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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMSNBC reporting pub patrons used glasses and chairs to fight off attackers at Borough Market...
Not Ruth
(3,613 posts)I hope that they were successful
Warpy
(111,174 posts)BBC showed 2 bodies on the street with some sort of cannisters taped to them. There have been three loud explosions over the last hour. Putting 2+2 and getting the cube root of 64, I imagine the patrons were very lucky one of those goons didn't blow himself up.
tblue37
(65,227 posts)intended just to terrorize people more.
The explosions were controlled explosions.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)Rustyeye77
(2,736 posts)That's some video.
flamingdem
(39,308 posts)but fortunately not that many dead, so far.
Geezer is an old duffer, oldster, supersenior in the USA.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)(and I found it perfectly intelligible, but then I've lived in the UK for going on a decade now)
HipChick
(25,485 posts)complaining about him speaking a little fast...and praising the British public for fighting back...
Never get between a Brit and his beer down at his local on a Sat night..
Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)but then Americans tend to speak slowly compared to Brits, I suppose. (My experience moving to the UK was a lot of mutual non-understanding for a few weeks and "what? huh?" until my ear and tongue made some adjustments.)
HipChick
(25,485 posts)No one could understand me, and I couldn't basically couldn't understand them..
Myrddin
(327 posts)It would not be applied to a child, but could be applied to a teenager.
It's all in the inflection?
Could be a familiar term, or could be anonymous third party.
Not necessarily 'old'!
Myrddin
(327 posts)DavidDvorkin
(19,469 posts)HipChick
(25,485 posts)DavidDvorkin
(19,469 posts)HipChick
(25,485 posts)DavidDvorkin
(19,469 posts)Perhaps usage has changed since then?
HipChick
(25,485 posts)on what things mean..
DavidDvorkin
(19,469 posts)Myrddin
(327 posts)...he would be referred to as an 'old geezer'!