Driver from Fraserburgh arrives at an Aberdeen fish processors with a load, conversation with goods in operative goes like this.
Aye min, fit like.?
Nae bad, fit like yersel loon?
“Affa fine. Furry boots div ye want me tae gan to hae the fash teemed”?
“Jist haud ower the other side by. Oor forkie’s haen his fly cup jist noo, but he winna be lang.”
“Whit rare, i’ll jist awa ben the bothy and speir him foo lang, I need tae be back in the Broch e’re lousin time.”
Old John:
Driver from Fraserburgh arrives at an Aberdeen fish processors with a load, conversation with goods in operative goes like this.Aye min, fit like.?
Nae bad, fit like yersel loon?
“Affa fine. Furry boots div ye want me tae gan to hae the fash teemed”?
“Jist haud ower the other side by. Oor forkie’s haen his fly cup jist noo, but he winna be lang.”
“Whit rare, i’ll jist awa ben the bothy and speir him foo lang, I need tae be back in the Broch e’re lousin time.”
What’s the punch line?
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stuwozere1:
Old John:
Driver from Fraserburgh arrives at an Aberdeen fish processors with a load, conversation with goods in operative goes like this.Aye min, fit like.?
Nae bad, fit like yersel loon?
“Affa fine. Furry boots div ye want me tae gan to hae the fash teemed”?
“Jist haud ower the other side by. Oor forkie’s haen his fly cup jist noo, but he winna be lang.”
“Whit rare, i’ll jist awa ben the bothy and speir him foo lang, I need tae be back in the Broch e’re lousin time.”
What’s the punch line?
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Fork handles!
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stuwozere1:
Why when I searched tribbing it involved Pornhub and two women?Sent from my ONEPLUS A5000 using Tapatalk
Ahhh I can help here, your A5000 is infected with a virus, it’s a nasty little bugger that takes a deep purge to clean out. This virus is known as ‘The Felching Hamster Worm’.
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Dipper_Dave:
stuwozere1:
Why when I searched tribbing it involved Pornhub and two women?Sent from my ONEPLUS A5000 using Tapatalk
Ahhh I can help here, your A5000 is infected with a virus, it’s a nasty little bugger that takes a deep purge to clean out. This virus is known as ‘The Felching Hamster Worm’.
To remove your best using someone else’s device to get the removal instructions. Please search for ‘Felching Hamster Removal’ to learn how.
As I’m eating at the moment I will save this little snippet for later [emoji23][emoji106]
But what a helpful bunch you are…will it fix my mums software fault on her Samsung as well?
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stuwozere1:
Old John:
Driver from Fraserburgh arrives at an Aberdeen fish processors with a load, conversation with goods in operative goes like this.Aye min, fit like.?
Nae bad, fit like yersel loon?
“Affa fine. Furry boots div ye want me tae gan to hae the fash teemed”?
“Jist haud ower the other side by. Oor forkie’s haen his fly cup jist noo, but he winna be lang.”
“Whit rare, i’ll jist awa ben the bothy and speir him foo lang, I need tae be back in the Broch e’re lousin time.”
What’s the punch line?
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I don’t know, but I understood all of that lol
scottie0011:
stuwozere1:
Old John:
Driver from Fraserburgh arrives at an Aberdeen fish processors with a load, conversation with goods in operative goes like this.Aye min, fit like.?
Nae bad, fit like yersel loon?
“Affa fine. Furry boots div ye want me tae gan to hae the fash teemed”?
“Jist haud ower the other side by. Oor forkie’s haen his fly cup jist noo, but he winna be lang.”
“Whit rare, i’ll jist awa ben the bothy and speir him foo lang, I need tae be back in the Broch e’re lousin time.”
What’s the punch line?
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I don’t know, but I understood all of that lol
me to, but coming from brum I should Pakistani is a second language to us.
stuwozere1:
Dipper_Dave:
stuwozere1:
Why when I searched tribbing it involved Pornhub and two women?Sent from my ONEPLUS A5000 using Tapatalk
Ahhh I can help here, your A5000 is infected with a virus, it’s a nasty little bugger that takes a deep purge to clean out. This virus is known as ‘The Felching Hamster Worm’.
To remove your best using someone else’s device to get the removal instructions. Please search for ‘Felching Hamster Removal’ to learn how.
As I’m eating at the moment I will save this little snippet for later [emoji23][emoji106]
But what a helpful bunch you are…will it fix my mums software fault on her Samsung as well?
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Always happy to help and yes your Mum’s ‘Samsung’ will be crunching data faster than ever before after a good ■■■■■ extraction…
Dipper_Dave:
But does any one know where this phrase originates, maybe one for the old timers…Also words like: ‘Demurage’, ‘Dunnage’, ‘Cabotage’, ‘Tribbing’ etc
I know what they mean but don’t know where they come from…
Yeah I’m to lazy to Google this stuff.
Also does anyone else have strange words they hear often in their job.
Interesting question.
To demur means to hesitate or delay, and the “-age” suffix in this sense is used similar to “postage” as meaning the charge for something. Hence, demurrage meaning the charge for a delay.
I knew dunnage meant “the packing used to secure something for shipping”, but having googled it, it has been with us since the middle ages and there is no known origin for the word. The root word “dun/dunn” has two known meanings - one means “a dark or brown colour”, and the other means “fort”. I can imagine that most packing materials were originally wooden or plant-based, and maybe it originates from that (essentially referring to packing materials as “brownage”, with “-age” used in the sense of referring to an object described in some way by the root word).
Cabotage originates from “the right to operate a coastal shipping concern”. Presumably this right was granted to foreign ships in some cases, and as I understand it’s use in trucking, it means “to be engaged in shipping goods that are both collected and delivered in a country outside the operator’s home country”.
Tribbing incorporates the root Greek word “tribo”, meaning to rub - similar to the word “tribology” meaning the study of friction - but it is not a word I’ve encountered in trucking before. 
Tribbing… act of being teased or mocked by Yorkshire friends.
Sidevalve:
Tribbing… act of being teased or mocked by Yorkshire friends.
Usually about their friends not being blessed by originating in
“God’s own county”!
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Think I need a holiday in Yorkshire with the wife see if we can get ourselves tribbed.
I always thought Tribbed was when someone with a speech impediment fell over
remy:
I don’t ever remember it being called hand balling back in the 60’s/70’s, we just called it unloading or getting tipped. I’ve done a lot of it here in the States where it’s called a hand unload usually done by the driver, but if a driver hires someone else to unload for him that person is called a lumper usually found at scummy food warehouses.
Back in 60/70`s pallet loads where a rare thing,the only thing that was mechanical loaded was anything to heavy or to big to move by hand.
Everything was stacked on the bed by hand,and then roped and sheeted,curtainsiders were an absolute luxury
Actrosman:
Ullage…where did that one come from? I know what it means but who/why named it so?
Ullage came from Norman French (ouillage)) and referred to the empty space at the top of a barrel [of beer] or bottle of wine. It later came to mean the residue of beer left in a barrel. More recently it refers to waste beer whether at the barrel or at the bar tap or pump, because they can claim a tax allowance for it. What customers leave in their glasses does not count as ullage, because it has been sold.
Handballing seems to have come from sport - either a good thing as in basketball or bad as in football.
Dunnage, like many other terms, comes from the days of sailing ships. It was anything used to fill up empty spaces to stop the cargo from moving around at sea.
Santa:
Ullage came from Norman French (ouillage)) and referred to the empty space at the top of a barrel [of beer] or bottle of wine. It later came to mean the residue of beer left in a barrel. More recently it refers to waste beer whether at the barrel or at the bar tap or pump, because they can claim a tax allowance for it. What customers leave in their glasses does not count as ullage, because it has been sold.
Lovely quirk of English that a word can have two meanings, each literally the opposite of the other!
[Adopts school marm voice]
“Ullage” being what isn`t in a tank, ie the non-liquid gap at the top; and what is left at the end, the liquid that should be empty air.
And “literally”, a word that used to mean, what actually is factual, but now means (after decades of misuse) an expression of excess. And it retains both uses and we literally need to guess in which sense it is being used.
Franglais:
Lovely quirk of English that a word can have two meanings, each literally the opposite of the other
Such as flammable and inflammable. Granted we know that inflammable actually means something will not burn, but common (mistaken) usage means that either word generally gets used for one meaning.
Demur ( e ) is what the wife calls me sometimes…although i prefer Debonaire. …tribbing…the act of friction…better word than ■■■■■■■ i suppose…
as for the scottish conversation…at least i can speak it now…never could understand it…but the spoken word is best eh !!
Flammable and inflammable mean exactly the same not opposite.
As for demurrage I believe it is a charge the captain levies on a port for delaying him from casting off or missing a tide.
Dunnage was waste or sacrificial timber or the like used for levelling the bottom of a ships keel space.
the maoster:
Franglais:
Lovely quirk of English that a word can have two meanings, each literally the opposite of the otherSuch as flammable and inflammable. Granted we know that inflammable actually means something will not burn, but common (mistaken) usage means that either word generally gets used for one meaning.
Nice one. Hence non-inflammable…
So long as we don`t get into the “double negative” argument. Or triple or quadruple negatives, as the song has it:
youtube.com/watch?v=Pt6zxMK6JFI