create smoking booths in the platforms for the smokers and non-smokers live together happily forever with each holding human rights close to their chests | | This user would like to thank SarcasmXXL for this useful post: | | | This user groans at SarcasmXXL for this post: | |
24.10.2018, 23:11
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| | | Re: Smoking on the train platforms.uughh
| Quote: | | | | | Smokers aren't being subsidized, they are subsidizing the non-smokers! 
You do realized that the price of tobacco is about 90% tax, don't you?
Also, since smokers die sooner, they are LESS of a burden on social security, retirement, AI, etc.
Tom | | | | | Yes, also me and my kids receive tax free, free free smoke and also will reduce burden to social security, retirement, AI, etc. as passive smoking is 5 times more harmful  | | This user groans at SarcasmXXL for this post: | | |
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