IM in Bootworld
With the Bootboyz scattered to all parts of the world, I am keeping unreal hours…its 9:19 pm and I got to my desk at 6:30 a.m. this morning. I find is easy to stay up cuz Chris gets up in Australia and is in the middle of his workday now….anyway - JenLeo and I were IM’ing about some work related event - and then, I think it got funny.
***Warning - explicit language***
jenleo: in what language or from what country does “ta” mean goodbye? I thought it meant thanks
sean: yeah - I fucking hate that word
sean: it is thanks, goodbye, or whatever you want it to mean - Poms use it alot
sean: a lazy mans word
sean: ta
sean: Brendan and Chris used to use it alot - and it would piss me off
jenleo: if you hate it, why do you use it?
jenleo: Chris uses it for ”
sean: I retailiated by just using it for everything
jenleo: “thanks”
sean: yeah - I use it when I am lazy
sean: ta
jenleo: don’t use it if you hate it
sean: ta
sean: >:)
sean: it is so easy to type - ta?
jenleo: stop it
sean: ta
sean: LOL
jenleo: it’s lame to do things that you “fucking hate”
sean: Do you hate it too - ta?
jenleo: know, I just hate it when you use it for goodbye, because I read it as “thanks”
sean: ta
jenleo: lol
sean: LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLLO
jenleo: ok you bastard
sean: ta
jenleo: :-))
sean: ta dahhhhh
jenleo: bahmp Bahhhhhhhhhh
sean: I gotta goto bed
sean: 5:30 alarm
sean: peace out BR
jenleo: Urban Bastard
sean: LOLOLLOLLOLLOILLOO”
sean: I can’t stop lauging.
sean: that one is good
jenleo: man, I just keep cracking you up
jenleo: That’s excellent
sean: URBAN Bastard
jenleo: that’s your new nickname
sean: I like it
jenleo: I know, Ubie
jenleo: done
sean: I like it - alot
jenleo: figures, Ubie
sean: cheers and ta
jenleo: shut the fuck up, Ubie
sean: from the UBie - Urban Bastard
jenleo: ta, you Urban Bastard
sean: god - this should be a blog post
sean: g’night
jenleo: go ahead, I don’t care if you copy it
jenleo: ta
sean: ta
jenleo: ta
Sean: ta
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Notes: Urban Bastard refers to this post and this website. Leo made fun of me (rightfully so) cuz I think that “Urban King” may apply to me. Nothing like that to put me in my place…
Signed,
The Urban Bastard
Comments
I always go for the combo, ‘cheers, thanks, ta’,but never for goodbye.
C. O’Neill,
1)How popular of a saying is “ta” in England?
2)Among the folks you intereact with , about what % use that term if you had to guess?
Not sure why I care, but thx.
Probably depends on what part of the country you’re in, also maybe what ‘class’ of person.
I’d say it’s dropping out of use with younger people. I probably use it a lot less than I used to.
I worked with a guy from Kazahkstan once and when I said it to him, for the next hour it was ‘ta, ta, ta’.
What classes use it more? Upper? Middle? Lower?
Do you know what I would lovve Chris O’Neill…an article about the “Class System” in England…I mean - I know there is a serious one in India - but it would be cool.
Chris O –
I’d like an article on what class of people use the word bastard. 
ta
I’d like an article on what class of people use the word bastard
That would be the Tory’s, no?
You’d have to go a long way to find a bigger bunch of bastards than this current Labour government, all lining their own pockets as quickly as than can before ship goes down.
I think the class system here has changed a hell of a lot over the last 20 or so years. Money is the new barometer, background less important.
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We were typing very fast…hence the premature returns, and weird word swaps. I have no excuse for all the swearing. It’s the urban way.